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.

this weekend I learned that circus peanuts aren't actually nuts at all, so that's rocked my worldview

Wes Streeting has resigned to take the job he was born to do…regional sales manager for Moss Bros

New research shows that more people abandoned Labour because they were too tough on immigration - and because of their support for Israel - than because they were too soft on immigration.

Anyone on interior design masters who says their art is ai generated should be sent home, I don’t make the rules (but I should)

this devastates me

Wrote Thursday 14th March today which is both an indicator that I didn't get enough sleep (read fic for two hours in the middle of the night when I finally gave up trying to sleep) and a sign the weather is not what it should be

A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.

Watching an interior design programme where the homeowner has asked for “regency Hollywood”, sure

Truly. And please don't let Wes Streeting, a bad person, come out on top at the end of this either.

Me opening an exported report in excel and finding a copilot pop up I can't opt out of. "how can I help?" Mate, you really can't, fuck off, I don't want you to manipulate this data in any way that I'm not in control of. Why would anyone want that who had any responsibility for accuracy in data.

One day I want to be this old woman

Just wrote Wednesday 6th July in my work notebook so we're all doing well here

Due to a battle with my printer this weekend (I lost. I’ve never lost before and I’m not graceful in defeat against this particular nemesis) a new printer has just been delivered. It is 22kg. Is it made entirely of rocks. What is the heaviest substance on earth and is it this printer

Watching four weddings and a funeral, which is always a delight and a joy, except for my overwhelming issue with the whole thing which is that he should have ended up with Kristin Scott Thomas instead of Andie MacDowell

Oh this is a fun cast

Watching interior design masters on my lunch break and I can confirm my least favourite contestant is still my least favourite

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things ‘Egg cosy’ Artist: Eric Winter (Knitting, 1972)

£3.17 (or £3.19?) in my Saturday job at WHSmith (rip)

Not my headphones app asking if they can have access to all my other Bluetooth devices so they can “build up a complete picture” of me. Babe, no, you’re my headphones. You can access my phone and my iPod and that is apparently bad enough. We are living in a hellscape.

Non-working day today and despite being WEAK like a KITTEN and having to stop on the way then lie down for an hour when I got back, I have THIS CRUFFIN as a treat for existing with a chronic illness.

Yesssssss interior design masters is back

I have decided to revisit middlemarch after finding it hideously boring 20+ years ago and so I have the library book on the table and the 90s tv series on iPlayer and so far I have not changed my own mind about it

Someone in this story just described my chemical romance as “emo from elementary school” as in ‘we listened to it in elementary school’ and I’m going to need someone my age to hold my hand for a bit

Three and half years ago, 21 Labour MSPs (including Anas Sarwar) voted to pass the Gender Recognition Reform Bill which would have granted self-ID rights (but the UK Tory government blocked it). Now, the anti-trans Scottish Labour want to eliminate trans integration, safety and privacy altogether.

Putting David Mitchell and Gemma Collins on the same team on would I lie to you is the most perfect combo (I’m watching endless old episodes)

Was accidentally in the library earlier at the same time as the slimming world meeting was finishing in the meeting room; little old lady with a stick was the first person out, saying “not as boring as normal today” very loudly to her friend.

Americans, I love you and I think cups are great for measuring a selection of cooking ingredients, but for the love of god how much kale is six cups and do I need to put more than one bag in my online basket, what is wrong with a WEIGHT in brackets come on

Are men okay, instalment 68347555

those beautiful naked women have made a compelling argument i'm going to steer this ship into the rocks

I’m so tired and I made a mistake in my knitting and it’s such a little mistake but I’m too tired to fix it

Additional genuine question about linguistic difference: one character kept saying “I’m sober” or describing himself as sober when offered a drink. To me this means there was previously drinking and now the person did not drink, but the character meant “tried alcohol once + didn’t like the taste”

Exciting news: I’m reading a romance novel so painfully earnest that we’re literally inserting entire documents into the text with one of the main character’s therapist’s notes to explain how he wasn’t hugged as a child and has daddy issues

Update: I adore Mary

Five minutes in to the other bennet sister and I would protect Mary with my life

good Friday afternoon thought experiment

Day off today, and I’m doing important day off things (lying on my sofa watching would I lie to you) and two men outside are walking back and forth with a mirror the size of a internal wall.

this is such a great book by the way, has pride of place on my shelf <3

sometimes nothing hits better than a packet of cheese and onion crisps at a moment of stress

why does every unix time stamp converter give me different answers, why are things put on this earth just to annoy me

"Of those who voted Labour [in 2024], just 37% would vote Labour again". Read that again to absorb the full, astonishing weight of what it means. Starmer, Reeves and co have burnt their house down. news.sky.com/story/greens...

Abysmal, immoral, cruel, small hearted, tiny minded, ineffective, undemocratic, and just generally utterly indecent. What a bitter godforesaken disappointment these people are. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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