Vicky Stiles

For the sake of everyone on this site, please take up journalling your thoughts instead.

I've been in such a frustrating slump the past few weeks but today I cleaned half of the kitchen (twice, as a carton of milk then exploded) and made a glorious spicy chicken casserole. Things are going to come together again, I can feel it on the breeze.

Going to a restaurant and screaming “FOOD!” at the waiter so as not to elevate my customised desires into primacy.

What do you want to bet this little tantrum on the WaPo's opinion page is because someone ahead of Professor Jakub Grygiel in the queue at some coffee shop had an elaborate coffee order and he hasn't been able to let it go ever since

Also fuck Vance and his fucked-up little pony, or whatever.

Fuck Trump, Hesgeth, Kennedy and Noem, and tne four horses they rode in on.

Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.

this is the brain of a 14 year old that has somehow spent 25 years doing cocaine

move slow and repair things

"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!"

counterpoint!

the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time

okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

Me: I'm unsubscribing from all your emails.
Them: Ok, you got it.
Me: I mean it, I'm not interested.
Them: Understood.
Me: I never want to hear from you again.
Them: It'll be like we don't know you exist.
Me: ...
Me: ...
Them: What if, though...

“We cannot say that the United States’ actions are against international law, but we condemn Iran’s retaliatory actions as against international law,” is neither a coherent nor a compelling position.

Blowing things up, kidnapping and killing foreign leaders, is good because it's Doing. Considering the consequences of Doing would be Thinking, which is weak and woke

Mr. S: You know why they're Scottish Widows?

Me: Go on ...

Mr. S: Their husbands got kilt.

Please don't post photos of dead children, or videos of dead children, or yell DONT LOOK AWAY. You are sick. Log off. Touch grass. You have PTSD and are inflicting it on us all. If you are not in media/ a conflict researcher/ etc you do NOT need to consume Horrors. Blocking lots right now.

everything about this is so unspeakably evil and rage-inducing, but the fact that a non-zero number of Republicans believe Ayatollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei are the same guy makes me want to S C R E A M

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

when the labour party purges you you're supposed to stop existing. to continue to take part in elections voting inline with your previous convictions is not only rude, it's anti-democratic.

Handmade pillows of the two henchmen from the 101 Dalmatians movie, crafted by an older family member to satisfy a deranged child who had memorized the entire 101 Dalmatians kid's book before she could even read. (I wanted plush toys of the villains to menace my cute plush toy puppies and those just didn't exist, for some mysterious reason...)

Please enjoy this photo of the Horace and Jasper bodypillows my aunt crafted for me when I was 5 years old and brain-meltingly obsessed with 101 Dalmatians.

"okay everyone the keyword is 'sectarian', let's all use that, it absolutely won't be flippin' obvious to anyone that we are all going all in with this orchestrated nonsense"

Brother Herbert evicts a rude earwig

BANNED from the abbey garden for unsanctioned nibbling

A heavy metal wheel crank laid against a wrought iron fence among various other free items

*sigh* great. There’s obviously some sort of device nearby I’m gonna need to use this on to compete a puzzle so I gotta lug it to the leftist coffee shop and bookstore with me

👇👇👇 This is 100% it, whether it's in Michigan, Marseille or Manchester.

something abled people don't get is you can have just one day a week where you are too sick to work, and that's enough to disqualify you from nearly all full-time jobs. it doesn't take a lot

It's not good that every single major party has simultaneously decided to adopt this line. It is both unserious, the Greens got 40% in a seat with at most a 30% Muslim population, and continues to marginalise Muslim voters as an other that is controlled instead of making rational choices.

For my entire adult life the Greens have continually drawn links between poverty, exploitation and ecological destruction. Every time they're explicit about it, and critical of the government, Labour (and political journalists trained on the duopoly) react like a scalded cat.

Spectator headline "The Green party is playing with fire in Gorton" by Ed West.

Dunno Ed, if I had to pick a party in Gorton that's "playing with fire" I think I might take a closer look at the Blood and Soil chaps micro-parsing who gets to call themselves English and flirting with Great Replacement Theory, not the nice Greens lady encouraging brown people to vote.

Clever bit of subtle propaganda to rebrand gambling as "gaming", isn't it? "Play responsibly." "Hot new slot games." I can't think of anything more antithetical to the concept of play than a machine designed by bastards to suck the money out of your pocket and leave you wishing you had more to spend