Ok .... this is where the increasing lack of language skills is taking us. If you don't know Korean, maybe leave the study of Korean history to those who do.

In today's inbox: three requests to work for free. One would cost me £190 in rail fare, another would cost me at least 40 hours of work, and the last says "we don't have a budget for speakers, but we can promise a nice lunch." Folks, if you're paying the caterers, you can pay your speaker.

Just read a news report about a fatal accident inquiry and realised the victim is my friend's Dad. I had no idea how he'd died. I feel awful for her all over again.

If it’s 6 June, it must be 194 years to the day since Jeremy Bentham died, stipulating in his will that his body should be preserved at University College London so he could be wheeled in to attend every council meeting. Except most of the stories about his remains aren’t true 🧵

Now I don’t doubt that some AI was involved but I think we can continue blaming right wing men where appropriate and not let them foist responsibility off

Aye there it is bsky.app/profile/ryan...

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

UK publishing generated £7.4 billion in revenue last year. Compare that to: Premier League football: £6.6 billion Home entertainment: £5.6 billion UK film industry: 2.8 billion Now tell me again why authors don't deserve fair contracts and better pay.

I have upgraded the cuck chair for the next generation

Phew: she's not planning on fermenting Weapons of Mass Sauerkrauting.

Had a lovely night out with a friend group where we haven't got together in person for 3 years. Two folk gave PowerPoint presentations on their last 3 years. It was fabulous. Our waitress loved us 😂

impossible power levels as a poster. this man has so much talent it's hard to even comprehend

I fear to ask why... #EmailsFromJafMum

He's smarter than your average bear. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Me: there's nothing I would want to make that would be fun enough to make me learn crochet. Instagram:

Security camera triggered in the early hours. The detection capture tool asks if this is a pet. No: a bat is not a pet (unfortunately - they're fabulous).

And also handy for checking to see if you have books bound in human skin, I assume.

Queen Gertrude: The lady doth protest too much, methinks. Me: [loud enough so the other women sitting in the audience can hear] Methinks ladies should protest as much as they feel is necessary. I would never limit that.

are you just going to do this for every generation

It’s Edinburgh Fringe guide release day or Christmas Day for comedy nerds as literally no one calls it. Not even me.

LET WOMEN HAVE HOBBIES

America really is going all in on trying to make everyone hate them with the World Cup shambles, huh? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.

us, lightly touching a document: I just need to move you so I can make sure you're properly supported on this table the document, the pages enormous: you SHOVE document? you throw the vellum like a paper aeroplane? oh! oh! jail for archivist! jail for archivist for One Thousand Years!!!!

Guess what? The system can't cope with an alternating work pattern & gives me too much flexi, so I asked for it to be adjusted. Their solution? 2 weeks of compressed hours to give a 4 day week (which is what I moved away from), and 2 weeks of normal hours over 5 days. What? Why is this so hard?!?

Gosh that's gonna take years, surely

A supernatural anniversary today, for at precisely 2.10pm on 3 June 1997, an apparition appeared in the British Museum’s reading room, just as Max Beerbohm had said it would in 1916 – the shade of Enoch Soames, who had once done a deal with the devil... 🧵

Bryher Popplestone Labyrinth: A small stone labyrinth on Bryher, one of the Isles of Scilly. Created in the 1990s, the labyrinth is formed from rounded rocks gathered from the adjacent beach and is 5.0 metres in diameter, with two larger rocks placed at the entrance. More 1/

I read this and immediately knew no female author would ever have an ex-husband who would print their emails for them.

Didn't expect to be learning about Piper Alpha today, but here we are.

eavesdropping on a couple of english lit academics in st. john, i overheard confirmation of what is surely going to be the biggest literary news story of the year

"Three strip clubs operate within close proximity of each other in Edinburgh city centre, in a cluster known locally as the ‘pubic triangle.’" I confused the hell out of someone who's lived here for decades by calling it that!

somebody’s dream job just dropped

One for Bluepals here in the UK: have your say on which animals should be on our banknotes. On the topic of finding joy in small things, imagine booting Churchill off the money and replacing him with a puffin ♥️ www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/he...

Alternate timeline Charles Dickens. catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecat...

Searching the factory buildings for it does not seem like a fun game of hide and seek! www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

what were they protesting, @theguardian.com? go on. explain your usage of the label 'protestors'. what were they protesting?

“No kink at pride!” That’s “prude” you’re thinking of. No kink at *prude*.

Starting tomorrow 🙂‍↕️ 🏃🏿🏳️‍🌈

"The irony, one USDA employee said, “was lost on no one.”" (Confession: I laughed)

I feel like these guys half arsed their doubling.

So what they're saying is, this woman was harassed by a former partner for FIVE YEARS before he murdered her?!? news.sky.com/story/police...

This is already bleak, but it gets bleaker when you realize there is absolutely someone out there role-playing with the Google search bar which is why they had to include that statement.

One of my favourite studies recently showed that the amount of microplastics shown to be in various things could well have bee overestimated due to every single study having been contaminated by the microplastics found in nitrile gloves used for handling samples so as not to contaminate them

My wife saw this review while looking for trousers for our son. Took a moment.

Repost the Leather Dachshund from Seattle Pride 1991 to be blessed this Pride Month!

It was a shrewd move for scientists to make ADHD meds give you dry mouth considering how little water us ADHD folk usually remember to consume.

The precious. www.theretrotee.com/products/the...

This would happen on the BBC in the 80s & 90s: the subtitles were for whatever was showing in London, regardless of what was on in Scotland. I saw an episode of the Gaelic soap MACHAIR with Ceefax subtitles for Star Trek: TNG. Old Mrs MacIver, worrying about Romulan manoeuvres near the Neutral Zone