Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 16hMe: Yes I'd really like to win the Nobel Prize so that places that failed to give me secure employment are shamed forever about it. Him: I meant sexual fantasies? 1141
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I remember hiding behind the sofa for Jurassic Park, but it was the Earthsea trilogy (as it was then) that really gave me nightmares from existential horror. 020
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 04/10/2026You really can't underestimate the effects of incompetence and basic disregard for human life though 1110
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Giant couscous!! Which, turns out, is NOT what you want daal. 110
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 02/10/2026HEY, James Orr will not see this but all your Forthcoming 2022 friends will 130
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've definitely seen 'tl;dr' advanced as the actual explanation! 051
Reposted by Natasha Simonovadan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right 63112952557
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Sometimes I like to set myself a little trap, like a Wet Bandit. 010
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Who would like to guess what this container I made a giant pot of daal from actually contained. 320
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If anyone does actually want to have their evidence gathered, you can just sign up for YouGov, this was today's poll! 120
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Ancient Rome is underground now, it's not because the Ancient Romans were mole people! 2430
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 30/09/2026On the other hand, I learned how to read music in the US and when I moved over here I simply Stopped after two orchestra rehearsals, this is madness and no one should be expected to cope with it 110
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026He has clearly fainted away with hunger and should be given some luxury fish-based cat food to sustain him? 091
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'm just saying, it's always 'following a link that someone describes as a trainwreck' and never 'I wonder what insightful piece they're publishing this week, in The Cut'. 110
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Tbh every piece I've ever been told to read in The Cut is a middle-class woman having a self-pathologising emotion no sane human would ever admit out loud and making it everyone else's problem, I think that's their beat. 170
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Heard you were having some buttered toast and that seems like something I should be involved in 1100
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Things are really going quite badly around here at the moment and I'm not sure how to snap out of it. Maybe big pile of leaves would fix me. 040
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 26/09/2026How to find big pile of leaves and crawl into it and slowly delay. 140
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The Amazon strapline for Midsomer Murders is currently 'Witty detective's stable marriage charms viewers.' Three people have died, one of them crushed by a tank! 040
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Who would believe I'd ever look back on series 11 of Midsomer Murders as a golden age of realistic setups and rational behaviour. 140
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I've started series 19 of Midsomer Murders, Natashas only do that when they're VERY distressed. 190
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The Donmar Cherry Orchard basically started like this and I think the technique could be extended to other plays! 060
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I recommend Sienna if you like very early Renaissance art and stripes! 110
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 23/09/2026'Sorry I am currently away from my desk, I will reply as soon as I've finished pushing this rock up a hill.' 020
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Maybe the oil rig workers should try freelance indexing, or start a podcast! 1140
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Asking the question, but in a plaintive way. 010
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 21/09/2026There is a certain strand of popular writing that depends on Academics Hiding the Truth From Us, but I never realised that truth was Frances Burney! We bang on about Burney ALL THE TIME. 110
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Surely 'we need to create a library of British novels' is a problem that began to be solved a mere 216 years ago. 060
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I was a tiny bit sad at not getting to review this but I could not have done better than @bobeaglestone.bsky.social, as I would simply have reached the bit about Austen scholars not knowing Frances Burney and permanently died. 252
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 21/09/2026youtu.be/ryH5cga0yUI?...youtu.beKate Nash - FoundationsYouTube video by KateNashVEVO 010
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I was talking to a friend recently about how I wouldn't have wanted to buy in my old neighbourhood, lovely as it was, because it's all Victorian houses built on a former watercress field with no foundations, and she (having only lived in modern flats) didn't know what subsidence *was*. New terror! 010
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 21/09/2026'semi-detached from itself' is making me slightly hysterical 360
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 21/09/2026My cat is definitely not my child but she is, a little baby 110
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Oh NO I'm so heartbroken for you, he was such a beautiful fluffy void 💔 010
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 19/09/2026All men too, of course. The only woman I can think of to go that way is the Bad Naomi, in slightly different circumstances. 140
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Desperately wanted to return to work/live there for years; that didn't work out, for various reasons. Don't know if I'd recognise it now. 060
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The fact that I was able to take courses from other subject areas - specifically things like Classical Literature in Translation and The Bible and Literature - was absolutely formative for the scholar I turned out to be, and also for being able to do Odyssey Discourse. 290
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Too sad to talk about the management vandalism happening at the University of Edinburgh, a place I was associated with for a decade of great joys and lingering trauma. My PhD supervisor took the voluntary severance this summer. 2161
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I was trying to explain Bsky to a friend this week and somehow 'we like cats and papal schisms and we're all 42’ wasn't really selling it? 0100
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Landmarking (because we've been going to Landmark Trust properties for the past 20+ years) 010
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I have seen 100 posts on a row about the tiny new cat, Bluesky is never beating the allegations. 1102
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026SO judgily disappointed, which coming from someone with that hair is frankly out of order. 070