This post, article whatever you want to call it - is the best ‘pacing in a nutshell’ explanation I’ve seen. #painmanagement #chronicpain
"If your #energy disappears by mid-morning or fluctuates wildly based on #symptoms, #stress, or weather, then time-based #planning isn’t a strategy—it’s a setup. & when those planner pages start to fill with unchecked boxes, the shame creeps in.": buff.ly/QihFswG
by @thethrivingspoonie.com
#spoonie
by @thethrivingspoonie.com
#spoonie
No, You Don’t Just Need a Better Planner—Why Chronic Illness Demands a Different Kind of Structure
Most planners fail your chronic illness routine. Here’s what actually works—and why energy-based planning makes all the difference.
buff.ly
November 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
This post, article whatever you want to call it - is the best ‘pacing in a nutshell’ explanation I’ve seen. #painmanagement #chronicpain
This is really good advice and I’m going to try to incorporate it into my pain management plan. Not tonight though because it’s been a rocky afternoon/evening and I only have the energy to lie on the sofa and occasionally look at my phone. #chronicpain #painmanagement
I was reminded recently how important it is to recognise that with chronic illness and neurodivergence, what recharges me in one symptom level/scenario, might overload me in another. Cross stitch can totally recharge me in one symptom level/symptom combination, and be way too much in another. -
November 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This is really good advice and I’m going to try to incorporate it into my pain management plan. Not tonight though because it’s been a rocky afternoon/evening and I only have the energy to lie on the sofa and occasionally look at my phone. #chronicpain #painmanagement
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An extraordinary thing, this.
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
Trans Mission - Wednesday 11th March
Mighty Hoopla and Olly Alexander team up for a Trans Mission: an all-star solidarity concert for the trans community at OVO Arena Wembley
www.transmissionlive.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
An extraordinary thing, this.
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
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If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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The reduction in the move on period has been shown to cause homelessness among refugees. It just is not possible for many to find a new place to live in 28 days, or for most people for that matter. It's a harmful, and cynical, manoeuvre by the government, and shifts support needs onto councils.
The government’s decision to halve the time limit for refugees to leave Home Office accommodation is driving people into homelessness and exploitation, according to migrant rights campaigners and homelessness charities
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
New asylum policies making homeless refugees “targets for the far right”
Labour’s abrupt return to the 28-day move-on period is pushing vulnerable people into rough sleeping and exposing them to fraud and abuse.
national.thelead.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The reduction in the move on period has been shown to cause homelessness among refugees. It just is not possible for many to find a new place to live in 28 days, or for most people for that matter. It's a harmful, and cynical, manoeuvre by the government, and shifts support needs onto councils.
He so FLUFFY 😍 My pretty boy.
Don’t cha want to just rub your nose on that belly?!
Don’t cha want to just rub your nose on that belly?!
November 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
He so FLUFFY 😍 My pretty boy.
Don’t cha want to just rub your nose on that belly?!
Don’t cha want to just rub your nose on that belly?!
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Again, @zackpolanski.bsky.social is spot on. Asylum seekers run for their lives. They travel enormous distances at great risk to reach safety. They have no other choice.
That's why deterrence doesn't work (anywhere ... & never has). And the cruelty that comes with it is inexcusable.
That's why deterrence doesn't work (anywhere ... & never has). And the cruelty that comes with it is inexcusable.
November 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Again, @zackpolanski.bsky.social is spot on. Asylum seekers run for their lives. They travel enormous distances at great risk to reach safety. They have no other choice.
That's why deterrence doesn't work (anywhere ... & never has). And the cruelty that comes with it is inexcusable.
That's why deterrence doesn't work (anywhere ... & never has). And the cruelty that comes with it is inexcusable.
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How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
More then 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care
Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central government
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Sadly not remotely surprised. Johnson is a spineless little shit.
Boris Johnson didn't apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, even when she told him in person the lasting impact his comments about her had on her detention in Iran, her husband tells the BBC
November 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Sadly not remotely surprised. Johnson is a spineless little shit.
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Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember the transgender lives lost to violence.
The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember the transgender lives lost to violence.
The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
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At the 3rd International Long COVID Conference in Boston, Dr Kay Rhee from UC San Diego and RECOVER presented new findings on how a child’s daily environment shapes the risk of Long COVID. @ucsandiego.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
At the 3rd International Long COVID Conference in Boston, Dr Kay Rhee from UC San Diego and RECOVER presented new findings on how a child’s daily environment shapes the risk of Long COVID. @ucsandiego.bsky.social
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The way this Govenrment are treating some of the most vulnerable people in the world is disgusting.
And they the audacity to pretend it's coming from a place of compassion and concern.
Their only actual concern seems to be dancing to the tune of the far right rather than tackle inequality.
And they the audacity to pretend it's coming from a place of compassion and concern.
Their only actual concern seems to be dancing to the tune of the far right rather than tackle inequality.
November 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The way this Govenrment are treating some of the most vulnerable people in the world is disgusting.
And they the audacity to pretend it's coming from a place of compassion and concern.
Their only actual concern seems to be dancing to the tune of the far right rather than tackle inequality.
And they the audacity to pretend it's coming from a place of compassion and concern.
Their only actual concern seems to be dancing to the tune of the far right rather than tackle inequality.
Reading for fun is so important, and it is incredibly sad that fewer children are engaging in it. This fund endeavours to encourage hospitalised young readers with a children’s library at Dorset County Hospital.
Please donate if you can!
www.justgiving.com/page/operati...
Please donate if you can!
www.justgiving.com/page/operati...
Operation Jackanory at Dorset County Hospital
Help Morag Evans raise money to support Dorset County Hospital Charity
www.justgiving.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Reading for fun is so important, and it is incredibly sad that fewer children are engaging in it. This fund endeavours to encourage hospitalised young readers with a children’s library at Dorset County Hospital.
Please donate if you can!
www.justgiving.com/page/operati...
Please donate if you can!
www.justgiving.com/page/operati...
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states should accept people fleeing death & persecution, that's bedrock to the global order & our obligations to others
we should all happily participate in that
instead, we have to undermine it in every way we can because dipshits who've been wrong about everything think that's the smart play
we should all happily participate in that
instead, we have to undermine it in every way we can because dipshits who've been wrong about everything think that's the smart play
November 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
states should accept people fleeing death & persecution, that's bedrock to the global order & our obligations to others
we should all happily participate in that
instead, we have to undermine it in every way we can because dipshits who've been wrong about everything think that's the smart play
we should all happily participate in that
instead, we have to undermine it in every way we can because dipshits who've been wrong about everything think that's the smart play
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Climate change asylum appeal victory in UK
www.linkedin.com/posts/gamal-...
www.linkedin.com/posts/gamal-...
#climatejustice #climateoutreach #climatechangedisplacedpeople #climatechangelitigation #unclimatechange | Gamal Basha | 27 comments
A milestone moment.
Today, I’m thrilled to share that we have won the first asylum appeal case in the UK based on climate change grounds. The appeal was allowed on Human Rights grounds (Article 8). A...
www.linkedin.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Climate change asylum appeal victory in UK
www.linkedin.com/posts/gamal-...
www.linkedin.com/posts/gamal-...
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For the first time in EU history, someone faces criminal charges for organising a Pride march.
Géza Buzás-Hábel, a teacher and organiser of Pécs Pride in Hungary, could be jailed for up to a year, simply for leading a peaceful march for equality. 🧵
Géza Buzás-Hábel, a teacher and organiser of Pécs Pride in Hungary, could be jailed for up to a year, simply for leading a peaceful march for equality. 🧵
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
For the first time in EU history, someone faces criminal charges for organising a Pride march.
Géza Buzás-Hábel, a teacher and organiser of Pécs Pride in Hungary, could be jailed for up to a year, simply for leading a peaceful march for equality. 🧵
Géza Buzás-Hábel, a teacher and organiser of Pécs Pride in Hungary, could be jailed for up to a year, simply for leading a peaceful march for equality. 🧵
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All the evidence shows that transphobes are actually a minority, as with most form of bigots.
Problem is they are a very vocal minority and because of that are taken as the "voice of the people". Make your voice heard against them👇
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
Problem is they are a very vocal minority and because of that are taken as the "voice of the people". Make your voice heard against them👇
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
Scrap the Bathroom Ban
🚨This is urgent🚨
Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...
actionnetwork.org
November 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
All the evidence shows that transphobes are actually a minority, as with most form of bigots.
Problem is they are a very vocal minority and because of that are taken as the "voice of the people". Make your voice heard against them👇
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
Problem is they are a very vocal minority and because of that are taken as the "voice of the people". Make your voice heard against them👇
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
I’ve just followed @sanjeevbhaskar.bsky.social because I’m pretty sure he was wearing a #chooselove t-shirt under his blazer on last week’s taskmaster. Also, historically and currently, he is brilliant.
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I’ve just followed @sanjeevbhaskar.bsky.social because I’m pretty sure he was wearing a #chooselove t-shirt under his blazer on last week’s taskmaster. Also, historically and currently, he is brilliant.
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Can’t believe I’m having to post this again.
Things you don’t get to choose; Sexuality, gender, ethnicity, disability, mental/physical health, religion you’re born into.
Things you do get to choose; Whether or not to be an arsehole to someone about any of these things.
Things you don’t get to choose; Sexuality, gender, ethnicity, disability, mental/physical health, religion you’re born into.
Things you do get to choose; Whether or not to be an arsehole to someone about any of these things.
November 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Can’t believe I’m having to post this again.
Things you don’t get to choose; Sexuality, gender, ethnicity, disability, mental/physical health, religion you’re born into.
Things you do get to choose; Whether or not to be an arsehole to someone about any of these things.
Things you don’t get to choose; Sexuality, gender, ethnicity, disability, mental/physical health, religion you’re born into.
Things you do get to choose; Whether or not to be an arsehole to someone about any of these things.
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One of the worst features of the 21st century discourse is the "complex problems require complicated solutions" trope. The solutions are generally, at heart, simple. Carrying them through tends to require strategy, planning, leadership, advocacy, persistence, resources. Oh, and courage.
Darren knows that come the next election, Bristol is turning even more Green.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Greens’ ‘undeliverable’ promises will let voters down, says Labour minister
Exclusive: Darren Jones says Labour has to convince young people it is ‘modern party of the future’
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:22 PM
One of the worst features of the 21st century discourse is the "complex problems require complicated solutions" trope. The solutions are generally, at heart, simple. Carrying them through tends to require strategy, planning, leadership, advocacy, persistence, resources. Oh, and courage.
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The next series of Hunted is just going to be the Hunters trying to find everyone who's been accidentally released early.
November 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The next series of Hunted is just going to be the Hunters trying to find everyone who's been accidentally released early.
Am picturing a Midsomer Murders plot where someone is impaled on the caramel shards during a garden party
#gbbo
#gbbo
#gbbo Jasmine’s cake looks the most dangerous cake ever made. Has it been risk-assessed?
November 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Am picturing a Midsomer Murders plot where someone is impaled on the caramel shards during a garden party
#gbbo
#gbbo
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Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them
Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
n.pr
October 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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