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My friend got me some Jelly Belly Belly-Ups (aka seconds), and it's like Russian roulette whether any individual sweet will taste nice or like bathroom cleaner. Jelly Bean Factory > Jelly Belly.

Putting information online about a PhD opportunity working with oral histories. Think it sounds really cool. Remember I have a PhD that partly draws on oral histories. Realise this must mean I'm cool, to myself at least.

The new Minuit Machine album is :blobcatchefskiss: thank you for the recommendation @AqiDrago :blobcathearts:

#JukeboxFridayNight #HitAndMiss Maggot Heart - Archer https://song.link/gb/i/1694955993 🎵 Are you the arrow? Are you the bow? You know, you know you should be both One takes the aim The other lets go 🎵

The Queen has spoken. https://masto.ai/@transworld/114196015499641429

"Mr Haiku" @satsuma wants #FiveKisses for #ThursdayFiveList This week, I only nominate songs that I can think of right now, so please apologize in advance! You don't have to be beautiful, to get a 1️⃣ Kiss From A Rose (Seal) https://song.link/at/i/30475379 on the grey. But hey baby, if […]

Maybe she's born with it. Maybe it's emotionally immature parents.

#ThursdayFiveList #FiveKisses :blobcatchefskiss: Silversun Pickups - Kissing Families https://song.link/gb/i/952835395 AFI - The Last Kiss https://song.link/gb/i/1440940272 The Cure - The Kiss https://song.link/gb/i/1452806367 Wolf Alice - Don't Delete The Kisses […]

'We've surfaced the fields you use often'. Then why aren't the description and story points showing? Fucksake Jira.

Fuck Suffolk County Council, I hope they get devolved to oblivion.

Just once I'd like to skim the morning news and not feel like punching the universe in the face.

I notice the film Black Bag is 94 minutes long. I may go to see it on Friday because this is the right length for a film.

Love too receive a densely-worded email attachment from #Unbound's administrators with a really far-down form I'm not sure if I need to fill in to reclaim the £32.14 they have from me 🤷‍♀️ no idea whether I'm meant to do anything.

Previous boost: well, damn, now I'm pondering how many of the stories I 'wrote' from the age of four or so involved wish fulfilment/me being treated nicely.

Waiting for my earbuds to update so I can listen to music. This is not the future I was promised as a child.

#TuneTuesday #HotHotHot I can't decide between two songs, so... AFI - Catch a Hot One https://song.link/gb/i/1440942813 Shudder to Think - Hot One https://youtube.com/watch?v=xH3KILLaTkI (sanitised YouTube link as can't find on Songlink)

Morning fedi :comfy: Today I'm reviewing Welcome to Ferrendale! Read my thoughts on this delightfully sinister and intriguing folk horror story: https://www.draliceviolett.com/welcome-to-ferrendale-by-oli-jacobs #bookstodon #BookMastodon

'Too many snakes hun' - St Patrick.

🌋🚨🧜‍♀️ #volcano #translation #translate #GoogleTranslate #siren #mermaid #memes #meme #FunnyMemes #funny

Saying "No-one using our service has accessibility needs" is a bit like saying "We don't need a ramp, no-one in a wheelchair has ever come up the stairs". #accessibility #A11y

It's my stop on the Madame Matisse blog tour! Read my review of this gripping, thought-provoking and fascinating novel. https://www.draliceviolett.com/blog-tour-madame-matisse #bookstodon #BookMastodon

Cold Cave 💜 (god knows how long ago @MFDOOMALLCAPS recommended them to me, but there is so much music and only a finite amount of time to listen to it 😵)

Ulver, Drab Majesty, and Nation of Language in the play queue because apparently I'm in a sounds-80s-but-isn't mood.

Tfw it's your first day back, you look at your inbox... then go to check your out of office was definitely on and all these people have just emailed you knowing full well you're not there... 😒

It's my stop on the Madame Matisse blog tour! Read my review of this gripping, thought-provoking and fascinating novel. https://www.draliceviolett.com/blog-tour-madame-matisse #bookstodon #BookMastodon

#SilentSunday #myphoto #iphonephotography #art #northumberland #spoon

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Huh. Five years ago today, I took my work laptop and some other bits home, to see how possible it was to do my job remotely. I then didn't return to the office for eight months, when I went in for the day to retrieve the rest of my stuff.

Previous boost: Greater Anglia and TfL say 61016 differently (former: six-one-oh, one-six; latter: six, one-oh-one, six, which is jarring when you're used to the former). Maybe everyone should just say sixty-one thousand and sixteen.

#TheSundayStarter Drab Majesty - Dot in the Sky https://song.link/gb/i/1474112013 Finally got around to digging deeper into Drab Majesty's back catalogue. This album is immense.

Hang on a minute... Don't tell me Premier Inn just offer you a JPG for their breakfsat menu like incompetent baboons? Seriously now? Not even an accessible PDF?

lmao

So, for years, my friend has been referring to a place called 'Eric House'. I finally saw it written down the other day, and it's actually 'Herrick House'. 30 years in Essex this August and I still don't understand the locals 🤦‍♀️

Boyfriend: I didn't expect this jigsaw to contain so much white! Me: a jigsaw of Moomins, in the snow...?

Nice relaxing Saturday in Cardiff museum.

The year is 2027. Nicole, a young enthusiastic Linux user with a love of cartoon foxes, is setting up her first Fediverse account. In a moment of playful sassyness she decides to set her name to "the Fediverse chick". Only moments later she will find out that she is mysteriously blocked everywhere.

Today in 'the publishers formerly known as Unbound are a bunch of crooks.' This isn't Tom's fault, so I'll pay for his new book a second time, but grrrrr. #unbound

The publisher Penguin got its name because the founder wanted a logo that was “dignified but flippant,” and his secretary suggested a penguin. Random House got its name because the founders planned to publish books on random topics. Since the two companies merged (becoming Penguin Random […]

The only thing I have to do today is go to the gym from around 5-6, and for some reason my brain has decided to treat this as a bigger obstacle/time sink than it actually is. Like, I probably wasn't going to do anything of value during that hour anyway! Get a grip!

#JukeboxFridayNight #SoundAndVision Ride - Light in a Quiet Room https://song.link/gb/i/1717488178