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I read and I stitch, but more often, I go down ADHD rabbit holes. UK based She/her http://word-geek.dreamwidth.org @word_geeking on Insta

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I discovered this trick when I started trying to cut myself free from Amazon. I'm not completely out, but I spend a lot less there. Although a surprising number of places don't list stockists these days 🫠

13.03.2026 12:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How you rob a bank convoy in the EU: Be Hungary, bring an APC and machine guns, deport bank couriers, keep cash and gold as "evidence" - Euromaidan Press Ukraine's Foreign Ministry says Hungary returned the seven couriers and kept $40 million, €35 million, and 9 kg of gold β€” held as "evidence" in a criminal case with no named suspect.

*Well, if you're Viktor Orban, how come you can't just rob the bank

*That'll teach those pesky Ukrainians

euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/09/h...

13.03.2026 06:52 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I take it the Clorex site can't find you a local stockist?

13.03.2026 07:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Fair enough. I did see that while hunting, but I think on a UK site

13.03.2026 07:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Mister Vimes'd Go Spare! - Lunik - Discworld - Terry Pratchett [Archive of Our Own] An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I don’t know if you’ve seen this - apologies if you have - but this put me in mind of this other, also pitch perfect, bit of Discworld fiction regarding Sir Samuel Vimes … archiveofourown.org/works/244534

17.08.2024 07:54 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

My kid was obsessed with trains when she was small. She'd memorized the London tube map by the end of kindergarten

We used to go on train days, where we just travelled around the zones covered by my ticket. These days, trains are old hat, but she can still navigate any train system like a local

12.03.2026 21:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry, I am a sucker for internet quests for products I don't know

12.03.2026 20:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This stuff? www.naturalflowerpower.com/products/fre...

12.03.2026 20:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Divorced dads who post questions like that are almost certainly expecting girlfriends to navigate all that on their behalf, and putting the girlfriend's needs last

So yeah, there's baggage and women will nope out fast if they find themselves dealing with it

12.03.2026 18:22 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Plus the relationship between him and his ex wife and her family is likely to be difficult, and the kids will feel conflicted no matter how it plays out. And if he is a widower, there will be different kinds of comparisons between the first wife and any new partner

12.03.2026 18:19 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

But I also need to test the new thing

12.03.2026 16:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well, kinda. Irritatingly, the new publishing system uses content controls and other things that didn't exist in Word when I first recorded this. I don't know if it's connected but it gets stroppy about highlights now. I might just break it into two and rerecord the damn thing

12.03.2026 16:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Also, the longevity/instability of Tory governments means that they have probably appointed a lot of the current lords, and that needs addressing

12.03.2026 12:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Currently, we are spending weeks and weeks vibe coding a replacement to a search and replace macro I recorded in 20 min in about 2006 and had been updating ever since

12.03.2026 10:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm required to find uses for it at work. So far, I have yet to find any way that it helps anyone with anything they are capable of doing. It you are not capable of doing something, it gets you something about 20% short of Actually Useful and someone who capable has to finish it anyway

12.03.2026 10:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"

80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"

The 3 genders

11.03.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 13344 πŸ” 3433 πŸ’¬ 147 πŸ“Œ 249

If I cooked them together for the right period, hers would be hard-boiled egg texture and mine would have slightly runny yolks

11.03.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My kid decided at one point that she liked eggs, but not the yolk. So, for a short, glorious period, I would crack two eggs into poachpods, use a spoon to scoop out the yolk from kiddos, and put it into mine, giving me double yolk eggs on toast for breakfast

Then she went off them again #ADHDlife

11.03.2026 20:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds about right. And also, if you want to eat fried egg on toast, it's very easy to eat it *on* the bread, thank you

If you want something called eggy bread, that's French toast and is actually easy for a beginner

11.03.2026 20:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There is a form of baked eggs cooked in a hole cut in bread, which I never made but saw in a student cookbook. But that basically looked like a fried egg

The scrambled egg thing, I got nothing

11.03.2026 20:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Apart from everything else wrong with this, the entire point of a tldr is that it is one sentence long

11.03.2026 19:39 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm in this picture and I don't like it 😭

10.03.2026 21:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Most predictable development evah

10.03.2026 20:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can you imagine getting assigned this guy as your supervisor and then reading that?

10.03.2026 14:14 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not convinced he learned much in the 3.5 years he spent on his actual PhD

I mean, I would expect him to read papers before he wrote his own, and to have read at least some of them before he started doing the experiments

I have not done a PhD but isn't the point to work on something new?

10.03.2026 14:13 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I reckon he was going to say building content or some other horror

10.03.2026 14:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ncuti Gatwa's acclaimed theatre run of beloved classic play is set to stream for free Alongside Gatwa, the play stars Sharon D Clarke, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Eliza Scanlen and Hugh Skinner.

quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend

www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...

10.03.2026 13:25 πŸ‘ 1609 πŸ” 993 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 128
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Two pairs of beavers released in Cornwall by wildlife trust Wildlife experts say the release is a "landmark" for nature recovering in Cornwall and nationally.

Enjoy a full minute of beavers being released into the wild in Cornwall. These little fluffbutts are the first to swim in these waters in a very, very long time - the last official records of beavers in the wild in England are from the 1300s. BBC buff.ly/BnMwCOx
#ShareGoodNewsToo

10.03.2026 12:50 πŸ‘ 330 πŸ” 118 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 11

Good news, Oprah wrote a book called Book

So in theory they could produce that for you. In practice, it came out over 20 years ago, so I assume it is now out of print

09.03.2026 20:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ironic, isn't it? Every other part of the NHS is having private providers rammed down their throats, but here they want to ban it

09.03.2026 18:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0