Jane 🏊♀️🚴🏻🏃♀️🌻
@halfironmum.bsky.social
Broken audhd mum of 3 autists and lazy triathlete - half iron, half jelly.
Cold water swimmer. Very amateur gardener. Beginner knitter.
Social justice warrior and autism advocate. "A fierce presence"
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
Cold water swimmer. Very amateur gardener. Beginner knitter.
Social justice warrior and autism advocate. "A fierce presence"
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
A short story in ADHD:
Me and my daughter trying to take dog to the Vet today:
Get to door - forgot dog.
Go back for dog - realise I haven't got phone
Go back for phone, get to car - have forgotten dog again
Get in car with dog and phone, get to Vet, have forgotten dog lead.
Me and my daughter trying to take dog to the Vet today:
Get to door - forgot dog.
Go back for dog - realise I haven't got phone
Go back for phone, get to car - have forgotten dog again
Get in car with dog and phone, get to Vet, have forgotten dog lead.
November 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A short story in ADHD:
Me and my daughter trying to take dog to the Vet today:
Get to door - forgot dog.
Go back for dog - realise I haven't got phone
Go back for phone, get to car - have forgotten dog again
Get in car with dog and phone, get to Vet, have forgotten dog lead.
Me and my daughter trying to take dog to the Vet today:
Get to door - forgot dog.
Go back for dog - realise I haven't got phone
Go back for phone, get to car - have forgotten dog again
Get in car with dog and phone, get to Vet, have forgotten dog lead.
Damn! I guess their are on to me as I use my vpn all day during the week to...do my fucking job - wtf guys are you someone's nan?!
The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how
Ignoring VPNs risks creating ineffective laws, but tracking them threatens people's privacy
www.techradar.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Damn! I guess their are on to me as I use my vpn all day during the week to...do my fucking job - wtf guys are you someone's nan?!
Sorry to moan, but I have been ill now (with covid and colds) since the last week of August and it's not funny.
I would just like to wake up feeling half well sometime in the next month please and thank you
I would just like to wake up feeling half well sometime in the next month please and thank you
November 12, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Sorry to moan, but I have been ill now (with covid and colds) since the last week of August and it's not funny.
I would just like to wake up feeling half well sometime in the next month please and thank you
I would just like to wake up feeling half well sometime in the next month please and thank you
Too tired even to knit tonight. telly, wine, bed!
a cartoon character from the movie monsters inc is looking at the camera and saying `` me right now '' .
Alt: a cartoon character from the movie monsters inc is looking at the camera and saying `` me right now '' .
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Too tired even to knit tonight. telly, wine, bed!
My new job has a cycle to work scheme - amazed how quickly I got the voucher, I applied last week!
Even better my new brompton should be here tomorrow!!! No more tubes for me, baby!!
Even better my new brompton should be here tomorrow!!! No more tubes for me, baby!!
a little girl is riding a bike down a street
Alt: a little girl is riding a bike down a street
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
My new job has a cycle to work scheme - amazed how quickly I got the voucher, I applied last week!
Even better my new brompton should be here tomorrow!!! No more tubes for me, baby!!
Even better my new brompton should be here tomorrow!!! No more tubes for me, baby!!
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“She had neurodivergent traits and, like many girls on the high end of the autistic spectrum”
She was Autistic.
There’s no “high end”.
Everyone with ED should be given all the accommodations the most qualified Autistic professional would give their younger selves.
She was Autistic.
There’s no “high end”.
Everyone with ED should be given all the accommodations the most qualified Autistic professional would give their younger selves.
If you read one thing this weekend, read this. The way we treat young people who are a little 'different' is endlessly shocking. With thanks and respect to Kate Szymankiewicz.
From theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
From theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘The ward felt like a prison. What had I let them do?’: how my daughter was crushed by a health service meant to help her
Ruth was 14 years old and being treated for an eating disorder when she died after being detained under the Mental Health Act. She wasn’t allowed to see her family for more than a few hours a week. Ho...
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
“She had neurodivergent traits and, like many girls on the high end of the autistic spectrum”
She was Autistic.
There’s no “high end”.
Everyone with ED should be given all the accommodations the most qualified Autistic professional would give their younger selves.
She was Autistic.
There’s no “high end”.
Everyone with ED should be given all the accommodations the most qualified Autistic professional would give their younger selves.
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For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.
"Let her passing be an inflection point for how you think about trans rights and trans people more generally."
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
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Little'uns in bobble hats, dummies in mouth, on their dads shoulders, staring mutely at fireworks. Mum video calling Nana so she can see the bonfire. Drunk uncles trying to explain guising. Tanned teen lasses in not enough layers, walking in daisy chained hand holds, their pride will keep them warm.
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Little'uns in bobble hats, dummies in mouth, on their dads shoulders, staring mutely at fireworks. Mum video calling Nana so she can see the bonfire. Drunk uncles trying to explain guising. Tanned teen lasses in not enough layers, walking in daisy chained hand holds, their pride will keep them warm.
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Frontline women’s services are in free fall leaving countless vulnerable people at risk. This is the conversation that should be topping the agenda regarding women’s rights.Culture wars are a distraction, austerity is the key threat. @heraldscotland.bsky.social
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/hol...
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/hol...
Anti-trans 'activism' is a distraction from real women's rights issues, says Marissa
The time, energy and money spent protecting the definition of “woman” would be better spent advocating for the vital and crumbling network of…
www.heraldscotland.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Frontline women’s services are in free fall leaving countless vulnerable people at risk. This is the conversation that should be topping the agenda regarding women’s rights.Culture wars are a distraction, austerity is the key threat. @heraldscotland.bsky.social
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/hol...
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/hol...
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Words of the prophets are written on the subway walls...
A new era is here in NYC, hopeful citizens leave messages on the subway walls proving that socialism and progressive policies are what people want.
November 8, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Words of the prophets are written on the subway walls...
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A veteran activist, who has spent her life campaigning for disability rights, has called on the government to fix the “rotten to the core” social care system, after experiencing “terrifying” treatment during a short stay in a care home.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/safeguarding...
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/safeguarding...
Safeguarding probe launched after veteran disabled activist reports ‘terrifying’ care home experience
A veteran activist, who has spent her life campaigning for disability rights, has called on the government to fix the “rotten to the core” social care system, after experiencing “terrifying” treatm…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:45 AM
A veteran activist, who has spent her life campaigning for disability rights, has called on the government to fix the “rotten to the core” social care system, after experiencing “terrifying” treatment during a short stay in a care home.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/safeguarding...
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/safeguarding...
I feel like so much of this could easily have been my daughters story. she didn't have an eating disorder but 3 years ago (at 16) she was so ill there was discussion about hospitalisation.
1/5 🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
1/5 🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘The ward felt like a prison. What had I let them do?’: how my daughter was crushed by a health service meant to help her
Ruth was 14 years old and being treated for an eating disorder when she died after being detained under the Mental Health Act. She wasn’t allowed to see her family for more than a few hours a week. Ho...
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I feel like so much of this could easily have been my daughters story. she didn't have an eating disorder but 3 years ago (at 16) she was so ill there was discussion about hospitalisation.
1/5 🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
1/5 🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Labour still talking to us as if we are the illiterate great unwashed -
We heard and understood you just fine.
As a disabled low income renter, child of immigrants, opposer of genocides and nonbinary person - i got the message loud and clear.
You detest us, you despise us.
We heard and understood you just fine.
As a disabled low income renter, child of immigrants, opposer of genocides and nonbinary person - i got the message loud and clear.
You detest us, you despise us.
Why aren't Labour's life-changing policies connecting with voters - and what can the party do? It's down to messaging, how it's told, and the messengers...
Why don’t Labour’s workers’ and renters’ rights reforms cut through to voters – and how should they? – LabourList
When millions of workers and renters don’t know you’re doing more to improve their rights than any government in half a century, something is going…
labourlist.org
November 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Labour still talking to us as if we are the illiterate great unwashed -
We heard and understood you just fine.
As a disabled low income renter, child of immigrants, opposer of genocides and nonbinary person - i got the message loud and clear.
You detest us, you despise us.
We heard and understood you just fine.
As a disabled low income renter, child of immigrants, opposer of genocides and nonbinary person - i got the message loud and clear.
You detest us, you despise us.
Correction: people on benefits I only read about in the telegraph seem to have a better lifestyle than me (mainly cos the telegraph made them up)
Pure distilled essence of 1979-2025, here. I’m loaded and loving it but somehow I can never shake this mortal terror that somewhere, some poor wanker might be eating a free cheese sandwich.
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Correction: people on benefits I only read about in the telegraph seem to have a better lifestyle than me (mainly cos the telegraph made them up)
I live in Nottingham, it takes about 2 hours to get to London. In Newark, 40 min drive away (east coast mainline) it takes an hour.
Even leaving aside the huge environmental need for us to move to trains, maybe that hour would help the economy? oh and HS2 disrupts Notts but doesn't stop here.
Even leaving aside the huge environmental need for us to move to trains, maybe that hour would help the economy? oh and HS2 disrupts Notts but doesn't stop here.
Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I live in Nottingham, it takes about 2 hours to get to London. In Newark, 40 min drive away (east coast mainline) it takes an hour.
Even leaving aside the huge environmental need for us to move to trains, maybe that hour would help the economy? oh and HS2 disrupts Notts but doesn't stop here.
Even leaving aside the huge environmental need for us to move to trains, maybe that hour would help the economy? oh and HS2 disrupts Notts but doesn't stop here.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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If you go down to the woods today you’re sure of a big surprise. The woods are gone. There’s a road called ‘The Woods’ there instead, containing a load of fucking ghastly overpriced executive houses with identical shiny light grey interiors and pointless giant clocks in their living rooms.
October 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
If you go down to the woods today you’re sure of a big surprise. The woods are gone. There’s a road called ‘The Woods’ there instead, containing a load of fucking ghastly overpriced executive houses with identical shiny light grey interiors and pointless giant clocks in their living rooms.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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hot take: Autistic people who take to leadership roles often engage w/ their position w/ the “servant leadership” approach, viewing their duty as being to the people that report to them, raising up peoples’ strengths to create successful autonomous teams
& the few of us skilled at that get promoted
& the few of us skilled at that get promoted
November 4, 2025 at 12:55 AM
hot take: Autistic people who take to leadership roles often engage w/ their position w/ the “servant leadership” approach, viewing their duty as being to the people that report to them, raising up peoples’ strengths to create successful autonomous teams
& the few of us skilled at that get promoted
& the few of us skilled at that get promoted
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We had our own language
of words, looks, touch—
telepathic mind stuff,
we read each other
like custom made books...
#LockedDoors #PoemsAbout
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
of words, looks, touch—
telepathic mind stuff,
we read each other
like custom made books...
#LockedDoors #PoemsAbout
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM
We had our own language
of words, looks, touch—
telepathic mind stuff,
we read each other
like custom made books...
#LockedDoors #PoemsAbout
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
of words, looks, touch—
telepathic mind stuff,
we read each other
like custom made books...
#LockedDoors #PoemsAbout
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
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For this week's #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors with thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk and all those participating. Not what I thought I'd write...
November 7, 2025 at 6:31 AM
For this week's #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors with thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk and all those participating. Not what I thought I'd write...
Bit of a long story about Notts healthcare trust.
Earlier this week I decided to resign as chair of the patient carer reference group because basically I am not actually getting to set the agenda, I am having to chase the admin staff constantly and I'm done with being chair in name only 1/5
Earlier this week I decided to resign as chair of the patient carer reference group because basically I am not actually getting to set the agenda, I am having to chase the admin staff constantly and I'm done with being chair in name only 1/5
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Bit of a long story about Notts healthcare trust.
Earlier this week I decided to resign as chair of the patient carer reference group because basically I am not actually getting to set the agenda, I am having to chase the admin staff constantly and I'm done with being chair in name only 1/5
Earlier this week I decided to resign as chair of the patient carer reference group because basically I am not actually getting to set the agenda, I am having to chase the admin staff constantly and I'm done with being chair in name only 1/5
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November 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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A poem about raw grief and trauma, even if they're not mine.
#PoemsAbout #LockedDoors for @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
#PoemsAbout #LockedDoors for @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
A poem about raw grief and trauma, even if they're not mine.
#PoemsAbout #LockedDoors for @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
#PoemsAbout #LockedDoors for @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk