Abigail K 🌼 @ak@queer.garden

there's a really insensitive advert on the radio

a teacher is standing in front of a class and she says "listen up class, if you need a new laptop - as I can see many of you do - then [shop] has new laptops from just £199, so there's no excuse!"

really? that got signed off? in a country where hundreds of thousands of families can't afford shoes for their kids let alone £199 for a new laptop?

do better

abi

the British countryside is full of the kind of rich white guy I go to the countryside to get away from

Please CW sex work stuff if at all possible, thank you

I seem to have got a migraine from somewhere, but it's the first one I've had in months and the worst one I've had in a very long time, I couldn't sleep last night because I was feeling dizzy and queasy and my head hurt too much

Luckily I still have some codeine left from my last spate of migraines months ago but not much

I'm watching a really daft TV show called Ted Lasso at present - it's silly, it's about an American football coach who somehow ends up managing a football team here

But the entire show seems to be sponsored by Apple, so various Apple gadgets spend more time on screen than the main characters, even during a kissing scene we have to have a close up of an Apple phone in someone's hand, it's bizarre to watch

As always the Simpsons were there decades ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HErRwSpla0

weird to hear the words "Northern Trains" without them being immediately followed with the words "service to Sheffield is cancelled"

the following radio ad:

"...journeys beyond four walls again? welcome back to Northern Trains!"

makes me want lockdown back, please don't make us use Northern Trains again

whenever a radio DJ is on holiday they always say "I'm in for Dave who's having a well deserved break"

they never say "I'm covering for Dave who has done fuck all except talk shit for an entire year, if there is anyone in the country who deserves a break less than him, I want to know"

i feel seen! ✨

I know there are a few people who follow me who are on chaos.social

The instance I'm on has silenced it, due to a lack of effective moderation and a lack of CWs (it seems to have a culture of users who either don't use CWs or put a "global CW" in their profile and then don't use CWs)

This isn't the first instance I know that's blocked/silenced chaos.social so if you are on there, it might be worth considering a move before you find yourself unable to communicate

I'm remote into an on-campus computer today For A Thing and someone's set the default search engine on all the uni PCs to something called Ecosia, the results are questionable at best

good night ⭐

very dizzy Monday morning

📖 book: sit down, open book, read book, enjoy story

🎬 film: sit down, put on film, watch film, enjoy story

🎮 game: sit down, realise game is 100GB, start all-night download and come back tomorrow, load game, try and figure out controls because they're slightly different from the last game you played, realise your reaction times aren't quick enough, get killed over and over, never get good enough at it to progress through story, go back to reading a book