Aimee

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

Anyone on the left who wasn’t actively involved from 2015-19 needs to know what’s coming.

1, they’re going to throw multiple, often contradictory lies at the wall to see what sticks. Polanski will be simultaneously weak and strong, timid and aggressive, passive and dictatorial, old fashioned and

I never think there's much point going given I don't know the music due to the whole "always playing on mute" thing. It's meant to be really good though!

@gabundy.blog

Today is Cardiff Pride, and the Big Queer Picnic too. I am at the Picnic, with a group of friends. It's a chill vibe, and a good day. This is the sum total of the gay agenda: live beautifully, and live free.

Mural in Dublin Ireland, 2024, showing a blue tactical vest with the legend PRESS on it, and underneath it says MURDERED IN GAZA: 169 Being the number of journalists killed by IOF in Gaza

A gingerbread house sitting on an old bright pink cake stand. It's clearly been made by a child, the sweet decorations are randomly placed, the icing is smudged, but it's full of love. There are two brightly coloured child figures, made of sugar, standing outside. They have smudges of white icing on their faces. There is a gingerbread Christmas tree with a bauble missing - it's next to a black cat on the other side of the garden. There is a brightly coloured "mother" figure wearing a red headscarf and carrying a cane, she is stood on top of the gingerbread house, contemplating her life decisions.

Christmas Vs reality. My seven year old's version includes the cat stealing baubles, kids throwing pies at each other and covered in cream, and the mum hiding on the roof. Not far off really 😂

@gabundy.bsky.social it's you! I found another you!

Using blue sky and twitter has increased my number of daily de ja vu occurrences immensely.

Admittedly being very forgetful isn't helping this.

Cartoon of a mole as a paracetamol capsule. Text: paracetamole

Ibuprofen tablet with a comb, beak, wings and chicken feet. Text: ibuprofHen

Two moles typing away at identical laptops. Text: Co-coder moles

Animalgesics.

👀🍆📩

It would break Kiwi.

Meanwhile I've been looking at lemmings to replace Bucket when she cops it 🤦‍♀️

A small black dog runs on what was dark black coal spoil, now covered in mosses and tough bits of grass, 'weeds' and vetches. At the bottom of the slope is a small scrubby tree barrier, hazel and oak amongst the species although they're not distinct in the picture. Beyond the tree line is a derelict cokeworks. There are various grey, smoke stained industrial buildings, and one brown chimney towers above them. Past that is a traditional British pastoral scene of a patchwork of green fields, with tree/hedge lines between them. The sky is mostly whited out, but there are grey clouds threatening rain.

5) Took me a little bit of time to find number five. But it's this place, a pile of old coal slag overlooking the derelict cokeworks that our village was built around. It's my perfect place.

Ah I'm so jealous!! I realised it's in Cardiff this August and got really excited, but then realised it's when we're away and Gareth's mum will be in Greece so we wouldn't even have a babysitter. Can't be helped.

And I'm okay, just too much happened at once and I got very overwhelmed. Thanks ❤️

Close up photo of Co-op Fairtrade milk chocolate.

4) This chocolate. It's got me through some shit moments 😂 It's still a reasonable price for a bar of chocolate, £1.25, and whilst decidedly not as ethical as something like Tony's Chocoloney, at least it's fair trade. Decent taste too.

A medium sized white and beige coloured air tent set up in a field with a hedge behind it. There are three camping chairs in front of it, in each one sits a child's toy: a small doll, a extra long orangutan, and a large teddy bear.

3) Time with my family. (For the purposes of this picture, assume my husband is the giant teddy bear, I'm the vibrantly coloured hairy thing, and my son is a small humanoid called Rainbow)

2) The musical Six.

Somehow completely passed me by for years but now I'm utterly obsessed. History, sass, feminist 'girl power', 2000s pop? I'm in.

https://youtu.be/kV_MEF8r3CU

Artwork by Taynee Tinsley. A naked red haired woman stands in front of a vortex/night sky made up of different blues and purples. She's draped in a blanket that mimics the colours of the ground. Drifting from her are brightly coloured flowers. She has freckles, and seems alone and distant.

Finding five good things to refocus my brain.

1) This artwork by Taynee.

Everything she draws resonates to me.

‘My plants are dying because I was sad for a while’ 🌱

https://www.tayneetinsley.com/?category=Downloads

And now I've got to put my adult head on again. Not upset or scare my son. Do dog walks, play silly games, draw silly things, listen attentively.

I just want to be under a blanket until the world stops being so loud.

It never stops, does it?

Right now my brain is frozen. I've been pulled right back to when I mentally collapsed in January. The child abuse case I was a witness for? I've had police at my door for it. My abusive mother finally sectioned at a distance from me? Her final appeal was rejected today. She moves back in 3 weeks.

Facebook became a dumping ground for photos. Twitter, occasional moments of activism. Nowhere where I'd dare put anything too personal. Right now, although I'm sure it'll soon change, Bluesky is perfect for what I need. Simple. Quiet. Nice humans, at a distance.

I stopped using twitter and Facebook because everything got too close. Too many people who liked me followed me and would then be privy or react to the moments when I just wanted to shout into the void. Slowly I didn't have a social media where I was free to be the person I feel like inside.

You are so weird. (I love you)

Happy enough to do this, especially as there's a setting that requires my absent-minded ass to fill in alt text or I can't post. Not only is it better for accessibility, but you can add layers of humour n shit. Everyone's a winner!

All I know is vary the injection site as much as possible. I take blood thinners (and thus bruise easily) and arnica cream helps reduce the bruising.

I'm getting such lovely early twitter community vibes every time I scroll through bluesky. It gives me a lot of joy 💙

Just saw somebody describe this photo as regal - and yes, that's just the perfect word. The purple against your gorgeous hair, the swoosh of the skirt, it's magnificent.

Blue and pink!

Happy birthday!