I wasn’t going to, but ended up watching the Mitchell and Webb thing (because I like some of the other cast members). It’s…ok? I laughed maybe twice. But I do not understand why they think the Aussie drama bit good at all, let alone to be in every episode. It’s….just not a thing!

His speeches are prewritten?! 🤯

Because I follow the ‘Greensky’ feed, an organisation keeps crossing my timeline called ‘Seminal Wellness’ 🤢 I am begging people to realise that words have multiple meanings! It might be a good idea to use a dictionary!

Would really like a job now pleeeeeease!!!

Stop accepting the premise of their ridiculous, unfounded, fascistic claims!!! Ignore them!!

Trying hard to not put the heating on until October 🥶🥶🥶

Imagine the scene: Jan 2021, recovering from Covid, taste still not back, struggling to eat “These quite expensive probably not very healthy yoghurts are tasting quite good. I’ll have these for breakfast for a few weeks & then back to normal” Reader, she’s still eating them 4 1/2 years later

It’s times like this that being alone is so irritating. I could just do with the weight of another person on me to untether the head pain from me (And do my chores and errands)

Waiting it out hasn’t helped. Painkillers never touch it. Sleeping isn’t shifting it. TENs machine hasn’t helped. I’ve watched several drama series as it’s all I can do, and quite bored now

There are sooooooooo many plot holes in The Girlfriend 🤦‍♀️

We need a word for when one of your go-to weekly podcasts has a guest on you can’t stand 😵‍💫

People don’t like hearing that being financially secure massively improved someone’s mental health because it socialises a problem we prefer to individualise.

Looking over past research plans from job applications for my best phrasing, and mourning all the routes I couldn’t take, all the lives I could’ve had

QM has been quite the bellwether of things to come in HE - namely how management treat their staff - so this certainly unnerves me & is a colossal waste of money

The migraine and migraine fallout has written off the entirety of my week 😤

Are any literary magazines open to critical essay pitches?? (When I go looking for a particular one it turns out they’ve ceased publishing, or they are just too big)

Science is political. Everything is political. You cannot ‘follow your scientific interest’ without seeing politics. It’s literally impossible! By even changing what you see you are making a decision based on politics

‘Ooooo, such clever foreshadowing’ No, that’s just plot

I throw up a little bit every time I see anything about the state visit. It’s a visceral reaction 🤮

Definitely much colder today: my glasses were steamed up this morning and I’ve had to employ a blanket

First bit of positive criticism for a long time: my dentist said my teeth were beautiful (as in, I’ve been keeping them well)

I wish more people would call this what it is: a lie/scam to increase unpaid labour. Management know many of us won’t give crap feedback, so instead we work evenings/weekends or let other work slip. Their spreadsheet is happy, students still get decent feedback. All the burden is on the Lecturer.

Just finished my online bystander training for intervening in harassment. Well worth doing and I would particularly recommend to anyone who doesn't / hasn't typically experienced sexual harassment, i.e. cis men. www.suzylamplugh.org/anti-harassm...

As well as being in the midst of a multi-day migraine, my body’s doing its weird thing where my arms don’t feel like mine, and if it wasn’t quite so distressing it would be quite hilarious in how it makes me feel like my bones are jelly, wibbly wobbling all over the place

Reading June Jordan yesterday and this made me think of your post. "It's on you, whoever you are... It's your responsibility to make yourself knowledgeable about where you are in this very complicated world right now, to the best of your knowledge and capacity to understand things. Then, to act."

Oh no, Robert 😭 My mum is going to be so upset

I’ve devoured all of #TheNewsreader - having waited years for it to reach the UK. It’s excellent! Teeniest of spoilers - so nice of them to go almost right up to my birth 🤣

“Ooo, I lovely bit of very browned dinner, some might say burnt but yum yum” Takes a big bite Oh no, it was concentrated stock cube!!! 😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️

Murder, not euthanise. Don’t sanitise their language

People who don't understand the distinction between civility and politeness should simply not be taken seriously when speaking about either.

This is a great piece, properly contextualising asylum hotels and why refugees are being housed in such places. Langsam seems such a fascinating, slippery figure, & indicative of the relationship between profit hungry opportunism, & legacies of British regional culture. Access here: archive.md/7cT7M

I really took yesterday’s rare burst of energy for granted 🤦‍♀️

I imagine we’d have a bit more respect for UUK if they enforced funders to actually pay (sufficiently!) for teaching buyout, leading to job creation & helping with workload issues, and did something long term to address precarity

Can we shift away from low-quality UUK leadership?

Today is my parents’ 50th Wedding Anniversary 😲😲😲😲 (Golden Wedding). It’s pretty amazing (I can’t even keep a boyfriend for 50 days)

Since it's clear I'm going to need to put in extra work to cleanse the current timeline, how about Diego Rivera's horny radishes? Rivera painted this quasi-Surrealist scene of radishes in erotic poses—"The Temptations of Saint Anthony"—in 1947, inspired by an annual Oaxacan radish-carving festival

Been tutoring about Appeasement and preparations for start of SWW and now I’ve got the theme tune to Dad’s Army stuck in my head (wish I could say this was a rare ear-worm, it’s not!)

Violence is never the answer. Also, make use of the breaking news consumer's handbook from @onthemedia.bsky.social

Soon won’t be able to watch any British actors or shows because everyone has entered the HP cesspit. Shame on them all!!!

This is a great piece - refreshingly engages with the AI problems in education

Hoovering with the big extender is such hard work, but even though it might take longer and seem to be much less efficient, the short attachment is much easier for me. There’s a metaphor in there somewhere

Oh is it #WorldSuicidePreventionDay? Stop saying ‘just talk!!’ and start demanding that services are funded.

Say it with me, *your writing is incomprehensible without punctuation* #PunctuationMatters

New ship of Theseus just dropped, but now it has conscious thought

Having been out of academia and all employment* for the past year and seeing what other salaries are, a lot of things would have to change for me to ever strike over pay again as an academic *and yes I have been trying and yes I feel like shit every single day

In the year 2025, if you are running an online talk/event and *not* setting it so everyone is automatically muted, then what are you doing!!!!!!!

Solidarity with my former colleagues

Bragged about my 70 day cryptic crossword streak, then promptly walked into the doorframe. I get it world, I know my place!! 🤕

Just glad I wasn’t wearing earphones this time

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