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Wrote a History PhD on The Burney Family / Social Democrat / gam zu l'tovah. Interested in lit, theology, history, software, systems, &c. Soon to be Pākehā.
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Australia: quite big

me, an idiot and a philistine: hey I wonder what this exhibition actually is the guy who wrote the copy for the gallery's website: fuck off

Got called miss by cabin crew. Second time this year.

Hello from Doha

Incredible work from everyone involved here

When things are going well.

Yesterday we got up at 7, sent off the cats, did 10h of final house clearing, drove 200 miles, got a taxi another 150 miles. Now the small issue of flying to nz via Doha.

The emirates form outlined my responsibility if ‘the animal escapes and kills someone’

don’t worry guys, bluesky can be perfect so long as we all get along. first things first, we just need to agree on the exact kind of communist we’re all going to be

DHS: South Sudan Deportations A Lot More Humane When You Learn What Stephen Miller Wanted To Do theonion.com/dhs-sou...

*Slaps roof* Stately, plump… You can fit so many kidneys in this bad boy.

Fridge freezer has been donated to some evangelicals for some sort of church festival thing. I also found my dreidel underneath it.

Yeah I get the sense that I’m in quite a bubble, but I’m on a thousand blocklists and also mute quite aggressively. I also don’t _really_ post that politically in a policy sense.

OI M8 U GOT YOUR TOILET LICENCE

Turns out it’s much more stressful to emigrate when you have ‘possessions’ that you ‘take with you’

Uhoh

Stephen Fry mentions a game, in one of his novels, called “the Alan Ayckbourn Game” where you lose if you say a line that could come from an AA play. The point being it kills all conversation stone dead as the next like will INEVITABLY &c

FOND MEMORIES OF MY T

First sift of clothes, weeded front & back of house, burned important documents (say hello to Miguel Sanchez!), walked 2 miles, read 80 pages, Russian revision, did 2 loads of washing, wrote 30 lines of pandas.

Today I had a customer who was carrying a jar of pesto which looked incredible: it was coarser and somehow funkier than usual. I said "Wow, that pesto looks amazing. Where did you get it?" "It's not pesto" he said, and he opened the jar, reached in with his hand, and pulled out... a newt.

Read it through for the first time last week & 100% agree.