Girldick van Dyke

jeskai gf ~ timid socialist ~ bongwater naiad ~ dadbod babe ~ (she/they)

Making sounds as Uncle Bugs

[Girldick van Dyke @LeahUnknowing]

@setoacnna what's the context? I dug out the original thread but I don't quite get it?

[Girldick van Dyke @LeahUnknowing]

@Potatopolitics And I mean no disrespect to Bill Nye! Being able to make an academic field entertaining is a real skill! It's just that it's not the same thing as being the pre-eminent authority on the subject.

[Girldick van Dyke @LeahUnknowing]

@Potatopolitics I think people see Zizek and think "wow, academic philosophy is super entertaining!" and not "wow, this academic philosopher does seem to be more interested in being an entertainer". Taking him seriously is a bit like calling Bill Nye the greatest scientific mind of the age.

[Girldick van Dyke @LeahUnknowing]

Skinamarink really is just Blair Witch - experimental to the point of being urban-legend basic, super subtle tension and creepypasta-level release, ultimately more Rorschach test than statement, and had one scene that scared me more than most other horror movies in their entirety

[Girldick van Dyke @LeahUnknowing]

oh for fuck's sake

[New New York Times @NYT_first_said]

wokeitude

[Selma @OctemberRust]

At the bottom surgery store y'all want anything?

[Girldick van Dyke @LeahUnknowing]

@NashRomi I think I stopped when he used the word "awesomeness?" I just fucking hate that word. Use concrete imagery, bro.

[Girldick van Dyke @LeahUnknowing]

At the start of this, no paper I read billed Kate Forbes as "the architect of the hugely successful X policy." She was, in sum, "Cambridge-educated and bilingual." Everybody else got a CV and she got a letter of recommendation.

[Girldick van Dyke @LeahUnknowing]

Not saying it came from any one place but, elephant in the room: that's just how the UK talks about Oxbridge grads.

[Sinéad Collins @Sinead1988]

I'm not even sure where the "kate forbes is extremely competent" stuff came from. Nobody who was particularly competent would have responded to those interviews in the way that she did

[Girldick van Dyke @LeahUnknowing]

Yousaf vs Forbes, both answering the question about how they would handle marriage equality as a legislator. They did not give the same answer justified by different holy books. They gave opposite answers.

[olivia @tochterzwiebel]

drew a comic about my origin story

[c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance]

In 2018, "Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial" was published in the British Medical Journal.

It sought to determine if wearing a parachute when jumping from a plane had any impact on survivability.

It did not.

[Girldick van Dyke @LeahUnknowing]

I love takes that feel like strange literature

[Tim Farron @timfarron]

@pphaneuf @TimesRadio There’s nothing mystical about the gospels. They are first hand eye witness accounts. They’re either a deliberate, impeccably coordinated hoax, or they are true. Don’t go conning yourself with any nonsense about them being mystical or mythical. That option doesn’t exist.

[Girldick van Dyke @LeahUnknowing]

Oh he's for sure going to get "you forgot poland"-ed. He's a policy wonk with no backbone. Some Tory's going to accuse him of costing us 50 billion in investments or whatever, he's gonna say "it's actually 49 billion" and never recover.

[a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms]

given starmer is riding high at the moment, think it’s interesting to think about which of his weaknesses/early decisions will ultimately bring about his demise. with blair, cameron, johnson i think you can make argument that what ultimately brought them down was present early on

[Girldick van Dyke @LeahUnknowing]

The Banshees of Inisherin (Dir. Martin McDonagh, 2022)

[Girldick van Dyke @LeahUnknowing]

to be totally fair that is an objectively terrifying bathroom

[Stacy Cay @stacycay]

this is what it looks like when you let trans women in bathrooms. Terrifying

[Girldick van Dyke @LeahUnknowing]

@HimitsuNotebook Camborne School of Mines duking it out with Cognitive Snehavioural Merapy over here

[no context memes @nocontextmemes]

joe rogan went to the beach that makes you old
https://t.co/77UIkpAC0l

[Nadia Whittome MP @NadiaWhittomeMP]

The results of the world’s largest trial of a 4-day week (with no loss of pay) are out:

▪️ No drop in revenue

▪️ 65% fewer sick days

▪️ 71% less burnout

▪️ 92% of companies decide to keep the policy after the trial

The conclusion is clear: we need a shorter working week.

[Girldick van Dyke @LeahUnknowing]

Forbes is just a fascinating timelapse of what the eventual collapse of the current era of transphobia will look like, in that after diligently seeking out the opinions of educated well-dressed transphobes society will be shocked to find that they're all absolutely bugfuck nuts