I do not (I think) have perimenopause yet, but all my friends who do have drilled into my brain all these symptoms, so that was pretty striking to read.

I hit my head pretty hard today and checked the list of immediate symptoms of concussion, for which I hit 0 out of 9, which is great. But concussions can manifest a few days later and the symptoms for that are: Trouble with concentration & memory Irritability & other personality changes […]

“How many teddy bears can one toddler possibly need?” Danish hospitals: “Yes”

Knowing what I know now, I realise that genuinely, some babies don’t enjoy being babies while others are great at it. It would be great as a first-time parent to have the benefit of hindsight and know that it’s not you, it’s them. And the fact that some other baby is easy is not because that […]

Different people have wildly different experiences of different stages of parenthood. Someone just referred to the infant stage as “cute Hallmark movie” while I remember standing in my kitchen in tears because I couldn’t get the Hobbit to sleep for a full day. I remember hallucinating from lack […]

Men still make up 100% of the Nobel laureates this year so far.

White bikes always make me sad. A child-size white bike makes me want to start a revolution.

I WON!!!!!

Great thoughts here... "But “efficiency” is not the point of life…living, and experiencing every bit of what living means, is the point of life. And I sometimes, when I read statements about how Suno has “solved” music or whatever, I think that the AI bros just…don’t actually like being alive […]

"Un parlementaire RN interroge tout de même : "Qui n’a jamais tracé une croix gammée avec son compas sur une table au lycée ou à la faculté ?" bah, mon gars, j'ai une mauvaise nouvelle pour toi […]

I overheard a colleague being congratulated for cycling a whole 3km to the office every day and celebrated as a “sustainability hero” and he was visibly embarrassed. The bar for individual action is in hell for most people in Europe. A remarkable amount of people have done absolutely nothing to […]

like, class solidarity is great and all, but we also need to acknowledge we are living with massive privilege of having a choice to do these things while other people's homes and lives get swept away in a glacial flash flood

I often struggle to maintain class solidarity with people whose daily lives are impacted by high gas prices with the actual words coming out of their mouths. "I've had to start car-pooling with a colleague who lives nearby." "These days I try to do groceries just after work instead of doing two […]

it’s a degree of incompetence rarely reached, even for congressional republicans.