- @SnaveZ92 @USPS @USPSHelp I’ve got a couple of parcels stuck there too – what I would love is for their website to… https://t.co/LDR7TnidsZ in reply to SnaveZ92 ->
- @orangeofmyeye @RachVanilla @USPSHelp @lauraannebooth I’ve got one that arrived that the LA distribution centre on… https://t.co/fBC2cgnxmp in reply to orangeofmyeye ->
Monthly Archives: May 2020
Tweets for 2020-05-17
- @anatsuno I don’t archive my own tweets but yeah, all my faved ones are there and the tricky balance between “tweet… https://t.co/VnDnYOTwmE in reply to anatsuno ->
Tweets for 2020-05-18
- Ugh, obviously my optician is closed right now but other options say they are open for “essential and urgent servic… https://t.co/aBfbZn2FuF ->
- Like, I know that I need new glasses because back in February my face started feeling weird like it does when I nee… https://t.co/ZwCLrpqbEM in reply to herdivineshadow ->
- What I want is some way of testing my own eyes and then just ordering new glasses online MAGICALLY. in reply to herdivineshadow ->
- Anyway I was talking to my Mum about it and she has never experienced the “your face feels weird like it’s time for new glasses” thing. in reply to herdivineshadow ->
Tweets for 2020-05-16
- RT @spamnugget: Oh, hey.
So I found that content you were looking for. https://t.co/iJtZ9kzEeL -> - @kakapojayne I AM SO EXCITED OMG in reply to kakapojayne ->
- RT @LittleLostLad: Week 8 of lockdown: My girlfriend made an art gallery for our cat. https://t.co/LDXKFmf4ST ->
- RT @scullyxf: mood https://t.co/yWQkAmbYOu ->
- RT @aptshadow: Spider, man.
Spider, man.
Just a regular spider, man.
Spins a web, very small,
Where the ceiling meets the wall.
Look up: it… -> - @teh_nos maybe you COULD tho in reply to teh_nos ->
- RT @YORKlESBAR: Sadness Time https://t.co/BSkVEtWm9N ->
- For that moment when it’s that parishioner you don’t like and a vague dowsing using the usual branch and metal buck… https://t.co/cgiyU729wR ->
- I feel like the lady in our vocations prayer group who says she doesn’t pray and would never want her kids to have… https://t.co/gWJpckWh7f ->
- Like, if you want to come up with ideas for what we can do each month go ahead lady, but since YOU HAVE NO SUGGESTI… https://t.co/9z2B207KXl in reply to herdivineshadow ->
- I mean, yeah, a lot of the stories are going to be the same born into a catholic family, went to church all my life… https://t.co/nt9JZ2cReX in reply to herdivineshadow ->
- @HSouthwellFE Haha because her late husband was pretty into it and he was our club president at one point and I gue… https://t.co/kQCcWHW1f6 in reply to HSouthwellFE ->
- @understood I KNOW RIGHT in reply to understood ->
- Like. My grandma was a nun AND YET HERE I AM. in reply to herdivineshadow ->
- RT @SketchesbyBoze: I keep seeing essays about “how to build the perfect body” but not one *single* essay about how building a body is an a… ->
- @understood tbh it is pretty tempting to put out a call for suggestions because there is a chance my tactic of “lea… https://t.co/aGjKUAEol4 in reply to understood ->
- RT @clapifyoulikeme: Every so often I remember that “helicopter” is not made up of “heli” and “copter” but of “helico” and “pter” and I am… ->
- Anyway in yesterday’s work quiz, one of the questions was “how many minutes would it take to watch the Star Wars fi… https://t.co/7ToQu852NZ ->
- Me, the person who turned up to the zoom drinkies in full Princess Leia arriving on Bespin gear with a Cloud City background. in reply to herdivineshadow ->
- Soldi is such a tune #Eurovision ->
- RT @TechnicallyRon: Coronavirus was invented by Europe to stop Iceland winning the 2020 Eurovision song contest this is the only legitimate… ->
- Sometimes my mum asks if i put too much oil in a thing and like the answer is no but what she doesn’t realise is th… https://t.co/73Jm2boBZ0 ->
Tweets for 2020-05-15
- RT @seanjonesqc: The trouble with having barristers wear face coverings in court is that 400 years from now we’ll still be wearing an ornat… ->
- RT @AyeshaASiddiqi: “Today in France it is simultaneously possible for a woman to be fined €165 for being in public with a face covering an… ->
- @daniel_barker basically the best thing about no one leaving our house is that my mum no longer buys that newspaper… https://t.co/3efWZ9HGTd in reply to daniel_barker ->
Tweets for 2020-05-14
- RT @QualiaRedux: My husband said the X-Files opening is only scary because of the music so I fixed it https://t.co/BM5z7cgsy0 ->
- I am going to eat some cheese ->
Tweets for 2020-05-13
- @HSouthwellFE I feel like I am still pretty obsessed with the X-Files even though I haven’t watched or read any in ages in reply to HSouthwellFE ->
- RT @matthaig1: I am still amazed that people who would foam at the mouth and quickly want to redesign society if a terrorist kills a handfu… ->
- It’s occurred to me that I am now twice as old as I was when I took my userpic that I use basically everywhere. ->
- I mean, you can probably tell because it’s an extremely ancient webcam looking shot in reply to herdivineshadow ->
- RT @crevicedwelling: She made friends with an avocado https://t.co/p4EBB5rWsB ->
- @hauntologies yessssssss in reply to hauntologies ->
- RT @BFI: This Saturday, our friends @LionsgateUK are streaming #NationalLottery funded Bend It Like Beckham for free as part of #LionsgateL… ->
- RT @supitslois: Tips if you’re a foreigner living in Britain: sometimes British people will point at magpies and say how many magpies there… ->
- And yes, yes I did sit here for too many minutes checking that 2*18 is 36 in reply to herdivineshadow ->
- @ChrissieM Even before! I got on Usenet when I was like… 14 or 15 – this photo is from my first year at universit… https://t.co/u4Ksv54rew in reply to ChrissieM ->
- @Extinction65mya @dame_judi_hench 1. I was today years old when I learnt that Snoop Dogg did the voice for Cousin I… https://t.co/kqbGeVGjQR in reply to Extinction65mya ->
- @HSouthwellFE It’s R-Patz’ birthday today, which is a thing I know that is taking up space that could hold somethin… https://t.co/KpsyHMe4vF in reply to HSouthwellFE ->
- @anatsuno Other than like… there being ones for Patreons you’re subscribed to or ones that you get invited to/fin… https://t.co/xqooFGM2oa in reply to anatsuno ->
Tweets for 2020-05-12
- RT @scullyxf: https://t.co/BoQOiUgHq1 ->
- @HSouthwellFE I had to train myself out of sleeping with my left arm bent and left hand resting on right shoulder b… https://t.co/wkOMmwEZMN in reply to HSouthwellFE ->
- @HSouthwellFE But otherwise, on my front to minimise the snoring like a freight train but with one shoulder and arm… https://t.co/87WibPAtEr in reply to herdivineshadow ->
Death of the office | 1843
In the spring of 1822 an employee in one of the world’s first offices – that of the East India Company in London – sat down to write a letter to a friend. If the man was excited to be working in a building that was revolutionary, or thrilled to be part of a novel institution which would transform the world in the centuries that followed, he showed little sign of it. “You don’t know how wearisome it isâ€, wrote Charles Lamb, “to breathe the air of four pent walls, without relief, day after day, all the golden hours of the day between ten and four.†His letter grew ever-less enthusiastic, as he wished for “a few years between the grave and the deskâ€. No matter, he concluded, “they are the same.â€
In the plague tiems
Considering the number of places my blog posts syndicate out to, you’d think I’d update a little more than I do. Such is life.
I’ve been catching up on a bunch of unread email newsletters in ye olde inbox and it’s like time-travel in a really nice way. The world when those missives were sent was still not that great a place but at least less of us were suffering and dying thanks to some pandemic and the failures of government.
The Home Screen newsletter (actually a recent edition, rather than one from some time last year) talked about how Adobe doesn’t like Photoshop to be used as a verb and I could only think that they probably wouldn’t be too fond of how I and a few other people say “potato-chopped” instead.
Read an article about people not remembering the 1918 Flu Pandemic and realising I had no idea that people don’t know about it? I guess a lot of people don’t study that period of history, and if they do learn about the First World War, they don’t learn about how there was this big double whammy of awful at the time. Plus, I guess, people who were alive then and are still alive now would have been tiny babies and there really aren’t that many of them left. And who hangs out with the elderly?
I mean, ok. I do and yeah, I knew a lady whose Dad survived WWI only to get it from flu when he came home – her mum used to drag her along to his grave on birthdays and Christmas and she hated it.
And I was thinking about it the other day, in the sense of “well how did we survive that?” but the thing is – millions and millions of us just didn’t. It’s that the way death works is that when you’re dead you’re not going to come back and chat about how you were sick and it was awful.