In the pocket of Big Hydration Break

‘Feeling a bit better’ means having a tiny bit more energy, a slightly less foggy head, but still an excruciating headache, and a lot of clumsiness #Fibromyalgia #LongCovid

Cannot wait to stop hearing about this damn wedding from BBC NEWS!!!!

I think 🤞I’m at the tail end of this latest flare, and feeling, cautiously, a bit better, plus I’ve finished the time- sensitive tasks for this week, so… I’m fighting the need to keep taking it easy, & doing something I love (aka writing/reading)…but also some cleaning/tidying would be helpful

1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative

What the actual f***? So much I could say but just going to scream instead AAARGH!!! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yeah, he’d be the favourite and ONLY, seeing as he is the current and only First Minister 🙄

I need to go out - for fresh air and fresh milk - but I just don’t want to be perceived by anyone else. (And I feel s***)

There have been so, so many times I’ve looked at a news report or headline lately and had to dig deep into my brain to find out if it’s April Fools, or if I’ve forgotten I’m watching a film

In fact, the Bridge of Khazad DOOM has swiftly come into view, so something is very much needed!!

It’s 2 of the main UK conferences in my field this week, which I’m missing, plus bad fibro flare, and general grumpiness. World, please be kind to me this week 🥺🙏 Give me a chance, a break

Gutted you have to be a student 😢

1 left! Argh! But this does include the title, so shouldn’t matter

Is this just to screw with Burnham in advance? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...

Just 28 words to cut. COME OOOONNN!!!

I really need a new nervous system. Any recs?

An avalanche of bad memories suffocated me as I tried to get to sleep last night, making me relive every bad feeling I’ve ever had

I do appreciate the graphics that critique AI use and how it is forced on us. But I don’t like that it’s an AI generated image The medium is the message

Trying to have a break from writing job applications (all hope is gone anyway) but struggling to unwind. What do I even like to do that doesn’t require brainwork?!

I keep thinking about the caramel candle

Can we just get one thing straight, the crisis in UKHE is not worsening because supposedly ‘better’ institutions with higher calibre staff are being ‘right-sized’ into the ground but because *more* institutions are being hit with restructures and redundancies. Some solidarity, please

The political takes I am seeing on here today have me questioning what language I speak

The Beatles, The Kinks, Cat Stevens, Simon and Garfunkel, Fleetwood Mac, Dirty Dancing soundtrack, Annie Lennox, Eva Cassidy, The Monkees, The Chicks, Vonda Shepherd, Eagles, Travelling Wilburys, Moody Blues, The Beautiful South, The Corrs,

Where’s the outrage that the leader of one of our main political parties can’t be on the electoral roll due to safety?! Green Party returns inadmissible donation from Polanski www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If we were never really sure why The Bear kept being classed as a comedy, S5, the new and final season, is definitely a comedy

My sense of smell is turned up to 11 this week, and because I’ve got to have the window open, I’m getting big whiffs of overpowering scents

I’d forgotten Rob Reiner was in it 😭

Drink a glass of water

Aargh, the heat has me bulldozed 😵‍💫 #Fibromyalgia #HeatIntolerance

Thought I’d rewatch S4 of The Bear…but it’s just making me hungry

My experience is that people just stopped talking to me. Suddenly. Overnight I no longer had anyone to talk to. So, try to avoid that and the things listed below

I don’t see anyone talk about the financial burden of going through so many PMs. For the rest of their lives they have residual income and ongoing security paid for by the taxpayer, presumably. Even when they go on to earn high sums

Missing: the breeze. Come back! I’m sorry I ever complained about the wind!

It’s a killing my darlings (perfect paragraphs) kind of day

Unpopular opinion: I don’t mind when the government make a U-turn. If it means they’ve listened to opinions, learned more about the issue, or even realised how unpopular the earlier decision would be, it’s progress. I’d much rather an informed policy rather than fear of being seen as inconsistent

I sometimes think new podcasts are created by choosing a punny name and retroactively deciding what it’s about

It's officially the hottest June day ever. We know who is to blame. Fossil fuel firms. The billionaire media. Weak politicians. We know what we must do. Rapid decarbonisation & adaptation for a healthier, wealthier country safe for future generations.

Have you all heard the news? There’s going to be some more The Other Bennet Sister episodes!

I spent so long feeling glad I wasn’t in the red or yellow alert areas, I didn’t think about how unbearable it might be up here 😬

Always a good day to teach a teenager about the gender pay gap and pink tax 💪

There is excellence in every Humanities Department

What? It’s so good!

Now is a time when university degrees need to be *less* about acquiring ‘skills’ than ever. Abstract thought, flexibility, problem-solving and so forth are much more important. That means *less* vocational education, not more.

Players keep coming off that I didn’t even realise were playing

If you’ve knocked your head, a bandage does nothing 🙄 #PerformativeBandage

It’s wild that politicians don’t seem to grasp the degree to which universities contribute to the economy- local, regional, national. The failure to intervene is a stain on this govt - a shocking dereliction of duty to every worker, every local business, every student, every area that is suffering

Today is an intentional rest day, after some tiring days. But I’ve been so restless and antsy - and I just want to snack, snack, snack 😵‍💫

On my soapbox again: we shouldn’t call this a ‘heatwave’ but ‘an extreme heat event’. People don’t take the language of heatwaves seriously

Everyone complaining about the salary (fair), but this is miles above a lot of other roles advertised (the very few that there are) in the sector just now