Contract finished, clients happy, bags packed - time to squeeze in some final Death Stranding time and get going tomorrow!! 🌴 I'll try my best to keep away from all socials; instead trudging through the jungle, snorkelling with the fishes and eating other fished on the beach. ☺️

I wonder what will be the next trend in TV show titular sequences. How long will the animated slowed down montage last? And also, do I remember right that it was Games of Thrones that started it?

Making a get well soon soup gift for myself 😋

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? Is there a prize for winning the chain?

👀 A really interesting ruling, and one I personally hugely agree with. Unfortunately, the ‘natural’ conclusion of many Conservatives in Poland will be to use this as further proof that we need to leave the EU as it’s forcing the Western liberal agenda on us 🤪

It’s official – I’ve got a cold 🤧 it’d better go away in the next 6 days!

I’ve finally replaced my Kindle Paperwhite with a Kobo eReader and easy access to borrowing ebooks through Glasgow library has already proven it was the right decision! Amazon still makes it into such a convoluted process, for obvious reasons. On Kobo it’s just another tab on your home screen. 💚

Holidays in 10 days time 😍

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I’m not even into football, but that was some start & finish! Nice one.

I've made a cute little barn owl.. #barnowl #owl #handmade #cute #birb #felting

I can’t believe they literally called it ‘a quick fix’. Beyond parody.

Molly really doesn’t like going out into the rain. That’s a new protest sit I haven’t seen before though 😆

🧵 why I still firmly believe we should never, ever have automated decision making anywhere near the public sector.

Rude. (by which I mean fully accurate)

For the semiotics nerds in the back.

If you want to know how the insights industry is doing in the UK, one of my old (very experienced) colleagues is currently retraining to be a long distance truck driver.

Alright then, giving Death Stranding another go. Let’s see if it catches my full attention this time round.

Deep dive today into the personal accounts of #ADHD and #autistic young people who are not attending school. This work is part of the @grrand-team.bsky.social generously funded by Barts Charity, alongside our brilliant RESTAR youth co-researchers co-delivering creative personalised interviews.

Applying for a part time role for new year that ends at midnight, lol. That should be fun.

I don't usually go for scented teas but this Rice Oolong is *so lovely*.

I’ve remembered again I’ve been meaning to go to a local ADHD & board games hangout for months now and I still haven’t been. lol

Who could have ever predicted that risk with automated decision making on services that materially impact people 🙄 what's a real problem is the ideology of 'fraud chasing' not based on data, just stereotypical vibes.

Interesting form dilemma. I'm filling in Health and Care Experience survey (came in the post) and here's a question. Scratching my head how I'm supposed to answer that. Do they mean any appointment? Because yes, technically, but never face to face; it's always a phone appointment. So is that a no?

My partner and I have been chatting about rewatching The Wire for a got while now so I'm naturally thinking of buying this bad boy (used on eBay).

Here’s a headline you don’t see every day!

Periodical reminder to clear your desk: it always makes such a difference to my mood and productivity!

Should I get Ghost of Yotei now or wait for the prices to drop second hand? 🤔

To add to my previous point, I would have been deported already under those rules as my income was technically under that amount after the redundancy for 6 months when I was recovering from burnout 🙃 I had settlement money to give me that space ofc but I somehow doubt there’d be exceptions for that.

Boy, that privilege of having paid over £3000 for a citizenship feels pretty worth it this week. What a shitshow.

Inclusion can’t come from erasure. Removing neurodiversity and diagnosis from education doesn’t create belonging—it silences it. True inclusion means recognising difference, not pretending it isn’t there. autisticrealms.com/inclusion-ne...

In my hurry this evening, I took a slow train from Edinburgh to Glasgow 😭 rookie mistake undeserving of my 7 years and counting here 😂 In my defence, I just made it so had no time to check. Classic way to do sth so silly. To the uninitiated, we’re talking a train that stops 4 times vs a million

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I’ve enjoyed the first two books of the series on Kindle so much over the last 2 weeks I’ve decided to get a proper version!

Im once again reminded that the reason I think I’ve become a slow reader in later age is because I started reading way more non-fiction which requires a different kind of focus and doesn’t always grip attention the same way as good fiction, even if interesting.

Some people are saying the potential overbuild because of AI might not be a bad thing because, like the dotcom era, it could leave behind infrastructure we’ll benefit from for a long time. 1/6

I went on CNN's One Thing podcast last week, talking about how absurd & ass-backwards last week's White House Big Autism Announcement was. But as not everyone listens to podcasts, here's a thread of the conversation: www.cnn.com/audio/podcas... #autism #TylenolDoesNotCauseAutism #neurodiversity 1/

Ehh the latest Bluesky CEO drama is really making me want to leave the platform. I think it’s going to go downhill quite quickly with how the mods are washing their hands off moderation & safety as an inconvenience. Also I never really loved the culture of shitposting on display there. Just tedious

Will this ever end 🥲 we’re in Blue Prince end game and *still* discovering puzzles which don’t all seem neatly connected. Almost there, and yet so far.

Feeling quite restless tonight and the only thing I can trace it back to is having a lot of black tea in the morning. I usually try avoid buying proper black tea for that reason as a soft rule, but it might be time to make it a hard one after all… plenty of oolongs, greens & whites to enjoy instead

Today's focus sponsored by Electrotango lofi www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLc_...

Asking for a friend - amazing social CIC doing good things in nature. Looking for a South West (ideal) based fractional CTO who can also get their hands a bit dirty, and help a volunteer model of developing their platform They have a backend dev, and hiring a front end. Any ideas/connections?

I’m trying my hand at a focaccia today 😋

people don't talk enough about epistemology

First mediation chat and once again, I remember why I want to get into this stuff. Just lovely. I could talk with other mediators all day about their motivations and the different nuances of the practice 😍

I don’t always make proper lunch, but when I do, it’s fantastic and pretty.

I tried to limit the use of my bullet journal during the weekends since it’s so strongly ‘work coded’ for me but man, did I get a lot done this long weekend having used it all 3 days.

Today in AuDHD tax: I’ve just booked another block of refresher driving lessons, two years after the last ones because I still don’t feel I can actually drive safely on my own. 12 years after getting a licence & not driving after. Pretty keen to push through that pesky mental block this time round.

Now that's a puzzle! Unzoomed #609 2/6 🟡🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️ unzoomed.com

I've negotiated on my contract extension for every other Friday to be off and it was one of the best decisions despite some lost income 🥰 finally having bandwidth to plough on in networking among Scottish mediation circles, which I put off hold for the last 6 month and felt pretty gutted about.

My old direct report got a job as a senior UR in a Gov department and I couldn’t be prouder/ happier for them 🥰 such a good time to go under the fold of civil service given how terrible the market is all around right now. Hundreds of applicants when they were struggling to hire a few years back 😨