my secret superpower is providing a reasonable level of customer service while in intense psychic agony

bought some National Trust scented candles from a gift shop the other day because they were on sale and maaaan they 'aint shit, as the kids say, my £1 a pop candles from IKEA are way better 🤷

having an animated discussion with a customer about Star Trek Voyager is such an example of Just When I Thought I Was Out, This Job Pulls Me Back In

at Chartwell this afternoon

at Bodiam castle this morning

my sister and I walking through a field of cows as we nervously discuss the article we both read about how many people get trampled to death by cows for no reason

it’s a sunny day at Sissinghurst

me and my sister rolling up to Sissinghurst castle blasting ‘Ring of Keys’ out the car window, gay as hell of us tbh

Great news everyone: stuff isn’t really expensive any more. Actually it’s very cheap, you’re all rich now

it’s one of those days when I am thinking longingly of retirement, not because it has been particularly stressful or anyone has yelled at me (yet) but because I am just SO exhausted 😩 😭😴

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

my upstairs neighbours have returned from a 2 month long trip and they are nice people but Oh Boy I forgot how loud that kid is 😑

a remarkably effective life hack: just be nice to people it's incredible how much goodwill people will extend to you if you're pleasant to them

Yeah we know we were there

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.

Summer of 2026 was UK’s hottest on record, Met Office says

had a lovely day out at the Swallowfield Show

out of context description of me from a good friend

[Exit Queen.]

People here recoil from AI because it doesn't look like the future. The observable uses for it include: - Scams - Homogenously hideous zero-effort advertising - Making non-consensual porn out of real people's photos - Insanely inflated market capitalization

got some pretty decent views of London as we came in to land today

No one actually reads papers any more apart from a small minority of psychotic boomer reactionaries who have strong opinions about the ginger prince marrying an uppity black woman. The hack class cannot fathom their own inconsequentiality.

Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 3w ago

Either every single media organisation in the UK doesn't understand their audience or people are lying to pollsters. I genuinely can't make up my mind which it is.

The wild thing about this is that, at root, this is every opinion in the UK. Me, my friends and family are real people and we should be treated with kindness and respect. Everyone else is a grifting fake taking money out of my pocket and using up resources that should be mine.

Gift@giftmacher.bsky.social · 3w ago

Absolutely peak British media this, "I the deserving, you the fucking pig people". Say what you like about Marie Antoinette, she at least thought the poor should have cake. Weapons grade amounts of self regard and misanthropy

Remember folks, wash out your tin cans before placing them in the correct recycling bin.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

Proposed London datacentre will have annual carbon footprint of 27,000 flights to New York

really interesting 🧵

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3w ago

One thing I wish people would realize is just how central JK Rowling is to the entire anti-trans ecosystem. Looking at a network node analysis of the top 200 anti-trans X accounts, she is the most central figure spanning both sides of the Atlantic from Republicans to Labour.

just discovered how much pads cost in America, damn guys I’m sorry you have to live like this 😬

In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,

Them, trying to hand me my cheque at the end of the year: ‘But…you won? We’re here to make you rich. You can leave now.’ Me, clinging onto my precious hardwood fence on my farm in Stardew Valley, tears streaming down my face as my chickens look on: ‘No!! Nooooo!!!’

Nina Marotta ☢️💙@mrschief7.bsky.social · 3w ago

You're offered $250,000,000 but to claim it you must enter the last video game you've played and stay there for a full year. How are y'all faring in this deal?

"You can have all the water you want, as long as you're rich" was always the end point of water privatisation. It was never going to lead anywhere else; it *could* never lead anywhere else.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4w ago

Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ bills during drought

having the full American experience today