Claire Read
@readthewriter.bsky.social
Freelance writer and editor – healthcare; public sector/not-for-profit; cycle sport – and, on Tuesdays, a House of Commons committee reporter. Apostrophes in all the right places. 📽️🎮📺🎶 fan. Also naps. I like naps.
Rainbow over St John Street, consolation for a generally dark and rainy day 🌈
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Rainbow over St John Street, consolation for a generally dark and rainy day 🌈
You can ask me to watch pretty much any film and I will enthusiastically do it. Just not horror, because I’m a jump scare-hating scaredy cat with permanently shot nerves. Sinners with a Q&A has made me pluck up my courage however… plus put on my comfiest non-PJ clothes and pack three fidget toys 😬
November 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
You can ask me to watch pretty much any film and I will enthusiastically do it. Just not horror, because I’m a jump scare-hating scaredy cat with permanently shot nerves. Sinners with a Q&A has made me pluck up my courage however… plus put on my comfiest non-PJ clothes and pack three fidget toys 😬
One of my clients needs me to complete IT security training. The online course has repeatedly assured me poorly written content is a way to spot any suspicious activity. On the basis of this end of module question, I should now apparently whether the education provider itself is a cybercriminal 🤨
November 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
One of my clients needs me to complete IT security training. The online course has repeatedly assured me poorly written content is a way to spot any suspicious activity. On the basis of this end of module question, I should now apparently whether the education provider itself is a cybercriminal 🤨
I had to turn the difficulty down to the literal baby level (check out the little faces at the top of the page), but a perfect’s a perfect. I’ll take it.
#PlatypusReclayed @claymatic.games #SteamDeck
#PlatypusReclayed @claymatic.games #SteamDeck
November 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I had to turn the difficulty down to the literal baby level (check out the little faces at the top of the page), but a perfect’s a perfect. I’ll take it.
#PlatypusReclayed @claymatic.games #SteamDeck
#PlatypusReclayed @claymatic.games #SteamDeck
Spent Saturday night watching a two and a half hour long Japanese/German film about a man cleaning toilets in Tokyo via notoriously arty streaming platform MUBI; spending Sunday lunchtime watching an animated kids’ film about a K-pop girl band fighting demons.
Believer in broad tastes ✌🏻
Believer in broad tastes ✌🏻
November 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Spent Saturday night watching a two and a half hour long Japanese/German film about a man cleaning toilets in Tokyo via notoriously arty streaming platform MUBI; spending Sunday lunchtime watching an animated kids’ film about a K-pop girl band fighting demons.
Believer in broad tastes ✌🏻
Believer in broad tastes ✌🏻
The Guardian is Guardianing particularly hard this morning.
October 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The Guardian is Guardianing particularly hard this morning.
Totally in favour of having a conversation about reparations, but I'm not sure *all* of them should go to Lenny Henry.
October 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Totally in favour of having a conversation about reparations, but I'm not sure *all* of them should go to Lenny Henry.
Google Gemini has been integrated into my email, and so I have an overeager coworker who is barely competent yet displays unshakeable confidence in their abilities. Its suggested responses to an email today asking if I'm available tomorrow or Friday for a call. God. Take a 12-hour lunch break, Gem.
October 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Google Gemini has been integrated into my email, and so I have an overeager coworker who is barely competent yet displays unshakeable confidence in their abilities. Its suggested responses to an email today asking if I'm available tomorrow or Friday for a call. God. Take a 12-hour lunch break, Gem.
Ready to unleash mischief. Adorably.
September 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Ready to unleash mischief. Adorably.
One of these years I’m going to get assigned a really good spot in the London Film Festival ticket queue.
This, however, is not that year.
#LFF
This, however, is not that year.
#LFF
September 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
One of these years I’m going to get assigned a really good spot in the London Film Festival ticket queue.
This, however, is not that year.
#LFF
This, however, is not that year.
#LFF
Wore entirely standard Readie garb for my trip to watch #FantasticFour, and then realised it made me look as though I was making a very poor attempt at cosplay. Fortunately an 11.40am showing on a Sunday meant a smaller number of people around to notice. Though I have now told all of you. Whoops.
August 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Wore entirely standard Readie garb for my trip to watch #FantasticFour, and then realised it made me look as though I was making a very poor attempt at cosplay. Fortunately an 11.40am showing on a Sunday meant a smaller number of people around to notice. Though I have now told all of you. Whoops.
Thank you, person who’s added googly eyes to one of the bollards on Peter’s Lane, Clerkenwell. You’ve made me smile.
August 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Thank you, person who’s added googly eyes to one of the bollards on Peter’s Lane, Clerkenwell. You’ve made me smile.
“Sorry, Baby”, which releases tomorrow in the UK and which I was lucky enough to see in preview, is one of the best films I’ve seen all year.
Go if you can. (Check trigger warnings, though all handled with enormous sensitivity.)
Other fave film of the year? The Last Showgirl. Streaming on MUBI 👍🏻
Go if you can. (Check trigger warnings, though all handled with enormous sensitivity.)
Other fave film of the year? The Last Showgirl. Streaming on MUBI 👍🏻
August 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
“Sorry, Baby”, which releases tomorrow in the UK and which I was lucky enough to see in preview, is one of the best films I’ve seen all year.
Go if you can. (Check trigger warnings, though all handled with enormous sensitivity.)
Other fave film of the year? The Last Showgirl. Streaming on MUBI 👍🏻
Go if you can. (Check trigger warnings, though all handled with enormous sensitivity.)
Other fave film of the year? The Last Showgirl. Streaming on MUBI 👍🏻
South Bank today. Sunny with a chance of showers.
August 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
South Bank today. Sunny with a chance of showers.
Being a long-term London resident is just having two or three parts of the city you know well, but only so long as you don't deviate from a specific route. That's why it was only today that I stumbled upon the gorgeous Riverside Bookshop near London Bridge station and this perfect recommendation 📽️📖
August 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Being a long-term London resident is just having two or three parts of the city you know well, but only so long as you don't deviate from a specific route. That's why it was only today that I stumbled upon the gorgeous Riverside Bookshop near London Bridge station and this perfect recommendation 📽️📖
Film nerd dilemma: Q&A "Sorry, Baby" with a member ticket at the BFI, or hold on a week for the free MUBI Go ticket? 🤔
(Don't worry, Materialists is a given. Pedro, innit? Yes, I know, Celine Song. But – controversial – for me "Past Lives" was primarily 90 minutes with not very likeable people.)
(Don't worry, Materialists is a given. Pedro, innit? Yes, I know, Celine Song. But – controversial – for me "Past Lives" was primarily 90 minutes with not very likeable people.)
August 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Film nerd dilemma: Q&A "Sorry, Baby" with a member ticket at the BFI, or hold on a week for the free MUBI Go ticket? 🤔
(Don't worry, Materialists is a given. Pedro, innit? Yes, I know, Celine Song. But – controversial – for me "Past Lives" was primarily 90 minutes with not very likeable people.)
(Don't worry, Materialists is a given. Pedro, innit? Yes, I know, Celine Song. But – controversial – for me "Past Lives" was primarily 90 minutes with not very likeable people.)
Message endorsed by this University of Reading graduate.
August 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Message endorsed by this University of Reading graduate.
Cuddles with the cutie pie.
The first time he went into his cage, he spent half an hour enthusiastically digging in every single spot. And so his name’s Dig Dug, after his favourite pastime and – yes – after the 1980s video game.
Really, then, this is a Dig Dug Hug™.
The first time he went into his cage, he spent half an hour enthusiastically digging in every single spot. And so his name’s Dig Dug, after his favourite pastime and – yes – after the 1980s video game.
Really, then, this is a Dig Dug Hug™.
August 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Cuddles with the cutie pie.
The first time he went into his cage, he spent half an hour enthusiastically digging in every single spot. And so his name’s Dig Dug, after his favourite pastime and – yes – after the 1980s video game.
Really, then, this is a Dig Dug Hug™.
The first time he went into his cage, he spent half an hour enthusiastically digging in every single spot. And so his name’s Dig Dug, after his favourite pastime and – yes – after the 1980s video game.
Really, then, this is a Dig Dug Hug™.
Delighted to announce that five aspects of my work are in the top half of Microsoft's list of professions most at risk from AI, one of them at the prestigious number one spot. Bonus: my degree area also appears. Here's to obsolescence!
August 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Delighted to announce that five aspects of my work are in the top half of Microsoft's list of professions most at risk from AI, one of them at the prestigious number one spot. Bonus: my degree area also appears. Here's to obsolescence!
A confusing selection of top job picks from LinkedIn today, it has to be said.
July 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM
A confusing selection of top job picks from LinkedIn today, it has to be said.
Nice one, mate, cos I think many of us feel we have a tendency to catch both.
July 31, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Nice one, mate, cos I think many of us feel we have a tendency to catch both.
Ah, so that’s why I liked it so much #Superman #IAmAlsoBurstingWithGeekyWeirdness
July 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Ah, so that’s why I liked it so much #Superman #IAmAlsoBurstingWithGeekyWeirdness
