Daniel Rough

Oooh I've just looked it up and the colour is PERFECT 😍

I believe LED braces would cross the already shaky line between 'OK I can deal with this if I have to' and 'I assure you this isn't my son' 😆

Hallowe'en is over.
Now we must all come to terms with a far more terrifying tradition - Christmas.
Christmas music, decorations, food, adverts, trees, promotions, gift ideas, jumpers, carols, lights, wreaths, and a partridge in a pear tree shoved down our throats for 55 MORE FUCKING DAYS AAAARGH 🤮

Imagine putting so much public money into funding a hideous ostentatious masquerade of what is essentially an entity that represents nothing more than shit and sewage. 🤢

But Trump aside, I find the bathroom's decor unappealing.

"With me to discuss, from their homes..." and suddenly I've got a flashback where I'm in a Dublin supermarket, racing against a modern-day Irish Attila the Hun to grab the last pitiful loaf of squashed bread from the shelf, a third of which is designated as toilet paper if absolutely necessary 😱

Oi! Oi! Here you! Mister! Gonnae gies wir baw back please!? Naw the lift's fucked sorry. Whit de ye mean naw!? Fuckin' doss bastard!

Your eyes say amity 😇, but your brows say calamity 🤯

Love this idea!
Idk which gameshows my students are familiar with. Does Squid Game count? I fear the Ethics Committee would have words. 😕

Phishing email titled "Password Reset Request" at first glance from Microsoft, but the "m" in microsoft.com is actually a lowercase r and n together to look very much like an m.

Meanwhile, university information security training be like:

'Imagine you received the following email:

"Dear coleague,

We forgot your password. Please can you send this to us asap.

The adminerstation team"

What should you do?'

Thank you, dear Ed! 😍

Quick update: Mama Rough (somewhat reluctantly I interpreted from our conversation) has given her blessing to the outfit!

I have been instructed NOT to switch on the light-up-flashing bow tie until after dinner. Seems like a reasonable compromise 💜

Thank you Helen! All appears well with the scan and my lungs are just doing their thing. It's nice to know I have so much death-mail to look forward to 😅

Thanks Tony! Confirmed today that my previously collapsed lung is not in danger of collapsing again, but Christ I wish the order of postal messages had been reversed. 😅

This is a crucial part of both my childhood and adulthood cookie-making ceremonies!
I understand egg consumption suggestions are different across the pond, but it didn't do any harm to Rocky so I say go for it 😍

We'll get there on all counts eventually I'm sure! Everyone's on their own path, but I guess our paths are weird and winding and sometimes seem they're not going anywhere.

I'm making a Victoria Sandwich cake. 🍰 What kind of cookies did you make? 🍪

I feel this. Not where I should be in terms of work, life goals, and physical location (should be in bed; am in the kitchen making a cake).
Hope you're feeling okay? 💜

Same.
I did a Computer Science degree because I enjoyed technology and wanted to make the world a better place with it.
Technocapitalism is a disease, but one unctuously selling itself as anything other than a profiteering gigafuck.

Ooh ice skating is fun! But I could never cope with the cold 🥶

Big respect to hard-as-nails kid with the shorts - like Captain Scott rocking up to the South Pole in a Temu onesie 😱

The alt-text reveals all! (Spoiler alert if you want to guess).

He is admirably patient for a turkey-shaped animal. I've had experiences with turkeys (innately turkey-shaped) and they are NOT afraid to show their wrath 🦃

A leaflet advertising "Direct cremation plans" to "plan the funeral you want whilst providing peace of mind to your family"

Waiting on results from a chest scan. Got this in the post today instead. Not gonna lie it feels a bit ominous 😅

A butternut squash with a smiley face, ginger hair and ginger goatee drawn on with felt-tip pen. It also has "I am a router" written in capital letters on its front.

Alas they don't like asking questions!
Bringing props to simulate a network. Hopefully this will distract from the shoddy PowerPoint 🙏

Aagh how has it come to this for us!? 😭
I don't know why but they go really well together - I guess it's the same way chocolate and coffee are a delicious combo.

Tactical switch to an espresso martini to calm down a bit while hopefully staying alert 😅

At a point in the semester where I've completely consumed my "old content buffer zone" and am writing new stuff the night before presenting.

Peanut butter mixed with coffee beans is getting me through. They work surprisingly well together!

Ah yeah that makes sense. Latching onto tenuously shared views with their fascist overlord, distracting from the cognitive dissonance of also having to consider the awful Trumpist policies that seek to have any non-whites sent "back where they came from". Bootlicking at its worst 🤮

All of it really, but I doubt it'll come to that. She's accepted my piercings, tattoo sleeves, political views, and even my penchant for smokes, so I doubt an LED bow tie will push her over the edge 😆

Ugh, it's gotta be some sort of Stockholm Syndrome, where the oppressed somehow grow to love their objectively awful oppressors.
"Sure he's a convicted felon, a sex offender, a blatant racist, a pathological liar, and openly hates my guts, but he hasn't killed me yet so...yay Trump!?"

Well yeah it's very much sister's day, but also kind of mam's day since she's not getting a wedding out of me any time soon, so I am willing to give up certain elements to keep the peace. 🕊️

Thank you! It's something of a built-in sporran - basically a big pocket for holding hip flasks and such.

Mama Rough has not seen it yet, but I'll have to show her eventually I suppose. 😅

a woman says " you know nothing jon snow " next to a man Alt: Game Of Thrones GIF where Ygritte says "You know nothing, Jon Snow" to Jon Snow.

Meanwhile, in Scotland...

I will consider it! Yet to wear my 80s athletic outfit to a lecture but Halloween would be a good time to break them both in 😎

Mirror selfie wearing a black shirt with a black bow tie with purple LEDs now lighting up, with a black Goth kilt with silver accessories, black kilt socks, and black Doc Martens

Proof that the bow tie does indeed light up 🎀