And another really positive story. They increased life expectancy by 75%, so people lived 4 years at each stage of illness they’d expect to spend 1 at.

Wow.

And while we’re here for good news, have this fantastic story about transgender rights in Kenya. A judge not only ruled in favour of a trans woman but ruled that there needs to be trans protective legislation in place. qnews.com.au/kenya-transg...

Hey everyone, have a positive story about the recovery of the Kelp forest “cathedrals of the sea” in California, to be reminded not everything is bad news :) archive.ph/Qj6PH

If you want to read a book by someone with severe ME and you’re interested in lesbian historical novels, then I’ve written a couple here: www.bellabooks.com/category/bel... Or if gay contemporary ménage erotica is more your thing, I’ve written that too: ninestarpress.com/authors/p-a-...

My spouse bought me flowers the other day, just because. They make me happy. #bloomscrolling #FlowerSky #FlowerPhotos #photography #BadPhotography

Remember the “narco terrorist” boat that Trump bombed? Venezuela reports all 11 killed were civilians. 0 gang members. If you think they’re lying, then USA could prove it by showing the evidence used to verify the 11 were terrorists. They’ve offered 0 evidence. This was a criminal act. Murder.

Battling doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. stroking/cuddling a cat 2. finally succeeding at a level of a game 3. making a baby or small child giggle 4. reading a really good book/fanfic you don’t want to finish because you could read it forever 5. hugging someone you love

Apropos my last post (which was one), if you want something to entertain you (and you’re interested in finding out what other people find memorable/hilarious/brilliant) then I do recommend this link to people offering their favourite tumblr posts of all time: bsky.app/profile/wwxw...

I like this post, if you want to know the size of animals (or aminals, as my son called them until he was about five… he could say anemone correctly, though!)

Hello and welcome to new followers. If you post/repost things with alt text, I will follow you back (though it may take a week or so). Unfortunately, as a disabled person, I don’t feel able to follow people who regularly post things to their TL which don’t have alt text attached. Sorry!

Sometimes you just need a picture of a sleeping cat to remember not everything is stressful. #CatSky #CatPhotos #cat

I really liked this idea, and it needed a sunflower picture to go with it, so here we go. Resist fascism and make room for joy :)

Sometimes it feels like everything is a little bit…upsidedown. #CatSky Late for #Caturday again #CatPhotos #cats

For #Caturday, The occasion on which my Ares #cat met a #dog for the first and only time and, having no common sense, decided to stroll straight up to his face. (He then hissed at him & ran away, which the poor visiting dog took very well and calmly.) Dog was 4 times his size… #CatPhotos #DogPhotos

Zula is my girl, and it’s been a difficult evening, watching a football match where my team has been playing disastrously. She looks about as happy with it as I was. #cats #CatPhotos #CatSky

Wow, it shows what can be done.

It’s just over a week ago, but last Sunday I saw my oldest nibling in person for the first time in eight years. We talk weekly on WhatsApp but hadn’t been physically in the same space for all that time because we’re both really ill so it’s complicated. So it was fabulous actually to be together!

Time for a little #Bloomscrolling. Unfortunately, my knowledge of flowers is very limited, so I’m reliant on someone else to tell me what either the yellow or pink (although it was more purple in real life) flowers are. #FlowerSky #photos #photography #FloraSky

It’s #caturday! And Zula wants to know what you have been doing to deserve the pleasure of her company. #CatSky #CatPhotos

I’m not a children’s author, but I aspire to write the sort of book that has this effect on people. I’d aspire to have this sort of child, but I’m very happy with the son I’ve got, who does love a good female protagonist.

#Godrevy beach in #Cornwall, looking beautiful as ever. A good place for seal spotting, and there is in fact a tiny seal pup by the side of the near rockface, but he just looks like a white blob. Taken by my son, whose camera is better than mine! But whose #photos also are. #cornwallsky #photosky

Zula looking cute on a Monday.

Anyone else from West #Cornwall who would like to repost this? Or even join - the more, the merrier! You can follow even if you’re not from West Cornwall, obviously, but there should be a website coming soon, and more info about local things.

Reminder that if you have no money and feel helpless when you see all the requests for money from Gazans in terrible situations, you can help in a very tiny way by clicking this link daily. If everyone poor did it, we’d raise a decent amount! arab.org/click-to-hel...

Whilst I’m not going to win naturalist medals for this bird photo, I’m pleased with this picture of a herring gull I took at #Porthleven the other day. (I have others where his head is fully visible, but I liked him cleaning his feathers.) #BirdSky #BirdPhotos #Cornwall #photography

Tempted to call them “tiny teddies” in line with that picture now, but oh well. I suppose that would have to be the underside of the paw in general, if we’re going to be pedantic (and I’m always going to be pedantic).

Poetry isn’t my strongest suit, though I’ve been published in the past. And I apologise for bringing down the tone from cheerful and/or photos with this poem. But it’s #SevereMEDay and I’ve been ill for 32+ years, so it deserves some acknowledgement.

Wow, this is a really fascinating story about a field left alone for 60 years, to see what happened to it if humans did nothing at all. theconversation.com/monks-wood-w...

Sometimes I’m almost embarrassed to have moved to such a beautiful area. We went out (Very exciting if you’re as disabled as I am) to #Porthleven for an hour today, and it looked beautiful. #Cornwall #PhotoSky #HarbourPhotos #Photography

In the same vein, “I would follow you back, but you don’t use alt text, or you repost a lot of people who don’t.” I check the TL of everyone who follows me, and if they post at all, I follow them back… AS LONG AS THEIR POSTS HAVE ALT TEXT.

It might not be #Caturday but it’s always a good day for pictures of cats, as I’m sure #CatSky would agree. So here are Zula (near) and Ares (back) curled up on my bed with me. They’re not related, but they’re the most sibling cats ever, sometimes fighting and sometimes curled up together.

Hi, I’m a person with a severely disabling chronic illness in a movie. Oh wait, no I’m not, you’ll just have to assume I’m so chronically ill I never made it into the film, and my friends in the movie forgot about me. Actually…

My parents have just moved from the other end of the country to live close by to me. We’ve lived close to each other all of my life until I moved last December, so I’m thrilled they decided to move down this way too. (Picture from their garden)

An attempt at #Bloomscrolling with some very pretty pansies in my parents’ new garden.

I don’t usually post videos, but if you want something very soothing to watch, try this. There’s no sound, it’s just a video of the sea doing what it does on a calm summer evening. #Penzance #Cornwall #PhotographySky Courtesy of my son.

Sex, Religion, and (Im)morality in the Regency Period is the new subtitle. I think that’s much better. And there is a decent amount of religion in there as well - if you count spirituality and spiritualism in it, especially.

I’m reposting this because (a) this image will never not be funny and (b) if you didn’t read the alt text first time, you really should because I was off in my own world again…

An attempt at an arty picture (not *just* because it’s in monochrome!) with the image of a young man standing alone skimming stones on #Marazion beach. #CornwallPhotos #SkyPhotography #Cornwall

For #Caturday, I thought you guys might like Zula producing the most enormous yawn! I was quite chuffed I managed to catch it on camera, but I swear the yawn is almost bigger than she is! #CatSky #CatPhotos

Honestly, you want to draw the fish. You may not know it yet, but you do.

Spouse piggy-backed me down to the sea today and I got to go swimming*! It was splendid and not nearly as cold as the Cornish sea sometimes can be, even if spouse and son thought I was silly. *after taking codeine before we left home, and sleeping both before and after, in usual disability fashion!

What #SmallDifference have you made in the world? This isn’t for massive Greta Thunberg type differences. This is for “I persuaded my local shop to recycle its packaging” or “I convinced my neighbours not to be transphobes and now they wear Ally badges” type things. #MakeADifference #Positivity

Awesome pigeon pic! From a real photo - if you click on the post below, the post below that is the photo it was copied from, and I probably should have just left them, but I wanted to squee about what a glorious picture it was, so there!

And to make up for my posts dithering about emails, here’s a #photo I call, “how long does #Penzance have before its railway falls into the sea?” #cornwall #SkyPhotography #SkyCornwall

Sent a query out this morning for more info as to the submissions process to a publisher this morning, but got an auto-reply back as if I should have just guessed and submitted whatever I thought was best? I’m not sure whether it’s just because all submissions go there as well as queries, though.

This. **Don’t like or share posts without alt text.** (Perhaps comment saying “I’d like to share but you don’t use alt text“ - one comment saying that, they’ll ignore, lots might make them take notice.) If you can possibly manage it, stop following people who continue to never use alt text.

I took this #photo as a sort of ‘hit and hope’ - the sun was so bright, I couldn’t see what I was taking, but I’m pleased with the way it came out, with the opening of the harbour framing the sunlit water *and* St Michael’s Mount. #Cornwall #skyphotography #CornwallPhotos #Penzance

Mr Penn and I have very sensible conversations, I don’t know what you mean. (Alt text for the image has been changed to label the two ‘speakers’ as ‘Mr P’ and ‘Me’ for clarity, even though it doesn’t say that on there specifically.) And yes, did I forget to mention that my spouse is a seagull?

For Disability Pride Month, why not try giving Alt Text a whirl on one of your image posts? You might find it’s easier than you think! If it’s a mostly text driven image, if you have the photo saved on your phone, you can click on an icon to copy the text - as shown below.