I keep waking up somewhere between 5 and 5.30 am and my brain is instantly beset with every minor and major worry in my life in glorious technicolour.

Next door are playing Funky Stuff by Kool & the Gang, which is very much not the usual kind of thing I hear over the fence. 👍🏼

It’s all kind of work-related, really.

Yes! Although it’s less nerve-wracking than being the other side of the decks, weirdly. Unstructured social interaction. When I DJ I’m in my own little safe space, I’m reading and responding to people through music not conversation, I have a reason to be there, a structure to the timeline etc.

The first stage of making hip hop smash burgers is squashing the beef.

Yes, same, or if I don’t enjoy it at the time I do afterwards, where the memory is kind of stripped of the environmental discomfort. DJing is a classic one for me, crippling anxiety giving way to what feels like a safe interaction with other people - music doing the talking!

Often it’s identifying what that actually is I think! It can feel like a choice between safe but under-stimulating or engaging but overwhelmed. There must be a sweet spot somewhere!

I’m so tired.

Why does my ADHD always sign up for things my Autism is never going to be able to deliver? 😬

But then I’ve seen people support those who committed sexual assault when it was their friend who did it in everyday life, too.

Who decided to employ that man? Not that Arsenal’s recruitment choices have been without dodginess either.

What a surprise that massive fucking wrongun Sharon Osbourne turns out to be a Tommy Robinson supporter

Fuck De Zerbi.

#RSD2026

My counsellor told me yesterday I am in burnout. I’ve been here before but this time I didn’t recognise it myself. Booked today off work and am trying to do stuff but I just can’t. I can’t seem to summon energy to do anything.

*nods sagely*

It was a bit like those orange vitamin tablets you dissolve in water, disguised as beer.

Why do I find some people just so very fucking exhausting and why do I not seem to have a safe place to escape that other than booze?

For reasons unknown, I’ve bought orange-flavoured beer.

Todd is a good follow

It’s a good question, let’s clear the air:

1) Disco is awesome, like 25 all-time classic tracks in a 4 year span,

2) Disco was hated because it was queer, brown, and black,

3) Disco was hated because it paired women and men in a different power dynamic.

4) “Disco Sucks” was a “ MAGA” test run.

Oh yes, we saw the Brum museum!

No, didn’t see that! Paddling was happening btw (not me but would have been up for it!).

I got a ticket for this!

Earlier went to Stow on the Wold and Bourton on the Water, both lovely but too nice for the likes of me. I think I saw the actress Corrine Wicks in Bourton.

Hello from Cheltenham!

I ate rather too much of it. 😬

Knocked up a bit of scran. Fairly edible!

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Yes!

As an autistic person I can confirm I absolutely hate April Fools stuff.