Mrs Cosmopilite

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OK politics peeps My husband has spoken to a person who knows a person from N10N and says there's a chance of a GE on Dec 10 Google told me 25 days are required bet dissolution and polling Surely. They. Right? 😶

Met this fella yesterday who really really needs to go *Love supermarket wonky veg bags

I think we’re on to a winner with the Belted Bog Roll Dispenser ™ 🤣🤣🤣

I haven't had a day sick off work in over 4 years* Occasionally, when tired, I have wanted to be too sick to work but not too sick to read Today is that day. And I couldn't have a better companion @djacidreflux.bsky.social - not the dog, he's quite heavy *I've annoyingly been ill in my own time

I am in my 6th and final year of a part-time OU socio-economics degree Last year I finally discovered Radio 3 Unwind as my white noise goto While I love my module this year, I can't wait for it to be over so I never have to listen to this again

'Watching' a friend do the Chicago marathon It's like an etch-a-sketch Or at least like my standard of etch-a-sketch. Found some amazing E-a-S art while seeking an image to share

From this week's Week Junior (which I love) The kids are OK

Went to @paulmason.bsky.social fab talk on Reds in Sherborne. He chillingly highlighted how China is rewriting its history in real time Trump has been blatently erasing sections of society from national records since he got into office. Now this How do you put it all back together when he's gone

No, but a friend bought a 'menopause magnet' to wear in her pants and ended up walking round the office with paper clips stuck to her. £45

The most disappointing video you’ll see today.

'Voice like a twix melting in a bra fire' 😂🤣😂🤣😂 Will be sharing widely among my cohort of menopausal RA fans

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

Brexit, the Sitcom Mr Brexit no longer enjoys life as Europe’s most divorced man. Rooting for his phone amongst the discarded cans he texts his ex wife to tell her he’s willing to move back in with her but there will have to be changes. She will have to change. He stares at the phone waiting.

This year has been brutal, and like most people you probably want to do more about climate change. But what, and how? Great news – I’ve written just the book for you! It’s called What One Person Can Do and it’s a clear and simple how-to guide, a roadmap to help you make influential changes...

How I feel right now about the British/ 🇬🇧English( whatever) political landscape is that some one wrapped in a Union Jack could whack me over the head with a flag pole & the BBC would shove a microphone in my face asking why I provoked the attacker & the Home Sec would invite the attacker for tea .

Hard to explain how gobsmacking this is. The government opened applications for farm subsidies this morning at 10. And closed it just before 4 because they'd run out of cash. Applying for your livelihood like it's Oasis tickets. defrafarming.blog.gov.uk/2026/09/22/s...

Piece on R4 Today about military recruitment. Interesting point not picked up was that 'while we might not want to admit it, the economy is helping recruitment figures' Wonder what that does for productivity Also thinking of the disproportionate number of vets I saw in prison and now at foodbanks

Oh, Viz.

I've got a plan Tuvalu becomes a massive tax haven with an optional non-extradition policy for wrong-uns Watch the billionaires flock in and then realise that climate change is going to wipe it out Either we lose them all or they pivot and invest in slowing climate change Win-win

Anna Foster on R4 Today is brilliant She comes across as a team player with no ego Listening as she fetches water and empathises with a speaker with a cough. And real sympathy for John Finnimore losing a close friend Notable in what usually feels like a cleverest soundbite competition

@uk.theconversation.com is academic output, but the pic accompanying this piece made me sweat We're going to apocalypse trends, aren't we I sense that someone will want me to lifestyle my hoarding

From our bookshelf to your wall - we love our book covers so much we turn the most iconic designs into limited edition art prints. This is our rediscovered dystopian novel Woman Alive by Susan Ertz, transformed into wall art by one of our favourite illustrators of all time @tomgauld.bsky.social 📚🖼️✨

Protesters at the Irish Open. shitler’s international golf links and hotel Doonbeg, Ireland. Thank you, Doonbeg!

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

It's OK to eat the pink rice, right?* Difficult to tell if it tastes funny through the chilli sauce *of course it is. I'm an adult and am even listening to Radio 3

One of my micro-pleasures is owning a pen from brand new until its demise I've had two fade into nothingness on me in two days 😊

Last OU module opens today A scramble as the module I registered and paid for for 3 MONTHS AGO was withdrawn 48 hours before the website opened 🤬 But. The notebook is open, headers are in, and serenity has descended

In many ways I am a mature and sensible woman And then there's a stationery shop and I'm 12 years old at the start of the school year.. www.ft.com/content/5054...

I am at Alton Towers with my teens. Foraging for gold-plated pizza* in a bar with 100% sticky tables The energy of the bar staff and the too loud cabaret singer has a distinctly end of a fucking long bank holiday feel to it 😴 *it had bloody better be

monklandcheesedairy.co.uk www.clogmaker.co.uk/styles @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Today I have engaged with these things They have all been created by craftspeople who have chosen to hone their skill over years to produce the best possible thing Opposite of AI. The world is better for them

I've always hated Sports Direct Here dressing teenage boys ready to go back to school. 2 staff members have declined to fetch shoes that fit. But apparently more footwear staff will be here in 10 mins More? If there were ANY here I wouldn't need to ask 🤬

Checkmate, Nige.

So. I have solar glasses for my eyes and a solar filter for my phone But. With the glasses on I can't see the phone Photo reels here we come...

It's so hard to find good in the world sometimes. This man is wonderful. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

My teens have started having a coffee when they get up in the morning This above all else makes them seem impossibly grown up

There are people whose job it is to design open and reseal mechanisms for cardboard packaging Sometimes simple, sometimes very clever Always utterly pointless

Today I travelled from Dorset to visit family in Yorkshire And there's a strange thing up here The fields are a funny colour. The blue of the sky has run into the yellow of the fields and created a new in-between colour And it seems the outdoor washhouse is making a comeback. I got wet. Outside

Caveat, the poll still live But *sighs Who'd be in politics with an electorate that's so determined not to inform itself that the sky isn't green, as they've been told by ppl and orgs with absolutely no skin in the green-sky game - honest gov

This has really pissed me off, if you're in the area and can afford it go and give the cafe owner some money to help fund the kids meals. And if he refuses buy yourself a nice coffee and tip him as much as you can. Fuck Reform taking food from kids in need. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...