Notices by Jenny Andrew (drandrewv2@freeradical.zone)

Emailing the NHS #autism assessment team… “I know this could still be a while, but are we thinking months or years?”

I do realise they’re swamped, but maybe they could do an automated email like once a quarter: “We haven’t forgotten; you’re still on the list; it’s currently about 47 years…”

Seriously: know your audience, people. The knowledge-vacuum is intolerable!

This is the maddest discovery since…

Honestly, right now I can’t think of a madder discovery.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/sep/05/common-food-dye-found-to-make-skin-and-muscle-temporarily-transparent

Mechanical keyboard nerds… what would happen if I put my key caps through the dishwasher?

If this isn’t a terrible idea from the start, I could do with some sort of fine-ish mesh tray, with a mesh cover, to keep them flat and together.

And I suppose if I’m taking them all off anyway I could probably just give them a good clean one by one…

…but UGH, it looks like a miserable job.

“I don’t want it to be a distraction from the campaign, I should have thought how it looks.”

Lolz. I’d bet at least a tenner that the Tories leaked this deliberately, precisely because they DO want a distraction from the campaign, and at this point any distraction will do.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/12/rishi-sunaks-closest-aide-placed-bet-on-election-date-days-before-announcement

Apropos of oh-holy-shit-I’ve-got-3-working-days-to-do-ALL-THE-THINGS, I’m reading self-help articles about how to deal with the #SundayScaries…

My God, some of the advice is SHOCKING:

“Make your weekend more enjoyable by doing work at a café, or in your pyjamas”

🫠

However bad things might be, at least I know that working (at 3am) on my days off is a shit idea, and both unsustainable and counterproductive as a habit.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from living with #MECFS, it’s that “a change is as good as a rest” is just not true.

In the absence of rest, a change *might* be better than nothing, but you still need rest - and REGULARLY.

Eg: 1hr physical exertion + 1h mental exertion is better than 2hrs mental exertion, but neither gives any rest at all. You might not know it, but your cortisol levels and your nervous system absolutely do.

You can’t cheat at resting.

You. Absolute. Bastards.

If anyone knows of a crowdfunder to support this man’s legal challenge, I would like to contribute to it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-69016539

Here it is, damned nearly finished… the asymmetrical neckline dress, with self-drafted skirt in blue/black microcheck.

There are things I could criticise about this, but it has been all kinds of an experiment from the start, so the fact that it’s turned out wearable is a bonus.

Note the combo of internal corset and heavy-gauge concealed zip. It’s not very constrictive, but the zip is under a bit of tension with the lining.

#WeekendSewingClub #sewing #dressmaking #iMadeItMyself #ItHasPockets

Who in the JESUS thought it was in good taste to end an article that dwells on economic inactivity due to long term sickness with a list of patronising tips on job hunting?

“Extend your search radius!”

“Keyword searches!”

ARE YOU TAKING THE PISS???
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68820103

Speaking as someone who has a job that I’m not, currently, fit to perform… If keywords and LinkedIn are the answer, I don’t know what question they think they’re addressing.

Well, smarter than you, perhaps…

#twat

@CloudyMrs I think their ability to get much authoritarian cracking down done in the next 10 months is slim… I think they’re setting the scene for the impending next phase of their shitty careers: writing daily Mail columns on how 14 years of failure, corruption and outright VANDALISM was really someone else’s fault.

There’s a kid in a trolley in the checkout queue behind me, chanting “GAR-LIC BREAD! GAR-LIC BREAD!” at the top of her lungs, and I have never related harder to anyone.

“But some of [Keir Starmer’s] closest allies frankly recognise that calls for a ceasefire from an opposition Labour leader will have no effect on Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, never mind Hamas in Gaza. So in that sense, there's little logic to calling for it.”

Dear Keir Starmer allies: Netanyahu won’t see your calls for a ceasefire, but your core target voters will.

This is where you show us what kind of government you intend to be. 🧐
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67432393

I think I know my friends here well enough to acknowledge I’m preaching to the choir, but…

I really hope one day soon we can look back on this headline as weird and sad as “Irish women might be counted as women” or “middle aged women might be counted as women”

Why is it so hard to fathom. 🏳️⚧️ ✊
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-67261883

So tired of UK politicians wetting their pants over tech bullshit.

When every policy you come up with just makes you look like an even bigger idiot, you’re in the wrong job.

You know when people describe someone as “(somewhere) on the spectrum”…

Guys, that really makes me cringe!

Do they think it’s more polite than saying #autistic? AUTISTIC IS NOT AN INSULT.

Or do they not want to say autistic because they don’t really believe it’s autism, they just want to imply it as a joke, or an insult? AUTISTIC IS NOT A JOKE OR AN INSULT. IF YOU THINK IT IS, THEN *THAT* IS AN INSULT.

@actuallyautistic #actuallyAutistic

Today on cost-of-everything-value-of-nothing island, the government is once again rating degrees based purely on individual earnings.

I don’t think I can muster the energy to articulate, for the 500th time, why this is total crap, so suffice it to say…

Fuck off with that shit.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66216005

Thoughts and prayers to all the website teams waking up to discover half their pages look like this:

#TwitterDownTheShitter

You know what deserves a comeback story?

RSS feeds, that’s what.