Poor Sleep Linked To Gong https://theonion.com/poor-sleep-linked-to-gong/

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

God, these lovely, peaceful morning hours in Europe before that stupid cunt wakes up.

There's so much going wrong in the world but if we start disrespecting The Bangles, well everyone's got a breaking point.

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would love to not relate to this.

TH White, The Once and Future King. No actual regrets, formative etc, but I will say that there is a certain amount of tonal whiplash involved in going from Volume I to Volume II that I was probably not 100% prepared for at the time.

Saw your boyfriend in Hobbycraft

writing is just googling things like 'can you shrug with your face' for six hours until your realise you're sitting in the dark.

My iron just started furiously beeping and making an ominous crackling sound, so I guess that's something I'll be removing from today's to-do list.

this was them today. #goosewatch

Family from my commute (they're a tiny bit older now).

Was technically a bestselling author 16 years ago for about 30 hours.

I think this neatly sums up How We Are Doing Over Here. I'm having a margarita out of a can that I got for free, cheers everyone.

A small plea to the universe, in two parts. Part the first: if you're writing something that's going to be posted somewhere online - don't care what - please don't make every sentence its own paragraph. There's simply no need. Part the second: more shops to sell normal trousers. That's all for now.

Look @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social I found on on prominent display in Norwich library while at the same time you were also in the Arctic! 😮

the Tobin Unit is the unit of minimal forward progress on a project. if you do a Tobin Unit on your thing, you moved it forward and are good. feeling anxious and avoidant about a project? open that sucker up and do a Tobin Unit. maybe you moved a comma. great! now you are in good standing

You have to show the duvet cover who's boss, or it won't respect you.

I know I say this every six months, but if you can’t imagine how working from home might make some people more productive, you have basically never progressed from being a schoolboy, and do not understand that a lot of workers derive motivation from something other than the fear of punishment.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "Unfortunately these images are too small for us to use - please ask the client to send high res versions or replacement pics, thanks!"

I need it. To stop. Raining.

An annoying day, but I did get to stroke a cat inside a 900-year-old cathedral in my lunch-break, so not all bad.

january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing

I see from NextDoor that I'm invited to a workshop on Saturday about how to be my 'better self', followed by one on Sunday called 'Tame Your Inner Critic'.

take care, friends x

why does my Bluesky 'following' timeline suddenly skip from 3 hours to 13 days? 🤔

oh thank god. (No you don't understand, I actually need this.)

very happy for everyone who's enjoying that thing that everyone's enjoying so much.

This is so nice, you will feel so much better after listening to this

a little ibuprofen for my birthday treat.

Isn’t it time geometric string art made a comeback? This stuff is the absolute suds. The fact that it had a limited fashionability is surely outrun by its COMPLETE AWESOMENESS. I mean, look at this. It fucking SLAPS. Artist: SMW (1975) 📸 Decorative Modern

If I intentionally start by failing all my resolutions, anything else that happens is a bonus.

Norwich Reddit today: 90% snow, 10% goat puns for some reason.

The prompt for Day 2 of our little 200 words a day January writing reset is up on the Discord, if you'd like to have a go. Lots of folks joining in, reflecting on how the experience was for them & even sharing their work. Come join us: discord.gg/B4WzX6fVU

that bit's not normally underwater.

podcasts

just silly, tbh

There is a squirrel just outside the window shouting about something and I can see its breath in the cold air. Happy new year!

Not sure why I thought I would be able to go to the shops and buy a winter coat in December. Most unreasonable of me.

Things found in today's decluttering: One clearly pre-decimal card of "Glista" nylon hose mending thread in six shades, hardly used. One three-minute voice note featuring only distant male laughter, faint traffic noise and some scraping sounds.

I've never actually read any of those books called things like 'Second Chance for Love at the Pumpkin Spice Cinnamon Waffle Cafe' or whatever, but I'd like one of them to be set at a Greggs.

Glad to see the weather's taken a turn for the worse so I don't have to go out for a nice walk.

Never over how many gates Cameron Diaz leaves open when running across farmers' fields to get back to Jude Law at the end of The Holiday.

Jarvis just played this and I liked it, so I'm passing it on.

my foot thanks everyone for their good wishes

Typical. You wait ages for a debilitating foot injury and then two come along at once.

Half Ma’am Half Brisket