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Mum went to Asda this morning for emergency onions and she found a "bag" of onions that was supposed to have three onions in it but someone had nicked two 😂
December 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Mum went to Asda this morning for emergency onions and she found a "bag" of onions that was supposed to have three onions in it but someone had nicked two 😂
Micah, Best Baby of All Time, has excellent taste in socks.
December 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Micah, Best Baby of All Time, has excellent taste in socks.
My phone rings, it's Dad (he never rings);
Him - hello, this is your long lost father (I saw him for 4hrs on Sunday)
Me - yes??? I know that
Him - have you eaten?
Me - yup
Him - .......
Me - Dad?
Him - just want to make sure you haven't spent a lot of money on me for Christmas (it's the 23rd....)
Him - hello, this is your long lost father (I saw him for 4hrs on Sunday)
Me - yes??? I know that
Him - have you eaten?
Me - yup
Him - .......
Me - Dad?
Him - just want to make sure you haven't spent a lot of money on me for Christmas (it's the 23rd....)
December 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
My phone rings, it's Dad (he never rings);
Him - hello, this is your long lost father (I saw him for 4hrs on Sunday)
Me - yes??? I know that
Him - have you eaten?
Me - yup
Him - .......
Me - Dad?
Him - just want to make sure you haven't spent a lot of money on me for Christmas (it's the 23rd....)
Him - hello, this is your long lost father (I saw him for 4hrs on Sunday)
Me - yes??? I know that
Him - have you eaten?
Me - yup
Him - .......
Me - Dad?
Him - just want to make sure you haven't spent a lot of money on me for Christmas (it's the 23rd....)
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every day a new devastating connor storrie/hudson williams photoshoot drops and every day I throw my phone out of the window then throw myself out of the same window
December 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
every day a new devastating connor storrie/hudson williams photoshoot drops and every day I throw my phone out of the window then throw myself out of the same window
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December 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The 21st is here again which means summer is on the way 😁
December 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The 21st is here again which means summer is on the way 😁
@bidonica.bsky.social bb have you seen the synopsis and runtime for episode 6 👀
December 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
@bidonica.bsky.social bb have you seen the synopsis and runtime for episode 6 👀
I have updated my S.O.O.S list (Sadie's Order of Superman, given to fictional character who are perfect unicorns who can do no wrong).
Current encumbents:
- Clark Kent/Superman (all versions)
- Scott McCall
- Brienne of Tarth
- Philippa Somerville
New entrant: Shane Hollander
Current encumbents:
- Clark Kent/Superman (all versions)
- Scott McCall
- Brienne of Tarth
- Philippa Somerville
New entrant: Shane Hollander
December 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I have updated my S.O.O.S list (Sadie's Order of Superman, given to fictional character who are perfect unicorns who can do no wrong).
Current encumbents:
- Clark Kent/Superman (all versions)
- Scott McCall
- Brienne of Tarth
- Philippa Somerville
New entrant: Shane Hollander
Current encumbents:
- Clark Kent/Superman (all versions)
- Scott McCall
- Brienne of Tarth
- Philippa Somerville
New entrant: Shane Hollander
Topics of discussion over Christmas lunch:
- the price of pints
- the price of the Radio Times Christmas special
- the price of crisps
- how did no-one under the age of 35 know the Christmas songs in the work quiz the other day
- but seriously what is this song on now???
- the price of pints
- the price of the Radio Times Christmas special
- the price of crisps
- how did no-one under the age of 35 know the Christmas songs in the work quiz the other day
- but seriously what is this song on now???
December 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Topics of discussion over Christmas lunch:
- the price of pints
- the price of the Radio Times Christmas special
- the price of crisps
- how did no-one under the age of 35 know the Christmas songs in the work quiz the other day
- but seriously what is this song on now???
- the price of pints
- the price of the Radio Times Christmas special
- the price of crisps
- how did no-one under the age of 35 know the Christmas songs in the work quiz the other day
- but seriously what is this song on now???
What I should be doing: rewatching (again) episode 5
What I am actually doing:
What I am actually doing:
December 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
What I should be doing: rewatching (again) episode 5
What I am actually doing:
What I am actually doing:
My brother: I had to try and explain to Mum what Steam is and you have no idea how long that took.... don't think she actually got it at all in the end 😂
(I asked for Steam vouchers for Christmas, whoops)
(I asked for Steam vouchers for Christmas, whoops)
December 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
My brother: I had to try and explain to Mum what Steam is and you have no idea how long that took.... don't think she actually got it at all in the end 😂
(I asked for Steam vouchers for Christmas, whoops)
(I asked for Steam vouchers for Christmas, whoops)
I would die for Svetlana. #heatedrivalry
December 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I would die for Svetlana. #heatedrivalry
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I wrote about the narrative importance of the sex scenes in Heated Rivalry, how this reflects the magic of romance novel storytelling, and how the plot is fuelled by a genuinely bleak view of homophobia in hockey culture.
(Spoilers for ep 4!)
(Spoilers for ep 4!)
On Heated Rivalry, Sex Scenes Do the Talking
The hockey romance series offers a clear counterargument to complaints about gratuitous sex scenes on screen
www.tvguide.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I wrote about the narrative importance of the sex scenes in Heated Rivalry, how this reflects the magic of romance novel storytelling, and how the plot is fuelled by a genuinely bleak view of homophobia in hockey culture.
(Spoilers for ep 4!)
(Spoilers for ep 4!)
@carriecoon.bsky.social ms coon I did not know you were married to mr letts and just listened to him on the big picture podcast so congrats on your extremely sexy and intelligent spouse
December 5, 2025 at 11:50 PM
@carriecoon.bsky.social ms coon I did not know you were married to mr letts and just listened to him on the big picture podcast so congrats on your extremely sexy and intelligent spouse
Really need these earphones to be charged SOON lest I scream at the most annoying person in this office....
December 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Really need these earphones to be charged SOON lest I scream at the most annoying person in this office....
So glad I was not in a public place when I saw the trailer for Ready or Not 2 😫
December 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
So glad I was not in a public place when I saw the trailer for Ready or Not 2 😫
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This is why I support freedom of expression.
Appropriately, it is the chaos of a system that supports free speech that gives rise to the grand process of democratic self-governance and the ideally upward arc of human progress and flourishing.
Yesterday a Stoppard play, today a tweet.
Appropriately, it is the chaos of a system that supports free speech that gives rise to the grand process of democratic self-governance and the ideally upward arc of human progress and flourishing.
Yesterday a Stoppard play, today a tweet.
December 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This is why I support freedom of expression.
Appropriately, it is the chaos of a system that supports free speech that gives rise to the grand process of democratic self-governance and the ideally upward arc of human progress and flourishing.
Yesterday a Stoppard play, today a tweet.
Appropriately, it is the chaos of a system that supports free speech that gives rise to the grand process of democratic self-governance and the ideally upward arc of human progress and flourishing.
Yesterday a Stoppard play, today a tweet.
😭
November 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
😭
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"But just because a reader found Heaney’s surface sense pretty clear didn’t mean that they’d even begun to engage with its meaning. And those who like their poems to be either transparently simple or transparently complex will never get Heaney, since he insisted on a poem being both."
essay on Heaney over at the northseapoets substack … open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
Heaney on the Underground
Don Paterson on Seamus Heaney's choice of words
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"But just because a reader found Heaney’s surface sense pretty clear didn’t mean that they’d even begun to engage with its meaning. And those who like their poems to be either transparently simple or transparently complex will never get Heaney, since he insisted on a poem being both."
Got to decorate my new minuting notebook with the best sticker I own, thanks to @msclairebiddles.bsky.social 🩸 🧛♂️ #readyforseason3
November 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Got to decorate my new minuting notebook with the best sticker I own, thanks to @msclairebiddles.bsky.social 🩸 🧛♂️ #readyforseason3
Microsoft Word (whatever edition) does NOT like legislation, it keeps shouting "passive voice" at me, like yes I am aware but it is literally the law so I ain't changing it!
November 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Microsoft Word (whatever edition) does NOT like legislation, it keeps shouting "passive voice" at me, like yes I am aware but it is literally the law so I ain't changing it!
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Udo Kier (1944–2025)
November 24, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Udo Kier (1944–2025)
Woke up early this morning thoroughly excited about the cricket, shouldn't have bothered myself 😒
November 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Woke up early this morning thoroughly excited about the cricket, shouldn't have bothered myself 😒
I understand that RPF is a thing all on its own, but who exactly is running Big PR that makes actors be in a fake relationship with a person of the wrong gender? I would love to know.
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I understand that RPF is a thing all on its own, but who exactly is running Big PR that makes actors be in a fake relationship with a person of the wrong gender? I would love to know.
TIL that earthworms provide £83m worth of services to Northern Ireland's environment, shout out to earthworms for all their work 🙌
November 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
TIL that earthworms provide £83m worth of services to Northern Ireland's environment, shout out to earthworms for all their work 🙌