Every now and again I plug in my old PS2 (I’ve still got my ancient 90s PS1, but I think that’s currently held together by dust and the sheer power of nostalgia) just so I can bask in the joy of the PS1 load screen sound and not having to worry about anything updating for hours…

Still got mine - my kids still play Crisis Core and Daxter on it.

Oh, I got overly excited too… oh well, if it’s good it’s good!

OOOooooOOOOOoooo, I didn’t know they had a new one out - I guess I’m going to be busy later! I do love Benson and Moorhead - if anyone’s going to adapt my stories into a film, these guys would be my first choice 🥰

*very sad, very tired smile* I know… I’ve been berated my entire life for not ‘measuring up’ to his absolutely bat shit standards (because he definitely had it harder, you know. I don’t even know I’m born. I just don’t want to work. I just give up when things get hard 🙃)

When he took over twitter, he erased the gifs for midlife crisis. I have screenshots.

I’m not young (nearly 50!) and I’m sick of being treated like a naive teenager (at best), or sometimes with open hostility because I happen to think immigrants aren’t all evil criminals who deserve instant deportation and are a net positive to our society, and that human rights are a Good Thing.

I think it’s lovely, and not in an ‘aww, bless him’ kind of way - more of a ‘thank God not all of them have been lost’. My in-laws are due next weekend and I’m low-key dreading it - they used to be the most fair, mild mannered people, but recently they’ve become just as rabid as everyone else

My dad’s always going on about how he worked his way up from nothing, but when it comes to immigrants, they always have to come with a proven pedigree? How hypocritical is that??

I wish my dad was more like yours - sadly Thatcher and the Daily Mail sank their fangs into him long ago 😢

* how quickly you can knock up a silly piece… Cthulhu only knows what that’s all about?

I really do need to figure out how to turn the autocorrect off this damn thing.

If anyone fancies reporting this prick, I would very much appreciate it ❤️

Ooouuucchhh… Hope it goes away quickly!

Round ‘ere they used to get ridiculed by the locals and then have their arses kicked by the military police.

(It’s why the Americans weren’t allowed off their destroyers when they docked here - I’m not sure if that rule is still in place, but it was funny when they put it in place 😂)

Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.

Crimes against pasta

As someone who has spent *decades* being diagnosed with various mental health issues, ranging from GAD to bipolar, only to discover it’s probably just undiagnosed adhd, and despite meeting all the criteria comfortably is still being discouraged from diagnosis… Streeting & the BBC can kindly fuck off