I know this is a bad migraine because I’ve just welled up with gratitude upon realising I have new packing cubes for holiday next week 🫠

Brockwell lido and celebrating 3 very clever friends passing their PHD viva’s. Yay for clever friends and sunshine (but it is too hot x)

Nothing gets me more pumped and excited about work than GREAT UCD community away days. Been finding myself getting a little bit grumpy about being stuck behind my desk ALL THE TIME. And getting together in person today with fabby people has made me feel all 🤩 So lucky to be in this world

THIS SHIT DRIVES ME INSANE whenever you pay by QR code or get a receipt email and they say they won’t spam you remember they are LYING Get out of my effing inbox

Sister in London, finally got a reservation at Oma, the yummiest sandwich in all of south London and Friday wines with bestie (it’s been SO LONG since I’ve had Friday wines) LUSH

attempted to go shopping on Saturday as I am in desperate need of some new work clothes (because I've lost loads of weight, yay!) went into 5/6 shops on oxford/regent street and nothing fucking fit. genuinely curious as to why SO many shops insist on stocking only the SMALLEST sizes?!

🚨 good news klaxon 🚨 one of my mentees has just secured a new role! I'm going to write about how the last 3 months of weekly mentoring has gone, but in the mean time, feel free to book in with me here www.cyberwomen.co.uk/mentoring

Celebrating 20 years of my uncles heart transplant + many family birthdays, besties birthday and wedding suit shopping AND had the best sleep I’ve had in about a month last night = great great success

This is a really exciting position in the Commission, essentially overseeing the start of a major in-house digital project. Feel free to reach out to me if you're interested in applying

Best hens weekend in the entire world. Great great success, would 100% do it again

Sooooo, it seems the cat may have epilepsy. After ruling out the other nasties via an MRI and lumbar puncture etc etc We are trialing medication who has to be given multiple times a day at specific intervals. This feels like it’s going to be TOUGH to manage. Any tips? 🫠

Hackney half, boycotting Eurovision, meeting baby niece, hanging out with childhood bestie I hadn’t seen in 10 years, cat cuddles. Great success 💞

is seasonal insomnia a thing?! every single night recently, I've woken up with the sunrise & cannae get back to sleep, despite having (a) black out blinds (b) black out curtains and (c) a substantial eye mask on. i am mucho mucho mucho tired and would love a full night's sleep asap 🥱

Goslings, seat stealing cat, new cousin alert, new running shorts (run followed by migraine which seems to be happening after every run atm gr). Successful weekend (but late post)

Coffee with Jane, bao and Pilates with my simmy, poorly cat and run round the late. Partially successful bank holly

The problem is when you hang it outside it’s out of sight out of mind and ends up out there for the whole week

Yoga and wisteria and pretty tomatos and my lone magnolia flower and cat getting filthy. Great success

Post a photo of a bus from your camera roll These be my fave busses ever

Bout to be a great week for washing that likes to dry outside (inshallah)

With so much generative AI, we must preserve the intangible heritage of the hastily cobbled together Photoshop.

ran a race, wrote a blog post www.cyberwomen.co.uk/post/my-firs...

Light bulb moment. Have we officially arrived at hang washing outside time of year?!

If you used 23andMe, go delete your data. If anyone in your family used 23andMe PLEASE make sure they delete that data, because it's your DNA data too!

worked directly with or adjacent to gov.uk since 2017 and I was just the victim of a car tax phishing AGAIN. be safe out their folks, the scammers are v v v good, they've even got form validation on 🥲

A girl asked me whether I liked Rebecca Yarros books on the bus yesterday. I said I’m not sure, but her name sounds familiar. Ten minutes later I realised I was holding this. And that ladies and gentlemen is a prime example of how my brain works 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Rachel’s absolutely correct and it needs tattooing on the back of every ministers hand: digital transformation is a culture change project. If you try and just dropship major new tech into an organisation without having a plan for culture, it will fail, badly.

I never got round to doing a review of this bag and that’s because it’s the worst bag on the entire planet. Look at it, it can’t even lean against a wall 0/10. Do not get one of these if you’re in the market for a backpack

Slight hay fever vibes can get to fuck

This is beer garden weather not do a full days worth of work with 3-4 hours of back to back meetings weather

Hello folks interested in user research! I've opened up a couple slots a week to offer free mentoring/advice/CV reviews. Take a look here: www.cyberwomen.co.uk/mentoring if you're keen

It's why good local councillors are the keystone of the political ecosystem. No other group spends as much time on the doorstep or with community groups.

Alternatives to calling someone or something "crazy" when they're doing fascism. instead of "crazy" → fascist instead of "lunatic" → fascist instead of "schizo" → fascist instead of "psycho" → fascist instead of "bipolar" → fascist instead of "schizo" → fascist instead of "insane" → fascist

Just to clarify it’s not going abroad for weddings that’s the issue (tbh I’d much rather spend a grand abroad than in the UK which is how much a weekend away costs these days + I grew up abroad as did my mates/family) it’s the fact that it’s ALL AT ONCE AND OMG WEDDINGS ARE EXPENSIVE 🫠🫠🫠🫠

skipton banking, you win. call this morning and the first question is would you like to listen to the hold music while you're waiting to connect. thank GOODNESS, PLEASE can more people do this

Planning our wedding has been mostly blissful and easy. But every now and then I get INSANELY anxious with the stress of being able to afford it all (also have 4 weddings to atten this year and 3 of them are abroad and all 4 vvvvvvv close friends so I can’t skip) 🫠🫠🫠help🫠🫠🫠

i love a friday research session where the participant expressed with absolute clarity how the session was an utter waste of time. honestly cracked me up 😶‍🌫️

It actually is very important that you do things that you take pleasure in, regularly. That is part of how you survive the things that feel like they are going to destroy you.

Hey siri, play Disturbed

Reddit has mobilised, all major subreddits are now banning links from twitter. Twitter is dying. A graveyard of incels crying about woke.

yeah, it might be the 16th of January and I'm a little late to the party, but what of it?! here's a little blog post looking back on the last year and ahead to 2025 www.cyberwomen.co.uk/post/what-yo... cc'ing @emmaparnell.bsky.social and @pawlean.com ❤️

good grief it's only tuesday

The looters I want to talk about are the ones who stole our safe and stable climate from us. Millennia of planetary harm for individuals' profit. They set the fires.

Calling the richest person in the world (who is also a massive racist and far right ideologue)’s attack on the liberal state (worker protections, civil rights, unions, food safety, social security etc) “ambitions to tame Washington’s sprawling bureaucracy” is genuinely evil. We are absolutely cooked

idk whether it's because i've have the plague for +2 weeks or what, but this first full week back at work has left me utterly wrecked. really wanted to do my 2024 year in review blogpost but had absolutely 0 energy 🫠

Pls for the love of god will tele companies bring back big remotes. I cannot cope with these minuscule things anymore

Happy New Year everyone! Here at the school we're getting ready for a new year of training covering service design, organisational strategy, user centred design and customer experience. Coming up in 2025, a 🧵

Confused, and blinking into the light, the workers begin the weary pilgrimage of two factor authenticating, the end of which will herald the beginning of spring.