Poor husband is in meetings all day and I promised I'd bring him a coffee and the soup is boiling a bit too vigorously but both cats are sitting on my legs and I keep putting off getting up for another few seconds.

It occurred to me early this morning that 27 years ago, I acquired my first boyfriend. Between first and second period at school after a few notes passed in the sixth form common room. I still remember his gigantic grin as we parted ways to go home after school.

How's everyone? Thanks for the book suggestions the other day. We've come down with hand, foot and mouth disease. Hands are absolutely covered in painful pimples. And don't get me started on mouth/throat. It's awful. And with toddler, life must go on with no time to rest and recover.

Ideas please! My husband wants a book for Christmas that is fiction, set in the future, but not a dystopia: a future where there is at least some hope and a few things being put right. He read Cory Doctorow's "The Lost Cause" lately and liked it. Can you recommend such a novel, anyone? Thanks!

Exactly seven months ago, we started this giving circle with seven friends in Gaza—six families, a team helping fifteen more, and the idea of sustained survival support that protects their dignity. Click "weekly" on a coffee to join two hundred members. Keep hope alive: chuffed.org/project/hope...

I hear someone got arrested for throwing a load of custard and pudding at the crown jewels. I recommend they be charged with dessertion.

🔭 Galaxies in the Furnace Image Credit & Copyright: Simone Curzi and the ShaRA Team apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25120...

Told my 2-year-old she couldn’t wander into the gents or JKR would come and get her.

Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

Got an e-mail from my bank to tell me I've received cashback - the queenly sum of 10 pence. Whatever shall I do with it?

Insert a movie into another movie: The Full Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Two of my favourites!)

Good morning BlueSky, I had a nightmare about falling into a black hole! As nightmares go that has to be one of the coolest ever. There was a distorted universe and a rocket and all. Chilling though 😱

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.

Cats are so obsessed with following their humans into the toilet. Do they feel neglected when we don’t escort them into their litter trays?

I just bought a Jehovah’s Witness advent calendar. Every time you open a door someone tells you to go away.

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

Good morning BlueSky, have a picture from 4pm yesterday: moonlight over a Swedish lake. I don't live quite in the land of the midnight sun - merely midnight twilight - in the summer; but November is a very dark month until the snow gets going. We had a lovely dark warm windy walk in the forest.

Over 100 people have registered for this! I'm going to select five winners at the end of the day Monday.

Husband found this hilarious site replaceyourboss.ai (apparently actually not AI, but made by justifiably annoyed humans). "Last night I dreamt about a post-sleep workforce" 🤣 Has @askamanager.org seen this?!

#ToucanButtoftheDay Something away from Bijagua (finally!), a Fiery-billed Aracari (Pteroglossus frantzii) at San Vito, Puntarenas #CostaRica #toucans #birds #nature

what’s grey and has four legs and a big horn? a mouse in a brass band

What's grey and has four legs and a trunk? A mouse going on holiday.

Husband blew some compressed air into my laptop as the fans were going wild. It has now developed a scary high-pitched whine that makes it impossible to concentrate on anything else while it’s switched on. Oh no.

I bet she would though

Toddler wasn’t terribly impressed with the mall playroom. So she escaped into the craft shop next door. And omg … it is a good craft shop. I wanted to stop and examine all the wool. But I was pursuing a toddler who has become VERY fast and sure-footed. And I hadn’t got my purse. Or shoes!

One time in a supermarket, I happened to pick up a bottle of magnolia something or other and took a sniff. Instantly I was transported back to my adopted-great-aunt's house. She had died >20 years previously. I couldn't do anything this cool with that, though! www.positive.news/society/the-...

This person is now very sad and saying they regret their vote now that half the Hispanic students at our school didn't show up today.

I'm organising a little Christmassy festival with my housing association - mimicking an adorable one that took place in our previous housing association. Swedish Christmas music, drinking Swedish glögg, etc. I, and the other person most involved, are both immigrants. I find this so entertaining!

@joannechocolat.bsky.social I made a poor imitation of Vianne's spiced hot chocolate today. Taste knocked us over, but in a good way. Thank you for writing the recipe!

Talk about a heck of a way to wake up: I'd gone back to bed because lovely husband had taken 2-year-old out. So once I'd dropped off, the dear neighbours decided to drill a hole in the wall right next to my head! Cat and I both jumped out of our skins and left the room.

Smugpost: I haven't got a car. I have never owned a car. To be fair I live in Stockholm and have lived in London a lot of my life, but I have also coped in Cornwall and rural Wales. Long live public transport and investment in it.

I generally loathe ready meals but I just love ready made lasagne. I also like home made lasagne though it overcooks and dries out horribly easily. I had a shop bought lasagne for lunch and I just keep wanting more lasagne. I think I'm turning into Garfield.

A bit over 13 years ago I was doing MSc Astrophysics and loads of citizen science with @galaxyzoo.org and I just loved giving public talks about space. I also wanted to raise funds for FGM charities. So I put on a public space talk series to raise said funds.

Yesterday I did absolutely epic amounts of laundry and today I was going to have off doing laundry, but *shrug* *gestures towards 2-year-old* What's everyone else up to?

Hey peeps, I wonder if any of you can help me track down a children's book. I *think* the title was Peace at Last, but it's not the one by Jill Murphy about Papa Bear who can't sleep. It's about a family of elephants whose kids are causing mayhem while their parents want to go out. 1/?

Star burps 😂🥤

What to do if ICE agents come to your workplace. I fear all too many of you will find this helpful. Sending love and concern and solidarity from Europe.

Reno, Nevada 6:31 PDT 39.4° N, 119.8° W #Aurora

Apropos of absolutely nothing, I thought some of you might enjoy seeing a lot of toy octopuses 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙

Ya daftypuss 😆🥰

Who called it a colonoscopy and not a colitiscope?

Bollocks … and I just had a bloody vaccination against it 5 days ago 🙄

A very sweet essay about what it's like to expect one thing and to get quite another www.emilyperlkingsley.com/welcome-to-h...

Generative AI is ruining my motivation to teach. It is not a bold new era of information that I'm excited to see my students explore. It's a cheat that prevents them from thinking. It lets them avoid even a moment of confusion and struggle, necessary to process new ideas.

I will henceforth only respect TV journalists who, after getting a typical response from a politician, follow up with: "Cool. That's not what I asked you tho."

More people came to my daughter's birthday party than to my husband's and my wedding 😂 This COULD be because our daughter is cuter and more popular than us. Or it could be that Stockholm has better housing than London and we could accommodate more people into our flat here. You decide.

Whoops-a-daisy. Made chocolate fudgy icing for my daughter's birthday cake ... but poured it on while it was too hot and runny and instead of staying on the cake, it went *everywhere*. Too late to make another one. It'll still taste nice.

Blimey, only 2 hours and this project is finished! (Either that or I've finished classifying the pictures?!) It's good to know that so many people really want to help. I imagine there'll be another phase of looking specifically for damage to infrastructure. I don't know yet.

Maximum-likelihood image reconstruction is also not "AI".

Oh this is nice. Just got this in an email. The Planetary Response Network and @zooniverse.bsky.social are asking the public to help map out area affected by Hurricane Melissa to assist with humanitarian work www.zooniverse.org/projects/ali...