There are a lot of very pretty skeins in her stash!

What a lovely job!

sending hugs. I don't remember it well b/c I read it rather too young... but I do remember it teaching me the importance of having your own income.

<connection is depressing-ness of realisation> In search of a resource I'd been told about, I went to the institution's website, to find the AI generated search answer: this is a project which will publish in summer 2025... but no trace of said publication. (And couldn't find 'no ai please' option)

agreed. Also to end when requested & not just stay on for half a day till I notice the little notification bar (in a very busy screen)

shorts, long socks, and leather shoes, no less...

Tomorrow a trailer for a franchise will be dropping. The creator of the franchise funds transphobia.

There is not much I can say except trans rights are human rights. And these days human rights are under attack.

Choose wisely.

thank you!

I'm in a calm room and not under pressure, and about 9/12 currently exist in my house!

A middle-aged white woman in spectacles with a bright floral dress, cookie & mug, with a backdrop of 'generic open plan office'

Here I am, in my made-by-me dress, working on an audit with support from my home-made cookies, three degrees not pictured. Feminism gives me *choices* in how I live my life, earn my living, support my family, develop myself, and use my voice.

seconded :)

sounds like my inlaws (Bolton, Bury, Ramsbottom)

a long green train pulls into a Victorian station. bright blue & white sky is visible in a slither between train & platform edge

morning!

a long green train to the left of a Victorian station. bright blue & white sky is visible between the edge of the platform roof and the train

Morning!

sending moral support. It's ok to take a breath. DMs open if you want to rant/vent/unload to a not-quite-random shoulder on the internet

Sending all good thoughts & hopes

topic of my second year ba presentation, making me the *fun* parent to have when learning spellings for school...

bookmarking :)

cue endless conversations about cold as temperatures drop back to (i think) 'normal for the time of year'

Just *anything* else - Evelina springs to mind tbh.

oh bravo! that can be a challenge in some organisations :)

and the second half builds hope (I facilitate the course for my org) - possible action exists, and sharing is so important.

ofc, as we've established what my 'keep busy and interested' workload is... and maybe set the dial on total projects for oversight a *tad* high... my daughter comes home 'fine' / exhausted, goes to sleep early, & wakes up <as i'm getting the big one to bed> & throws up all her tea #workingparent

Early modern Frenchies! Oxford Modern Languages/Trinity College is looking for a Departmental Lecturer, a 3 year position to replace me while I'm on secondment my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

and reading this and thinking 'that's interesting, do i remember that? clearly not paying enough attention when I've been an 'ex'-academic who never honestly got round to the fairy tale project for 14 *years* is why i'm so grateful that more academics are sharing their work more publicly. #Curiosity

took me longer than it should to identify the pseudonymous acct & realise that I *did* use to follow them <over there and have my absence from the hellsite to thank for missing that ... shift

Life's strongest blessing (imo, rn, context: over an hour wrangling a sensitive scalp with *long* fine hair): may your children never have nits.

my husband is in charge of pancakes so i'm not throwing 'new' in at this stage, but the note on heat & giving it time is key - we have had many frustrated pan washes when it wasn't hot enough.

I cannot stress enough that automatic translation into English will flatten your world. We need the delicious friction of different languages; we need to celebrate diversity.

a wet, muddy expanse of grass with fog/low clouds above. a metal sculpture of flying/fighting buzzar to the left of centre.

very much so! headed out in sun; walked through thunder & hail home again