feminists have got to bring this one back imo. surprised it never made a return in the heyday of twitter beefing, perfect insult

smdh can't believe how much the last two years have had me praising Iran's strategic military decisions and wishing for total victory of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard

version of 'how does the mother sheep know which lambs are hers' for all the black puffer coats in my gym

really taken on a new meaning in light of Artemis II toilet problems 🤔

left the house without gloves for the first time this year and well, Scotland, you tricked me, probably not for the last time

having a dentist's appointment that doesn't end in horror and shame brings me more satisfaction than almost any professional success

zengi persimmons, painted by william henry prestele, 1888

and yet I will watch them all

Got new sofas and it's actually great and pretty relaxing to lie on them instead of a broken 10-year-old sofa bed. More breaking news as we have it!

pleased to find out from the NYT that my 'I'm too sick to cook or eat a proper meal' dinner at the weekend was on-trend

cursèd fruit, repellent

cool new 30s/40s check shirt arrived this week, excited for Pearl summer again after 3 seasons of dressing as a wool blanket

sorry for endless posts about book prize on main, the uni will not promote it so unfortunately I will be carrying on until I collapse from chronic stress

Woke up partially submerged in murky waters again

Eid Mubarak. Here is my daughter fending off a Beirut cat who belongs to the cafe but wanders in and out depending on the menu. If you celebrate, may your meal be as tempting as the makdous bi labneh was to this kitty.

It's a snail as old as slime

Happy World Frog Day! Today is the day we all pay our respects to the World Frog. Ignore this warning at your peril

love to use my alt to post about my hobbies and interests, learning the world's most cancelled language and reading books by internet-addicted trans people

anyone know a website with a quick turnaround that might be open to a shortish timely piece about a weird sex novel? Can't say any more just yet but feel free to DM (about literature, not weird sex things)

was looking up ulpanim this morning and my old Hebrew teacher followed me on Instagram at the same time, fate is telling me to get back to language studies

thanks to all the people who cancelled their spin class places last night and freed up a place for me, I hope your hangovers are gentle

Joined a new group oscillating at high frequency in the park on weekends

running for Edinburgh council on a platform of installing flattering low lights on buses to come on after 6pm

working from home aka just took an hour to make a great tarka dhal

babar is my problematic fave

good, a horrible fruit

https://gacha.o0o0.jp/gp/archives/15866 『不思議な生き物 カモノハシ』発売！ "The Mysterious Creature: The Platypus" now on sale! #ガチャポン #gachapon

oh woe for my cats have become dampened

The UK is an unfree society

reminded about IWD by an ad on the Tesco announcement system telling me to support women-owned businesses, as is tradition

have been wondering why one of the ferns is flat and only growing sadly on one side, came down this morning to a local cat using it as a clawing post. unfortunately for the fern, I like this cat

any good birthday present ideas for a two-year-old child? he likes owls and collecting all the brushes from around the house

glade-adjacent

puppet sunsun news

one for the political scientists, my dad appears to be the last man in Britain supporting Keir Starmer

need a second alt for posting about my adventures in university academic freedom initiatives

need to disable the doorbell somehow next time I decide to read about the sand-man

can anyone explain what the deal is with that guy who runs a company trying to detect alien life while also constantly publishing environmental humanities edited collections

delicate young fronds may be attacked by vine weevils

Good news from Orford Ness 📣 This year, more than 430 grey seals pups have been born, an 88% increase on last year and the highest number since the colony arrived in 5 years ago. It's the surest sign yet that the colony has established and is growing on the Suffolk coast. 📷️ Hanne Siebers

googling how to sew myself into my own clothes for warmth, furtively buying sheets of brown paper big enough to wrap a human from the post office, smearing self in goose fat

top five sea slugs

had to buy first-class train tickets a couple of times recently because others had sold out, disappointed to discover that it is so much better and I may, with great reluctance and shame, need to enter my first-class train era

sitting on the train with a hot water bottle and bag of painkillers as pitiful defence against a womb trying to gnaw its way out of my body, perfect day to give an academic talk 😬

the panel said we should hear by the end of the week, which might be today...eep

first external examiner invite 😌

there's a particular writer where I feel like I must be the main person reviewing articles on their work, to the extent I wondered today, after getting another review invite, if I might actually be exercising an inappropriate degree of influence on this (admittedly small) critical area

tried a new lentil recipe this evening, turns out that they are great cold with tahini

just submitted the big grant application I've been working on all month for the next (and final) round of internal selection 😱

It’s International Zebra Day! Zebras are such an obvious temptation to the printmaker, considering how to depict life in black and white. They are inherently so graphic in their very skin. Though they aren’t striped any which way.