Maggie Alderson
@maggiealderson.bsky.social
Novelist, journalist, columnist, feminist, fashionist, Substackist, motherist. Ten novels, one daughter. On Substack here https://maggiealderson.substack.com/
@welshjaci.bsky.social if you can work this one out do tell me!
December 9, 2024 at 2:13 PM
@welshjaci.bsky.social if you can work this one out do tell me!
I've just cut open a passion fruit and realised why it's called that. Oh.
November 22, 2024 at 4:38 PM
I've just cut open a passion fruit and realised why it's called that. Oh.
One of the joys of early Twitter was the haiku discipline of the character limit. Who's in to keep it short and sweet and snappy on here? #lessismore
November 22, 2024 at 3:05 PM
One of the joys of early Twitter was the haiku discipline of the character limit. Who's in to keep it short and sweet and snappy on here? #lessismore
Thank you Bluesky for educating me - I didn't know until today that Amazon had bought Goodreads in 2013. all the more reason to keep supporting our wonderful independent bookshops and take advice about what to read next from the people who work in them.
November 17, 2024 at 8:52 AM
Thank you Bluesky for educating me - I didn't know until today that Amazon had bought Goodreads in 2013. all the more reason to keep supporting our wonderful independent bookshops and take advice about what to read next from the people who work in them.
Is there a word in Japanese that means both 'parent' and 'all phone chargers and cables stolen'?
September 22, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Is there a word in Japanese that means both 'parent' and 'all phone chargers and cables stolen'?
Reposted by Maggie Alderson
Donald Trump repeated a false claim about immigrants and dead cats that has deep roots in racist stereotypes during Tuesday's presidential debate. Here's what to know about his campaign's embrace of the bogus internet theory.
How False Claims About Dead Cats Became Trump Campaign Fodder
Falsehoods claiming migrants in Ohio are killing cats and decapitating ducks went viral this week. The Trump campaign embraced them.
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2024 at 2:42 AM
Donald Trump repeated a false claim about immigrants and dead cats that has deep roots in racist stereotypes during Tuesday's presidential debate. Here's what to know about his campaign's embrace of the bogus internet theory.
Wide awake since 2.55am because Debate.
September 11, 2024 at 2:54 AM
Wide awake since 2.55am because Debate.
Optimist: Cup half full. Interiors stylist: Move the cup 10mm to the left. No... move it back, it was better before.
September 10, 2024 at 8:08 AM
Optimist: Cup half full. Interiors stylist: Move the cup 10mm to the left. No... move it back, it was better before.
Can anyone give me tips how to make this algorithm show me something I am actually interesting in?
September 5, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Can anyone give me tips how to make this algorithm show me something I am actually interesting in?
Original Twitter was the best cocktail party I've ever been to. Can we recreate that here? (In brief posts)
September 3, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Original Twitter was the best cocktail party I've ever been to. Can we recreate that here? (In brief posts)
More of this, please.
The electrician they sent is wearing waist-high pants.
September 2, 2024 at 8:02 PM
More of this, please.
Turmeric is over for me.
August 24, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Turmeric is over for me.
Reposted by Maggie Alderson
Today I have been going through old photos.
As in, boxes and boxes of them.
LABEL YOUR RELATIVES, PEOPLE
As in, boxes and boxes of them.
LABEL YOUR RELATIVES, PEOPLE
August 23, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Today I have been going through old photos.
As in, boxes and boxes of them.
LABEL YOUR RELATIVES, PEOPLE
As in, boxes and boxes of them.
LABEL YOUR RELATIVES, PEOPLE
Reposted by Maggie Alderson
Never knew this until today - RESPECT
August 21, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Never knew this until today - RESPECT
Why does any company use Evri to send out orders? I'm almost at the stage where I won't order things from companies that use them. They must be cheap, but it's a false economy.
August 21, 2024 at 11:21 AM
Why does any company use Evri to send out orders? I'm almost at the stage where I won't order things from companies that use them. They must be cheap, but it's a false economy.
Please don't take your shoes off in the gym. Thank you. The end.
August 21, 2024 at 9:40 AM
Please don't take your shoes off in the gym. Thank you. The end.
I squealed out loud when I saw these shoes in the paper (and immediately ordered them. They combine five great shoe tropes in one. Read more on my Substack here maggiealderson.substack.com/p/its-outrag...
August 20, 2024 at 4:26 PM
I squealed out loud when I saw these shoes in the paper (and immediately ordered them. They combine five great shoe tropes in one. Read more on my Substack here maggiealderson.substack.com/p/its-outrag...
I miss the haiku discipline of the limited characters. I loved that challenge.
August 20, 2024 at 8:02 AM
I miss the haiku discipline of the limited characters. I loved that challenge.
Hello (small voice). Feeling my way on here, trawling through the Follow lists of people I Follow to find people to Follow. Thrilled to have found @maryhopkin.bsky.social who I loved chatting to in the early glory days of The Other Place (Artist Formerly Known As Twitter).
August 18, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Hello (small voice). Feeling my way on here, trawling through the Follow lists of people I Follow to find people to Follow. Thrilled to have found @maryhopkin.bsky.social who I loved chatting to in the early glory days of The Other Place (Artist Formerly Known As Twitter).
Reposted by Maggie Alderson
Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £7.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £16.99 for a completely blank notebook?
August 17, 2024 at 11:57 AM
Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £7.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £16.99 for a completely blank notebook?