she’s reading Elmer the Elephant 14 times a day and is a delight while doing so

as in it’s me reading the Patrick O’Brian books, not my 1 year old.

let’s see if we can commit to the bit as a very tired parent of a 1 year old who only reads Patrick O’Brian books now

we were furtively checking teletext when he was last here!

weather up here is so hilariously shit i’m so home

the cost of using it is huge though. It’s kind of fun in a vacuum but it is *absolutely* not worth what it means for society.

Katniss/Buffy/Matilda absolutely no way imo. If Galadriel can’t they can’t.

I reckon you have to go classical literature for them. Dorothea from Middlemarch comes to mind. That gal just wants to learn Greek.

might as well not have it and give liverpool the 3 points. save everyone, including Klopp, the trouble.

this is actually a really good point and one i hadn’t considered

might be the same for me too tbh. feel like so much parenting stuff you’re exposed to as anew parent has this very conservative undercurrent and it just makes me a bit sad.

feel like i’m seeing boy mom/girl dad content everywhere now when it never really used to be a thing? even without the *worrying* implications behind this it’s still hyper-fetishistic of a certain relationship that until now felt like it wasn’t this weirdly codified thing.

based on an op-ed by Starmer designed to draw battle lines against the disabled and appeal to Mail readers

it is just… an insane amount of money though right?? like figures i just cannot fathom. i think that’s why the labeller thing is useful for giving some shorthand (with certain notable exceptions) as to the background of certain folk on here. obvs there’s nuance but you can see why it’s taken off

nice! if you had to choose this or Grand Prix, which are you going for?

i remember mentioning in PE once that i listened to Emerson Lake and Palmer and the PE teacher stopped what he was doing to come and tell me “shouldn’t be doing that”. Me da has much to answer for. #musicsky

also this is a PSA that Pathologic 3 comes out next year and hoooooooooo boyyy am i ready to play as the prickly prick himself youtu.be/Bcqbg8tW9kU?...