A few weeks of despair and malaise after the court ruling but I was given succour tonight at queer karaoke. We were probably at least ten years older than most folks there but the kids are fucking alright ❤️

I saw him periodically leaning his hand over the edge of the bed with sweetie wrappers

IT HAD CHIPS ON IT

One of my absolute favourite wrestlers announced he was leaving New Japan Pro Wrestling and it’s giving me conniptions:

We found our local - @karencuthbert.bsky.social

I think y’all should be aware that I’m asleep when I say these things. He’s not giving you any context for them

There’s a student encampment at my university protesting our complicity in Gaza genocide through arms investment & they have teach-outs scheduled. One is about the “history of radical Glasgow” &is about the occupation I was involved in as a student in 2011. I feel old. But long live the intifada 🍉

He’s the best wife guy though

This man just follows me around waiting for me to say stupid shit

This lil guy comes with me to my lectures, hidden in my tote bag. #doingacademiawhilstautistic

Actual dispatches from a conversation between my fellow autist and I

If you want stupid content of me sleep talking and Doing Antics go follow @geoffevans42.bsky.social I guess?

It’s Sarah J Maas’ world, I just live in it. Wore some mustard yellow tights this week & strode around feeling like the badass Baba Yellowlegs. AND THEN bestie soon-to-be husband @geoffevans42.bsky.social surprised me with this gift. Whaaaaa. I have to get good acrylic pens from the TikTok shop now

Accidentally unmasked a little bit today and now I’m full of the Bad Feelings worrying about how it was received. Starkly, sometimes unmasking does not increase one’s wellbeing. #actuallyautistic

"Singer, who has been accused of making transphobic statements on social media, allegations she denies." Certainly can't deny it now, if she even could reasonably do so before. Judy Singer is an unrepentant TERF & deserves all natural consequences that go along with those views & that behavior.

Saving this for my level 1 gender lectures coming up in a few weeks…

[me to service] can I speak to someone about X [service] sure [me] can they text or email me or I’ll even come in & speak to someone in person. I’m autistic and don’t do phonecalls very well. [service] so someone will give you a phonecall about X Health services- use more contact options than ☎️

me, diagnosed with autism: you know, i’m starting to get a hunch that i might be kind of autistic i think

First time I’ve ever came out of an appointment with a psychiatrist feeling better about myself. (I’ve been seeing psychiatrists since I was 11). No gaslighting, and giving me autonomy over this drug we’re trying. Insisting that I recognise that what I’m doing right now is so damn much.

I can’t wait to delve into this

My zip broke again on my coat this morning which is on my to-do list of things to be fixed but which I have no mental capacity for at the moment. So I guess I’m just stuck in this coat for the forseeable? #whatisexecutivefunctioning

If I don’t open scary email then scary email doesn’t exist

She’s just refusing to move so I can’t work

Glad my fiancé is around to document my…bon mots?

Apparently I said this in my sleep…

Watching Severance makes getting the lift up and down from my flat a pretty anxiety-ridden experience 😨 Also I’m pretty sure I just saw Dylan cutting aboot Shawlands

Severance is pretty bloody good eh?

🚫 Don’t: “Everyone is a little autistic.” ✅ Do: “Autistic traits are not exclusive to Autistic people and it’s the cumulative constellation of traits that they have that fundamentally differs from the lived experiences of Non-Autistic people.” (A bit wordy, but maybe the nuance is worth it.)

I’m 20% into Onyx Storm and I can’t remember at least half the characters but I’m still like here we here we here we fucking gooooo #booksky 💙📚

I got my first pair of ear defenders today (as opposed to noise cancelling headphones). Oh Lord I am in autistic heaven.

Brb just going to obsessively research Grunya Sukhareva and then rewrite all my autism lectures to talk about the fact that a Jewish women was writing better shit about autism than Kanner and Asperger two decades before them vm.tiktok.com/ZGdAWcPC2/

I have my copy of Onyx Storm but I need to finish this current Throne of Glass book before I can delve in. Reading fantasy novels is literally life-sustaining for me at the moment. It’s soothing my brain in a way that nothing else is & staved off some meltdowns. #booksky 💙📚

When you get topped by an American

“and every expression of pain can eventually be boiled down to hysteria, which we now call emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD, also known as borderline personality disorder).” I have Feelings about my BPD diagnosis but yeah, basically this. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

When a tory is easy to make fun of, and doesn't stand up for their despicable principles

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the medievally marvellous @tswingard.bsky.social about lesbianism in medieval Europe! Questionably made strap-ons at the ready, let’s do it! shows.acast.com/betwixt-the-...

The NI Executive say releasing evidence supporting PB ban is ‘not in the public interest.’ Not in THEIR interest, more like, since anyone with any analytical skills will be able to see, they couldn’t draw the conclusions they did, from the evidence available. Link to full article in comments.

Word of the day is ‘depooperit’, from 18th-century Scots: ‘enfeebled both mentally and physically’.

My parents dropped in for a visit and they brought me Pepsi max and paracetamol because this is who I am as a person

Feeling really pissed off at neurotypicals today for not being clear enough in their communication. I want to sub-skeet but I think ill-advised… Anyway I am salty and EXHAUSTED

Spent the morning at a Golden Retriever cafe pop-up place. I have not smiled so hard in such a long time. I met one called Gordon. I am love with this breed; Goldens are going to be in my future once I get out of this renting scam.

New article from Isaac Hoff & I exploring the cost of living crisis (COLC) as an example of a media 'keyphrase' which obscures the longer term, systematic problems which produce the crisis, and which promotes short-term ineffectual solutions from politicians. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A podcast where parents try to explain their children’s PhD

The perma-student in me is nerdily excited about my PGCAP electives. I’m doing Supervising Students & Intercultural Education. The reading for the first IE class is really first year sociology though, with talk of problematising ‘culture’ etc. But seems to be more criticality than phase 1 classes?

Are you even in a relationship if you don’t start a ispaghula husk regime together?

What if trans healthcare crowdfunding, but community-oriented rather than for one individual? That's what we're doing in Glasgow! Inspired by past successes from other groups, we're raising money to train and set up a local electrolysist. Please donate and/or share! (reskeet?!)

Glasgow rally against the puberty blocker ban - this Sunday, 1pm at Buchanan steps.