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Sian

@sianita.bsky.social

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I love musical theatre and animals. Very interested in UK and US politics (often despairingly)

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Sian

@sianita.bsky.social

Perfectly written #jameelajamil #substack #eatingdisorders #recovery

So very much chat about “living in the moment” and “talking to your younger self…” but VERY little about looking forward, beyond a five year plan, decades into the future. Why? It’s so important. I only realize this now that I’m old enough to have some significant time to look back on (and judge) my younger years, and honestly, given the opportunity, I would kick 25 year old me, right in the tits. Even 35 year old me has some explaining to do, but in a room with me today, my twenty-something year old self would be unsafe. That woman was trying to kill me. The feeling is now somewhat mutual.

She starved me til my bones grew weak. Til my kidney stopped working properly. She damaged my digestive system. My immune system. My teeth. My skin. My brain. She scarred and burned my young body with “sculpting treatments”. She stopped me from sleeping. She made me too tired to shag back when my knees were in their most durable era. She made me self absorbed. She left me behind the other people who developed interests beyond calories and thigh gaps. She hid me from my friends. She hid me from my life. She made me exercise til I would pass out. She is why I don't remember my twenties. She didn’t just roll the dice on my future, she flushed them down the bloody toilet.

February 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM

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Adam Lay KatBrownden 🎵🌲

@katbrownwrites.com

Given all the conversation about puberty blockers this week, wouldn’t it be helpful to hear from… a trans person?! Huge thanks to Ask Awareness founder Stephanie Lynnette and her mother for sharing their stories of the five-year slog to get blockers (and that was in 2014) inews.co.uk/news/fought-...

'I fought to take puberty blockers when I was 16 - it saved my life'

As the Government bans puberty blockers for gender dysphoria, The i Paper speaks to a mother and daughter about their five-year fight for medication

inews.co.uk

December 14, 2024 at 9:49 AM

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Liam Thorp

@liamthorp.bsky.social

I’ve reported on homelessness for years and met many, many people who have found themselves in awful situations

Every single one of them had more decency and integrity than this privileged plutocrat

December 11, 2024 at 8:29 AM

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Victoria Derbyshire

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social

‘Don’t man up….

Instead

‘…talk, cry, scream’

This is so important & very poignant from @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social on men taking their ow lives

Caitlin Moran’s column in Yesterday’s Times is about young men taking their own lived and why. And how men shld be encouraged to speak out, ‘to talk, to cry, to scream’ rather than to ‘man up’

December 8, 2024 at 1:48 PM

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Cara Lisette

@caralisette.bsky.social

Some things not to comment on this Christmas:

- someone’s weight
- someone’s size
- how much they are eating
- how little they are eating
- the speed they are eating
- the type of foods they are eating
- the times they are eating
- your post Christmas diet
- how fat you feel

December 7, 2024 at 9:59 AM

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Russ Jones

@russincheshire.bsky.social

Because some damn fool asked, here's a thread about Baxter.

This was taken on the day I brought home Baxter and threw away all hope of an easy life.

Look at him. Absolutely irresistible.

And that's how they get you, the utter bastards