Oh that’s me!

A card that says “Peonies yay! Love from mum xxx” in front of a bouquet with peony buds

My mum sent me a bouquet of peonies purely because she knows I love them 🥲

It was inevitable that the Hervé Léger bandage dress would come back into fashion, but it still feels too soon

It’s nice to be perceived, occasionally

Fosbury flopping my way through spring

Join me in Guy Montgomery appreciation

Yes!! Also Guy Montgomery’s stand up and Worst Idea of All Time podcast are *so* good

Zack Polanskis Glastonbury style dancing is no joke

Keep dancing, everyone!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

It’s easy to get down due to the state of the industry but having studios reach out is such a lovely feeling 🥲

A nice reminder that I’m not invisible

I love knitwear, but I’m really wanting it to get back to light jacket weather soon 🤞

Amberspire is out on May 6th! 🌇

Here's Nic, Amberspire's developer, to introduce you to our science fantasy city builder.

Wishlist on Steam! 🛒⬇️

yesss congrats Dr Smith Nicholls!!

Selfie. I’m wearing a large maroon knitted jumper and glasses

And we’re back to big jumpers

When a game provides lore, we should remember to include who in the game-world is saying it - @hollynielsen.bsky.social explains why.

For the full conversation visit: www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope...

Yep. If you have independent wealth, or a family/partner that can support you indefinitely, then the whole thing becomes a lot more tolerable.

I’m not willing to put my entire life on hold and fight bitterly for a relatively low paying job with terrible work life balance. I’d rather find ways of researching that work for me.

We’re told that we should want it so much we’re willing to do anything, to which I say- get fucked, I know my worth

Though tbh by the time I got to the end of my PhD and had stood on three separate picket lines about pay and work conditions, I was pretty much completely disillusioned.

And if you do research that is interdisciplinary or goes beyond commonly understood disciplinary boundaries? Lol

I went into my PhD knowing things would be very tough. I left knowing they were pretty much impossible.

There are currently 6 permanent full time history jobs in the whole UK. 500+ PhDs being produced a year - not all of whom will want to pursue an academic year but likely most, and of course years will stack up onto each other. What a sector.

Thank you for letting me be vulnerable about my utilitarian slides xxx

I know current culture demands that we present ourselves as being an expert on everything, but my slides are purely practical and that will do tbh

I do not have a graphic design eye. My artistic skills stretch to sketching birds and no further

Why can’t I just star wipe from a relevant John Locke quote to a poem about play and gambling from 1822 and call it a day

I’m lucky that my research has a bunch of great images that can be used for lecture slides. However, I am still shit at making the slides themselves look good

Yes!! I googled the game the other day because I hadn’t heard of it, and immediately recoiled in horror at what I saw

I cannot help it that you’re the platonic ideal of a player

Such a *that* player 🙄

That should say “the player” rather than “that player”, which insinuates that we’re all designing and thinking about one player in particular.

Listen to my big face tell you about distancing information given to that player from “developer voice”