Video killed the radio star

Wish I had a little consideration from my family about my thermal dysregulation ☹️

Christmas Cracker joke: Why does Edmund Burke put a small citrus fruit at the top of his Christmas tree? Because he wants his decorations to be sublime!

Christmas cracker joke: Why does Derrida always buy the expensive stuff in Sainsbury's? Because he likes to Taste the Differance!

Happy Christmas everyone! I hope you have peace and calmness, especially if this time of year is difficult. I’m not feeling especially Christmassy myself this year, but throwing myself into silliness and doing my level best to make my nephew and teenage niece laugh 🎄🎄🤶

Happy Christmas everyone! I hope you have peace and calmness, especially if this time of year is difficult. I’m not feeling especially Christmassy myself this year, but throwing myself into silliness and doing my level best to make my nephew and teenage niece laugh 🎄🎄🤶

Raise your hands if Christmas has snuck up on you too! 🤚 Only just finished chopping the veg for Christmas dinner, I swear! And yet January was yonks ago

Raise your hands if Christmas has snuck up on you too! 🤚 Only just finished chopping the veg for Christmas dinner, I swear! And yet January was yonks ago

‘Tis the season in which I correct everyone (especially my sister) saying reindeers instead of reindeer 😡 #Grammar

This is why, in my opinion, honorary doctorates are a nonsense, and no one should call themselves Dr for having one King's Foundation chair and nominee peer admits 'misleading' doctorate claim www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mum promised me a roast chicken dinner today (I didn’t ask), but earlier said ‘is it ok if I just do 3 veg’. Of course, what are they? ‘Carrots, parsnips, cauliflower, I could add cabbage’. No that’s plenty. She adds sprouts. I’ve never had such a loaded plate, had to add a mezzanine layer!

As has become tradition, we are watching that particular Christmas episode of Midsomer Murders. Every year my mum says ‘what’s that episode with the family, can we watch that?’

The vet visited (my brother) and extricated the patient. He diagnosed minimal injuries & some soft tissue bruising, & recommends a course of cuddle therapy to reduce PTSD issues

A sad turn of events, however. I have found a very hurt bear, I don’t know how long he has been stuck…

Always forget how sweltering my parents’ house is. Did not need to pack all these jumpers!!!

My first blood has been spilt on the Christmas preparations. Thanks to the bunk beds

Controversial opinion: public transport & buildings do not need to be as warm as they are this time of year (in the UK). It is sweltering! When we’re wrapped up warm for the cold we don’t need sweltering temperatures on top of it. Think of the money & planet saving it could do!!*

I really don’t like this drip, drip of gossip about the Reiners. I’m not seeking out anything, but my sm is full of it. Are these celebs really talking about it? It’s no one’s business. And we’re going to get increasing demonisation of addiction, mental illness, and medication.

I’m so close to muting ‘academia’ ‘PhD’ and ‘jobs’

This week sums up my recent years: flu; reserve candidate for a job; first date in 2+ yrs which was good & we were going to go somewhere else, but in the time it took for me to go to the loo he changed his mind, & now several hours to kill at the airport because flight delayed 😩

Finally!!! Merry Christmas everyone!

See! Look at who is pushing AI on you, and ask if they really have good intentions with your creativity, autonomy, wellbeing, free time, productivity, environment, health, empowerment, sanity, money, & human rights

Never in my life have I felt so un-Christmassy. It’s been another awful year, & I didn’t possibly imagine I could feel worse than I did this time last year. But it turns out there are further depths of despair

If Naomi Wolf has waded into the discourse, no one needs to say anymore. We must give this phenomenon a name that we can shout that marks the end of the Discourse

My head is continually full of ideas, you all are welcome to most of them, and it might give me a minutes peace

It’s wrecked my ears and I’ve a job interview shortly (thankfully online). Do what you can to avoid the lurgy!!!

online dating

Can’t remember the last time I stayed in my pyjamas all day (as opposed to changing into pyjama-esque clothes most days)

I’m flu-ish, but nowhere as bad as it could be, most likely due to my jab. But I’m craving all the food: doughnuts, cheesecake, pâté on toast, Welsh rarebit, roast potatoes, shepherds pie

The lower case Barnaby is really upsetting me

I dug into my special stash of US cold medicine, which I got 2 years ago and made me feel all woohoo, but it’s just made me feel worse this time 😩 shame. They were meant to be a magic bullet

Rose always puts it in the right words. It’s been a tough old year for a lot of people. Getting through it is enough

Finally something and not good news. I absolutely got all the criteria, but sounds like they’re going to someone internal. What’s the bloody point. FFS!

Reminder that JK Rowling sees any support of Harry Potter as an endorsement of her political beliefs, and she uses Harry Potter royalties to further her transphobic hate campaign. Your friends and family might not think you're a bigot for buying Harry Potter shit, but Rowling herself certainly will.

Still nothing. And we’re running out of time if it’s supposed to be sorted by end of the year 😩

I had to leave UCU a couple of months ago - had my free year, can’t afford to pay while not working - but solidarity with everyone facing redundancy and fighting on. It’s heartbreaking what is happening & beyond infuriating that no one cares ✊

I tried reading the first couple of lines but felt like I was having a stroke 😵

Modern life is just Suffering with more screens.

I was the only person wearing a mask on a bus that went directly to and from a hospital today (both directions) On the plus side, if you are the only person wearing a mask, no one sits next to you 'Super flu' wave hits hospitals in England with no peak yet www.bbc.com/news/article...

Can’t even call chocolate, chocolate anymore (Also, toffee crisp is still around? 😮 never see them anymore) Toffee Crisp and Blue Riband can't be called chocolate anymore www.bbc.com/news/article...

Had a lovely time at the cinema, but now have the worst headache I’ve ever had, I think, due to someone nearby absolutely reeking of cigarettes 🤢 makes me feel so sick

Imagine choosing to make an enemy of the hangriest part of the population exactly when restaurants are struggling to survive

Do UK outlets just no longer sell Queen size bedding (duvet covers) at all?!! Only place I can’t find is Amazon, and urrrgh

I’m only half paying attention to #Strictly but earlier this week I discovered that Amber is only an actor because she won Love Island, and tonight I discover she was on Dancing on Ice last year!!? What the actual?!!

Everyone’s preoccupied with wondering what happens to the Bennett sisters after the book ends, but what about Anne and Frederick?

Tell me you only consider STEM as academia without telling me..etc etc 🙄

‘Entrepreneur’ has always been a 🚩 concept to me

Just trying to speak to a GP already causes unhealthy amounts of stress

I hate everything about the latest update 😡