Being a better Wastrel

26/09/2024

Good doggy morning

21/07/2024

Back Alex Cox's Last Movie!

Alex Cox, director of Repo Man, Sid & Nancy, Straight to Hell, and Walker, and presenter of Moviedrome, embarks on his last hurrah.

13/07/2024

Good grief. Facebook is full of them this morning.

I like a laugh.

😆

15/05/2024

Transmen are men.

Transwomen are women.

Non-binary choices are valid and valuable.

Transphobia is misogyny.

10/05/2024

Even as neoliberalism destroys our dreams of a better life, politicians tell us ‘there is no alternative’. But there is, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

09/05/2024

So, I'm not fond of pedantically differentiating 'less' and 'fewer' for continuous and countable quantities.

But today I struggled to find a decent antonym for 'fewer' that isn't also an antonym for 'less'. I could only come up with one such word. Can anyone suggest any additional ones?

07/05/2024

"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed."

Herman Melville,
Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs (1854)
via Will Shetterly

15/11/2021

Everytime you share the picture of a happy trans girl, a transphobe somewhere bursts into flames.

(I'm smiling because within two days, our children's book project about a trans girl who plays hockey got funded by 30%!! It's also the last day to get the "super early bird" special rewards. Link in the comments!)

16/07/2020

11/01/2019

The Falkirk Wheel is set to reveal its engineering secrets, with the first-ever public tour of the iconic structure’s internal workings. Until now, visitors have only been able to imagine the engineering magic hidden behind The Wheel’s curved steel and soaring arches, but canal custodians Scotti...

11/09/2017

Wasted some time by the canal today. Excellent.