Aug 4, 2025
Glasgow airport--high points for being normal about the stick in security, got through in a flash! Which is good because I've already just about used up my Standing Stamina for the day and this is my first of four airports...
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Glasgow airport--high points for being normal about the stick in security, got through in a flash! Which is good because I've already just about used up my Standing Stamina for the day and this is my first of four airports...
I am SCREAMING I am binge-listening to the Behind the Bastards episodes on RFK jr and in Episode 1 they're complaining about the bag restrictions at the RNC and Robert says "everyone knows that a small backpack can't contain a bomb! Anyway, here's ads"
AND THE VERY FIRST AD
"It all started with a backpack... containing a bomb."
It's an ad for the podcast Flashpoint which is about a bombing at the Summer Olympics in 1996 and that is not funny I should not be laughing this hard but the ad placement is INCREDIBLE
Me angrily ranking airports I've been through this year on my crutch:
1. Glasgow Airport. Make you sit in a chair while they wave a wand all over you. Kinda invasive but tbh no worse than the scanner I'd have to walk through these days. Gets the #1 spot bc chair.
2. Rome. Security officer offered me his arm to lean on while we walked through the scanner and cheerily announced, "we are since married!" Points for jokes and getting my stick scanned and back to me quickly.
3. Denver. Made me wait while they put my stick through the scanner and then gave it back to walk through with. Wouldn't give me a chair but at least let me lean on the side of the x-ray machine for support.
4. Dulles. What the fuck is happening here. They had an alternative stick but it was a cane for little old ladies than was WAY too short and made me hunch over awkwardly to put weight on it. No less than four people asked me if I really COULDN'T stand without the stick, as if I was crouched over the little old lady stick for funnies. Sent me back and forth between two different scanners MULTIPLE times because evidently nobody has a plan here. Got yelled at any time I leaned my weight on anything bit the painfully ineffective little old lady stick. Took fucking ages to get my actual crutch back to me--turns out they scanned it pretty quick and just elected to keep it as a decorative item until I hobbled around and asked "hey, is that my crutch?" No points. Negative points, because they're the only ones that made me take off my support shoes. Get your shit together Dulles.
(I hate taking airport wheelchairs because a) I get anxious that somebody that really needs it will have to wait longer, and b) I like my independence and I like travelling on my own. My crutch allows me to do that. An airport wheelchair comes with an airport attendant who has to go everywhere with you until you reach the gate--excellent if you need the assistance, frustrating if you just wanna get in early and spend a couple hours reading in the airport bar. Literally the only part of the travel process that's made less convenient by my crutch is security, and I blame security for THAT.)
Did Sweden just get a massive nuclear arsenal or something what are these POINTS
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God I hope this is it. It'll be so fucking funny if the Queen spoke to Liz Truss once and then died to get out of doing it again
Me? Updating my sixth AU of my own fics instead of making any progress on the mainline ones? It's more likely than you think--second chapter of the Red Lives AU on AO3 now!
Peter Schaufuss' version of Hamlet was excellent, absolutely gorgeous music and choreography, and well worth it just to be within touching distance of Sir Ian McKellen while he delivers the monologues. Gotta say, though, if Sir Ian handed me a knife and told me to kill a guy, I don't think it'd take me 75 minutes to do it.