My house sale just fell through and if I gave you a thousand guesses you'd never guess why. Civil war in Sudan.

I don't get this new obsession by the far right with some old Turkish guy from 500 years ago who never even visited England

First week of a new contract done and dusted. Desperately trying not to get in touch with the old one because I know I'll only confirm how expendable I am

My ten year old admitted to me today that one of the reasons she's been so down lately is she's realised she's never going to develop magic powers

Bad news for my husband this evening as my five year old niece declared she needs me to immediately move myself and our daughter into their street... Without Smelly Uncle James. You see, Rosie has an excellent ace up her sleeve: the terminal cancer card. Bye James. It's been a great 13 years mate

So my husband got sick of the heat and suggested we go stay at some place. He said it was a cottage in the woods with a swimming pool. My sister in law talks about it all the time and he said there was WiFi so we got in the car. I grabbed my work laptops and phones and we left.

Happy 2nd International Kick Your Brother In The Penis Day (And Your Cousin) to those who celebrate.

Opinions about AI come from one of two camps: people whose dads bought VHS tapes, and people whose dads invested heavily in Betamax

My dog's staying with my parents and I really miss there being someone so pleased to see me every morning that they nearly wet themselves

When's the second season of Rivals coming out? The only thing making me feel better about the 20s is remembering the 80s

I'm in the FREAKING BOOKSELLER people!!!!! It's REAL!!!!!!!!!!!

I feel like this could really catch on

Listening to my daughter do an online workshop with @jamiesmart.bsky.social and 1,500 apparently requested that he draw a poop demon. Condolences Jamie.

If any of my 79 followers are considering becoming mysterious benefactors, now is the time. Just been informed that my old accountants are assholes and I face an £18k tax bill

It's one thing giving my daughter a 3D printer for her birthday but now she's expecting to be allowed to actually it and WTF my dude. I've got dragons to print.

Two days ago I had a slur against transgender people shouted at me in the street (again). I'm not trans, for what it's worth, but I feel the tide turning against women who don't meet societal expectations of femininity and it's scary.

Is it only me that spends the entire train journey wracked by anxiety when someone's sitting in my seat and I take a spare one nearby? Like, I don't wanna be all "Young man! Vacate my assigned seat with immediate effect!" but I also don't want that exact thing happening to me

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

Solidarity with the trans community after this grim Supreme Court decision. Fixation on biological markers of sex are disproven by Disabled bodies everyday - this decision will impact anyone with a body deemed outside of 'normal'. None of us are free until all of us are free! 🏳️‍⚧️

This is not what Elle Woods went to Harvard for

The people buying our house just asked for £11k off at the last minute because their survey told them it needs about £3k worth of work. It's giving me a tension headache that's going to last all Easter

Tonight at 6pm (BST). Experience some Ruffino Magic™ over dinner this evening

My romcom is coming out with Harper Collins next year. It's already available to pre-order on Target. I keep thinking I should create, like, author socials. But I feel like content design and romantic fiction have a lot to learn from each other

Every now and again I check in with ChatGPT. Its new "vibe matching" is creepy AF. I ended up treating it like a BuzzFeed quiz because that's how I default to writing when I'm bored

Having my 8 year old nephew to stay has really highlighted the differences in parenting styles across my family. I told him he had to stop using the laptop before his eyes went rectangular and HE BELIEVED ME. My daughter would never fall for that.

I should share an update to my niece's treatment, since a lot of you badasses donated when I originally posted and I super appreciate it. Rosie's doing really well. The long term prognosis is shitty, but right now she's good.

Hard to describe how much cognitive dissonance is required to get a 9 year old excited about their little sister getting to ring the cancer bell when you all know that, statistically, 100% of the time that brand of cancer returns and kills them

every person online who thinks the tariffs are a good idea are people who are trying to figure out how to take their first step as a huamn being

I bloody love getting to work on the Service Manual. Best job in the whole world ever

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I'm in the Society of Authors and the Romantic Novelists' Association and I can't begin to tell you how badly everyone is losing their minds over this Meta AI pirating report from The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social Hey - I remember when I worked at the BBC and you were kicking cancer in the butt like a total badass. My four year old niece is doing the same right now - and religious scammers cloned her fundraiser. If you/someone fancies covering it, the whole family's willing to chat.

What did you get up to today? Me and @benaldo.bsky.social published the definition of what constitutes a government service. www.gov.uk/service-manu... ::drops mike::

I read once that internet scammers are often weirdly religious. Today I successfully weaponised that knowledge, when one of them cloned my niece's fundraiser.

Save the internet! Take showers, not baths, and only boil the water you need. The future of tech depends on you! savethe.ai

My friend's mum got this amazing advice about percentages from Gemini this weekend.

I wish Elon Musk would ask my team what stuff we did in the last week because (a) not going to lie, we did some really cool stuff (b) people tend to either be really nice or just full on disappear when I tell them about the terminally ill child in my family

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I'm becoming increasingly radical on "we need to crush decorum and grind it into a fine paste". Tell people they're fucking stupid and their ideas are bad. Don't just sit there and squirm, if you know someone is wrong and can say how and why, fucking say so.

Wrote a passionate letter to the people whose house we want to buy on notepaper that matches their wallpaper, about why they should accept our offer. When I ran it by my husband he replied, "Well, it's not the craziest thing you've ever done." Reader, it's not.

It me

My niece's brain cancer is brutally awful and the family is really struggling. The whole thing is terrible, but the influx of donations has made me like humanity a lot more than I did this morning. The world is burning, but people are still turning up for our Rosie. gofund.me/9ed59b59

My husband gave his notice last week, and starts his holiday today. This morning he stumbled past my office semi-clothed, a comic in one hand and a coffee in the other. I asked him what he was up to. "Going to talk to Parliament, then I'm going for a nap" We're such a power couple

My 9 year old's hot take of the day is that Victorian children only hated gruel because they'd never tried vegan chicken nuggets

I know the world is burning and plastic is filling the oceans and misinformation abounds and war looms over us all but at least my four year old niece is dying of brain cancer Oh wait no that's all bad, isn't it. Everything is bad.

It is exciting, as the content designer who made this one-word change, to see what kind of impact this might make. A heck of a lot of thought certainly went into it.

THE meme of 2025 for me.

Someone on my parents' street had their van nicked on Wednesday. My mother has been ringing up every van owner she knows. Very embarrassing. Tempted to go and steal a dog just to get her back onto Facebook.

What if we could liberate ourselves from the tyranny of the physical steering wheel? My touchscreen digital steering wheel prototype dares to imagine the convenience, comfort and space efficiency that could be ours... if we demand it