The bold font seems to me vaguely threatening.

"Do you still get paid in Roubles Ted?"
🐢💨

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"The Elsevier invoice arrived."

We got up early to go to a car boot sale our friend was doing. I haven't been to one in decades. I can confirm they are just as shit as I remember and not worth getting up early on a Sunday for.

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.

As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.

At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

Friends, send me all the Badass Librarian vibes you can spare today, as I attempt to get the enquiry inbox to fewer than 20 To Be Dealt with enquiries for the first time since a) becoming the only member of staff; b) breaking my leg; and c) losing my dad.

This whole thread, God help us.

We worry about Very Online Kids much more than their Very Online Parents, and I'm not sure that's wise

There is no resistance to the sighthound sad eyes, or as my friend refers to it, the "I am a starving Dickensian orphan" face

I've been catching up on your posts and bloody hell, I'm so sorry for all the shit you're going through.

"The Chancellor Rachel Reeves" is a great name for a Psychedelic Funk/Jazz Fusion band.

That is AWFUL

It's just like the telly these days, all repeats

Could this digital whiteboard have been a document? Could this document have been an email? Could this email have been a DM? Could this DM have been the slowly fading memory of a lover's lips on yours, in an endless summer's evening in 20011... 🌄🌳🌷

can't really begin to explain the extent to which I do Not want to be filmed without my knowledge by someone wearing smart glasses while out and about

Sorry...

*deep breath*

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!

Well that was exhausting.

I'm physically going into work today for the first time since I broked my leg- nearly two months ago!

The discourse is all around deradicalising young men and the crisis among young men.

The discourse would be much better targeted if it was about deradicalising boomers (and increasingly Gen Xers).

But it does explain Jaf's tiny arts and crafting!

One thing the media's reticence to label Kirk an extremist has made jarringly clear is how scared they are of the people in power now who share his extremist beliefs.

In the space of nine months, they have internalized a fear of condemning racism, misogyny, homophobia and antisemiticism.