Me: (raves around the kitchen in middle aged fashion to Guy Called Gerald) My husband:"................ you're confusing the dog." It's Friday night. It's #TOTP!

Did I just hear that right? Did Nicky Campbell just say that "'Chaka Khan' is African for 'woman'"? African? AFRICAN??!! 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ #TOTP

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

the media and voter messaging should be this: the current government and the government in waiting do not want your children to be able to go to university, they will not support people in the UK to do original research, they do not care about job losses in one of the largest sectors in the economy

Blimey! I was beginning to think George had grown up and gone all sensible over the past few weeks, saying some very un-George things. And then his bitter and possessive side kicked in again on last night's ep, and balance is restored. #TheArchers

Watching reruns of Harry Enfield and Chums, and they showed Mr Cholmondley-Warner. I was struck how dapper a chappy he seemed, so went onto IMDB and found to my surprise.... it's Martyn Gibson! #TheArchers

**Screams in Sociolinguist** #Accentism #Dialectology #AccentDiscrimination #Sociolinguistics

Meanwhile the UK Web Archive has been unavailable since the British Library cyberattack in October 2023. Our already-spotty digital preservation infrastructures are falling into disrepair along with our universities. www.webarchive.org.uk

Oh god Tracey, noooo! 🤦‍♀️ Don't believe a word of this 'our' cheese nonsense, it'll go straight back to being 'my' cheese as soon as any publicity or awards come knocking. #TheArchers

Joanna Page for PM. I'm not ready to say goodbye to her being on the telly having the best fun ever every week. We need a way to get her a permament TV appearance doing silly things. #Taskmaster

Friday night splattery sketchy nonsense. A watercolour brainstorm! #ArtForFun #Watercolours #NotAI

I'm not OK with the loss of Anthony Head. We've already lost Catherine O'Hara this year. 2026 already has disturbing echoes of 2016, I'm really not asking for a sequel.

Ooooh I don't like the way Hellin spoke to Akram today. The whiney "we've spoken about this before, haven't we?" particularly got my heckles up, mostly because of the condescending tag question. Fair play to Akram for telling T and H they have a staff welfare issue! #TheArchers

Post a fictional character that you relate a to a little TOO much....

LOVELY HUMAN (F) ART

"As we all know, the search box is not neutral" -Andreas Fickers And with Google in the past weeks replacing its search results with AI generated responses, that neutrality has gone out the window. As #DH scholars, training society for #AI Literacy has never been more important. #DARIAH2026

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Oh dear god, make her stop!! Mary being surprisingly racist towards her own kinsmen there. Jaysus!!!! #Gogglebox #NEVERDoTheAccent

That charleton Graeme Whatsisface who calls himself a dog whisperer is on #Gogglebox ingnoring a dog's pain at jumping out of cars or going upstairs by making the dog go up with treats. Once again not solving the root cause of the problem and just going for a quick fix. God I hate that man.

Can't not love Shiny Happy People! Clap 👏 clap 👏 #TOTP

Aaand I'm done. My working week is over, so catching some rays with the Doggles in the back garden. #Borsetter

Am just about to catch up with the Sunday night ep, but my lord I hope we're not for another week of Roooooth and Adoom clogging things up! #TheArchers

Blobby as a Balrogg? Brilliant! #SNLUK

Not loving the fatphobic direction of that SNLUK skit, but very much enjoying the Ringo impression #SNLUK

My lovely lovely lovely horse.....! #FatherTed

Celeste Dring was perfection in that last sketch. "Sorry fourth wall" #SNLUK

I'm willing to bet that entire Phantom of the Foot Locker sketch was based around the pun "The Music of the Nike" (even though I've only ever heard it pronounced 'Nike-Ee', but sure!). #SNLUK

We really didn't want to win that year, did we? #Eurovision1989 #TOTP

Not me singing and dancing along almost word perfect (on the chorus anyway) to "Electric Youth" by Debbie Gibson here. That cassette was played to death. #TOTP

If we don't have a Hi-De-Hi sketch with Emma Sidi as Ruth Maddox at some point soon then what are we even doing here! #SNLUK

I have never, nor do I ever want to watch Made in Chelsea, but from all the clips I've seen on Gogglebox, this #SNLUK sketch is entirely accurate as far as I can tell.

Did I just see Chris Cantrill down there in the writers' pit on Weekend Update? #SNLUK

For the 173rd time this series, I say again: Joanna Page is an absolute treasure and I want to be just like her when I grow up. #Taskmaster

She's just so pretty! #Borsetter

Oh Rex, you silly pillock! #TheArchers

Blimey! Bert Horrobin speaks! #TheArchers

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Cannot wait to see Wonder Stuff at Beautiful Days in August! Love this song! #TOTP #WonderStuff

Is this the male equivalent of that time Sister Sledge forgot to give the singer the memo about the dress code? #TOTP #TheRealThing

Today I learned that Don Letts was in Big Audio Dynamite. Look at him dancin away there! #TOTP

Anyone else baffled at Helen being described as "brilliant" and "so talented"? What does she actually DO?! #TheArchers

Something tells me that ultimately, Brine won't be living in Home Farm, once Miranda catches wind of what's going on. Best hang on to that cottage, Brine! #TheArchers

Oh. Oh. Oh. Dydd Gŵyl Dewi hapus to any Welsh followers. Tidy. I post a picture of your Queen in celebration.

God Lillian really is just AWFUL to working class people, isn't she? #TheArchers

Anyone else distracted by the godawful CC0 hoedown music in the background during Pip and Stella's party last night? We were told it was all Freddie's fault, but where on EARTH would he have found that?! Did P&S specifically request music that no one knows or indeed likes? #TheArchers

Ruairí deciding he's probably close to learning all he needs to about pigs after 2 days is like the classic tale of a 4 year old who has their first day of school and says that they've done that now, no need to go back. #TheArchers

Blimey, having to hear Alice awkwardly flirt with Rex by retelling the story of Daveed and Ruuth's Valentine's Day dinner was almost as excrutiating as having to hear the whole story play out the first time round. #TheArchers

Jaysus, Kirsty and now Alice? It is an Ambridge truth universally acknowledged that a single woman of great marital trauma MUST be in want of a Rex. Helen'll be eyeing him up next. But alas, never Pip. #TheArchers

If it really was Brian... is it bad that I consider that a massive let down? As in, we waited so long and followed the clues and.... Brian? I suppose he was part of that An Inspector Calls-like thing straight after. But.... Brian?! #TheArchers