• bluesky
    By / May 21, 2026
    Every so often someone will call the charity I work for thinking that we will want to clear their deceased relative’s house for them for free or take whatever furniture they are trying to get rid of from their own home.

    We don’t even have charity shops.

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  • bluesky
    By / May 16, 2026
    It’s taken me until now to realise the X in arXiv is chi and not x which isn’t great considering I did study ancient Greek for fun that time
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  • bluesky
    By / May 13, 2026
    Interesting to read about things from the newsletter writer side. On my part, I unsubscribed from all the newsletters on Substack I had been following some time ago.

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  • mastodon
    By / May 3, 2026

    Finally figured out why there was a burst of kudos on fics I wrote ages back and it turns out the fandom got recced (but not the media lol)

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  • bluesky
    By / May 3, 2026
    This tells me NOTHING about what might happen in the story Kobo, please stop doing this

    (I have emailed to tell them that this kind of listing is unhelpful already)

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  • bluesky
    By / April 28, 2026
    Social media showing me adverts for a film that I already saw weeks ago part 3853: Rose of Nevada

    This is usually fine because I enjoyed the film but this one was kind of bleurgh and disappointing overall

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  • mastodon
    By / April 25, 2026

    Having been on last.fm for over 20 years at this point, it’s both a blessing and a curse to be able to go and listen to the profile radios of friends no longer on the planet

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  • bluesky
    By / April 20, 2026
    Anyway today I discovered that the racist lecturer from my first year at university is dead now, so lol wild to read the tributes from people who I guess just were white
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