Abe E Seedy @abe_e_seedy@awoo.space

I think I just had my first sustained conversation with a stranger on the London tube in like... 4.5 years of living here?

It was prompted by me noticing his big "TV 3 New Zealand" sticker on his camera, and then we both mostly talked about home vs here. The typical immigrant experience, I guess, as all the locals tried to look like they weren't listening in.

Here's a link to the story: https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/105744525/rightwing-canadian-speakers-visit-canned-legal-action-on-back-burner

There were two alt-right speakers planning on speaking in NZ, but the entire event has now been officially cancelled after the local council denied them the use of the public hall they wanted to use. Fuck yeah.

When you cum to the idea of male elephant TF it's...

There's a certain reporting tool I need to learn about for work, and that's why my phone keeps auto-suggesting I search for "POWER BI"

Although if this was viral marketing for the next Marvel phase, I wouldn't exactly be unhappy.

"And then I didn't know how to continue that conversation without talking about child slavery... so I talked about child slavery" - my sister, pretty succinctly summing up her parenting style

Yo if trying to hammer out the impossible Brexit deal could continue to force the oiks out of the UK government (bye Boris Johnson) AND potentially sink Brexit outright?

That might almost turn 2018 right around over here, dang.

And here I was thinking the most awkward parts of the day were going to be when she gushed about the Queen, or commented that she hated to see beggars with dogs because "that must be a really bad life - for the dog".

Honestly, this reminds me of the time I found out a girl I dated for a week was shockingly racist. The signs were there the whole time, I just kept giving her the benefit of the doubt until I reached a point where that was no longer possible

Spent the day hanging out with my aunt, who was just finishing up a big European trip. It was a pretty good day!

Right up until, in the intermission of the play we were seeing, she started talking about how much she loves Jordan Peterson, listens to all his podcasts, and I should too.

Damn. It's always so easy to think that the poison isn't in *your* backyard, y'know? But it is. Fuckin old white people just love to hear how Free Speech is the most important thing, and PC = bad

I realised just now why days like today give me an urge to start playing a Fallout game again. It's because of a desire to be in a world where the mentality of "let's all act like it's the 1950's for ever" is taken to its natural conclusion, and everyone gets to see exactly how badly that turns out

oops I accidentally went back to my room after the dinner (with drinks) and now I might not go out again for the separate drinks

I've definitely had worse hotel room views

You had me right up to the last word

Apparently the only thing more chill than going to a Sales Conference is going to one when you're not actually on the sales team. I did my 5 minute presentation, had zero questions, and now I'm completely at leisure and it's only 3pm.

Time to enjoy my hotel room and explore this cool town before free dinner I guess!

Check out this historical Wonky House

My company sponsored a "research hive" in a local University, apparently.

No word on if you are advised not to bring weapons

Spending the day pretending to be a legitimate business guy, in a fancy hotel literally right next to a castle

Whenever there's a big Topic on birdsite going around that I have Feelings about, I think there's about an 80% chance I'll successfully go "you know what, I don't think this needs my voice", and a 20% chance of

"the real issue here is something that no one is talking about. In this thread [1/72]"

"We see that you're thinking of hanging something up. Have you considered [Your Own Mortality]?"

Shout out to Glitch Mob for the track listing of their latest album sounding like a romantic dragon TF via merging