Renate

Web person. Lapsed linguist.

[Paul McNamara @PGMcNamara]

The Downing St camera knows the shot we all really want…

[Beth McColl @imbethmccoll]

my controversial parenting opinion is that no parent should have to do this & anyone who feels entitled to the kind of appeasement is a baby themselves. smile encouragingly at stressed out parents on planes, pop your big headphones on and grow up.

[Renate @rennbird]

@Blonde_M Pleased to hear this! Miss reading your blog. I set up a substack a while back but I still haven’t quite got round to actually using it yet… Used to post with abandon, but now it feels much more exposing somehow!

[Mind @MindCharity]

This doesn't reflect what we've seen in England and Wales at all. What we've seen 👇🏾 (1/4)

[Blonde @Blonde_M]

A great example of why childcare is infrastructure and it should be vastly subsided by the state up till school age.

[Dr Sarah Hughes @_Sarah_Hughes_]

Female success has for years been blamed for emasculating men, we hold the responsibility even when we are being murdered in our homes. Headlines like this feed the beast, this is what fuels male minds with fury and rage, an abdication of responsibility endorsed by media 👇🏼

[Nick Murphy @nickmurftweets]

It’s not all men, no. Of course it isn’t. But if a plane was crashing somewhere in the UK every day of the week then wouldn’t we want to maybe talk about what we’re teaching our pilots?

[Janey Godley @JaneyGodley]

Women on public transport have to explain why they don’t want a man to speak to them, why they don’t want his attention as HE ARGUES with her about her behaviour towards him

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Have you ever noticed that the save icon is a floppy disk, even though they became obsolete twenty years ago?

That's called a "skeuomorph" - when something new takes on the appearance of what it replaced.

And once you start to look, they're everywhere...

[same username on bsky @ElenaBjxrn]

I vote we start putting them further away from the entrance so lazy, entitled pricks stop taking them for no good reason. We don't need proximity to the doors, we need space to get children and car seats in and out.

[Prof. Pragya Agarwal @DrPragyaAgarwal]

They don’t give the same treatment to Mick Jagger and others still going strong after 70. Women are just supposed to disappear.

[cass biehn | VESUVIUS out now 🌋 @cassbeewrites]

Everyone romanticizes having a large personal library, but one day, you'll move houses. One day, you'll be tasked with hauling those books up and down flights of stairs. And on that day, the romance ends.

[Chase Mitchell @ChaseMit]

Definitely the future of television I had in mind was me having to google every movie I want to watch to see if it’s currently in one of its one-month windows on any of the seven streaming services I pay for. This is way easier than buying a DVD. I love it.

[Renate @rennbird]

Hard same.

[Amanda @Pandamoanimum]

The 2022 John Lewis ad will be a family burning their belongings for heat and to cook a rat for Christmas dinner while sadly looking at a photo of grandad who sacrificed his life for a packet of value pasta as a breathy slow version of ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ by D:Ream plays

[nathan fielder @nathanfielder]

Guess what? Here is the trailer for my new show The Rehearsal

[Ashley - Serious Security Scientist @Infosec_Taylor]

I just realized my non-US friends probably don't know how US insurance works.

So lets say your employer offers insurance. They pay a portion and then you pay a portion. For a family, the employee pays on average about $400 per pay cycle, or $10,400 per year.