On this note - my brother @oolon.co.uk has tomorrow off work for International Women's Day but my sister-in-law doesn't!

Gaia and the moon

It took 18 years but naming the kid after a whisky* finally paid off. *Named after the island really

The fascists and dozy regressives coalition is weak

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

Luckily, I've never seen grape or seggs - it took me a while to figure out what it meant! I get annoyed enough when anyone over 12 says f-bomb instead of fuck!

Probably the first blue sky this year in Northumberland

Watching the #WinterOlympics in awe at the weird and wonderful things people can do with their bodies. My body does weird and wonderful things to me instead. Pity there aren't medals for the amount of liquid leaking from infected ears - I'd get gold atm.

For once I'm not annoyed by the lack of captions because I've got no intention of finding out anything about this.

Me- #Sjogrens you can dry up tears and spit, right? Sjogrens- Absolutely Me- So you can dry snot, right? Sjogrens-... Me- ... Sjogrens- Ha ha, fuck off

I was accidentally on the 'discover' feed - relieved to discover I'm not following someone posting 'protect her as your daughter, respect her as your mom' etc 🤢

#TheTraitorsUK needs more menopausal women bringing chaos! And everyone accuses them of being rude and aggressive - yeah, try it on with a menopausal woman and you know it, fuck you.

Everybody that's objecting to video podcasts is offering transcripts of their audio only ones for us deaf people, right? Video might have crappy captions but it's better than nothing.

Found what could be a relative of the Glastonbury thorn. Maybe Joseph visited Bedlington too 😂

Love this line "Many are calling it "super flu", but it is not more severe nor harder to treat."

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Luckily, it was a nice day for a dog walk because I lost my door key and had to wait for my husband to come and let me in.

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The Minister for Equaliies replied to my MP asking about the supreme court ruling on Trans people. The last paragraph isn't bad - if they mean it.

Blue sky autumn is the best

Why 1.2 metres of cake? Why not 1 or 1.5M? #GBBO

But that's the whole thing about the monarchy, they could be a mass murderer and still be the monarch because of their birth! That's the main reason why the monarchy should be abolished.

This book is great - so creepy!

Videos without captions. I will be fucking everywhere, taunting deaf people.

Surely, it's more about who they think they can sell their products to? I'm deaf and noticed a while ago that Specsavers audiology ads eventually got subtitles. Presumably because they weren't selling hearing aids because deaf people couldn't hear the ads rather than them being inclusive.

Just went to look at my #revpit #10Queries entry and I seem to have left one of my beta reader's comments in - oops!

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No one gets power over me - I haven't got a middle name

How can it be 'tokenistic' to have representatives of 51% of the population FFS?

3. ⁠this is not the moment for an incredibly expensive increase in state surveillance infrastructure to be run for profit by private tech firms just before Labour ushers in an (even more) authoritarian right wing government. FIX THE GODDAMN COST OF LIVING INSTEAD YOU FREAKS.

Yes, having tests will definitely make kids more keen on reading FFS. Providing money for school libraries and allowing more time for reading in class would be far more effective. But if kids read more they might think for themselves. Can't have that.

My diet of warfarin probably adds a few decades tbh

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The Labour playbook is basically do the authoritarian fascism but shaking your head the whole time to show you dont agree with it

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Labour are being racist and paving the way for fascism. Pretty sure they don't have morals. They are grown ups.

Trying to get my 90 year old Dad to take his coat off in 25C heat earlier, and waiting for my teen to come back from an epic trip up Ben Nevis with my brother today - definitely feeling like a stroppy teenager

This book is so cute!

This sounds amazing!

Every UK petition is like this

What can these mystery words be? Does anyone wonder what f*ck means? Even a 10 year old can tell you that it's fuck

Staying with my Nan who had no bathroom and only an outside toilet.

There are many British commentators who have made several posts showing deep concern for Rachel Reeves over the last 24 hours but apparently lost their phones whilst hundreds of thousands of disabled people were terrified of losing the benefits they need to live.

If you're not celebrating Disability Pride Month this year, just remember that you will, eventually.

Can someone tell the Israeli embassy that we are "deeply disturbed" by its genocide and the best way to stem increasing anti Israeli sentiment to stop murdering innocent Brown people.

Needed to change my hearing aid battery at warfarin time - I had to triple check I put the battery in the hearing aid rather than a warfarin pill! #chronicillness #deaf #brainfog

One of the more terrible things Starmer has done - made me support the king