⸻ C. L. Skach, How to be a citizen (London: Bloomsbury 2024), p. 68.

For a while, they are in harmonious equilibrium, one that is noticeable: we can see it and taste it. After enjoying that state of nirvana for a while, they will know it is time to dissolve.”

“And I believe the bubbles in Guinness teach us something very important about us: when left to their own devices, nature, the bubbles, find their way. Spontaneously, they arrange themselves in a structure that works well for all of them.

Yes this system falls apart if you don’t realise you’re muted or know how to contact me, or we are actually strangers, or I fail to recognise we’ve met, or HAWW goes too NSFW 4U, orrr cetera…

So, I’m opening this one up to the floor (hello, floorsky):
Advice on better practice most welcome, please.

‣ Currently trying: Muting #lewd​-/ #bdsm​-/ #kink​-leaning alts if I think we might know each other already on no established erotic kind of basis. If you would like yours unmuted, please tell me from outside of that bluesky account.

* So I say, so essaie.
** Privacy-wise. Am of an Age of Entitlement.

Sorry to the screen readers.*

* I believe you can get me through the nie-hight.

Undermining it all by bell* hook**sing*** the coda from some cosy old windcheater of a synapse.

* , sax
** Buhbuhbuhbuhbuhhbuhbuh, pah puh-pah pah paah.****
*** ! All I really want…
**** Low Rider, obvi.

Spelling “presuming” “presumbing”*.

* -bong.

“… and the Government will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man. Not now, not ever! You have not been charged for this call.”

* ‘Beforeplay’ -- specifically a sponsored double page spread in Star Observer, Dec 2025, entitled ‘Let’s talk about sex, syphilis & why getting tested matters more than ever’.