Sister is at a posh hotel this evening. She's right that this IS my kind of hotel but if it's not one per person idk if I'd get to my room 😅

Betsy's been out on her first proper walk since her cataract surgery and she is loving life! This message from my dad had me so emotional but in a good way 😍

Acceptance is about understanding, equality, inclusion, appreciation and celebration. It's about building a fairer, more inclusive Scotland for everyone. That's why we're committed to increasing investment to reduce waiting times for autism assessment and support.

Am enjoying how ratioed this post is getting but it is a bit sad that The Guardian of all places is giving this typical "adapt or die" nobhead a platform.

Betsy can see again! She had her cataract op today and all went well. 😍 She's very sleepy and groaning a bit when she's awake - must be tough on her wee body. But we're so so happy 💜

A small quantity of water is back! 🥳 Will hopefully be fully on tomorrow but for now my wine glass is washed and filled 🍷

There's a burst pipe so no water at all in my flat today. Should brag about this on LinkedIn as an opportunity to learn about resilience but worried no one would see the sarcasm and I'd end up as a 'thought leader'. 😅 Anyway stay away from me I am unwashed and grumpy.

I don't think this is one to be converted to a LinkedIn post but it's kind of about the challenge of replicating your previous successes so maybe there's something there idk

I keep remembering a time that I found an unopened block of nice cheddar in a Tesco car park. I took it home and ate it over a couple of weeks and all was well. But I have never again been blessed by the Car Park Cheese Fairy. How do I summon her back? What did I do that day? Haunts me so it does 😓

My "Library Room" candle smells nice but I was REALLY hoping it would smell like old books, combined with the musky aroma that I presume the Discworld orangutan librarian possesses. Probably too much to ask. 6/10 would light again

Listen I know I'm an academic but I've had like 30 seminar invites this year and exactly 0 potluck invites and honestly this is a systemic problem okay

Today the primary school my mum works at had a BABY EMU special guest! Am in love 😍

go home weather u r drunk

This is pocket change to the techbroligarchs, BUT if nothing else it shows that these nonce goblins are not above the law! 😤

I keep my brain strong and healthy by avoiding... 1) Smoking unfiltered cigarettes 2) Drinking martinis with fewer than 3 olives 3) Huffing petrol more than once a day 4) People that tell me I shouldn't be smoking/drinking/huffing at all (excuse YOU 😤) 5) Zombies 6) Difficult responsibilities

"You post like you have infinite job security" A lovely student commenting on my LinkedIn 😂 He's not wrong but I don't have infinite job security and I am mildly concerned lol

Cannot even pretend to meekly understand the surrounding lore (have done an hour-long rabbit-hole read and still unsure) but this art is lovely and I believe you should love it too 😍

Thrill-seeking in my mid-thirties is five simultaneous games of Scrabble and I am loving it 😍

Just back from 10 hours at Dundee University Computing Society's (DUCS) annual Quackathon! Lots of caffeine, pizza, chats, and all-round bloody good fun 😍 Shout-out to @starbiiit.bsky.social for designing these a-MA-zing organiser shirts! 🦆

"In the name of the University's final AI principle - responsiveness to the stakeholders involved (i.e. all of us ...) - we ask that the University of Edinburgh not renew its contract with OpenAI and stop using OpenAI as a supplier." docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Been trying to think of a Godot joke, but it's just not coming.

"How's research going?" "Yeah great!"

Not endorsing the New York Times in any way but they do have a lovely new Scrabble app if you would like to play it with me (please 🥺) www.nytimes.com/games/crossp...

One petty hill I will die on is that hot cross buns should be spices and raisins only and NONE of your fancy flavours. Down with this sort of thing! 😡

Oookay must admit that's a new one on me.

My lecture today was on Graph Databases and how they're optimal for finding links. So I spent ~2 hours on Wikipedia finding a path between my fave band (Judas Priest) and my pal's fave band (Stray Kids) to make this slide 😅 Luckily there were Stray Kids fans in the audience so it was well received 😍

Search your camera roll for 'Hell.' A delightful illustration of PowerPoint's skill in deciphering images 😆

Zack Polanski once had his trolley in front of the clearance bit at Tesco while I was trying to have a look just so no one else could get to the deals before him. Is this who we want as our leader? Disgraceful.

As respite from the year of our Lord 2026, been enjoying a Peanuts collection from 1987 (that I've had since I can remember) that I found in a drawer when I was back visiting my parents. Schulz really made the world a better place 💜

I'd be more than willing to supply electricity to Musk! Preferably in the form of a chair. 👿

I just heard about it recently, and absolutely lost my temper hugely when I found out they'd stolen my rep/identity! If there is a class action lawsuit -- I hope -- I will post about it and I hope many of us leave a smoking crater where these smug thieves used to be www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

We will take strike action next week unless the University rules out compulsory redundancies. The executives we have lost confidence in continue to forecast the need for another £20m of savings. All from staff losses. We’ve already lost over 600 colleagues. When will the job cuts end?

The fact that he likely used xAI to come up with this name speaks to the quality of its output. Or maybe I'm wrong and it really did come from the flaccid masturbating cabbage in his skull masquerading as a brain? Time will tell.

Some cute new badges to inevitably stab my delicate flesh with as I try to put them on 😍

Update: I don't think the students cared lol Can't say I didn't try but maybe I have to accept my sense of humour is not shared 😅

Did another one! One of the rules is difficult to draw so I might just include my badly drawn horse.

Friday night beverage! A Negroni but instead of sweet vermouth it's equal parts dry vermouth and this lovely blackberry whisky liqueur my sister got me. Garnished with sunglasses because it's a cool drink 😎 Wishing you all the best possible weekend. Sláinte! 🥂

My lecture slide artwork is not improving but at least I hope it shows I care 💜

I have a hypothesis that the ratio of total emails I receive per day to the emails that make me say "oh fuck off" out loud peaks on Monday and gradually declines through the rest of the week. Feel free to join me in my analysis! This is the best idea I've had for a paper in a while. 😅

Oh, to be gay and significantly more girthy just to wear this shirt 🤣

11 glorious doggo pics for your consideration 💜

Fair warning: if you ever ask me in conversation whether I would recommend the web version of OneDrive, I will screech/bite/flail until you leave or one of us dies.

okay, Ill bite. What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

Angel Goth reporting for duty to try and do generally Good Things while wearing black and being a bit sulky 🖤

Office mischief for my own amusement. Never let your microwave run away!

kept think about that stupid "millennials are spending extra $$ on nice grocries/eating out" article while our government shells out billions of dollars to bomb ppl & seeing red

Weekend with the family which was lovely, but Betsy's condition is breaking my heart. I didn't realise just how badly it has affected her. She can't see a thing and has lost a lot of weight. But more than anthing she just seems so down about things. She deserves to have her old life back 😢

Today's "Bellends of LinkedIn" brought to you by Mr AI Welfare Wazzock 🤨

Should've clarified the purpose of this post. PLEASE send me your favourite quiz questions! If accepted you shall be acknowledged and glorified at the event 😍

I have been tasked with creating some pub quiz rounds! I have full artistic liberty too. The quiz will take place in June but of course I am starting right away to avoid more urgent but uninteresting tasks 😅