Ophelia Bottom
@ophelia-bottom.bsky.social
I'm back. And this time I'm menopausal.
The Logistics of Mourning will be the title of my debut novel.
The conclave to select the next pope has not yet started, but cardinals on Thursday morning held a meeting in the Holy See’s apostolic palace to set the agenda and to decide on the logistics of mourning for Francis.
Mourners Pay Respect to Pope Francis as Cardinals Fine Tune Funeral Plans
The conclave to select the next pontiff has not started yet, but meetings to set the agenda and to decide on the logistics of mourning for Francis were gathering pace.
www.nytimes.com
April 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The Logistics of Mourning will be the title of my debut novel.
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I defy anyone to look at this and still say integration isn't working in the UK.
April 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I defy anyone to look at this and still say integration isn't working in the UK.
🎶 🇪🇺 Only EU.... can make the world feel right. 🎶🇪🇺
@labourlist.bsky.social 74% in EU believe EU membership is beneficial-the highest % in 42 years. Intuitively, citizens understand that by sticking together the EU can better defend their interests,incl trade.EU is second-largest economy in world (popn 450+million).Tocci,The Guardian.
April 5, 2025 at 10:15 AM
🎶 🇪🇺 Only EU.... can make the world feel right. 🎶🇪🇺
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IYM: "This can be super-useful in giving the writer’s brain something self-contained and practical to chew on, with the bonus that new story-avenues and details are likely to emerge"
buff.ly/YqWqa7C
buff.ly/YqWqa7C
March 31, 2025 at 10:29 PM
IYM: "This can be super-useful in giving the writer’s brain something self-contained and practical to chew on, with the bonus that new story-avenues and details are likely to emerge"
buff.ly/YqWqa7C
buff.ly/YqWqa7C
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NEW: The first front pages of Saturday’s newspapers in the UK.
“Ukraine Hero Ambushed”
“Trump stuns world with vile rant at Zelensky”
“A spectacle to horrify the world”
Trump is obliterating the global reputation of the US.
“Ukraine Hero Ambushed”
“Trump stuns world with vile rant at Zelensky”
“A spectacle to horrify the world”
Trump is obliterating the global reputation of the US.
February 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
NEW: The first front pages of Saturday’s newspapers in the UK.
“Ukraine Hero Ambushed”
“Trump stuns world with vile rant at Zelensky”
“A spectacle to horrify the world”
Trump is obliterating the global reputation of the US.
“Ukraine Hero Ambushed”
“Trump stuns world with vile rant at Zelensky”
“A spectacle to horrify the world”
Trump is obliterating the global reputation of the US.
Accidentally used this emoji combination in an email apologising for forgetting something and think I might unilaterally adopt it as the international symbol for #menopause 🤦♀️♀️
February 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Accidentally used this emoji combination in an email apologising for forgetting something and think I might unilaterally adopt it as the international symbol for #menopause 🤦♀️♀️
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Ridiculously excited for another outing of Sci Fi Snobbery, this time as part of Norwich Science Festival. Simon Watt and I will battle it out to win your hearts and minds to crown the greatest Science Fiction film of all time
📅 Wed 19th Feb
📍 Picture House, Norwich
https://buff.ly/3PekrIw
📅 Wed 19th Feb
📍 Picture House, Norwich
https://buff.ly/3PekrIw
February 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Ridiculously excited for another outing of Sci Fi Snobbery, this time as part of Norwich Science Festival. Simon Watt and I will battle it out to win your hearts and minds to crown the greatest Science Fiction film of all time
📅 Wed 19th Feb
📍 Picture House, Norwich
https://buff.ly/3PekrIw
📅 Wed 19th Feb
📍 Picture House, Norwich
https://buff.ly/3PekrIw
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Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were ordered to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “L.G.B.T.” or “pregnant people.”
February 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were ordered to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “L.G.B.T.” or “pregnant people.”
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. @kenwhite.bsky.social , is it a good idea to publicly announce “this thing we’re doing is just bullshit to fool the judge” while litigation is pending
WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt just clarified on X that the rescission of the OMB memo was simply to get the federal court case to go away, not lifting the funding freeze on anything that goes against Trump's EOs
translation: "please stop yelling at me for the thing i want to keep doing"
translation: "please stop yelling at me for the thing i want to keep doing"
January 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
. @kenwhite.bsky.social , is it a good idea to publicly announce “this thing we’re doing is just bullshit to fool the judge” while litigation is pending
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If you have an NIH award pending, I'd encourage you to check the ERA commons portal. For our pending award, *all* of the relevant information is now missing (the reviews are not accessible, the dates have all been changed, all of the history of the process isn't accessible)!
February 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
If you have an NIH award pending, I'd encourage you to check the ERA commons portal. For our pending award, *all* of the relevant information is now missing (the reviews are not accessible, the dates have all been changed, all of the history of the process isn't accessible)!
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A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼
February 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼
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welp this is the first time I’ve seen news break on BlueSky
Breaking News: A suspect was charged with murdering the UnitedHealthcare CEO in Manhattan, according to court records. He remains in custody in Pennsylvania.
UnitedHealthcare CEO Live Updates: Luigi Mangione Is Charged With 5 Crimes
The suspect, Luigi Mangione, 26, was charged by New York prosecutors. He was arrested and arraigned in Altoona, Pa., on Monday after being spotted at a McDonald’s.
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2024 at 4:05 AM
welp this is the first time I’ve seen news break on BlueSky
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As ever at Nine Lessons, we'll be doing a local food bank collection so please bring along any items to donate if you're able. The most urgently needed items this year are canned tuna, corn beef, biscuits, chocolates, long life custard, rice pudding, rice, dry pasta & nuts. CC @robinince.bsky.social
December 9, 2024 at 12:30 PM
As ever at Nine Lessons, we'll be doing a local food bank collection so please bring along any items to donate if you're able. The most urgently needed items this year are canned tuna, corn beef, biscuits, chocolates, long life custard, rice pudding, rice, dry pasta & nuts. CC @robinince.bsky.social
All the primary schools doing the Goldman Sachs five dollar challenge week but nobody doing Unions week.
I once had a professor ask “Why is there a Business section in the newspaper but not a Labor section?” My classmates and I probably rolled our eyes, but damned if I haven’t remembered that question every few days for 30 years now.
The best way to understand the NYT is as a chronicle of power, which may explain why there are ** checks notes ** seven reporters on this single story about beefing up executive security
December 7, 2024 at 10:48 PM
All the primary schools doing the Goldman Sachs five dollar challenge week but nobody doing Unions week.
Fight club (OR Edition)
December 4, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Fight club (OR Edition)
Unsure who is the scientist and who is the Comms person here. Could go either way.
The marketing people in our working group telling the scientists how to break down their jargon to simple language
two men are kissing each other on the cheek .
ALT: two men are kissing each other on the cheek .
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Unsure who is the scientist and who is the Comms person here. Could go either way.
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⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed.
If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.
👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...
If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.
👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...
Storyville Books Bookshop UK
Nestled in the rolling hills of the South Wales valleys, we are the only independent bookshop in Pontypridd, selling new books and more.
uk.bookshop.org
November 24, 2024 at 6:41 PM
⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed.
If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.
👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...
If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.
👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...
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Throughout eight chapters, @helendecruz.net investigates how awe and wonder shape philosophy, psychology, science, magic, religion, and our world. She takes these concepts and grounds them in everyday life and history, showing us how to engage with and embrace these profound emotions.
November 24, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Throughout eight chapters, @helendecruz.net investigates how awe and wonder shape philosophy, psychology, science, magic, religion, and our world. She takes these concepts and grounds them in everyday life and history, showing us how to engage with and embrace these profound emotions.
University catering.
People don’t appreciate how much academics are motivated by free food. It doesn’t even have to be good.
November 24, 2024 at 4:57 PM
University catering.
Fairly sure that spending four hours, updating, downloading, resetting and syncing health apps counts as exercise, right?
November 24, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Fairly sure that spending four hours, updating, downloading, resetting and syncing health apps counts as exercise, right?
Bluesky vibe has variously been described as "bookstore coffeeshop", "star wars cantina" and "Twitter 2008". What's your take on the Bluesky vibe?
This place has big coffee shop inside a bookstore vibes and I’m here for it
November 20, 2024 at 6:42 AM
Bluesky vibe has variously been described as "bookstore coffeeshop", "star wars cantina" and "Twitter 2008". What's your take on the Bluesky vibe?
They had to go and tell everyone 🙄
This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.
November 19, 2024 at 9:35 AM
They had to go and tell everyone 🙄
Hard agree.
BBC / TV shows and all the newspapers need to set up accounts here rather than on Twitter STAT
November 18, 2024 at 11:06 PM
Hard agree.
It's only Monday for crying out loud. This is a Friday joke. Thursday at the outside. But I bet @bobbyllew.bsky.social will appreciate
it.
it.
If you can't tell me how powerful a French car is whilst locked in its trunk, then I'm afraid you simply don't know voiture torque in a boot.
November 18, 2024 at 2:35 PM
It's only Monday for crying out loud. This is a Friday joke. Thursday at the outside. But I bet @bobbyllew.bsky.social will appreciate
it.
it.