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Atm we’re in the faux civil stage in the UK and one thing that sucks about it is they’re v obviously offended and shocked that people aren’t impressed by it anymore. They think we should be and they’re mad at us for not caring about the show and instead the results.
January 2, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Atm we’re in the faux civil stage in the UK and one thing that sucks about it is they’re v obviously offended and shocked that people aren’t impressed by it anymore. They think we should be and they’re mad at us for not caring about the show and instead the results.
Oh excellent!
Honestly as long as you’re not bored making ‘em I’ll be delighted by ‘em.
Honestly as long as you’re not bored making ‘em I’ll be delighted by ‘em.
January 2, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Oh excellent!
Honestly as long as you’re not bored making ‘em I’ll be delighted by ‘em.
Honestly as long as you’re not bored making ‘em I’ll be delighted by ‘em.
Possibly my favourite of your paintings thus far.
January 1, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Possibly my favourite of your paintings thus far.
The man just glows off the screen even just in a gif. Phenomenal charisma.
December 31, 2025 at 3:06 AM
The man just glows off the screen even just in a gif. Phenomenal charisma.
Ahh. Echoes of that time back in the days of livejournal someone had an absolute meltdown over people calling [british children’s books since spoiled by author’s bigotry] characters “black” instead of “african american”, despite none of them being, y’know, american.
December 31, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Ahh. Echoes of that time back in the days of livejournal someone had an absolute meltdown over people calling [british children’s books since spoiled by author’s bigotry] characters “black” instead of “african american”, despite none of them being, y’know, american.
Personally, I think not having relaxing hobbies with which to decompress is a surefire trip to burnout city and not being a damn bit of use to any cause, but acknowledging that would of course get in the way of getting to act superior to random strangers on the internet.
December 31, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Personally, I think not having relaxing hobbies with which to decompress is a surefire trip to burnout city and not being a damn bit of use to any cause, but acknowledging that would of course get in the way of getting to act superior to random strangers on the internet.
What the hell did I just *read* good lord
December 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
What the hell did I just *read* good lord
All I’ve been hearing from the sf/f magazine people is that they’ve been absolutely buried in AI garbage and the slush pile is now a hundred times the work for no benefit whatsoever, so I imagine the responses will come as soon as they’re calm enough not to just scream at the keyboard.
December 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
All I’ve been hearing from the sf/f magazine people is that they’ve been absolutely buried in AI garbage and the slush pile is now a hundred times the work for no benefit whatsoever, so I imagine the responses will come as soon as they’re calm enough not to just scream at the keyboard.
We have been consistently sending people who have nothing to do with whatever we’ve been successfully exporting at the time for my entire lifetime at this point and no signs of changing that reliably as yet. It’s sure a choice! I would like us to stop making it!
December 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
We have been consistently sending people who have nothing to do with whatever we’ve been successfully exporting at the time for my entire lifetime at this point and no signs of changing that reliably as yet. It’s sure a choice! I would like us to stop making it!
I’m not watching while they let certain belligerent contestants continue to soft diplomacy for their genocidey nation and abuse other participants while they’re at it but god has it been frustrating from the sidelines.
December 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I’m not watching while they let certain belligerent contestants continue to soft diplomacy for their genocidey nation and abuse other participants while they’re at it but god has it been frustrating from the sidelines.
What Sam Ryder made very clear and none of our entrants appear to have tried since for some reason is, like, you can do legwork? You can tour the countries and perform your things and do interviews and generally sell yourself and your song! It works! And then we decided not to do that.
December 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
What Sam Ryder made very clear and none of our entrants appear to have tried since for some reason is, like, you can do legwork? You can tour the countries and perform your things and do interviews and generally sell yourself and your song! It works! And then we decided not to do that.
Yours sounds a great deal less sickly.
December 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Yours sounds a great deal less sickly.
Like, we face a lot of challenges when it comes to both true Mexican and Texmex ingredient-wise - basically no Mexican cheeses have come over, frex - but we do just fine at *guacamole*, which we can get everything for, and are not collectively responsible for the freaks.
December 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Like, we face a lot of challenges when it comes to both true Mexican and Texmex ingredient-wise - basically no Mexican cheeses have come over, frex - but we do just fine at *guacamole*, which we can get everything for, and are not collectively responsible for the freaks.
… can confirm this is not normal. Whoever did that was being weird and it is not a standard, expected guacamole ingredient here. If it was a supermarket they were just being cheap.
December 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
… can confirm this is not normal. Whoever did that was being weird and it is not a standard, expected guacamole ingredient here. If it was a supermarket they were just being cheap.
… desperately seek out a new posture or magical combination of supportive pillows to keep doing it anyway? It’s awful when pain gets in the way of hobbies.
December 28, 2025 at 1:19 AM
… desperately seek out a new posture or magical combination of supportive pillows to keep doing it anyway? It’s awful when pain gets in the way of hobbies.
I mean, the anecdote is “I heard of a man…” so who knows if the guy even existed to tell misleading or outright false anecdotes. It isn’t even “a guy said this to me”, it’s “someone (who may or may not have even met the guy) told me about a guy who said…” It’s
as hearsay as hearsay gets!
as hearsay as hearsay gets!
December 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I mean, the anecdote is “I heard of a man…” so who knows if the guy even existed to tell misleading or outright false anecdotes. It isn’t even “a guy said this to me”, it’s “someone (who may or may not have even met the guy) told me about a guy who said…” It’s
as hearsay as hearsay gets!
as hearsay as hearsay gets!
Huh. Really? It’s pretty pervasive as bigotry goes, here (I’m not Welsh but have a Welsh first name, and anyway even mentioning Wales gets some people going). But I suppose I don’t hear Americans being anywhere near as loud about Welshness as they do Irishness, so I guess that makes sense.
December 27, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Huh. Really? It’s pretty pervasive as bigotry goes, here (I’m not Welsh but have a Welsh first name, and anyway even mentioning Wales gets some people going). But I suppose I don’t hear Americans being anywhere near as loud about Welshness as they do Irishness, so I guess that makes sense.
Some English people discriminate against the Welsh more or less exactly the same way they discriminate against the French, by rote and almost as if they’re fictional with animal characteristics. It’s deeply obnoxious.
December 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Some English people discriminate against the Welsh more or less exactly the same way they discriminate against the French, by rote and almost as if they’re fictional with animal characteristics. It’s deeply obnoxious.
I have a relation who died due to rationing in one of the world wars because “he would only eat the best of everything, of which there was very little”. Gosh I wonder if neurodivergence existed before it was well known!
December 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I have a relation who died due to rationing in one of the world wars because “he would only eat the best of everything, of which there was very little”. Gosh I wonder if neurodivergence existed before it was well known!
The cat’s out of the bag..!
(Sorry couldn’t resist)
(Sorry couldn’t resist)
December 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The cat’s out of the bag..!
(Sorry couldn’t resist)
(Sorry couldn’t resist)
(It’s not the *point* of a gardening show, but I truly think it only works if the gardening show is also good. Competence and all that.)
December 24, 2025 at 2:33 AM
(It’s not the *point* of a gardening show, but I truly think it only works if the gardening show is also good. Competence and all that.)
That’s a real shame. Totally missing the point of why a lot of people garden.
(And I wasn’t kidding about Gardeners’ World’s - and other gardening shows - contributions to the depth and breadth of sex symbols here, either, and it’s nice to show people you don’t need to be 22 to be hot.)
(And I wasn’t kidding about Gardeners’ World’s - and other gardening shows - contributions to the depth and breadth of sex symbols here, either, and it’s nice to show people you don’t need to be 22 to be hot.)
December 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
That’s a real shame. Totally missing the point of why a lot of people garden.
(And I wasn’t kidding about Gardeners’ World’s - and other gardening shows - contributions to the depth and breadth of sex symbols here, either, and it’s nice to show people you don’t need to be 22 to be hot.)
(And I wasn’t kidding about Gardeners’ World’s - and other gardening shows - contributions to the depth and breadth of sex symbols here, either, and it’s nice to show people you don’t need to be 22 to be hot.)