🦀 Alix 🦀
@ure.bsky.social
Aka Ruth Blackett. Aka, far too many internet pseudonyms. Aka onions.
Own-brand Cornetto connoisseur.
Own-brand Cornetto connoisseur.
If anyone would like to feel better about their day, please know that I just spent 45mins on hold to a helpdesk, then when they finally picked up, I ended the call instead of taking them off speaker.
November 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
If anyone would like to feel better about their day, please know that I just spent 45mins on hold to a helpdesk, then when they finally picked up, I ended the call instead of taking them off speaker.
I don't feel this has resulted in any particular competence with any of the languages I've been learning.
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I don't feel this has resulted in any particular competence with any of the languages I've been learning.
Thanks Spellcheck, don't know what I'd do without you.
November 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Thanks Spellcheck, don't know what I'd do without you.
t h e m o o n i s h e r e
November 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
t h e m o o n i s h e r e
Such a wonderful range of fresh produce in Morrisons.
November 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Such a wonderful range of fresh produce in Morrisons.
I love fireworks, which is lucky, as the people of Merseyside are setting them off from every patch of green space available, with a frankly cavalier attitude towards safety.
November 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I love fireworks, which is lucky, as the people of Merseyside are setting them off from every patch of green space available, with a frankly cavalier attitude towards safety.
A device update that disables your device and where all the links to support in the guidance document signpost to sites that can only be accessed if you are logged into your device? What a wonderful week I am having indeed.
November 5, 2025 at 11:28 AM
A device update that disables your device and where all the links to support in the guidance document signpost to sites that can only be accessed if you are logged into your device? What a wonderful week I am having indeed.
Out of curiosity, when planning a local train trip I need to make, I wanted to see what happens when you tap this link, given that Merseyrail are famously behind the times when it comes to digital ticketing.
November 4, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Out of curiosity, when planning a local train trip I need to make, I wanted to see what happens when you tap this link, given that Merseyrail are famously behind the times when it comes to digital ticketing.
I have listened to 3 separate podcasts this month where they have mentioned visiting the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds recently.
November 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I have listened to 3 separate podcasts this month where they have mentioned visiting the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds recently.
I have a cold so I slept all afternoon and now it's bedtime but it feels like afternoon and I'm temporally confused and all this also explains why I ate a lot of lebkuchen for dinner.
October 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I have a cold so I slept all afternoon and now it's bedtime but it feels like afternoon and I'm temporally confused and all this also explains why I ate a lot of lebkuchen for dinner.
Recent WhatsApp messages from my mother, in order.
1. I can't send messages via WhatsApp, can you see this?
2. Did you hear there was a murder in the village last week?
3. I've got a cold so can't actually message right now
4. The press are describing the village as 'quaint' but it's not quaint!
1. I can't send messages via WhatsApp, can you see this?
2. Did you hear there was a murder in the village last week?
3. I've got a cold so can't actually message right now
4. The press are describing the village as 'quaint' but it's not quaint!
October 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Recent WhatsApp messages from my mother, in order.
1. I can't send messages via WhatsApp, can you see this?
2. Did you hear there was a murder in the village last week?
3. I've got a cold so can't actually message right now
4. The press are describing the village as 'quaint' but it's not quaint!
1. I can't send messages via WhatsApp, can you see this?
2. Did you hear there was a murder in the village last week?
3. I've got a cold so can't actually message right now
4. The press are describing the village as 'quaint' but it's not quaint!
It's time to send us your meter reading.
October 29, 2025 at 7:55 AM
It's time to send us your meter reading.
I also saw some alpaca (or llama, idk, I'm not Chris Packham), a Type L box, and also acquired some pudding and tarts from Bakewell.
October 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I also saw some alpaca (or llama, idk, I'm not Chris Packham), a Type L box, and also acquired some pudding and tarts from Bakewell.
Some signs from the ringing weekend in Derbyshire, including a peal board from 1944 (not a lot of wartime peal boards, due to restrictions on ringing at that time).
October 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Some signs from the ringing weekend in Derbyshire, including a peal board from 1944 (not a lot of wartime peal boards, due to restrictions on ringing at that time).
I passed through a number of towns in Staffordshire and Shropshire today and Jesus fucking Christ the amount of union jacks out was incredibly oppressive. Here be racists, and no mistake.
October 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I passed through a number of towns in Staffordshire and Shropshire today and Jesus fucking Christ the amount of union jacks out was incredibly oppressive. Here be racists, and no mistake.
Your ghost is neon green.
October 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Your ghost is neon green.
Racist graffiti on the bus? Stick a sticker on it.
October 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Racist graffiti on the bus? Stick a sticker on it.
Have to say, this is pretty much the exact opposite of what I look for in a gadget repair shop.
October 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Have to say, this is pretty much the exact opposite of what I look for in a gadget repair shop.
I am on a train that smells very meaty.
October 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I am on a train that smells very meaty.
Also me, at the supermarket self-checkout, trying to choose between the 'Vegetable', 'Fruit' or 'Other' buttons.
Ginger!—what the devil is ginger? Sea-coal? firewood?—lucifer matches?—tinder?—gunpowder?—what the devil is ginger, I say
October 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Also me, at the supermarket self-checkout, trying to choose between the 'Vegetable', 'Fruit' or 'Other' buttons.
I really feel quite strongly that Mandy, Indiana should do some more gigs near me.
October 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I really feel quite strongly that Mandy, Indiana should do some more gigs near me.