For some of us, knowing there are always going to be funnies on the internet is the only bright thing in our future.

My posts and comments on here give a very different impression from what I’m dealing with irl. It’s nice to have a laugh at a funny picture of a dog in between feeling dead inside.

Was it tony Bliar who got round a hosepipe ban by using the hosepipe to fill his water butt? I’m sure it was some politician anyway.

More like a mouldy hamburder.

He’s only running for MP. He can’t be PM unless he forms a party and gets enough seats. But the previous and current PMs do back his campaign.

Never had any luck growing carrots because our soil is such heavy clay. But I chucked a few potato skins near my budgies’ graves when the compost bin was full and even after digging the plants up the first year, they just keep growing back and as long as I water them, they provide a decent harvest without any effort.

If I bought proper seed potatoes to grow, they probably wouldn’t.

It’s still a thing in the UK, but now the men who beat their wives are harassing peeple outside asylum centres claiming they are the only ones trying to protect women and girls.

I do all of these. Do I get a prize? 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Fifteen? Is that it?

When people talk about inner monologues, mine is just literally scripting. The worst is after social interaction, where my brain has to ruminate over it and script for the next time. Stupid brain won’t stop, and all the way home, sometimes even sounds and gestures leak out as my brain frantically scripts and I hate it. Like, just shut up, brain!

It’s common in neurodivergent people.

It was a big problem for me for a long time. The words are in my head, but my mouth couldn’t articulate the sounds and sometimes it was literal nonsense sounds that came out my mouth.

Weirdly enough, it turned out that I had a sensitivity to eggs that was making that (and my mental health) a lot worse.*

Even now, ten years on, when I can articulate a long sentence without tripping over my words, it still feels like a little victory.

This is a completely different thing from mutism btw.

*Unfortunately, the price of lower anxiety and better speech was losing a lot of my neutral/useful autistic traits as well.

When I got a new SD card for my phone, before transferring the backups to the new SD, I made sure to give every meme a descriptive file name.

All 600 of them.

I’m actually on track to finally rework and finish off a twenty year old creative project by the end of the month! 🎉🎉🎉

One (almost) down, eight to go!

The way they broke the invading aliens’ computer in Welcome to Our Village was by getting it to predict the final score of a cancelled cricket game using the Duckworth Lewis method.

This is a really good way to tackle these things, and I wish I’d learnt about it earlier! I think I accidentally discovered it last year or the year before. I do that thing where the clean laundry will be moved from the computer chair to the bed and back depending on which I’m using and I’d put it off until the next laundry day.

So one day I told myself, just do the knickers and leave the rest for tomorrow.

And it works. So I’ve been using that ever since.

Although right now, the lot is still on my computer chair since Monday. I’ll do it later.

I remember reading in a book that it was hard to actually break Windows, so I loved messing about in the settings. It was probably the 95 or 98 days where I turned on file extensions on my profile and never looked back.

I also played a part in infecting the family PC with about 500 different types of adware, but oh well.

I remember when I learnt you can customise the default icons for My Computer and the Recycling bin, so I used the image in the book or magazine as a reference and manually edited every pixel to make them golden.

You mean Monopoly was plagiarised by Darrow from Magie’s game.

You mean we’ve finally found a brexit benefit?!

Deliberately disingenuous then.

I can’t tell if you lack the ability to infer things or you’re just being deliberately disingenuous. Obviously in this fictional scenario, with mainland GB taken over by a hostile regime, the CTA will be suspended. And given the population disparity between the island of Ireland and mainland GB, it won’t be long before the number of refugees exceeds what Ireland/NI can accept. So no, you’re not going to get a legitimate way in anytime soon.

So the question again is, would you rat out your mate Barry because he’s, according to your logic, a bad person?

Would you happily live in a refugee camp in France indefinitely, when you have the chance to sneak into Ireland to live in a house with family, and you can speak the language?

Lack of corruption! Have you been living under a rock?

Okay, how about this. You and your mates are on holiday in Australia. You see on the news that zomg! Britain has been taken over by the Shakiras! It’s now under Shakira law!!!

You try to get a flight home, but the flight terminates in France. The shakiras threaten to kill or imprison anyone who tries to get into Britain.

Your mate Barry pulls you aside and tells you a bunch of them are going to get on a dinghy tonight to Ireland. Ireland has already said no more refugees, but he knows a way to smuggle you in. You’ve got some cousins there, you can stay with them and maybe find a job.

You’ve got the choice. Stay in France where you don’t know anyone and can’t speak the language.

Or take a risk and get the dinghy to Ireland where you can speak the language and have family and have a greater chance at getting a job.

Would you stay in France because it’s “safe” and condemn any Brits trying to make it to their family in Ireland? Would you rat out your mate Barry because he must be a bad person for wanting to live somewhere he can adjust to more easily? For wanting to have family or friends to support him?

I can’t even access the mullvad website or DNS anymore. I’m assuming they haven’t shut down and it’s my isp blocking it (got switched from talktalk to virgin media) and the opera vpn doesn’t work anymore either (I just use it when I need to get around geoblocks) but I don’t know if that’s on their end or mine.

For some reason I’m blocked by reddit on opera on both desktop and mobile, but I can view it on ddg. There’s definitely something weird about opera.

I have librewolf with ublock origin on desktop. I recently installed ddg desktop as well.