My favourite culinary accusation remains the one about how my love of "elitist cheese boards" caused Brexit.

“Reality TV” did not solve TV’s problems, or ours.

I’ve finished about 5 of these. Mostly the 20th c. ones. This seems a good time to tell you I have a new YouTube channel where I read intriguing women from classic novels. Search my name if you’re interested; casual views mess with The Algorithm… :/ www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

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🎵 If they ask you to pay money it's a scam 👏👏 🎵 If they ask you to pay money it's a scam 👏👏 🎵 that is not your favorite author or a stunning book club offer 🎵 They are asking you for money=it's a scam 👏👏

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

Therapist: Have you had any toxic relationships in the past? Me: Well, I used to be on Twitter.

YES

Why yes, I renewed my Disney Plus subscription just for series 2…

Every single online ADHD group about the Eurovision bloke: “Yeah, I think he’s one of us.”

Well played, well played.

Is Spotify broken?

Nottingham, you were smashing… 💜

Staying in a hotel that looks like it was last decorated when I was 18 feels both wrong and right for a book event and the city my partner grew up in…

50% of my book tour…

🔎 Can you help improve mental health care for autistic people? The NIHR Policy Research Unit in Mental Health @mentalhealthpru.bsky.social has been commissioned by @england.nhs.uk to identify models currently being used in MH services to improve care for autistic people. 👇🏽 Please read on! 👇🏽

Can someone explain hyperfocus and being a former journalist to LinkedIn

Was telling my dad about the British Scandal episode on Mary Queen of Scots. He misheard and thought I was talking about Selina Scott

Can I do a book talk in this…?

I had a little snark at the “looks unrecognisable” article genre here a while ago.👇 @theguyliner.bsky.social‘s latest Substack post has done it much better… 👉 open.substack.com/pub/theguyli...

Nottingham and East Midlands people: This is happening on Monday evening and I’m very excited about it… 📚 fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/a-neu...

Breaking with excitement reading that Hyperbole and a Half is on the A Level English syllabus!!

“Why don’t you become an online coach…?” open.substack.com/pub/nourhadi...

I have so much work to do and this one is trying to lure me into a nap. Diabolical.

Just read a comment by a young woman who - as a teenager who loved history - got the word hyperfixation confused with fetish and went round telling everyone she had an Ottoman Empire fetish

No, it’s not just a trend: The real reasons adult ADHD and autism diagnoses are on the rise www.sciencefocus.com... Dr Dean Burnett tackles a pernicious and harmful misunderstanding (or deliberate misrepresentation) about the rates of neurodiverse diagnoses. For Science Focus magazine #ND #AuDHD

Bless you, Claire’s. Where I had my ears pierced and it was genuinely quick and painless. Unlike some of my jewellery-buying decisions… www.theguardian.com/business/202...

In case you're wondering, my recipe for a Good Bluesky Experience here at the three year mark: 1. Decide not to be a dick 2. "Don't engage, just block" for trolls/bots/chuds 3. Mute stressful nouns 4. Follow super cool people of all sorts 5. Choose to have fun over "engagement" 6. Pictures of cats!

I know everyone talks about how media is so fast these days, but my god, you really feel it when you watch an episode of something from the early 80s & basically the entire first ten minutes consists of the milkman doing his deliveries & someone nagging their other half to get up.

Ten years ago… 🏃‍♀️ #LondonMarathon

Also, in possibly the most self-parodying move ever, I was listening to The Archers podcast on my run and stopped in the middle to look up one of the guests who’d written a book on ADHD…

Just spoken to my dad on video for the first time since his surgery. Very happy about it.

Thought loop? No thank you. Running to the beach? Yes please…

This is not a drill. Placebo have done the soundtrack to a Brecht play! www.rsc.org.uk/the-resistib...

‘Great Expectations’ thread: “Miss Havisham’s in her 30s or 40s but looks older because of her life’s events.” “She was 100 by the time I finished reading it…”

I mean, I’m nearly at the end of a book on the Ghislaine Maxwell trial…

In case you’re having a bad morning: My dad’s “day one after surgery” instruction booklet says “Please tell the nurse if you fart…”

The miles I’ve run to this song…

Had a rare dream about school PE last night. Bullies, you got to me enough to still be in my subconscious 30 years later, but not enough to prevent me from laughing about what a dull old cliche that is…

“Three years! You’ve got a degree in me!” OH: “Is it a BA or a BSc…?” #Meetiversary 💕

Southampton 💜 #BookTour

The 6 biggest questions about adult ADHD, answered by a neuroscientist www.sciencefocus.com... Dr Dean Burnett tackles some of the more common questions (and misunderstandings) of ADHD in later life, and other neurodivergent matters. #ND #ADHD #Diagnosis

Hello there, just organising my thoughts for my talk about difficulty organising my thoughts…

*Narrator voice*: “It’s both

My dad’s just had his major surgery* postponed a second time. He was in his gown ready to go into theatre and he’s been sent home. Unbelievable. *it’s preventative, he’s fine

Realised today that I could sing “We’re having a doomscroll” to the tune of Black Lace’s “We’re having a gang bang...” You’re welcome.

As a former journalist, this is bang on…

I had multiple health problems as a baby and was in and out of hospital til age 2. Spoiler alert: it didn’t make me iller, it’s how I’m alive. Although, right now, that regrettably means having to read headlines like this every other day…

Also! Do not, ever, under any circumstances, send out a marketing email in the style of a jury summons, WTAF

I want a shiny face like Katya Adler’s #bbcnews