After over a decade of 'being more than happy to take my fucking money', Mailchimp has now finally banned me for adult content. Any recommendations for *extremely simple* mail services? I just need to feed it an RSS, and have it email subscribers when a new post goes out. Also need a simple widget for Wordpress to collect emails on the site.

Got my Covid jab as well as my flu one so now I’m immortal. Riding my bike back home from the pharmacy with the confidence of a woman who can never die.

After a mammoth 3 hour quest, I finally managed to get my flu jab, and have a tip on a covid jab for tomorrow afternoon. If you’re a gentle man with nice hands now’s the time to pop round my gaff to spoon feed me comforting soups.

Got a bit more money in the budget so I've doubled payment for guest blogs. £40 now rather than £20, come pitch me a story if you've got something sexy to say.

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Guest blogs | Girl on the Net

I am now lined up with guest blogs until January 2026 (!!), thank you to all who have submitted, I’m still working my way through some pitche...

This is super interesting. Wikipedia editors put together a guide on patterns that tend to crop up regularly in AI writing.

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia

I think a baseline level of my anxiety can be attributed to the following frequent realisation: OH MY GOD WHAT? I’M A FUCKING GROWN UP. PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TREATING ME AS IF I KNOW WHAT IM DOING FOR OVER TWO DECADES. THAT’S TERRIFYING. I AM LITERALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR PAYING BILLS AND VOTING. SOMETIMES I LOOK AFTER CHILDREN. I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO DO ANY OF THIS. WHAT THE FUCK.

I don't want to turn myself into kintsugi, I want to stop getting broken in the first place. New blog. Possibly controversial. I'm hitting 'publish' on it before I talk myself out of ever publishing it at all.

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Kintsugi this pile of dust, yeah? | A big rant by Girl on the Net

When I talk about how men have treated me, people mention 'kintsugi'. But how am I meant to repair myself with gold when I can barely pic...

Oh yeah, this is the good stuff.

‘I'm wearing a Union Jack butt plug right now': your Labour MP's patriotism, based on their flags

KEIR Starmer and Yvette Cooper are boasting of how many Union Jacks they own. Obviously patriotism is directly proportional to flag ownership, so h...