Mastodawn

RE: https://mastodon.social/@johnnie/112734486956999764

Well this has aged like fucking milk. What a stupidly naive doe-eyed little child I was in - checks notes - 2024?! Oh good god.

𝓳𝓸𝓱𝓷𝓷𝓲𝓮🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿4d ago

Seems like the one thing that's uniting me and my right wing boomer relatives this Christmas is that Wes Streeting can absolutely fuck right off.

𝓳𝓸𝓱𝓷𝓷𝓲𝓮🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿4d ago

Right then. It's officially Christmas (at least in my timezone). I'm off to bed, and then tomorrow I will eat an amount of food that comes with a Surgeon General's warning, and imbibe enough alcohol that I will be unable to be legally sold in the EU without a label that reads "WARNING: FLAMMABLE". Good night all, and #HappyChristmas

𝓳𝓸𝓱𝓷𝓷𝓲𝓮🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Dec 19

Hmm I dunno. Feels kind of like the actual dictionary definition of "pretty goddam precedented" to me.

𝓳𝓸𝓱𝓷𝓷𝓲𝓮🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Dec 18

Dan Q Dec 18

As somebody with an unusual #name (which I changed by #deedPoll), I'll occasionally hear people ask loaded questions like "Yeah, but what's your REAL name? The one on your #birthCertificate?" 😡

Well #FuckTheHaters. As of today, my birth certificate's been retroactively updated to show my "real" name.

Here's how I took advantage of the #law of #Scotland to do it:

🔗 https://danq.me/actually-yes

Actually, Yes! (that IS what my birth certificate says)

There's a certain kind of person who, upon hearing my unusual name, immediately asks whether that's what's on my birth certificate (with an underlying implication that it's not my 'real' name, whatever that means, if it isn't). Well: as of this week, thanks to a quirk in Scottish law, the name I've used every day for almost two decades DOES appear my birth certificate. Fuck the haters.

Dan Q

𝓳𝓸𝓱𝓷𝓷𝓲𝓮🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Dec 15

Fesshole 🧻Dec 15

I recently discovered that someone I know has tickets to go and see Louis CK in January 2026, and now I understand why he's divorced.

𝓳𝓸𝓱𝓷𝓷𝓲𝓮🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Dec 15

Playing make-believe with my 6 year old niece. "Okay, Uncle Johnnie, you're a robot but your batteries are always really low so sometimes your brain is broken." Honey, that's 20 solid years of therapy summarised right there. What do I owe you?

𝓳𝓸𝓱𝓷𝓷𝓲𝓮🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Dec 14

Images from previous @robinince post, with added alt text.

𝓳𝓸𝓱𝓷𝓷𝓲𝓮🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Dec 14

Robin Ince Dec 13

Last night on stage , I announced my resignation from the Infinite Monkey Cage - here is my statement #science #radio #bbc

𝓳𝓸𝓱𝓷𝓷𝓲𝓮🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Dec 14

Two gun-based atrocities within hours of each other. When the news sites have to make a decision as to which horror is the more objectively awful (and therefore gets to lead), the world really does feel unbearable. Talking to The Child about it, and her quite reasonable question is "but what could possibly drive someone to do something so horrible?" and I just don't have an answer.

Location	Scotland
Website	https://johnn.ie
Best Doctor	6th
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