Water is The One True Liquid, but there are three other liquid types: Tea, Soup, and Juice. Tea is water that's changed by the introduction of a thing which is then removed Soup is water that has a thing in it Juice is water that comes from a thing (Thanks to @marble.bsky.social for the diagram)

No cheating, repost with the most recent photo of your pet sophie commits a small festive crime

in 2026, maybe we’ll return to a time before jstor had baseball caps and the chicago manual of style wanted to sell you a skateboard because you’re a cool professor

happy new year to the twenty twenty sickos ❤️

all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do

hold on i have to update this because i just saw aurora in the snow today in bergen

having hip pain for a bit has made me realise there is in fact no greater pleasure in life than sitting with your legs crossed over and all fucked up and to deny a person this is torture

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

I once saw beth ditto in the tottenham court road branch of h&m

tonight’s eurosnack is a bit threatening

i don’t know if anyone here is playing the tiny bookshop game but a seagull came into my shop so i sold him six of crows

This 1920’s painting by Michalina Janoszanka is the vibe.

we’ve been watching david attenborough with the cat and here are some of the animals she believes she could take out: albatross chick, seal, fruitbat, agouti, entire column of leafcutter ants

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they executed tiny Tim, who did NOT die

showing the cat the picture my partner got us for christmas

business idea: prosecco flavoured fizzy vitamins

for my alarms book I read through all the internal staff newsletters for the company that sold the first battery operated domestic smoke alarm and that was a fascinatingly obscure trip through mid century workplace culture

including this paper in the bit of my talk which introduces early 20th century neurology just so i can talk about russell brain writing about henry head in the journal brain

for christmas my nephew has sent us a kind of frankenstein fantasy football team

archive.org has saved christmas by helping me find my a copy of my favourite veggie sausage recipe

sorry to report that this actually really helped and i’ve not only restructured the whole first section but also added an extra 1500 words today

happy “putting all the separate unfinished word documents into one big word document for your book manuscript because you promised yourself you’d have a rough first draft by the end of the year” day to all who celebrate

My response to anything over the next two weeks

is tom mccarthy working on a Big Book do we reckon? he seems like the type and hasn’t published a novel in a decade

thinking about some solutions to my bath problem

when a reviewer asks you to cite their work in your revised submission and so you grudgingly insert a footnote but in no way discuss their ideas in your work, so that it’s there and you can’t be dinged for ignoring it, but also you did nothing to address it… this is called a “sightation”

and walt whitman’s line break is still on the line

continental philosophy is where you hold the theory in your left hand

paul hollywood lied to me: you cannot make delicious deep-filled mince pies in a muffin pan

Me making my bed: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck. Me laying in it: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

it’s luciadag today and i showed my partner a video of the oslo gay men’s chorus doing the lucia song and he is now on a quest through the media archives to find a specific 1986 hong kong cornflour advert which also uses the lucia song (but with lyrics about the versatility of cornflour)

if there are compounds full of people being compelled to run romance scams, are there also much weirder compounds out there where people are sending out emails reeling in professors to join the editorial board of their scam journal

teaching is essentially presenting students with shitty pdf scans of texts and the shittier the scan is the better the teaching is

When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!

would you give a content note in a talk if part of your talk was about animal experimentation? and if yes, how would you frame the note?

on top of everything else that’s disgusting about this, it also sounds as though it was written by chatgpt (it’s got a three-part list, an m-dash, and a glib, snappy little concluding paraphrase)

You can't spell "Merry Xmas" without "Yes Mr Marx".

another really good one for for the knausgård ordbok drinking game

spotify wrapped but it’s just every photo i’ve taken of items in the supermarket in 2025

very sad situation when the only bed you can find in the whole house is a half-empty packet of pipecleaners

I find it very strange how a legal decision which relates solely to gender recognition certificates – something under 18s definitively cannot have – is being used to justify changes to longstanding policies on including trans kids.

somehow ended up talking about dua lipa in my norwegian oral exam this morning

very few of my students (like 2/100) have extra time now because the exams here are 4-5 hours long

wow, uncanny

this reminds me that I finally watched the end of the crown at the weekend and they’d got rowan williams looking the spit of gerry adams

no point just having STEM; we need roots and fruits and roses too

it’s all very well blaming ai for this but i just saw a human-designed house for sale with this layout