I mean (not to harp on about it), if you had a costume like that, you might relax and phone it in and/or chew the scenery. He absolutely did not. He wrung every little bit of nuance out of it.

Michael Wisher is an unrecognised genius. I can't think of any dramatic performance that is quite so astonishingly inventive and perfectly calibrated. Also Davros was the first TESCREAL techbro Utopian.

The number of times in the last few years when I've thought "I've never worked so hard in my life. I'm so stressed out. And I've never been happier."…

Damn: I just realised I've been feeling good about ticking items off yesterday's todo list.

Okay, that's near enough 7pm. Day done. Thanks for duping my circadian rhythm out of a couple of hours, AEDT.

Transition is the universal rule. Gender transition is just a special instance. If you think you were done when you graduated, or got the right to vote, or a drivers license, or married, or children, or professional success, or retirement, or ticked all the boxes on whatever transition checklist […]

Given the people running those systems are eugenicists, we should stop saying "social media" and start saying "the normal distribution". And instead of "the algorithm", "the dumbbell curve". We can keep calling their target audience "the mean", and ourselves "the outliers".

I've not been able to be useful all day, but even on my best days I probably only really do a few hours work. I've never understood work, and now that nobody wants to pay me for it I suppose it's academic. but as somebody who wants to do something useful with the last couple of decades of her […]

Today went really well. I did a lot of work leading up to it, but there have been other days that I put much more preparation into that were disastrous. So the way I feel now is not so much a result of work as luck. So a big hooray for today, and a little hooray for me. But if I'm going to take […]

Honestly, my dear friend Merilyn asked me a question, and I had to respond "Would you like to get up here? Because I wasn't going to get to that till week five!"

I already knew this, but I've just confirmed it: standing in front of a roomful of intelligent people talking about something I know way too much about is my happy place.

[mh~] How do you tell whether you're flourishing or just barely hanging on? Asking for a friend.

Damn it. They should lable those little jars of garlic and ginger with completely different colours. I just made myself some ginger butter.

WTF? It's just fixed itself. In the middle of a GNOME session; didn't even log out and back in again. It had persisted since yesterday morning through several reboots. Computers are just messing with me. See if I put up with this sort of treatment much longer…

The more wealthy and influential an anglo American man is, the sillier his name is likely to be. eg. Marriner Stoddard Eccles, Beardsley Ruml, Grover Norquist, Newt Gingritch…

It is cold and wet, and I am not leaving the flat today. Further updates as events warrant.

Well, that was a catastrophe. Another RadioMMT interview fell to bits this morning due to connectivity issues on my end. Well, it was salvageable, in that my colleague can just edit out the couple of sentences I was able to contribute, and we just pretend I wasn't there. Only ever happens to me […]