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Bits of art and politics and ducks and cats and dinosaurs and things that make me laugh.I swear I'm not a hipster.

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My new favourite Disney Princess

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Berlin Brigade is this week's highest new entry in "my top 10 camouflage techniques"

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Run out of piss?

I DON'T.

I never run out of piss.

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I considered that I had died in that room with its drapes and pulls, and that the me who bent over my keyboard day after day was a ghost who was tethered to her work regardless of the fiddling details of her mortal coil.

Her Body And Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado

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O2 offered a free subscription to some magazines, but the selection was so bad I went with "Chat".

Not regretted that choice for a second.

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As it's a day for local politics, here's a gentle reminder to vote YES on Proposition 1231

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Today I learned the etymology of the word "Tory". The Irish - a great bunch of lads.

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I'd ask which one of you signed me up to a Tory mailing list, but this uses a + address that only I should know. So it means at some point I decided to troll the Tories with this account. That might explain the "Alan" part of it then.

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BBK's classic finally gets a music video - and some weird cross-platform promotion

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RIP in pieces, Hartman.

Your political views might have been garbage, but you were always fun to watch in films.

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...perpetual growth is the creed of the cancer cell

Paul Ehrlich: 'Collapse of civilisation is a near certainty within decades'

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Was taking the piss out of the Prada 2018 collection and now I kinda actually want this outfit

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It would be great if the game used the stupid infighting and cliques of the left as a mechanic > We can either sneak into the building, go in guns blazing or... the third option. We've made contact with a group of radical 2nd wave feminists who can get us the passcodes and uniforms we need to walk right in. But in return, they want us to not let trans women use the ladies room in our hideout. > If we help break this Trotskyist out of jail, we'll have access to his printing and distribution networks. But that'll make us lifelong enemies of the tankies, who will tweet increasingly convoluted conspiracy theories about how we're secretly working for the CIA." > It's just been discovered that one of our informants re-tweeted a rape joke four years ago. We have to kill him.

Unironically would play this game

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...the Martians' quirky speech pattern, which was created by reversing the sound of a duck's quack.

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Ok

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I don't know why everybody seems to go on about "Saint" Duncan

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I know why Musk sent one of his cars to space, but I really wish it had been a particular Ford Galaxie