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The Logistics of Mourning will be the title of my debut novel.

Picture of Morrison's "Mrs Unis Haggis Pakora with a spicy chilli dip"

I defy anyone to look at this and still say integration isn't working in the UK.

🎶 🇪🇺 Only EU.... can make the world feel right. 🎶🇪🇺

It's nice to be here. Where normal people live. X is a zoo.

I need rehab.

IYM: "This can be super-useful in giving the writer’s brain something self-contained and practical to chew on, with the bonus that new story-avenues and details are likely to emerge"
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Headline in the Daily Mail which reads “A spectacle to horrify the world”

Headline in the Daily Mirror which says Shock and War. Trump stuns world with vile rant at Zelensky.

Headline in the Times which reads Meltdown in Oval Office

Headline in the Sun which says The Fight House

NEW: The first front pages of Saturday’s newspapers in the UK.

“Ukraine Hero Ambushed”

“Trump stuns world with vile rant at Zelensky”

“A spectacle to horrify the world”

Trump is obliterating the global reputation of the US.

Accidentally used this emoji combination in an email apologising for forgetting something and think I might unilaterally adopt it as the international symbol for #menopause 🤦‍♀️♀️

Ridiculously excited for another outing of Sci Fi Snobbery, this time as part of Norwich Science Festival. Simon Watt and I will battle it out to win your hearts and minds to crown the greatest Science Fiction film of all time
📅 Wed 19th Feb
📍 Picture House, Norwich
https://buff.ly/3PekrIw

Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were ordered to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “L.G.B.T.” or “pregnant people.”

. @kenwhite.bsky.social , is it a good idea to publicly announce “this thing we’re doing is just bullshit to fool the judge” while litigation is pending

If you have an NIH award pending, I'd encourage you to check the ERA commons portal. For our pending award, *all* of the relevant information is now missing (the reviews are not accessible, the dates have all been changed, all of the history of the process isn't accessible)!

A diverse flight crew of a gay guy, a Black man, and a woman

A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼

welp this is the first time I’ve seen news break on BlueSky

As ever at Nine Lessons, we'll be doing a local food bank collection so please bring along any items to donate if you're able. The most urgently needed items this year are canned tuna, corn beef, biscuits, chocolates, long life custard, rice pudding, rice, dry pasta & nuts. CC @robinince.bsky.social

Bah humbug.

All the primary schools doing the Goldman Sachs five dollar challenge week but nobody doing Unions week.

Fight club (OR Edition)

ChatGPT for PM!

A most satisfying fun and long overdue catch up!

Channel some Sister Julian of Norwich. She was a total badass. Also, quite zen.

Unsure who is the scientist and who is the Comms person here. Could go either way.

Storyville Books Bookshop UK Nestled in the rolling hills of the South Wales valleys, we are the only independent bookshop in Pontypridd, selling new books and more.

⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed.

If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.

👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...

Wonderstruck, a book cover

Throughout eight chapters, @helendecruz.net investigates how awe and wonder shape philosophy, psychology, science, magic, religion, and our world. She takes these concepts and grounds them in everyday life and history, showing us how to engage with and embrace these profound emotions.

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Agree. But a car can do a lot more damage than a bike.

University catering.

Cyclists are definitely up there.

A single foot standing on weighing scales

Also standing on the scales with just one foot.

Fairly sure that spending four hours, updating, downloading, resetting and syncing health apps counts as exercise, right?