Affordable housing.

What *is* that hair pomade that smells like pure alcohol.* *And can people please stop using it because 🤮

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I have bought tickets to things like a normal person who doesn’t fear their life will be derailed by elder care chaos. It still might be. But the chances are lower with one elder instead of two and care in place I’ve also realised that I just have to try to live with the uncertainty.

Lukewarm takes 1. We won’t know what this election “means” until the people elected have been in power for a while. 2. In a couple of hindered years future historians will likely still be coming up with new takes on what this election “means”. …/

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💚💚IT’S A FUCKING LANDSLIDE!!💚💚 INJECT IT INTO MY VEINS.

GREENS TAKE HACKNEY COUNCIL. I REPEAT GREENS HAVE WON HACKNEY COUNCIL. 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚 HOPE IS 💚 HERE!!!!💚💚

Mixed results for my ward. @ro-lf.bsky.social elected 💚💚💚. Sadly our lovely Hackney Independent Socialists have lost to Labour. 💔

Six more. 🤞

Just nine more seats needed in Hackney. 💚🤞

Yay….💚💚💚💚💚💚

Oh this is great news for many of my friends. Wooohooo!

Hackney Ward results are coming in and….. Wards that were going to be Green paper/ cardboard candidates are now getting elected. 💚💚💚💚

Here we are at panel 2.

I tell you something else. The growing membership - many getting directly involved in the campaign has meant that we’ve been able to be far more ambitious than when I joined in Nov ‘24. Join us. Get involved. We can take back our politics for people and planet. 💚 join.greenparty.org.uk/join-us/

It wasn’t even close. 🎉💚💖💚

We only bloody did it! 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💖💚💚💚

If being hard on yourself worked, you'd be perfect by now. Maybe try something else.

So far +20 for no overall control. Given a three or four way split of the vote this isn’t surprising.

I do indeed know the rules @soapachu.bsky.social.

I swear the main reason I scroll on my phone is when I need to rest but also think I “should” be doing something (usually working). Actual rest (which includes things like watching TV or crocheting) isn’t allowed. But my brain repeatedly slides off tasks whilst whining like a toddler.

I wrote this, with my own two hands.

I think I might actually be hyper vigilant about social norms. I see other people’s reactions very clearly. But I think there’s like a running commentary. “Don’t be weird. Pretend you didn’t see that. Shhh you’re talking too much. Argh! you interrupted again. Where do my hands go? What face doing?”

I did not sleep brilliantly and I got up early and oh hello Ghrelin the Hunger Hormone.

OK. I’ve been up since 5:30. And volunteered for the Green Party from 7 - 9 am before work. My shared office was shared. And we had a big meeting yesterday (that could have been an email). Might have to wait a few moments for my brain to come back online.

Could the world perhaps come to agreement that the adjective busy in relation to office environment is redundant in job descriptions and postings.

On this beautiful day where even the leaves are every shade of GREEN may I also remind you that it is less than 100 years since the representation of the people act 1928 that granted women equal voting rights to men. Women died for my right to do this. Women went to prison and on hunger strike.

It’s a lovely day to VOTE GREEN. 💚 For people. And planet.

I should probably have some dinner.

I know everyone will be saying this - don’t forget to take ID to vote tomorrow. Please Vote Green. But most of all VOTE. No human system is perfect. Including any democracy. No party is perfect (again, human). But the more humans who get out there and vote - the better. It’s all our futures.

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

When you’re against safe legal asylum routes (and regularised legal migration). When you create a hostile environment. When drug use is criminalised rather than treated holistically as a public health problem. What you *actually* are- is PRO organised crime.

Slightly Diminish A Film The Average Nap

Pat Butcher-inspired red carpet looks, a thread.

Oh the hoped for podcast hasn’t dropped so I will be walking to Angine De Poitrine today.

Greens aren’t scared of migrants though. We can liberate them and still be home in time for tea.

With the Gorton and Denton win, our opponents have been working overtime to misrepresent Green Party drugs policy. Heroin in corner shops? Crack for kids? Let's clear this up. 🧵

Workplaces are one of the biggest causes/exacerbators of poor mental health. Through subtle and not so subtle discrimination. Harassment and bullying. Through lack of accommodations (for disabilities, caring responsibilities and more). Through stupidly high workloads and unmeetable expectations.

The BBC weather forecast says the pollen count is low. My eyes and nasal passages beg to differ.

The trees are very horny (as my colleague put it) My eyes are watering every time I go outside.

Ooof Yesterday’s massage was deep. Am going to need to let that settle. Will probably be full of beans tomorrow. (I should be out campaigning but …fragile.)

Street Photography of the Docklands Light Railway Some silly fun showcasing some shots that I've taken of the DLR. Featured locations: Cyprus, Pontoon Dock, Heron Quay, Cutty Sark, East India, Poplar, Canary Wharf

Had a proper myofascial release massage. Sudden craving for ginger.

Ugh. My sensory sensitivities have been turned up to 11.

Stretching and physio exercises are so fucking boring.

Today I would sell my soul to the devil for the body I had 10 years ago.

Name your top 15 TV shows, no overthinking (15….i don’t watch that much TV) The Hour IWTV Gardener’s World Monty Don’s <country> Gardens The Diplomat The Witcher (s1-3) Middlemarch Pride and Prejudice (1994) Snooker (any channel) Sesame Street GBBO Pottery Throwdown GBBO TP Sewing Bee LIOLI

I’m not condoning drinking at work - but - given that being an MP isn’t shift work nor requires 24 hour cover - why are votes routinely happening at 11 pm anyway? Being *tired* is not good for anyone’s judgement either. Does that kind of working pattern exclude certain groups of people to be MPs?