Melissa W

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Ended the day watching a lone man row across the absolutely silent lake. What a beautiful day to be alive in the world.

Karlstein or a little German hobbit village?

Either way it's an incredibly charming little place :)

Thumsee was showing off for us last weekend — I'm so grateful to have this beautiful lake in my backyard

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

Just started reading Yellowface (yes I live several years behind everyone else) and in the movie that plays in my head whenever I read something Athena is played by Gemma Chan. And then I learned that Gemma Chan is the same age as me, which I refuse to believe as she appears to be an ethereal 27.

We also saw this lovely couple celebrating their wedding. What a gorgeous spot for a photo!

We've lived in Berchtesgaden Land for over five years and somehow only made it to Ramsau last weekend. Churches and hiking and more churches.

Melvyn Bragg decides to step down from presenting In Our Time After 26 years on the programme, the legendary presenter bids farewell to the series

A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.

Tag yourself. I'm ARIZONA (the one in Idaho).

(If you decide to claim NONTИ CAROLINA for yourself, please be specific.)

Anyway, just horribly bland and charmless, utterly predictable, and full of terrible writing. 2/10

Suffered through #MyOxfordYear bc I'm a sucker for the architecture and dear lord was it ever the worst kind of badly written, totally unbelievable slop. Terrible acting and *terrible* attention to detail (surely no one's reading Edna St. Vincent Millay on the Oxford English MSt 1830-1914 strand!).

Of course :-)

(And insular forever!)

Let's credit creators instead of posting screenshots of their work with their name cut off:

www.instagram.com/p/DMfRMo4O7Y3/

The appalling smearing of Zohran Mamdani as 'anti-semitic' It's Islamophobic. It's racist. It's also completely untrue.

I got mad and I wrote about it.

I also sold a book to Susan Sarandon (who had popped in for warmth before one of the Iraq war protests in DC) during my very glamorous year of working as a gift shop cashier at the Folger Library

I once took a 6am flight from Dublin to Madrid where the sole passengers waiting to board were me, the friend I was traveling with, and Jason Isaacs. I awkwardly stared at the back of his head for most of the flight.

Hate when there's hot goss about someone's bad behavior on academic twitter and everything's been deleted and everyone's just hinting around the edges all day.

I'm nosy and I want to know! Don't tease us with vague-posting 👀

Santiago has an airport but you can also fly into Porto and take the train up the coast. (Porto itself is also a great option, but I'm just a sucker for Santiago, haha.)

Santiago de Compostela is one of my fave places in Spain, it's beautiful and easy to get around, you can go out to the Cies islands, easy train down to Vigo or up to A Coruña, very lush.

Someone mentioned San Sebastian, which is also lovely but expensive and will be packed.

Any criteria for locations? I'm a big fan of northern Spain in the summer. Galicia has excellent beaches and great food, and Asturias (particularly Gijón) is also gorgeous.

In the other direction, have you been to Yorkshire yet? Some friends just got back and have been raving non-stop about it.

(and yes it took this long for the English version of this movie to make it to our theater — but c'est la vie)

Saw "The Critic" at our cute little theater yesterday — I don't think the trailers adequately prepared us for this movie. Ian McKellen was absolutely mad, in all the best possible ways.

Beautiful day — had a little walk, got some snackies, and Brett bought me TWO books ❤️ Just in time for a week of rain

Congratulations from a fellow Terp!

Enjoyed a gloriously beautiful weekend in Berchtesgadener Land — we've been here five years and I still can't believe all this is just outside our door

Bleak, but sounds about right

Cool, yeah, the world is burning down, let's add some more shit to the fire.

@hurleytennis.bsky.social look how they massacred our boy

Stressed out girls deserve a new book as a little treat