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When I was in sixth form we had politics & history lessons in a converted coach house with no heating. The Ofsted inspectors got to watch us do warm up star jumps before learning about the October revolution. Still better than the RE classrooms where the roof leaked.

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 21h

Given the long, torturous, journey of Home City's last Local Plan - runs 2017 to 2033, eventually approved in 2025. Then Communities Secretary Sajid Javid named us in 2018 as one of the councils with whom his patience had run out - I'm not holding out hopes for the consultation on the next one.

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm starting to think that Big Cherry has sponsored this season of Bake Off. I swear there aren't usually this many cherry flavoured bakes.

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've just overheard a colleague in a related team be surprised that, as employees, we cost the employer more than we get paid. They were genuinely shocked.

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've had a series of dreams over the past couple of weels where I am surrounded by very snuggly rabbits of all sizes and types. They're nice enough dreams but I am confused as to where the rabbityness has come from. I don't mind rabbits, but they're not in my top ten animals.

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm an easily frightened soul. I wasn't allowed to read Famous Five books after tea bc I would wake up petrified that I was about to be captured by a smuggler. That said, it's probably the sound of the Dark Riders from the BBC radio Lord of the Rings. The only sound being eerie hooves clip-clopping.

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've just read something on Reddit (I knowwww) about two people who are married to each other and they work in separate places but spend allllll day on a call with each other just hanging out. And they think this is fine and good. I'm sure it's working for them but fucking hell, just shoot me.

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm starting to think that part of the "teach your children this as they grow up and definitely before they start university" skillset should be "able to walk ten minutes in the dark".

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There is something quite gratifying about a work IT person looking at the spec of your computer and going "wowwwww that is olddddd" when they finally turn up to look at a PC that you can best describe as "she chugs".

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Staff member: asks if they can buy large items Us: says yes but only if they can store them in their already allocated storage space Staff member: confirms they can [A month elapses] Staff member: WHY HAVEN'T YOU PROVIDED US MORE STORAGE SPACE Me: please see attached emails [head meet desk]

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I like my job and I like being good at my job. I loathe, however, the people who ask me to do something because they "know I'll be able to and they won't and isn't it wonderful that I do know how". It's an excel download from our timetabling system. There's an excel download button. It's easy.

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Also, once again and louder for the people in the back who are refusing to listen, universities are not responsible for job markets. We teach students and we teach them well, but we are not "graduate job" creation engines.

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There is a proposal for a tourist tax in my local area and one of my minor amusements for the past few months has been reading people being Exceptionally Not Normal about it in the local paper.

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm not sure I'll ever not find it amusing how disconcerted American bands are by the British desire for a communal sing along.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I know one of the minor trials of being a prince (of the church or otherwise) is the terrible gifts, but even so….

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have just been discussing the very important (& legally soon-to-be-required) Preventing Sexual Harassment Risk Register & it was disappointing for it to be a room of 1 white man &8 white women. Mandate a representative sample of staff for this stuff!

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I really need Yorkshire Water to calm down right now. The overly enthusiastic/ingratiating tone of the emails and text messages about my upcoming water meter appointment are very grating! It's a water meter upgrade not a ticket for the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition, ffs.

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Admittedly this is a minor quibble when the plot of the book it's in revolves around werewolves and the Brontës but Emily Brontë would not be describing lead shot as blueberry sized. Blueberries would take another 100 or so years to make their way to the UK.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 09/09/2026

This is insane and also I think we should start doing this very specifically to politicians who profess Christianity and use it to justify their policies

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

100%! My mother had a will & whilst there were some small hiccups everything went relatively smoothly. My father (who, for additional fun, lives abroad) does not have one &refuses to get one and I, an only child, am left vaguely hoping he dies before my stepmother so it's all her children's problem.

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Without being funny, this is somewhat rather damning on the concept of the Italian Republic, not a compliment to Meloni.

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I love local newspaper efforts to localise news stories. I also love how much this makes it look like Starmer will be doing the terrible cross-Pennine commute.

A picture of Keir Starmer looking a bit haunted against a backdrop of a train in York Station. The headline reads: How Keir Starmer could be appointed to a job in North Yorkshire.

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

UK Hivemind: any recommendations for good refillable salt and pepper grinders? My pepper grinder gave up the ghost a while ago and my salt grinder is making ominous motions.

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

One of the few things I miss about living on the Isle of Wight is the velux window in my bedroom that meant I could hear the rain pelt down in a very specific way and watch thunderstorms make their way across the fields. These days I stand at the backdoor and hope the storm is trapped in the valley.

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I didn't anticipate how much of being a union rep was trying to not sound like a Voice For Management (I am, for context, a manager). Anyone got novel ideas for how to explain that annual leave requests taking a day to approve is not unreasonable? (Esp in a university at this time of the year.)

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This plan will never come to fruition, which is both a shame because who doesn't love a tram, and also a good thing because if York got trams before Leeds, Leeds might riot (and they'd be right to!). www.yorkmix.com/revealed-how...

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Revealed: How trams could return to York in bold vision that would ‘transform’ city life

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I'm not sure if I think Sterling Point is a good TV show but good grief does it nail the awkward "well, my mum's dead so ..." conversation that you, if your mum is dead and you are younger than that usually is a thing, have to have.

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

As is traditional, in advance of going to see my father for Duty Week I have been given a shopping list. We remain fully in Coals to Newcastle territory with the Rémy Martin, move in to That's Impossible with patum peperium, and flop gratefully onto the sofa of Colmans Mustard Powder.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is a genuinely excellent piece of legal writing with a benevolent episcopal "neener neener" layered on top and I love it

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Important Office Conversation this morning: could you make a cocktail which tasted of bonjela? If you could, how?

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Oh to be a tiny adored and adorable bat.

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Very much enjoying the two people on this bus who are having an argument in two different languages. One is quietly angry in English and the other in (I think) Polish. Someone has sold someone two pallets and this has caused a problem that I cannot quite discern.

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I'm having some electrical work done on Tuesday and because I thought dismantling my bed was going to be more arduous than it was, I'm currently sleeping on my guest bed. It's comfortable (good job me!) but also disconcerting to be sleeping in the wrong bedroom in my own house.

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'm sure I've mentioned this before but I was at least 25 when I realised Timbuktu was a real place. I had assumed, having heard it in The Aristocats, that it was fictional. I also spent a lot of my childhood operating on the assumption that Derry and Londonderry were two entirely different places.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Julie has bought the book and therefore Julie can do whatever she likes with the book. Charlie should read the book first or borrow a copy from the library. There you go, solved.

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It's Clearing so we're busy cooling rooms. I, in my entirely uncooled office, was not massively pleased to hear someone ask for the room to be less cooled because they're cold. Put a jumper on and revel in it not being 26, ffs.

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The eclipse talk has reminded me of this dude. I hope he won't be too disappointed about not losing gravity.

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

One of my cousins (Irish) has a small child who - entirely inadvertently - shares a name with someone on an IRA watchlist. Cousin and small child flew to the US with child's American mother. US border guards insisted they had to speak to the baby. Cousin explained it was, you know, a baby. No dice.

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I know we shouldn't read the comments but I did kind of enjoy how hard I rolled my eyes at someone who said "just buy secondhand" under a list of companies who started out fine and turned evil. Because two of those companies make washing up liquid. Not sure there's a secondhand option for that!

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Hey, Canada! My best friend is in your country for the next three weeks and I am politely requesting that you show her (and her partner, I guess) a good time and keep her safe. Deal?

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I'm trying to get quotes for a cleaner (yeah yeah I know I know) and I swear to god that I've had better experiences on dating apps. Anyone in York have a cleaner they'd recommend???

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"You have a nice life and shouldn't be depressed". Oddly this didn't help because I was well aware that the level of depression was not congruent with my actual life.

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I do think some people should be pushed out of public life permanently

Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech painting

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Well, one to add to the Catalogue of Dating Is Weird: date fainting.

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

If you ring my local council's Business Rates team and they are busy dealing with other people you hear a message to this effect and then the call cuts off. It is very annoying when you need to speak to someone but it also makes me a bit envious.

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Okay, so 1926 means I have to go back to my great-grandparents. Which means I get a delightful choice between subsistence farming in Tipperary or working down a coal mine or being a perpetually skint housewife with umpteen children. I really like 2026, frankly!

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Dr Liseuse @liseuse.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

In trying to buy a Nice Top today (yes, to wear with a pair of jeans) it became clear that we've decided cleavage is not to be shown but that everyone wants weird contrast lace. Personally I never want contrast lace and do want to show some of my cleavage.

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