Yeah, it's not dissimilar for sure 😅 though Birmingham's bad reputation is at LEAST 60% just racists/islamophobes being racist about the number of Muslims who live in the city

Let me know what Detroit is like and I might be able to tell you 😂

-because anything that DOES exist would be in Chinese. An entire subsection of wildly popular media and it's incredibly hard to find up to date information on what's even happening to it in English.
(Loosely, I know the answer is 'soft cancelled forever', but I'd prefer confirmation.)

DA2 is my other favourite in the series! I love the games but they're Complex and part of my enjoyment has been engaging with it as a flawed work of literature at the same time as a video game. I expected Veilguard wouldn't hold my interest bc of that, but I adored it instead

I have Very Strong Opinions on Veilguard which means I can't even discuss the game with other fans because I liked it more than a lot of people who liked it 😂 the characters are a delight. It's vibrant and hopeful and does away with a lot of things I dislike about older DA games

(He does have another job now. He's a capable man, I'm sure he'll be fine going forward. It's just heartening to see an AI company failing after receiving eight figures of investment in an industry where ""AI is inevitable"")

Above all it’s offensive that we should deliberately try to reduce the number of *successful* asylum claims. We are still a wealthy country. We welcome a (shamefully) tiny share of the world‘s refugees. It should be an honour & pleasure to welcome people who need sanctuary. Shame on Labour. /end

Ah, family. Can't live with them, can't wait to live without them 😅🫠

So far I have been regaled with a ten minute anecdote about how my parents have decided to buy a new fridge (with my childhood and therefore very pre-transition face on it) and had my younger brother ask me if he can sleep on my sofa next weekend (the last time I saw him, he was sleeping on my sofa)

In my case I was getting universal credit because I attended meetings, but other than that I didn't get much out of it, unfortunately :( I got a bit of "keep doing what you're doing", which was at least encouraging because I was new to job hunting at the time. I hope it turns out useful for you 🤞

Gosh, I remember when I used to have these meetings and they were totally useless initially 😭 the guy I was talking to had just got back from several months of leave and all his info on govt services was very out of date. Cannot imagine how infuriating it is with someone leaning on ch*tgpt

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Yes!! There is nothing more frustrating than being a trained queer historian and seeing people demean what's come before when talking about theory/history. Blanket disdain for a topic of study *almost always* reads to me as being uninformed of its existing breadth

Case in point: just turned from my back onto my side and one of the slats fell on the floor

I'd be up for being on this list! Thanks for making it