Notices by Dr Alice Violett (alicemcalicepants@ohai.social)

I have no cat to celebrate #InternationalCatDay #caturday with, so have this post I saw elseweb the other day that's been living in my head rent-free since.

Hearing that the 'smart' fridges on a fancy Cambridge research campus aren't opening this morning, and the workers are on the edge of revolt because they can't access the milk.

@evan I've never had oysters and they don't really appeal to me, but my city is kinda weird about them: https://www.visitcolchester.com/food-and-drink/local-produce/colchester-oysters/

🎵 I just died in your arms tonight
It must've been something I ate 🎵

Random neighbour cat, let me love you 😞

@chris some of my mp3s have had to stay mistitled ('Days of the Phoenix' instead of 'The Days of the Phoenix; 'She's Lost Contro') because they've already racked up loads of scrobbles with those titles. But it still bothers me 😅

Apple Music has Sad Lovers & Giants with an ampersand, but the mp3s I bought don't, so now I'm having to painstakingly change the 'and' to an ampersand in Pano Scrobbler for each track so as not to bugger up my listening stats, no I'm not neurodivergent what are you talking about

Someone is having a viva in one of the meeting rooms on my floor and there's a catering trolley with pastries outside?!

I didn't get anything like that for either of my vivas, although someone did make me a cup of tea when I was crying in the PGR study room after the first one, which was awkward because I don't like tea.

Someone posted this in the group chat and I made a joke about a D10 that goes up to 11, but I don't know how many people got the reference (I'm the oldest) 👵 #BoardGames

Oh, go on then #FediCard

I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.

When a song is on the edge of your brain all day, and you finally succeed in identifying it 😌

(It was No Questions Asked by Fleetwood Mac.)

Could do with a nap but noooo, I have to get ready to go to this scary appointment I've made to try to find out what's going on with my stupid body.

That was patronisingly quick, but I am getting sent for a blood test and a scan, so I guess I am being taken seriously :-/

So next week, I have a blood test on Tuesday and fillings on Thursday 😅

🎵 This is the start of the breakdown 🎵

@eleanorrees yeeeears ago, I did an internship for a sparkling wine industry magazine, and one of the writers referred to drinking bubbles with local food on a beach in Thailand in a similar way 🧐

Stolen from a friend elsewhere:

"...and we'd very much appreciate if everyone could have their cameras on for this meeting!"

me:

@selzero Molchat Doma - Удалил Твой Номер / Udalil Tvoy Nomer
https://youtu.be/ziH4PNLiWXU

@pthane @selzero his next job could be in cyber (he just doesn't know it yet)

Meta lost $77bn on VR? I guess it just didn't have legs.