My mate was kinda forced to spend a *lot* of time with family members and they were difficult. He ended up saying “Look, we’re family, not friends, we don’t have shared values, let’s just get through this.” Him telling me this, when I have zero family, really struck me.

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I live pain free (these days) but there’s a certain diagonal slouch on the couch that releases all stress from my neck and shoulders that feels like reaching the surface of water after too long under.

Watching Speak No Evil and ready for some rural horror. But I’m 52 minutes in and the true and terrible horror is all the social awkwardness.

“It’s the game, just play the game and you’ll get what you want.” – my mate to me. I can’t because the process is important to me and I have an acute sense of fairness. (I know it comes across as stubbornness and pride, but boy has life humbled me enough.)

I really think i can hear a distant foghorn every ten seconds. We’ve had a sea fret for days, so it’s … possible I guess. ☁️ ☁️ ☁️ But how loud must it be to be near it? What else could it be?

Fifteen degrees and a cold wind. I need to find my big coat

Why did i scissor-cut my own hair the night before a trip to London to see forty of my closest frenemies and potential strangers?

“Oh my gosh [insert name], assuming we’ve met before, it’s been so long!” Me, greeting people at tonight’s ClearBox Consulting intranet meet up.

It’s here and it’s quite perfect, and the only celebrity book to grace my Billy.

Signed off with this today: No need to reply; your life is your own and I don’t like to see emails when I open my email client. Cheers

I submitted a location correction on Apple Maps! It was easy! I indicated where the cafe is really located and a day latter Maps notified me of acceptance. But the cafe was still wrong but now had a ‘tick’ icon. I clicked the tick. Readers, the cafe disappeared 😩

Wild that some regions have charge choices and clean energy. UK just has optimised.

Out of NOWHERE this woman says “what a beautiful coat” I say “thank you, but it’s a shacket”. (Yeah yeah y’know it, she was talking about my dog.)

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I gen need help to understand. Why must front-of-house retail staff earn the same as backend warehouse staff? If sex discrimination is involved, surely that’s about recruitment practices and not wages. Again, I am gen asking: theguardian.com/business/2024/…

If you read 60% of the books you own in the next month, on what topic would you mostly become an expert?