It would be lovely if I could go for just one day without massively overthinking something 🤣

If you refuse to support your LGBTQ child, you cease to be a parent.

This is very unlike me, but wondering if I need to dispose of some of my DVD collection. There's a lot of stuff there I'm never likely to watch again, reducing the collection feels almost blasphemous, but it does take up a lot of space I could do with getting back.

Really fighting hard to resist ordering delivery this evening, really shouldn't for the sake of my diet, especially since I want to make as big a push as possible over the next three weeks. Must resist, must resist.

The paranoid side of my brain really likes messing with me sometimes, for someone who was once described as "frustratingly logical" by their line manager I can sure be led by my emotions when they decide to be evil. Thankfully, this does seem to be a time when I'm being paranoid, fucking RSD.

What video game do you consider perfect?

This is edging into super-villain territory.

Liberalism is an inherently capitalist ideology and capitalism is unsustainable on a planet with finite resources so no

One of the biggest revelations I've had this year is that although I may have external sources of stress from time to time, a lot of what I needed to resolve required deep introspection, and the realization that a lot isn't due to bad luck, it was down to my reactions to the world.

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Just got back from taking neighbour's dog out for his morning toilet break, he has very good taste as he absolutely adores me. 🤗

I'm not sure if there is a pansexual visibility day, and the lines are a little blurred anyway, so... Hello, here I am, and I'm not going away 😀

I now have neither cigarettes or rolling tobacco in the flat, god help me. The latter is going to be particularly painful as it will also deprive me of my main insomnia cure, if you get my drift...

Apparently Streeting has been on television saying we shouldn't listen to anything Trump has to say about medicine. We'd be well served if we applied the same approach to listening to Streeting.

He looks like he's doing an impression of Hans Gruber falling from Nakatomi Plaza 😆

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Just sat through a seminar on how to get your CV into shape for job hunting. I'm not saying it wasn't useful, but I really detest how it has all become a game of trying to get past the automated gatekeeping software first. Always feels like one is being encouraged to lie slightly.

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Good morning all 🌞 Still feeling fairly chipper. It's like a switch has flipped in my brain, no more pining about what I thought I wanted. I now have the clarity to see that was someone to flee from, not embrace. They weren't the person I thought they were, I realise that now, I'm free.

While they're releasing the helium filled sex dolls 😆

What do you call a cow with no legs? Ground beef!

Finding the parents of autistic kids talking about the benefits of ABA in response to RFK Jr's nonsense extremely trying at the moment. RFK is a dangerous idiot, yes. But ABA is also harmful. All it does is force children to mask to try to conform, and in the long term causes lasting distress.

Growing up in Hampshire just proved handy #UniversityChallenge

Babylon 5 is mentioned so many times in this thread, and I think it says a lot about Sophia's audience

I'll have to see if they do Mr. Snuffleupagus pants, they may send the right subliminal message 😆

So these would be Special gates? I'll get my coat.

Found a dead juvenile hedgehog on the lawn outside earlier, not long after the "groundskeeping crew" had been, can't help but feel the two are related. 😢

A shame it doesn't appear possible to add a hard drive so I could try an image of the one I have in my A2000 with it.

Seem to have had another good day today, I'll jinx it, but every day there's a small reminder that I'm on the right track, despite the disastrous detour earlier this year. The last few days I've felt a sense of calm of the type I've not felt for a long time, certainly not for so long.

Nails done, which should tide me over until I need to get them done for my big weekend of socialising next month. 🤗 Just wish there was a way I could skip over the next couple of weeks.

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Someone is having to fight very hard to resist the temptation to roll up a cigarette. And it looks like I'm going to have to get another vape refill as the heater coil has just died, grrr.

Just got a reply from the BBC regarding my complaint about the Glinner interview. Completely ignores the point I made about whether a defendant should be interviewed mid-trial, merely that the reasons for mean it was appropriate to include it as part of the debate about free speech. 😠

Ok, so I'm not going to win any body building awards, but caught myself in the mirror just now and realised I can start to see muscle definition in my arms 😀💪 So, still some way to go, but this is pleasing progress.

I did titter #Thatcher

Appointment booked for after work to get my nails done. I've been using the same place for a few months, I'm used to customers giving me odd looks when I walk in, but I would have thought the staff would have got used to it by now. They never give me grief, but I can tell they are utterly baffled.

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Ok, I was bad and did have a cigarette first thing this morning, but I have stuck to the vape for the rest of the day. I've got one refill for the vape left which will last a few days once started. The big question now is whether I can ween myself off quickly enough for that to be my last refill.

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I think the romantic centre of my brain is definitely reactivating. It's a rather pleasant autumn day here, I'm thinking it would be the perfect day for a countryside walk with someone close to me, find a nice tree we can curl up under and just relax in each others arms while we soak up the nature.

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2 days away from my first Bluesky birthday. It's been quite a year, but I've met some wonderful people along the way, including a few who have the capability of making my heart soar in ways it hasn't done for years. 🤗 If thinking about someone always makes one smile then they're special. ❤️