obsessed with this recipe I just discovered: "chocolate cupcakes made with cake mix, instant pudding, water, and canned pumpkin—no oil, no butter, no eggs", I love American recipe blogs (I went back to feedly after a decade, been great to see what's still active). cake mix! instant pudding! pumpkin!

iconic shot of Lucas Pinheiro Braathen on the podium

Don't mind me, I'm just going to go sit and stare at the wall for a few hours while my brain attempts to assimilate this crucial new information

My villain origin story is going to jumpstarted by my google speaker mis-hearing me three times a day when I ask it to play a specific radio station and instead it says "playing racing cars on apple music" and I cannot make it stop and hear what I'm saying instead

I have a pile of library books and my own to-read pile and I'm just on such a run of mediocre unimpressive books, compelled to ask if this is me or if I've just been unlucky. Two two-star books in a row and both my in progress ones are going to be similar. :/

Okay but Zack Polanski has been coming out with bangers

Feeling compelled to ask the important questions: how universal IS the concept of a banana sandwich

There's got to be more to life than opening an authenticator app a million times a day

I see Nick finally watched the end of heated rivalry 😂🥰😂🥰

Hmmmmmm I think they should have waited and released Bridgerton s4 in one go

god, the weather's grim. grim grim grim grim grim grim cold grim

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Belatedly realised that the aubergine and miso ramen I was making from a recipe book did not contain any broth, or potentially more importantly, any miso

Catching up on traitors with my lunch and it’s not quite the relaxing work break I needed

And invests no money in content or creators or any infrastructure of programme making, does no training, cannot support collaborative projects efficiently, and has an opaque payment system that mitigates against what the public would understand as “making television”.

Important news regarding our use of Twitter: Owing to the current circumstances, we have taken the decision to stop using our Twitter account. We cannot in good conscience continue to use a platform which is linked to image-based sexual harassment and violence, and AI-generated CSAM.

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

It's depressing how much UK political messaging relies, not on promising better services, but by planting the suspicion that someone, somewhere, is getting something you didn't. We're told to expect next to nothing from the state, to the extent that supporting vulnerable children is framed as theft.

Nick Grimshaw referring to heated rivalry on the radio: truly worlds colliding

Sometimes nothing hits like a packet of walker’s cheese and onion crisps when you’ve forgotten what a good cheese and onion crisp tastes like

I feel like there should be an option when ordering those little round batteries where you get to click a button that says I live with no children & no pets & subsequently you can ship me the packaging you can just get into instead of having to get the toolbox out and flail about with a craft knife

glorious thread (and a happy ending for Bridget)

What are the kids* using that isn’t Duolingo? My subscription runs out in January and I’m on the hunt for alternatives.

Two things: one) I finally watched Paddington in Peru and the bear at the end being introduced as cutty sark for maritime Greenwich had me HOWLING and two) I’m so tired

The new look iOS is so fucking ugly, Liquid Glass appears to be terrible (twenty minutes into having it)

Very telling that the Guardian Weekly article showing teenagers' reactions to Australia's social media ban have a bunch of healthy kids saying "Annoying but no biggie, I can wait two years" and one very disabled one saying "welp there goes my entire world."

Oh how I love those gloriously unhinged vintage Christie covers.

just saw 'period typical homophobia' tagged on a due south fic and OKAY I know objectively this makes sense but at the same time brb just crawling into my own grave

this Girlguiding thing is so miserable. and so emblematic of the bigot playbook. a poisonous minority of mindless, soul rotted cultists intimidating decent people - who far outnumber them - because they have the backing of Big Transphobe. and for what? to make life miserable for a defenceless few

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Seems like I’ve been wrong about what genre Twin Peaks is for the whole of time

Finished my little flower cross stitch. Seasonally appropriate as always, maybe I’ll finally finish my @slipstitchldn.bsky.social spring blanket next (although I wouldn’t bet on it) (at least there’s no expiry date on knitting projects)

Look, there might be a lot of things wrong right now, but this yorkshire cherry bakewell tea is a cracker

Pals, we're having a tired one (month, year, existence etc). Miss knitting, miss walking, miss cooking and chatting and shopping and sleeping and having a busy day and travelling and catching up with people and things and doing housework and plans and the cinema and mooching about. Miss writing.

Actual lol at the suggestion Wes Streeting is capable of plotting. If this was an RPG he'd have a negative modifier on rolls for cunning. He's Paddingon Bear if Paddington had spent years getting terfed by reading Mumsnet while the Browns were at work.

Zadie Smith.

Watching the girl bands documentary and the Sugababes were SO YOUNG, they were BABIES

Update: this show is ridiculous and are we really just going to do super chunky yarn all season etc etc but yes I will be watching more of it

Okay I’m going in on Tom Daley’s knitting show 🧶🧶🧶

terrible news from the notebook mines: accidentally bought a blank notebook for work instead of a dotted one, and didn't realise until I'd opened it. How am I supposed to cope without dots or lines for the next year (tragique, tragique, whine whine whine)

Never underestimate the power of cracking open a cherry flavoured fizzy drink in the middle of a difficult working day. Today it’s a cherry Dr Pepper as they were out of my beloved cherry Coke Zero but we live our beautiful lives

"People are feeling hope." @zackpolanski.bsky.social appears on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as the Green Party overtakes the Conservatives in terms of membership 📈

This is a fascinating listen on how researchers uncover rural LGBT+ lives in the archive, and the difficulties in doing so compared to in urban histories:

Added cherries to the rotation of frozen fruit that I add to my overnight oats, and all I can say is that this was an impeccable perfect incredible choice, well done me

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1673

No, I am not giving my wallet id to Bluesky so I continue not to be able to see my DMs, but now there is a tantalising unread count there, sorry if it’s you. Not ignoring you just can’t actually see them.

Gingerbread Oreos are my new favourite special flavour of anything

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

Bright-eyed, bushy-tailed? 1st of October (Bob Bushtail, 1941) Artist: A Macgregor