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tobymorse.bsky.social
Translator Retired theatre critic Occasional lecturer Aspiring wedding celebrant Dad
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If you know, you know

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

You can tell a person's age by how they communicate. A WhatsApp chat between me (Gen X) and my daughter (Gen Z) - she sends a voice note, I reply with a fluently typed text response. She responds with another voice note. I type back at length. It works for both of us.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

The dog found a frozen cat poo on the lawn and ate it. A poopsicle.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

I'd like autocorrect to have a tmesis button, so that I can just type 'unbelievable' and it will automatically convert it to 'unbe-fucking-lievable'.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Presumably George Michael thought he was giving his heart to someone special last Christmas as well, yet the very next day it got given away. Which means there's every chance he's making the same mistake this year. #whamageddon

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

I worry that my imposter syndrome is inferior to other people's

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

I've got 'Polish shoes' written on my to do list, and I keep thinking I mean this:

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Here's an idea: compulsory National Service for young people, but instead of joining the army, they have to spend their spell working in retail or hospitality. A year dealing with the public should make them much more considerate customers when they're on the other side of the card machine.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

If you ever doubt your ability, just remember that Dolly Parton wrote I Will Always Love You and Jolene on the same day and tbh you’ll never achieve anything like that so you might as well give up.

submitted 75 days ago • 44 comments

For someone with the baking skills of a sea cucumber, I'm quite proud of the treacle tart I made from @jayrayner1.bsky.social 's recipe in Nights Out at Home. It's also yummy.

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

Are the ages that end in 9 more stressful than those ending in 0? Is the *prospect* of turning 30/40/50/60 more depressing/bleak/panic-inducing than the reality of doing so? #ageing

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

When you discover your Cairn terrier was a cowboy in a previous life

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Dogs are never more hopeful than when walking past the spot they found a chicken wing several months ago

submitted 76 days ago • 32 comments

My 19 year old son is playing the Moonlight Sonata from memory. I can't even play it from the sheet music. I love the fact that my kids are more talented than I am.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Life is a series of side-quests.

submitted 321 days ago • 0 comments

Sad to find the great Oliver Burkeman's not on bluesky. @emmafinniganpr.bsky.social could you send him in this direction please?

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

What happens if you do the #ikigai and the "what I'm good at" circle is empty?

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

People regularly tell me to "just engage my core" as if it's obvious what that means. It's not. It's like telling someone who has never played the piano to "just play a D minor seventh".

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Brits giving glowing reviews: “I didn't mind it” “Not too bad at all” “Did the trick” “Yeah, pretty good” “Better than expected” “Fine overall” “Better than a kick in the teeth” “Decent” “I’ve seen worse” “It was alright” “No real complaints” “I ate most of it” “Yep, okay”

submitted 94 days ago • 21 comments

The progression of reading glasses. #gettingolder #aginggracefully #agingstruggles #lifechanges

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Thought for the day comes from Anne Lamont, courtesy of Oliver Burkeman's Meditations for Mortals

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Oh no. I've just discovered your first post is not supposed to be an introduction, but a picture of your dog. Ah well - she'll have to be the second post. Happy lazy Sunday. #dogsofbluesky #lurcher

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment