Word_Geek's Avatar

Word_Geek

@word-geek

I read and I stitch, but more often, I go down ADHD rabbit holes. UK based She/her http://word-geek.dreamwidth.org @word_geeking on Insta

822
Followers
435
Following
7,044
Posts
19.09.2023
Joined
Posts Following

Latest posts by Word_Geek @word-geek

Apart from everything else wrong with this, the entire point of a tldr is that it is one sentence long

11.03.2026 19:39 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm in this picture and I don't like it 😭

10.03.2026 21:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Most predictable development evah

10.03.2026 20:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can you imagine getting assigned this guy as your supervisor and then reading that?

10.03.2026 14:14 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not convinced he learned much in the 3.5 years he spent on his actual PhD

I mean, I would expect him to read papers before he wrote his own, and to have read at least some of them before he started doing the experiments

I have not done a PhD but isn't the point to work on something new?

10.03.2026 14:13 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I reckon he was going to say building content or some other horror

10.03.2026 14:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Ncuti Gatwa's acclaimed theatre run of beloved classic play is set to stream for free Alongside Gatwa, the play stars Sharon D Clarke, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Eliza Scanlen and Hugh Skinner.

quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend

www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...

10.03.2026 13:25 πŸ‘ 1216 πŸ” 769 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 93
Preview
Two pairs of beavers released in Cornwall by wildlife trust Wildlife experts say the release is a "landmark" for nature recovering in Cornwall and nationally.

Enjoy a full minute of beavers being released into the wild in Cornwall. These little fluffbutts are the first to swim in these waters in a very, very long time - the last official records of beavers in the wild in England are from the 1300s. BBC buff.ly/BnMwCOx
#ShareGoodNewsToo

10.03.2026 12:50 πŸ‘ 326 πŸ” 116 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 9

Good news, Oprah wrote a book called Book

So in theory they could produce that for you. In practice, it came out over 20 years ago, so I assume it is now out of print

09.03.2026 20:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ironic, isn't it? Every other part of the NHS is having private providers rammed down their throats, but here they want to ban it

09.03.2026 18:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This sounds depressingly likely

09.03.2026 18:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We went private, and kiddo ages out of trans youth care next year

09.03.2026 18:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Our kid came out as non binary and then as trans. We did the referral back in 2020 or 2021, and at some point in 2024 they sent a letter saying that they were currently seeing people from early 2019

Our one (1) appointment was not the start of treatment, it was moving to a different waiting list

09.03.2026 18:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I really regret that the short lived norm of not going anywhere when you might make others ill has largely gone away

09.03.2026 14:02 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh god what a terrible time to get ill😭

Mind you, going somewhere loud when suffering a fever would have been horrible too. And giving other people your fever would have been mean, viewed from the other side of a pandemic

09.03.2026 14:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I've just looked, and good lord, past me actually wrote up that gig in 2009

I blogged pretty reliably when I was on mat leave, which was very useful later when official people asked me things like when did she first do x

It all went downhill once I went back to work

08.03.2026 21:46 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That was the first concert we got to go to after our child was born and we didn't know Gary was was going to guest

Apparently if you saw the US version of the tour, you got Bowie

08.03.2026 21:25 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

My worry is that my partner will set up something like that and it will fall apart when he's away. This is why our kit is all stuff that can be unplugged and everything still works

But it would be a nice project as long as you are ok doing all the laundry thereafter 🫠

08.03.2026 21:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Some of our smart plugs died because we didn't have a 2.4 network any more. Or at least, you couldn't reboot them and they needed that every so often

The kinetic smart switches died too, a year or so ago

At least it was only a couple of items we had to replace in each case

08.03.2026 18:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And if someone set up a new co, they would do it again

08.03.2026 17:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The last machines we got, we had to hunt through to find ones that didn't connect to an app

One thing your Raspberry Pi would have to consider is that the actual times vary a lot. The washer is cold fill, so if you lower the temperature then it runs quicker. And a small load goes through faster too

08.03.2026 17:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Big, not bit. Honestly, why does autocorrect do this shit?

08.03.2026 10:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, the division is a bit win for them. Surveys like this scare young women into distrusting men more (which is fun for them in itself). But, more importantly, encountering distrust is a pre-existing starting point for the path to radicalisation they have created for men

08.03.2026 10:04 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Either these questions prove that @neolithicsheep.bsky.social found his perfect religion in Judaism, or that conversion prompted him to commit to one of the defining features of Judaism as a religion: the why phase should never end (complimentary)

08.03.2026 00:42 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
There's a Horse In The Hospital | John Mulaney | Netflix Is A Joke
There's a Horse In The Hospital | John Mulaney | Netflix Is A Joke YouTube video by Netflix Is A Joke

We need a new John Mulaney special.
STAT!

youtu.be/JhkZMxgPxXU?...

07.03.2026 21:36 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Very clear understanding of the misalignment of interests between actual people and those in power

It would work a treat

08.03.2026 00:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
A Group of Trans Women in India Helped Vaccinate Almost 1,500 Children β€œPeople started inviting us in, offering us tea, and asking for advice,” one trans woman involved in the campaign said.

β€œLooking to combat vaccine skepticism and mistrust of officials among migrant residents β€” especially those who are undocumented β€” organizers enlisted trans women to bridge the communication gap.β€œ

www.them.us/story/trans-...

07.03.2026 23:23 πŸ‘ 412 πŸ” 138 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 6

Everyone hates Big Pharma

08.03.2026 00:00 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Break Up Big Medicine Act | ft. Senator Elizabeth Warren
The Break Up Big Medicine Act | ft. Senator Elizabeth Warren YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken

This is a weird but effective crossover.

07.03.2026 23:05 πŸ‘ 164 πŸ” 51 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 4
Screenshot of the tick boxes for the terms and conditions. One says Terms and Conditions, then there's Check out the following options, and then Get news and special offers (optional) and I have read and agree to all of the above 

All are ticked

Screenshot of the tick boxes for the terms and conditions. One says Terms and Conditions, then there's Check out the following options, and then Get news and special offers (optional) and I have read and agree to all of the above All are ticked

New Samsung terms and conditions
It's not possible to untick the option to get news and special offers, even though it says it is optional. Unticking it unticks I have read and agreed too

Pretty sure that's against the spirit of the rules, at the very least

07.03.2026 23:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0