Today seemed like a good day for my neepie lantern necklace

And this is the problem. Because antisemitism is always, always wrong. This was an attack on British Jews, praying in their shul on the holiest day of the year. If your response to hearing of their murder starts with “but Gaza” you are missing the point.

It seems like a lot of non-Jews in the UK are learning that we always/already have extra security in our synagogues on the most holy days. It's kind of maddening, like the first time you explain to a male friend what you do to walk home alone at night and they're like 😳

As every day, today is a good day to donate:

Everything may be awful in our governments, but this still brings me joy. Click through and see the cool AF entries from previous years!

Wow! Congrats on doing the bare minimum and denouncing the most explicit racism. The suffragettes had a slogan that feels relevant here (they used it slightly differently): deeds not words. If you're policies drive out and make life unlivable for immigrants, I simply don't care what you say.

Next week in UK politics: Fuhwaage: we will execute all immigrants Labour: Reform’s policies are racist. Under Labour immigrants will experience unalivement in a respectful and sensitive manner

When Farage said he wants to revoke settled status I immediately started to prepare to apply for citizenship and my friends thought I was being a bit paranoid. Farage is always saying stuff. It took Labour less than a week to adopt a watered down version of his proposal www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

J Draper recently made an excellent video describing how Britain destroyed the a rising fascist movement in the '70's. The short version is: build strong coalitions dedicated solely to the issue of stopping Nazis and never ever give an inch, especially in the press youtu.be/XeHviTKEqSo?...

Luna says:Shabbat Shalom! Just stay in bed a little longer

This now automatically pops up when you open an article on ScienceDirect. Fun fact: Nearly every article on ScienceDirect already has a brief summary of the article right at the top of every page. These are called 'abstracts'.

When you're dyslexic but always have to be on time, so in an attempt to arrive twenty minutes early for your 11:14 train, you arrive an hour early for your 11:41 train

I know when I have porridge I always think "you know what would make this better? Red wine" #GBBO

For their last night in Scotland we treated my parents to a traditional British kebab

So "Full-Blown autism" is not a thing, but being generous and calling it autism with a learning disability, you can simply Google this. It's not a mystery. People who were born more than 70 years ago had autism with learning disability. www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-g...

Shanah Tovah to all who are celebrating, and even if not, please enjoy my favorite bit of the liturgy, because honestly it slaps youtu.be/8Nsta-pykaE?...

And now Farage is threatening to revoke my immigration status and send me back there. Lads, we really need to sort some shit out. I can't take it anymore.

Why does the UK have so many mystery shows about various members of clergy/religious orders who solve murders? It's oddly specific

Possibly the most unhinged post on my time line to take as an invitation for sexual solicitation???? I mean if you're going to proposition a librarian I feel like correct grammar is the bare mins

I passed a hair salon called "CoE Hair" and I'm trying to figure out what hairstyles distinguish the Church of England

There's something very charming about sheep in a field that is all yellow, because sheep aren't purely white. They're yellow-y. So at some points a bit of the field suddenly moves and you suddenly realise there are sheep everywhere

Never take a half day at the start of a holiday: nothing will inspire people to send you just one little thing to do like you being on holiday in less than an hour. It's a mug's game. Take the whole day.

I always had a sense that this country is very London-centric, but it didn't really come to full force until I was working in academia. The amount of organisations that only ever conduct in-person events in London (and rarely do hybrid or online events at all) is just astonishing.

THE K STANDS FOR KINDRED???? This whole time?

We put in an order to Tim Hortons as soon as we saw the episode summary at the top #GBBO

I'm sorry, did the Scottish contestant really just say "I'm not sure about deep frying??" Worrying. #GBBO

I know as an elder millennial lady I am supposed to feel cringe at my enjoyment of pumpkin spice everything season, but life is simply too short, babes. We're all approaching middle age; it is time to free ourselves from trying to be cool. They're delicious. Toffee apple muffins also get top marks.

I just saw a guy facetiming while riding his bike through central Aberdeen. Truly a man who does not fear death.

Look, tall leggings are ridiculously hard to find in the UK. We've all been there. Plus as a tall lady when you go clothes shopping these days you always have to be worried about JK Rowling popping out from behind a disay and trying to test your chromosomes or gametes or whatever #Taskmaster

"Pride is meant to be inclusive, and yet I the Westboro Baptist Church, who specifically hate the people Pride is for...."

There's no way Channel 4 can't afford an A/C unit for that tent. This is starting to feel like a human rights violation #GBBO

If there is any drug that feels as good as turning off your alarms when you start your holiday: I get it.

A hen party just sat down at the table across from me on the train and pulled out a bottle of prosecco

I tried to start watching the Foundation series and it's so clearly written by a scientist who thinks the Humanities are not a different area of study but in fact a deeply lesser one that I just can't with this.

Going from a very inspiring and radical talk about the importance of community and commons in scholarly publishing at #OpenFest25 to a UKRI webinar about a report on a consultation about OA mandates is jarring. Gonna need a bigger cup of tea for this

The main thing I'm taking from this talk in #OpenFest25 with @simonxix.com @kjsanders.bsky.social @samuelmoore.org and Hannah Hillan is that if we want an open access movement that is equitable and diverse, the process of publishing matters at least as much as whether or not outputs are open

I feel like the amount they must have spent on the animatronic dinosaur intro could have bought a couple of A/C units for the tent

I can't even be mad that the Ouija Board for Cats is already sold out on Pets at Home. The Venn diagram of cat people (especially black cat people) and Halloween people is a circle

This is awesome and also where can I get this guy’s jacket?

If you know the history of the American Empire, you understand why this is actually the most fitting possible thing to bear witness to its demise.

I believe that as the guardian of a black cat, I should get a discount on all Halloween products. You're using her likeness, IKEA, give me a coupon!

I could be wrong. I'm an outside observer to this cultural moment. But 'Performative Male' feels like Gen-Z's 'Metrosexual'. Like, you had a boyfriend who treated you like shit, even though you thought he would be safe because he wasn't a total meathead alphabro, so you assume the non-meatheadednes

Idea for a library conference: for these 2-3 days we simply are not going to talk about AI. Don't worry. Literally every other library conference will still be 30-75% about AI, but this one time....

I turn 40 today. I'm officially (the age at which I was too old for Leonardo Dicaprio) + (the oldest I was when I was still interested in dating Leonardo Dicaprio). Went to a seaside pool to celebrate, ate a large ice cream.

Dear city planners: please don't get cute with your bike parking. U-shaped pieces of steel anchored into the ground with enough space between each for 2 bikes. This space could hold 10 bikes of any size with loops, but with this cute thing it can lock 2 adult/teen bikes

Getting a bikini seems like a good idea until it's time to put on sunscreen

Meanwhile, the agency collecting these exorbitant fees claims they don't have the resources to process asylum claims, forcing people to live in limbo (and at government expense) for months on end.

Wait why are right-wingers mad about the Cracker Barrel logo? Because they removed the cracker and his barrel? I don't even understand how this would make someone mad

My boyfriend just compared Snufkin to Aragon one of Arathorn, the true king of Gondor, and I feel like my third eye opened

Petition to start calling the New York Times "Tammany Hall Democrats"