It's Diabetes Awareness Month! And yes, we are indeed very aware in our house. A's English teacher contacted me today to check that he could give her a mini pack of Haribo as a prize - YES! They are a perfect hypo treatment, or she can just take enough insulin to cover it! #T1D

Strands #613 “___ City” 🔵💡🔵🔵 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵

apnews.com/article/fifa... I saw a screenshot of a similar story (no Alt text so didn't want to reskeet it)... Had to check it was true. And it is. To be awarded in Washington.

Strands #611 “F-I-L-M” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵

Strands #610 “Wee wee wee!” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵

I know this won't surprise anyone here but Musk's reprogrammed artificial intelligence is spreading misinformation about yesterday's attack on a train

Strands #609 “Go the distance” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵

There was a disappointing turn out for trick or treaters last night - maybe being the start of the Bavarian school holidays a lot of families went away? I'm left with loads of mini packs of Haribo... On the bright side I won't need to buy hypo treats for A for a while...

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”

Strands #608 “It's not polite to lick your plate” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡

🎵Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? It is the music of a people Who will not be slaves again🎵

The Guardian has gone TOO FAR this time. It's a British paper; we say "half-arsed", not "half-assed". FFS.

Strands #607 “Good bones” 🦴🦴💀🦴 🦴🦴🦴🦴 Love a themed puzzle!!!

I usually get our pumpkins from the roadside stand just outside town... But had very little time so headed to Rewe spent 2,07€ on these two Hokkaido red pumpkins (99c per kilo! Bargain!) and the girls carved them.

🚨 Christmas range is out🚨

I'd love to help make BlueSky one of the places where young scholars introduce themselves and their work to the world. If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.

As always this is an incredibly insightful and timely thread 🧵

WTF

A friend is coming over today so I'm making focaccia and cake www.natashashome.com/buckwheat-ap...

Strands #604 “The write stuff” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵

Strands #603 “Witch way?” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵

My older daughter is making brookies with two friends in our kitchen right now. It's so loud but so lovely 😍

Strands #602 “Fall-ing” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 💡🔵🔵💡 💡🔵

I got up in the wee hours to check - the pod switched to manual mode, made the time change, and changed back to auto mode. The phone the Dexcom app is on updated automatically (but had restarted and unpaired in the meantime, so more time needed talking with tech support!!!).

Mum sent me a FB post celebrating the rural doctor who diagnosed A (hooray for Dr Littlewood!) so I logged in to congratulate her. While I was there I found the invitation to my 30 year high school reunion 😳 (shan't be going, obviously)

Good morning also to those trying to remember how to change the oven clock.

Okay now I need to go back to Berlin. I've been to the Bundestag twice but have never noticed this piece of the wall!

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

#T1D peeps - Omnipod 5 and Dexcom G7 will automatically update to winter time, right? Libre 3 always did so I assume the new tech will as well...?

We have a week off for the autumn holiday 🍁🍂 we're not going away and I am SO looking forward to a quiet week to rest and recover.

Strands #600 “Through the ages” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵

Strands #599 “Please don't eat me!” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

Strands #598 “Catch all” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵

Strands #597 “Banding together” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 💡🔵💡🔵

Strands #596 ““It's in the mail”” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵

My cousin, who is my closest relative in age, passed away today. She was declared cancer free in March but she was told on 4 September that it had metastasized. Six weeks later she's gone. Mum and my sister saw her yesterday and said that she was peaceful and was receiving good care.

Strands #595 “For the picking” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵

Because REAL AMERICANS believe in THE CONSTITUTION.

Day 1 of my silver jewellery making course ✅ Chose to work with a piece of jade - it will be a gift for my sister's upcoming 50th birthday. Soldering is terrifying (but fun) and silver is, oddly enough, much harder to work with than my usual medium (yarn... Or fabric).

Repost if you have more followers than the Official White House BlueSky Account

Strands #594 “Get to work ...” 💡🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵

Sixteenth wedding anniversary today!! Hooray for us!!

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Strands #593 “Gait keeping” 🔵💡🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵🔵 This was very, very silly

It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin. Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed. Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!

Strands #592 “And the category is ...” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵

Feeling so far away from family at the moment. We knew there would be hard times when we moved 16,000km away but hot damn.

Then don't bloody use it, you twerps!!! Listen to your boring old English teacher who is telling you to use your beautiful brain!!!

Strands #591 “Going up?” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵