Alice

Mostly cat tweets. Big fan of festivals, rum, DnB/Garage. Content Design/UX. Work in HE. #pwME

[Alice @MsABooKay]

Sometimes I wonder if we spoil our cats... *looks over to see cat in a radiator hammock bed being hand-fed tiny bits of steak by M* 🙄

[Iván @IvaanBlanco26]

Qué gran compañero hay que ser (Marquinhos) para acabar de ganar una Champions y en vez de volverte completamente loco, ir primero como capitán a consolar a tu compañero de selección (Gabriel) que ha fallado el penalti decisivo.

[Max @MaxRadwan]

I asked Renee Slegers about how Arsenal go about replacing Katie McCabe 🧵👇

[Alice @MsABooKay]

😭

[Tom Garry @TomJGarry]

Arsenal confirm Katie McCabe will leave this summer, a likelihood first reported by the Guardian in February. McCabe has played 305 times for Arsenal and helped them win the #uwcl in 2025. It was a hard decision for McCabe but she has decided to pursue a new challenge.

[Alice @MsABooKay]

@SHEscoresbanger 🥺

[Vix @lillai23]

Fun fact: I qualify for UC on a nurse‘s fulltime salary in London

Maybe tough love the super wealthy & tax them more to pay the rest of us better wages

[cait @49mlskelly]

when men go down in football they cry for a foul, when women go down in football they get assists.

[Alice @MsABooKay]

What a thing to read at 15 months postpartum 😬

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The scariest finding in this paper: the subjects couldn't tell it was happening.

UPenn ran this study on 48 healthy adults. One group slept 8 hours. Another slept 6. Another slept 4. For 14 straight days. They tested cognitive performance every 2 hours from 7:30am to 11:30pm.

The 6-hour group's reaction times, working memory, and sustained attention deteriorated on a near-linear curve. By day 14 they were performing at the same level as someone who hadn't slept at all in 48 hours. The 4-hour group hit that threshold by day 6.

Here's the part that should unsettle everyone who thinks they "do fine" on 6 hours: the subjects' self-reported sleepiness flatlined after the first few days. Their brains kept getting worse. Their perception of how impaired they were stopped updating. The cognitive decline was invisible to the person experiencing it.

The researchers found a hard threshold. Any wakefulness beyond 15.84 hours in a day produces cumulative neurobiological cost. That cost compounds every single day you exceed it and does not reset with a weekend of sleeping in.

About 35% of American adults sleep less than 7 hours a night. 40% of those get 6 hours or less. In 1942 that number was 11%. We built an entire professional culture around a sleep schedule that this paper says is functionally equivalent to pulling consecutive all-nighters.

"I'm fine on 6 hours" is the most common response to sleep research. The first thing chronic sleep debt destroys is your ability to notice chronic sleep debt.

[𝕭𝖔𝖓𝖊 𝕿𝖔𝖜𝖊𝖗🏴‍☠️ @BenjaminTobitt]

People who say that unions are too extreme don’t realise that the union was the peaceful compromise.

[Daniel Sugarman @Daniel_Sugarman]

An FT correction for the ages...

[Alice @MsABooKay]

Very near me 😬

[The Mirror @DailyMirror]

BREAKING: UK school plunged into lockdown as police chopper and ambulance scrambled https://t.co/EGbiEUSuI2

[Alice @MsABooKay]

Wooop to job shares at the highest levels!

[Times Higher Education @timeshighered]

Two senior civil servants have been appointed joint chief executives of the Office for Students, reports @Helen_Packer #OfS
https://t.co/bC9J2T4V4m

[Dailymeow @Dailymeoww1]

In Japan🇯🇵, a married couple was trying to put their baby and cat👶🏻😺 to sleep late at night, and it was captured on camera. They added this note for the cat: 'he doesn't want to feel left out.' 😂♥️

[The Rt Hon Lady Matildamog @Jc62Matildamog]

I’d rather have Hannah Spencer dressed in her lovely colourful outfit, than a man in a suit watching tractor porn in the House of Commons.

[Alice @MsABooKay]

@rafthemaster @markgadala Oooh I don’t have an orange one

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

We put the land use argument to Keith.

Keith. You are occupying agricultural land that could, theoretically, be used to grow crops. How do you respond?

Keith stopped chewing.

He looked at the field.

The field is on a 30-degree slope in Devon. The topsoil is clay. The drainage is complicated. No tractor has successfully operated in the lower section without becoming a story people tell in the village pub.

Keith looked at us.

Keith, do you believe this field could produce food crops without you on it?

Keith walked to the lower section of the field. He ate a thistle. He stepped on a bramble runner and ate that too. He looked at the clay in the corner where it waterlogged every winter and produced nothing except rushes, which Keith also ate.

Are you saying the field is only productive because you're on it?

Keith looked at us with the expression of an animal that has grasped the argument entirely and found the question slightly beneath him.

He then left through the gate he had opened by himself.

He was in the road for nine minutes.

He ate a passing cyclist's energy bar.

We are not including this in the land use efficiency report.

[Alice @MsABooKay]

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[tern @1goodtern]

Well, Starmer said that a vote for the Greens was a vote for Reform, but it turns out that a vote for the Greens is actually a vote for the Greens.
It's a vote for genuine left wing politics, a vote for the planet, a vote for supporting people in need, and a vote for hope.

[Daniel Grigg @Daniel_Grigg]

Stopping Jeremy Corbyn was always the Labour right's goal, not stopping May, Johnson or the Tories.

Stopping Zack Polanski and the Greens is their goal, not stopping Farage and Reform.

[Alice @MsABooKay]

@quipsfromthekid @anon_opin Your comment shows that you don’t understand the definition of “gentle parenting”.

[Alice @MsABooKay]

@quipsfromthekid @anon_opin You need to learn what that means. I think you’re referring to permissive parenting.