As a queer teen in the nineties one reason I absolutely did join online communities full of predatory men was that the options for healthy, out in the open identity exploration had been so thoroughly stifled. Section 28 is not at sole fault, one bigotry among many, but has a lot to answer for.

The nice thing about Bluesky’s big juicy block button is that the people who perform not being able to tell the difference between censured and censored suddenly don’t have to.

Here are some folks on here who frequently post about practical things we can do to help our communities. Great follows. go.bsky.app/9H3C9Ty

So Ben Garrison or whatever gets a bunch of shares and comments for his bullshit and the robots pick up on it and try to recreate it, and then they pick up on the AI version, and it just keeps going until it's incomprehensible, all the while everyday Facebook users keep sharing it & it mutatesSo Ben Garrison or whatever gets a bunch of shares and comments for his bullshit and the robots pick up on it and try to recreate it, and then they pick up on the AI version, and it just keeps going until it's incomprehensible, all the while everyday Facebook users keep sharing it & it mutates

I was fantastically lucky in that my GP just… forgot? that I was supposed to have annual check-ups as part of shared care. Until getting a generic prescription last month due to shortages reminded them. Got to sort all that out for the first time now which is fun with rationed meds and no money.

My uncle (born in 1950) once described Covid as “your generation’s version of the blitz” and was genuinely upset when I muttered “yours too”.

Films all unable to get insurance because they bought the rights to The Saga Of The Victims without emailing me first.

Me thinking ‘that looks like a thing I probably own’ seems like the reddest red flag for a fruitful IP. Like to the point where I should really have a thriving side hustle doing it for a grand a pop as part of contract negotiations.

50% of Dredd stories are about finding a corpse with a missing nose, then Dredd losing a chase with a suspect, another noseless corpse turns up, Dredd finds an apartment full of noses and a Nose Vampire Coffin, then the Nose Vampire arrives home, Dredd shoots him & says the law can't be sniffed at.