Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I know this is a bad migraine because I’ve just welled up with gratitude upon realising I have new packing cubes for holiday next week 🫠 030
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Brockwell lido and celebrating 3 very clever friends passing their PHD viva’s. Yay for clever friends and sunshine (but it is too hot x) 030
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Nothing gets me more pumped and excited about work than GREAT UCD community away days. Been finding myself getting a little bit grumpy about being stuck behind my desk ALL THE TIME. And getting together in person today with fabby people has made me feel all 🤩 So lucky to be in this world 010
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 12/06/2025THIS SHIT DRIVES ME INSANE whenever you pay by QR code or get a receipt email and they say they won’t spam you remember they are LYING Get out of my effing inbox 010
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Sister in London, finally got a reservation at Oma, the yummiest sandwich in all of south London and Friday wines with bestie (it’s been SO LONG since I’ve had Friday wines) LUSH 010
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 03/06/2025attempted to go shopping on Saturday as I am in desperate need of some new work clothes (because I've lost loads of weight, yay!) went into 5/6 shops on oxford/regent street and nothing fucking fit. genuinely curious as to why SO many shops insist on stocking only the SMALLEST sizes?! 100
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 02/06/2025🚨 good news klaxon 🚨 one of my mentees has just secured a new role! I'm going to write about how the last 3 months of weekly mentoring has gone, but in the mean time, feel free to book in with me here www.cyberwomen.co.uk/mentoringcyberwomen.co.ukMentoring | Cyber Women 052
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Celebrating 20 years of my uncles heart transplant + many family birthdays, besties birthday and wedding suit shopping AND had the best sleep I’ve had in about a month last night = great great success 020
Reposted by ElbottingSym Roe @symroe.bsky.social · 02/06/2025This is a really exciting position in the Commission, essentially overseeing the start of a major in-house digital project. Feel free to reach out to me if you're interested in applying 046
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Best hens weekend in the entire world. Great great success, would 100% do it again 010
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Sooooo, it seems the cat may have epilepsy. After ruling out the other nasties via an MRI and lumbar puncture etc etc We are trialing medication who has to be given multiple times a day at specific intervals. This feels like it’s going to be TOUGH to manage. Any tips? 🫠 000
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Hackney half, boycotting Eurovision, meeting baby niece, hanging out with childhood bestie I hadn’t seen in 10 years, cat cuddles. Great success 💞 000
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 16/05/2025is seasonal insomnia a thing?! every single night recently, I've woken up with the sunrise & cannae get back to sleep, despite having (a) black out blinds (b) black out curtains and (c) a substantial eye mask on. i am mucho mucho mucho tired and would love a full night's sleep asap 🥱 200
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Goslings, seat stealing cat, new cousin alert, new running shorts (run followed by migraine which seems to be happening after every run atm gr). Successful weekend (but late post) 000
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Coffee with Jane, bao and Pilates with my simmy, poorly cat and run round the late. Partially successful bank holly 100
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 01/05/2025The problem is when you hang it outside it’s out of sight out of mind and ends up out there for the whole week 000
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Yoga and wisteria and pretty tomatos and my lone magnolia flower and cat getting filthy. Great success 130
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Post a photo of a bus from your camera roll These be my fave busses ever 010
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Bout to be a great week for washing that likes to dry outside (inshallah) 010
Reposted by ElbottingPete Martin @petemartin.net · 08/04/2025With so much generative AI, we must preserve the intangible heritage of the hastily cobbled together Photoshop. 033
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 07/04/2025ran a race, wrote a blog post www.cyberwomen.co.uk/post/my-firs...cyberwomen.co.ukMy first raceLike all good running stories, my journey begins with a crisis of the self. Let’s travel back in time. 13 years ago I crash landed in Leeds to continue my education with a BSc in psychology. In Dubai ... 240
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Light bulb moment. Have we officially arrived at hang washing outside time of year?! 100
Reposted by ElbottingSalomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social · 26/03/2025If you used 23andMe, go delete your data. If anyone in your family used 23andMe PLEASE make sure they delete that data, because it's your DNA data too! 043
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 17/03/2025worked directly with or adjacent to gov.uk since 2017 and I was just the victim of a car tax phishing AGAIN. be safe out their folks, the scammers are v v v good, they've even got form validation on 🥲 100
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 15/03/2025A girl asked me whether I liked Rebecca Yarros books on the bus yesterday. I said I’m not sure, but her name sounds familiar. Ten minutes later I realised I was holding this. And that ladies and gentlemen is a prime example of how my brain works 🤦🏻♀️ 010
Reposted by ElbottingIan Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 13/03/2025Rachel’s absolutely correct and it needs tattooing on the back of every ministers hand: digital transformation is a culture change project. If you try and just dropship major new tech into an organisation without having a plan for culture, it will fail, badly. 76221
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 12/03/2025I never got round to doing a review of this bag and that’s because it’s the worst bag on the entire planet. Look at it, it can’t even lean against a wall 0/10. Do not get one of these if you’re in the market for a backpack 240
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 06/03/2025This is beer garden weather not do a full days worth of work with 3-4 hours of back to back meetings weather 120
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Hello folks interested in user research! I've opened up a couple slots a week to offer free mentoring/advice/CV reviews. Take a look here: www.cyberwomen.co.uk/mentoring if you're keencyberwomen.co.ukMentoring | Cyber Women 046
Reposted by ElbottingAG @anthonycgreen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025It's why good local councillors are the keystone of the political ecosystem. No other group spends as much time on the doorstep or with community groups. 1145
Reposted by ElbottingAna Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 14/02/2025Alternatives to calling someone or something "crazy" when they're doing fascism. instead of "crazy" → fascist instead of "lunatic" → fascist instead of "schizo" → fascist instead of "psycho" → fascist instead of "bipolar" → fascist instead of "schizo" → fascist instead of "insane" → fascist 271595556
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Just to clarify it’s not going abroad for weddings that’s the issue (tbh I’d much rather spend a grand abroad than in the UK which is how much a weekend away costs these days + I grew up abroad as did my mates/family) it’s the fact that it’s ALL AT ONCE AND OMG WEDDINGS ARE EXPENSIVE 🫠🫠🫠🫠 010
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 03/02/2025skipton banking, you win. call this morning and the first question is would you like to listen to the hold music while you're waiting to connect. thank GOODNESS, PLEASE can more people do this 020
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Planning our wedding has been mostly blissful and easy. But every now and then I get INSANELY anxious with the stress of being able to afford it all (also have 4 weddings to atten this year and 3 of them are abroad and all 4 vvvvvvv close friends so I can’t skip) 🫠🫠🫠help🫠🫠🫠 470
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 31/01/2025i love a friday research session where the participant expressed with absolute clarity how the session was an utter waste of time. honestly cracked me up 😶🌫️ 130
Reposted by ElbottingChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/01/2025It actually is very important that you do things that you take pleasure in, regularly. That is part of how you survive the things that feel like they are going to destroy you. 89109273675
Reposted by ElbottingMiriam IRL @miriam.blacksky.app · 22/01/2025Reddit has mobilised, all major subreddits are now banning links from twitter. Twitter is dying. A graveyard of incels crying about woke. 835229762
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 16/01/2025yeah, it might be the 16th of January and I'm a little late to the party, but what of it?! here's a little blog post looking back on the last year and ahead to 2025 www.cyberwomen.co.uk/post/what-yo... cc'ing @emmaparnell.bsky.social and @pawlean.com ❤️cyberwomen.co.ukWhat you want to be, doesn’t change what you are without work2024 reflections 021
Reposted by ElbottingRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/01/2025The looters I want to talk about are the ones who stole our safe and stable climate from us. Millennia of planetary harm for individuals' profit. They set the fires. 4367211610
Reposted by ElbottingAdam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Calling the richest person in the world (who is also a massive racist and far right ideologue)’s attack on the liberal state (worker protections, civil rights, unions, food safety, social security etc) “ambitions to tame Washington’s sprawling bureaucracy” is genuinely evil. We are absolutely cooked 271548383
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 10/01/2025idk whether it's because i've have the plague for +2 weeks or what, but this first full week back at work has left me utterly wrecked. really wanted to do my 2024 year in review blogpost but had absolutely 0 energy 🫠 110
Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Pls for the love of god will tele companies bring back big remotes. I cannot cope with these minuscule things anymore 310
Reposted by ElbottingThe School of Good Services @theschoolofgood.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Happy New Year everyone! Here at the school we're getting ready for a new year of training covering service design, organisational strategy, user centred design and customer experience. Coming up in 2025, a 🧵 112
