Smashleigh
@glitterbrawl.bsky.social
A crumb of attention, please?
My main Big Opinion is that subscription services should be legally obliged to tell you when they’re about to charge you. I have several set to annual (because it’s usually cheaper) but just having a £70-£120 chunk vanish unannounced is SIGNIFICANTLY more noticeable than a £6-£12 monthly amount
November 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
My main Big Opinion is that subscription services should be legally obliged to tell you when they’re about to charge you. I have several set to annual (because it’s usually cheaper) but just having a £70-£120 chunk vanish unannounced is SIGNIFICANTLY more noticeable than a £6-£12 monthly amount
There is a barista near where I work who refuses to charge me when I order an americano because - to quote him - “it’s basically just a coffee cordial, isn’t it? I’m not having you pay for that”
It is ridiculous that black coffee costs more than an egg mayo or cheese sandwich. There are so many fewer calories in the coffee. So much less nutrition. It should be much cheaper.
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
There is a barista near where I work who refuses to charge me when I order an americano because - to quote him - “it’s basically just a coffee cordial, isn’t it? I’m not having you pay for that”
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don't really care how this makes me sound at this point, but the free open internet was a mistake and a lot of people out there were clearly never going to be able to handle it
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
don't really care how this makes me sound at this point, but the free open internet was a mistake and a lot of people out there were clearly never going to be able to handle it
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November 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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The robot falling over is obviously very funny because it always is, but it’s the hasty curtain pull that really ends me, like sparing the robot the indignity of us watching it get the robot shit kicked out of it
Russia presented its human-like AI robot. It fell down as it walked onto the stage.
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The robot falling over is obviously very funny because it always is, but it’s the hasty curtain pull that really ends me, like sparing the robot the indignity of us watching it get the robot shit kicked out of it
Just had a mince pie, lads, we’re ON
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Just had a mince pie, lads, we’re ON
Might just watch these men be absolutely delighted all day, on repeat
Chinese astronauts become the first to grill wings in space, paving the way for future uncstronauts
November 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Might just watch these men be absolutely delighted all day, on repeat
The face of a kid who has just made me part with £10 to go on a two minute long ferris wheel ride in order to escape a heaving crowd. As you can see: having a blast.
November 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The face of a kid who has just made me part with £10 to go on a two minute long ferris wheel ride in order to escape a heaving crowd. As you can see: having a blast.
Some days I like to really freak myself out by thinking about how my kid will have the same sort of relationship with the song “Mr Brightside” as I do with - for example - the music of ABBA. Released a decade(ish) before my birth but ubiquitous through my childhood. TIME.
October 29, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Some days I like to really freak myself out by thinking about how my kid will have the same sort of relationship with the song “Mr Brightside” as I do with - for example - the music of ABBA. Released a decade(ish) before my birth but ubiquitous through my childhood. TIME.
If you’re a friend of mine who has spent more than 20 seconds with my kid you’re auntie/uncle, and the same was true when I was a kid. This is such a non-story lol
October 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
If you’re a friend of mine who has spent more than 20 seconds with my kid you’re auntie/uncle, and the same was true when I was a kid. This is such a non-story lol
Hard to imagine a more cursed energy from a corner shop
October 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Hard to imagine a more cursed energy from a corner shop
Oh no the robots are having dreams now, this is the only explanation, the cut scene probably contains a horse you know to somehow be your mother
Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.
October 25, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Oh no the robots are having dreams now, this is the only explanation, the cut scene probably contains a horse you know to somehow be your mother
Have Disney ever seen a Star War? Isn’t the main thing about them that literally no-one is ever properly dead? Respectfully, even one of the fucking *actors* being dead didn’t stop them being in a movie
Adam Driver reveals he was developing a new Star Wars movie ‘THE HUNT FOR BEN SOLO’ with Steven Soderbergh
• Was set after ‘The Rise of Skywalker’
• Lucasfilm loved the idea but Disney said no — “They didn’t see how Ben Solo was alive”
(Source: apnews.com/article/adam...)
• Was set after ‘The Rise of Skywalker’
• Lucasfilm loved the idea but Disney said no — “They didn’t see how Ben Solo was alive”
(Source: apnews.com/article/adam...)
October 21, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Have Disney ever seen a Star War? Isn’t the main thing about them that literally no-one is ever properly dead? Respectfully, even one of the fucking *actors* being dead didn’t stop them being in a movie
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Sat next to a lady on the bus today who was asking chat GPT to draft flirty messages for her and directly copying the responses she received from said messages back into chat GPT for analysis of what the person meant and…at this point I think the robots have earned their takeover, have it all
September 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Sat next to a lady on the bus today who was asking chat GPT to draft flirty messages for her and directly copying the responses she received from said messages back into chat GPT for analysis of what the person meant and…at this point I think the robots have earned their takeover, have it all
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Yep yep yep that’s exactly what happened and the result is somehow uncanny valley
I really do think that Taylor saw Sabrina Carpenter and Chapell Roan, realized people like songs that talk about sex in an explicit but light-hearted way, and then made the biggest series of miscalculations anyone has ever made
October 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Yep yep yep that’s exactly what happened and the result is somehow uncanny valley
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Jane Goodall was actually the only one keeping the apes in control. Now there's a power vacuum
October 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Jane Goodall was actually the only one keeping the apes in control. Now there's a power vacuum
Post-strike rush hour tube is giving real zombie apocalypse vibes
September 12, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Post-strike rush hour tube is giving real zombie apocalypse vibes
“The bullets had MAGA etched into the side which we understand stands for ‘Male Assigned Gat bArth’ and therefore we are certain the shooter is expressing transgender and anti fascist ideology”
The markings that supposedly expressed “transgender ideology” were………..a series of arrows.
September 12, 2025 at 6:03 AM
“The bullets had MAGA etched into the side which we understand stands for ‘Male Assigned Gat bArth’ and therefore we are certain the shooter is expressing transgender and anti fascist ideology”
In early 2007 after a failed attempt to rekindle a relationship with my (then) estranged father, I retail-therapied myself a little pink DS and picked up a copy of Justice For All to go with it because it sounded fun and…genuinely became obsessed. Best games EVER.
Friends since childhood, now attorney and client in an alternate 2016. Fresh out of law school, it's time for Phoenix Wright, future Ace Attorney, to step up and dramatically point.
OBJECTION!
Share your love for the Ace Attorney games, peeps. Which are your favourite games?
OBJECTION!
Share your love for the Ace Attorney games, peeps. Which are your favourite games?
September 11, 2025 at 5:54 AM
In early 2007 after a failed attempt to rekindle a relationship with my (then) estranged father, I retail-therapied myself a little pink DS and picked up a copy of Justice For All to go with it because it sounded fun and…genuinely became obsessed. Best games EVER.
Sorry but when you have a totally irrational tiny human clamped to your tit 20 hours a day, you can and should spend some of those hours looking at a phone or the telly or a book or whatever, not just making constant loving eye contact with your infant
Mother. Because I'm as guilty as any mother of being distracted from my kids by my phone. But it's a problem with mothers, apparently.
Have babies considered just having better vibes
September 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Sorry but when you have a totally irrational tiny human clamped to your tit 20 hours a day, you can and should spend some of those hours looking at a phone or the telly or a book or whatever, not just making constant loving eye contact with your infant
Pret is just Greggs but for London siri send skeet
September 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Pret is just Greggs but for London siri send skeet
Sat next to a lady on the bus today who was asking chat GPT to draft flirty messages for her and directly copying the responses she received from said messages back into chat GPT for analysis of what the person meant and…at this point I think the robots have earned their takeover, have it all
September 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Sat next to a lady on the bus today who was asking chat GPT to draft flirty messages for her and directly copying the responses she received from said messages back into chat GPT for analysis of what the person meant and…at this point I think the robots have earned their takeover, have it all
Straight up: are they trying to make the gen Xers kill themselves? That feels very much the objective here? Unspeakably bleak, weird stuff
August 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Straight up: are they trying to make the gen Xers kill themselves? That feels very much the objective here? Unspeakably bleak, weird stuff
The Men have got riddles for me to solve before I get to claim the armchair
August 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The Men have got riddles for me to solve before I get to claim the armchair