Relly Annett-Baker

Thursday is a paid holiday. Because Flavor Flav said so.

Flav going so hard for women’s sports is a highlight of the last couple of years. He’s found the golden ticket: invest in women, show up for them, praise their skills not their looks, and they will absolutely escort you round Vegas, king.

I’ve done my part 🫡

Having had a break in the NaNoWriMo went weird years, I’m doing it again this year (and check out Nano2.org!). If anyone would like to be novel drafting buddies in November, hi hi hi! If you’ve never done NaNo but would like to, this us the perfect time to plan a scanty outline and dive in Nov 1!

I went to Comicon today, dodgy knee and all, to bankroll my children who are nothing if not patrons of the fanarts.

Games and play are good actually and we all deserve them.

Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

ok non-tech ppl might be hearing some scary things about "critical vulnerabilities" involving certificates. the main thing you need to know, without getting down in the weeds about it, is that the fourth seal is broken. lo, a rider approacheth upon a pale steed, and his name is Death

Today I had a migraine and when I finally didn’t have a migraine, I made a cuddly yeti, with wonky horns. It is very imperfect but it was nice to do something that wasnt computer.

On this day in 2022, a fat faced tabby was caught in a trap. Scared, hungry, and sick with pneumonia, he spent some time in the ICU. The rest is history, but I like to consider today, his shelter intake date, Fishtopher's "birthday."

@darthbluesky.bsky.social Red panda! Puzzle toy! Red panda! Puzzle toy! youtu.be/7qZEohGQEkU?...

dont make me tap the sign

I have played through Dietrich and his girlypops, Cai, Cai’s girlfriend and Cai’s girlfriend’s boyfriend, and I’m halfway through Leda and her thirsty weirdos. Every route is weirder than the last and so I fully look forward to ‘Dora and the men tempted to read being fully unhinged. #FortunesWeave

I’ve sat through several identical internship presentations

I admired Margaret Hamilton so much as a young girl when I first learned about her in an Usborne book. I think I even traced this iconic image.

“Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, died Sept. 30 in Cambridge, Mass. She was 90.” [nytimes.com]

Overslept a bit, thought I’d missed most of the grand prix, but rain and Ferrari’s PU means nope.

I continue to fight the urge to drop all my required tasks to hang out with Dietrich and his girlypops #FortunesWeave

ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points

Bi people don’t need more visibility. Have you seen how we sit in chairs?!

Imagine we all have to go around proclaiming what percentage English we are, and the gammons are all Full English like being a breakfast is the highest honour.

Even stopped ghouls are right twice a day.

Got Perfect Bird Time, lads. And Dietrich’s polycule continues to be the stuff ao3 was made for. #FortunesWeave

I am playing Dietrich’s route in Fire Emblem, and his whole party is just people who are thirsty for him despite his autistic special interest being murdering peasants. 10/10 GOTY so far.

Oh help, Fortune’s Weave is really good. I’m struggling too much fighting off a cold to really go deep this week but I know it’s already got its hooks in me.

I think I mentioned it here before but Sei Shonagon’s The Pillow Book, completed in 1002. Bitingly funny depiction of the sophisticated Heien court, and utterly unbelievable in comparison to the works of contemporaneous Anglo-Saxon England.

The RNLI’s online shop has some great options for Christmas gifts. I got my mum a welly boot planter and I bought myself a rad tshirt with their original appeal artwork. But there’s loads of stuff that doesn’t say RNLI, so you can support them via your obligatory gift to Racist Uncle Mike too.

I already loved Bananaball for being the closest thing to Blaseball (RIP) in real life. And now it’s being broadcast in Japan and … well … youtu.be/ir4mpKz5iZc?...

As I keep pointing out, does no one understand Ricardian comparative advantage anymore. FACT: China produces over 1 million engineering graduates per year FACT: To date, China has not produced a single internationally marketable game show format Where does it look like our advantage lies?

It’s Hobonichi Techo Day! All of Hobonichi’s new range is out. Just ordered my 2027 A5 Cousin. www.1101.com for anyone who wishes to join the cult, and they ship internationally.

Tim Curry? But for real? Wow this week sucks.

Dolly :(

BIG NEWS (literally). When we got let go, Jesse, Henry, and I had just launched a short-form podcast inside Big Walk and the audience reaction was immense. Well, we got to keep Big Talk, and are continuing it on our own. Here’s our first episode back: www.instagram.com/reel/DcO8bJz...

I haven’t re-read The Pillow Book in three decades, and now I am, it is wickedly funny. 15 year old me did not appreciate how biting it is.

I’ve had 3 of those ‘The PM says we have bbq at home’ screaming yellow notices, now.

I am writing another fucking novel. Against my better judgement.

Up a hill you pop then, lovey

There was a moment in Big Walk where I watched my husband, through a telescope, collect one of the red puzzle pieces. I knew he thought he was putting it above his head and instead I watch as he wound his leg up real slow and absolutely wanged it into the dense bush below. I _cried_laughing.

People often assume a product or service has malicious intent, but it’s really because of two PMs who don’t talk because then they’d have to admit the existence of the other and adjust their metrics.

I am reupping this for the late crowd, purely because I don’t post very often. octopus.horse is my new site to post more words than on bluesky

Been in Denmark 6 days. Eaten 13 pastries. A respectable number hampered only by an injury sustained while walking to the furthest bakery on my map, which meant I had to abandon that . Juno and Enghave Kaffe, I’ll be back for you.

Everything is horrible so I have decided to resume my goal of reading a bunch of novels, poetry and histories I have previously put aside to.

‘You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.’ I also get a surprising amount of mileage from ‘I’ll start my own (thing). With blackjack and hookers!’