T Smith
@tausierra.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 autistic human working to understand my own brain & perhaps others. Language lover, nerd, scientist. Trans rights are human rights. tlhIngan Hol Dajatlh'a'? @[email protected]. she/her
I really, really love Claudia Winkelman. "My only job is to not give anything away! That, and to be orange."
November 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I really, really love Claudia Winkelman. "My only job is to not give anything away! That, and to be orange."
Me: I might go to the library tomorrow
A. Which one?
Me: the University of Nottingham one. Not the Medical one.
A. ...which one?
Friends, there are EIGHT (-hundred and eleventy one) libraries at UoM. I feel like this shouldn't be a surprise.
A. Which one?
Me: the University of Nottingham one. Not the Medical one.
A. ...which one?
Friends, there are EIGHT (-hundred and eleventy one) libraries at UoM. I feel like this shouldn't be a surprise.
November 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Me: I might go to the library tomorrow
A. Which one?
Me: the University of Nottingham one. Not the Medical one.
A. ...which one?
Friends, there are EIGHT (-hundred and eleventy one) libraries at UoM. I feel like this shouldn't be a surprise.
A. Which one?
Me: the University of Nottingham one. Not the Medical one.
A. ...which one?
Friends, there are EIGHT (-hundred and eleventy one) libraries at UoM. I feel like this shouldn't be a surprise.
I have acquired a library card and a cherry pie, both from hellishly bright environments.
November 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I have acquired a library card and a cherry pie, both from hellishly bright environments.
Unsurprisingly, after not enough sleep and too much stress & sadness, I have ended the day snapping at someone. I hate that I didn't even know I was on the edge until I tipped over it.
(There's a man making loud noises on the bus & I don't think it's his fault but my god I cannot handle this TODAY)
(There's a man making loud noises on the bus & I don't think it's his fault but my god I cannot handle this TODAY)
November 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Unsurprisingly, after not enough sleep and too much stress & sadness, I have ended the day snapping at someone. I hate that I didn't even know I was on the edge until I tipped over it.
(There's a man making loud noises on the bus & I don't think it's his fault but my god I cannot handle this TODAY)
(There's a man making loud noises on the bus & I don't think it's his fault but my god I cannot handle this TODAY)
🎵 if you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our club 🎵
(99% certain this is actually just my primary school, but for some reason it's what I thought of)
(99% certain this is actually just my primary school, but for some reason it's what I thought of)
"'ELLO GOV'NA'"
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🎵 if you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our club 🎵
(99% certain this is actually just my primary school, but for some reason it's what I thought of)
(99% certain this is actually just my primary school, but for some reason it's what I thought of)
I'm wearing a borrowed headset at work & it doesn't fit, because corners. Normally this is a hat problem!
Tame compared to many, but: my skull has corners. You can see them in photos of me as a toddler, my head is noticeably square (like my dad's). You can also feel them.
Ok query time. Biology is messy and full of exceptions. How does *your* body differ from the usual expected of you as the human you are? Anything big or small.
My mum has an extra vertebrae, a close friend multiple spleens. One sis is built like she works out but eats like a sparrow.
My mum has an extra vertebrae, a close friend multiple spleens. One sis is built like she works out but eats like a sparrow.
November 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I'm wearing a borrowed headset at work & it doesn't fit, because corners. Normally this is a hat problem!
In other news, I have mostly translated a Christmas song into Klingon & I want to do something with it but I'm not sure what! I'm not sure I have enough faith in my singing to record something, & I have little knowledge & less time to learn how to make a video anyway.
November 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
In other news, I have mostly translated a Christmas song into Klingon & I want to do something with it but I'm not sure what! I'm not sure I have enough faith in my singing to record something, & I have little knowledge & less time to learn how to make a video anyway.
Colleague just came to say that he thinks I'm one of his most organised colleagues, every email I send is clear & detailed and I'm very easy to work with 🥹 I really needed that today, and I'm going to think about how I can pay that forward.
November 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Colleague just came to say that he thinks I'm one of his most organised colleagues, every email I send is clear & detailed and I'm very easy to work with 🥹 I really needed that today, and I'm going to think about how I can pay that forward.
To give an idea of how badly I'm functioning this morning:
I'm on the bus & saw a notice for a Christmas fayre on the 29th Nov. Ooh, I thought, closely followed by oh, I've missed it; oh no, today, Monday, is the 1st December. I'm not ready for it to be December!
I'm on the bus & saw a notice for a Christmas fayre on the 29th Nov. Ooh, I thought, closely followed by oh, I've missed it; oh no, today, Monday, is the 1st December. I'm not ready for it to be December!
November 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM
To give an idea of how badly I'm functioning this morning:
I'm on the bus & saw a notice for a Christmas fayre on the 29th Nov. Ooh, I thought, closely followed by oh, I've missed it; oh no, today, Monday, is the 1st December. I'm not ready for it to be December!
I'm on the bus & saw a notice for a Christmas fayre on the 29th Nov. Ooh, I thought, closely followed by oh, I've missed it; oh no, today, Monday, is the 1st December. I'm not ready for it to be December!
I got some lying down resting, then I got twitchy (in an over tired, sleep disorder way). Eventually I fell asleep, but I've just been woken by my alarm from horrible dreams of death and disaster. Today is not going to be fun.
I'm still awake, because I apparently hate the idea of being well rested & mentally healthy! I have to people face to face all day tomorrow! It's 5 hours until I have to get up!
(Looking at conference travel & I can't justify the non-flying option, sadly. Many times more expensive & min. 36 hrs.)
(Looking at conference travel & I can't justify the non-flying option, sadly. Many times more expensive & min. 36 hrs.)
November 28, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I got some lying down resting, then I got twitchy (in an over tired, sleep disorder way). Eventually I fell asleep, but I've just been woken by my alarm from horrible dreams of death and disaster. Today is not going to be fun.
Oh good, now my stupid 3am brain is going "maybe you just shouldn't go to this conference because it's too much, you're too much, you can't cope, you can't do anything, really" & I know that my brain can go fuck itself, I can do things! but what an awful time this is.
November 28, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Oh good, now my stupid 3am brain is going "maybe you just shouldn't go to this conference because it's too much, you're too much, you can't cope, you can't do anything, really" & I know that my brain can go fuck itself, I can do things! but what an awful time this is.
I'm still awake, because I apparently hate the idea of being well rested & mentally healthy! I have to people face to face all day tomorrow! It's 5 hours until I have to get up!
(Looking at conference travel & I can't justify the non-flying option, sadly. Many times more expensive & min. 36 hrs.)
(Looking at conference travel & I can't justify the non-flying option, sadly. Many times more expensive & min. 36 hrs.)
November 28, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I'm still awake, because I apparently hate the idea of being well rested & mentally healthy! I have to people face to face all day tomorrow! It's 5 hours until I have to get up!
(Looking at conference travel & I can't justify the non-flying option, sadly. Many times more expensive & min. 36 hrs.)
(Looking at conference travel & I can't justify the non-flying option, sadly. Many times more expensive & min. 36 hrs.)
Three good things
1. It's nearly the weekend
2. Travel for work, what a privilege & joy (mostly; not without its challenges)
3. A warm bed
1. It's nearly the weekend
2. Travel for work, what a privilege & joy (mostly; not without its challenges)
3. A warm bed
November 28, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Three good things
1. It's nearly the weekend
2. Travel for work, what a privilege & joy (mostly; not without its challenges)
3. A warm bed
1. It's nearly the weekend
2. Travel for work, what a privilege & joy (mostly; not without its challenges)
3. A warm bed
When you see this, post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health.
(I am every one of these.)
(I am every one of these.)
November 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
When you see this, post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health.
(I am every one of these.)
(I am every one of these.)
I want to do EVERYTHING except this presentation. Things I've had to not let myself get distracted by include
- ISO9001 paperwork
- Reading lists
- Working out how to access other universities' libraries
- Looking up how I log into to my work's library system
- Emailing my boss about expenses
- ISO9001 paperwork
- Reading lists
- Working out how to access other universities' libraries
- Looking up how I log into to my work's library system
- Emailing my boss about expenses
November 27, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I want to do EVERYTHING except this presentation. Things I've had to not let myself get distracted by include
- ISO9001 paperwork
- Reading lists
- Working out how to access other universities' libraries
- Looking up how I log into to my work's library system
- Emailing my boss about expenses
- ISO9001 paperwork
- Reading lists
- Working out how to access other universities' libraries
- Looking up how I log into to my work's library system
- Emailing my boss about expenses
On reading, "Organising care around patients: Stories from the front line of the NHS" - I haven't read much yet, but what I've read has been good.
Much easier to read than most of my course reading, but mainly, just really important, hearing about good & bad experiences from patients and carers.
Much easier to read than most of my course reading, but mainly, just really important, hearing about good & bad experiences from patients and carers.
November 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
On reading, "Organising care around patients: Stories from the front line of the NHS" - I haven't read much yet, but what I've read has been good.
Much easier to read than most of my course reading, but mainly, just really important, hearing about good & bad experiences from patients and carers.
Much easier to read than most of my course reading, but mainly, just really important, hearing about good & bad experiences from patients and carers.
The last few days I've been feeling calm & resigned about some stuff, & then feeling bad that I don't feel more upset, & this evening I'm back to crying over everything & nothing.
Sometimes emotions kind of suck.
Sometimes emotions kind of suck.
November 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The last few days I've been feeling calm & resigned about some stuff, & then feeling bad that I don't feel more upset, & this evening I'm back to crying over everything & nothing.
Sometimes emotions kind of suck.
Sometimes emotions kind of suck.
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Call me Wokey McSnowflake but I don't think we should be eating any kids, real or otherwise.
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Call me Wokey McSnowflake but I don't think we should be eating any kids, real or otherwise.
Just realised that if I finish this training programme and end up being one of the alumni who gives a talk for induction or similar, I will be very tempted to structure it around the lyrics to Faith of the Heart (even though I hate the song).
November 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Just realised that if I finish this training programme and end up being one of the alumni who gives a talk for induction or similar, I will be very tempted to structure it around the lyrics to Faith of the Heart (even though I hate the song).
Is my mid-life crisis going back to uni & developing an obsession with the Traitors? It could be worse, I guess.
(Currently enjoying identifying weird, creepy covers of songs. Also, there was a mission to identify nursery rhymes played backwards & I got 3/4 correct, without the tech the show had.)
(Currently enjoying identifying weird, creepy covers of songs. Also, there was a mission to identify nursery rhymes played backwards & I got 3/4 correct, without the tech the show had.)
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Is my mid-life crisis going back to uni & developing an obsession with the Traitors? It could be worse, I guess.
(Currently enjoying identifying weird, creepy covers of songs. Also, there was a mission to identify nursery rhymes played backwards & I got 3/4 correct, without the tech the show had.)
(Currently enjoying identifying weird, creepy covers of songs. Also, there was a mission to identify nursery rhymes played backwards & I got 3/4 correct, without the tech the show had.)
Ah good, a stress migraine. What a glorious brain I have. Excuse me while I poke a fork into my eye.
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Ah good, a stress migraine. What a glorious brain I have. Excuse me while I poke a fork into my eye.
I do appreciate someone who catches themselves saying "sorry if..." & consciously changes it to "sorry for...".
November 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I do appreciate someone who catches themselves saying "sorry if..." & consciously changes it to "sorry for...".
Relevant to many people on my feed, but I'm going to ping @thecolleencg.bsky.social so she doesn't miss it...
Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
November 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Relevant to many people on my feed, but I'm going to ping @thecolleencg.bsky.social so she doesn't miss it...
On another note, just received an email headed "end of moth returns".
Sometimes it's the little things I find cheering. Why are the moths over? Who is ending them? Poor moths!
Sometimes it's the little things I find cheering. Why are the moths over? Who is ending them? Poor moths!
November 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
On another note, just received an email headed "end of moth returns".
Sometimes it's the little things I find cheering. Why are the moths over? Who is ending them? Poor moths!
Sometimes it's the little things I find cheering. Why are the moths over? Who is ending them? Poor moths!
Challenged someone at work saying "these things are always better face to face". 💪🏻
(Not an unqualified success - despite me prefacing it with "in this case I'm happy to do f2f," I got a flurry of other options which was a little overwhelming.
(Not an unqualified success - despite me prefacing it with "in this case I'm happy to do f2f," I got a flurry of other options which was a little overwhelming.
November 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Challenged someone at work saying "these things are always better face to face". 💪🏻
(Not an unqualified success - despite me prefacing it with "in this case I'm happy to do f2f," I got a flurry of other options which was a little overwhelming.
(Not an unqualified success - despite me prefacing it with "in this case I'm happy to do f2f," I got a flurry of other options which was a little overwhelming.