god grant me the audacity of a Catholic convert sincerely telling the Pope he’s wrong about theology

A darkening sky with hints of orange at the bottom over a wide, still river. There are dark branches in the top right foreground.

Sunset over the Okavango river. This part of the world really does have the best sunrises and sunsets.

A photo of me, wearing green trousers and a grey vest top, in front of a large sign saying ‘Tropical of Capricorn’. It is in the desert and there are no other people or cars in sight.

A very exciting place in the middle of nowhere

A photo of a largeish truck taken from the back. It is stuck in sand and you can’t see its wheels. There is a cloudless bright blue sky and several men standing around the truck looking confused as to what to do.

Don’t get too jealous, our truck got stuck in the desert yesterday for over 6 hours and my mate got stung by a scorpion. It’s not all glamour!

A sunrise of orange and red is low on the horizon, fading into a pale blue sky over a wide river. There are dark trees and reeds in the foreground

Sunrise over the Orange river. The middle aged, middle class gap year is going well.

To a fault

I was ever so brave and drank everything they gave me. I’m a hero, really

A view of a vineyard with a clear blue sky and mountains in the background

A young man holding a bottle of wine with 6 other bottles in front of him

6 bottles of wine - a pink fizzy, a red, a vermouth, a rose, another red and a white

A glass of red wine being held up with blurry vineyard in the background

Wine tasting in South Africa. I would very much like to win the lottery so this could be my life for the remainder of my time on this planet.

There is indeed a chap lighting up a smoke on the video!

The safety video on Ethiopian airlines is something truly special. It is so early 1980s it’s unreal and I am obsessed with. Luckily I’m on about 8 different flights with them over the next month so I’ll get to enjoy its weirdness again and again and again!

Although obviously that’s not a simple link to repositories, but it’s part of the broader picture which is what’s actually needed.

There’s no one tool, and that’s part of the issue - you could add @overton.io to your list useful ways of tracking impact

GitHub - UoEMainLibrary/pkp_scripts: various scripts for performing functions against PKP OJS or OMP instances various scripts for performing functions against PKP OJS or OMP instances - UoEMainLibrary/pkp_scripts

I'm upgrading a bunch of OJS and OMP instances now I'm working as part of @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social and SCURL Open Hosting. Upgrading these applications is fiddly as heck so I've written scripts to make my life easier and maybe anyone else who regularly works on OJS/OMP.

Sheffield have been doing these reviews since at least 2018. They're always awful, done without any notion that there are human beings behind job titles.

For senior management to announce more, now, when the current dispute is ongoing smacks of punishment.

Solidarity @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Staff ,supporters and students gathered outside Firth Court today in solidarity with colleagues locked out and facing withheld pay after lawful strike action at
@sheffielducu

Punishment is not negotiation. ✊

I have returned from seeing wild elephants to discover the monkeys have done a dirty protest all over my balcony.

A small sign on a glass door of a monkey in a yellow diamond with a small red padlock in the top left of the sign.

A small monkey on the edge of my balcony, looking at me quite reproachfully

I failed to see a sign in time. This resulted in a monkey deciding he wanted to move in, me having to be very firm (I genuinely pointed at him and said ‘no you don’t, Sonny Jim’) and him then retreating to the balcony and sulking. I now think I can add Monkey Wrangling to my CV.

A selfie of me in a dark top smiling, with a man in his late 60s wearing glasses

I am in Sri Lanka and have bumped into a chum from a previous holiday. It’s a small world

They made me wear a dress! And shoes that pinched! Unacceptable behaviour from my mother, even if it was for my aunt’s wedding. I remember clearly wanting to wear my navy jumper with an appliquéd hippo on it. Plus the hippo was pink, so that’s practically the same as the stupid dress.

A picture of me aged about 3, wearing a pink dress and white shoes and socks. I have short curls and am looking very unhappy.

Little Kate angry at her lack of skips and being made to wear a dress

God you’re hot. Looking forward to seeing this face for real in just a few hours!

I am starting an agenda of things I wish to discuss with you. And many of those things are not actual to discuss but rather rants about them. And yes, 2019 was the last time we were together which is quite frankly unacceptable. It is going to be the mother of all catch ups for sure

2003, I was pregnant. Pregnant and puking. Let's make sure neither of these things occur this weekend (you are in charge of making sure I don't take an entirely unsuitable chap home with me, ok?). And cause I'm not as cool as you I was mostly listening to Elbow, Muse and Super Furry Animals.

When Kevin and I get together it doesn't always end messily, but if past is prologue then I think we all know what's coming!

It’s a very very long time since I lived there but I’m going to guess the chances are very high indeed.

I have just realised that today is the last day I will have access to Box of Broadcasts. Farewell to my favourite and best way of watching old Miss Marple episdoes, I shall miss you.

New daily affirmation

Last day of work! And not just for Christmas, but for an indeterminate amount of time cause I’m walking away from Sheffield Uni to have adventures and do Very Exciting Things*

*some travelling, some house renovations and at some point get an actual job again.

Possibly, possibly…