Emma Reid

I’m trying not to buy any books… but death rituals is a topic I really want to read about!

Hat for a frog, with clips to hang his mittens from

I annoyed a Scottish Power person last week by telling him he needed physics lessons (he kept saying the amount of electricity they were “sending” me didn’t match what Scottish Gas were charging me). Think I need one of these signs!

Fact. The screwdriver that tightens the arms of spectacles is only available inside Christmas crackers. Opticians have to pull dozens of crackers to get the tools of their trade, and if you look out the back at Specsavers, you’ll find bins full of wire puzzles, hair bobbles and fortune telling fish.

Teacher v chatbot: my journey into the classroom in the age of AI The long read: I was a newcomer, negotiating all of usual classroom difficulties for the first time. Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attack

"I couldn’t wipe chatbots from their world, any more than I can wipe phones. All I could do was decide how much I would steer students toward them and how much I would nudge them toward other experiences." —Peter C Baker for @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

Tabbouleh salad and a large samosa

Mine earlier was “tabbouleh, triangle” to the tune of “Bermuda Triangle”

I still suffer from abibliophobia, despite a house full of tsundoku piles!

Was driving behind my boss, who was giving my colleague a lift, after work last night. Discovered today that they actually didn’t drive at about 2 miles an hour to wind me up, it was in fact because a cat walked out in front of them!

A small book with limbs made of rolled-up paper held between the covers and a crudely drawn face sticking out from the top

I don't have kids so I dressed up my book as a child for world book day

I’m wanting to read about ancient languages at some point later in the year, so will put that on my list!

This is a good analogy. Very useful in carefully controlled settings for specific usages, but unfortunately being widely inserted into everything and used without training or PPE and poisoning a lot of things and people and we’re going to pay a tonne of money to remove it safely in the future

I think I offended the guy from Scottish Power by telling him he needed to get some physics lessons after him repeatedly claiming they were “sending” me electricity 😬

I also watched Heathers for the first time the same evening

I just watched it for the first time last week and enjoyed it!

Lady, this is a kitchen witch’s dream pantry.

*tosses some peppercorns her way*

Shoo!

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

I booked tickets today, and was totally bamboozled at first when I saw the seating plan! This makes it a bit clearer in my head!

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70s cartoon character Bod, on green background, in similar walking pose to Homer

Here comes… Homer?

It was me!

Hard to move at all when you’re embedded in a wall!

It looks like some sort of dolls house built on a grey Lego base board. But uglier

One of the things I find frustrating about sci-fi is that because of the American influence of it, all of the planets are called things like Zexion 5 and Danshassia 7. I’d call them things like ‘Nether Roundthorpe’ and ‘Spheresbury’. Gravity Bywell. Chalfont St Globeby. Bishop’s Goitre.

Reminded me that I took this photo in China

I know just enough Japanese I think...

roses are red
ao is blue
midori is green
but ao is too

Large brown ball, slightly smaller than a basketball, held in my outstretched hand with stage behind it covered with a curtain consisting of Robert Grove’s CV

Being in the front row was a lot of fun, but sadly the giant Maltesers were not edible!

Shout out to the lady two along from me, who, during the (deliberate) pause after Scrooge asking what day it was in @christmasgoeswrong.bsky.social shouted “Valentine’s Day”! @mischiefcomedy.bsky.social

Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40.

Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store

Well, if they’re stainless steel they could be quite irony!

I’ve been meaning to get photos for the past few weeks, keep driving past on the way to the shops!