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27 years ago @Polypompholyx and I met at university and because I had to go home in the holidays we started mailing floppy disks of love letters and smut to each other.

We found one of the disks today and was able to read the contents with a USB floppy drive reader in an incredible act of archival longevity. I hope @foone is proud.

Ste Cook Feb 6

Alex

Feb 5

“Wes [Streeting] is attacking me every day on social media because I’m another gay man in politics who is not willing to throw the trans community under the bus and that exposes his abject immorality. He must know what it’s like to be othered but he’s more bothered about power than protecting the other.”

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/zack-polanski-keir-starmer-vile-comments-b1269694.html

Zack Polanski: I thought what Keir Starmer said about me was vile

Green leader Zack Polanski is taking the fight to Labour with his brand of eco-populism — but while he’s riding high in the polls, do his economic policies really stack up?

Evening Standard

Ste Cook Feb 2

Alex

Jan 30

But they have all the high end brands, like Paosmaoic.

Ste Cook Jan 27

Alex

Jan 27

We made a big gay parcel box.

Ste Cook Nov 23

Alex

Nov 23

Happy international day of spreadsheets, shared calendars and Discords.

Ste Cook Nov 20

Alex

Nov 20

Look after each other today #tdor

Ste Cook Nov 12

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Nov 12

CAM #photosynthesis discovered in carnivorous plants
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-cam-photosynthesis-carnivorous.html

"Most #CarnivorousPlants colonize wet, nutrient-poor habitats such as #bogs or #swamps. One of the few exceptions is the genus #Pinguicula... they thrive on rocky soils that are very dry for at least half of the year... Until now, it was unknown how the #plants compensate for the lack of water and still have enough to produce the sticky mucilage... in CAM, the stomata of the leaves remain closed during the day"

Ste Cook Nov 11

"Please avoid gender specific language in the reference and use they/them throughout". Of course, yes. "Elizabeth Ming-Yue Cheung is an outstanding student, and their gender - and I am sure also their heritage - are completely obscured by my diddling with their pronouns in this reference". #ThoroughlyThoughtThrough (Why not explicitly ask me to refer to them as The Applicant too? Maybe they're redacting the names later? But you could do that as badly/automatically as for pronouns so ... 🤷‍♂️)

Ste Cook Nov 10

Alex

Nov 9

Completing psych intake forms to prove I’m not too mad yet the “right” kind of mad to need gender affirming surgery.

Ste Cook Oct 25

Alex

Oct 25

I recently enquired with the maker of one of my bags whether I could buy a replacement bit of plastic.

Apparently no, they can’t supply that.

But they did send me an *entire* replacement suitcase. Which did contain the bit of plastic I needed.

Not sure whether to be happy or appalled. Maybe both?

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