Julianne Benford

Shoutout for teachers who hold a degree and/or QTS, and think anti-trans policies are unethical...

Please comment if you would be interested in taking on some paid online tutoring work for UK trans kids who have been forced out of schooling by policy and/or bullying.

I have started asking colleagues to find any good news stories that I can - because everything feels unremittingly bleak, so I am now extending this to BlueSky, share a good news story

sexism upsets me for many reasons but one of them is that no one ever asks me to back them up in a brawl but I’d be so good at it

Danish biscuit tin. Unusually containing biscuits.

The Airbnb left us a sewing kit. Someone's put biscuits in it. Bit weird.

"...I am a hater, which is a kind of integrity."
"...I am more than a critic: I am a hater."
"I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response."

EVERY LINE IS A GEM.
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Luckily Labour does not have many supporters in middle management positions at large organisations who make socially conscious purchasing decisions, care about the climate, and live in urban areas.

A photo of a sign, white text on red background: JESUS... WHO IS HE? WHY DID HE COME?

When I arrive at the party

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

This is a good thread. Read it.

Books like this will not get men reading literary fiction again. If these kinds of novels worked, Jonathan Franzen would have led to some kind of male readership renaissance. (And I am not a Franzen hater. The Corrections was brilliant.) Litfic wasn't scooped by women. It was scooped by video games.

Hey! Northern hemisphere folks:

this is my annual reminder to myself and perhaps also to you that if you have the schedule autonomy to permit it, get out for a walk or whatever during daylight hours! It's important!

You can work more when it's dark but you need whatever sunlight is available!

I keep getting posts in my FB feed from a page for a particularly large cat near you 😂

Oh how we laughed back in 2011 when that woman on The Apprentice asked, “are the French very fond of their children” but perhaps she was just ahead of her time in assuming it’s a peculiarly British trait

youtube suggesting i reply to a comment with "i miss my ffamily"

losing my mind over youtube's suggested reply for this comment

And even still

A digital drawing of one of those drawing tutorials that says 'don't do this, do this.' The drawing is of an almost naked middle-aged man doing a flying kick. The 'Don't do this' one has a bunch of areas circled and a cross under it. The 'Do this' one is exactly the same but without the circles and a tick instead of a cross. The text reads 'Needlessly adding red circles will ruin your art' and a smaller bit of text at the bottom reads 'Bonus tip! Add a tick under all your art so people think you did it right.'

#3157 A helpful tutorial

why do things like this never happen to me

I long for a world where I am not *constantly* reminded, entirely and utterly against my will, of the icky sex proclivities of random mediocrities with money.

i am tired of being gaslit by medical offices, you have never once changed the options of the phone menu. sick of your lies actually

FILE.
FILE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

Cervical cancer vaccines save over 1 million lives in lower-income countries Major push by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and lower-income countries to extend access to the HPV vaccine has reached its target ahead of schedule.

A rare piece of good news for women www.gavi.org/news/media-r...

A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says

An absolutely shocking story in two parts and outstanding journalism to boot.

Part one

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...

For the first time ever, I had to make a payment in crypto.

I can now confidently say that crypto payments combine the speed of a dial up modem and the ease of updating the drivers on a 1998 HP Laserjet printer.

Serfs, Karen, the word you're looking for is serfs.

The @realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive for this week is Class.

Tell me your favourite sci fi and fantasy that deals with class in interesting or unusual ways. Give me books, tv, movies, games etc.

Your recommendations please! (or warnings to steer clear also welcome)

@deadlyknitshade.bsky.social suggested I make the whole stand for next year's TB out of cardboard, I feel that's a more viable next step than a cathedral 😂

You can get ch1 this month and ten you can get ch2 next month and then so on, and so on. The comic is done, ten chapters, you can read it on here—but doesn’t monthly story post sound nicer?

Did Goebbels write this?????

okay this is a dogs in blankets thread now, I don't make the rules

People don't even read things offline. At work all the recycling bins have signs telling people not to put paper towels in them. Yet they are constantly full of paper towels and every time I mention this rule I am surrounded by shocked pikachu faces