kip

I’ll confirm this, my english mother in her 70s who happily uses swears of all strengths up to and including fuck used to screw her face up in a scowl if you dropped a cunt in conversation, but now doesn’t bat an eye

well now you’re just doing it on purpose

i’ll tell you what man i’ll do all that and your dad’s as well if you stop formatting your mundane opinions as headers to try and get people to notice you

using header markdown to make your text enormous is far more obnoxious than saying like

first you see anthropomorphic cartoon animals and find them appealing, then the internet shits in your brain and makes you want to fuck them. after that you start pretending to be one. if somebody intervenes at this point or your remaining sense of shame kicks in you may be able to recover, otherwise your condition will deteriorate until you are found dead under a bodily fluid sodden pile of threadbare animal toys with holes cut in the crotches

If I have to ask, it’s lame

i don’t understand jokes and that’s your fault

times like this i can hardly blame the simulation theorists, if this was a novel you’d throw it at the cat

this pushed me on to the green bandwagon, signed up today

I know nationalising water right now would cost hundreds of billions

a hundred billion or so is the government’s own line. other more believable opinions suggest this is bollocks

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/09/water-companies-public-ownership-could-cost-close-to-zero-says-common-wealth-thinktank

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06/27/how-much-would-it-really-cost-to-nationalise-water

https://weownit.org.uk/news/government-100-billion-water-nationalisation

some amusing signatories there

Leggs A’Kimbo
24 minutes ago
Acrobat

Ellová Schokk
31 minutes ago
Electrician

Willy Byrnes
34 minutes ago
Cottage Attendant

Bitovå Hurrie
37 minutes ago
Politics

Gene Bootcut
44 minutes ago
Town Crier

neil hopper

what is the opposite of nominative determinism

A purply pinky pallette is often used for cosmic horror. I don’t know if this is because of magenta ‘not existing’ or if it’s just a coincidence but it’s a good choice anyway

https://leatriceeiseman.com/magenta/

This is a good take although I still prefer the sinister ending of the film over the redemptive one in the book. Later editions include a foreword by Burgess lamenting the omission of the 21st chapter in part because he wrote three acts of seven chapters for the symmetry of it and the symbolism of 21 being the age of majority

it’s not weird but it’s also not weird if he isn’t into it. amongst my own friend group there’s some with siblings or cousins who come along to the pub etc but there’s also others who keep their friends compartmentalised, who keep in touch with school friends, work friends, family members, whatever groups entirely seperately

so ask, you have nothing to lose, but don’t take it personally if he doesn’t like the idea

someone posted a link to this article in the guardian comments section i was reading on my work laptop. when i clicked it, iboss intervened and sent me an interstitial page that said ‘redirecting you to an approved resource’ which turned out to be ms copilot

the osa was dreamed up by the tories and enthusiastically implemented by labour. even if proportional rep or whatever alternative to fptp was established before the act came into force, there is little chance that one of these main parties wouldn’t have had enough influence to push it through regardless