Happened to catch part of BBC R2 6pm news, and she spoke for us all, at the end of the latest news on Epstein, as she exacerbatedly said ‘no one has been arrested’

Your grandma uses gen-AI? Mock her gently but relentlessly. Your students use it? Mock them savagely. Your favorite writer uses it? Mock her loudly and whenever she appears in public, because with the use of it, she has become a tool of the fascist oligarchs who want to kill us all.

Yeah well one of the country's major employment sectors is collapsing and no one seems to be TAKING ANY BLOODY NOTICE

‘Freud, can you hear us? Freud, we need you. We take back what we said, you were right’

I think I forgot to actually use shampoo to wash my hair this morning. I was in that shower but I wasn’t in that shower

Yuck! However, maybe I should have more confidence in my writing if this can win

Do you ever imagine the energy and time we’d free up if we didn’t keep having the same conversations over and over again?

Do others find that sometimes they have to speak before they think, eg. in a Q&A or interview? You find out what you are going to say by saying it. If you pause to consciously think you would freeze & be unable to answer - you’d start to think too much

I’m enjoying watching these telly shows set in the late 80s/early 90s—if only for the music—but it unfortunately means a lot of Thatcher too 😵‍💫

I really hate it when on a podcast you can hear them get notifications on their phones or computers. It happens A LOT!

STEM has such an anti-research attitude to doing research.* Encapsulated by the likes of the Harvard ref system, where specificity takes a back seat. There’s no point to the research if it doesn’t actually read the citation

I thoroughly enjoyed that Blobby sketch, and just the general madness is such a tonic. If you haven’t seen any of SNLUK yet, do catch up I don’t think a sketch show can hit the mark every time, but there’s something for most people

Edinburgh University’s supreme academic body has warned of a “lack of transparency” over a £140m cuts drive Across UK higher education, decisions are taken by a small, unrepresentative circle, with scrutiny sidelined & rewards flowing upward 😉 www.heraldscotland.com/news/2611129...

I’m surprised that so many people I follow are not only watching it, but posting about Ur-o-viz-ion. Perplexed actually

My brother is getting married next weekend (!!!) & I’ve just remembered that the last time I met one of their friends he asked if I was an older or younger sister 😭 I’m 7 years younger!!!

I’ve once again lost the day, the hours just disappear and I haven’t achieved what I meant to do

Mine: Lord of the Rings (cheeky 3-in-1), Little Women - Alcott, Far From the Madding Crowd - Hardy, The Woman in White - Collins, If On a Winter’s Night… - Calvino,This Side of Paradise - Fitzgerald, Circle of Friends - Binchy, Persuasion - Austen, South Riding - Holtby, Her Privates We - Manning

Oh I did not like the post-credits bit on the Outlander finale 😡

I’m really close to muting ‘novels’, and that basically leaves me without reason to be on here (Argh, why must be rank everything, it’s so tiresome)

She really is the face that launched a thousand hissyfits

She really is the face that launched a thousand hissyfits

I follow several ‘writing’ feeds on here, and apparently that means I have to have nudity & sexually explicit images crop up without warning. How are some things hidden with a warning, and others not?

Through serendipity I got 19 second-hand books for £5 today! Some exciting treasures!

I can’t explain what I mean, but this taste is the most American thing I’ve tasted

Once again: Jo Cox MP was murdered. David Amess MP was murdered.

the UK now has the least transphobic Health Secretary in years (nobody)

Farage says his £5 million gift was a “reward” for Brexit. The rest of us were rewarded with higher bills and years of chaos. This grifter must not become prime minister.

And imagine how great the teaching could be if the staff also felt a strong sense of belonging, stability, hospitality, welcome, could make roots & really invest in their local community!

I just worry we’re projecting all our hopes and dreams onto Burnham, just like we did with Starmer, and we’ll all be disappointed, and have just rearranged the furniture

This weather, man. Whiplash!

Transgenders rejoice 🎉

Tell me I’m not the only person who’s never heard of Cranfield University

I’d actually really welcome Chaos with Ed Miliband and the resetting of the timeline to 2015. (Yes, even if that meant writing my PhD again)

I’m in sight of the migraine storm. I *think* I now realise that my strange head sensations are a type of aura, and, well, it’s enlightening but frustrating

would have been helpful last week tbh www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Would be good if performers, musicians, writers, and other creative workers insisted on organisers not using genAI for advertising festivals, shows and events they're taking part in, in solidarity with visual artists, because it's absolutely everywhere at the moment. We need to stick together!

"I don't want to be Prime Minister but we can't let Wes Streeting be Prime Minister" is a message I can back.

In honour of Fibromyalgia Awareness Day, the hands and wrists have decided to have a pain flare party ☹️

I’m going on holiday next week abroad for the first time in aaaaages!!! As well as my general anxiety abt travel & heat & what to wear, I’m overwhelmed by choosing what books to take!! Do I take the big tomes that have been on the pile a while, or go for smaller dishes, tapas style?

This article & the MP’s comments feel like they are bending over backwards to *not* make any mention of WORKERS! As if a university consists of only the consumer —students— in a vacuum, without any other expertise www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just please, god, don’t let it be Streeting. He shouldn’t even have a chance, but the PM role is completely allergic to sensible decisions

Oh this is marvellous!!!

In my morning haze I couldn’t understand this headline at first. How can you contact a referee’s body - talk to him? Another lovely example of the correct use of punctuation - it’s crucial!!

I need a strong suncream (available in UK) that has a pleasant smell, & doesn’t smell like your mainstream nivea, soltan etc. (I’ve asked before but lost the recommendations 🤦‍♀️)

There’s nothing new under the sun 🤦‍♀️

I honestly thought that something like this would be a spoiled ballot - how naive of me! So disgusting

The frequency with which we go through Prime Ministers gives us such a false sense of progress

Without seeking out anything about it, I keep seeing pictures of the ongoing Celebrity Traitors filming. Why can’t people just wait, why must they ruin it for everyone! Lord knows I’m terrible with delayed gratification but arrrrgh, you’re just ruining it

Sports broadcasting loves a bit of English Literature

Seeking advice: any tips on soothing/lessening a chronic cough? Investigations are happening but given NHS, very slowly. Awaiting results. Cough is bad first thing, then fine until like clockwork 4pm each day it kicks in. What could help?