XiaCobolt [she/her]

Brothers and sisters are natural enemies. Like Chinese and Australians! Or Indonesians and Australians! Or Solomon Islanders and Australians! Or Australians and other Australians! Damn Australians! They ruined Australia! (true)

See our entire relationship with China

I read a thing that for most people 6x28 hour days are better for mental health instead of 7x24. You stay up longer and then sleep longer. Not practical except arctic bases, submarines, etc

Apparently a tiny number if people go insane though.

My personal algorithm that I worked out for this is I budget 5min for every one hour block I expect the event or activity to take up. That’s how early I’m allowed (and conversely how late I will let some be without being annoyed).

So 6hr event? Yeah I can be 30min early. 1hr appointment? Only 5min. etc

(except being early to parties, that sucks for the host)

As others have said, scheduling lots of things on the day can help, so it’s not waiting for one thing but going to one appointment to another etc. Even if that appointment is go eat noodles or talk to friend on phone etc. But the downside is sometimes you can wear yourself out.

Lately I will also throw on a podcast and start doing chores. If I’m going to wait things might be as well be clean.

I’m now learning that reactionaries call him “Two-Tier Keir”, (some racist paranoia about policing), he’s done the impossible and made them funny.

It’s the gift that keeps on giving

Honestly they’re so good no one even thinks of KKKeir SStarmer

Honestly all three names, Sir Kid Starver, Sir Queer Harmer and Der Keir Sturmer, are just so funny and accurate in separate ways.

It’s funnier to say Der Keir Sturmer because his title is Sir Keir Sturmer. Sir and Der rhyme etc.

Might be speed running the blowback

I would recommend everyone and anyone read Welcome to Dorley Hall and it’s sequels at the top of my voice until I run out of breath.

If you are trans it will make you a better person, if you are cis it will make you a better ally (or turn you trans).

Recurring in Dorley Hall, “this is complicated and kind of messed up” “worse than the NHS?” “Oh god no”

It’s a Dorley Hall reference. I believe Typewriter Monkey wrote competitive breast growth in response to Dorley (satirising it in a friendly manner).

Remember it was a penal unit,

I re-watched the scene, read wookiepedia and a few Reddit threads and the phrasing is pretty ambiguous and there’s a bit of disagreement.

Out of a cell and into the mud could definitely be read as penal unit or a just released prisoner volunteering in a flash point on another planet.

I did actually read it as penal unit the first time I watched and then as separatist after listening to “A more civilised age” podcast on Andor, where that was their take.

I loved the helmet-less thumb headed wannabe operator ISB SWAT Storm Troopers.

Make sense, I was misremembering.

Krennic has read the uniform code.

I think one of the things lost from not have 5 seasons as initially planned is we skip over Luthen’s rise and fall in relevance to the rebellion and perhaps having time to show him starting to get sloppy under the strain.

So I agree he seemed to carry the idiot ball at the backend of the series.

Meero was fucked up enough that I could see her (especially after Cyrils’s death) confronting him for the psychosexual thrill of finally winning.

if you include all the dwarf planets the list more than doubles and really you should include most of the moons too,