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Caitlin Moran

@mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social

In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.

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Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 6d ago

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

Bingo Handjive@bingohandjive.bsky.social · 3w ago

I went to school in 1990s Somerset. To prove that light travels faster than sound, my science teacher brought his shotgun to school. We stood at one end of the field, he at the other. We started stop-watches when we saw smoke emerge from his barrel and stopped them when we heard the rifle crack.

Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · 3w ago

Bizarre things that happened in your assembly: A neighbour of one of the teachers gave us a five-minute lecture about kwashiorkor which involved him reciting a list of his favourite words (yes, ‘kwashiorkor’ was one of them). Included the unforgettable phrase, “Diarrhoea, another beautiful word.”

Caitlin Moran@mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · last mo.

Everything Cory Doctorow invariably makes you go "HUH!" There's every chance someone who reads this will invent something that changes the world

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2mo ago

They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/

A 1960s family living room in which a mom, dad and two kids are mesmerized by a cabinet-style TV. The image has been altered. The TV has an early 1990s VCR atop it. The TV screen is displaying a cross-sectioned human head with brains and spine on display. A huge fist has materialized in the room, with bloody spiked knuckle-dusters, smashing into the VCR. The oil painting over the sofa has been replaced with a pulp image of a male head, its cranium removed and replaced by a dome. Inside the dome is a red eight-segment VCR clock, displaying 12:00. The background in the painting is a tangle of cassette tape. The whole image's colors have been boosted, giving it an overexposed look.
Caitlin Moran@mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you want a perfect, rapid, breathless, loving summary of Dolly Parton's career, ethos and meaning, here it is: www.patreon.com/NeedleMythol...

“Even a canon that contains Jolene, I Will Always Love You, Coat Of Many Colors and The Bargain Store, can’t quite account for the outpouring of love.”  | Pete Paphides

In 1973, Dolly Parton can’t possibly have known what was lying ahead of her when she broke free from Porter Wagoner. Six years had elapsed s

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Adam Rutherford@adamrutherford.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I had not some across this before, but if you want an example Nathan Cofnas’ scholarship, this is a doozy. Again I say, being sacked is not the problem; being recruited in the first place is what deserves scrutiny.

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Caitlin Moran@mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I decided to finally update my will. "Mindful that a will should be regularly updated, I took a look at it — and was horrified to see that, as “executors”, I’d put a TV presenter I haven’t talked to in 17 years and a vicar who has subsequently moved to Australia." www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Caitlin Moran: I’m updating my will. Time to settle old scores

I try to write a list of my precious objects to bequeath. But all I have is a picture that Jamie Oliver drew for me and an email from David Bowie

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Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Good for Times Radio: got a former Navy commanding officer of a warship on right now (1745) saying the plan (sic) is as full of holes as a leaky dinghy.

Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Sorry but unless you, as a media outlet, have managed to get someone from the Navy (probably a former sailor because those currently serving maybe disbarred from commenting) to explain that this is extremely unlikely to happen for legal reasons, then, arguably, you haven't really done your job.