Leah

avid sewer, fabric addict, eternal classics student, baker, sci-fi aficionado & mum to the Pingus

[Leah @leahhung]

Right! When I emigrated to the US I did not have to include my summer job at Burger King from 1996, nor my high school weekend job at the Tartan Cupboard. 🤪

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

This whole absurd discourse is pretty clearly driven by people who never worked a summer fast food job or any other kind of fast food job. Because the idea that you're going to have pay stubs or a bank statement from 40 years in the past is seriously stupidest thing imaginable.

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

This whole absurd discourse is pretty clearly driven by people who never worked a summer fast food job or any other kind of fast food job. Because the idea that you're going to have pay stubs or a bank statement from 40 years in the past is seriously stupidest thing imaginable.

[Amol Rajan @amolrajan]

I mean, come on!

#UniversityChallenge

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

This is incredible creativity. 👌

[Variety @Variety]

Sally Field detailed the "traumatic" illegal abortion she had in 1964 in order to encourage voters to elect Kamala Harris and protect reproductive rights: "We can't go back!"

“I’ve been so hesitant to do this, to tell my horrific story. It was during a time even worse than now. A time when contraception was not readily available and only if you were married. But I feel that so many women of my generation went through similar, traumatic events and I feel stronger when I think of them. I believe, like me, they must want to fight for their grandchildren and all the young women of this country. Everyone, please, pay attention to this election, up and down the ballot, in every state – especially those with ballot initiatives that could protect reproductive freedom. PLEASE. WE CAN’T GO BACK!!”

Read more here: https://t.co/g6GP2w4nKl

[Paul Watson @paul_c_watson]

Man sits by me on train.
MAN: Loads of psychopaths around here
ME: Really?
MAN: Loads mate
ME: How'd you know?
MAN: There's signs aren't there?
ME: I guess?
MAN: I love them
(47 minutes of awkward silence.)
Man leaves train, he has a bike. I realise he was saying 'cycle paths'.

[Leah @leahhung]

@GammaCounter @boursier @bonapart100 @saspist @markasaurus My teens are cosplaying Taylor Swift outfits for a sci-fi convention in November and there is talk of doing something like this with beads and boots! I just ordered one of them white DMs!

[PBS America @PBSAmerica]

One to Watch
Rome: Empire Without Limit with Mary Beard
Starts Tue 1 October, 7.05pm

Travel with historian and classicist Mary Beard from Spain to Iran, Egypt to Scotland, Tunisia to Greece to discover how did Rome acquire an empire? And why did it fall?

[Jennifer Tilly @JenniferTilly]

In the 80s, I went to London with my then husband Sam and we saw a play called “Lettice and Lovage” starring Maggie Smith.
At intermission, everybody got up to buy ice cream and go to the bathroom, but I sat in my chair and wept.
“Jennifer,” said Sam gently. “Why are you crying? Why are crying? It’s a comedy. Look around you. See? Everybody’s laughing.”
“I’m crying,” I sobbed, “because I’ll never be as good as Maggie Smith.
Rip Dame Maggie. 🕊️

[Leah @leahhung]

@MuseZack Early middle grade novel

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

We must abolish the death penalty.

[Leah @leahhung]

@GammaCounter My brother told us on a Zoom a few weeks ago the first thing he’d eat in America would be a corn dog. My kid said “that’s sad”. That said I’ve been here +22 years and he has never visited so chances of that corn dog is slim.

[Leah @leahhung]

@GammaCounter

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

What a class act Marr is.

[Leah @leahhung]

@GammaCounter We’ve exclusively been listening to Taylor for about 10 months or so. At some point I assuming we will be allowed to listen to other people 🤣

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

All night he talked about himself and about her.

She, by contrast, talked about you.

Because that’s who she works for.

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

Today, we renew our sacred vow.

Never forget.

[Taylor Swift Updates @TSUpdating]

Kamala Harris playing The Man by Taylor Swift at her post-debate rally

[Archer @ArchertheArmo]

I miss @Bourdain a lot

Never met him.

He changed my life exponentially