@thetrawl.bsky.social Before you bang on about "the boomers" think of those of us who ONLY have the state pension. Can you live on £921 a month? I didn't think so. We can never retire, until we fall over and end up in a horrendous care home. Just think before you speak.

The killing of one Trump supporter marks a dark day in the history of the US, but multiple school shootings do not?

As the daughter of refugees from Hitler I found driving through England terrifying today. English flags flying from lamp-posts, cars, houses, everywhere. Talk about inter-generational trauma. I felt properly unsafe and unwelcome. They'd not notice me because I look and sound right, but my parents?

I forget if I already posted this, but there is now a website / directory of #actuallyautistic counsellors and psychotherapists. www.autistictherapistdirectory.com

Apparently my face is not recognisable as a real face. So says the AI that's supposed to verify that I'm an adult. Well, I have been wearing it for nearly seventy years and I am pretty sure I am real.

"Madness is an affliction which in war carries with it the advantage of surprise". Churchill said that in 1941 and although the US is not, strictly speaking, at war, I think we can all see the truth of that.

I am reminded of an old Jewish joke. Like most Jewish jokes, it is amusing but also tragic.
In the trenches. Suddenly Moshe Cohen stands up and yells: "Are you meshugge to shoot like this? There are PEOPLE here!"

Can someone tell me how it is not genocide to shoot at civilians (whom you starved) trying to get food? Can someone tell me how it is not genocide to bomb hospitals and schools? Can someone tell me how it is not genocide to kill children? It is genocide and Israel is replicating the Holocaust.

Here's another which has clearly had more publicity. Just sign both. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

I know petitions are pointless, but still - sign this one. actionstorm.org/petitions/du...

This book is coming out in February. It is a tour de force written by 23 autistic counsellors / psychotherapists and edited by me. All sorts of amazing people have already endorsed it (I am slightly stunned). But actually...it is brilliant and you should buy it.
www.pccs-books.co.uk/products/on-...

Just making my first post to see how it's done. RabTheCat is Max Marnau, autistic counsellor, trad music obsessive and rather a lot of other things. Here is a picture of the original RabTheCat.