Sam Smith. Not That One.

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She/her. DO NOT HUG. Tea, books, baking, bicycles. Chocolate. #OU Astronomy student. #ActuallyAutistic. 🏳️‍🌈

...I craned my neck up, taking in the glorious blue and gold interiors, which depicted various saints, haloes like bronze discs behind their heads. Every time I came upon expressions of human creativity that defied belief, I wondered what we were building that would cause ripples of emotion in a hundred years' time. The Shard? Tracey Emin's My Bed? No doubt Al would have taken over by that point, reducing all our wonders of the world to nothing more exciting than a trip to Sainsbury's.
A miniature model room full of bookshelves, with framed pictures on the few unshelved bits of wall, a freestanding shelf unit in the middle of the floor, and a stepladder with each of the steps full of books. The label beneath the model says "Sam's study room"
A woman's hand holding a large Whittards mug. The mug is wider than her fist and significantly longer. It is white with large stylised five-petalled flowers in bright colours. The outside of the handle, and the inside, which you can just see above the rim, are bright orange.
Half a loosely knitted top, fading from teal at the shoulders through purple to pink with a hint of pinky orange coming in at the bottom, and a large cake of yarn next to it showing the next fade colours - orangey yellow to yellow to green.
A length of loosely knit material, fading from very pinky purple at the top through a more purple shade into purple and teal, then into deep vibrant teal.
A huge textile artwork with large South Asian-stylised petal shapes in various bright colours forming a backdrop for a projecting figurehead. The figure is a wide, squashed-cylinder, white shape with large oval eyes and a big open-mouthed, friendly smile.
Signal message: "Someone at work refused to believe I didn't like footy and didn't care how the England team do, so I chose to explain that (a) half-Welsh and "grew up in contested Scottish borderlands" (they think that's still a thing now, not the brightest of souls), and (b) watching women's rugby has sort of ruined me for men's sports 😄"
A crop of an ID badge. At the top is the name of the school, "St Aidan's County High School", across the middle is the year, 1995/96, and at the bottom in type added later, my surname, Smith. The photo is an actual photo, a miniature of my school picture for that year, glued onto the card. It's just possible to see that the laminate has been topped up with sticky tape neatly striped across the whole card. The photo shows a young, auburn-bob-haired Sam sitting at an angle and grinning. I'm wearing a cream-coloured loose fit T-shirt with pinky stripes at broad intervals
A beautifully bright and colourful hardback copy of Automatic Noodle, with yellow robot characters sprinkled about the image and orange-red-to-pink-to-purple gradient noodles being expertly lifted on a pair of chopsticks handled by robot fingers.
Silhouetted trees in front of low cloud, in the lower quarter of the frame. Above the upper most branches hangs a bright crescent moon; the rest of the disc is faintly visible. Just above and to the right of the moon a bright spot is the planet Venus. The sky is a lush purpley mid-blue, darkening towards the top of the frame
Cropped view of the design on a mid-grey T-shirt. It's a mostly round spiky purple mini-monster with lots of pointed teeth and cross eyebrows, and it's shaped to give the impression of sphericality. Beneath it are the words "Evil fluffy bitey thing"
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A decking monster marine animal skull, all teeth and huge cavity where you'd imagine its nose? brain? to be - above the upper faw, its a flat plate that sweeps right back before the vertical part of the skull rises in a concave sweep to form a rounded blunt triangle shape. Further off, to the right, is a roundish narwhal skull oriented so it's looking up the wall, with two lovely symmetrical tusks extending at a narrow angle from each other upwards
A hand holding a large beaker of apple and blackcurrant squash, behind a mint club and a KitKat resting on a leg
A small orange heavy duty tool box of the sort that's moulded around the stuff inside (it is, it's a heavy duty socket set), sitting on a desk behind a couple of solid screwdrivers and a set of loooong allen keys ranging up to some that are ~1cm across
A child's drawing of a goddess in mortal form (Freyja) holding multiple marionette puppets, saying "dance, puppets, dance!" Freyja is an attractive woman with a half-shaved head and fabulous hair, wearing a light vest over a black t-shirt and a cool belt on her pants. There are four marionettes hanging from each set of strings, which look like little versions of Thor, Valerie, Georgina, and Heimdall, and Hyrrokin and three frost giants.
Text above the Rothko reads "Greater London · 16° and a cloud emoji · 12:00" Text beneath the painting reads "Untitled Brown and Gray // A heavy quiet outside — the grey field carries the same quiet hour." The painting is composed of two colour blocks, the upper field being a dark bitter chocolate brown, and the lower a tonal dark muddy grey. The brushstrokea and texture are more visible in the grey field, with lighter and darker patches anda suggestion that some areas were painted in blocks at different times from other areas. Where the two fields meet, the grey has a thin more translucent band allowing the brown beneath to show through
A small clear plastic tub sitting on the outstretched fingers of a woman's hand. It is full of moisturiser, some peachy coloured, some white, swirled together.
A taxidermied tiger. Its body looks fine, if a little skinny, but its face is a bit angular and has a slightly peeved expression
A huge clear blue sky stretching over a sandy beach. In between the two is a small spit of water (the North Sea!), with a pier just visible stretching out from the right into the water, and seafront hotels and restaurants building up on the right in the distance
Inside an older style tram, with modern seating. The tram interior is pale cream plastic with yellow strip lighting down the centre of the carriage, and black-plastic-backed red fabric seats all facing forwards (away from the camera). To the right of the picture the view is mostly metal vertical handrails.
A title card for an episode of DS9, looking up at the station from underneath. The episode title reads "A big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey... stuff"
Top-down view of a slightly deconstructed vegan chocolate cake: a dark rich brown chocolate cake that's got seismic breaks between chunks, with a lighted birthday candle stuck in one chunk.
Skeet from Tom and Bethany, one above the other. Tom's reads "ACAA* my latest for @newscientist.com *a cartoon about abbreviations" The comic is as follows: Panel 1 A figure addresses an audience from a lectern: "Welcome to the IWAS*! Today I'm Going to talk about ARPs* in our communications." Notes *1 Institute-Wide Abbreviation seminar *2 Abbreviation-Related Problems Panel 2 She continues "These fall into two categories:" gesturing to a screen wshich reads: 1. ROAs* 2.WUAs* Notes *3 Ridiculously Obscure Abbreviations *4 Wrongly-Used Abbreviations Panel 3 She says: "...In conclusion: Stick to WRAs* and use them correctly and sparingly." One of the audience thinks "WTF!" Notes *5 widely-recognised Abbreviations *6 Well, that's fascinating. Bethany's reads: "SRTs (Significant Risk Transfers) are going to be the Al bubble's CDOs (Collateralised Debt Obligations)."
"The next morning we found Indigo in the kitchen, sit-ting on a stool and staring at a tablet propped up against a pile of books. Amazingly, a plate of mini sausage rolls sat uneaten on the table beside her. 'Next page,' she said, and I realised she was wearing a specially adapted microphone headset. I'd seen some of the foxes wearing these headsets before, but it had never occurred to me that they might use them to run elec-tronic gear. This seemed to me to be a bad idea. I could just about cope with the foxes being all John Le Carré, but if they went full Mission Impossible, fuck knew where that was going to end. I asked what she was reading."
An image of a cafetiere being used to pour a cup of golden tea into a white cup sitting on a matching saucer. Underneath is the Dutch "Ik heb zin in een lekker kopje thee", and beneath that the English translation, "I fancy a nice cup of tea".
A text box with a neat diamond pattern border. The text inside reads: "This is very, very bad. I cannot stress how bad this is. It's bad enough for the eternally wise simulated consciousness of Odin to use emojis", followed by a crying emoji, an upside down smiley face, a big black X, and a broken heart.
My name - Samantha - written in upper case letters as captured in landscape features, ranging from lush green meandering river courses to deltas to desert dunes and ice features in creased mountain ranges
A screenshot from Babbel, showing a child looking at a "countries of the world" map, with the Dutch "Wanneer kom je vandaan?" highlighted in red (because I got it wrong), followed by the English "where do you (singular, informal) come from?"
A pair of feet, pressed sole to sole, in delightful bright pink and turquoise stripy handknitted socks, with lilac heels and grey toes. The stripes are offset, so where on one foot they're pink, on the other they're turquoise.
I yawned, which set Thor off yawning, followed by Valerie and Georgia and Sif. Mortals have many contagious diseases, and yawning is one of them. (I do believe that, if a mortal ever gets their hands on this diary, they will start yawning as they read this page.)
A four-panel illustration from the second Loki book. In the first panel, a boy with scooshed-up spiky hair (Loki) sits on a sofa and says "Excellent. Let us commence our planning." In the second, a man with thick shoulder-length hair and beard pokes his head around the door, and Loki looks at him questioningly. In the third panel the man asks "Would you like biscuits?". The fourth panel shows Loki sitting on the sofa looking energised and ruthless, while declaring, "Let us commence planning with biscuits."
Messages between a friend and me: Them: "Glorious socks! A whole cake! Trinkets and nic-nacs my children absolutely cannot have! Many, many thank yous!" Me: "Did I weave in all the ends?" Me: "(Also there was bubble mixture in the trinkets bag and no way is anyone getting that)" There's a small bubbles emoji reaction to this last message
Slightly wonky recording on my phone from the TV of a Robot Chicken sketch involving a Thor action figure and some DIY. Thor is trying to hang a picture, and uses Mjolnir to hammer the nail in. Obviously things explode. I snort with laughter.
A Bluesky dialogue box that reads: "The post you're replying to was marked as being written in French by its author. Would you like to reply in FRENCH?" There's a grey button next to this text marked "yes".
A square light wood frame featuring a small robots commission of Sambot and Gromitbot. The two robots are sitting on a sofa, Gromitbot a small floppy-eared dog robot surrounded by piles of books. Sambot is an ovoid robot with banded arms, longish banded legs hanging over the edge of the sofa, rounded pad feet, and bobbed hair. In her hand is a book, in which she's pointing something out to Gromitbot. On the arm of the sofa is a steaming teabot.
Dear Humans on Earth, ...and the eleven humans not on Earth…seven on the ISS, and four on the far side of the Moon at the time of writing… (I assume they all subscribe)
A lovely bright hardback copy of Annalee Newitz's Automatic Noodle
The Café des 2 Moulins - the cafe where Amelie works in the film - sitting real life in a prime corner spot on a junction in Montmartre. The red sign and awning are bold as ever, but most of the rest of the building is covered in scaffolding unfortunately.
My score in large numbers: 47.32/50 The game's description of that score: "Suspiciously accurate. We're going to need to see your browser history." The colours are two close shades of khaki, two close shades of pistachio, a brighter and a duller shade of periwinkle blue, a brighter and a slightly duller shade of aubergine, and two pretty-much-the-same cerise with-just-a-hint-of-orange.
A long blue ellipse-shaped piece of knitting with a couple of narrow pink stripes in the centre, and two designs of pig, one at either end. On the left is a more realistic pig design, on the right is a stereotypical round pig shape with stumpy legs, with alternating front nose and rear curly tail views. It's resting partly on the top of a radiator, partly on a folded yellow towel.
The stage in a theatre, with blue lights forming concentric squarish (trapezoid) frames around the ground and backdrop. Two tables with draped BBC Radio 4 cloths covering the undersides sit on either side, with a backlit You're Dead To Me Logo on the LED screen at the back of the stage. In the foreground is a small bit of the seating, in contrasting theatre-seat velvet red, with a few people sitting or heading for seats
A ridiculously fancy Beaux Arts-style high-ceilinged reading room, with multiple illuminated domes arching over rows of desks with those green glass lampshaded lights at regular intervals. Most of the desks are occupied. Four slender carved pillars stand in a square among the desks, supporting the fancy ceiling. Diffuse natural light floods down from the central skylights in each of the domed sections.
A French bus shelter poster for Project Hail Mary (aka Projet Dernier Chance in France), showing Ryan Gosling with an extremely flattering, fashionable, blonde at the tips, long+ruffle-able+and just deshabile enough at the front, close cropped and velvety at the back, and a couple of days' worth of stubble. Just visible is the top of the bulky orange exosuit he's wearing.
44 seconds showing almost the entire ascent of the Sacre Coeur funicular, going up a short but steep slope past trees on the right, towards the all-glass upper station
The lovely post-donation text telling you where your blood's gone. This one reads: "Thank you so much for donating on 21/02/2026. Your donation has now been issued to Charing Cross Hospital. Every donation counts."
Another photo of the standing stones sein of yarn - granite greys, greeny yellows, speckles of rust orange - but this time with the envelope turned over so you can see a beautiful wax seal embossed with a silver tree pattern
Two skins of yarn on a light wood table in the spring sunlight. The one on the right is a deep denim-y blue with a hint of grey. The one on the left is dyed to resemble standing stones - a base of a range of granite greys, with splashes off greeny yellows and speckles of rust orange, like ancient undisturbed stones.
The Pokopia font generator image - a gentle animated Animal Crossing-style farm surrounded by forests, with a Pokemon-design-themed farmhouse, all red roof and glowing blue pokeball icon on the front door. Overlaid on this is the Pokopia font escaping a pixelated green bubble. The font reads "A damn fine cup of coffee"
The text starts with Trevor the talking spider / super-spy saying: 'One of our customers was carrying a jar of Piper’s Pear and Pepper Piccalilli; I remember seeing the label and thinking about how much fun it must be to say out loud and now that I have said it out loud I can confirm that yes indeed, it is tremendously fun to say out loud. Piper’s Pear and Pepper Piccalilli!’ ‘The man there was a vermin witch, like Snow,’ Patience tells them. ‘Peter, I think his name was… he could control rats by whistling, just like she does.’ ‘Peter Piper’s Pear and Pepper Piccalilli,’ says Trevor, delighted.
One line from an email inbox, from Proud Geek, with the subject line "thanks for shopping with us"
My left hand sporting a stripy fingerless glove in very me colours - mid grey ribbing, with indigo and dusky lilac stripes. And a slight peek of my dogs-in-xmas-jumpers nightshirt and light blue plaid PJ bottoms beneath. Because cosy is what matters.
Screengrab of my Bluesky handle: "Sam Smith. Not that one. // Astronomy // Bluesky elder"
A galactic cluster type map showing the swirls and interrelationships of different chunks of the Bluesky userbase. On the bottom left diagonal, at the very edge of the swarm, is a small pink circle marking out my Bluesky account, seemingly separate and distant from any of the big community clusters
The original Red Fraggle: a yellow muppet with daft fluffy red hair in high bunches, wearing a bright red jumper and dancing
A portrait photo of a sheep. Its head is ever-so-slightly tipped, just the tiniest amount, giving the impression that it's been snapped mid-"hey" at someone it likes the look of
A corrugated plastic/metal square arch/hoarding for a cinema complex, stretching well above the two-storey Victorian brick buildings on either side. Towards the top of the hoarding is the name of the building: "Studio 1-2-3-4"; about level with the upper floor windows are the display boards for each of the four cinemas showing what was on: 1 Lenny, 2 Rooster Cogburn, 3 Eskimo Nell, 4 Crimes of the Black Cat. The frankly horrible corrugated effect continues to the ground in the form of cladding of the brickwork on either side of what looks like a broad tunnel through to the actual cinema building. It's too dark under there to see much detail, but there are what looks like lighter-coloured film posters in the very back
Several ducks and drakes standing about on a frozen lake, some in a gaggle like they've been chatting, one drake off to the side on their own. In the very bottom left corner of the photo is a pigeon, who promptly called over their mates to stalk me after I put the phone away.
A very fluffy bright pink mass of fabric that looks for all the world like dyed Snufflupagus fur
An extremely close and thus out-of-focus cuddly polar bear nose, and a pair of more comfortably distanced in-focus polar cub paws, combining to half block the view of a Christmas card featuring a polar bear in red and green scarf and red bobble hat, with the words "eine schöne Weihnachtszeit und einen guten Rutsch-", with the rest of the message obscured by polar bear cub.