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@machinedidact

Friendly but exhausted, makes a good plan, full of ADHD and books of lists (she/her)

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Packet@machinedidact· 24d

Found what to get you for your birthday

An auction listing for “a diorama of three taxidermy moles”. Lot 457a in the Sworders sale on 8th Aug, on the-saleroom.com, if you’re keen

Packet@machinedidact· Jul 21

I’m not doing that baking now.

A screenshot from a recipe page:
“ prep time 45 min, cook time 30 min, inactive time 1 hour 45 min, total time 3 hour (sic)”

Packet@machinedidact· Jul 13

Can’t believe I’ve still got 6 weeks of notice to go before I finish work. Ive booked a daytime hairdressing appointment for September Quietly tempted to ask for this:

Knightmare (Anglia TV, 1990s) character Hordriss the Confuser, a mage with a red crushed velvet robe, beard and big white hair (voluuuuume) with red streaks including in his eyebrows, like raspberry ripple ice cream

Packet@machinedidact· Jun 30

This at the end of an AP article about mortuaries being full in Paris. Ah, what’s the betting that the author is American? - dismissive “permits and issues” - “just install it” attitude - belief that what stops Europe is a desire to “tough it out” - what a projected reading of drive! Insulting

User Kapoonsoup posts “ok I get that there’s permits and issues if you’re trying to install AC units in historic Paris but is it really worth risking your life to prove you can tough it out? Use a window setup. They can’t all have bars over them…”

Packet@machinedidact· Jun 24

I think this is it or the higuruma work pose

Manga, black and white drawing. Higuruma, a disaffected lawyer, sits in a full bathtub on stage, fully dressed in a suit and tie, with head thrown back as if he has fully given up

Packet@machinedidact· Mar 13

Please excuse the mess and lack of alt text I have no time but this is what I meant

Packet@machinedidact· Mar 10

Just been entertained by seeing a bag on Vinted that I think it would be illegal to post??

Vinted listing- picture of a black handbag with 4” nails hammered through it. Condition Good, £50

Packet@machinedidact· Feb 22

I was just looking at this brand of bags that was advertised to me on Instagram (it’s Lancaster, Paris - not to be confused with Lancaster in Lancashire I guess) but it cracks me up because fashion & modelling is such that the model holding the tiny bag in the pic below looks APPALLED.

Model sits on concrete steps holding a teeny tiny brown bowling bag with an expression like “you fucking disgust me, you worm”

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Packet@machinedidact· Nov 20

These are my incomplete goals for today. Apols to anyone for lack of alt text, I don’t have a spoon to my name

Packet@machinedidact· Nov 19

I mean Instagram are nailing me down with their algorithm still but look at this my dudes: I feel like it needs something white over it, like the kind of apron you give to kindergarteners at lunchtime or during art. White cotton. Makes me feel like I should be following a choir down the aisle?

Long sleeve button front maxi dress with a high collar - I think it’s in a fine cord, dark red.
Call it what you want, my friends (the website is katebarton.co.uk) but that right there is a cassock. I’ve worn it. Don’t give me an alb with arms in or I’ll look nuts when I try to get the choir to be more energetic

Packet@machinedidact· Sep 27

Here’s one for you and your missus, @redjolt.bsky.social !

Text says “if he can paint warhammer then he can paint your nails” over a picture of a man’s tattooed hands working to give a woman manicure art with a tiny brush on her long nails

Packet@machinedidact· Aug 26

A plushie axolotl smiles on a background of flames with the words “I’m seriously at my limit”

Packet@machinedidact· Aug 10

Show me your getaway vehicle:

It’s the pinkyponk, from In the Night Garden. Big green spotty airship with a baby pink clown nose on the end and loads of little pink flippery paddles sticking from the sides of the blimp bit. It looks like a clown version of some horrible cactus disease, but it’s kind of fun. Igglepiggle and Upsy Daisy always fell about inside it like Captain Kirk during an unfortunate set-to with some Klingons

Packet@machinedidact· Aug 1

It’s sooooo shit. Found @ / elenaventurelliofficial on Instagram today - physicist with pmdd who moved into hormone science because fuck all this. Big fan of her work so far

Screenshot from elenaventurelliofficial on insta -
Drug trials - 80% use males only
Neuroscience studies - 88% exclude females
Clinical trials - 65% don’t report sex-based results
Drug side effects - women 2x more likely to suffer
Women’s health funding - just 2.5% of research budget

Packet@machinedidact· Jul 28

Just browsing jewellery auctions like I do and saw this - if someone (/has a partner who) loves dinosaurs and wears earrings, look at Elmwoods.co.uk and their auction on Wednesday 30th - don’t forget the estimate is hammer price - there’s a fee on top of usually about 30%, then something for postage

Picture shows a screenshot of lot 94, sapphire dinosaur stud earrings. My guess is something diplodocus-esque, blue sapphire body with yellow gold neck, head, feet, tail. Very cute. Estimated to achieve hammer price of £200-£300.

Packet@machinedidact· Jul 19

This is where I post from

A black and white drawing (etching?) of Fonthill Abbey, before the collapse of the tower. Goth max.

Packet@machinedidact· Jul 10

I don’t know who you mean but I’ll say he’s autistic. I’m not a HCP, I’m not risking my livelihood by pronouncing it out of hand. Chances are…

Instagrammer cobywattsmusic rides a pink scooter wearing leisurewear and boxy pink sunglasses. The screen is overlayed with a text box saying “AUTISM”

Packet@machinedidact· Jun 15

What’s your sign?

A realistic drawing of a hand squeezing the trigger on a water spray bottle, with dotted lines to show the spray. The style of drawing suggests a wikihow guide. In red letters is the word “no” - capital N, followed by a full stop.

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Packet@machinedidact· May 25

Me, dressing for the job I want, bringing my whole self to work, doing the heads in of consultants from other firms - whichever

Hordriss the confuser from Anglia TV’s Knightmare - a tall (?) man in a crushed velvet red robe, white hair with red stripes down each side, matching beard and eyebrows. Drop the routine Hordriss, is that mousse, back combing or both? Have to respect the volume.

Packet@machinedidact· May 18

I’m quite high on rebellious so here’s a list instead Princess celestia, get innnn. Yeah I see it. Mostly stable mentor vibes, it’s how I roll these days