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If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

The bit that had me 🫠 was the woman ending things with a guy but “90% of the messages he’d had off me had been by ChatGPT so it wasn’t like we’d properly gotten to know each other – he was basically dating the AI”, as if that was HIS fault and he should have known better!

I am loving the new Strictly season so far and hope that @mariankeyes.bsky.social is too. It’s bringing me joy and helping me as I experience my periodic weltschmerz.

Lecornu II : Matignon Drift Lecornu 3 Lecornu 4Ever Lecornu V Infinite Lecornu Origins The Lecornu Tales Legend of Lecornu

You guys saw the trailer right? youtu.be/ADi1iextoUM?...

Deeply thrilled that the Heated Rivalry trailer is out today! Ilya comes across as very serious in it so I hope we get to see his personality shine through in the next trailer and in the show!

Slaithwaite.

Explaining to my wife that I cannot simply “read the books I’ve already bought and haven’t read” like some kind of peasant.

I didn’t expect Love’s Ambition to get more entertaining AFTER they go divorced but goodness me it has!

I am so deeply thrilled Alex Kingston is on Strictly this year and she’s just danced such a great samba.

I started Journey to Love and Liu Yuning has some nerve being that fxng sexy right off the bat 🫠🫠🫠 #cdrama

Idk if anyone in the UK (or anywhere you can see it) but the new series of DIY SoS just started and it’s just good people doing good things for people who need it and it’s perfect.

GOOD FOR ZHAO LUSI

You have to envy them, really.

Taylor on the Graham Norton show sofa enjoying a very large glass of wine is truly a woman after my own heart 🍷

I just really enjoy Glen Powell.

We love to think he’s a bit cringe but I bought Jamie Oliver’s latest book last week and honestly I’ve eaten better and more healthily than I have done in ages, and I was already eating pretty well.

And this? You saw this?

So you guys saw this right?

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Obsessed. 🐻‍❄️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

I’m on day five of Probably-Covid and I’m so over it. Send me your break in case of emergency romances please romancelandia (but not the Gorilla Twins because I just finished that one!)

How not to illustrate the similarity of bone structures between humans & horses.

Went to see some trains today at the National Railway Museum. Mindblowingly huge, amazing they could propel themselves let alone pull carriages and freight! Some of the wheels were taller than I am!

Poor Amy.

Happy #BBCStrictly to those who celebrate! 🪩

Neil Young’s Harvest Moon album.

This week has been a long year. But you know what to do. 😍

Gosh that’s very sad about Yu Menglong.

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

Banger after banger from Def Leppard at Radio 2 in the Park 🤩

Very underwhelming siren, 4/10.

"Even if you don't meet someone at one of our locations, you can make a selfie that will look better on your dating profiles than the one where you're holding the fish"

Customer feedback this week; ‘Please can you get some more diversity at the National Trust by encouraging more hot men to visit.’ Ideas for how we do this v welcome. Nothing too racy please - we are the National Trust not the National Tryst.

OH.

Can't believe Farage ran away from further questions today after soiling himself under scrutiny. Reminds me of something. Can't quite put my finger on what...

I don’t often talk politics on here for many reasons but Fartrage being dismantled by the US House Judiciary Committee this aft has been extremely enjoyable for me.

September is Bi Visibility Month, so perceiving me may be easier, as all bisexuals have disadvantage on stealth rolls until Halloween 1st.

A review of today so far.

I did not spend 5 years writing "all characters belong to XXX" at the top of every chapter of fic I wrote just for trad publishing to market with straight-up fan art.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the Bake Off returns this evening 😌

Self care today has involved a little Beauty Pie restock, a new Smile Makers purchase (iykyk) and booking dinner at the new Japanese place in town for a treat in a few weeks.

I really want to have a Fandom again that I can read fic for, shriek over photos and gifs and videos and just generally be f e r a l about like I haven’t been since CQL. I miss it.

Good for her.

I found out Taylor was engaged through MINECRAFT.

Where’s everyone getting their fantasy recs from these days? I still miss Be The Serpent. Hands of the Emperor and The Goblin Emperor have had such an effect on me and I’d have never found them without the discoverability buddies on that podcast.

Not a single one of my friends wanted to go and see Chappell Roan with me at Leeds Fest this evening so clearly it’s time for me to find some new friends.

A friend and I went to see Celine Song’s new film The Materialists last night and wow, the observations on modern dating were BRUTALLY accurate.

Do not underestimate the power of eduroam. For some bizarre reason I have excellent wifi in Brisbane airport because of it.