Urgh, right. Here we go. Busy day ahead.

Finally left work after 10pm ☠️ and also felt bad about it because other people were staying 🫥

Home for a brief break, then back to work for the evening as the shop is still complete chaos 😬

if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.

Guy seething with jealousy: Well, I think the normal sky is already pretty cool

So this happened an hour ago. I don’t think I’ve seen red this deep in a long time. You could see it quite clearly with the naked eye. #aurora

They demand prayer in schools but forbid prayer outside of detention facilities

i think the main thing a lot of you “the economy is better than it’s ever been” types are failing to grasp is that it really—and i mean REALLY—makes it look like you don’t give a shit about poor people.

Unassailable logic:

Every year we get closer to this happening on the news

Aaand now my boiler has decided that it simply won’t provide hot water for my shower

Really struggling to get going today when I know I have a very long drive ahead of me

Ooooohh! Shetland is back today, I hadn’t realised!

I have been incredibly lazy this week! Making the most of being away from Mum is guess. She is one of those people who always has to be doing something, and also gets up really early every day

I can hear a lot of fireworks but I can't really see any

It’s always so weird being home without Penny

Could be worse, at least I hadn’t planned to take the train! I mean Avanti are terrible in so many ways but I did at the very least expect the trains to stay on the tracks…

It’s grim up north

everyone automatically clacks these twice upon picking them up because deep down we all know we’re crabs

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

I — yes? what do you think is supposed to happen in the situation you describe?

If you just banked that coffee money every week and denied yourself every other instance of life’s gastronomic pleasures, however small and ordinary, you could save enough to make the down payment on that starter house in [checks notes] five hundred and seventy three years

Well, I wasn’t expecting to go on a magical mystery tour of Surrey today and yet somehow here I am 🤷‍♀️

I put Penny’s bat wings on for some Halloween fun and inadvertently gave Daisy a Halloween fright. She was so freaked out when she first saw Penny!

“You know im something of a prepper myself”

I confess wild horses COULD drag me away. In fact it would only probably take a single very sickly one

It feels like the middle of the night and it’s not even 7pm 🫠

Sincerely praying for safety and quick deliverance, funds at the ready for the catastrophic damage this will cause

In other news I went for a run! I went x-country because a weird guy in a Range Rover harassed a local woman the other day and Mum is now paranoid, but it was more interesting than running on the road so that was fun

just circling back on this, ana

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

obviously it was never about the hostages, but I don’t think it’s even really about the flattening and annexation of the land that is Palestine. it’s that Netanyahu likes killing Palestinians. he doesn’t see them as people and murdering them for fun makes him smile

this FUCKING guy

My old boss is STILL TEXTING ME

Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.

Fawlty Towers actor Prunella Scales dies at the age of 93

There’s a stag which is a bit too close to the garden for comfort tbh when you have a curious dog who needs to go outside for a wee

The kids are alright

I actually love uncanny. It’s a bit silly and a fun level of spooky! I’m firmly team sceptic but I still love hearing the scary stories and trying to come up with explanations for them

Spooky season is about to get a whole lot scarier... 👀 On 31 October, Uncanny is BACK with a brand new season of ten terrifying episodes. Listen... if you dare. Uncanny | Listen on BBC Sounds

I’ve been hearing the fallow deer rutting at nights this week

We went to Kelmscott today and wow I envied the lives of the Morris family! No doubt they were all very hard working but just the room for creativity and mastering different crafts and visits from interesting bohemian friends/lovers

man wouldn't it be nice to have a week -- even a day or two -- that's not like getting blasted in the face with a firehose

The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324

Americans want to watch charismatic people solve moderately difficult problems on a weekly basis. That’s it. And a group of fomo execs and techbros who don’t watch TV drove one of the most profitable industries in the US off a cliff rather than accept that.

A very happy birthday to my wonderful friend @neverella.bsky.social! 😘

I’m gonna say something controversial: I actually don’t think chickpea anxiety is real

100% forgot about the new Philip Pullman and just happened to walk past Waterstones where they gave me all sorts of freebies with it!