The Siobhan
@thesiobhan.bsky.social
Grumpy old punk. Pinko commie queer. Pronouns are How/Dare.
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The Siobhan
@thesiobhan.bsky.social
· Sep 16
OK look, if you use AI art in your posts I'm just going to block you. I no longer care how great your ideas are or how much I agree with you politically.
I can no longer breathe the air in my province in the summers. It's not worth making climate change worse just to fuel the plagiarism machine.
I can no longer breathe the air in my province in the summers. It's not worth making climate change worse just to fuel the plagiarism machine.
One annoying thing about having elderly an pet is that there are specialty foods available, but not if they have a combo of health conditions.
I couldn't get arthritis food that was ALSO dental food, but I could get dental treats. Now he's on hypoallergenic, so dental & arthritis are off the table.
I couldn't get arthritis food that was ALSO dental food, but I could get dental treats. Now he's on hypoallergenic, so dental & arthritis are off the table.
November 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
One annoying thing about having elderly an pet is that there are specialty foods available, but not if they have a combo of health conditions.
I couldn't get arthritis food that was ALSO dental food, but I could get dental treats. Now he's on hypoallergenic, so dental & arthritis are off the table.
I couldn't get arthritis food that was ALSO dental food, but I could get dental treats. Now he's on hypoallergenic, so dental & arthritis are off the table.
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I feel you, partially muscled skeleton. I feel you.
Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton by the Fence Day to all who celebrate!
November 14, 2024 at 3:15 PM
I feel you, partially muscled skeleton. I feel you.
A friend sent me down an Anthrax rabbit-hole and now I have this song stuck in my head.
youtu.be/be7iNHw8QoQ?...
(1990. Fucking time, man.)
youtu.be/be7iNHw8QoQ?...
(1990. Fucking time, man.)
Anthrax - Got The Time
YouTube video by AnthraxVEVO
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A friend sent me down an Anthrax rabbit-hole and now I have this song stuck in my head.
youtu.be/be7iNHw8QoQ?...
(1990. Fucking time, man.)
youtu.be/be7iNHw8QoQ?...
(1990. Fucking time, man.)
Saw a post on threads today, "All you women who said you would pick a bear over a man. I want to know which would you pick, a trans woman or a bear."
Hundreds of replies and every single one says "the woman" and she is getting so mad she isn't getting the response she was looking for.
Hundreds of replies and every single one says "the woman" and she is getting so mad she isn't getting the response she was looking for.
November 14, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Saw a post on threads today, "All you women who said you would pick a bear over a man. I want to know which would you pick, a trans woman or a bear."
Hundreds of replies and every single one says "the woman" and she is getting so mad she isn't getting the response she was looking for.
Hundreds of replies and every single one says "the woman" and she is getting so mad she isn't getting the response she was looking for.
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
Well crap.
"medical experts are bracing for a difficult influenza season linked to 🌎 spread of an evolving H3N2 strain that could B a mismatch for this yr’s 💉.
New fed data out Fri shows ~2% of 🇨🇦-wide tests came back ➕for influenza in prev wk...still shy of 5% bar for 🇨🇦 to declare a seasonal flu epidemic"
New fed data out Fri shows ~2% of 🇨🇦-wide tests came back ➕for influenza in prev wk...still shy of 5% bar for 🇨🇦 to declare a seasonal flu epidemic"
Canada could face ‘worst kind’ of flu season as experts warn evolving strain may be mismatch for vaccine | CBC News
With flu cases now rising in Canada, medical experts are bracing for a difficult influenza season linked to the global spread of an evolving H3N2 strain that could be a mismatch for this year’s vaccin...
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Well crap.
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May as well call it the Aussie Filter!
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 6, 2025 at 6:28 AM
May as well call it the Aussie Filter!
I just found out my two-doors-down neighbour is a birder and I'm all ~Yessssss, tell me about your special interest, I want to hear about birdsssss~
(The only down side, I know this may open floodgates I currently just do not have time for.)
(The only down side, I know this may open floodgates I currently just do not have time for.)
November 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I just found out my two-doors-down neighbour is a birder and I'm all ~Yessssss, tell me about your special interest, I want to hear about birdsssss~
(The only down side, I know this may open floodgates I currently just do not have time for.)
(The only down side, I know this may open floodgates I currently just do not have time for.)
One of the kids wanted to see my cat, so I fetched him to the door and let her pet him. I could hear her hollering at her parents, "We can't leave yet, she's getting her cat!"
"You're a witch, so you have to have a cat," she told me.
"That's right. The Witches Union is very strict about it."
"You're a witch, so you have to have a cat," she told me.
"That's right. The Witches Union is very strict about it."
November 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
One of the kids wanted to see my cat, so I fetched him to the door and let her pet him. I could hear her hollering at her parents, "We can't leave yet, she's getting her cat!"
"You're a witch, so you have to have a cat," she told me.
"That's right. The Witches Union is very strict about it."
"You're a witch, so you have to have a cat," she told me.
"That's right. The Witches Union is very strict about it."
Trick-or-treaters vanished at the stroke of 8 pm. I imagine many of their parents wanted to rush home and catch the game.
This leaves me with ~way~ too much left-over candy for my own safety.
This leaves me with ~way~ too much left-over candy for my own safety.
November 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Trick-or-treaters vanished at the stroke of 8 pm. I imagine many of their parents wanted to rush home and catch the game.
This leaves me with ~way~ too much left-over candy for my own safety.
This leaves me with ~way~ too much left-over candy for my own safety.
Congratulations to all my friends who have won Glamour UK's Women of the Year title for 2025.
glamour uk have made trans women their ‘women of the year’.
this really highlights how transphobes have lost the ‘culture war’ and are wholly reliant on bigoted politicians like @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social and wes streeting
they wouldn’t do this if they were worried about it losing them readers:
this really highlights how transphobes have lost the ‘culture war’ and are wholly reliant on bigoted politicians like @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social and wes streeting
they wouldn’t do this if they were worried about it losing them readers:
October 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Congratulations to all my friends who have won Glamour UK's Women of the Year title for 2025.
Doing this again on Saturday.
October 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Doing this again on Saturday.
In a meeting going through a process improvement document that calls the steps to the ideal outcome the "Happy Path" and I literally had to force myself onto mute to stop the suggestion of Happy Trail from coming out of my mouth.
October 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
In a meeting going through a process improvement document that calls the steps to the ideal outcome the "Happy Path" and I literally had to force myself onto mute to stop the suggestion of Happy Trail from coming out of my mouth.
If Galaxy Quest gets to count as one of the best Trek movies, then Mystery Men is absolutely the best Marvel/DC superhero movie.
October 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
If Galaxy Quest gets to count as one of the best Trek movies, then Mystery Men is absolutely the best Marvel/DC superhero movie.
Sitting on hold for 90 minutes while the hold music plays the same four bars on infinite loop is my villain origin story.
October 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Sitting on hold for 90 minutes while the hold music plays the same four bars on infinite loop is my villain origin story.
Back in my leather-clad be-mohawked days I could probably pull off an 8, but these days I'm probably a 3. (And it's only that high because I'm still tall and can smack people with my cane.)
October 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Back in my leather-clad be-mohawked days I could probably pull off an 8, but these days I'm probably a 3. (And it's only that high because I'm still tall and can smack people with my cane.)
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Some other useful context here: his daughter is a furry and he’s very supportive of her. There’s a picture of a fursuit down thread.
Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.
October 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Some other useful context here: his daughter is a furry and he’s very supportive of her. There’s a picture of a fursuit down thread.
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A laser clinic in Manchester has slashed 50 per cent off the price of removing Harry Potter-themed tattoos, in a stand against JK Rowling’s views on the transgender community. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/21/l...
Laser clinic offers special deal on Harry Potter tattoo removals
A Manchester laser clinic is offering half price Harry Potter tattoo removals in a bid to stand against JK Rowling’s trans views.
www.thepinknews.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:05 AM
A laser clinic in Manchester has slashed 50 per cent off the price of removing Harry Potter-themed tattoos, in a stand against JK Rowling’s views on the transgender community. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/21/l...
I have to shower and leave the house in *checks time* 19 minutes.
I am on hold. I have been on hold for 30 minutes. My number in the queue has gone from 19 to 6.
Will I make it!
~ $64,000 Question theme music plays ~
I am on hold. I have been on hold for 30 minutes. My number in the queue has gone from 19 to 6.
Will I make it!
~ $64,000 Question theme music plays ~
October 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I have to shower and leave the house in *checks time* 19 minutes.
I am on hold. I have been on hold for 30 minutes. My number in the queue has gone from 19 to 6.
Will I make it!
~ $64,000 Question theme music plays ~
I am on hold. I have been on hold for 30 minutes. My number in the queue has gone from 19 to 6.
Will I make it!
~ $64,000 Question theme music plays ~
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those Canadian products are so big and they last so long.
October 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
those Canadian products are so big and they last so long.
I love seeing the photos of the huge crowds out for No Kings yesterday, but also a bit alarmed for you all. Maybe you all should blur the easily-identifiable faces in your photos?
There is safety in numbers, but you can't always be in numbers.
There is safety in numbers, but you can't always be in numbers.
October 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I love seeing the photos of the huge crowds out for No Kings yesterday, but also a bit alarmed for you all. Maybe you all should blur the easily-identifiable faces in your photos?
There is safety in numbers, but you can't always be in numbers.
There is safety in numbers, but you can't always be in numbers.
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If you are an author, Please Leave Substack. They subsidise and outright provide fiscal funding services to the worst parts of society - literal neoNazis and bigots.
If you're not an author, let the authors you read know: You won't read Substack.
If you're not an author, let the authors you read know: You won't read Substack.
October 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
If you are an author, Please Leave Substack. They subsidise and outright provide fiscal funding services to the worst parts of society - literal neoNazis and bigots.
If you're not an author, let the authors you read know: You won't read Substack.
If you're not an author, let the authors you read know: You won't read Substack.
Today's haiku
No inspections done
Contractor gone with the wind
I need a lawyer
No inspections done
Contractor gone with the wind
I need a lawyer
October 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Today's haiku
No inspections done
Contractor gone with the wind
I need a lawyer
No inspections done
Contractor gone with the wind
I need a lawyer
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If these evil putzes insist on stealing names from Tolkien, it's only fair that we start calling Stephen Miller "Wormtongue."
October 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
If these evil putzes insist on stealing names from Tolkien, it's only fair that we start calling Stephen Miller "Wormtongue."
I'm a little older, so my examples would be 2001 Space Odyssey and Apocalypse Now.
Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
October 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I'm a little older, so my examples would be 2001 Space Odyssey and Apocalypse Now.