In 2003, a friend asked me to go to a coffee with him but I was busy with a work thing. He jumped off a Seattle bridge that night. Now I always ask a couple of questions before turning down a request. You never know what is happening outside your bubble.

Take a day off, enjoy a new video game or rewatch all the rugby matches. Step away from the worry, close the window to the world, enjoy the peace inside for a day. Live.

In the ongoing chaos of the world, don't forget self care, stocking up for things for a prolonged emergency and making sure to tell people you love them. Often. Today matters also.

Two weeks ago, an Irish supporter asked me why I would ever choose to support Scotland. Today, these are the moments we live for! Wearing my bawbags today! #sixnations

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Sure the world feels chaotic. Sure, things feel out of control. Sure I worry for the future, but my life will not last forever and so I actively encourage myself to enjoy, to appreciate, to feel, to love. I think that is wisdom.

If they care so much about ‘fairness’ in women’s sports why do they not care about ‘fairness’ in women’s lives?

It's imperative that you be as gay as possible on the computer otherwise Alan Turing died for nothing. #alanturing #enimgacode

Write new worlds. Write beautiful places. Write angry people. Write imaginary beasts, futile quests, broken hearts, lifelong injustices, mysteries, love affairs, lost children, newfound purpose. Write anything that allows you to escape or heal or vent or rage or explore or reconcile. Write 🖤

I resolved years ago to try to take a measured and compassionate view to anything I post, not because I feel that way all the time but because it is the way I wish we all communicated.

The lesson we are giving the kids is that only the most cruel, ignorant, mean-spirited narcissists succeed. #MakeAmericaGrateAgain

Who will be the first one booted off the island in this MAGA Civil War? Will it be Stepchild Vivek? Will it be Puppeteer Musk? Will it be JD Vance, because you know, why’s he been so quiet? The world is waiting to find out!

You know the scene in A Christmas Carol where Scrooge sees a bunch of people talking about his death and none of them give a shit because he was a heartless bastard who valued profit over humanity? Yeah, don't know why I've been thinking of that lately.