got a new computer monitor stand and my desk is now soooo organised, I’ve never known peace and contentment like this 😌

I’ve never seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show

Or, OR, alternatively they could actually take a look at what is it that's actually being protested, and have a little think about why maybe protesters feel so strongly about it. But then that would require them to remember that they're meant to serve the public, not act as our unchallenged masters.

me and my bestie deluding ourselves about the lottery as we do every week 🙏

One of the best things about living in the UK is, you’re never more than hour away from being able to drive into the sea

sadly and resignedly changing the name of my email folder from 'Moving House 2025' to 'Moving House 2026'

really hate it when the varicose vein in my leg gives me trouble because a) it hurts and b) it’s such an embarrassingly old lady problem to have 😩

I hope I live long enough to see the pendulum swing back to kindness and hope because I just can't fathom how this level of hatred and selfishness is sustainable.

just privatise one more industry bro. i promise bro just one more industry and we’ll have achieved capitalist equilibrium and prices will come down. it’s just one more industry bro. please

sometimes it feels like time is really running out for me to win the lottery and become a professional cellist, my lifelong dream

first day of October, about to hashtag romanticise the fuck out of the season 🍁🍂🎃🥧

I enjoy a well-thought-out, rule-based magic system in fiction as much as anyone, BUT I also think that we should give more props to what Terry Pratchett did in the Discworld books, where it was less about rules and more about vibes and, more importantly, what fit a given story the best. 🧵

got called out for being ‘melodramatic’ today by my boss simply because I variously threatened throughout the day to 1) lobotomise myself with a biro 2) fill my pockets with lead weights and walk into the river 3) smash every piece of technology in the building to pieces with a sledgehammer

When Gul Dukat mocked Kira for her taste in men

It's incredible that all Starmer had to do was be a slightly below average post-war PM and he'd be cruising right now, comfortably the best PM of my lifetime and he and the political project that surrounds him can't even bring themselves to do that.

hard to think of a combination of words more likely to immediately sell me on a tv show than 'Agatha Christie meets Lost' 👀

I'm just saying, if any aspiring entrepreneur in Portland wants to start selling t-shirts in their gift shop that read 'I survived war ravaged Portland' I will absolutely buy one when I visit next month

accidentally bought bubblegum flavoured gum and now I’m taking -5 poison damage and -10 psychic damage with every chew 🤢

opened up google first thing when I woke and I’m so tired this morning that when I saw the logo I genuinely did have a brief instinctive moment of ‘oh thank god it was all a dream’ re: the last 25 years or so of existence

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

I got one of those gradual sunrise alarm clocks to help me wake up now it's dark at 6am again, and I *do* think it's helping somewhat, but I was kinda bummed to discover that it's nowhere near as bright as the sun and I like I don't know why I thought that was in any way possible?

woke up from a dream where I was at a fair listening to a brass band play at a bandstand, when there was a boom in the distance and I turned to see a mushroom cloud because nuclear war had started, so just throwing that out there on the off-chance it turns out to be some kind of prophecy 🤷‍♀️

“I’m trying to find a monastery where all the monks are over six foot five” “That’s a tall order”

@clairewillett.bsky.social and me coded

This the most correct take I have ever seen.

I have been entrusted with the sacred duty…of feets holding…

finally gave in and started listening to the Locked Tomb series on audiobook again even though I have million other things to read and it's been less than a year since I reread it

this is my most Boomer take, at least 5 times a day I threaten to throw every computer and printer in the library out of the window 😅

returned home from work to discover I'd forgotten to take anything to eat out of the freezer this morning so now I'm just eating chicken soup, just a can of chicken soup I found and then a yogurt, entirely Wet Meal

2 days until payday and in my purse I have scraped together £1, 75 American cents and 2 Japanese Yen 😎

I miss when you could buy things for £1, remember when you could buy something for £1? Now nothing is £1 😔

got a new jumper second-hand from my sister, and the upside of it is that I feel like a big cosy marshmallow, and the downside is that I also look like a big cosy marshmallow

my hot take is that if your recipe has over 10 ingredients you shouldn't be legally allowed to put the word 'easy' in the title 😒

didn’t unpack my suitcase quickly enough when I got back from a trip and now it’s become Occupied Territory

Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score

you can see why they call Yorkshire god’s own country

view from this tearoom window is very Rural™️

the Yorkshire dales are insanely picturesque though

I have just found the MOST mushroom I have ever seen

day 2 of the holiday and my sister is eating a lunch of cheese scone and soup with an apple crumble scone for dessert, she’s already on 2 scones a meal, she’s dangerously close to reaching Peak Scone

shamblin’ down the Shakbles, afternoon tea at Betty’s, Yorkshire accents in the air, what could be better?

the problem I had with York Minster is that it’s genuinely too big to photograph 😅

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

ok I’m convinced York is just making up these road names now, this CAN’T be what this street is called

Idgie isn’t really supposed to be on the bed while I’m washing the sheets, but she’s getting away with it due to how little and 🥺 she is

I think about tornado wornado every single day of my life

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

nice day to have lunch outside