In most of the hospitals I worked in, the mortuary was known as ‘Rose Cottage’. A codeword to avoid upsetting public overhearing you.

Thinking about how funny it is that "digital" has come to be associated with dematerialized conditions when etymologically it comes from like, fingers, the thing you use to touch stuff

I had completely forgotten how ‘stage-like’ Hellraiser II was. Yes, I’ve just finished watching Hellraiser II. What of it?

And this is why I stripped the DRM from my kindle buys, and now no longer purchase from Amazon. How to drive people to piracy… (Although I now get books without DRM on them via other sellers)

Tesco delivered my food to another address, because even away from work I can’t escape ineptitude. Numbnuts can’t read an address. Cut the grass on half of my small garden. Having a lay down as it fuckered me. Waiting to be able to stand up again.

Swiss Army knife for me. Told my brother and everything.

The time between fossil fuel crises is just going to keep shrinking, until there's no discrete single "crisis" - just one unbroken prolonged state of global suffering due to fossil fuel unreliability The best time to ditch fossil fuels was 30 years ago. The second best time is now

Not going to empty the four 20L water containers that have been filled up for the past few days quite yet. But a slight relaxation feels warranted. Also looks like I no longer have an excuse to not cut the grass in the other half of my garden.

Today on Pro Tips, Dave and I brainstorm ideas for this Anatomy of Monsters comic! www.patreon.com/posts/153287...

Soooo… I did this as an A&E nurse. I also do this when some kid at my school dislocates a kneecap that I need to pop back in. Giving a kid specific permission to swear is always good and correct. (I mean, they swear at break time, so fuck it, why not eh?)

Gen X collectively reliving Challenger, Columbia and Cold War nuclear holocaust anxiety all in the same week is a fucking lot, y'all.

Happy International Asexuality Day! Asexual, often called “ace” for short, refers to a complete or partial lack of sexual attraction or lack of interest in sexual activity with others.

I do dissection demos (we can’t afford it for the kids to do them) and in *every* class there is at least one overly enthusiastic future serial killer. “Can I touch it?” “Can I have a go?” Those kids are great, especially when I tell them they can get their own heart from the butcher to play with…

“I will destroy it by turning it into a joke” is a whole chunk of my praxis.

I’m awake at 4am for reasons totally connected to me having a wisdom tooth removal on Friday. Currently selecting a painkiller like a sommelier. Then getting up to do some pottering around maintenance in my flat.

“Shut up cunt” (I am well known for the subtle subtext in all my communication, note the near Bene Gesserit level of undertones in this finely crafted three word sentence. For those without the subtle ear “Do you like your kneecaps?” is a bit more direct, but is five words)

That moment when you think ‘urgh, I have to turn on my laptop to connect to my headless server’, but then realise you can do what you need to do on your iPad sitting next to you. Sometimes modern tech is good.

There's also Donnie Darko ...

U of Minnesota has named a new School of Nursing scholarship after Alex Pretti.

As a non religious person… …I really, really enjoyed this. Watched it as it was broadcast. Twenty years ago though… damn.

@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social is an architect of the uk becoming one of most trans-hostile developed democracies now he's eyeing pm & wants you to know his heart is pure www.thepinknews.com/2026/04/03/w...

COMIC: Laptop

Once again I have to look up what Good Friday is all about. Only just found out it was today as I was doing things that I find enjoyable, but which don’t require me to know the date, or what other people are doing.

I know people don't like to think of bad things happening, but anyone could become chronically ill or disabled at any time, through no fault of their own, no matter how healthy they are It shouldn't only be disabled people having to fight the government all the time, it's up to all of us

Oh… It’s normally messier than that… (My advice is to not give birth on a black leather sofa, because come summer that thing will reek from all the fluids you couldn’t see to clean.)

I’m going to guess that I’m not the only person of my sort of age absolutely sweating as Artemis launched. Watching those familiar video angles as it climbs into space.

Artist: Tom Toro

Fair play from the Mail. I said what I said.

Dremel. Sanding cylinder. Dust mask and vacuum for clean up. Don’t ask how I know…

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

Had to do a manual faecal disimpaction on mum today. How’s your Sunday going? (She fine now 😉)

absolute hero

Disabled people are intentionally underresourced and denied services by eugenicist public policy designed to limit expenses by allowing people to die, even if there's great suffering in the process.

What utter rot. They use them to sink ships, nothing to do with fairy kingdoms. (You may be unsurprised that I do this as well…)

Unpopular view: instead of abolishing the House of Lords, we should reform it as the House of Experts. A body of unelected scientists, artists and (sigh, sure) theologians, composition to be peer-reviewed every x years. Brief: make necessary decisions which no mandate-dependent executive dare make.

My life would be so much easier if they stopped teachers from going school->college->school without anything in between. Gives them really weird views on life. And, as an example, they stop remembering how to operate plug sockets. Or doorstops. I’ll write a book about it if I get made redundant.

Well, four days to go and I finally managed to get my arse in gear to put in my Anthropic claim. Point being less the cash for me, but more to stick it to Anthropic and to reward the lawyers who went after them 😈

If you share AI content and/or the trailer for that vile transphobe's money-grabbing new series, proceeds of which will be used to ruin the lives of children, then that is why I have unfollowed you. Nothing personal, but also you should fucking know better.

Re: my last reposts “Do not put money in the pocket of a woman who has sworn publicly to use it to disenfranchise vulnerable populations” is the smallest ask imaginable. It’s not oxygen, it’s not food. It’s television. You can do without. There are thousands of other shows for you to watch.

I would consider breaking my habit of not leaving the house to go along with the sole purpose of setting up the ORG Paramilitary wing. But they are far too sensible to let me do that.

That show, and the people who made a choice to work on it, can get to fuck.

I’d love to play poker against her, she’s basically speed-blinking in morse code “I’m lying”. Who blinks that much when they aren’t lying? Some people blink less when they lie, but she’s not one of them.

In happy news I finished watching Spartacus: House of Ashur and throughly enjoyed it. Nick Tarabay is always fun to watch and the story is all plot. And cool dialogue. And blood. And naked people. (To be fair, I can take or leave the naked sexy times 😉)

It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, back braces, knee braces, wrist braces, compression socks, cute bags & more! Store: Bibipins.com

Considering documenting all my interactions with the NHS and putting it in a folder just to make the coroner’s job easier. (Rang GP the second it opened, all appointments gone. Hopefully this hernia isn’t actually a femoral aneurysm about to pop) (It’s not, but they don’t know that)