Tracy King
@tracyking.bsky.social
Author, producer, scicomms, animation. Royal Institution writer-in-residence. Books: Learning To Think (Penguin) The Cost of Trust (Harper Collins) Tim Minchin's Storm (Orion)
Journo request: those who have read my memoir know it opens with a child exorcism. I am looking for other people who were exorcised as a child or otherwise dramatically affected by religion, or whose child was exorcised. Can be anonymous. DMs open, shares appreciated. Thank you.
Journo request: those who have read my memoir know it opens with a child exorcism. I am looking for other people who were exorcised as a child or otherwise dramatically affected by religion, or whose child was exorcised. Can be anonymous. DMs open, shares appreciated. Thank you.
We just looked up what the B in Oral B stands for and it's BRUSH.
Ah yes, perhaps the most beloved literary trope of all: the classic McMuffin
My favourite thing in the world is when the economy is bad, middle class people get classic poor people problems but still refuse to listen to the ways poor people have managed said problems, oh, forever. Today: is it more expensive to cook from scratch? If only someone had looked into this before!
If you’re going to say “namely” you do in fact have to name things
Long shot but anyone know how analogue tachograph fraud worked? Someone I knew in the 80s used to hitchhike holding out blank tachographs and I want to know how that all worked. I know how tachographs worked but not why a blank one was hitchhiking currency.
If someone text “Abbey Wood in ten” would you assume they meant their train arrives at Abbey Wood in ten or that the Abbey Wood train departs from their location in ten
I have invented the game ‘recreate a movie poster by making custom whatsapp stickers’
Specifically the editor is looking to start running video game reviews, so if you are looking for paid work in this area please pitch her! And please RT!
Sarah Manvel@cairdiul.bsky.social · 2w agoMovieswetextedabout.com is looking for new contributors for pop culturey things and games. It’s a paid contribution opportunity for a small but growing and mighty site. I really like writing for them and instructions for how to pitch are on the site. Please RT!
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
Lupus Londonwolf@lupuslondonwolf.bsky.social · 2w agoI was making potato and leek soup and the recipe asked for five potatoes cubed. Even for potato soup, 125 potatoes seems a little excessive.
I wrote about medical misogyny and the male gaze (re Paterson and the news that it has happened again) unherd.com/2026/09/put-...
Put medical misogyny under the knife
unherd.com
“And I’m worried about what this data is for. In a climate of AI replacing people, I can’t help but worry it will be used to train AI to replace coaches and instructors altogether.” That is precisely what the data is for.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoTeachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work
I wrote about medical misogyny and the male gaze (re Paterson and the news that it has happened again) unherd.com/2026/09/put-...
Put medical misogyny under the knife
unherd.com
This week I interviewed some of the nurses and healthcare staff who worked in intensive care during covid. One of them wanted to go on record as saying how utterly fucked - dead - we’d have been (and still would be) without migrant healthcare workers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Angela Rayner criticises worker visa plans on eve of Labour conference
The housing secretary says the government's plans to change wait times for permanent residency are unfair because they "change the goalposts".
bbc.co.uk
The twins are 79 this week! My aunt had a fall and broke her arm but that has not affected her wine consumption, don’t worry.
Haha this is wonderfully difficult and also leads one to commit some spectacular fallacies. “Well he looks like a Tim, and his hair is definitely Tory”.
James O'Malley@jamesomalley.co.uk · 3w agoI'm very sorry everyone, I made *another* new game. MP Chain 🏛️ I recognised 1️⃣5️⃣ MPs in a row. How long is your chain? toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/mpchain/
Upon graduating medical school in 1881, Arthur Conan Doyle did a doodle of himself waving his diploma over his head. The caption reads: "Licensed to Kill." My new book SLEUTH-HOUND is about Conan Doyle's professor, Joseph Bell - the real-life Sherlock Holmes. Out Oct 20! linktr.ee/drlindseyfit...
Turned my lounge into a set for some filming tomorrow and Pig decided it was about her
ANUS tree is good but I live near PENIS tree.
Daniel Benneworth-Gray@danielgray.com · 2y agothe best tree in london
Losing my mind while doing some research for my creature design lecture that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog. Like there has gotta be a fable where the maned wolf took all the leggie from its cousin
This was extremely hard, not only to narrow it down but also because four of my top picks aren’t in the database. Some extremely obscure 80s Amstrad titles, and no XCOM for some reason.
Daniel Benneworth-Gray@danielgray.com · 3w agoNine absolute bangers. Chef kisses all round. my9games.net
