Hannah Fearn

Someone in Tesco complaining about them not taking cash and clearly gearing up for something about the New World Order before the poor bloke had to explain that they kept getting robbed.

Not where I am, by the look of it :(

When will the sun come out again? Asking for my withering soul.

Actually, this on a banknote

I haven’t actually noticed a pattern with mine but I’m going to look out for it now

Well, quite. But I made adjacent remarks on here recently and everyone said I was deluded about LD prospects in 2029.

See, I’m not the only one who thinks this… 👇🏻

Yes, this is exactly it! Odd but fascinating.

This could be it but that explanation/definition clearly suggests a direct link whereas my experience of it is that there’s no obvious connection like a common smell or sound (though I could be missing a subconscious connection)

Ha ha! Well thank you anyway.

SO interesting

Ooh! Yes.

I haven’t read Proust but I know the reference and isn’t that specifically about memory triggered by taste ? Which isn’t quite the same thing I’m asking about

Doesn’t intrusive suggest a negative overtone though?

I want to read more about it as a phenomenon, so any links or info welcome.

Important to say I mean an unrelated image. Not a thematically linked memory triggered by a chain of thought.

Is there a technical term in psychology or neurology for when you’re mid-thought or conversation and an image from your past experience pops into your mind, just passing by?

I don’t mean a traumatic flashback, just a benign visual image of a place/space/location that comes and goes in seconds.

Utterly baffling briefing just now with Kemi Badenoch’s spokesman in which he repeatedly insists that “we’re in the war” with Iran and that she supports it, while simultaneously denying she ever said she wants to join the war she thinks we're already in

I have rarely had more than 5.5 hours a night since 2017 and remarkably I function fine. My body has adjusted. I'm sure it's doing long term damage, but if I want to work, have children and have more than 4 minutes of alone quiet time in every 24 hours (I really do want that) then that's my limit

Also 'make sure you aim for eight hours every night' doesn't account for the realities of being a carer for a child, or an adult with support needs, who isn't asleep night after night after night (which often means it's advice that's useless for women).

My mother’s best advice: learn to raise one eyebrow at the world It took almost a year of practice and then I was too embarrassed to show off my talent. But finally, during a stage performance, I elevated a solitary brow and the crowd went wild

So much of my pent up rage is probably just lifelong frustration that I cannot express myself in this way. It's a deep regret, but we must eventually accept our bodies as they are.

Anyway, great piece from @timdowling.bsky.social here:

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Surely the only answer is to laugh outrageously. The saddest thing about this remark that it plays on the beauty of chimerism, which is so consoling to women who have been through baby or pregnancy loss, and then distorts it into nonsense non-science through the prism of violent misogyny. Horrible.

“The right for queer people to gather openly to be boring and discuss sandwiches is as fundamental to me as the right to dress as a horse and get ridden in a sex dungeon” - being boring is OK. Last share for this one, was lovely to be on paper at the weekend: observer.co.uk/style/featur...

Louise got there before me - was going to recommend Phoenix's work too

I'm a SEND teacher - sometimes difficult behaviour is down to poor parenting We're teaching an ever-growing number of children with special needs - but not all of these problems can be solved at school

In case you missed it: For @theipaper.com I had a conversation with a SEND specialist teacher desperate to have their voice heard in a highly contentious and politically-charged policy area.

Not everyone will agree with this bold perspective, but have a read.

inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’ Exclusive: Rented datacentres and unrealised supercomputer site raise questions for Starmer’s push to ‘mainline AI into veins of economy’

Great reporting from @aishadown.bsky.social on the giant holes in the gov's AI strategy. Or "strategy".

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Yazd, in Iran.

A city of courtyards

An urban form that responds to harsh hot summers, and cold dry winters

I am 43 and loved it too at the time! I used to be in a youth marching band (yes they do exist in the Uk) and when we had a competition at Birmingham NIA we were so excited it was the Gladiators arena 🤣

My five year old is loving it - but as a second child she’s a fairly robust character 🥴 (Yes she should be in bed but we’ve no alarm tomorrow and we’ve had a mad day - essential downtime for all of us!)

Except for Being Brave, which is still brilliant