Berry
@berryh.bsky.social
Science and technology journalist. Unreformed goth. Dinosaur nerd. Enjoys noisy nonsense music. #MDANT
CW: Indecisive cat bum
November 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
CW: Indecisive cat bum
Went back to bed thinking I'd reached the "stay in bed all day" stage of unemployed depression. Turns out I just needed a nap.
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Went back to bed thinking I'd reached the "stay in bed all day" stage of unemployed depression. Turns out I just needed a nap.
What's better than buying yourself @jambookshopuk.bsky.social's spectacular new comic compendium Vintage? Having pledged for it and a print a while back and forgetting, like a present from past you, that's what! Go treat yourself, it'll be like finding The Beano annual in your Christmas stocking.
November 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
What's better than buying yourself @jambookshopuk.bsky.social's spectacular new comic compendium Vintage? Having pledged for it and a print a while back and forgetting, like a present from past you, that's what! Go treat yourself, it'll be like finding The Beano annual in your Christmas stocking.
Accidental art at Oakwood station last night
November 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Accidental art at Oakwood station last night
Not now, broken boiler 😩
November 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Not now, broken boiler 😩
That's my Christmas party outfit sorted
November 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
That's my Christmas party outfit sorted
The more realistic one:
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The more realistic one:
Three grand?! I found a much more realistic one by the bins for free
November 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Three grand?! I found a much more realistic one by the bins for free
I'm telling you now, if anyone called me Piggy in a press interview, they'd be getting "HAI YA!"ed into next week
a woman in a white robe is standing in a room with a picture on the wall
ALT: a woman in a white robe is standing in a room with a picture on the wall
media.tenor.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I'm telling you now, if anyone called me Piggy in a press interview, they'd be getting "HAI YA!"ed into next week
Half the jobs I get sent that "match my profile" are training AI to do more journalists out of a job. The rest I'm somehow both over- and underqualified for (too senior and haven't worked in this EXACT niche before)
November 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Half the jobs I get sent that "match my profile" are training AI to do more journalists out of a job. The rest I'm somehow both over- and underqualified for (too senior and haven't worked in this EXACT niche before)
I went to a talk on the history of witchcraft trials this evening. Did you know the last woman imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act was Helen Duncan in 1944? That's in my parents' lifetime!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_D...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_D...
Helen Duncan - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I went to a talk on the history of witchcraft trials this evening. Did you know the last woman imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act was Helen Duncan in 1944? That's in my parents' lifetime!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_D...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_D...
A haiku
Sorry for saying
"It's too warm for November"
Now it's too cold
Sorry for saying
"It's too warm for November"
Now it's too cold
November 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
A haiku
Sorry for saying
"It's too warm for November"
Now it's too cold
Sorry for saying
"It's too warm for November"
Now it's too cold
"The loo? Second door on the left. You can't miss it."
November 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"The loo? Second door on the left. You can't miss it."
I have this book, written by a US Vogue editor in 1936, on my phone for when I don't have a book with me, and the advice is still more relevant than not
November 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I have this book, written by a US Vogue editor in 1936, on my phone for when I don't have a book with me, and the advice is still more relevant than not
It's not quite Big Coat weather yet, but I'm certainly not regretting wearing my Medium Coat. And Past Berry kindly left phone gloves in the pockets for me.
November 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It's not quite Big Coat weather yet, but I'm certainly not regretting wearing my Medium Coat. And Past Berry kindly left phone gloves in the pockets for me.
Reposted by Berry
Would someone please tell my metabolism that humans aren't a hibernating species and therefore I don't need to lay down fat to survive the winter?
November 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Would someone please tell my metabolism that humans aren't a hibernating species and therefore I don't need to lay down fat to survive the winter?
Note to self: Don't put the cat food bowl next to the cereal bowl on s sleepy Monday morning. There's no guaranteeing who'll get the Sheba and who the Shreddies
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Note to self: Don't put the cat food bowl next to the cereal bowl on s sleepy Monday morning. There's no guaranteeing who'll get the Sheba and who the Shreddies
Reposted by Berry
@fallenlights.net was kind enough to share this with me, and thus, I spread the wealth.
November 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
@fallenlights.net was kind enough to share this with me, and thus, I spread the wealth.
Your reminder that "rocher" means rock or boulder. So the ambassador is, in fact, offering a cairn
November 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Your reminder that "rocher" means rock or boulder. So the ambassador is, in fact, offering a cairn
My hairdresser: Your hair has a lot of movement. You should let it dry naturally
My hair when I let it dry naturally:
My hair when I let it dry naturally:
November 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
My hairdresser: Your hair has a lot of movement. You should let it dry naturally
My hair when I let it dry naturally:
My hair when I let it dry naturally:
It's criminal that they didn't ask him how he felt about ROBERT FLIPPIN' REDFORD playing him in the film adaptation of A Walk In The Woods
Bill Bryson: ‘Ever since I was a little boy, I have pretended to be able to vaporise people I don’t like’
Bill Bryson: ‘Ever since I was a little boy, I have pretended to be able to vaporise people I don’t like’
The American British author on pet peeves, the perils of fantasy dinner parties, and revisiting The Short History of Everything two decades later
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
It's criminal that they didn't ask him how he felt about ROBERT FLIPPIN' REDFORD playing him in the film adaptation of A Walk In The Woods
Left my smart watch on charge overnight so now I don't know how tired I am
November 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Left my smart watch on charge overnight so now I don't know how tired I am
