I frequently get upset by my current job - not the customers threatening to kill me or anything just the amount I have to do it at the sacrifice of all social stuff which reminds me of, oh yeah, when I had to transcribe interviews mostly by people way less good at interviering than I am lol

it was my coolest years - but I always paid for myself, always did my un-fucking-dues - and christ alive people loathed me for it because one fucking loser thought I was a cunt. what a world.

Elon Musk is very explicitly altering the X algorithm to show people content that aligns with his far-right worldview.

If you're still posting there and think you can win hearts and minds or something, this is what you're up against. You're never going to win a rigged game.

The more distance I get from it the more I recognise the response to me was completely and utterly unhinged. What a grim business. (Love you, sending endless empathy)

I had people claiming I didn't know I was being bombed while I was - very dangerously - suggesting the state I was in was playing it up to justify an extremely brutal destruction of another state. What the fuck were those years.

I feel like this is still better than when I would have been awake all night writing coverage and then getting 20,000 abusive messages about it

I really don't see them as not caring - Lando very obviously wants it desperately and Oscar is equally determined. the fact they want to win it over the other one on equal grounds and with respect to each other - when they're teammates for a long time ahead - doesn't mean they don't care.

Lando gets stressed in Grill The Grid but clearly does know a lot about F1 - Lewis also never really knew much beyond the era he'd watched, they're drivers not historians. Idk where Oscar gets this uncaring reputation from when he clearly really wants it and is very upset to be on the back foot

like I genuinely think what McLaren have done (including potentially risking not taking the drivers' title) to try and make a fundamentally unfair sport as fair as they can is incredibly interesting. possibly wildly misguided, of course but it is something new (which, yeah, F1 fans hate new stuff)

guys who do not know shit about farming: this is like minecraft!

Briatore.

Max being an ex-racer who involuntarily retired as well - it's a lot of ouch. but there is another side of it, I guess, is all I can say*

*doing absolutely insane things that consume your life but differently I guess lol

there was a horrendous clip from a Hilton sponsor vid (of all the things) where Max Fewtrell (unscripted, clearly) told Lando "you crack on with being an athlete, I'll crack on with being happy" which was. a lot of things but I think of a lot

combined with my newfound habit of consuming weird romance novels bought from The Works at a rate of about 5 a week I'm not saying it's looking game over for me as a human being but the err, possibly glamorously cool era is very much over

I am about to spend £19.49 on Steam I will never get back