BRIGADIER: What happened to your hair?

[NINTH] DOCTOR: It's practical! Anyway, like you can talk, silver fox.

BRIGADIER: I say.

DOCTOR: Strong look, though. Sarah Jane always knew you'd go distinguished. Or was that Harry?

BRIGADIER: Sarah Jane? And Harry? Lieutenant Sullivan. My, my, my, it really is you, isn't it, Doctor. Regenerated. Again.

DOCTOR: Quick as ninepence, me.

BRIGADIER: A Doctor with a buzzcut. Well, I never. We'll make a soldier out of you yet.

DOCTOR: (Hostile) Don't.

[Beat]

(Bright) What are you doing, falling off a cliff? You daft old man.

Man.

Social anxiety Is so funny you'll really be wondering "is it normal to get your clothes dry cleaned?" Yeah brother they built a whole business around it called "dry cleaning"

“Oh, you shouldn’t block people just for being rude to you in the notes” buddy, I will block you for being rude to somebody else in the notes. You don’t get to use my posts as a platform to verbally abuse other people.

The remake reboot prequel sequel industrial complex is killing me but the good thing is I don't have to watch any of that. I can just think "that sounds boring or otherwise doesn't interest me in any way" and do something other than watch it

"They're making a willy wonka origin story with timothee chalamet," you might say to me. "They're doing a live action the last airbender again, didn't you love avatar?" I don't find it necessary. This is nothing to me

It's so aggrivating seeing your health get worse while you're helpless to stop it

It's so aggrivating to have to adapt to brain fog when there was no fog a month ago

It's so aggrivating to deal with so much fatigue, when 2 years ago, you were so lively

It's so aggrivating to deal with all of this and find yourself slipping into anger more and more

To find yourself holding your tongue so you don't hurt those around you because you're tired and don't have the energy for it anymore

It's so unimaginably aggrivating

"disability only exists because the world isnt accessible" idk how to tell you this but chronic pain still hurts

i like the sentiment and i think its true in many ways, but people with mobility issues will still have mobility issues in an accommodating world, people with sensory disabilities will still have those disabilities in an accommodating world. and thats not including neurodiversity where two people with the exact same disorder will have very different experiences with them. like there's not a world where someone with agoraphobia wont be scared to leave the house just cause outside is more accessible

i dont think it accounts for the wide range of disability experience and caters more to low-support needs people. i think life would be so much easier if being disabled was less stigmatized, but disability wont just go away once it is

you can't autism proof a bright summer day, but you can normalize stimming and using sensory aids in public

You'd think I wouldn't have to beat a dead horse but... No actually you wouldn't, seems we all very much have to beat a dead horse on the regular

Hope you've had a good aromantic spectrum awareness week, everyone 💚🤍🩶🖤 I'll be there all... the time.

i hate seeing people now making fun of those who care about privacy online. i've seen people saying things like "well they already have your data. what are companies going to do with it" and it's like, that's not the point. it's that companies /shouldn't/ be able to have my data and sell it. am i aware they probably already have my data? yes, absolutely. but i'm still going to try and keep them from monetizing it any further, why are we defending companies selling data they shouldn't have to begin with though?

adding this to the post because, 100%, just there's a fire doesn't mean you should pour gasoline on it

I have like ten different ad and/or tracking blockers on my PC and phone... just out of pure spite

Can link it? I wish to hop aboard that train.

@drunkenbartend

• Firefox with build in tracker protection
• Ublock Origin adblocker for Firefox
• Adguard adblocker for firefox, for everything that gets past Ublock
• Mullvad VPN, one of the most reliable, cheapest and safest VPNs at the moment
• DuckDuckGo android app that blocks trackers for every app on your phone
• DuckDuckGo for firefox for blocking trackers and the likes
• SponsorBlock for firefox, skips the sponsor segments of youtube videos
• Adaway Adblocker for android (works much better with root access but doesn't require it)

Is there any benefit to using multiple ad blockers at once? I honestly don't know, but I haven't seen a single ad on the internet in ages and I get to use this image:

I keep thinking back to some feedback I got in high school, and while I disregarded it at the time, as "I can't keep track of which character is which because they all have Japanese names" is very annoying feedback to get on a story set in Japan, part of me wonders now if I shouldn't be considering how different the names I use in a story are.

If you apply more than one of these rules while reading, please click the option that comes up the most often, or which would be the most confusing if there were multiple characters the same applied to.

For example, in my current project, there are two characters named Caroline and Charlotte. Would the fact they're both slightly old-fashioned names of 8-9 letters starting with a C and ending with an E be confusing?

"Since the Wonka fiasco, Coull has taken steps to scrub various social accounts, taking down both a LinkedIn profile and a YouTube channel where it appears he presented himself as something of a business guru and life coach. His personal site, also deleted, touted a number of dubious academic degrees and said he worked as a “consultant” for a brand called Empowerity, which is now defunct. As of 2021, he was co-directing a Glasgow foodbank that he claimed fed thousands of families a month — that, too, no longer exists, and some Glaswegians suspect it was not entirely above board."

And also:

"The 16 books on Coull’s Amazon author page were all published in the summer of 2023 — some of them on the very same day. The synopsis for each is AI-generated, according to GPTZero analysis, and so is the text between the covers, as one irate reviewer has complained. Coull couldn’t even be bothered to pen his own author bio..."

Why am I not surprised

This story is one of the most bizarre I've ever come across

"How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know town, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession... Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope."

~ The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursuala Le Guin)