nb @notabene-dv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Perimenopause can absolutely, positively fuck right off. I have period cramps from my knees to my sternum, and between the pain and the accompanying nausea and brain fog, I’ve had to take the day off work. BUT, has my period actually turned up in any material way? No 🫠 Might it? Who knows… 110
Reposted by nbc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 29/04/2025The Tufted ground squirrel (Rheithrosciurus macrotis) is a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in floof. Let's start with the *FLOOF* & talk about why they're called "VAMPIRE SQUIRRELS" last. They have the largest tail: body size ratio of any mammal on Earth: the tail is *130%* the size the body. 201096315
Reposted by nbPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ringen.wikipedia.orgIron Ring - Wikipedia 2073732301
nb @notabene-dv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Total??? Ahahaha 🤦🏻♀️ somewhere around 500… They’re all neatly arranged in groups tho (this does not make it better) 010
Reposted by nbOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today 5590212
nb @notabene-dv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Oooohh, yes, please. The dialogue would be as good as the outfits. 010
nb @notabene-dv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I officially do not have ADHD, I have anxiety (neither of these is new info), & I was successfully managing it until perimenopause came along to fuck it all up. Seriously beginning to consider whether I need to talk to my doctor about an ADHD diagnosis, because the level of executive dysfunction… 000
nb @notabene-dv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I have got to get my finances in order. This year has eaten into my savings in ways that were not planned for (lol, when are they ever). I’m trying to see the positive side in that most of the spending was on good unexpected things not bad ones, but… yeah (This post brought to you by ugh taxes due) 000
Reposted by nbKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 6078362203
Reposted by nb🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 125123755271
nb @notabene-dv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026There is a very very short list of musicians I would still travel to see, and it gets shorter every year, even as the artists on it change 001
nb @notabene-dv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Have reached that point in my life where I am buying tickets months in advance and looking up flights & overnight accommodation for an art exhibition, rather than a concert. 120
Reposted by nbPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I want a SMALLER phone with a THICKER case and MORE headphone jacks and I'm NOT kidding 1523229
nb @notabene-dv.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I mean we also did a load of stuff from the travel blogs (Nefertiti, holocaust memorial, east side gallery, Pergamon panorama, food markets, etc) but those two were unplanned, unexpected, and incredible (in very different ways). 040
nb @notabene-dv.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Spent the weekend in Berlin and our 2 top highlights didn’t show up on any of the travel blogs we used to plan our trip but did have prominent special exhibition posters that made us want to know more: the Topography of Terror near Checkpoint Charlie and the Museum Barberini in Potsdam 240
nb @notabene-dv.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Another one to add to the “podcasts worth listening to” thread: the untitled history podcast. This week it’s on the Cold War in 1983 and how we all almost died several times, but the previous one was all about Asterix… so something for everyone open.spotify.com/episode/02RJ...open.spotify.comEpisode 29: 1983: The year of crises that almost ended the worldThe Untitled History Podcast · Episode 000
Reposted by nbLiz @stayathomecommie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026RIP to two of the best to ever do it 1979083216
Reposted by nbTyson @lscpunk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026If Dolly was our constant reminder that it was Good to be Good, Tim Curry was our reminder that it was Good to be Weird. Embrace your strangeness, sing with Muppets, wear your lingerie with a leather jacket, and fuck with uptight people who hate anything that makes them remotely uncomfortable. 51173716424
Reposted by nbThe Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 07/08/2026If the understanding of math behind this idea pervades all of SpaceX, it might explain why they blow up so much. 1315323
Reposted by nbJohn Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 02/08/2026There’s “off the charts” and there’s France’s absolutely bonkers June & July 2026 temperatures (see black line below). Bad things are happening. Fast. 26779324
nb @notabene-dv.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Horrible, horrible news about Glen Hansard. The Frames were the soundtrack to so many of my memories from my teens and 20s in Dublin, and Hansard always made his connection with the audience in every moment look and feel so effortless. He will be so deeply missed. 030
nb @notabene-dv.bsky.social · 19/07/2026lol RTE’s football pundits are panning Bieber for bringing down the mood. They’re generally very against the concept of a halftime show, but if they have to endure it, then acoustic slow songs should not be part of it, is the overall consensus 031
nb @notabene-dv.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Well, the World Cup halftime show was (perhaps predictably) an uneven mess. I’m just happy that it meant Min Yoongi got to indulge his little sports nerd heart (lol as though BTS wouldn’t immediately get final tickets if they wanted to) 010
nb @notabene-dv.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Got sideswiped by some news in work today. It’s the kind of thing that usually I would be able to shrug off but apparently my brain is in the type of place where it’s just disheartening and demotivating… So I’m going to eat cake for dinner and watch melodramatic c-dramas 000
nb @notabene-dv.bsky.social · 30/06/2026#tmi I have reached the point of perimenopause where my periods are regularly irregular. No show last month, so debilitating this month I had to take the day off work because painkillers weren’t making a dent. Still better than the time it stopped suddenly after day 2 then resumed 5 days later 000
nb @notabene-dv.bsky.social · 26/06/2026It’s currently very hot in France (surprising, I know, news hasn’t mentioned it at all /s) so I am being a proper adult and eating ice cream for dinner 020
Reposted by nbJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Seeing this movie around the same time your actually read Romeo and Juliet is a *very* specific generational calling card that I’m more than happy to carry 2334589431
Reposted by nbMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 07/06/2026We need more rich people with normal interests like "your movie sounds neat" instead of, like, white fertility rates. 105103172199
Reposted by nbKeezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 08/06/2026people keep trying to tell me about these new headphones that cost between $159 and $179 and only last 8 hours. it's like you're trying to sell me a fancy dress that disintegrates at midnight, man. my old headphones cost 5.99 and literally never ran out of charge!!!!!! 1317012
nb @notabene-dv.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I have really good ingredients just waiting to be turned into tasty meal using an easy foolproof recipe, but work this week was a lot a lot, and now I’m sitting on the couch playing a game of “I don’t really need to eat to live, do I?” 100
Reposted by nbBetty @bettytheteapot.bsky.social · 02/06/2026I saw someone posting "The A in LGBTA stands for Ace, not Ally!" and. Listen, as an Ace, if you don't think we belong at Pride, I got a brick for you. But if you think "I wish I belonged at Pride, but I'm not queer enough," or "I'm not sure that's me," you belong at Pride. 181
Reposted by nbJohn Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Happy Pride to us aces and us aros, to those of us who are one, and those who are both, and those who are unsure. 327864
nb @notabene-dv.bsky.social · 25/05/2026The first thing I checked was whether this article was published April 1st. Reads like a parody of what Europeans think American hustle-culture involves, and yet… I think it might be sincerely written, which is depressing as fuck. 320
nb @notabene-dv.bsky.social · 21/05/2026But to answer the exam question: ONTD XKCD PHD comics AV Club Go fug yourself TWOP 010
nb @notabene-dv.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I know that this is not the point of this post, but I genuinely miss my flist on livejournal. So many authors who prolifically posted there who I have never managed to find on ao3. Did they change their username? Did they just stop writing? 110
Reposted by nbDavid Wynne @davidwynne.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check. 145993556
Reposted by nb🐈⬛🎃🔪 Adam Jay 🍁💀👻 @bullgooseparty.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Adorable new heresy just dropped 217233
Reposted by nbshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 07/05/2026happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time 163127064090
nb @notabene-dv.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Another podcast in a similar vein of deep media literacy and socio-political-savvy commentary is A More Civilized Age who are very very good normally and were absolutely sublime during Season One of Andor: bsky.app/profile/more... 110
nb @notabene-dv.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Also if you enjoy people talking about the things they love without being afraid to discuss the ways those things can be flawed and you haven’t listened to Going Rogue, I cannot recommend it enough. Start with the first season about Rogue One and go from there bsky.app/profile/goin... 121
nb @notabene-dv.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Forgot it was Star Wars day, and yet still managed to do something thematically appropriate by listening to the newest episode of Going Rogue’s current series all about the making of episode 9… Tansy, did you drop this over the weekend on purpose? 100
Reposted by nbSasha Feather @sasha-feather.bsky.social · 02/05/2026The point of alt text is to describe the image for disabled people, not to make jokes for a non-disabled audience. 0154
nb @notabene-dv.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Tried a new exercise in the gym yesterday recommended to help strengthen my back. Stopped as soon as I felt that telltale “little niggle”. Today, I cannot sit, stand or walk normally and have had to take off work. I have got to stop trusting trainers who say they are familiar with hyper mobility. 010
Reposted by nbClare @idclare.bsky.social · 22/04/2026(The second pic- those are the legs of baby Jacanas being carried by the parent) 042