Actually quite excited I get to watch #WatfordFC this evening because it’s on Viaplay. I hope I’m not setting myself up for disappointment…….

Radio 1 nu - over post covid. #spraakmakers

Morning! Pimmie recommends that you relax today.

Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

I declare Christmas open.

Exactly this. It takes a long time to establish the base line - and then it’s all about protecting it.

What a thread!!!

A few facts I wish more Dutch voters knew:

Dear Friends, Please help us celebrate #ChristmasCardDay, & the brilliant Sir Henry Cole who invented them, by filling your local postboxes with Christmas cards on 9th December. More info via link. Yours in early Christmas cheer, Dinah 🥳🎄📮 thehandwrittenletterappreciationsociety.org/lets-make-ch...

We had to say goodbye to this little fellow yesterday. Took him to the vet and he had a heart attack there. Turns out he had a heart condition. We didn’t know. Usually it means cats don’t get older than 4 but he was one of the 3-5% that lives beyond that. He was part of our family for 8 years. 💔

My son will vote on Wednesday for the first time (here in NL). We sat together this evening and watched the Een Vandaag TV debate. Politics really has become a complete shit show. I truly hope the results Wednesday set us on a new path.

Here are 3 shelves of my books in A-Z order by author. I'm having a big clear out! You can have any 2 for £10 (free P+P). Please share (and buy). UK only.

You get an extra hour’s reading time tomorrow. Use it wisely

New Dutch polling, 4 days to election: -Wilders slips significantly to 26 seats, his lowest level in a long time -CDA also falls a lot, from 25 seats a week ago to 20 now, after Bontenbal’s blunder on gay rights in schools -D66 are the big beneficiary, almost pulling level with Timmermans’ GL/PvdA

Current view. Am trying to watch the Dortmund match.

Glad to see we’re not still letting goals in within the first 5 minutes. *biggest sigh I can muster* #WatfordFC

This Chelsea Ajax match is insane!!!

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted. It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed. The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

Together is better.

I’d say that’s the obligatory NDA blown out of the water then. #watfordfc www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Our Crowdfunder to try and get copies of "Living Well with Chronic Illness" by the VERY ACE @gracequantock.bsky.social into health centres & hospitals across the UK has now reached £975! We're getting SO close to our first target! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/86e1e73e29... THANKS!

Some days you just need your box.

And as I get stuck in to watching only the 2nd #WatfordFC match of the season, I understand early on why the stadium is lightly populated for a Saturday 3pm kickoff.

I cancelled my iFollow subscription following Cleverly’s departure so this match tonight is the first match this season I have seen live. My half time thought is that I regret nothing. #Watford They don’t really look like they know what they’re supposed to be doing.

Started watching Sneaky Pete. A couple of episodes in and we’re both feeling meh about it. Great ratings so does it get much better or is it just not for us?

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The French have a strange idea about culture……..

Photo of the Day Widely shared but rarely credited to the photographer, Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini. Gaza is the most dangerous place that has ever existed for journalists. But they work on, documenting a genocide for a world desperately trying to look away. May their images haunt us forever.

Cool

This ref is truly a francophile. After the performance during the France England match I’m amazed she’s reffing a ¼ final. Let alone one that France is playing in. 😯

Away kit revealed. It’s another meh from me. Kit designers been snoozing this time around. #WatfordFC

Think we’ve experienced the full spectrum of emotions watching that game! The final two (relief and joy) were the best. #Lionesses

Dutch commentator, whilst Lucy Bronze straps her own thigh up: Wat een bikkel. That’s definitely a word for Lucy Bronze.

Caturday night’s alright for sleeping.

Mr 18 is currently on a train heading to Vienna (on his way to Budapest). Night train from Deventer. He’s hardly slept and they were stuck in Nürnberg for 2 hours. It all sounded so wonderful. 😆

“.. traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter ..” @niemanreports.org #Hellsite niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...

An extremely disappointing performance from Oranje. And that’s an understatement. A second half like the first and it’s, helaas, exit Nederland. 🇳🇱

I’m in a Facebook group for translators who work in German/English. We have long debates on the best way to convey tricky words and concepts that don’t have a direct translation - such as the German way of adding -kultur to words. Essenskultur, Arbeitskultur, Fahrkultur … AI can’t do this.

What is England doing? 🙈 #FraEng

De motie van Julian Bushoff (#GLPvdA) over de financiering voor longcovidklinieken zo lang als nodig continueren, is aangenomen. (36725-XVI-28) #TweedeKamer [Volledige tekst]

Amazing

We’ve had huge hailstones, horizontal rain, lots of wind and a drop in temperature from 38° this afternoon to 21° this evening. Good riddance ginormous heat bubble thing that my mum told me about on the phone today.

Day 1027—Came across as good a description of what has afflicted me for the past 24,648 hours as I've seen: What Post-Exertional Malaise is & what it is not. Part of the Mayo Clinic's Concise Review for Clinicians (link in ALT txt) #PEM #LongCOVID

Maybe it’s the heat, but this was more difficult than it should have been. Wordle 1,474 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟨🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

In 1988 my parents ‘dragged’ me and my brother to our first Bruce #Springsteen concert in Sheffield. Yesterday my dad, now in his 70’s, joined me and my husband in #Gelsenkirchen for a Bruce concert, having flown over from England the day before.

Another fabulous show by the Boss!

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Advies voor Londens metroreizigers. 😂

We all need toe beans right now.

Hahaha Echt hema