I hope the peak summer difficulties calm the heck down for you 🫂 It’s a very early, climate change summer in Scotland already! I’ve been missing your poetry posts here btw.

Hey 🥰 thank you! I’ve just been overwhelmed on this platform. Struggling to take care of my mental wellbeing here. Missing folk here though ❤️ How are you?

I’m so glad you’re in Scotland too. Really crossing fingers so much that Scotland thinks beyond the media and algorithms and doesn’t elect Farage’s lot. I’m hearing so much casual racism, and that’s as a bedbound, housebound person. Scares me so much.

I get all of this. I’m a former journalist and I’d never go back to it even if I had a choice. But I just can’t excuse people. They’re making an ‘easy choice’ and they’re very likely doing it because anti migrant, anti SEND, transphobic rhetoric suits them.

I agree totally with your main point. But why didn’t everyone then go vote for Greens or Lib Dem’s or independents, I wonder, rather than the hateful Reform party? They had other options.

I don’t think we’re sleepwalking. I think lots of people have their racist eyes wide open and are happily choosing it, sadly.

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I hear you, I want off it too. This is a horrific time for the human race. Hey, at least we all got each other to commiserate with!

You know I agree with you…100 per cent!

Correcting myself to say ‘young autistic people’. Apologies. Rough day and major brain fog.

I was a news producer, so was in constant contact with the graphics dept. We could have been colleagues in another life ☺️

It looks ace! I love the colour too. Last week, I had my pre-homebound hairdresser kindly come around and give me a buzz cut! I bloody love it! I feel so good and so myself. I didn’t expect to be quite so happy with it.

Chaotic. From one day to the next I’m not sure how it’ll go.

Currently the Labour government are getting away with whatever they want by using the chaos of the US to hide behind. They know that people are distracted - the best time to push through bills and policy.

Thank you for writing about this bill giving it the coverage it needs.

I worked in TV too! 🙌🏼

I know, right?! I’m sure if I legally challenged the policy, I’d get somewhere. But it’d take years, and as if folk in our position have the energy or resource to do this. It truly is wrong.

It’s totally unjust ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹🫂