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
Stewart Lee at he's scathing best
Traitors on the inside, Trump on the outside ... who’d want to run the BBC now? Actually, I would
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Stewart Lee at he's scathing best
I do tax for a living. I'm an autistic tax geek. And even *I* am suffering from Budget fatigue this year. I just opened the (online) paper with the words "How's she broken tax today?"
November 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I do tax for a living. I'm an autistic tax geek. And even *I* am suffering from Budget fatigue this year. I just opened the (online) paper with the words "How's she broken tax today?"
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Feel like @patrickmaguire.bsky.social gets it in this piece!
Despite the world's challenges - joining the Green Party right now is one of the most joyous things you can do! 💚
Join.greenparty.org.uk
maguirepatrick.substack.com/p/what-zack-...
Despite the world's challenges - joining the Green Party right now is one of the most joyous things you can do! 💚
Join.greenparty.org.uk
maguirepatrick.substack.com/p/what-zack-...
November 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Feel like @patrickmaguire.bsky.social gets it in this piece!
Despite the world's challenges - joining the Green Party right now is one of the most joyous things you can do! 💚
Join.greenparty.org.uk
maguirepatrick.substack.com/p/what-zack-...
Despite the world's challenges - joining the Green Party right now is one of the most joyous things you can do! 💚
Join.greenparty.org.uk
maguirepatrick.substack.com/p/what-zack-...
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It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
I've managed so little exercise recently (covid, cold, cold) that Garmin now thinks I'm overreaching because I've walked park run!!
November 15, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I've managed so little exercise recently (covid, cold, cold) that Garmin now thinks I'm overreaching because I've walked park run!!
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Labour are now the "darker forces" Mahmood is scaremongering about. Depriving people who have fled unimaginable horror the ability to rebuild their lives in safety and security, which this does, is sickening. Labour is sickening.
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Labour are now the "darker forces" Mahmood is scaremongering about. Depriving people who have fled unimaginable horror the ability to rebuild their lives in safety and security, which this does, is sickening. Labour is sickening.
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This shopping is sponsored by "I've had some form of respiratory virus after another since the end of August and something needs to fucking change!!"
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This shopping is sponsored by "I've had some form of respiratory virus after another since the end of August and something needs to fucking change!!"
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Welcome one and all for this week's @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the #PoemsAbout theme of #LockedDoors, and why they might be locked, what lies behind them.
Until Alan returns please keep the sharing and feedback alive. It took a long time to build #PoemsAbout to the community it is today. 🎯
Until Alan returns please keep the sharing and feedback alive. It took a long time to build #PoemsAbout to the community it is today. 🎯
November 7, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Welcome one and all for this week's @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the #PoemsAbout theme of #LockedDoors, and why they might be locked, what lies behind them.
Until Alan returns please keep the sharing and feedback alive. It took a long time to build #PoemsAbout to the community it is today. 🎯
Until Alan returns please keep the sharing and feedback alive. It took a long time to build #PoemsAbout to the community it is today. 🎯
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Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #Desire. Not romance—risk. What can’t you name without trembling? Don’t post before Friday. Tag your post. Use Alt Text. Sign up for Saturday inbox prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
November 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #Desire. Not romance—risk. What can’t you name without trembling? Don’t post before Friday. Tag your post. Use Alt Text. Sign up for Saturday inbox prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
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My NHS employer has just confirmed redundancies are coming. For the second time in my 16 year NHS career tens of thousands of NHS staff, many with decades of experience will be thrown on the scrap heap. Many worked on the frontline (including me) in the pandemic. This is Streeting's reward for us.
November 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
My NHS employer has just confirmed redundancies are coming. For the second time in my 16 year NHS career tens of thousands of NHS staff, many with decades of experience will be thrown on the scrap heap. Many worked on the frontline (including me) in the pandemic. This is Streeting's reward for us.
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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...