Sunday Blake

Er, I'm certainly hoping we can shift quite big numbers of my book on the Blair years... You too can buy a pile of copies for friends and family here! 😅https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/

I have children in my life now didn't even exist when I thought life wasn't worth living. Which means there are people you love waiting for you in your future now, too ❤️

I don't know if this changes anything but he told me today he is on mounjaro.

I have a tradesman round fixing my boiler and he's had "Only You" by Yazoo on repeat for an hour. I've offered him tea, and he's accepted, but I feel like he's going through something and needs something stronger.

I've now taught a new swearword and reinforced arachnophobia.

Just tried to show the child that a massive cardinal spider in the house was more scared of us than we are of it. So I tapped my nails on the floor next to it to make it freeze, to prove my point, and the monster f*cking turned and squared up to me 😂😂😂

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

A good one, this year 🩷🎄

Cat missing for five years turns up in ‘Christmas miracle’ After countless searches and a house move, Bindi’s owner had given up hope

A cat that went missing five years ago has been reunited with her family in what has been described as a Christmas miracle ⬇️

A Christmas miracle. The Louis Vuitton bag I found for £10 in a backwater rural Devonshire charity shop just came back from the authentication service as authentic. Happy bloody holidays, lads! 🎄✨🎁

The true meaning of Xmas is the Piccadilly Line at rush hour from mid-December onwards 😍

Anyway

URGENT! I have to be in parliament for 8am and work Xmas dinner for midday. I will NOT have time to change and cannot carry extra bags. Do I wear the sequin flares?! DO I WEAR THE CHRISTMAS SEQUIN FLARES?!?!

Y'all tonight I was joking with the Christian Rock but Spotify Wrapped just told me i'm in the top 3% of global listeners

My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.

A plate of the same cookies.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

Good to see the two child policy scrapped

It was a major cause of short term harm for children and their parents/guardians, but also baked in medium to long terms costs, in terms of educational attainment, social mobility, future income, economic growth - and for the following generation too

The FitBit barcode scanner being out of whack is RUINING my day?! I have to track my own protein with my own brain?! @fitbit.bsky.social pleasssse 😭

Just accidentally walked into the men's changing rooms at the gym (the doors are right next to each other!) and confidentially asked the group of bearded, tattooed, bodybuilders why they were in the ladies.

"Amazing result for Plaid Cymru, so here's a guest from Reform anyway..."

This is the kind of twitter sh'tposting that bluesky has struggled to adopt and I, for one. I am comforted to stumble across such this sh'tpostery as this out in the wild on here.

And this chap is why the cats aren't allowed out after sundown!

I have to inform you that there is nothing more important in the entire world 🩷

Matthew McConaughey taking a long drag from a cigarette while doomscrolling

When your research is relevant but you’re not in academia anymore

"You’d be a terrible mother at this point in your life."

"I thought you cared about us - this would destroy us."

"Think about your body; you won’t bounce back from this."

"Don’t be selfish - think about what this would do to me."

"Your mental health problems would get worse with pregnancy"

"You’re just not thinking straight because of your hormones"

"You know I’d leave if you kept it, right?"

"You’re too smart to throw your life away like this."

"We’re not ready - you’re not ready - it would ruin everything we’ve built."

"I thought you were a feminist"

I am working on 'The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign' which ran from 1984-1986. I would love to interview any linkworkers who were employed by the campaign or any women who were supported by linkworkers. Please spread the word or get in touch if this is you! My email is saima.nasar@bristol.ac.uk

Anyone looking for the rights to a movie about an Indian girl and a Jewish boy falling in love with each other in East London, and then separated by 3 years of national service, during which they amassed over 1000 letters, let me know 🥹

My friend showed me her dad's diaries from the 1960s today and every entry (in every diary for decades) ended with a sentence about how much he loved his wife!

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Jel