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A Facebook post from the page “Dull Men’s Centre” reads: “When I was in my teens I used to write letters to the Guardian (a British newspaper) under the name Amos Goodge and pretended to be a crotchety 53 year old. I’m 53 next year and am thinking of starting again but writing as an outraged 16 year old.”

This could be any number of people I know on here...

Fixed it (cc @rickburin.bsky.social who had reposted original)

"Get off my lawn"

We really need to write a paper together about the transfers between Glamorgan and Sussex - I have LOADS in my phd case studies

Also once when I went to a gig I had bought an accessible ticket with "queue jump" included. I got there, but wasn't using my walking stick that day, and the security wouldn't let me skip the queue because I didn't "look disabled". Yeah that venue got a VERY snotty email the next day.

I watched the finale on a slow day at work, so apologies to any people in the University of Sussex Library who may have heard a very loud "MOTHERFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKER" from the offices upstairs when I got to the end of the episode

Cooler weather definitely better for me. I am fine in heat, if it's dry heat. Humidity and heat absolutely wipes me out.

I've had to set 3 alarms on the days I have to do my injection so I don't forget... already forgotten a few times and done it the next day or the day after. But I do love this drug, it's really working for me.

Right? I was shouting at the TV a lot!

This is why I rarely go to things anymore. It's either a huge number of hurdles to jump to get accessible tickets, or they have such a limited number they run out. One large venue I tried to get a ticket for told me they have 10 accessible (ambulatory) seats only and if you miss out, that's too bad.

I live in Sussex. Honestly, some people should be in windowless fortified homes.

*side-eyes the Range Rover cabal*

Count me in

I hate to pull the immigrant card, but as an immigrant, it feels awful when elected MPs say I ‘need to go home’ and propose stripping me and all other immigrants of all our legal rights to live here. No, anywhere immigrants move is their home. The UK is my home.

Who's solving the Louvre robbery?

Right answers only.

The one I am thinking of starts and ends with very crisp letters that are a joy to say out loud in anger

*HAPPY FLAILING*

SO SLY!

It really is awful. Often when I am having a particularly bad MS day and need help from my care team I simply don't bother trying to get it as the attempts to get in contact are so stressful, it usually makes my symptoms and overall health worse. :( If there's anything I can do to help, lemme know x

A picture of a foggy street

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

A ★★★★★ review of High Noon (1952) Sort of a classic Western, sort of a psychological thriller, but above all a profound treatise on hypocrisy, cowardice and duty. For that reason, it is probably more relevant now than at any time sinc...

A few thoughts on High Noon, the film for our times. boxd.it/biZCvt

Current status of the thesis.
Oh shit, I might actually get this done! #phd

a man in a suit and tie is holding his hand to his chest . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding his hand to his chest .

Oh I am doing that today! Rewriting the first chapter I ever wrote for my thesis and BY THE GODDESS it is BAD.

Oh completely. Lifestyle, the type of food that is available (and affordable) - lots of things working against us as a species.

Been hearing this about a number of humanities subjects since the 90s when I started uni and it is SO boring and SO wrong.

injections - that some people may see it as a quick fix. I have people tell me that my surgery was a "short cut" but what they don't realise is this is a complete lifestyle change - for the rest of my life and is very strict.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. :)

reasons for my overeating and learned about proper nutrition and all that. It's all well and good to have a surgery or do an injection, but there's a lot more to it than that, and the risk of "relapse" if that prep isn't extensive is quite high. That is one thing that worries me a bit about the

Oh also (and I promise I will stop babbling about this soon), but the main reason for my success was not the surgery itself, it was the preparation I had beforehand. I went through a 2 year program before I was even referred to a surgical team - dieticians, psychologists, etc. I worked on the

Oh completely, and we run the risk of heading towards how it is in the US which is, frankly, terrifying. The more the NHS loses money and people start going for quicker options and private, the more drug companies will become aggressive and we'll see potential harm.