Grateful for all you all share and let me learn from. May your Monday be an uneventful, slow, ease-in to the week. Or if it’s not, may you find the strength to traverse its challenges. Oíche mhaith! (goodnight!)

I wonder how much this maligning of Bluesky is the product of frustrated sadism. The sadist angry their partner is opting out of the sadomasochistic dance (ie twitter) that neither partner (consciously) signed up for. 1/2

Still doing my online training: Early gestalt therapy focused on vitality because gestalt therapists felt that psychoanalysis cured people but made them boring, not vital. They said ‘boring’😂 Gestalt💜 (Presumably analysis has grown up just as gestalt has had to)

Thanks for responding to this, folks. It will be November before I can out something together, but I will, and I will let anyone who has shown interest know about dates and times etc then. No obligation at all, of course.

One man and his dog 😊

How is that possible?? Very worrying if true.

Came across this on Instagram, a Church in New York commissioned a Trans Requiem and it's beautiful. NOVUS Renewal: Undivided trinitychurchnyc.org/events/novus...

Sporting my super cool shirt from @sarahmackattack.bsky.social —design by @franzanth.bsky.social 😁

I’M JUST OVER A VERY LONG MIGRAINE AND THERE’S A FRUIT FLY IN MY WINE.

Dinner in the oven, wine in hand. Gonna settle down with Slow Horses. Everything needs cleaning, but not tonight.

Cheers. I wrote directly to him. Not that he’ll read it.

If I was the clever ingenious funny fecker who managed to get that Palestinian flag up on the Spire I absolutely wouldn’t be able to keep my mouth shut, so (so far) extra kudos to you Dude or Dudette

I think I’ve finally napped away the last of the three day migraine. Painkillers and napping are a fairly consistent winning combo for me. Once it’s passed its peak anyway.

Ok I’m not giving Steen anymore attention. She’s had more than enough and with any luck will feck off back under her rock for another seven years.

I’ve been doing something similar as I’ve noticed how some people I care for are in complete denial about racism in this country, beyond the far right. There’s immediate defensiveness that it even exists or that it could exist in *them*. We have a LONG way go with this conversation.

This is actually quite powerful. Apparently it’s Israel and the US cheering. Shame on them both, once again.

Obie, the idiot dog, managed to surprise a lizard on our afternoon walk. Irish lizards shed their tails when surprised to distract predators as they make their escape... It will grow a new one but it does take a while... In the meantime, here's a wiggly lizard tail... #IrishFauna #Lizards

If I wasn’t at my busiest at this time of year I’d be out canvassing, but sharing for anyone who can: #Connollyforpresident #Áras2025 www.catherineconnollyforpresident.ie/canvass?r=ar...

"At the time of writing, the Fine Gael candidate has spent more than €11,000 so far" - that's half a handbag!! Connolly has spent a 2 month winter gas bill for a pensioner in a moderately insulated home at €873. And Gavin bought a months grocers along with the gas and leccy at €1,700. #Áras25

As someone who successfully quit smoking cigarettes with the aid of vaping, doubling the price of liquids through taxation is an unforced error that will act as a barrier to those attempting the same www.thejournal.ie/vape-tax-nov...

I don't like the Indo so am very skeptical of anything that's in it, but nevertheless I had absorbed the idea that CC did not applaud Zelensky. This is how UK/US politics have ended up where they are. When caught out there's no apology. It's not journalism.

I’ve met some vitriolic reactions (often dressed up as ‘reasonable’) to Catherine Connolly irl as well as online. CC as wild and dangerous is exactly how they’ll play this, with HH being the safe acceptable option.

Fair point.

Someone has managed to drop a Palestinian flag at the very top of the Spire. Fair fucks. Gonna be comical watching Dublin City council trying to figure out how to get that down :) #Speirgorm

Poor Maria. Poor poor POOR Maria.

The migraine is hanging in well into day 2. What my migraine days look like so far this month as I’m tracking them for trigger/prodrome data. (The one 3 days ago was a separate migraine) It is already giving me some useful insights🙏

Fine Gael and Fianna Fail created this housing crisis. It didn't exist 20 years ago. Think of all these kids when you cast your Presidential vote #aras25 ##Speirgorm

Lads, do you realise how close we came to making straight people knock on doors to get their rights back?😭

I have a full day of sessions ahead of me and I need to be careful how I use my energy and do my best to ensure that my pain doesn’t spike early in the day, as it tends to during casual conversation. I wish it wasn’t that way, but it is. Let’s hold off on the judgment.

Absolutely this. One of the biggest criticisms of Catherine Connolly seems to be is that she isn’t strategic enough. I love that she isn’t strategic enough. Realness and humanity are beautiful things.

This. Make a group with your friends. I did it and it’s great. Lots of people are craving these spaces.

I thinks it’s also been made worse by the shift towards ‘knowing’ in the profession imo, and the move away from mentorship towards structured courses.

Pretty sure this is the best article on autism I have ever read. So comprehensive. Yet so readable.❤️

The Irish subtitles for House of Guinness are a nice touch.

Gestating something… Therapists, who would be interested in an online space to think and feel together about the impact of global politics, the climate crisis, fascism and the threat to/loss of human rights on our practices? Would be on weekends to facilitate as many times zones as possible.

I don’t know about you, but I’m still sort of processing that the US president stood up in the UN and declared that London is about to be under Sharia law, and the response has been “actually, that won’t happen” rather than “Jesus, that is insane.”

Migraine day. Sat with quiet colleague and didn’t speak for a while. Louder, chattier colleague arrived…

On the contrary it worked perfectly. People who'd done nothing to earn it tried to ascend direct to the highest office in the land. They didn't get there because there wasn't sufficient support for them - which is exactly how the relatively low bar for nomination is intended to work.

Carrot cake flapjacks sound like something that could made gluten free and still be damn good😋 #GBBO

I’m not peopling very well today. Thankfully my peopling is probably done for the day.

It's so Punk to be an autistic trans woman right now. Pissing and taking a paracetamol as we speak.

Craughwell's head is in that handbag, isn't it?

This ridiculous idea that nominating her was about upholding democracy. It’s not a courtroom where everyone is entitled to due process. If you don’t represent the values of enough people, you don’t get in. That’s the whole point.

Looking very displeased that the grubby heathen hoi polloi stymied her immaculate ascension, but if she needs a tissue to dab away a perfect tear, I’m sure she’s got some in that €20K Hermes bag she’s got there

It’s a beautiful thing.

When I’m tired I cannot do social conversation and if I see you on the street I’ll almost certainly pretend not to, but if you need to talk about your traumatic childhood I’m all ears.

An upside of this has been finding some stealth arseholes for the future.

sounds like Maria's campaign has... run out of Steen 👉😎👉