Shani

It’s so good!!

Wow I hadn't thought of that essay in years. What a perfect contrast to that Slate article re expectations of what romance is(/does) for both authors and readers

thinking about the vital 1992 essay "The Androgynous Reader" by romance writer Laura Kinsale which suggests a growing inability of female readers to relate with male heroins (often through third-person narration) would indicate rising antifeminist gender conservatism. or whatever im just riffing

I've made 'carbonara' with veg replacing part (or even all) of the pasta if that's of interest. Or, to adjust the quiche, souffle it www.howsweeteats.com/2025/04/broc... (haven't tried this specific recipe but have done the general idea)

ALOO EGG CURRY | POTATO EGG CURRY | EGG GRAVY | EGG CURRY YouTube video by Spice Eats

I can vouch for www.youtube.com/watch?v=15ia... (has potatoes for the egg avoiders) and www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes... (doesn't, but is faster :))

Wow! I just made some ramen eggs, assume that's no good for egg dislikers but I personally love having them in the fridge as a snack/lunch side. Egg curry is similarly a staple for me, and shakshuka. To better disguise the eggs, maybe frittata/spanish omelette? Quiche? Carbonara?

Like this narrative that the campaigns for equal marriage were a friendly public conversation where everybody respected each other is wild as fuck. It was only about ten years ago and you guys kept implying we wanted to fuck dogs.

The thing is that I distinctly remember opponents of gay marriage crying and kicking their heels and claiming to be oppressed by the mean censorious gays all the time.

This is it exactly. As @isaacsederbaum.bsky.social and I wrote in a piece out today--even as these states deny the existence of trans identity, they build administrative systems to track us-- an expanding architecture of surveillance and control. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-compl...

WHY is it LIKE this. In abortion land, in England, BPAS and MSI are contracted by different NHS Trusts, and if you contact the wrong one directly (they both just have generic websites with no list/gating) they sometimes kindly redirect you, and other times treat you as a private pt (£1000ish) ???

If you breach copyright to make publicly funded research publicly available they'll come at you with everything. If you turn theft into a business model investors can profit from, they'll change the law for you.

It is astounding how much these companies manage to externalise their costs and yet still can't turn a profit.

So funny that history has conspired to pair Starmer, a man whose highest ambition is to be a level-headed lawyerly technocrat, with Donald Trump, an impulsive fascist. A lifetime of bland adherence to rules and norms brings him to power just in time to meekly watch them get steamrollered.

Started this yesterday, thank you for the rec it's excellent

Being Iranian is funny because you get selective sympathy from the right and the left based on who’s putting your family in danger at any given moment

does anybody else want a turn at the lathe of heaven

Well fuck. World is bad, hate everything.

her: stop using this word! you're not consuming media you're *experiencing art*

me, mouth full of delicious chunks of dvd disc: i'm echpirienching art

I didn't know this and would like to know more. gov uk has a section on how to make extra repayments, moneysavingexpert have articles on whether it's a good idea or not, what am I missing?

omg

omg the nerve

Pretty sure the only way to get her to come is to agree a time then leave the house yourself

I have friends being threatened by their workplaces over the use of toilets they've been using for years without problem.

This kind of SEO hacking has been huge in conversion therapy promotion. I've been searching for articles where my own organisation has exposed or commented on these organisations and everything is front loaded with reasons why trans people's identities must be held in suspicion and corrected.

This too. And in a just world, having it be difficult to imagine what it's like to be us wouldn't be a problem but cis people insist that their imaginary must be thrust on us through policy and enforcement rather than occupying a difference of minds.

Hmm I’m sure I see it occasionally in postage contexts, but then it excludes eg Isle of Wight or Scottish islands

So unless you have an external meeting you might as well spend 15 mins having a walk-and-chat or coffee-chat with colleagues rather than elbowing people to be the first through the doors. And totally normal to check Slack to hear when it's reopened/what's going on

Yeah, mine is a tower rented by multiple companies so it doesn't have that kind of fellow feeling. The building facilities people do all the safety checks to ensure the place emptied out properly and all the door/lift/alarm systems are back online, and then it's a long squeezed queue to get back in

We have those but the building is huge (20 storey) so it's nicer to find your friends and get out of there, go for a walk or get a coffee if raining, and only emerge once the queue for the lifts has dissipated