Yes, I think that's it. I'm mostly on FB and Threads. I miss old Twitter.

Dunno there never seems to be anyone to talk to. Low engagement. (Pres comp excepted.) I like Threads.

I don't enjoy Blue Sky. What am I doing wrong?

Roses are red,
Violets, elation

Don't ask for the moon when we have the stars...

Violets are blue
Roses are red

Roses are red
Violets are plushy

A ‘masculinity crisis’ is brewing in UK schools, union says Misogynistic abuse of female staff is increasing, leaving teachers feeling ‘traumatised’ and ‘humiliated’

This is not a 'masculinity crisis', it's a misogyny crisis. This is not a problem with 'masculinity'-- millions of men model positive masculinity every day. This is a problem of male violence. Stop calling it 'masculinity'.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Roses are red
Violets are pretty

I've submitted this to Weekending but no reply as yet. Maybe the second post?

Governor Tim Walz, in Minneapolis at the NoKings rally, introduces Bruce Springsteen to the packed crowd in Minnesota.👏👏👏😎💙💥

Bruce Springsteen performs “Streets of Minneapolis”

I'm so sorry.

It's funny I am writing my sixth published novel, have been well reviewed in the Times and sometimes appear at literary festivals talking about writing. But whenever I read writing advice on here, I feel as if I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. My advice is, don't read writing advice.

Hahaha!!

Roses are red
Violets are free

@vizcomic.bsky.social still got it. This made me snort my tea.

Ministers can get in the sea.

Female lawyers given pink ice-cream makers for International Women’s Day A partner at the offshore practice Harneys marked the occasion by sending female clients the kitchen appliance

oh my god no fuck off www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...

Roses are red
Violets a whim

This reads very much as though AI wrote it. Because if not, humans are now writing like AI.

Husband and I are 200 miles apart watching our separate little programmes.

Me, cleaning out the fridge: 'I think this is a dead burrata.'
Husband:
'Dead burrata
Why don't you come to your senses?'🎶
And that's why I married him.

Look, I love Leonard Cohen but here he looks like the school secretary about to put an announcement out over the PA.

nigel farage tweet: The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes. This is the definition of woke.

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

Tbh I'd rather have a hereditary House of Lords than a rabble of no-mark assistants who knew where the Tory bodies were buried.

No.

But they look such a lovely couple.

LOL