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Mrs Cosmopilite
@whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social
Just learning stuff - don't know where I'm heading
What could possibly go wrong
November 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
If you're looking up bubbly beaches, you're spumescrolling
October 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Didn't quite manage to dodge this shower

Certain amount of jeopardy watching the wall of rain approach, coatless..
October 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The royals possibly using taxpayer's money propping up a wrong-un and also profiting from their monopoly during a C-o-L crisis

Imagine reinvesting wind farm rental income to improve the grid and benefit all

Not a sovereign wealth fund. The Sovereign's wealth fund.

Soz. My FT uni sub can't share
October 19, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I still regularly refer to this New Scientist exchange from 1997
October 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
My 12yo son came home from a village fete with these shot glass welly boots. He was especially impressed that they measure double as well as single shots
October 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Stop looking at me!

STOP LOOKING AT ME!!
September 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
And another Pratchett endorsement 😁

I'm hearing him being referenced more and more often.

Starting to think that anyone considering public office should read all his Ankh-Morpork books

This feels appropriate ATM.
From Unseen Academicals
September 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Give the people what they want.

Wait.. they want what..?

The late, great Terry Pratchett laying out the options in Unseen Academicals
September 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Expanded on in UA.

The footnote to the footnote is typically wise
September 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
September 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Dec 2003.

My mum would consider that amateurish.

Might need a teaspoon handle in order to loosen it up...
September 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I was at the Imperial War Museum yesterday.

For all the arresting, thought-provoking, heart-rending images, this one stayed with me.

My first and, still, overriding thought is that any public outrage at this happening now would be drowned out by cheering.

I want to be wrong
September 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I was very taken with the synergy between the geometry of the harvest of grain and the harvest of sunshine
August 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Geometry in harvesting grain and sunshine
July 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
You're so right. For me, you, our respective children, their friends and everyone else. We must care and fight for every little win.

You give us encylopedically appropriate extracts every day.

Right back at you
July 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Meanwhile, in North Dorset.

My children sometimes play cricket matches at the club in this field.

A benign landowner is fine - until they're not.

'This is mine and don't you forget it'
July 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Today's View From The Boundary

Cricket's a good sport when you want to support your teen, and they want to be supported, but they don't want you to be seen supporting
June 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
*sigh
May 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Meanwhile, in Dorset.
In May.
May 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
15m hole punched in a hedge.

In May.

🤬
May 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
There was a time in my undergrad socioeconomic studies when I grumbled that the material was outdated.

This was written last year.

Now I'm wierded out thinking the OU has invented time travel
April 7, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Expect I'm not the first to do this

Blue sky on Bluesky
February 28, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I think Thomas Hardy would have found it hard not to write evocatively about Dorset
February 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Not sure how this economics degree is going to help me understand the shit show we're currently experiencing 🤨

Economic models. Are they still a thing?

Adam Smith's last sentence here falls a bit flat in 2025
February 16, 2025 at 8:08 AM