The Desolated Quill

Reviews. Rants. Ramblings.

[northern-punk-lad]

By the end of this decade mp will start debating if disabled children should go to school you watch

[frogayyyy]

i presume this is the petition mentioned in the video text:

Petition: Protect legal right to support for children with SEND

I believe that the Government’s proposed SEND reforms could limit EHCPs, weaken legal rights, replace individual plans with packages, reduce

and some templates for letters/emails to send to your MPs i found after a quick search:

Write to your MP: protect the legal rights of children and young people with SEND

Use our email template to urge your MP to oppose any reforms to the SEND system that would remove or weaken legal rights

Write to your MP

Write to your MP

WRITE TO YOUR MP - Save Our Children’s Rights

Writing to your MP is one of the most important things you can do. We have two systems you can choose from to make it easier

[the-desolated-quill]

The government and media will literally scapegoat anyone rather than tackle the real cause for our country’s problems. The 1% and the Epstein class. It’s truly pathetic.

We desperately need media reform. This has gone on long enough. So much of the shit that has happened over the past ten years has been down to corrupt news media spreading misinformation, whataboutisms and false equivalencies all in the name of”balance”. Brexit. Trump. Covid. Trans rights. Immigration. Climate change. Gaza. Farage. And now the disabled. It’s got to fucking stop.

If someone tells you it’s raining, your job as a journalist is not to present both sides of the argument. Your job is to look out the fucking window.

[existennialmemes]

Companies in the 2000s: You wouldn't download a car! Digital copies are still stealing, even if the original copy remains with us.

Companies in the 2020s: That digital copy, which you have paid for, doesn't really belong to you. We're removing it from your library now.

[existennialmemes]

Companies deleting media you've literally purchased is 1000x more realistically "stealing" than digital piracy, you cannot change my mind

[redstonedust]

i understand why writers keep their alien worldbuilding relatively simple for story practicality reasons but its always a lil funny to me when a sci-fi series is like "this alien species is a culture of bounty hunting warriors" like damn all of them? the whole planet? a whole planet-scale society built on bounty hunting? that seems highly impractical but i'll believe it for you bestie.

[strix-returns]

At least they cpuld assign 2 or 3 hats to the same aliems for the sake of variety.

"This alien species is renowned for their bounty hunting warriors. The reason so many of them are bounty hunting warriors is to escape their shithole home planet ruled by cutthroat business moguls and mobsters"

Now you've got at least 3 options for stock characters that can fill different narrative roles.

[theconcealedweapon]

[gigiimariiie]

Koriand’r/Starfire DC Collage

[bobbole]

Zhiyong Jing, Insomnia

[tictacpbandai]

[magicmistral]

My uncle is really into warhammer and would win every miniature painting competition he was in. I have not very steady hands and he saw me messing up my nail polish for prom. He sat with me and carefully painted my nails and that moment meant so much to me all these years later.

[ratty-writer]

english major brain: words can evolve and develop as a society goes on. the way a word is used is its definition. it's pointless to hold onto the idea of right vs wrong words human brain: THAT IS NOT WHAT LARP MEANS!!!!!

[alphacrone]

when it finally happens they shouldn’t lower the flags to half mast, they should raise them to 1.5 mast. add some mast to that mast. maybe some balloons too.

[the-desolated-quill]

When it finally happens, they’ll have to bury him at sea. Do you have any idea how often his star on the Hollywood walk of fame is vandalised? Can you imagine his grave being any different? Especially after all the evil shit he’s done over the last 10 years or so. There’s a reason why Hitler’s body was chucked in a ditch, covered in petrol and lit on fire.

[trigonometer]

i have a lot of thoughts on the matter but i will say that fandom moving from semi-private blogs and communities to extremely public and algorithm-driven social media was a huge mistake that has changed fandom culture for the worse

[luna-azzurra]

Your protagonist's flaw isn't supposed to be charming. If readers find the flaw endearing, it's not actually costing the character anything, which means it's not a flaw, it's a personality quirk wearing a flaw's clothes. A real flaw should make the reader wince a little, should make them go "please don't do that" and then watch the character do it anyway. That wince is the whole point of writing one.

[undead-moth]

I do love that when the Heated Rivalry’s show runner was asked about casting queer actors to play queer characters he ignored the bait and was just straight up like “You can’t ask that. That’s illegal.” lmao because yeah. It is. Weird how a lot of discourse on this subject acts like this is not a factor.

[someonesoonforgotten]

Something Americans don’t often think about: a lot of us non-Americans know quite a lot about your politics, and powerlessly worry about it.

We know about the republicans as ravenous reactionary lunatics that only our far right come close to approaching, we know about the dems and their spineless appeasement, we know about many more things than we should.

We know about the billionaires lobbying openly and proudly.

Many of our countries are basically vassals to the US, some are extraction hubs, some are enemies. All of us have to keep an eye on the US to keep abreast of the newest disaster. Many bad things are exported from the USA: neoliberal imperialism, the alt right and its strategies, climate denialism, AI and its overstaturation etc.

The US is a source of chaos and has been for many years. While China & India for example are more populous and have equally reactionary governments, the US is the one that keeps sticking its foot in the door and shoving its worst trends in our face.

That is to say: as a US citizen, you need know that you are part of the imperial core and your political choices matter hugely to the rest of us. Whether thousands or millions more will die in some pointless war, whether green energy will be allowed to overtake fossil fuels or whether the climate crisis will be allowed to get worse, whether AI will be allowed to destroy countless pieces of art, literature and culture or not…

And so on. All of this can be changed for the entire world by what you and your people decide to do. You have to be aware of this responsibility and think about it whenever you vote or don’t vote or do direct action or whatever.

Many of our countries are suspended in the air where big issues are concerned as long as the US keeps being an obstacle. You can change that, and you need to think about how.

[dionysiaproductions]

[viralfrog]

[thememedaddy]

[the-desolated-quill]

So to sum up, Nigel Farage is up to his droopy jowls in scandals over his finances and Kemi Badenoch has hired a convicted neo-Nazi as a councillor candidate… but the mainstream media are more concerned with Andy Burnham going on holiday during the summer recess with his family.

How does that meme go? “I can excuse corruption and bigotry, but I draw the line at spending time with your family.”

Oh yeah, and the new trans bathroom rules have come into effect and now nobody has the faintest idea which toilet to use without getting sued. Businesses and corporations are shitting themselves. And can you blame them? They don’t know which toilet to use without getting sued.

So if you’re a cis man who looks a bit girly, a cis girl who looks a bit manly, or a trans person who just happens to exist, I’d recommend bringing a bucket just to be safe.