Anyway I got back to London today, had a lovely chill Christmas with mum, my cousin and best doggo Lola, and finally got round to re-colouring my hair for the first time in six months. A tiny and superficial thing, but part of the ongoing reclamation of self after losing my whole mind.

New line of fuckery from the DWP: they can't approve my housing costs because I'm not named on the tenancy. I opened the signed tenancy agreement on their system. Ctrl+F my name. It's on there at least four times. In bold on the first couple and last couple of pages. Took me less than 5 seconds.

Hmmmmmm

On a different train provider from my usual route up north so don’t get to hear the automated seductively cunty announcements of “Skegness”, sad times

Barely slept and when I did it was a nightmare about playing Russian roulette with a bunch of masked creeps in suits, but the barrel was always pointed at my head every round, just in case I needed reminding that this DWP stuff is wrecking my subconscious too.

I believe we have averted The Spiralling for now. Fuck’s sake though.

After spending several days last month being assured by the DWP that my housing costs had been assessed and approved and would be reflected in December payments they’re now denying that I submitted my new housing costs. Which I am looking at on their system, uploaded November 9th.

Why do I keep trusting Citymapper when nine out of ten buses listed on there just don’t exist?

The best time to cancel your TV license was a decade ago, the second-best time is today

Which views the BBC considers unacceptably political in its presenters is particularly telling, isn't it?

Just really sucks that so many of us are barely getting by (if that), and the people who stole from us are rewarded with billions. It's hard to put into words how demoralising that is.

this has become a very important video to me

State-mandated eating disorder time again is it? Fuck’s sake.

Pls ignore the piss-poor numbers of hours watched (this has been a chaos year) but I hope @voidburger.com can find at least something nice about all this

when a trans person exists in a video game

All of this “woe is me my house is now really expensive and so a tax is unfair” stuff completely negates to acknowledge the implicit fact that the house owner has made an insane profit by doing absolutely nothing

Man back in the day people used to run boarding-houses. If she wants to pay her mansion tax. Y'know.

Important to remember that the British public is actively being misinformed on this issue.

lmao

Now to check the history of NHS funding and see who was responsible for large amounts of budget reduction for its services including cancer screening

Today is a constantly-repeating "it's going to be okay, OR ELSE" through gritted teeth kind of a day.

Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.

ARA: Always Repost Achewood

The way I’ve been scared to watch Next To Normal bc obviously almost everything about that narrative is trigger city but when friends were like “we need someone to sing Diana in this song!” it was yes without question and ended up the piece I nailed hardest at musical theatre karaoke night

So I did the thing before I chickened out (or came to my senses) and threw up a GFM as a stop gap measure. I hate doing it more than anyone will hate seeing another fund raiser. gofund.me/f5615787f

streamily.com/neilroberts Tomorrow 9pm GMT ❤️

Why are all of our recent prime ministers so insistent on killing the NHS with hammers and why is the heir apparent to the title hell bent on upgrading said hammers to motorised sledgehammers. Not to be all “this used to be a proper country!” but…

Emily Maitlis not a doctor not trans not an expert in this field worked for ideological reasons to get healthcare for kids shut down, paid for by the licence fee - and she complains about ideological capture. Absolutely farcical

I am IN THE NEW HOUSE all of my shit is IN THE NEW HOUSE the wardrobes did not fit where they were supposed to IN THE NEW HOUSE so my bedroom layout is gonna be crazy but IN THE NEW HOUSE and only cried a little

Everything is packed and I’m en route to the new house. Same borough as current one and I’m gonna have to go back a few times in the coming weeks to clean and help out with other housemates sorting communal areas before they move. But I guess it’s not home any more.

I know it is their job and I deliberately booked professional movers because my body/brain couldn’t hold up to a full move on its own but I already feel guilty about the moving guys carrying my stuff? It only just started and I’m like ARGH HOW HELP? Even though staying out the way IS helping.

Got three hours of sleep but everything is packed and labelled and ready to go. Just waiting on the movers. Emotional goodbyes with housemates as they’re all out today. Man I used to pray for a few hours of quiet alone time in this house, now it just feels sad and weird.

The one night I need more than ever to sleep but of course insomnia’s got me. Seven hours til the movers arrive. Oof.

Sun has set on my final day in this house. Still got some packing to do but taking a break to grab dinner from the same place I got dinner my first night here. Bookending this chapter of life with jerk chicken.

Text from DWP that my PIP review has been concluded but they're sending results by post. It's only been a few weeks, I was told the waiting time was over a year, I have no idea whether this indicates safe or scary or news

Get rotated idiot

Extremely funny to me that all bus routes from home to the MH crisis team are completely and utterly cursed. Make the incredibly hard to do thing even harder to do for people already having a harder time doing anything. TfL fully joined the war on mental illness on the side of mental illness.

I've been trying to challenge my arachnophobia by allowing a spider that recently moved into my room to peacefully co-exist. I've named her Guinevere. She's been here for a couple of weeks. Tonight she has moved her spot to the point on the ceiling directly above my head.

People vaping in cosplay is such a vibe. They should be allowed to do it indoors. I realise this is probably my most cancellable opinion of all time.

Our spooktacular halloween cabaret fundraiser for Trans Secret Santa is taking place at The Cavendish Arms TOMORROW. Be there! Support trans youth and have an amazing night. Tickets: www.outsavvy.com/event/29336/...

London people. What are good spots for art supplies?

Them: “no one had pronouns in my day” A TV Character from their day:

See you all in a week! I will be running the raffle – if you want to chat with me, buy a ticket!

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

sometimes I think about this

Absolutely wild to see all the worst people online melting down over completely fabricated animal cruelty claims against the owner of the healthiest, happiest, best-cared-for dog on the planet. Bit worrying how many normies are buying into it, mind, but it’s not news how brain-broken the world is