Were I an incredibly rich author I would simply live my life in a way that meant I did not have to send legal threats to Amnesty International.

Sam Neill (1947–2026)

I finished it and it’s NICE but woooooffff it’s insipid, I hope they still like it despite the colours being so nothing

I’ve just seen a woman sat outside Greggs fanning herself with a pasty. I love this country.

Honestly a real scaffold of my life is the thought that I may outlive him

Cross stitching a bookmark for a family member’s birthday and it’s SO insipid, the colours are almost invisible, I’m very miserable about this whole sewing experience (backstitching will probably make it so much better!!! But let’s just say it won’t be… vivid)

My friend is taking me through the data from her fic google survey where she fills in a form for every fic she reads every year, it’s so beautiful and there are pie charts

Alt reading: Sony announces that you will never be able to actually own your games again starting January 2028.

Friend took me to Aldi this weekend (exciting) and I bought apple juice boxes (also exciting) and I feel like a five year old but a happy one every time I have one

Margo, my beloved 🧡🧡 I’m so sad

Friend said “what’s due south”

my new vase that's shaped like a giant strawberry is bringing me way too much joy every time I look at it. that's it, that's the post.

Tragically having a hard health time right now and I am DOOMSCROLLING TOO MUCH because not enough energy to do other things and I am stuck in a loop of feeling worse because of it

No kidding I think I'm going to use this in my syllabus in the Fall, with appropriate citation of course

Andy Burnham has so far ✅said he supports the vile and hateful Mahmood reforms and briefed he may keep her as Home Sec ✅ said he want to use more migration detention centres ✅refused to describe what happened in Gaza as a genocide ✅ supported the EHRC’s segregation charter

And he’s not going to do anything to stem the tide of anti trans legislation, all three leader options are awful

Sorry, Middlemarch lovers, but I will never be one of you. I still have 200 pages left and the greatest thing I can say of this experience is that I will never have to read it again. Should never have doubted my first reading experience of it (hated it but had to read it for 13 hours on a coach)

♥️

Me, arranging my new bunch of flowers Me, having a little sneezy-sneeze Me: ...there is no correlation between these events

BLOBBVS BLOBBVS BLOBBVS

Slack welcoming me this morning. If this isn't 2026 in a fucking nutshell.

i assume banning kids from social media will be accompanied by a huge investment in teen-friendly communtiy spaces (like youth clubs) and social activities? No? Huh.

We are in a chronic illness dip right now and what this means is absolutely zero energy and getting exertion warnings for things like “putting clothes on” and “making tea” which as you can imagine does rather impact things like “living your miniscule life”

Compelled by the notion that I need a little treat

Opening work slack to the slackbot saying "I’ve been here the whole time, but it’s nicer when you’re here too" - YOU ARE NOT A PERSON you are a TOOL stop doing this

What do you MEAN the book I’ve just finished reading and really enjoyed is not a standalone book

hi, happy #worldoceanday. 🌊

terrible news, did not realise we were on a months-long series hiatus for Rivals, and that coupled with the plotline that deviates from the book is making me stare directly down the camera in wounded silence

here is the core problem with “A Poirot That Fucks” as a concept (also looking at you, Kenneth Branagh): it fundamentally misunderstands that a crucial piece of why women and girls in often terrifying circumstances feel safe bringing their problems to him is that they don’t deem sexualized by him

"Island of Strangers" Biggest rollback of LGBTQ+ rights since Thatcher The lies he told in his leadership campaign Attacks on the elderly and disabled Acquiescing to power and wealth The right will always hate Starmer - and he's attacked his core vote

annoyingly my cd player is skipping. potentially not surprising given how old it is, but I still want a cd player and I still want to listen to cds and I don't want to have to find and pay for an alternative

I don't really talk about this, because I'm actually quite private about my personal life, but many many years ago Tony Head took me under his wing and showed me the kind of person I could be. It's not an exaggeration to say that I'm the person I am today because of the kindness he showed me.

This is how you stand up for the trans community 🧡

New rule: anyone who does the lighting on tv shows has to sit and watch their show in a normal living room during the day with the sound off and narrate what’s happening on screen. If you can’t do it then I get a cash prize.

Wife: No, I don't want to go to a Star Wars themed sex party. Ew Me: First off it's Star TREK and secondly it's called a Borgy

Tragically the tango ice blast slushie machine in the corner shop had a broken nozzle so I was not able to have my bisexual slushie of choice (half blue, half pink, a purple swirl when you stir them) and instead have brought home only blue ice

Feel like I should note I actually made the sweater on the left for myself and never really fully engaged with the look of love on the front cover until I rediscovered it this morning

What in the age gap romance is this knitting pattern

Does it ever drive you crazy just how fast the night changes

Is there any greater joy in this world than listening to a perfect song endlessly on repeat

I have just looked at all of Apple News and there is no headline detailing my no good terrible rubbish not very good day, almost as if this is NOT newsworthy or important (wrong)

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

I’d be really good at showing people how far you could, in fact, stretch 115,000 after taxes, student loan repayments, and lifestyle choices. Given that I make significantly less stretch really quite far tbh

What a twat

Is it possible that a man who describes himself as a renaissance guy could ever actually be a polymath or are they always gigantic dickheads

The one time my freezing cave of a flat comes up trumps: a heat wave. I’ve just popped a hoodie on because my arms are cold. Flat has hit 20 degrees, a temperature never reached with hours of heating over the winter. I counted 19.5 as the hottest the flat would reach :/ gas bill still huge :/

I’m just about to start reading moby dick, I will bear this single annotation in mind

Calling for an end to my bad luck. Ignoring my month long printer adventures (printer no.3 failed to be delivered today, dpd guy handed me my second, smaller package and said it wasn’t put on the van), I opened the curtains this morning + the entire curtain rail and curtains just peeled off the wall

I have signed the "Not in our name" letter. I stand, with nearly 105,000 cis women, with our trans siblings. Please join me. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

Starmer was elected on promises of improving a country in shambles, and what he has proceeded to do is ignore the most pressing concerns to instead fixate on a petty, cruel, and fundamentally inhuman agenda of scapegoating immigrants, policing bathrooms, and tearing away support from the vulnerable.