Olivia Campbell

former spinner (not for cricket) i still hashtag my minor life events

[Olivia Campbell @MsOlive]

@alyssaleann Thank you, yes, I stand by it.

A character from Shakespeare, with a lot of modern flex in shortening it? ✅✅✅

But also the most popular girls name in UK for the last 20yrs so I’m struggling to persuade friends/colleagues/distant acquaintances to name their babies after me

[Olivia Campbell @MsOlive]

@DrSdeG @Chamoissiere @andycmt09 Onomatopoeia!

[Olivia Campbell @MsOlive]

@TimSingSkyNews @SkyYaldaHakim @SkyNews All the best for your next adventure, Tim ✨

[Olivia Campbell @MsOlive]

@chribdotnet Can of chickpeas + a canful of water into a pan with two handfuls of pasta, 1/3 of a stock cube (depending on how salty they are) while that’s boiling, defrost frozen veggies, chop small, throw them in, dice up a courgette, throw in, and then LOTS of grated Parmesan.

[World Curling @worldcurling]

AND???? 😭😭😭

[kaley @kalec55]

and the theme is: english women’s teams lifting trophies in 2025

[Olivia Campbell @MsOlive]

And this is why the Lebanese Lira is also known as the Lebanese Pound 🇱🇧

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

The Libra constellation resembles scales.

The Latin ‘libra pondo’ means “a pound by weight.”

‘Pound’ is from ‘pondo,’ and ‘lb’ is an abbreviation of ‘libra.’

[Olivia Campbell @MsOlive]

***Places suitcase with three weeks of clothes and books on top of Mac trackpad to see if it’s over the plane’s limit of 23kgs***

[Krish Shah @KrishRShah]

You can turn your Mac trackpad into a weighing scale

[Gary Fineout @fineout]

10 years ago the BBC did this version of God Only Knows with a whole long line of musicians and singers including Brian Wilson. Worth the time ... https://t.co/1XfnhLJS2H

[Olivia Campbell @MsOlive]

Sending this to my younger siblings so they know I’m raising the bar on my expectations of them

[Katie Prejean McGrady @KatiePMcGrady]

John Prevost is in Rome, and went to Mass with his little brother, newly elected Pope Leo XIV

[Olivia Campbell @MsOlive]

I love a simple graphic suited to its format.

[The Mary Rose @MaryRoseMuseum]

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

[Olivia Campbell @MsOlive]

👷‍♀️ Women in STEM 🧮

[Positive Side of 𝕏 @positivesideofx]

This woman made the coolest thing with her engineering degree for Halloween.

[Lily Craven @TheAttagirls]

Woman of the Day Julia Pirie born OTD 1918 Warwickshire, MI5 agent for 20 years. Cover story: typist. Her unassuming demeanour and matronly appearance masked a sharp intellect. When Barcelona police raided her flat in the 1970s (she was keeping tabs on the IRA at the time), she convinced them she was just a harmless English spinster.

In WW2, Julia joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry which provided women agents for the Special Operations Executive.

After the war, MI5 asked her to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain as a typist. She became personal assistant to the General Secretary, accompanying him to regular meetings behind the Iron Curtain. The fact that she usually tried to avoid these "dreary" visits to the Eastern Bloc only reinforced her cover. Julia would pass regular reports and photocopies to her MI5 handlers during cricket matches at The Oval. It wasn’t a hardship; she enjoyed cricket.

In the 1970s, she was instructed to resign her Communist Party post and take on a new mission: collecting intelligence on the Provisional IRA during several missions in Europe.

Posing as a modest, elderly English spinster sightseeing abroad, Julia followed the Provisional IRA through several European countries collecting information about them, before renting a flat in Barcelona immediately below the one used as an IRA safe house and temporary storage for gold bullion supplied by Gaddafi. The whole operation was put at risk when Barcelona armed police mistakenly raided her flat, but she coolly maintained her cover and persuaded them they had the wrong person.

In the 1990s, after retiring from active operations, Julia lectured to groups of MI5 trainees and the police.

And the best bit? Until her death in September 2008 at the age of 90, the Communist Party continued to pay her pension each month from a bank in Italy.

There’s no known photo of her. Did you really think there would be?

[Olivia Campbell @MsOlive]

Tag yourself; I’m bottom right

[The Museum of Curiosities @CuriosMuseum]

Museum in Japan that showcases various naturally formed rocks with faces on them.

[Olivia Campbell @MsOlive]

@realgirl_fieri “Oh, were they that badly behaved with other people? I’m so sorry, that must have been rough”

*pat on the shoulder*
*sad head tilt*

[Olivia Campbell @MsOlive]

@SarahjevsEvans I like that you cropped the face, for privacy and safeguarding reasons I assume 😸

[Boots, 'with the fur' @afraidofwasps]

You only live once - you should try to spend as much time on the computer as possible. After you die, you won't have access to it any more

[Olivia Campbell @MsOlive]

@EliMcCann Finish lines, not finish times! Well done - I could never 👏 👏 👏