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Super embarrassed, extremely apologetic. Like they had no concept they could be overheard(!) It was a white man. I always try and go in with talking to people IRL first as you would not fathom how often it is genuine ignorance behind a behaviour. Even though that sounds dumb.

I have actually been brave enough in the past to say to someone "hey, you know we can all hear the things you say about your business clients? I don't think that is going to adhere to gdpr."

When I talked it through with people I think the biggest one is probably being able to be emotionally appropriate - not over reacting, not taking things out on other people, not over-sharing, overcoming bad feelings and not let it sink us. Not that many have had good rolemodels of that ;)

It's a very pre-telephone style of communication.

Yup. Honestly I was pretty torn (as a new Green member) as an Andy Burnham PM run would have seriously deflated and conflicted me. Refusing him permission to run pretty firmly settled me in the Greens. I wonder how many others had the same 'last nail in the coffin' experience?

Hannah Spencer of the UK's left-wing Green Party won the contest for the vacant parliamentary seat of Gorton and Denton, with Nigel Farage's anti-immigration Reform party coming second, and Labour pushed into third place.

I wonder if those who talked about their votes together even knew they weren't allowed to do that.

May have shed a few tears when I saw it this morning.

Isn't GoodReads owned by Amazon now, or did I get that wrong?

At the moment I'm mostly working from lunch through to the evening, so if I get up at a reasonable time I get quite a few pleasant, chilled mornings in the week. I can thoroughly recommend it as a working pattern.

Yes! I heard it then but only from gay men, but I heard it even in a sleepy English town.

Combining digital watches with AI is wild 😆
I found recently I'm on a list of accounts that are AI. Makes no sense! I'd probably fit on the Luddite list better.

Quick therapist note: there's currently a spat going on regarding polyvagal theory (all that stuff about regulation, vagus nerve, nervous system stuff) and whether it's science or not (its probably not but also it is a handy metaphor) so please remember Psychology is usually guess work!

I appreciate Hostingers ability to host multiple seperate websites on the same account for basically the same money +domain reg fee for each, I haven't tried migrating though.

I bet x

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

Oooh I thought trapunto always involved inserting cabling or filling?

That's great to hear for the uk.

Oh gosh, good luck!

I think that if you're actually lacking in water (not salts) then yes those kind of fluids can make it worse.

Good luck!

Another great review of All That Is in th Earth.

If you can judge a book by who takes the time to review it, then I'm doing really well.

That's a shame, it's such a fantastic idea. In the UK the supermarkets do their own and it's really big business - so much better for the environment to have one van deliver lots of people's food than lots of different car journeys, and gives much improved access to food for people who don't drive.

As a woman would you really vote for this, Reform commanding Women what to do with their own bodies.

Probably not but sometimes you gotta do these things. I did something similar last year. It was a drag but I got a lot of tests that would have taken months to get via the gp. And sometimes bad things hide as relatively mild symptoms.

Exactly so. A party that is abolishing jury trials, steadily criminalising protest, doubling-down on austerity in the name of fiscal rules, and talks of “an island of strangers” or “hard-working families”
is not left, or even centre.

Labour and Reform’s relationship looks increasingly symbiotic.

The 2024 RSPB Everyday Guide to Birds is very good, has some really excellent photographs that are amazingly clear. Trying to work up some silhouettes for possible appliqué and the pictures are making excellent reference material.

Ours is currently dead on our drive. Sad times!

I sometimes think that we have allowed ourselves to be colonised by American corporations...but even then I do wonder if it's really just our own practices coming back to bite us.

As a therapist, a lot of people tell me they don't feel like an adult. Can anyone tell me what they think being an adult does feel like?