Chindie

Nice to see the face eating leopards having a nibble at Starmer's mug.

If you get more than liberal airhead on that test you're a psychopath who should be on a watchlist.

Let's not hold our thoughts back.

Outright disaster. We are bad without him or when he's off it, and there's no-one in the squad that does the same job. Nightmare.

When he's off form or unavailable we're a far, far worse team. If he's out long term, that's a disaster.

We aren't going to finish in the CL spots. We'll scrape the European spots. The squad was thin anyway but it's increasingly threadbare with extremely important players increasingly missing through injury or form taking a dive. Chuck in the European nights starting up again and the chasing pack having nothing to worry about midweek... We're going to see a catastrophic fall in PPG and we're going to limp across the line.

It's not done. It won't be for a very long time unless Ukraine gives up. That was always the problem with viewing it as a war Ukraine could 'win'. Ukraine's win strategy has always been to essentially keep fighting and making gains where it could and to keep pushing until Russia's will to keep the conflict going gave in - that's a **** long game. For all that Russia was burning through kit and men and had a fair few embarrassments, it's got a **** ton of more stuff to chuck at Ukraine and it doesn't really matter if that kit isn't cutting edge or even particularly modern. The allies have supported Ukraine with cash and equipment to keep going, and tried to squeeze Russia with trade measures to pressure them into giving up, but it's not really worked, Putin's too powerful in all respects and Russia too big and too able to survive being squeezed in various ways for it to really make much difference. The kit and cash supply line isn't infinite either, and the will to keep going from the allies is starting to weigh more than the cost appears worth, sadly for Kiev. The end game is probably some form of stalemate ala Korea and Ukraine never entering NATO proper, but with a possible EU membership as a consolation.

Things are pushing me today. Log in this morning. Primary system we use won't accept my password. Spend 10 minutes thinking ive finally gone mad, putting in every password I can think it might be, but certain I got it right the first time, end up calling the IT helpline to discover an issue with the software when it prompts for a password update has affected me. Start picking up work. Each one I allocate someone else then allocates themselves. The ones they don't do this to are all shit. Then work stops coming into the workflow. So there's no no stuff to work on. Then I notice my music is pissing me off. I use Amazon Music, they got me when they started offering a limited service included in Prime, I liked it, I started to pay for it. I have a habit of adding songs to a liked playlist and then maybe I'll go off them. Today I find out that the app Amazon has made is rubbish. You can't remove songs from the 'My likes' playlist on the app. Which is dreadful. So I've spent the last half hour, on my lunch, on the desktop app, removing songs from it. Except they only get removed when it feels like it. I'm not kidding. I'm clicking the menu option that says 'Remove from playlist' and then the song will disappear for about 4 seconds, when it helpfully reappears back in the playlist. So you have to remove them repeatedly and hope it decides to let you. This is so nightmarish I'm considering cancelling the subscription and hopping onto something else, despite my reservations about other apps. If this day doesn't improve much I fear for the furniture I'm going to destroy in rage.

That's not Doctor Doom sadly.

Tons of Daredevil: Born Again set photos have leaked recently as well. Mostly showing a Daredevil v Bullseye fight. Bullseye has a new costume that's closer to classic but sticks to being generic and Daredevil has a new suit that is basically the old one with the 'tacticool' shit toned back, made more slimline and much more red. Still no logo though. I get it but that's one of the defining things about Daredevil's look and without it it always feels a bit unfinished without it.

As predictable as night following day.

Things are bad at the moment so thought I'd go back to one of my favourite games, FFIX. Playing that with the 'boosts' the digital rereleases offers is a revelation. Wonderful game. I really need to paint the Vivi figure I printed last year.

I've got so much else going on in my life that makes me want to jab a knife into my throat at the moment that I don't need the pain of watching us lose to a team I absolutely despise. I sincerely hope I'm wrong and I see a wonderful winning result later. I just don't believe I will and I don't need that disappointment to pile on top of everything else.

First game in a while I'm not bothering to follow. It's going to be a horrible match and no joy will come from it, so best to just ignore it.

As ever, **** Israel.

One of the strangely vivid memories I have is from school in Year 1 about milk bottles. We were sat listening to our teacher explain that blue tits would peck open milk bottles on doorsteps and then put stones in the bottle, she asked us if we could explain why they did that. I answered that the stones would take up room in the bottle and make the milk rise to let them drink it. Apparently that was something children at that age weren't expected to 'get' so they were surprised I did. Carry on.

Evacuate to make room for the bombs.

Bizarrely interesting channel if you've any interest in animals. This video is basically half an hour of a professor who knows what he's talking about railing against another professor who disagreed with him on humans being a type of monkey. He's a bit weird (in a, bodies in the basement kinda way), and I also get the feeling he's a bit religious somehow in a strange way, despite the evolutionary biology knowledge, but the videos are very thorough and quite interesting. Want to know how to identify different lineages of monkeys, or how to identify different species of crocodile, he's your man.

And there's the excuse we're going to be hearing a lot of - the Tories were so bad there's no money. Same shit peddled for a decade they only recently stopped with, making a comeback to the top of the charts. **** 'em.

it's almost like they don't actually believe in anything but their right to power.

*Puts house on us finishing outside of Europe*

I'll be spoiling my ballot again. Not that it matters, it's been a Labour seat since inception bar a single Tory abhorration. But I won't vote for this party. They didn't have my vote last time, they certainly don't this time. A mauve Tory is still a Tory.

Oh I'm not saying it's uncommon, I just think that kind of 'bought into the hype and can't roll back' stuff is bunk. If something is shit it's shit. For example, taking my sacred idols... I love the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but some of it is really quite bad. I love Pratchett's Discworld books, but there's some stinkers in there. I love Tool, but they've produced some absolute turd music. Etc. I think things would be better if critics' didn't have darlings. I pretty much instantly saw that AWITC was bad and it didn't matter how much I adored the band, it didn't make that album better. The world should be like that. ... This has tempted me to go back it and see if I'm being harsh, but I'm pretty certain I'm not. My memory is a couple of solid tracks and a load of clunky arch shit with no hooks and nothing that grabs you.