Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 12/05/2025“The financial stability of UK universities cannot depend on overseas students” “We’re going to reduce the number of overseas students” but “We have no plan for alternative funding for UK universities.” Cool. Thanks. That’s going to work brilliantly isn’t it. 140
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Stansted vibe is reading about Ash Sarkar’s Marxist approach to marriage in the Vogue you got from the Stansted Express whilst sitting in the ‘Spoons waiting for your delayed Ryanair 020
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 27/04/2025I just love telling men I run a school of architecture, only for them to ask me “which bit?” 010
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 26/04/2025There are few more pleasing thoughts than the realisation that someone else is now having to put up with my ex-boyfriend’s bullshit 110
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Donald’s so rich but somehow ends up wearing a BLUE suit to the funeral…? 000
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 22/04/2025I’ve just finished the chocolate from my advent calendar. I’m an only child. 000
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 17/04/2025youtu.be/SCLMk6e5VHsyoutu.beFinley Quaye - Ultra Stimulation (Official Video)YouTube video by FinleyQuayeVEVO 000
Reposted by Ruth LangWG Saraband 🏴🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 16/04/2025All this money & energy spent to make life more miserable for trans people could've been used to fight against domestic violence, wage disparity, sexual harassment, harassment of people accessing abortion services, proper childcare provision; you know, to make the world a better place instead. 8807361
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 16/04/2025It’s quite incredible just how many people in London decide that riding the bus is the ideal time to clip their nails. 000
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 08/04/2025I’m sure Freud would have something to say about how, whenever I go to open Hinge, I seem to open eBay instead… 000
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Wanting to cry at work because everything is just too fucking much but not wanting to cry because you’ll be seen as not enough. 000
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Does the little dance of *starting to earn royalties from my book*media.tenor.comkermit the frog is dancing in a room with a cat in the background .ALT: kermit the frog is dancing in a room with a cat in the background . 000
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 31/03/2025The reputation for Brits stripping off at the first glimmer of sunshine is being vigorously upheld this morning by the woman in a bikini top at Victoria tube station. 010
Reposted by Ruth LangSarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Thinking of Westminster full of tractors. Who is allowed to protest and who is not. The UKs clampdown on climate protest is frightening 510048
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Why do I find someone “reaching out” so much worse than “getting in touch”? 110
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 29/03/2025When all this is done I’m going to sleep for a week, she said [wakes up at 6am] 110
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 27/03/2025I know someone who did this to a pigeon. In flip flops. 000
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 27/03/2025No I don’t ever want to video call you. If I’ve video called you it’s a mistake, please hang up. Or prepare yourself for a video call with my frantic and confused face. 000
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 27/03/2025So tired that the double meaning of bell hooks being anti capitalist made me laugh. 000
Reposted by Ruth LangCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 26/03/2025As Sussex points out in the piece, this ruling means that if a university has a policy against racist speech on campus — which most - if not all - do!!! — then they would also be liable for a big fine on “free speech grounds” 926747
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Not that this month seems cursed already anyway but Lily just hung up on me on Duolingo? Elle m’a raccroché! 000
Reposted by Ruth LangFitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · 17/03/2025🌼 SPRING SALE 🌼 We’re running a sale on our website until 28 March, with a 25 per cent discount across all Fiction, Essay, Classics and Poetry titles, collections and tote bags (exc. First Decade Collection). Use the code ‘SPRING2025’ at checkout to redeem the discount. fitzcarraldoeditions.com 14221
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Just signed off an email with “With tanks” and yes, that seems appropriate for how this week is going so far. 000
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Sometimes the best word in the world to read is “typing…” 010
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 16/02/2025In the middle of thinking “I wonder where Eminem is now. He’s probably just someone’s dad…” I realised he’s just someone’s grandad. 010
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 06/02/2025One of those days when I want to run off to the Tuscan hills and make cheese 010
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 31/01/2025There’s something really quite beautiful about someone who is usually so calm, composed and softly spoken being pushed to call someone a “wanker” 130
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Government says they’re going to supply more nurses Universities say they can’t afford to run the courses to do so www.theguardian.com/education/20... #JoinedUpThinkingtheguardian.comCardiff University to cut 400 staff and drop subjects including nursing and musicUnion describe reductions as ‘cruel’ as university says it will run out of money without changes 001
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Wondering whether voting in a Labour government was some kind of fever dream, because the ministers seem to be spouting the same bullshit as before? 140
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 28/01/2025The bags under my eyes this morning would get me charged extra on EasyJet 010
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 24/01/2025On this day, may the Lord curse the keepers of the windchimes. 000
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Funny how, overnight, all the US spokespeople suddenly sound like Family Guy 000
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 20/01/2025When I think of how many times in the past two years I’ve had to scrape myself up from the floor and carry on I’m amazed/exhausted. 000
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 20/01/2025To gain a sense of control in troubled times, some people work out endlessly, some calorie restrict, others might fanatically work on their appearance. Turns out I plan a banger of a day trip to Paris. 000
Reposted by Ruth LangCitizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 04/01/2024In Living a Feminist Life, Sara Ahmed writes: "Citation is feminist memory. Citation is how we acknowledge our debt to those who came before; those who helped us find our way when the way was obscured because we deviated from paths we were told to follow..." 1/2 www.dukeupress.edu/living-a-fem... 26221
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Sure, being a qualified architect and seeing some of the stuff that’s celebrated today is depressing. But imagine if you’d gone into advertising instead… 020
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Something so weird about being back where you grew up, and being reminded of all the people you have and haven’t been. 030
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Anyone else watch that breakup scene in Big and think of all the Hackney men they’ve dated in the past who’ve said they want to stay being a teenager..? 000
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 15/12/2024One of my favourite things about my house is that it’s exactly the right distance from Morley’s to eat an ill-advised 31 box on the way home and leave the detritus in the communal bin. 000
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Who else, channeling Nora Ephron, wondered if the Manhattan assassin “was a grad student” 000
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Is it December? Is it raining? Yes. Is it barely past breakfast? Are my neighbours barbecuing? Also yes. Never change, Lambeth. 000
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Wondering whether the customs staff will let me bring back a rotisserie chicken on the Eurostar next week… 🤔 130
Ruth Lang @sundaegirl.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Mrs Dalloway said she would carry the tree herself. 000
Reposted by Ruth Langdubravka @dubravka.bsky.social · 23/11/2024grateful for the invitation by @placesjournal.bsky.social to contribute to their field notes on repair. emilio distretti and I tried to offer a starting point from which to think what repair means in the ongoing afterlife of genocide placesjournal.org/article/fiel... 0113