Leigh Forbes

Ooh, that could work! 🙏

I fear it needs to be more academic!

‘Throw shade’ is gen-z too, no?!

I am now so fluent in Gen-Z (thanks, Offspring), that I am struggling to think in Gen-X – and, as I obviously can't include the expression "to chat shit about…" in an academic essay, can someone please remind me how to say this in my own language. Thanks. #sociolinguistics

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Ah yes… aaand I am in fact already following him 🙄

The front cover of “Into the Tangled Bank” with the title centred in white sans serif font. The subtitle (in smaller white italics) reads “In which the author ventures outdoors to consider the British in nature.” The background is of a roughly painted undergrowth, mostly greens, but featuring various wildflowers (including pink foxglove bottom right, pink campion maybe, top left), a small tortoiseshell butterfly (orange, top centre), and a song thrush (very bottom right).

Into the Tangled Bank by Lev Parikian. Interesting, educational, accessible, and very funny. #nature

My 1949 Penguin paperback edition of Wuthering Heights.

The pages have not yellowed, the sewn binding is still tight.

The prevalence of non-acid-free paper and glued bindings means I have hardbacks published less than ten years ago that have aged less well.

I was in Winchester yesterday, too. It was absolutely glorious!

It’s taken from underneath – wings and tail streamers spread. Blue sky with fluffy white clouds behind. CUNTING TRAINS i’m fine.

Instead of ranting about how literally all my trains to and from the rehearsal this evening were cancelled I’ll calmly give you this photo of a swallow I’m fine everything’s fine

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Great thanks

A silouhette of the common, looking into the sun (centre right). There’s a tree in the middle and scrubby bushes and more trees off to the right. A faint hint of the path leads from bottom right to centre right, but it’s hard to see in the shadow. the sky above is blue.

My view right now 😊

I'd like to second this!

Stephen Fry launches campaign to boost reading for pleasure The Hay festival president is asking readers for book recommendations that will ‘entice the most reluctant reader’ to help combat the decline in leisure reading

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

I have devised a neologism: “irritager”. A young person who is no longer a teenager, but is still fucking annoying.

You know that saying – leave a job long enough and it won't need doing after all? It's true. I no longer have to put away that final box of xmas bits from last year 😁

Brilliant 😄

I must say I am surprised

Did the poker night involve illicit substances?

Signed up on impulse to join a local group for a 5.5k jog through the woods. Found out half way round it was 5.5 miles… 😬

OMG!

The trials of the virtuous. #NotFair

Oh that is the worst pain. I hope it heals asap 😬

I ran an unintentional 10k on Saturday. First outing for yonks, and my first 10k since 2020. Now I'm walking like I need a hip replacement 🫩 #running #doms

Serious border ornamentation points!

Oh, the irony 😂

Orange square in which is written, on the left (in white rounded sans-serif writing), “I’m on a 2000 day learning streak!” Under that, in the same typeface, but lighter orange, it says “Duolingo”. On the right is the yellow, orange, and white Duolingo cartoon owl, with its wings spread in celebration.

Autscape Organisation (a UK-based nonprofit charity that hosts the annual Autscape conference, an autism-centred gathering run for and by autistic people since 2005) has left X (1.731 followers)

Bluesky: @autscape.org

So true – I was able to turn certain aspects of my life around when I read somewhere that “if a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing badly.”