Small and Tired

Welsh. Old. Starting again.

[detournementsmineurs]

Broche clip "Perruches" de Cartier, transformable sur un collier, en platine, diamants et onyx.

[notebooks-and-laptops]

If you're in the UK btw I HIGHLY recommend emailing your MP right now to ask if they drink while representing you at parliament. I'm 100% serious. Emails aren't usually the best form of direct political action (although much better than nothing) HOWEVER putting our MPs in a situation where they either have to admit to drinking while representing You or say they would never do that (thus implicitly condemning their colleagues who do) will help show MPs how out of touch they sound when they defend their right to *check notes* get drunk while voting decisions that affect our entire lives, the climate, foreign policy and the economy.

It's a small change but an important one, and I think enough people across the political spectrum think this is ridiculous that it's actually likely we can make them stop acting this way.

[allhailthe70shousewife]

[helenvaughans]

this is literally the only good internet take i’ve ever read on this book

[jepic-angel-in-dog-heaven]

Shouldn't you be making a marvellous invention

[byjove]

massive Ebola outbreak in the DRC and Uganda, dengue fever in Florida and the Caribbean, hantavirus still incubating, lets all have a nice summer inside the goddamn house avoiding mosquitos and not going on any planes or cruises or vacations. better for the environment. with gas prices, a stay in the goddamn house summer is better for your wallet too.

[srdcovka]

WHAT

[invisible-goats]

WHAT THE FUCK YES

[bridgeandburn]

[not100bees]

The thing about Miss Piggy is that she kind of has a Roger Rabbit comedy superpower where she wins nearly any conceivable fight she's in. But unlike other characters of which that's true, like say, Bugs Bunny, who tend to win because they make the opponent play the game with their rules, Miss Piggy wins because the joke is that she can beat the shit out of literally anybody.

[baddywronglegs]

So the UK is currently in the weird aftermath of local elections.

Reform, who are the party founded on the principle that what we need in this country is leadership like Trump, got a lot of councillors, and as you'd expect for that raison d'etre, in the short time since the elections several of them have been suspended from the party, removed from office for public racist outbursts, quit because they realised what being a councillor is, quit because they realised they're not a leopard even though they're part of the leopards eating faces party, that sort of thing.

At this rate Reform won't have anyone to stand for election in the general election which their supporters (and leader) seem convinced they just won.

But for every one who's thrown out on their arse for being a shitstain of a human like a whacky waving arm inflatable tube fucker inflated purely with dog whistles, all I can think is, the second largest part of the electorate where you stood thought you were the best person for this job despite you being so demonstrably shit at it.

And the largest part of that electorate just couldn't be fucked one way or the other and let you walk in.

"Oh no-one stands for me so why should I vote for them" fuck off.

Someone's standing against you. Someone's standing against someone you love.

And the absolute shitstains are celebrating because they're coming second to "can't be arsed". Vote against them having anything to smile about.

[polkadotmotmot]

Vanessa Stockard - I will succeed because I am insane, 2026 - Oil on dibond

[vintage-every-day]

Claudia Cardinale (1959)

[probablyasocialecologist]

[bowelfly]

hands you an assortment of creatures

[velvetcloak]

etro | fall 2019

[akajustmerry]

In light of the no.1 trending topic on this site, I'd like to inform youse that Kitty Kendall, one of the survivors who bravely spoke out against Neil Gaiman and accused him of rape in 2025, has said here and here that if you are looking to support her and other survivors, you can make a donation to OurVOICE (the counselling service Kendall herself used) or your local rape crisis centre. If you can't make a donation, you can help to ensure people do not forget what Kendall and other survivors have gone through and continue to go through as they pursue legal action, and that Gaiman has already spent a lot of money in the attempt to sue these women for speaking out.

[borealing]

news about pcos today

‘Unprecedented’ global effort gives new name to polycystic ovary syndrome – and new hope to millions of women

Decades-long campaign powered by patient perspectives results in switch from PCOS – a name that caused confusion and undue suffering – to PM

a health policy paper has been published saying the name is officially updated to polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS)

polyendocrine= multiple endocrine factors

metabolic = affecting/affected by metabolism

ovarian = from the ovaries

essentially, instead of using the symptomatic term (many people with PMOS do not develop cysts) the new term widens the diagnostic area and makes it easier to diagnose, treat, and do research on people with PMOS (even atypical types, such as no cysts).

it may seem like a waste of time to change a name instead of focusing on research, but for a lot of medical professionals a name can be associated with a hard set collection of symptoms, so the name needs to change to acknowledge that the disorder is not well understood and has a broader, subtler, and often missed set of symptoms. for example ADD is considered an antiquated/unused term, and now comes under the ADHD umbrella. in healthcare names and terminology changes all the time, and this is a positive change. your local healthcare professional may not know about this unless theyre really up on the news though!

in case you want to read about the name change process that was published in the Lancet (one of the most impactful and well respected medical journals):

Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, the new name for polycystic ovary syndrome: a multistep global consensus process

Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS), previously named polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), affects one in eight women. However, the