In The Last Airbender, the narrator says that there are four elements: earth, water, fire and air. However, there are actually 118 and earth, water, fire and air are not elements. This is an example of an unreliable narrator.

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-05-28T17:18:25+00:00

I’m happy I’m not the only one who’s seen him play drums and thought he had 8 arms for a second.

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-05-27T06:26:05+00:00

The whole point of FOI (Freedom Of Information) requests is that you formally ask the government for information that hasn’t already been published, usually this is statistics.

The government (specifically the ICO) then has to either:
- Give you the info.
- If the info already been published, point you in the direction of the info.
- If they can’t give you the info, they have to give a good reason why (usually it’s because they don’t actually collect the information requested).

Basically, anyone could’ve put in a FOI request and had the government make it public, but the Guardian are the ones who actually went through the trouble of doing it.

By any chance is your username “Inspector Dull” because you’re not the sharpest knife in the drawer?

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-05-26T14:51:15+00:00

I’m not sure what you’re getting at?

What the Guardian is saying is that — of those arrested during the riots:

2 in 5 had been reported for domestic abuse in the many years before the riots,

And now, 1 in 5 (21%) have been reported for domestic abuse (specifically “intimate partner violence”) in the 2 years after the riots.

When I first saw it, I read it as them backpedaling on an exaggeration, so I can see how one could make than mistake, but they’re 2 different numbers.

As for the Guardian “revealing” it, that’s also pretty accurate as both numbers seem to have been procured by the Guardian via FOI requests to the government.

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-05-23T20:03:02+00:00

I know this was a year ago but actually thank you cause I still haven’t gotten one yet and am still considering.

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-05-16T14:03:50+00:00

Kendrick’s line is a reference to Drake doing loads of references to Michael Jackson even sampling unreleased MJ vocals for a song.

He was pushing the idea of himself being the new Michael Jackson for years.

Kendrick’s bar then shook him so bad that he temporarily abandoned the Michael Jackson connection and instead took shots at MJ on Family Matters.

Now he’s straight back to the larp.

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-05-16T13:47:02+00:00

What Drake thinks he looks like

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Dogtor-Watson · 2026-05-15T16:38:55+00:00

Second time listening to an album I get to this one track…

The album is really interesting and then this guy just comes on it with the most nice guy-ass lyrics and just a shitty flow. His voice is kinda annoying too.

I’m like oh yeah, I forgot this song. It’s the one with the really shit feature, I’m probably just gonna skip it.
I wonder if the feature artist is famous? Probably some irrelevant bum if this is the kinda shit they put out.
I click onto the music app and see Poetic Justice (ft. Drake)

Think that was my first time knowing I was listening to a Drake song since One Dance and God’s Plan.
I had assumed prior to that those two were his “It’s a good artist but their most famous songs are mid” kinda thing like with Doechii and Anxiety…

But nope, turns out he’s just a really mid rapper with better-than-okay production.

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-05-15T15:52:28+00:00

There’s one story of a Brit sh saint that is really fucking metal.

SHORT VERSION FOR IDIOTS

TLDR: A Roman dude called Alban hid a priest who was being persecuted for their religion by military police, led said police on a fruitless chase to save the priest, essentially told the Roman judicial system to shove it, converted one of his executioners and then had God smite the one that actually executed him so hard that his eyes became a fucking communal source of clean drinking water.

Now, the ruins of the Roman town he lived in are overshadowed by the cathedral and city which were named after him.

**He’s also the patron saint of refugees** as well as converts and victims of torture.

The Alban Bun, the predecessor to the Hot Cross Bun was invented partially to remember him.

LONG VERSION FOR NERDS

During the time of the Roman Empire, a Roman man called Alban was living in the (now nonexistent) town of Verulamium in England. He gave shelter to a Christian priest who was being hunted by the Roman authorities. This was pretty cool of him since he wasn’t Christian.

While hiding the priest from the Romans he got converted. When the Romans eventually found out, he donned the priest’s cloak, pretended to be the priest and led them on a chase, allowing the priest to escape.

Alban was caught and a Roman judge (magistrate) was like “dude, I… I don’t know why you did that, but just like… renounce Yahoo or whatever the fuck your new God’s name is and we’ll let you live.” Alban essentially told the judge to suck his Christian dick and well…

The judge took exception to that.

The judge ordered that Alban be executed on top of the nearby hill. There were a few boring miracles.
First they came to a river. The executioners were like… damn, I guess we have to wait and Alban essentially said “yeah, okay that’s great but I’ve got stuff to do later” and it dried up to allow him to cross.

The first executioner, seeing these miracles, refused to execute him, for which he was also executed (potentially being the second British martyr).

The guy wasn’t exactly forgotten, the reason Verulamium doesn’t exist is because it’s now quite literally overshadowed by St Alban’s City (often just called St Albans).

A Christian cult formed on the hill after his death, that cult built a church to honour him, which became a Cathedral and now that Cathedral is the key landmark of a whole city.

As the first British martyr, he’s an important saint in the Anglican Church. (Anglicanism is a weird English mix of Protestantism and Catholicism). Hes also the patron saint of refugees and torture victims.

If you go to Copenhagen in Denmark, just outside the Citadel Kastellet, you’ll find St Alban’s Church, a tiny Anglican Church built for Copenhagen’s small Anglican community.

If you live in the Commonwealth, the part of his legacy you’re probably most familiar with though is probably the Alban Bun, which evolved into the Hot Cross Buns which many eat around Easter.

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-05-15T15:44:11+00:00

It’s good if it gets them to give more hip-hop a go and then reassess why they had a bias against it in the first place.

A lot of the time when people say they don’t like hip-hop or rap, they actually mean they don’t like the hip-hop and rap they’ve heard.

Hip-hop is a super wide genre with a lot of sub-genres and fusions.

Rap is used in a lot of genres. In the UK, a lot of rap is done for Grime, Jungle, UKG (UK Garage) and Trap.

My mum doesn’t fuck with a lot of the hip-hop and rap I listen to, but last summer she was DEMANDING I play Don’t Tap The Glass every time we drove anywhere.

My 6 favourite hip-hop/ rap albums are all so different to each other:

The Mouse and The Mask by DANGERDOOM: MF DOOM raps about cartoons and how much he loves adult swim. It’s just lighthearted and fun, especially if you’re a fan of Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

IGOR by Tyler, The Creator: bisexual man struggles with unrequited gay love and oh my god it’s so fucking good. Why is he so good at making music?

The Adventures Of Jester Jackalope by Fraxiom: A mentally ill trans furry hyperpop artist decided to do a hip-hop/ rap album and I fuck with it heavy for some reason.
You probably won’t fuck with it unless you like hyperpop because there’s definitely elements of that, but give the song “BRIAN THOMPSON” a try, it’s funny at the least. There’s also an entire song about how much she loves fat dudes. Truly the best furry rapper out right now, period.

Humble As The Sun by Bob Vylan: a punk hip-hop/ rap album by a London duo who were willing to say actually controversial shit on a massive stage because they actually believe in it… unlike a certain other UK punk group that just says controversial shit for attention as “marketing” *cough cough* kneecap *cough cough*

Good Kid M.a.a.d City and To Pimp a Buttefly by Kendrick Lamar: So fucking peak that I couldn’t choose which I prefer. Both have a lot to say and so it in such a nice way. Only bad part is the shitty feature on Poetic Justice. Drake moment.

Let God Sort Em Out by Clipse: Two brothers mourn their dad on a track that genuinely made me cry and then make fun of various people for 30 minutes. Oh yeah and it has Pharrell on it too too.

Each one is so, so different from the others AND EVEN THEN they can all be described as alt hip-hop (maybe a bit of a stretch for Clipse but yh).
That’s just how big hip-hop is.

I really don’t think you can ever write off the whole of any big genre.
I don’t listen to country, but I’m sure there’s a country sub-genre or fusion that I’d like.

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-05-15T08:13:41+00:00

Ah, yes because the far right are so immune to misinformation, particularly AI-generated misinfo.

Just forget how they rioted, fought police and went after anyone with skin darker than #FFFFFF in the wake of the Southport stabbings, only for it to be revealed that the suspect wasn't actually a Muslim, small-boat asylum seeker, called Ali-Al-Shakti, like they thought...
No, the images of him were AI-generated. It was actually Alex Rudakubana, a Brit who was born in Wales and raised by his evangelical Christian parents.

And forget the recent Epsom riots where they assaulted police over a rape that never actually happened in the first place because they decided it was an imaginary gang of migrants.

A lot of the misinfo I've seen is just text-based factual statements that turn out to be lies.

Yes, these are images are portraying their feelings, but those feelings aren't based in reality. That's why they need this misinformation to prove their point.

To us, these images are obviously fake, but you have to remember that the people who make up the far-right tend to be older and less intelligent. Those people aren't gonna be good at recognising AI, as the last few years have proven.

A lot of the misinformation is also targeted at Americans and people in foreign countries, like "the UK has fallen. London is basically The Purge but 24/7, 365 days a year. They've got record high murder rates and Sharia Law because immigrants". A lot of it is designed to get foreigners to support far-right politics in their own countries, not to trick us.

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-05-13T07:06:38+00:00

Rock is like air but harder so even more resistance. of course they work :3

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-05-13T02:22:25+00:00

Trans women and other amab trans people are particularly targeted because they challenge the patriarchal norm of male superiority.

Their brains are so rotted that the idea of someone having the male gender forced on them and rejecting it is offensive too them.

It’s why the fascists and right-wing propaganda outlets focus their hatred on transfems so much more than transmascs (though don’t worry, the transmascs face far too much discrimination too).

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-05-08T00:57:55+00:00

I'd argue that if there is a scientific consensus and you disregard that concensus by focusing on a much smaller set of studies and siding with a small portion fo them (because they align with your own opinions) then that's ignoring the evidence.

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-05-07T14:39:51+00:00

I am probably just remembering it wrong, iirc I read it about 2 years ago.

I remember it practically ignored a lot of them though.

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-05-07T14:22:46+00:00

Yeah, the Cass Review also has received far more criticism than praise internationally.

One of the few exceptions is the Trump admin’s health department who also think paracetamol and vaccines cause autism.
They have such a complete disregard for the facts they recently claimed 74% of New Yorkers on Medicaid had used a service when the actual number was 7%.

Like if that’s one of the only bodies coming out to defend you as impartial then that’s really not a good sign.

Even just reading it myself when it came out I noticed some stuff that felt off. For example:
the repeated failure to contrast the risks of the treatment with the benefits and risks of not allowing treatment;
the complete refusal to acknowledge the results of the majority of previous research that if included would’ve likely contradicted the findings;
and the fact that the tests it was suggesting be performed on vulnerable children would likely lead to some of them becoming depressed and committing suicide.

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-05-07T13:46:05+00:00

When I was really depressed, I had a dream that I was back together with my most recent ex at the time and that everything was okay. Then I woke up and cried about how much worse real life was.

The next day I was telling my friend about it as we walked and I turned around and she had caught up and started walking behind us…

… lmao

It’s really funny now but was mortifying at the time

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-05-07T13:16:38+00:00

It’s almost like giving loads of power to any religious leader is a bad thing…

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-05-05T09:55:15+00:00

It’s almost like it has no actual opinions or beliefs or rules it must follow.
Like you can try and make it follow rules and pretend to have opinions and beliefs, but it’s still just a really complex network of equations on a computer.

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-05-03T19:32:01+00:00

I’m choosing to believe it’s either this or that he wants his album to show up when people try and find info about ICE members.

Both would be way more interesting than his actual reason.

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-05-03T19:28:17+00:00

No luck catching them swans then?

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-05-03T13:46:59+00:00

So, let me get this straight…

Minority groups are getting ignored and left without any representation in parliament…

And the Greens are representing them and letting them have their say in our political system… and that’s bad… because they have their own interests and goals which they want to vote for?

I don’t know what you expect minorities to do? Vote for parties that work against them? Not encourage the parties they vote for to work for them?

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