When you wake up & realise your plans aren't going to happen, despite the care taken to appease the ME gods the day before.
That's what this wretched illness is like - 24/7 tiptoeing around so as not to upset your body. FFS I was supposed to going in to uni today ☹️
#MEsucks #chronicillness

That was about Margaret Thatcher

How are they on ME?

Close up image of a brown leaf-like insect across the numbers 4 and 1 on a computer keyboard. Insect is roughly 1.5cm with antennae half the size of its body

I just had a visitor! I looked him up and it turns out that these insects were once only found at Box Hill in Surrey (all Jane Austen fans will immediately think of Emma) but have now, apparently, spread north of Lincoln. I don't get many visitors 😊
#weebeastie #truebug #insects #glimmers

She's not remembered with fondness by many people, though some of that is misogyny

This.

Yes, but they still were leaders. The head of state is just a figurehead. The UK monarch has very little power.

Cool! Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister of the UK from 1979, so Finnbogadóttir wasn't the first woman leader of a country, and there was a woman PM in 1960 in Sri Lanka (I think)

Like the god of The Economy, that must be worshipped at all costs, even if it harms the most vulnerable

This reads like an introductory children's book. Poor Max.

I really like this, as someone who sometimes consumes baby food pouches because they're easier to digest, have no prep & trigger no sensory issues. My son uses them too because of the latter two. Don't shame people for their choices. Fruit & veg are fruit & veg!
#MEsucks #nutrition #stopjudging

Omg, Bluesky, stop showing me pet death posts from people I do not follow. I do want to know if someone I know loses a pet, but not every time any person on the entire internet does.

We have no brightly coloured native birds here, so I'm always intrigued by these delightful little creatures.

I understand why so many people are against AI, but for some disabled people, it's a lifeline, because it does what we have no humans to do for us. I wonder if those people who complain would like to volunteer to be a disabled person's assistant instead of the AI?
#ableism #AI #disability

I wonder how much tension we carry that gets translated into clenching, especially those of us whose bodies are unreliable. Hope it feels better soon.

Just got blocked for politely pointing out that a 'heroic' disabled person may not have consented for their 'heroic' image to be shared all over the internet. Didn't even engage with me, just blocked me. Dehumanising as f**k #AbleismIsRife

Wow. I got blocked for pointing out that a disabled person does not exist to be your inspiration and possibly didn't give their consent to being used as inspiration porn. No engagement. Just blocked. Which actually reinforces my point.
#ableism #NotYourInspiration #disability #civilrights

I like disability-inclusive games
"I see your anxiety, I raise you paranoia"

🤮 This is inspiration porn. You do not know this person, his pain or whether he consented to being turned into a lesson for strangers and spread all over the internet

Dissociation Blackberry Crumble 😅

Hardwick Park is a gem. Lovely photo 😊

"We run for those who can't," says the ad. F*ck off. How patronising!

Nothing Gold Can Stay (C-drama based on the life of a Chinese businesswoman in the late Qing dynasty)

Hear, hear. I have friends in the mental health community with various diagnoses. We're all human beings.

I love the way it has a Japanese feel, so pretty 💚

Perhaps encouraging them to use the library would help? My kids never bought books at school book fairs, but we made good use of the library and second-hand books from charity shops. Book fairs are a rip-off anyway.

Front cover of book

@stickmancomms.bsky.social thank you for my book The Pocket Book of Pacing that arrived today. I'm hoping to share it with family and friends so they can understand things a bit better 😁

I should be more informed. I have a trans son. I didn't know this 😟

Black t-shirt bearing the words 'All my friends are walkers' in reference to the drama The Walking Dead

As a wheelchair user, I *need* one of these (saw it on eBay)
#MEsucks ##chronicillness #powerchair #disability

'Too biased'?! I didn't know this. How about 'expert' because it's your lived reality? Reminds me of how they get able-bodied people to play at being disabled for an hour to 'see what problems' disabled people might face. Dehumanising as hell 🤬