HUGE NEWS!! 🤩

"We can demand better without hating each other" 💚

Amazing!!

Oh no, you guys, I've unblocked the crochet damn (I've not worked on anything since the Christmas break) and now all I want to do is crochet and it's all I can think about, and I forgot how all consuming craft projects become for me (I'm like this with everything, not just crochet, but here we are!)

Wondering (at 11.45am) whether the scheduled 10.15am call from the pharmacist for a medication review is ever going to come? I was pleased it was at the start of the day - I could get it done, then get on with my day without hanging on the phone. As it is. I am glued to it.

I just saw an advert that began "do not skip this lazy girl hack if you hate wearing makeup every day", then it proceeded to promote something other than just not wearing makeup?! 🤷🏻‍♀️ the lazy girl hack for those who hate wearing makeup is to not wear makeup! Truly adverts are being very stupid today.

This is what the rubes who think AI is some whizz bang solution to work fail to get. The point of the work in education isn’t the output. The point of the work in education IS THE WORK.

Fairy detergent have an advert where kids keep taking their clothes off because they're uncomfortable, with the tagline "the next best thing to naked skin". SURELY it would be so much cleverer to say "the best thing next to naked skin"? Because it means the same as the first one, but also...next to?

I’m gonna need all the Olympics people to stop spreading BLATANT LIES about how the next Winter Games will be in 2030 as if that’s somehow only four years away. Lies and slander.

I normally feel very positively about Canada. But not today, tappy fingers man. Not today. Sigh.

I'm watching this Canadian dudes pushy little fingers like a hawk 👀

Genuinely horrific

This is fun. Generate your own xkcd2501. marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-gen...

Was just thinking, 'ooh, it's got windy, I should shut the window' (I was just airing out for a few mins like the Germans on tiktok tell us to), and then the wind blew the window shut 🤷🏻‍♀️ win-win(dow).

Oh lord, they're just always curling, aren't they? Every time I turn on the telly, Team GB are curling. How many matches can there be?! Hasn't somebody won yet? Go back to showing me someone hurtling down a snowy mountain, please!

My Godkids and their wonderful mum came round for lunch today 🥰 oldest godson is SEVENTEEN tomorrow. Absolutely wild. I was only 19 when he was born, and I felt so grown up and being this age felt eons away. But here we are. 14yo Goddaughter told me I'm the only person she trusts to give +

[an olympic skating pair finishes their routine] me: wow that was amazing the commentator: what a shame

roses are red voilets are blue daffodils are yellow daisies are white never interrupt when i am saying the colors of flowers margaret peonies are pink

Why are all the US media using words like "revoke" and repeal"? They mean nothing in this context. Why not "refuse to accept", "deny", or "lie about"?

Happy Birthday Darwin, my favourite chronic illness girlie 💗

I'm so sad for Lilah and Lewis. I think commentary has put so much 'the new Torville and Dean' pressure on them, seeing them make mistakes when they needed a perfect run for a medal is heartbreaking. It was such a joyful routine.

Monday night I watched all 6eps of Dinosaur S2 like a film. Tuesday night, I did exactly the same with Small Prophets. I highly, highly recommend them both. What a joy to have two such brilliant but so different series come out at the same time. Incredible.

Monday night I watched all 6eps of Dinosaur S2 like a film. Tuesday night, I did exactly the same with Small Prophets. I highly, highly recommend them both. What a joy to have two such brilliant but so different series come out at the same time. Incredible.

One thing that makes me laugh about the winter Olympics is that some disciplines you can really see these guys are pro athletes, doing incredibly skilled, difficult things (skiing, ice dancing, etc.) And then someone lays down on a tray and let's gravity hurl them down a mountain and that's a sport?

The news this week in combination with my especially broken body have made this week generally grim. To combat this, I said yes to friends visiting yesterday (we discussed all the terrible things as well as the joyful things) and also organised a birthday surprise in an online community, and those +

Dear Amazon or whoever: please pay Rosamund Pike her going rate to record the rest of the Wheel of Time books, thank you. While you're at it, we could use about 5 more seasons of the show.

I've always liked Taylor Swift's music but have never been a Swiftie who gets at all invested: but having watched that episode of Graham Norton live back in the autumn, I feel cosily like I'm in on a private joke, and that's a weirdly sweet feeling.

Well, no wonder it's all felt so bleak 😐 show me some blue sky, please, for the love of everything

Just want to hear a stand up comedian and someone off made in Chelsea talk about mental health for once 🙏 🎧

Wow

Well, it's here, yes it's here, the most miserable tiiiiiime of the year...

I adore Jane Austen, her writing is exquisite, I wouldn't change a *thing*. Exceept. Just this one bit when Mrs Bennett is telling Mr Bennett about Bingley... 'What is his name?' 'Bingley.' 'Is he married or single?' 'Oh, single, my dear, to be sure. [Single Bingle. Singly Bingley] A single man...'

4 February 1925 | A French Jewish woman, Ginette Kolinka (née Cherkasky), was born in Paris. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy in April 1944. She was transferred to Bergen-Belsen and then to #Theresienstadt. She survived. Today she turns 101.

A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain. A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones. The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

Legit so happy that Mock the Week's back 😄

Have temporarily switched from The Cottage to My Cottage. I'm sure I'll be switching back and forth. #IYKYK

Have temporarily switched from The Cottage to My Cottage. I'm sure I'll be switching back and forth. #IYKYK

The dishwasher has stacked incredibly pleasingly this evening. Just thought you'd like to know. I got the empty jam jar in a perfect little gap. 👌🏻

I am very suspicious of Mervin's brother 😬 I was already suspicious because in the series trailer there's a bit where he's in a spot of bother, and gasps and says "you?!" (Very Wallace & Gromit) and I just think given what we know this series storyline is...we're suspicious, no? #DeathInParadise

This is ticking along nicely still, would love to have you on board. I don't feel bad promoting it because I'm comfortably making a loss on it. Trailer from @matryer.bsky.social once more.

Folks, please don’t tell artists they shouldn’t be making or selling their art right now. For many, it’s how they pay the bills. Art is vital during times like this. ALL ART. Whether it’s a protest sign or a book cover or just a beautiful drawing. It’s part of the heart of humanity.

Lordy. OK. Unsurprisingly, as a tutor, I have thoughts. I'm in a crash, so forgive me if I just splurge them without lots of coherence. I come from a relatively low income home. I received grants to go to university, and, crucially, before that, when I was in sixth form, I received EMA +

I survived. It was too warm and I hadn't eaten enough before I went, and it was longer than I expected because instead of booking me a subsequent appointment she just did the work I needed there and then (this is v positive, but I hadn't necessarily budgeted energy today for it) But I survived. 👍🏻

I have to go to the dentist today for the first time since before lockdown, and I like to think I'm relatively resilient, but the AMOUNT of active mental work I'm having to do to convince myself this is totally fine is genuinely exhausting. Why do I hate this so much? Why am I so anxious?

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Lot of people worried about going to the World Cup in America now but as long as you don’t do anything completely crazy like help a woman up who’s been pushed over then you have nothing to worry about and hopefully won’t be executed in the street. Enjoy it! ⚽️

I apologise, I love #TheGreatPotteryThrowdown, l love animals week, I love raku week. But I'm afraid there's no such thing as a 'mother silverback gorilla'. Silverback is a description of adult males who turn silver as a sign of maturity and status, not a species of gorilla. No silver mothers!

Just got censored in a Twitch chat for talking about the Traitors. Yes, I did mention the US presenter's name. 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

Me, replying to a text about some family moving house: fingers crossed the process goes well for them My phone's autocorrect: 'got' Me: what do you mean, 'got'? I typed 'for'? Don't change it to 'got'? My phone: .....'goes well got them' doesn't make sense, you should change that. 🙄🙄🙄

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment