Lisa Rullsenberg
@rullsenberg.bsky.social
Crafter, slow runner, UCU active, reader, art historian, DW nerd, theatre lover
G and H shelves now also done! 🎉
January 7, 2026 at 6:37 PM
G and H shelves now also done! 🎉
Shelving C to F sorted. Yes I'm going to have a significant problem with G which is likely to push H to the next shelf down 🤣🤦🏼♀️
January 7, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Shelving C to F sorted. Yes I'm going to have a significant problem with G which is likely to push H to the next shelf down 🤣🤦🏼♀️
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January 7, 2026 at 10:36 AM
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Zurich 🥰
Not seen, technically, but the last episode of Cabin Pressure was the opposite of GoT in that it retroactively made the entire series even better – and that took some doing. (I suppose one could argue that Cabin Pressure is the Platonic opposite of GoT in practically every way.)
Given that apparently the Stranger Things finale was meh (idk, didn't watch it, just the scuttlebutt) and we're not that far removed from the disastrous GOT finale that retroactively made everyone have never cared about the show:
What's the *best* ending to a show you've ever seen? Quote/reply etc
What's the *best* ending to a show you've ever seen? Quote/reply etc
January 7, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Zurich 🥰
Veggie cottage pie, veggie cottage pie 🥰 courgette, carrot, red pepper, leek, shallots, mushrooms, chickpeas, fresh tomatoes, tinned tomatoes topped with mashed sweet potatoes/potato mix + grated cheese.
Before and after cooking, this will give us both a hearty meal for a further two days 🥰
Before and after cooking, this will give us both a hearty meal for a further two days 🥰
January 6, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Veggie cottage pie, veggie cottage pie 🥰 courgette, carrot, red pepper, leek, shallots, mushrooms, chickpeas, fresh tomatoes, tinned tomatoes topped with mashed sweet potatoes/potato mix + grated cheese.
Before and after cooking, this will give us both a hearty meal for a further two days 🥰
Before and after cooking, this will give us both a hearty meal for a further two days 🥰
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Oh no they don't! We host the London LGBT centre in Southwark! We're 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈inclusive!
Saturday 10th January: Elephant & Castle. Noon.
#defendtransrights @goodlawproject.bsky.social @southwarkgp.bsky.social @transactualuk.bsky.social @unison.org.uk @gmb.org.uk @tuc.org.uk @londongreenparty.bsky.social
Saturday 10th January: Elephant & Castle. Noon.
#defendtransrights @goodlawproject.bsky.social @southwarkgp.bsky.social @transactualuk.bsky.social @unison.org.uk @gmb.org.uk @tuc.org.uk @londongreenparty.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Oh no they don't! We host the London LGBT centre in Southwark! We're 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈inclusive!
Saturday 10th January: Elephant & Castle. Noon.
#defendtransrights @goodlawproject.bsky.social @southwarkgp.bsky.social @transactualuk.bsky.social @unison.org.uk @gmb.org.uk @tuc.org.uk @londongreenparty.bsky.social
Saturday 10th January: Elephant & Castle. Noon.
#defendtransrights @goodlawproject.bsky.social @southwarkgp.bsky.social @transactualuk.bsky.social @unison.org.uk @gmb.org.uk @tuc.org.uk @londongreenparty.bsky.social
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It’s tough. It’s grim. And the world stage is frightening.
But.. we still have each other. Most people are peaceful, helpful and compassionate.
May 2026 be a year of shining more light on our collective goodness.
But.. we still have each other. Most people are peaceful, helpful and compassionate.
May 2026 be a year of shining more light on our collective goodness.
January 5, 2026 at 11:27 AM
It’s tough. It’s grim. And the world stage is frightening.
But.. we still have each other. Most people are peaceful, helpful and compassionate.
May 2026 be a year of shining more light on our collective goodness.
But.. we still have each other. Most people are peaceful, helpful and compassionate.
May 2026 be a year of shining more light on our collective goodness.
Well the task of #SortMyBookshelves has reached the epic achievement of A and B 🤦🏼♀️🤣
The right-hand side still has many C books to sort and accommodate which are distinctly unlikely to fit before cascading down onto the next shelf down (currently D-H) #BookSky
The right-hand side still has many C books to sort and accommodate which are distinctly unlikely to fit before cascading down onto the next shelf down (currently D-H) #BookSky
January 4, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Well the task of #SortMyBookshelves has reached the epic achievement of A and B 🤦🏼♀️🤣
The right-hand side still has many C books to sort and accommodate which are distinctly unlikely to fit before cascading down onto the next shelf down (currently D-H) #BookSky
The right-hand side still has many C books to sort and accommodate which are distinctly unlikely to fit before cascading down onto the next shelf down (currently D-H) #BookSky
Spent way too much of today trying to sort my fiction shelves.
The non-book stuff (apart from book shelf pets) are 'elsewhere', stuff in translation is on the bottom two shelves but not spaced correctly #BookSky
The non-book stuff (apart from book shelf pets) are 'elsewhere', stuff in translation is on the bottom two shelves but not spaced correctly #BookSky
January 3, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Spent way too much of today trying to sort my fiction shelves.
The non-book stuff (apart from book shelf pets) are 'elsewhere', stuff in translation is on the bottom two shelves but not spaced correctly #BookSky
The non-book stuff (apart from book shelf pets) are 'elsewhere', stuff in translation is on the bottom two shelves but not spaced correctly #BookSky
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Bread and roses, lads. You don't work for permission to exist, you work so you can have a nice life.
And Terry Pratchett didn't give us the Boots Theory just so you could not know it.
And Terry Pratchett didn't give us the Boots Theory just so you could not know it.
January 1, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Bread and roses, lads. You don't work for permission to exist, you work so you can have a nice life.
And Terry Pratchett didn't give us the Boots Theory just so you could not know it.
And Terry Pratchett didn't give us the Boots Theory just so you could not know it.
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This is a brilliant line that should make a lot of folks…in both parties…very uncomfortable. Yes.
Good.
Good.
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:18 PM
This is a brilliant line that should make a lot of folks…in both parties…very uncomfortable. Yes.
Good.
Good.
Love the message; love the trousers 🥰
“It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity... It’s as simple as that.”
-Tove Jansson
-Tove Jansson
January 1, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Love the message; love the trousers 🥰
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I read 85 books this year.
I bought ~200 books this year.
My 2026 resolution is to use the library more.
(Nevertheless, my 2026 preorder list has 14 books on it… so far.)
I bought ~200 books this year.
My 2026 resolution is to use the library more.
(Nevertheless, my 2026 preorder list has 14 books on it… so far.)
December 31, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I read 85 books this year.
I bought ~200 books this year.
My 2026 resolution is to use the library more.
(Nevertheless, my 2026 preorder list has 14 books on it… so far.)
I bought ~200 books this year.
My 2026 resolution is to use the library more.
(Nevertheless, my 2026 preorder list has 14 books on it… so far.)
Rereading this list from @feelinglistless.bsky.social archives is remarkably heartening.
Back in 2016, which was also a rough year, I compiled a list of 216 good things which happened as a counterbalance. feelinglistless.blogspot.com/2016/12/216-...
216 Good Things Which Happened in 2016.
About By any measure, for most of us, this segment of time has been utterly rubbish, either because of world events and our reaction to ...
feelinglistless.blogspot.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Rereading this list from @feelinglistless.bsky.social archives is remarkably heartening.
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I'm asking John - and indeed all journalists - as a new year resolution to stop comparisons with a national economy and a household budget.
How many years have to go by until we can have coherent conversations in the media about the economy?
t.co/jIObxTAoeL
How many years have to go by until we can have coherent conversations in the media about the economy?
t.co/jIObxTAoeL
December 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I'm asking John - and indeed all journalists - as a new year resolution to stop comparisons with a national economy and a household budget.
How many years have to go by until we can have coherent conversations in the media about the economy?
t.co/jIObxTAoeL
How many years have to go by until we can have coherent conversations in the media about the economy?
t.co/jIObxTAoeL
Beautiful ❤️
December 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Beautiful ❤️
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
December 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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General reminder of the words of proud son of Virginia, Major-General George H Thomas. The "Rock of Chickamauga". Who, unlike Lee, stayed loyal to the Union.
Post-war he had views on 'Lost Cause' and the damage it would do to America, unchecked.
A “counterfeit varnish of patriotism” he called it.
Post-war he had views on 'Lost Cause' and the damage it would do to America, unchecked.
A “counterfeit varnish of patriotism” he called it.
![[T]he greatest efforts made by the defeated insurgents since the close of the war have been to promulgate the idea that the cause of liberty, justice, humanity, equality, and all the calendar of the virtues of freedom, suffered violence and wrong when the effort for southern independence failed. This is, of course, intended as a species of political cant, whereby the crime of treason might be covered with a counterfeit varnish of patriotism, so that the precipitators of the rebellion might go down in history hand in hand with the defenders of the government, thus wiping out with their own hands their own stains; a species of self-forgiveness amazing in its effrontery, when it is considered that life and property—justly forfeited by the laws of the country, of war, and of nations, through the magnanimity of the government and people—was not exacted from them.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5h5jfgi7vuqp4bkfogcntzep/bafkreifigvhyvtmy3mxp2btoxw5gztwrmyujtmpywsraabtjsq6oyrs4gq@jpeg)
December 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
General reminder of the words of proud son of Virginia, Major-General George H Thomas. The "Rock of Chickamauga". Who, unlike Lee, stayed loyal to the Union.
Post-war he had views on 'Lost Cause' and the damage it would do to America, unchecked.
A “counterfeit varnish of patriotism” he called it.
Post-war he had views on 'Lost Cause' and the damage it would do to America, unchecked.
A “counterfeit varnish of patriotism” he called it.
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University of Leicester Vice-Chancellor knighted in King’s New Year Honours | News | University of Leicester
le.ac.uk
December 30, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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A "Labour" government awarded honours to a person who pushed through devastating redundancies of @ucu.org.uk members at his university, including redundancies that were found to be illegal at tribunal.
This is a slap in the face for the labour movement.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/academi...
This is a slap in the face for the labour movement.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/academi...
Academics made redundant by Leicester ‘unfairly dismissed’
Three business school researchers who lost their jobs after their research was seen as not meeting strategic priorities win employment case
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A "Labour" government awarded honours to a person who pushed through devastating redundancies of @ucu.org.uk members at his university, including redundancies that were found to be illegal at tribunal.
This is a slap in the face for the labour movement.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/academi...
This is a slap in the face for the labour movement.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/academi...
FFS fridge died. Plug socket still works, but it is the last of the appliances fitted in Jan 2009.... 😭
December 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
FFS fridge died. Plug socket still works, but it is the last of the appliances fitted in Jan 2009.... 😭
Bang on; hilarious.
Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."
December 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Bang on; hilarious.
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Trump bombs Venezuelans to “kill drug dealers”….but he pardons drug dealers.
Trump bombs Nigerians to “protect Christians” but Latino Christians won’t go to church out of fear of being kidnapped by ICE.
Trump is against people illegally being in a country - but backs Russia and Israel.
Trump bombs Nigerians to “protect Christians” but Latino Christians won’t go to church out of fear of being kidnapped by ICE.
Trump is against people illegally being in a country - but backs Russia and Israel.
December 27, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Trump bombs Venezuelans to “kill drug dealers”….but he pardons drug dealers.
Trump bombs Nigerians to “protect Christians” but Latino Christians won’t go to church out of fear of being kidnapped by ICE.
Trump is against people illegally being in a country - but backs Russia and Israel.
Trump bombs Nigerians to “protect Christians” but Latino Christians won’t go to church out of fear of being kidnapped by ICE.
Trump is against people illegally being in a country - but backs Russia and Israel.
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Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
December 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
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Spend some time with this one - so so important. Make 2026 the year that you upgrade your first aid kit and first aid skills ❎ www.thetimes.com/life-style/h...
My wife collapsed in the middle of nowhere. Would you do what I did?
A dramatic incident in rural Gloucestershire highlights the critical need for immediate medical knowledge
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December 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Spend some time with this one - so so important. Make 2026 the year that you upgrade your first aid kit and first aid skills ❎ www.thetimes.com/life-style/h...