my algorithm is so bad here but twitter is the most depressing and bot-ridden social media app 😠😠😠 so anyway, if you're new here, i'm naomi and i talk a lot about sausage dogs, mental health research, coproduction, madness and more 👋🏻

friendly reminder to log on to HMRC and check your tax calculations, i checked mine and was due a £627 refund 🎉

It is true that most people who claim PIP are unable to work. But that's because to be eligible for PIP you need to have significant health conditions that need a lot of care & support. So it's predictable most won't be able to work. But its still not an out-of-work benefit.

Good news - we have two new trustees! @charliclement.bsky.social is a neurodivergent & disabled speaker, writer & creative who has lived experience of mental health difficulties & autism, and @heynaomiii.bsky.social is a passionate activist & podcaster. Welcome, Charli and Naomi🎄

Are North London NHS Foundation Trust about to install Oxevision? This slide was shared with us recently. North London Trust is the merging of Camden and Islington with Barnet, Enfield and Haringey - the former of which stopped using Oxevision after complaints

a poem to my younger self 🥀

realised i didn't share on here yet but i've been offered a new job, working in a CYP mental health participation role, and i'm feeling v excited (and also terrified) about it ✨

job searching has been super quiet and i haven't had an interview for months, but now i have three within the next 24hrs 🫣🫣🫣🫣

it's been such an overwhelmy brain day today 😭

finally been offered a job interview after months of applying for jobs with v little success 🎉 it's for a 4 day per week, remote position which is everything i'm passionate about and soooo much more, so fingers crossed!!!

big ol' anxious brain going brrrrr as i have two scary hospital appointments this week 😠

2025 ins and outs 👋🏻

feels like a miracle i've even made it to christmas after the year i've had tbh but i'm so thankful to be spending it with my wonderful partner, and of course, rupert!! sending love to anyone who's finding the festive period overwhelming. you're not alone 🫶🏻

lol my estranged stepfather messaging me was not on my 2024 bingo, ngl

was meant to be at the london international irl on wednesday night but was too sick to go... but watching it on tv whilst cuddled up on the sofa is almost as good 😌

been super inactive on here because i just feel so overwhelmed with life lol. this time last week i was in a&e with a ruptured kidney cyst and i honestly have never felt as unwell as i have these past few days, however i finally feel on the mend and life feels a tiny bit less painful :)

trying to use bluesky more bc twitter is the most depressing social media app on earth 🥲 so hello (again!) 👋🏻

really struggling to sleep atm so it's a brown noise kinda night to distracc my brain from the horrors 😠

Read this ad on tiktok as "it's giving SEASON" instead of "it's GIVING season" like the season for giving oops That's me chronically online I guess

Lovely day spent at Battersea Power Station for our anniversary<3 ...also met some transformers...

“Smart casual” is pretty much the opposite of every autistic person I know, who I would generally describe as a “silly formal”

impossible to photograph and v swole/bruised but LOOK at my doc marten banana lady tattoo!!! i love her sm!!!! 🖤🍌🖤🍌

i keep forgetting about this app lol but here i am 👋🏻

making the move from twitter to bluesky, hiyaaa 👋🏻 i talk a lot about: • animals - particularly dogs and horses • mental health & psychology • autism & general stuff about neurodivergence i also have just started a podcast series called the mad & rad podcast 🎙️