For the avoidance of doubt: I love replies, if you are thinking of replying to my Tweet (even to disagree) please do! We were put on this earth to chat with each other.
My husband needed an ultrasound so I came with him. At the imaging reception they saw a man and a pregnant woman and they looked at us and said 'ultrasound?'. I feel like I'm living in a philosophical counterexample about justified true beliefs.
Someone please explain the Barbie joke to me in detail. Is the joke that Mussolini ran trains and commerce? Because that doesn't really make sense. Might as well say 'how can I be facisit, I'm not bald?'. Or is there some definition of fascism referenced here that I don't know.?
I used to think the key to small talk was always having something to say (difficult) but now I think the key is being genuinely relaxed and putting people at ease (very difficult).
my mum used to work with a guy who was very good at chess. but it made him a terrible strategist in the real world; he was always thinking 5 steps ahead which was a terrible model for how everyone around him was thinking.
I think most people genuinely have insane mental blocks built up about maths. I used to be a maths tutor and half the battle was getting people to not immediately panic when they saw maths.
I'm 34 and married, so it's not embarrassing to be pregnant. But... I find being pregnant surprisingly erotic so actually I am quite embarrassed tell people.
I don't mean this as a humble brag but my boyfriend and I were both the first people we ever dated so I don't have an ex and neither does he. having an ex seems weird! How are you guys coping with it? You used to love someone and now you don't???
I love men but I find that male programmers are constantly playing a game called "I'm the smartest". I cannot bare to play the game (because I think I'll lose?). It feels like a constant friction that everyone seems to enjoy playing this and I don't.
Last week was the one year anniversary of when I stopped lurking and started actually tweeting. It's been amazing - such a positive change in my life. The rest of this thread is for any lurkers who might be reading this: