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Nat Guest

@unfortunatalie.bsky.social

5.9K followers 2.1K following 10K posts

"Natalie, HR is just concerned. We can't have a renegade jumping into bins and trying to solve crimes." Currently working in research & scholarly technology, past lives in journalism & comedy promotion. I write things sometimes. UK based.

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · Jun 23

"words of affirmation"
"physical touch"
NO the only way I wish to show or receive affection is by sending someone a little picture of something insulting and writing "this is you"

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 9h

Yes i don't think they should be called tabs even, because they don't tab sideways. They should be called uhh. Scales.

Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 10h

Luckily I've actually never worked out how to open a new tab on my phone. Is it annoying? Yes. Does it probably save a lot of RAM? Certainly. Do phones have RAM? No idea.

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 10h

Oh I'm missing the fucking Celebrity Traitors..... well it's too late now, I'm already in bed.

Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 10h

Turns out they're not very interesting places when you stop drinking!

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 10h

Crazy to me

Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 10h

I get a great feeling of freedom when the browser finally crashes and I lose them all. Like tears in the wind.

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 10h

Not for me, obviously. Lock me OUT 🙅‍♀️

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 10h

Bring back lock-ins!

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10h

Pubs to stay open until early hours in move to boost UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help ailing hospitality sector but health experts criticise move Pubs, clubs and restaurants will be able to open into the early hours as part of Labour’s drive for economic growth, a move which critics say will lead to more drunken disorder. Ministers are pushing ahead with plans to allow premises that sell alcohol to extend their opening hours in order to boost “the British night out” and help the hospitality sector. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 10h

Just remembered describing an edge-case in a meeting with the words "and I know that's a bit of a spiders georg scenario" to a load of extremely offline people senior to me, but with such confidence no one even blinked.

Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 10h

I guess I am spiders georg here.

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 10h

I am also a multi tab multi window girlie. Once the tabs get too small to read it's new window time baybeeeeee!

Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 10h

They are little babies to me

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 10h

Absolutely *deranged* people on this season of Love is Blind, I don't know what they're putting in the water in Denver.

Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 11h

HAHAHA

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 14h

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 11h

I always enjoy that slight flicker in someone's eyes when you say something that causes them to intellectually reassess you.

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 15h

Pilot: (on intercom) There are no air traffic controllers today so everybody look out the window and holler if you see another plane

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15h

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?

me: desktop

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 14h

Lots of things. But not for a long while. So I'm not sure social media in its current guise is up to scratch.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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St Mark-le-bone @marklebone.bsky.social · 14h

My father, who is the ass of the legs of me, used to say : my beloved - the legs of my ass - the ass is the father of the legs. he would emphasise: the ass is the ass of the legs of the legs

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 14h

Is it bedtime yet?

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 1d

It's easy for the cryptkeeper to sit there and moralize. Make his little puns about our transgressions. All he needs to do is take care of his damn crypt. His life is simple

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 22h

And I would call it that too if it wasn't in my tummy

Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 22h

I can do that, yes I can do that

Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 1d

Today I had a blueberry so monstrously big that none of my friends I sent a picture of it to could even identify it as a blueberry, they all asked what it was.

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