I have raspberries ripening to red in the garden. In May. Insane. As much as the heat is beneficial for my pain, I don’t want the whole world to burn just so I can feel my fingertips.

Lovely surprise this morning when @chaletfan.bsky.social appeared as a guest on a 2024 episode of the Tophole podcast with Deborah Lofas. 📚 🧁

"Most of us are deciding in real time what we can afford to spend and what we need to let go of, mid-task, mid-afternoon, mid-whatever. Most of us are making trade-offs that don’t have a clean answer.": buff.ly/BORDz0V by @thethrivingspoonie.com #pacing #ChronicPain #ChronicIllness #ChronicFatigue

Couldn’t watch any Eurovision stuff this year due to Israel’s participation. Rest of the family are watching, and I did think I would miss it, but I’ve used too many spoons today and all I want is bed and quietness. So now it doesn’t even feel like a real boycott 😩 Hope not Hate. Love and Peace.

YOU: please act normal you need these people to like you Me: ok! People: hi Me: in WW2 Britain gave tea higher shipping priority than ammo. In the Blitz, the ENTIRE London tea industry was relocated to secret emergency blending hubs in Cardiff, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester, Hull, Dundee & Leith

Absolutely fuck you, Amazon. When I bought this device there was no mention of my purchase being time limited at your discretion. It does not require software updates, so the only "support" necessary is that kindle books are available in a format that can be sent to it. This shouldn't be legal.

Good afternoon! A reminder that I'm available for talks, lectures, school visits, teaching, writing, children's lit CPD, one-off standing in front of you and going GOD LIBRARIES ARE AMAZING, and you can find out more about all of that here, thank you! ❤️ didyoueverstoptothink.com/hire_me/ #booksky

Reposting this again because more people need to be asking this question. Tate is grim and should be in jail but I suspect he’s not a big enough player to be Epstein’s successor.

Sheila Hancock must be protected at all costs! #HIGNFY

Could anyone point me to a list of Reform candidates (councillors or MPs) voted in and Reform candidates who lost?

“UKIP's here.” New Reform councillor has to be corrected on which party he now represents

I have a solution to multiple problems here, which is that it would be very easy to hang the Union Jack the right way up if we threw a great big dragon in the middle

Yep. Every damn day. If my pain is coming through to the point where it’s visible, I shouldn’t be out of bed.

Check your Sertraline if you're on it in the UK www.gov.uk/government/n...

I’d like to put it out there that serving bowl food at an event is inaccessible for many disabled people, including but not exclusive of, those of us reliant on mobility aids. #disability

Well this seems utterly insane King's US visit will go ahead as planned, Buckingham Palace says www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There’s a big fire at the end of our road this evening. Thoughts are with the emergencies services and those living in the nearest houses. Building long since abandoned so I’m hoping no one was trapped inside.

Still thinking about the commenter who described this performance as ‘subpar’ ‘over-choreographed’ and ‘lacking emotion’. I wonder if their life is as sad and empty as I feel it must be. #strictly #scd #miserableoldsod #favouritestrictlydanceever youtube.com/watch?v=tmFn...

she has to resign this is not funny, *especially* if you are the fucking Home Secretary, with the actual fucking power to unilaterally deprive *anyone* of citizenship

I despise with the heat of a thousand suns the way I have to be suspicious of all art I see now while I investigate it's authenticity, because this couldn't be more diametrically opposed to the state of mind one should be in while taking in all art.

Trying to remember who it was I saw recently saying that one of the best advances on social media would be to make it so people had to read the link in a post before replying or quoting it, and wow does that sound like a good plan.

Wait for the verification on your email to click it through so it gets logged as a complaint

My suspicion with Mandelson vetting is Starmer knew he was the best bet to keep Trump onside, told FO to not show him the report for the sake of plausible deniability, & someone agreed to take the fall for a generous payoff if it came to light. All that and in the end no one could control Trump 🤦‍♀️

"[As a #philosopher of #psychiatry.. ] not only am I steeped in the common #MentalHealth slogans, but also in Western #philosophy, an intellectual tradition that tends to equate speech with flourishing & #silence with misery.": buff.ly/BjpYKYS via @psyche.co #MentalHealthAwareness #MentalIllness

Pretty sure I had some flats from Dune in 2007 that looked like this.

I’ve definitely made 2 cry. A clinical psychologist and a physiotherapist. I’ve been lucky in that the decent, caring medics I’ve seen have mostly outnumbered the (generally male) crappy misogynistic uncaring ones.

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

If you’ve been paying attention this won’t be a surprise.

So JD’s now finished a Pope and a Prime Minister. Unrelatedly, I love the rule of three and alliteration.

Resounding support for Green Party drug policy in the Lancet HIV. Describes Labour attacks as an "outdated ideological position that denies public health evidence" 🔥✊️

I do remember kids book authors talking about doing tours for the book series with a male protagonist and seeing mixed-gender groups at school libraries - then doing a new series with a female protagonist and the schools were having them present to girls only while sending boys to do something else.

I am so tired of being deluged with the sordid details of sexual crimes. It feels nonstop since 2014. Yes absolutely those stories should be told. I get that this is how justice begins: with victims having voices, stories being heard, and so forth; I've been supporting that forever.

So many people who for years voted Labour because they felt they had no choice if they didn't want the Tories in power are realising that the landscape has changed. People can vote for policies they want, not policies they think they have to suffer just to avoid something even worse.

Sarah Vine was never invited to the whole class rowdy birthday party and she’s still bitter as hell about it.

My husband thinks our cat believes he is called Pretty thanks to all the times I say ‘you so pweetty’. Jokes on him. Our cat refuses to answer to ANY name.

People who develop national/international fame as a result of going from one reality tv show to another, and ending up on a big celeb show that suggests actual talent, makes me think of the AI fake scientific references that become accepted papers after the 1st/2nd time they are used as a reference.

"I don't want to happen but it probably will" is classic abuser language: "look what you made me do." Except it's not on the scale of a household, but of a nation of 90 million and millennia of civilization.....

When Trump says a 'whole civilization will die tonight', it's time for Starmer to act. Failure to do so will make the UK complicit in Trump's war crimes. The UK should have no part in this madness.

A little piece of good news today: Kanye West blocked from travelling to UK, government tells BBC

That Trump post is a clear expression of genocidal intent. Clear cut case with zero caveats.

There are the obvious classics which I do love, but no song has ever given the chills like Behind The Wall does

It's so clear how having the right hormone balance is essential for wellbeing physically & psychologically & being able to thrive. Why should this be denied to trans women and men

Honestly any sane person who's ever touched the UK immigration or benefits systems will fully understand how the bullshit the narrative is that people are undertaking dangerous dinghy journeys in order to wallow in our unlimited largesse my god

I do not have a problem with Welsh speech from Wales. I do have a problem with hate speech from Reform.

"In this club: “ #Tired ” means full-body shutdown. “ #BadDay ” means I nearly called an ambulance but couldn’t find the energy. “Better” means I only cried twice today and managed to eat something. No judgement. No pity. Just truth.": buff.ly/fEZOajR by @unremarkableme.com #ChronicPain #disabled

A school leadership team has misused safeguarding procedures against a librarian for stocking 'controversial' books - which, by the way, are not controversial at all. This makes me feel sick to my stomach.

"I’m #unlearning the #habit of apologising for things that r out of my control & reminding myself that my needs are not negotiable nor r they up for debate. I have the right to #access ..& the right to take up space.": buff.ly/o2LMU6G by @myblurredworld.bsky.social #disabled #spoonie #HumanRights

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Nearly everything the right throws at the left ends up sounding way cooler than they could possibly intend