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Zoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, it's amazing how much the curls spring up when my hair is cut. They're my natural curls too - it wasn't a perm!

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Zoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social · 1h

New hair, who dis?

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Zoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social · 2h

Another excellent point!

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Zoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social · 2h

For the ~3 of you who know/care about these things:
The baby is saying quite a few words now, but one amusing thing I've noticed is that she hasn't learned happy-tensing yet (even though she can make an /i:/ sound), so she calls us Mummih and Daddih, with a proper 1940s RP accent that makes me laugh

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Zoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social · 2h

Right?! Thank you for the vindication!

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Zoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social · 3h

14 or 15. I guess I'm biased because of the young people I know, whom I mostly know *because* of their obsessions. But I'm sure it was the case for kids I used to teach too.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 21h

[phone rings]

a junior officer: boss, switch on the news, you’re going to want to see this

[I switch on the tv]

jess glynn: darlin’ hold my HAND

me: it’s an ad break?

a junior officer: yeah, i don’t know how i expected this to work, really

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 21h

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 6h

Afantasia is when you can't picture Mickey Mouse dressed as a wizard.

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Zoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social · 6h

I realise I'm not representative of the typical teen but I reckon most of my peers at school could have told you extensive details about Mark from Westlife / Ben from A1 / David Beckham / Billie Joe Armstrong or whoever they were into. Is that not the case any more?

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Zoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social · 6h

Having a disagreement with my editors about whether students would be able to write an imaginary CV for their favourite celebrity or fictional character if they can't use their phones for research. Apparently they won't know in depth info about them. Don't most teens have blorbos they obsess over?

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Zoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social · 7h

It seems I'm very much in my Inadvertent Social Faux Pas Era at the moment.
At the hairdressers today, getting a curly cut, the stylist asked me which shampoo/conditioner I use. I slipped rather Freudianly and replied, "OnlyFans," before quickly correcting myself to, "OnlyCurls". Cheers, mouth.

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Zoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social · 7h

One notable exception is Daunt Books, which arranges all books, fiction and non-fiction, by the country it deals with.
Why aren't fiction books separated out more into smaller genres, like "gritty stories dealing with poverty", "light and humourous", "character- and dialogue-driven" etc?

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Zoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social · 7h

Most bookshops are crap at displaying fiction. Apart from a few select genres like crime or romance, it's impossible to browse for books you might like, unless you somehow just really want to read a book by an author beginning with J or something. They should follow the example of non-fiction.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Zoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social · 7h

Hi, I'm Marzipan, Death on the Orient Express (the Kenneth Branagh version), Summertime Sadness. How do you do?

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Zoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social · 11h

I'd remembered that she worked with animals, but turns out that doing admin for Cats Protection ≠ being a vet, and there is significantly less fisting of farmyard animals involved.

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 21h

OK there's my Unhinged Literary Opinion: Pratchett is the greatest humanist/philosophical writer of our era.

Micah @rincewind.run · 21h

and since he really does have a quote for everything, in the wise words of Sir Terry Pratchett: “Susan hated Literature. She’d much prefer to read a good book.”

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Zoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social · 22h

So yeah, in other news, I'm looking for a new choir to join, preferably one I can access from the bottom of this hole in the ground that has helpfully swallowed me up.

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Zoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social · 22h

At choir this evening, horse riding came up (don't ask) and one of the women said, "It's a long time since I've been on a horse."
Me: Haha yeah, because you're normally up its backside instead!
*horrified silence*
Me: ... because you're a vet?

Reader, turns out she is not and has never been a vet 💀

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 1d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Zoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social · 1d

A very nice Irish delivery man just brought my shopping and referred to "those little oaty bars" and now thanks to echolalia, that one innocuous phrase is bouncing around my head over and over again, which is making it quite hard to write about the third conditional.

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Zoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who is a little too proud of their range of accents, my answer is "all of them". However, I do give my daughter the option every time of voices or no voices, and I try very hard not to take it personally if she chooses no voices. Like, I was gonna crack out the Geordie; you're missing out

Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 1d

This (fascinating) audiobook thread reminding me of the hardest choices you have to make as a parent, “how many characters in this book are getting funny voices?” b/w “can I actually do the accent I am attempting?”

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Dec 26

“May your favourite authors get big enough that their audiobooks get a cast of more than one actor.” - ancient Cockney curse.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Dec 26

“May your favourite authors get big enough that their audiobooks get a cast of more than one actor.” - ancient Cockney curse.

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Zoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my GOD I need those now 🤩

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Zoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social · 1d

There's a woman in one of my choirs whom I've never warmed to and I didn't know why because she's perfectly nice and friendly. I've just realised it's because she looks a bit like Joan the warden from Prisoner Cell Block H, and on some level, I'm probably afraid of her.