Rewatched Star Trek First Contact, of which I have fond memories, recently.

It's aged VERY badly.

HomePod: "And did those feet, in ancient times, walk upon England's mountains green?"

Me: "No"

Apropos of conversation elsewhere, any other Gen X Brits remember CUB monitors?

“Let’s put an electron gun and high frequency electromagnets inside a steel box and then give it to 8 year olds because we hate kids and think electrocuting them is funny!”

It was a different time.

It’s my former political party, the UK Liberal Democrats, conference starting in Bournemouth today.

This likely means the usual TERF suspects are planning to engage in stupid bullshit. Usually this takes the form of trying to submit wrecking amendments to any motion aimed at improving women’s position in society.

For some reason, the uk media insists on referring to these people as “feminists”.

I kinda feel like the whole “middle aged women having a sense of humour based massively around filthy innuendo and scatology” is a thing. Am I wrong?

Like, I’m driving yesterday and there’s a bag of liquorice chews in my lap, and I offered one to @Zoe O'Connell and I’m like, “don’t worry, there’s no hole in the bottom”.

Peak fucking hilarity right there.

05:00?!?!

To whom do I complain about this bullshit? Stupid brain refusing to sleep.

When I left Portugal for the summer I dared to hope I had eradicated my mealybug infestation on the balcony.

But I returned last week to find they had survived in the soil of my Lantana and had already started to spread to the neighbouring lime tree.

Not having it. If left unchecked, they will destroy EVERYTHING.

I sprayed them with a shedload of isopropyl alcohol, followed by double concentration deltamethrin, and then today, some systemic neonicotinoid spray (it’s ok, they aren’t flowering, it won’t hurt bees).

I aso removed ALL foliage from the Lantana, and threw it in the bin.

I am daring to hope t hat will be it, but I’m going to be utterly paranoid over the next 6 months, and at the first sign of ANYTHING, out comes the nuclear pesticide regime again.

They started this. I’m finishing it. At least they can’t fly, so once they’re gone, they’re gone.

Wow! Natalie the Bird is on r/compoface for being cancelled by TEH TRANZ in the Daily Mail.

According to a barely legible black smudge, she was a “would be MP” but the transes cancelled her. Shocking!

Except, and this is slightly inconvenient for her, I have some considerable familiarity with ol’ ms Bird here and the real reason she can’t be an MP is that she is the platonic reference Dunning Kruger effect. This is someone would would fail, by a long way, to meet the abysmally low bar set by Liz Truss and that Tory bloke who thinks women’s blood doesn’t clot when there’s a full moon.

r/compoface is the wrong community for her. R/StoriesAboutKevin, on the other hand, would be perfect.

reddit.com/r/compoface/s/rHn9A…

Apologies for the unorthodox communication style, but I’m trying to reach out to the TERFs in whose heads I live rent-free.

Anyway, this is a tenant query: I want to put up a big poster of Marsha Johnson throwing a brick. Am I allowed to use bluetac, or similar, on the inner surface of the bone?

Please indicate “yes” by liking this post.

Hugs and kisses, etc

Apropos of the scary shit that’s going on for trans people around the world right now, the concept of “birth certificate laundering” seems to be becoming a thing.

It goes like this: you transition and go through gender recognition somewhere hostile, like the UK. You get a new birth certificate (for now?) but you are still “on the list”, and they know if they look hard enough; the original record is still there.

But then you naturalise or register as a citizen of another country (Ireland, for those able to via the grandparent route, for example, naturalisation through residence and assimilation in my case), and when you naturalise you give them the post gender recognition birth certificate.

That breaks the link. Your country of new citizenship registers your birth and, at as far as they are concerned, you are “legally cis”.

And if they start hunting us via gender recognition records, we can hopefully hide.