@akbea

286 Followers
241 Following
282 Posts

Currently in a 52% Remain / 48% Leave relationship with Twitter. Probably not half as funny or half as left-wing as she thinks she is. Ex-NHS clinical scientist, now freelance editor and proofreader; Yorkshire, Northumberland and http://rewritten.uk.

Twitter: @akbea
Threads: @akbea1

akbeaSep 11, 2023

Thanks to all involved in organising and contributing to a fabulous #CIEP2023!

When the Oh Shit moment comes along next year, and it's time to book, who knows whether curiosity really will get the better of fear ...

@edibuddies

akbeaAug 25, 2023
HappyToastAug 25, 2023
akbeaAug 23, 2023

From the Guardian. Not so much a sentence, more a matryoshka doll.

“The plane that crashed in the Tver Region listed Yevgeny Prigozhin among its passengers, (Russia’s aviation agency) Rosaviatsia said,” TASS news agency reported, AFP reports.

@edibuddies

akbeaAug 16, 2023
Paul Bassett DaviesAug 15, 2023
Once you've learned how to write "Shit, I am so drunk," in Sanskrit, Mandarin and Arabic, you're pretty much ready to open your own tattoo shop.
akbeaAug 15, 2023

We're rewatching old #taskmaster seasons.
My brain has been playing this tune, and this game, for two days straight.

Doo-do do doo-do-doo do
SPANNER

Doo-do do doo-do-doo do
MOLLUSC

Doo-do do doo-do-doo do
EARWORM

I may require an intervention.

https://youtu.be/tkswZLdSPnQ

Taskmaster S4: Midnight Song

YouTube
akbeaAug 14, 2023
Just tried to reply to a #Bluesky post using #Threads.
So obviously the only thing left to do now is to post about it on #Mastodon, then screenshot it and put it on #Twitter.
akbeaAug 10, 2023
Christian WilkieAug 9, 2023

Once again reminding thoughtful users to please include camel-case in your hashtags— #AmEditing #AmWriting #AmReading #WritingCommunity #SmallBusiness —to assist with text-to-speech readers for vision-impaired internet users. The capitals help the readers parse the individual words, which would otherwise come out as garble.

If you believe everyone should have access to everything online, or are even excited at the thought of everyone coming to the table, please consider this practice. #a11y

akbeaAug 5, 2023
I've got a new follower on #Twitter. Like someone turning up to a dinner party just as the hosts are loading the dishwasher.
akbeaAug 1, 2023
BBC Radio 4Jul 31, 2023
Hello everyone! 👋 We've joined the fediverse as part of an experiment with our friends from BBC Research & Development. Read more about it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub
The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media

Trialling ActivityPub and the federated model for social media and it's possibilities for the BBC.

BBC R&D
akbeaJul 30, 2023

It's taken me many years, but today I knew Mr B's transition to full-blown cricket fan was complete.

On a beach in the Scottish Highlands, he approached a random stranger (whose radio was playing TMS) to ask what the score was.

My work here is done 😁

#Ashes