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GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I am now of the mind that "AI" is both a sign of poor quality and marketing departments thinking we as customers are fucking stupid.

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GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The situation with FurAffinity is pretty amazing. Advertisers threatened their advertising revenue because they considered Plus Sized characters and characters HUGGING to be adult content. So FA said fuck off, and in two days raised their entire yearly funding. Advertisers are so bullshit stupid.

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GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's perplexing looking at the warnings in the instructions for flat-pack furniture. There is a story behind every single one. For example, why is "place furniture on solid ground" a warning? Why did that have to be written? What idiot thought "lets take my new table to the bounce house" ?

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GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🪦👻 SPOOOOOKY Month! 👻🪦 The scariest thing of all? I've opened back up for commissions, both illustration and sketch pages! Find more details on my personal website. gingin.benanderson.homeip.net#commissions

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GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In a surprise twist no one foresaw, the two professional and restaurant ready pans I bought to replace my fleet of flimsy, degraded and cheap pans has made cooking a significantly better experience.

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GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I hate how many websites are just shit pushed out of a fucking LLM. I just want to make tomato sauce, god dammit, and yet a "recipe" from such a website directed me to mash tomatoes, that are already in a pan full of hot oil, with my HANDS.

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GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Then you get the products sold as explicitly "retro" and where do I even begin with this? They're either not quite right or insane. It's design tropes ranging from the 40s to the 60s all smashed together, and why is one of them fluted like a drinks cabinet from the early 1930s???

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GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Same goes with furniture. Here are two coffee tables from around the 1960s, plus the one I now own. It wasn't sold as "retro", it wasn't sold as "a throwback", but it works for the style. It's that same ethos. It works.

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GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Meanwhile here are some models that state explicitly they're retro and a throwback to mid-century. What the fuck am I even looking at? I see individual elements common in multiple products from the 40s and 50s, but they're all shotgun blasted into a single toaster and it's just unnecessary.

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GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here is a toaster from the 1950s and my toaster from 2026. My toaster wasn't sold as "retro"; it's simply a basic, classic toaster. It looks contemporary to the 1950s unit.

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GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Russian and Israeli propaganda machines spinning up in three, two, one...

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GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Does anyone know where this quote and picture comes from? It's supposedly attributed to Vito Russo (author of "The celluloid closet") but I cannot find evidence of that nor how the picture is linked. I love the quote and want to correctly attribute it.

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GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Searching for swim briefs or swim trunks to use in a hot tub and good fucking lord straight men really are fucking afraid of their own bodies, aren't they? These are the available ones in a local shop.

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GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New least favourite exercise found: Anderson Squats. Hit the safety bars, release ALL tension, go from the bottom. Shit's difficult when you try to squat deep.

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GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh fuck off. You can't just handwave this away with "it's just conservatives and the English", especially given reality. Courses (and not just Scots and Celtic studies) are facing cuts because very little or *no one at all* signed up for them for several years. It's right in the damn article.

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GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Today is the day I get rid of the cheap lighting and furniture I've had since moving in nearly a decade ago. I'm going for 🍁cosy🍁

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GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Good party. Now I require calories, coffee, and an ungodly amount of extra sleep.

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GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The euphoric moans and rhythmic slapping coming from the damaged stall were almost enough to drown out the music to anyone within ear-shot. It's okay, Les knows how to handle his heft - to a degree. For @scottishjock.bsky.social

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GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Look, I don't care if you're a Royalist or not, but editing videos of our head of state like this should not be tolerated in any capacity. Make America Go Away.

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GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Doing Anderson Squats (stopping dead on the pins and removing tension) to work on that lower portion of the squat. Shit BURNS GOOD.

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GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

For reference, this is how I tend to stand. It's a few CM wider, just over shoulder width.

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GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Fuck. Was feeling really solid and then I fucked up my stance when squatting 165k (too narrow for my hip shape) so I couldn't drive back up. Bollocks to it.

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GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

HA! The MP I had written too was the one who actually sent the request to the Met!

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GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Short and sharp letter to my MP. I suggest every other Brit who sees this to do the same. We need to flood our elected representatives with pleas for a CRIMINAL investigation.

Hello MP Phillipson,
There needs to be a criminal investigation into The Reform Party and Nigel Farage.
The Channel 4 exposé on the 3rd of September was both enlightening and shocking. The Reform
Party is not a grass-roots campaign but a foreign interference machine. As I write this two senior
members have stepped down according to The BBC, The Guardian, The Sun and others.
Polls were bought and paid for by The Reform Party and pushed to front-page media across the
country. They admitted that they have no British resident or business donors, and their support
structure consists of individuals who are “Friends of Charlie Kirk” and mentors to US Vice
President JD Vance. This is a terrifying level of interference in our politics by a hostile foreign
power. If the Burnham cabinet wants to rid the country of foreign interference, we now need to treat
The United States with the same level of animosity as Russia and Israel.
Thank you for reading.

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GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yesterday I learned that the first thing Peter-pushup Kegbreath did upon become Defence Secretary was to install a make-up room in the Pentagon so he could touch up his Coral Blue Number 2 Semi-Gloss lipstick before a television appearance. Bitch I aint that gay and I fuck dudes in leather for fun.

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