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i appear to have both a) no personality and b) too much me

14.03.2026 18:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

'what's up?'

well, i'm at the 'might have a diazepam just so i can have a little rest from myself' point

14.03.2026 18:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
"Where do you see yourself in 10 years?" Written above a long grey haired woman with a stick thing and bulging red eyes

"Where do you see yourself in 10 years?" Written above a long grey haired woman with a stick thing and bulging red eyes

14.03.2026 15:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
An ancient Aztec pot shaped like a crab with extremely goofy eyes and mouth.

An ancient Aztec pot shaped like a crab with extremely goofy eyes and mouth.

I love it when a museum has an exhibit that's just a lil guy

13.03.2026 21:37 πŸ‘ 1300 πŸ” 189 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 30
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Hundreds of GPs tell BBC they have never refused a sick note over mental health concerns The number of fit notes issued has been rising, with more than 11.2m approved in England last year.

This is a hit piece. The BBC hates mentally ill people.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

12.03.2026 07:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The NHS is complicit in doing great harm

11.03.2026 11:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Man the news is just so horrible isn't it

Just the cruellest people in positions of power using that power to harm as many people as possible

11.03.2026 07:11 πŸ‘ 105 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Inside me there are two wolves/dogs

11.03.2026 11:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜My lovely distraction’: live stream of kākāpō – world’s fattest parrot – and her chicks captivates New Zealand More than 100,000 people have tuned in to watch a kākāpō – a rare flightless bird – sleeping, tidying her nest and fighting off intruders

have you heard about the kākāpō breeding success? and there's a live stream of a female with her chicks

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

11.03.2026 07:20 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

don’t cancel me for saying this but

Nobody should be assaulted in prison. Not even Harvey Weinstein

Listen listen!

The point of rights isn’t to protect people who we like. The main point of rights is to protect people who we don’t like from our own worst instincts

10.03.2026 18:27 πŸ‘ 263 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

I just remember a Stacy Dooley documentary where they set her free on a crisis ward, with extremely vulnerable people.

I don't think they would let her do a bit of casual oncology

10.03.2026 17:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Before you ever tell someone there's help out there for them, remember all this.

It's a very easy thing to say

10.03.2026 17:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Most people love the NHS, I mean, I love the concept! Hate the execution.

It's slow, prejudiced, cruel, too complicated, unwieldy.

We tend not to have the money to go outside the NHS, because Mad

10.03.2026 17:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't think People get the endless, grinding, hopeless, grimness of medical negligence - because most don't experience it.

But a lot of chronically mentally ill people Know it.

We Know there's no timely, easily accessible help

10.03.2026 17:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

karl marx failed to consider that im sleepy and im tired

10.03.2026 10:06 πŸ‘ 93 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you. That's extremely good of you

10.03.2026 08:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm going to write to them. I get too upset on the phone because I feel like a fool. But I will write and ask what we do next; I want to see a specialist, I will outright ask for that and just hope

10.03.2026 08:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm too shy/nervous to challenge them though

10.03.2026 07:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm concerned that the GP's aren't taking my kidneys seriously enough - I have only half kidney function and pain and other symptoms, associated with stones.

I think they're sick of hearing from me and it's conditioned them to ignore me

10.03.2026 07:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm too bored of this to try and be clever about it anymore.

If you think that two men kissing, or two women kissing, requires any more explanation than a man kissing a woman, that is homophobia.

08.03.2026 09:56 πŸ‘ 5821 πŸ” 1401 πŸ’¬ 61 πŸ“Œ 19
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Alabama set to execute man who did not kill anyone Unless Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey intervenes, Charles β€œSonny” Burton, 75, will be executed Thursday. He is among thousands in America convicted under a controversial felony murder law.

Sonny Burton is set to be executed by the state of Alabama on Thursday. There is a direct line between a government that murders its own citizens and the devaluing of life abroad. The sin has always started at home.

08.03.2026 12:42 πŸ‘ 1299 πŸ” 630 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 31
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Women's preaching still justified For International Women's Day, Rhiannon Grant reflects on early Quaker support for women's religious leadership ahead of a modern translation of Margaret Fell's seminal text.

Margaret Fell was a key figure in the early Quaker movement. For #InternationalWomensDay, Rhiannon Grant reflects on women's religious leadership and Margaret Fell's 'Women's Speaking Justified' https://www.quaker.org.uk/blog/women-s-preaching-still-justified

08.03.2026 08:30 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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I have watched this approximately 47 times and laughed out loud 47 times

07.03.2026 23:44 πŸ‘ 7481 πŸ” 2120 πŸ’¬ 71 πŸ“Œ 112

I *hate* that being anxious robs my personality

07.03.2026 18:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Read this headline 'Harry Styles review – Netflix concert is a communal love-in with some big pop moments' as 'Harry Styles review – Netflix concert is a communal love-in with some big poo moments'

07.03.2026 18:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So when you do fibre arts, I do worry about you!!!

07.03.2026 11:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Now, I can't do felting, or any fibre arts.

Like my breakdown during my PhD killed reading.

I'm scared the same will happen with drawing and painting

07.03.2026 11:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Fibre arts.

There's something about fibre arts that makes me super emotional lol.

I think it's because, during my mid 30s I got v poorly and had to leave a job I had, again, partially built my personality around. While poorly, I really got into felting. Like really into it

07.03.2026 11:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

this might get scraped off, who knows

07.03.2026 08:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Oil painting of a landscape in shades of green and indigo, a moorland. With light in the sky

Oil painting of a landscape in shades of green and indigo, a moorland. With light in the sky

07.03.2026 08:56 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0