Wedge 🦋 @wedge.black

I've moved to Bluesky and you can find me as Wedge dot Black like this bsky.app/profile/wedge.…

@HelenArmfield It would be nigh on impossible for many of us, 📚

If you read 60% of the books you own in the next month, on what topic would you mostly become an expert?

@sympmarc That many books?! I’m opting out of society, I’ve heard bad things about it

@Wedge Scary distopian societies.

@IntranetFocus Ah yes, I couldn’t hit 60% in reality either

Speed reading

@steveprioruk I bet you already have such expertise

@miekderuiter Local knowledge is always handy

I gen need help to understand. Why must front-of-house retail staff earn the same as backend warehouse staff? If sex discrimination is involved, surely that’s about recruitment practices and not wages. Again, I am gen asking: theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Your daily motivation

Out of NOWHERE this woman says “what a beautiful coat” I say “thank you, but it’s a shacket”. (Yeah yeah y’know it, she was talking about my dog.)

Wild that some regions have charge choices and clean energy. UK just has optimised.

I submitted a location correction on Apple Maps! It was easy! I indicated where the cafe is really located and a day latter Maps notified me of acceptance. But the cafe was still wrong but now had a ‘tick’ icon. I clicked the tick. Readers, the cafe disappeared 😩

Signed off with this today: No need to reply; your life is your own and I don’t like to see emails when I open my email client. Cheers

@dnlfoxx I remember back when people would say “how does he read it upside down” and you or someone was like ‘i wrote this, I memorised this, it’s the craft’ — and now *I* can read it (right way up)

It’s here and it’s quite perfect, and the only celebrity book to grace my Billy.

sacerdotal /săs″ər-dōt′l, săk″-/ Of or relating to sacerdotalism. Of or relating to priests or the priesthood; priestly. 2/2

Had to look up a word (thank you, Will Self). How does anyone, ever, learn the word ‘sacerdotal’? How? When? I have a religious background and have read some books but… 1/2

“Oh my gosh [insert name], assuming we’ve met before, it’s been so long!” Me, greeting people at tonight’s @ClearBox intranet meet up.

Why did i scissor-cut my own hair the night before a trip to London to see forty of my closest frenemies and potential strangers?

Fifteen degrees and a cold wind. I need to find my big coat