Even setting aside over/underdiagnosis of innate mental health conditions and differences, life in the UK has got materially worse for most people over the last 15 years, accelerating in the last 5. You don't think that would lead to worse mental health?

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Friends in Glasgow! Me and @colinbell.bsky.social are doing a signing with our new Pirate Fun issue this Wednesday in Forbidden Plant! Would be lovely to see you there!

I got my new issue of Pirate Fun!

Years in the making 😍 I’m sure some of the children I first shared it with are technically adults now.

@neilslorance.bsky.social @colinbell.bsky.social @davidbcooper.bsky.social

It took me 11 months to sign back into Bluesky because I also have a teacher account and switching between the two was clunky.

Ohh you fuckers. You absolute evil fuckers.

So next year if by chance you want to sponsor your foreign spouse, you need to be earning a minimum of £38,700 per year to even qualify as a sponsor. Or have £80,000+ in savings. This is cruel. This targets so many minority families.

I’ve not heard a single firework in my area tonight, and my pup slept soundly through the evening. Country life. However, she did wake up the other morning barking her head off at 6am ‘cause some fuckers were out shooting at geese. Swings and roundabouts.

Had my first visit to Ullapool this week on a school trip. What a great drive up; dramatic scenes on all sides, deer everywhere and snow already on the mountains.

Went with husband into UHI Inverness yesterday so he could drop some books off at the library - he’s doing an undergrad there - and wow, what a clean campus. It’s almost unreal, like walking through a simulation!

Thanks to @colinfarquhar85.bsky.social for sending me an invite after I joined the waiting list 5 months ago and nothing happened.

I didn’t realise you were all over here, I was on Threads waiting for the party to start 🤓