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Almost bored of the Traitors but now I'm BACK IN THE GAME

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Me as I approach my 39th birthday losing my vitality by the second

Tig has made a new years resolution to taste and rate a new flavour of crisps every week in 2026 and now there's a spreadsheet being designed and discussions over how to define "value for money" when it comes to crisps

End 2025 like my 3yo, upside down on the sofa yelling I WANT MY SAUSAGES at the top of her voice

Tig had a stressful day out in town with the kids amd chanced upon the Sheffield Cathedral 'crib service' entirely unexpectedly so now we have a picture of 3yo dressed as a donkey standing next to a vicar dressed as a donkey and we might have to print it and put it on the wall

Went to a carols by candlelight at the local church and did all the big hits

Despite frequent remonstrations from digital archivists, Persephone never accepted that she could not photocopy a whole book in one go.

Glad to see the local attraction has changed its advertising from "Bluey meets Santa" to "festive pups", I assume to avoid being sued by Bluey

put your hand up if you love the ref open access policy

Saw Nancy Kerr and James Fagan sing some festive (and none festive) folk songs last night and now feeling it should be the holidays

Last day in the office for the incomparable @katefoneill.bsky.social - the university of sheffield scholcomms team is bereft, I have to say 😭😭😭

Last week, I quit girlguiding. I'm not currently living in the UK but I was still on the books so I could help at events, help with admin. I cried for several hours. I'm trans, and I'm not going to volunteer for an organisation that won't accept kids like me.

Embroiled in something out of a sitcom where there are hundreds of undelivered parcels in my mum's village and an enterprising villager has somehow got them from the depot and is distributing them from the village hall - but all comms are via the village facebook group which my mum doesn't have

I do not want Gaston backstory, I do not need Gaston backstory, I reject Gaston backstory he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him

7yo wanting to play "under the sea pairs" multiple times a day had paid off because they just found the word "dugong" on the nyt spelling bee

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

A local road now has a row of massive England flags and a shrine for XL bullies killed by the police, which has been decorated with tinsel for christmas. Bad vibes.

Picketing outside the library with colleages from IT services this morning - sad to hear how affected by cuts and restructures ITS has been, just what you want for people who manage your essential IT infrastructure 😭

Quote from every elderly person I meet. Also the baby is now 3 and also refuses to wear a coat

Last but one day of this round of strikes. This has felt a loooooong strike!

New nativity just dropped: Jesus is being born in the middle of teargas and state-sponsored terror. He is being ripped from his parent's arms and denied a lawyer. He is always coming into being in our context, and @lakestreetchurch.bsky.social's nativity makes that clear. Proud to be its pastor.

This part is *infuriating*. This cis woman heard an 80 year old trans woman say, 'This is the only place I've been respected as a woman IN MY LIFE.' And did not immediately think, 'I will fight every inch like a dying badger to keep her in my organization.' Absolutely pathetic.

UK Girlguiding and the WI have both banned trans girls and women from membership faced with legal threats!! A concrete example when you're explaining to kids where money given to JK Rowling ends up going 🤢😭

It's the first year 7yo knows the truth about Santa and they're now making pointed comments to 3yo every time he is mentioned - "well SOMEONE fills your stocking anyway" - so the magic isn't going to last there

Deep into freezing rain and everyone ill one after the other season I see 😭😭

Found a box of my old DVDs at my mum's house and it seems that I bought all of Buffy at one point, and for some reason the 5th season of the L word

Taking 7yo to London for the weekend sounded a good idea. Regretting life choices standing in a huge queue at the station caused by engineering works on another line meaning that we haven't been let onto 2 consecutive trains to Sheffield and are still pretty far back 😭😭😭

where to start

Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"

On strike with @sheffielducu.bsky.social again - not at work today but 3yo and I said hi to the picketers on the way to toddler swimming

7yo and I are going to LONDON at the weekend to see a show. Their first time on the underground, exciting times

Funny how all the kids are really into lip balm and are now demanding our phones to send each other pictures of their watermelon nivea

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

We were going to watch a documentary called 'the Pigeon Hustle' about the pigeons of New York and London but its not available in the UK and the youtube link we found a few days has now been taken down because of copyright issues. Gutted.

I just listen to Lily Allen now

Friends at Sheffield Hallam University are on strike, having lost over 1000 members of staff over the last 2 years

Thinking of buying an electric piano so I can play with my headphones on when the kids are in bed. Anyonre have recommendations?

Watching "Girl Bands Forever" on iplayer and the takeaway message is that all the girls in every band were ridiculously young and were treated pretty badly

Devastated to share the news that was broken to colleagues in Music (and other departments) at the University of Nottingham yesterday. This is obviously a very difficult time for us and our students. Please contact us on [email protected] if you would like to be involved.

Can't cope with my children holding sparklers. It's raising my blood pressure.

Would love to run a zine making day for our students on World Book Day next year, anyone got any South Yorkshire based people they could recommend?

British Library chief executive quits midway through PCS strike www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/... #BritishLibrary

This will only ever make me think of Adrian Mole

Reserved 'A Place of Greater Safety' by Hilary Mantel from the local library because I saw @porschespider.bsky.social enjoyed it and it is really really long 🤣 - not sure I have it in me to read a 900 page novel these days

Were you outraged by this salary? Now is the time to do something about it and support British Library workers #BritishLibraryOnStrike www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...

Interested in these replies. Older kiddo is 7 and HP is still very much liked & engaged with by their mates at school, & one of the ways in which they find it easy to socialise is to get into something (Pokemon, Kpop Demon Hunters) and chat about it non stop

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

my workplace is recruiting for a Digitisation Officer to work in special collections if anyone wants to come and join us (full time, fixed term) jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Digitisa...