Hitting virtual things can be a good remedy, esp when you just need some time to go past.

We've done pretty well off them - I reckon we've been eating them ca 3x a week for about a month now, maybe longer. And there will be more to come. But I haven't had critters bigger than caterpillars attacking them before.

Grumphf. Went out to pick broad beans, and discovered something else has also found them... Probably a bird, but maybe a mouse. Whatever it is has to be pretty light to have managed it. So I've done a bunch of picking, since whatever it is will be back. Saved some for seed.

If you need a pickmeup, Ukraine struck and destroyed a Russian data center last night, reducing Russian bot traffic by 50%, dropping online pro-AfD discussion to zero, cratering MAGA traffic, and making Elon big mad. Just in time for the mid-terms. Slava fucking Ukraini.

This is just one of many examples of how anti trans and anti women's rights group are one and the same. The same groups which falsely claim trans women are not women, trans men are not men and non-binary individuals do not exist, are regularly seen to be same groups trying to strip women's autonomy.

Free masks 😷

Same - I saw the stripped back version, and I thought it was considerably better than it seems to have been given credit for - I thought it really landed the ending.

El-Sayed’s response to Kennedy:

Dude's got Palantir and he thinks he's Saruman.

Well done! Hope you have a wonderful time at the rewrite lab!

He just doesn't run out of ways to be wrong, does he...

In every conceivable way it isn't. 🚨Already shown to lead to people sent to Rwanda being trafficked, predominantly into Europe. 🚨People seeking asylum aren't put off by it as they just won't seek asylum and will instead become undocumented. 🚨Costs a metric fuck tonne for no benefits whatsoever.

Thank you! These are lovely!

Still masking here. Still haven't seen anything to make me think that Covid is something I want to get or give through carelessness.

If you’re still masking… thank you! It might feel lonely but you’re not alone. Many of us are still wearing masks and still trying to break chains of transmission. As the world falls apart…protecting your health and the health of those around you is paramount. It’s resistance and community care.

As it turns out, what it did best was 'synthesiser' (and synthesiser has a place in the world - as does machine learning for things like genomics), and there are still violinists and flautists, though being either is not a piece of easy....