Nah right, so I didn’t open some of my gifts because I always feel weird doing so, and I saw an instagram advert earlier for a calendar called “ugly cats in renaissance paintings” and like, I’m not a calendar person but I coveted that deeply. Lo and behold, from my historian friend

I had a beautiful birthday with beautiful people I’ve ripped the arse out of my throat from singing, drank 8 margaritas, ate 3 slices of pizza, smoke 2 Marlboro reds and ate a doughnut So all in all a successful birthday

Starting yon birthday celebrations with a wee Bloody Mary. It’s sex and the city and I’m the lady at home who watches.

She got trimmed and is cute

Trying a new shirt length for my birthday day out tomorrow. The length is *but half of my torso* so I’ve bought high waisted trews that are strangling my tum Thank god the only thing going in me tomorrow is margaritas And brunch And pizza Maybe a third thing

Not to add to the chorus of “the stranger things kids are all adults” discourse but how do I look younger than them

This is a radio on office and I have heard far too many Christmas songs for someone who generally does not like Christmas beyond watching the two Christmas Carol movies (muppets & lesbian) and getting drunk in the bath while I do so.

I've got a talk coming up and I am doing a section on Corporation Housing, and how a very specific threat to Britain informs some of the housing provided. (Homes for spinsters). Building this into my forever anti-newspaper narrative, I move on to talk about the trial of Edith Thompson.

"What a strange girl vous are, flung out of space"

the budget being leaked 25 mintues early. DURING PMQs - hilarious. So stupid. Ridiculous. Buffoonery.

Hello - I need to get new glasses and I need the unflinching truth that only a jury of my online peers can bring. Come at me with all the venom you would reserve for someone saying "you actually *can* separate the art from the artist" and stop me from making a mistake

Found the old pinto recipes in an email from 12 years ago so I am making steak tacos and crying

Can't believe we got a new Strong Bad email. After all this time. I have this weird need to go organise my mp3s and apply album art to all the folders while I wait for the Schwarzkopf Live to set. I want to talk about Seth and Summer on MSN Messenger later. Any1 going 2 senses fail at QMU?

Do you think this is too much for where I talk about attitudes to poverty in the 18th century? The talk is two weeks tomorrow and I am *nervous*

I cannot possibly subscribe to another streaming service Except there's now a Wong Kar Wai telly show exclusive to the Criterion Channel so like I'm so sorry but I do not have a choice here.

Decided to finally watch Frankenstein but wanted to go full gothic horror day so sandwiched it between The Innocents and Crimson Peak. I am having a good time.

Really enjoying the smell that my electric heater gives off. It’s a heady whiff of “this might kill me” and “my head hurts”

If I could live in any time period it’d be the early modern period because I like the aesthetic, but I’d absolutely be done for a witch within a week because of course I’m fornicating with the devil under the full moon because I wouldn’t have the internet and what else am I gonna do.

Built my mf’n book case

I turned off Gmail's AI features (because, let's all be shocked, it's using your emails in horrible ways) and in swift vengeance it no longer auto-sorts my inbox and now my phone pings every time a brand I bought one thing from five years thinks I give a fuck about their 10% off sale.

Made it so you can choose whichever cover art is your fav!

I finally got rid of the giant box my bed came in and this weekend I will build my bookcase and unpack the rest of the boxes and I’ll hang some prints and maybe finally feel like this place is home. I definitely need a big and obnoxious plant that will die in 3 months that I’ll never throw away.

My boss, who is past retirement age, wanted to see if AI might be helpful in summarising the big reports we issue to our board of trustees who are predominantly in their 70s and 80s. She doesn't swear at all, but after one attempt she called it "absolute mince." Pretty damning imo.

So it was actually a monumental success, and I'm about to undertake some truly ground breaking work in community wealth building, but I doubt I'll learn from this experience and will continue to diminish my talents while catastrophising every moment of my life xoxo

So it turns out they have always been able to do something about energy prices, just not for us. The people who need it.

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why can they not just fix it

Please give me your favourite musical numbers for karaoke - I have less than two weeks to shower practice and I think I've done my favourites to death.

Holy fuck

Could it be? The overwhelming task I put off for 2 months has been completed in less than 5 minutes? If only I could find some way to learn from this experience.

I feel like AI has like...permanently and irrevocably reduced how much I can enjoy things. Because any time I see/watch/hear anything I have to ask myself if it's AI or if AI has assisted in some way. Was looking at some banger art there and realised I was scanning every single finger and eyeline.

I think being suplexed would fix me actually

The dramatic clang on the bus of this poor fella losing his entire bottle of buckfast just as he put the cap back on it. It’s still mostly full and entirely intact but it’s slid under a wee old lady’s seat and he’s absolutely just frozen in something that might be shame or awkwardness.

Just Eat going down right as I'm about to order my special Friday lunch treat is peak W/C 10th Nov.xlsx

BIRDCAGE launches in 4 days!!!!!!!!!!! 🥚🥚🥚🥚

Going to go get a bottle of Night Nurse as soon as the pharmacy opens, then return to my desk where I will drink it like a red bull and have a nice kip through the rest of the work day.

Cracking bit of coverage about our park in the Glasgow Evening Times. www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2561677...

I’m so grateful that no matter how many times I’ve watched 30 Rock, it still endlessly cracks me up. I don’t know that a funnier line has been written in human history than “A Blaffair to Rememblack”

I don't really put much stock in like...the big media awards, but finding out the soundtrack to Clair Obscur didn't get nominated for Best Video Game score at The Grammys is absolutely wild to me. Gommage me, I am out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FIM...

Looking for a bit of advice - my letting agent have ignored every single call/email/repairs request since my initial report on the 1st of October about water ingress into my flat. It's coming in via the lintel above the window. What do I do because I'm losing my mind?

I’ve written a 29 page back story for my character that nobody will ever be allowed to read, that I’ve expanded over the years and added additional stuff from the main story, like more time with characters I like. But long story short - she’s a fucking nerd

Absolute worst night of the year. Whatever drugs you give your cats can you just shove a bunch in a can of Diet Coke for me and sedate me? Thanks in advance.

I like when you’re watching the telly or a movie and there’s a scene on a bus where it’s moving, going as fast as 30, even 40mph. That’s telly for you, buses are like - bus stop, traffic light, awkward corner, bus stop, bus stop, traffic light, roundabout, cyclist, three neds and a goose, bus stop

I just want to really say a very big thank you to everyone who helped here as we've made it to the top 3 for the Green Champion Award. Thank you so so much. I really needed that this week. www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2558385...

Ok so I finished it and now I need to finish it another four times to see all the endings. Which is fine because it absolutely slapped. It’s like “what if you gave defying gender norms a steel pipe and an unflappable bob?”

Had a catastrophic failure earlier following months of work and research so I'm going to respond like an adult and that is order a subway, book a tattoo and work out what colour hair I can both suit and get away with professionally.

I’m not very far into Silent Hill f, but Rinko needs booted into the sun.