If the Green Party are serious about winning the Manchester mayoralty they should get in touch with Zoe Bread, the only journalist who ever called out Burnham in Manchester.
Just checked and Zoe follows Hannah Spencer so… 👀👀
I dont rly have moots to tag but ill do this anyway cause imma sucker for a list:
1. My 5 cats
2. N.flying
3. 90s japanese cars
4. Reading manga/manhwa/manhua
5. Getting better at drawing
5 things I am obsessed with and tagging my moots to do the same
1. k-pop
2. kbands
3. Vanilla scents
4. Concerts
5. Pepsi max cherry
Added bonus: gwangils short hair 👀
@asteroidjlsung@beanless_toast
I left school when I was 17 (got 'asked to leave', is the more accurate term I guess). This was 1997.
My unqualified, entry-level salary was more than the average salary now.
My Dad - hopping mad - had sent me to three months of secretarial college and I came out into an £18k job in the local Glaxo factory as an admin assistant.
To give a sense of how long ago this was - my boss would hand-write messages onto sheets of paper and I would touch-type them into this new-fangled 'email' thing she couldn't fathom.
Nearly 30 years later, the equivalent - in purchasing power at least - would be £36k.
A year later, I parlayed that up to a £21k job in the R&D side - still as a PA, 18 years old.
I saved up and went to Taiwan to teach English for a bit. When I got back, I went to London and got a job earning £24k designing presentations and documents in a marketing agency.
I was 20yo.
The equivalent in 2026 would be £46k.
With zero qualifications beyond the ability to touch-type and a certificate saying I could use Word, Excel and PowerPoint, I was on 1.35x the average salary now.
I made a lot of mistakes as a kid. Most of my mates did.
But the economy I lived in allowed the messiness of life to roll out. We could learn, take risks and still be able to live and breathe.
We are failing future generations.
And we have a generation that's already been failed.
Our politicians are addicted to cheap slogans. They want power, not service. The failure of their reality-denying ideologies continues to spiral outwards.
Yes, immigration plays a role. Yes, housing, technology and deindustrialisation play a role. But the state has morphed into a deeply incompetent, self-indulgent boondoggle machine, that spends more time bribing voters than it does serving - or investing in - the country.
I've said it beforehand, but one of the reasons why proxies are so popular for Japanese merch is because of factors like this. The mentality is that if you aren't physically in a store/event in Japan, you should never get it. lol
parasocialism, cancel culture, a decline of critical thinking skills, and the rise of AI has genuinely ruined fan spaces online and it has been so sad to witness in real time.
Generative AI is not needed. Not for accessibility or any other reason! Stop using disabled people as an excuse to push GenAI! You don't actually care about us. Many disabled people find ways to create art! We don't need to rely on a tool that steals from other creators!!!
I know many people my age who feel they have “wasted time” getting their humanities degree because their career is not directly related to it. A reminder that the notion that getting an education is only useful if it converts into profit is, in itself, a perverse capitalist idea.
@superiorsantina Working in a restaurant on a skeleton crew really had me convinced i was a terrible employee when in fact i was doing the work of like 3 people for minimum wage and maximum expectations
I am autistic like the teenager described, and have had multiple periods in my life like his. We call it autistic burnout, it's caused by our needs being chronically unmet.
You can recover from burnout. I have. It gets better. It is HARDLY a reason to die.
This is evil.
i hate people who call chatgpt, chat. my culture is NOT your costume. chat is what you say when you refer to the collective of voices in your twitch chat, not a dumb AI
sometimes I want to be skinnier but then I remember that body types are kind of like dog breeds and if im a corgi who wants to lose weight to look like an italian greyhound that won’t make me look like an italian greyhound it’ll just make me look like a sick ugly corgi so nvm