ICE is planning immigration raids starting Tuesday. Please amplify.

#lightsoutMeta

Starting my New Year’s resolution on my new exercise bike. Definitely want to try and get fitter this year.

How do you explain Smithy and Nessa to a 12 year old who has decided that he’d rather be watching TV with you than actually be in bed like he’s supposed to be? when said twelve year old has insatiable need to know the exact details and reasoning behind characters and their lore! #GavinAndStacy

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Looking back that weekend was one of the first normal holidays we had in a long time and sad as it seems this will be one of the first normal Christmas’ we have had.

A few weeks later she was in the Priory drying out.
4 years on and it’s the second Christmas since she died of alcoholism.
One of the biggest things with addiction is the extent loved ones try to project normality where none exists just to prove the disease wrong.

It’s so hard to believe that this was 4 years ago. Just before the Christmas lockdown this was meant to be a family holiday to @legolandwindsor after a shit year.
Turned out to be just the three of us. The kids mum was too drunk to come.

Oh dear. Sending hugs. Xx

#elfontheshelf Eldest has taken on the mantle for his younger sister!

So a clip of Sarah McBride came on my fyp this morning. Youngest had a look of shock at why the interviewer or in indeed anyone would ask her which bathroom she uses. Cos it’s a private thing and she’s a woman! If a nine year old can get it why can’t older people??

But the message for me today is no matter how dark it feels there is always hope. There is always light

Christmas is hard, but for the first time in a long time I am actually able to look forward to it. To tell myself that the anxiety the constant need to be on guard to have oh so many backup plans for backup plans isn’t needed.
Addiction destroys everything if we let it.

It was also the last Christmas the kids spent with their mum. 2020 and 2021 she was in rehab both years. 2022 she was drunk. 2023 she was gone…. Alcoholism had claimed her.

drinking. It had steadily been getting worse each year. 2019 would be the first year she didn’t help with Santa. She was too tired… a euphemism we had for her drinking.

So five years ago the world was so different. The nasty virus that changed so much had only just begun to be talked about. And I was getting ready for Christmas.
I want to believe it was a normal Christmas. But normal for me was being on edge. Wondering what I’d need to do to hide the kids mums.

An exciting day as the winter conferrings get underway at RCSI. Congratulations to all those graduating today and welcome to the RCSI alumni community!

You can watch the ceremonies live, starting with the undergraduate healthcare professionals ceremony at 11:00 IST: rcsi.com/dublin

#RCSIAlumni

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Omg I’m knackered. Real rollercoaster day today. On the positive side had a wonderful session with my gender psychologist for my GRC paperwork. And my passport is apparently on a plane from Ireland! On the other lots of rubbish dredged up dealing with my ex’s estate - god I dislike probate solicitors. But determined to put best foot forward. ODAT.

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Post from Latino pollster Mike Madrid: “Doing some research for an upcoming article on the last “mass deportation” of Mexicans during the 1930’s. Over half of those deported were US citizens.”

Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens.

Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”

Is abusing all on every post would recommend blocking

When the cat realises that dinner in the form of two plump pigeons has landed in the tree outside her window

Here’s who I hope the @Olympics choose as the next IOC President instead of stuffy Sebastian Coe - forward-thinking Morinar Watanabe from Japan . Wants to make sport and the Olympics MORE inclusive ✅ - and move with the times. Bringing e-sports into the games! Wow. Pick him @iocmedia

'Nazi song' sung by comic at dinner attended by Boris Johnson and Liz Truss Days after the former PMs laid wreaths at the cenotaph, they were guests of honour as comic Dominic Frisby sang: "Maybe we should have let the Nazis win”

Sickening
The song not the guest list 😂 #politics

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It’s grey in Essex

#evridelivery sir/madam unknown!!! Surely in 2024 we can do better….

Can’t help feeling we are about to head down the same rabbit hole that lead to mid staffs