Keele Uni used to do this. Sounds like utter chaos. www.keele.ac.uk/thekeeleoral...

We highly approve 🤩

I wonder if I clicked on something once and don’t remember? Or they’re doing a Venn diagram of other interests - books, grunge outfits, recipes, Buffy (😂) = neurodiverse

Yes!

@noreenmasud.bsky.social reads to is from A Flat Place at Keele Hall tonight (spellbinding; funny)

You were marvellous. I need to read the friend murder book please, so if you could just drop everything else 😉

@noreenmasud.bsky.social reads to is from A Flat Place at Keele Hall tonight (spellbinding; funny)

Sheena! So exciting! 👏 🎉

Hahaa I look forward immensely to both aspects of that!

The students on my gothic module got me a card (it’s my birthday tomorrow)! ON POINT.

Was it Suzanne?

Excited for Robin Ince in our little campus cafe tomorrow!

Yesss you are!

Who remembers the European Computer Driving License? Just apropos of nothing….

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

This is the best thing I have ever seen! In case anyone else of my generation needs a little cheer this morning …

This is the best thing I have ever seen! In case anyone else of my generation needs a little cheer this morning …

Yes! There’s always a way 😂

But but it can be a throw over cardigan blouse (I tell myself as I try to clear some space in my wardrobe and fail to get rid of anything)

“The epitaphs of good intentions” 💀

Justice department ‘not investigating’ Renee Good killing in contrast to 2020 inquiry on George Floyd death In 2020, Trump DoJ investigated police killing of Floyd in Minneapolis, leading to four officers’ convictions Six years after the US justice department launched an immediate criminal investigation of the video-recorded killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, deputy attorney general Todd Blanche confirmed on Sunday that the department is “not investigating” the fatal 7 January shooting of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in the same city. The killing of Good, less than a mile from where Floyd was murdered in May 2020, was recorded on at least five phones, including one held by the ICE agent who shot her, Jonathan Ross. Continue reading...

Justice department ‘not investigating’ Renee Good killing in contrast to 2020 inquiry on George Floyd death

Go to the News From Nowhere bookshop, look for nice things to eat on Bold Street, drink in the pub next to the Philharmonic (Philharmonic Dining Rooms) for the decor!

I don't think we know we are in this song | Los Angeles Review of Books An appreciation of David Bowie's alien glamorous life

10 years. My brain hurts a lot. I think on some level I really do believe that he was the cosmic glue holding the world together. lareviewofbooks.org/article/i-do...

You’ve made me cry now too!

The Letters of William James, Vol. II Quote shared via Kindle: "Our University moreover inflicts a monstrous amount of routine business on one, faculty meetings and committees of every sort, [10] so that during term-time one can do no con...

Our University inflicts a monstrous amount of routine business on one, faculty meetings and committees of every sort, so that during term-time one can do no continuous reading at all—reading of books, I mean. When vacation comes, my brain is so tired that I can read nothing serious for a month…

Welcome to the dark side! My hold list is very carefully maintained, and the strategy becomes pleasurable if you do it well!

Text from BBC article about 2026 must-reads: ‘Expect nuggets from her younger days growing up in the shadow of her famous mum, Judy Garland, before she reveals all on her meteoric rise to fame, struggles with addiction, high-profile marriages and friendships, and heartbreaking miscarriages. It's going to be one hell of a ride. Other memoirs out next year worth checking out are Starchild: My Life Under the Night Sky by space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock (Ebury), My Truth, My Story: Part 2 from Cher (HarperCollins), Gisele Pelicot - A Hymn to Life: Shame has to Change Sides (Vintage), Lena Dunham's Fame Sick (Fourth Estate) and James Bailey's biography, Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark (Sceptre).’

Well here’s something: the BBC has included LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK in a round-up of the must-reads of 2026. I’m sandwiched between Liza Minnelli and Cher - a big camp old Merry Christmas to me! ✨

Oh, Jesus. Fun for a genetic edition!

We’ve got to find joy where we can!