So nice seeing so many pals hugging and roommates holding hands in York today. A real testament to same sex friendship

I'll bet that you look(ed) good on the dancefloor (in the days before you had diclofenac gel on repeat prescription)

Is it just me or does the first arctic monkeys album not really stand the test of the ageing process? It loses a bit of appeal once you’re at the stage of life where a night out in Sheffield is not only eminently possible but actively undesirable

I got this response

I genuinely feel sick. A company reached out to me on IG, linking me to an AI version of myself. You can even ask "me" questions. They are also advertising it using an AI photo of me. They told me if I like it, they will give me free access... to my own fucking content that they stole. /1

That poor little robot won't last long in the wild, nature abhors a vacuum

Canterbury’s answer to Brum

There’s a particular point in my life, like 2015-16, where every photo of me has some hideous face-altering filter. It’s so depressing! What was I trying to hide? I was essentially an INFANT

I still often awake with a start, thinking this guy is stealing my potions

PIP is not an unemployment benefit so how can they possibly justify this framing

throwback to when I was 11 and already very offended

Facebook ads just wildly reaching in every direction

Very proud to be on this list

I'm reading Vanity Fair

kooky idiot medieval people: women who don't have regular periods develop a build of bad humours and become poisonous clever modern scientific western medicine: we have to make a fake period on the contraceptive pill or women will Go Weird

This evening's viewing 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

Spending the weekend hanging out with my friends and their daughters, including a four year old whose special interest is pre conquest kingship and who asked me ‘do you know about king aethelstan, who first united england from durham to dover?’

32… so what I’m taking from this is I need two more to bag myself a hot nerd writer boyfriend

If Rob tweeted more than three pictures of the text, I’ve marked it as read.

Love my illiterate girlfriend

This from a man who, when he moved in, brought his collection of a whole seven books, three of which I’d bought him

Does it count as having read a book on the guardian list if, hypothetically, your much older boyfriend read it to you in a public park?

I've read 34 out of 100 on the list. How many have you read? www.theguardian.com/p/x4f9v5

Overheard a woman at the bank tell another that she is into swimming in legumes. Conversation ensues about how unusual a hobby that is, where does she even do that, etc. Fucking hell, I think. Half and hour later I’m still thinking about it. Then I realise. Lagoons

✨ Manifesting ✨ 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 SPECIAL K 🕯 🕯 TURBO TIME 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

Haven’t checked the news in a while, how did the independent group for change do in the local elections

Now that it is actually happening I find it funny and indeed almost camp that Starmer won't go. Hell yeah mate, just say no.

Ea-nāṣir the copper merchant has been seen entering Downing Street

my highly specific take on age gap discourse is that we shouldn't have anything to say about couples who are both in the iuventus stage of human life according to isidore of seville's etymologies

Thee chyld doth manspread

I am just finding out now that medieval in utero illustrations just depict a fully grown man hanging out in the uterus

I’ve got another chronic tension headache and every time this happens I convince myself that constantly worrying about it must be the only cure

Reading Victorian novels is way more fun if you assume ‘make love’ ‘knock up’ and ‘toilet’ all meant exactly what they mean now

I want some kind of live feed that tell me which songs I had on CD 15 years ago are going viral on tiktok

why does the Betty's Tearoom website have an AI chatbot

Delivery man asked why I don’t accept dented cans. I explain botulism to him thinking, man this guy is going to think I’m nuts. Him: we all have things we worry about, personally I never put hot tea bags in the bin in case they cause a fire Me, inwardly: this guy is nuts

Had a beautiful walk in bluebell-filled ancient woodlands with my boyfriend today and this is what he posts. Dinosaur near the bus station

Bluebs

Dressed in the same outfit like stripy mugs

Seems the Encyclopaedia Brittanica, a repository of already carefully simplified and synthesised information, has an AI chatbot that further summarises the content for readers. I hope soon they can reduce whole subjects to the six most relevant words and have Alexa read them aloud to us

I had about a foot of hair cut off this afternoon which justified stalling York tourism for a Shambles selfie

This is cool! A copy of Bede's History, written in Nonantola, Italy in the early C9th, with an Old English version of Caedmon's hymn in the main body of the text rather than in the margins. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

It's so hard to find pictures to show the hairdresser when every second image online is AI generated

I am so pleased (and relieved!) to have passed my viva this afternoon and to have been able to celebrate with my wonderful supervisors @benpohl.bsky.social and @dudleymarianna.bsky.social, as well as my excellent examiners Professor Elisabeth van Houts and Dr John Morgan. #Medievalsky

My job is such that every few weeks I am tasked with briefly and simply summarising a medieval event for a non-specialist audience, and every time it turns out that event is inextricably tied up in mindbending eucharistic theology

Gregor Samsa if he’d tried CBT

Jacopo Da Pontormo’s self-portrait c. 1525 is so fantastic to me.