Myriam Birch

every time I see a met gala post

One of my latest copyediting projects for Skira Paris: a monograph on Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger: artist, psychoanalyst, philosopher. Her paintings reckon with trauma, memory and the maternal, shaped by her parents' survival of the Holocaust. artbook.com/9782370742780.…

This. This is why I come here. And all the folding and wrapping and hack videos.

Being British is just swapping between saying “meant to rain this weekend” and “meant to be warm this weekend” Very occasionally you get to incorporate a ”meant to snow”.

Why UK weather is so unpredictable? [🎞️ geoglobe_tales]

@MerriamWebster diarrhoea and hygiene

What word is your spelling nemesis? This is a safe space.

@bestofStarTrek It's really terrible from the first episode, but granted, it does get worse, until it is eventually totally unwatchable even by lifelong Trekkies.

What season of Star Trek: Discovery is your favorite?

@TheTrekCentral This is turning out to be a great series

🖖 BREAKING - NEW Trailer for #StarTrek: #StrangeNewWorlds SEASON FOUR! The U.S.S. Enterprise crew is back and setting out on new adventures. New episodes of the 10-episode season will be available weekly on Thursdays! 🤎 Streaming JULY 23rd 2026!

That tricky English language…lol.😂😂 I had two exchange students live with me when I was young…it was pretty funny sometimes.

This is way too accurate.

I’m reading a really good series on Netflix right now 🤣🤣🤣

The 3 Rules of Adult Friendship

Jimmy Carr nailed it: Comedy lives in the massive gap between what people say in public and what they actually think in private. Right now that gap is wider than ever. The official “acceptable” opinions are strict, yet in bars, homes, and private chats, people say very different things. He asked the revealing question: “If you want to see where power really lives, what can’t you say in a society?” It’s one of the best ways to understand the current cultural moment. What topic do you think has the biggest gap between what people say publicly and what they really believe privately?

that's still me now, at 49

this is so true🥹

voyage home lines that i quote often

It’s difficult to explain to anyone under 30 that we elder millennials and Gen Xers really did live in a melting pot. “Diversity” wasn’t a virtue. It just happened. Film, TV, music, school, work. It was unremarkable. It was just America. We shared life because we shared culture.

@KatyKray73 Wasn't there a study that determined it was basically the South East English accent if someone had had quite a bit of alcohol?

The Australian accent was first noted around 1820. Colonial authorities were puzzled by the distinctive way the children of the settlers were speaking. It had developed as a unique blend of English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh dialects that had never been heard together in Britain, formed through daily mixing in the new townships. The Australian accent evolved from: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇮🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Ah yes. The "standard" British pronunciation.