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Slowly going insane, every day from 8am - 6pm there is near constant drilling from demolition work happening less than 100m from my flat.

FFS, as if 8am-6pm Monday-Friday wasn't bad enough... 8:25am on a Saturday and demolition work has resumed.

It's taken over 8 months post-covid, but finally able to do 30m steady-state rowing without my heart-rate going into panic. 🚣

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With stress taking its toll and semi-regular heart rate alerts on my watch, surviving on gallows humour and updated my phone's medical info: "If found dead, it was [redacted] that killed me."

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Heart-rate chart from yesterday...

Understanding where files are when you save them on a computer

Are you free on Wednesday 2nd October? Come and join us University of Glasgow for the actual real life in person launch of my award-winning book on Women and Welfare Conditionality: lived experiences of benefit sanctions, work and welfare. eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-…

Having a canal, river, botanics, and two parks - including a local nature reserve - all within a 20-minute walking radius of my flat is doing a lot to keep what often feels like an inevitable breakdown at bay.

Curious that Social Policy Assoc Academy of Social Sciences The British Academy have said nothing about University of York targetting forced redundancies primarily within Social Policy, with the VC saying the research is not so important. Where is the public defence of the social sciences?

A lot of work & time has gone into this, so I am very happy to share our new article 'Universal Credit: administrative burdens of automated welfare' in the Journal of Social Policy where we explore how technical systems shape admin burdens & digital welfare bit.ly/4ejVx52

It may have been our worst-kept secret, but Morgen's new Obsidian integration is now available on desktop. This integration is the peanut butter to Obsidian's Tasks plugin's jelly. 👇Here's luke with all the details:

Some universities provide flu jabs for staff - good. They should also provide covid vaccinations - Covid is airborne and it carries more risk. In the absence of regular covid jabs for everyone, unions should be demanding Covid jabs as a health & safety issue.

My 'Admin' Outlook folder is now sitting at 438 emails received since 1st July, more than all the emails in 'Teaching', 'Projects', and other folders combined.

Spent the whole day wondering why felt so off and like I hadn't taken my meds. Went to take my 5pm meds and surprise, turns out I indeed never took my morning meds.

The BBC sound effects library is now completely free to access. This is news. sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/search?cat=Mac…

Today's main achievement - ending the day just before 6pm with less unread emails in my inbox than I started with at 8am.