spooky spice

Oh don't get me wrong I'm tired af too, but cosiness and the prospect of the holidays are what gets me through

Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests Exclusive: union leaders say proposed changes are immoral and could threaten patient safety if there is staff exodus Up to 50,000 nurses could quit the UK over the government’s immigration proposals, plunging the NHS into its biggest ever workforce crisis, research suggests. Keir Starmer has vowed to curb net migration, with plans to force migrants to wait as long as 10 years to apply to settle in the UK instead of automatically gaining settled status after five years. Continue reading...

Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests

Gemütlichkeit! Love this time of year

Widow of Chornobyl's first victim killed by Russian attack on Kyiv 39 years later Natalia Khodymchuk, the widow of Valerii Khodymchuk, the first victim of the 1986 Chornobyl disaster, died in Kyiv overnight on Nov. 14–15 after suffering severe injuries in a mass Russian attack on t...

⚡️Widow of Chornobyl's first victim killed by Russian attack on Kyiv 39 years later.

Natalia Khodymchuk, widow of Valerii Khodymchuk, the first victim of the 1986 Chornobyl disaster, died in Kyiv after suffering severe injuries in a mass overnight Russian attack on Nov. 14–15.

The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists

The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas. Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late... via @timeshighered.bsky.social

New love language just dropped:

My partner who got eingebürgert last year pretty quickly has been informing shocked/disbelieving Germans about the bs I've gone through so far in my journey

I don't mind Gendersternchen, but I guess I've got used to being "mitgemeint" by generic masculine nouns.

However, I still can't help but flinch at generic masculine pronouns, even though I know it's "just grammar" (for context: I work in a team of mostly men)

"Wenn jemand x möchte, muss er..."

Good morning! Remember "quiet quitting"?

Only a couple years later, it seems totally unfeasible — everyone is now concerned about their boss replacing them with AI.

Happy Monday!

Do you have any source confirming Leicester? So far I've only found they are "considering" it

I guess it never occurred to me as similar because you would say "I raw-dogged my train ride", but with the other thing you would say "I went dogging"

I also have family members who use this route — it's so horrible and shocking, isn't it, considering our region is otherwise fairly uneventful/forgotten. Take care x

Is it really such a tall order for a hairdresser not to make a subtle dig at my undercut/fringe/texture? Can anyone in Berlin recommend a salon where they just ask what I'd like and do the job? 💇‍♀️

Bonus points for sensory/ND-friendliness and vegan products, though that may be an even taller order...

I don't believe we're connected on there Cheryl, will look for you now! But I have actually found some good "influencers" who post about interesting stuff like accessibility. The algorithm shows me stuff I like so I daresay my feed is actually not as bad as it used to be (still get AI bros though)

As a UK citizen living in Berlin... between this and S*ltana's statements yesterday I just want to scream

Deeply disappointing and infuriating, but at this point, I am just not surprised.

'We see how these people have chosen to sit comfortably in the back rows of history and simply wait to see how the situation in Eastern Europe will develop without their participation.'

We take no joy criticising a young left-wing UK political figure who has often spoken up for workers' rights and progressive causes. But these barely coherent comments from Zarah Sultana on Ukraine sum up much of what is wrong with her wing of the left www.instagram.com/reel/DQT62ys...

“You’re one of the good ones” is a terrifying sentiment because it means “I at some level think I am an arbiter of your social value” and, well, who asked you buddy

This, I'm kinda shocked at the number of European companies that apparently had everything on US-East servers

it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc

and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way

I am so delighted that from Saturday there will be a Martha-Ndumbe-Platz in Berlin Wedding, honouring Martha who was murdered in Ravensbrück. Many thanks and congrats to all behind this initiative, especially to ISD and Decolonize Berlin. I wish I could be at Saturday's celebration.

I'm a pen-and-paper planner gal myself (don't actively use any calendar apps). Today I bought myself a 2026 planner and it already felt like such an act of self-care. Adding things to look forward to in the future 💜

First off: what a relief progress has been made in I/P, though of course, it won't bring back all those killed.

But in this article about horrors [of war] coming home to the west, there is not a single word about the war already fucking happening on European soil. What planet is Owen J. living on?

Well, even if Joan of Arc are no longer together there's the Algernon Cadwallader comeback album, bang on time for peak autumn emo-ing.

Konjunktiv II: "frügen"? 😃

Western Europe: we stand with Ukraine

Also Western Europe:

Given the angry-man reviews I've seen of a local vegan delicatessen, I can only agree.

Vegan for 14 years and checking ingredients meticulously is basically anchored into my DNA now

I hardly look to TS for moral guidance but man, that new album is nasty. I have no idea why Midnights is considered bad and I even liked a few songs off TTPD, but I think I am going to unsubscribe now. And that's fine — she's not the first artist I've done that for over the past few years!

I’ve listened to it on walks and had so many times where I had to stop and hold onto a wall so I don’t literally collapse laughing

Some personal news: I booked a jet2 holiday