White van man is idling outside my flat and I would like to throw some tomatoes at him to make him turn his engine off. That's acceptable, right?

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HOLY FUCKING SHIT GUYS GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM

Celia Imrie is an agent of chaos #CelebrityTraitors

Everyone talking to their computers will be a delight in the open plan offices that every company has these days.

Reposting with alt text since this is going around again!

YES

“Operation Inflation” is offering free inflatable costumes to Portland ICE protesters. Bravo and Brava!👩🏻‍🍳💋

The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.

I’m so tense #CelebrityTraitors

The Joes! #CelebrityTraitors

THIS MOMENT DESERVES A BAFTA #CelebrityTraitors

omg Celia #CelebrityTraitors

Oh that is a brutal murder. Gutted. #CelebrityTraitors

Passive aggressive terrace living this evening. Upstairs neighbours music was so loud the bass and drum line was setting off my anxiety so I put The Black Parade on loud enough to drown it out (and likely loud enough they would hear it between songs). Diametric opposite to their choice of genre.

No but seriously. Has anyone actually managed to place a Waterstones order since yesterday or is it just my account that is broken? Actually would like to know.

A pal was furious with me for “spoilering” who becomes the emperor in HBOs ROME and I was like “this information has been in the public domain for 2000+years”

I don't normally post Wordle but this experience was exceedingly frustrating. Wordle 1,579 6/6* 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Love a discount code at Waterstones. Would be great if the site would let me place an order...

Using ChatGPT

It's one year exactly since I moved into my flat! I still feel like there's about a billion things to organise but I am just going to enjoy the fact that I'm in my own place and nobody has contacted me to try and put my rent up by an extortionate amount and I don't have to move.

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screenshot 3 is incredible

Google is determined to make me use their updated layout for calls and that I should receive notifications for chat outside of the tab where I have the chat interfaceopen, I'm equally determined to keep reverting to the tiled version and to decline all notifications.

When I booked for my boiler service, I was not anticipating an 8am arrival on a Monday. It’s a bit early to have to put on my ‘capable of interacting like a human adult’ mask.

I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

Reasonably productive morning (swapping out summer/winter wardrobe aka getting out my jumpers, subsequent laundry, cutting overgrown hedge in front garden) followed by unproductive afternoon rewatching The Haunting of Hill House. Feels like excellent Sundaying.

I feel people may not have liked the idea of telling the government what they did with their time.

The tank's role is to draw aggro

And he's caught him. Pogačar is inevitable.

New bookcase, which in all other regards is wonderful, does not have a shelf big enough for (Royal) hardbacks. So I can’t do a straight swap with the books from the bookcase I bought it to replace and instead need to rearrange ALL my books. I’m both delighted and horrified by this turn of events.

getting the hang of this 'cooking' thing. tried a recipe for a garlic mushroom pasta sauce and knew enough to double the amount of garlic it said to use 😆

Me, this morning, realising I still need to put seven days of holiday in between now and the end of the year.

Absolutely love this post. Another example why we need to study history from the bottom up, not necessarily top down.

I just really think it ought to be Saturday today.

Up with this sort of thing

My Celebrity Traitors dream team is Charlotte and Tom. Survivors of childhood fame 💪

Pope Leo is spitting. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Huge support to the inflatable frog costume person in Portland for both embarrassing the regime and reclaiming frog imagery from the internet right.

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

People at work just now, when my online shop unexpectedly arrived early while I was on a call, were surprised at how fast I reappeared. I said I just put everything into two Bags for Life I had waiting so that the driver could get to the next delivery and apparently this isn't what everyone does?

Why does every choir I might want to join in Newcastle rehearse on a Monday night? I have been asking this for a year. I cannot do Mondays because when I travel for work to London it's almost always a Monday at the very least and if you miss rehearsals you can't do the concert.

Catching a train back to Newcastle so I can get home in time for work.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Train ticket to get back to Newcastle tomorrow morning went up £5 between looking at it yesterday evening and buying it this morning. It just feels completely ridiculous, there's no reason at all that price needed to change. But sure, take more of my money.

Man who wasn't paying tax here fucks off because he won't pay tax here.

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

In RTD we trust. Love him.