Currently watching this UK documentary (40 Minutes) from 1989
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Currently watching this UK documentary (40 Minutes) from 1989
Ooh, that’s a good tip! 📌
Bonus - they are a female-founded company with people with disabilities in mind! 👍🏻
(Ineos wipes, on the other hand made me feel sticky and itchy all over. Ick)
You’re welcome! I know it’s the sort of info I like to know 😉 I’ve never been diagnosed with MCAS (though there is so much overlap with ME that it’s possible!) I do have sensitive skin though, and found this very gentle, with no residue and no irritation for me. It felt like it just vanished.
🤣 Now I know where to go if I need cheering up
A definite win for the body foam in my books! It smells pleasant and seems effective. I’d highly recommend it + their intimate wipes 👍🏻 (note: I haven’t used it more than a couple of times in a row between proper showers so far, so not sure how it would be if used daily with no water-based washes)
For any other #MECFS and #chronicIllness people like me who may be curious: I’ve used the FreshWipes body wash foam 16 times now (and have plenty left) These are the summaries from #VisibleApp (see alt text) (Bear in mind that 90% of showers have a 15min gap when I remove my armband)
I vote with the cat on this one
the tilts...
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Testing call for knitters! This lovely pullover would like to be yours. All you need is DK weight yarn and a passion for cables. I used the lovely Amraya Dream Weaver from Sparwolle and can't wait to make another. It's my first time working with baby alpaca and now I want to make all the things.
A really helpful in-depth insight into the process of designing a crochet pattern from @yarnandy.bsky.social 🧶
So it seems some news outlets may have tweaked the hearing video to fit their narrative… Alarming stuff…
I used to be a wordsmith but now I feel I'm only a wordmorrissey.
Ooh, it’s like a movie version of Great Lost Albums! 👍🏻
This looks ace! A concept worthy of Mad magazine in its heyday!
Another brilliant debunking video from Ann Reardon. The exploding gnocchi are pretty terrifying! 😧
Find could be 'incredibly rare' carving of a face www.bbc.com/news/article... … or if you rotate it, it looks more to me like leaves (hence the pointy bit of both ‘eyes’ pointing the same way)? 🤷🏻♀️
You been getting abducted again? 🛸
Scientists pinpoint the brain's internal mileage clock www.bbc.com/news/article...
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And some of the emails offered to refund me - *after* the seller had already done that. Quite suss!
Well I’m not 100% sure it’s really them since it’s coming from multiple names and email addresses and isn’t coming through the Amazon messaging system. I wouldn’t like the seller to get penalised if it’s not them because they were very helpful 🤔
from more than one gmail account and name. It’s quite odd, and also quite irritating. If Amazon’s customer service were still even 1% useful I’d contact them. Is this a thing though? Have others experienced this?
A few months ago I wrote a bad review for an Amazon product that deserved it. The seller reached out and gave me a full refund. But since then I get at least one email a week asking me to delete the review, but they’re not even from the seller (not official address anyway) - they’re direct emails…
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I’ve seen many artists (visual and musical artists) discussing how using ai to create new things from your own seeds is in itself an artform. Gen-AI that’s from scrapings of everyone else’s work I am firmly against, but I can see the argument for the self-generated type of artwork.
Not paid much attention to this sci show drama, but I've seen the fallout. This reaction is a good one. #knitting 🧶
What a fantastic video! Thanks for sharing.
I really hope Ben quits too so they can start a new B&J company 🙏 Also, massive respect to Greenfield for sticking by his principles. Ben & Jerry's co-founder quits over social activism row www.bbc.com/news/article...
It may also be like the recent OkGo music videos which were AI, but generated solely from images produced by the animator for the video itself.
Alien was what sprung to my mind too 😄
Speaking of AI, the new iPadOS Playground app gave me this when I tried it out with the simple* prompt “bananas”… I guess it’s reassuring when AI is still this bad (and no I don’t plan to use it, I was just curious) * (you’d think)
Don’t people usually buy two??
It’s definitely anti-AI. I have no idea how they did it, but knowing them I’d suspect they’d hire someone to do it
Watch carefully… 😉
Still seems like a positive step though 😄
A message from Foo Fighters…
Well done to him! 👍🏻
BLOG POST: “It doesn’t really matter that the London of the Krimi film is unconvincing because in this context it is merely a mythic playground for archetypes...” 🎥🎞️ precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/09/16/t...
That’s very cool!
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Ooh, that sounds delicious 😋
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I wonder if I could persuade my 13yo to try this for a week. I’d need to have a good reward as an incentive… 🤔
I knew the band as soon as I read the first two lines of that - and I don’t even know that particular song well 🤣
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Oh I thought it was a clever play on the title of this one which I mentioned last week: (Another excellent album btw)
When idealistic eco-warrior Wilma Wolfe is teamed up with grizzled local newspaper hack Terry Eno, it's hate at first sight. But soon Wilma learns to appreciate Terry's ambient detective skills while Terry realises you can teach an old dog new tricks. (ITV2, 9pm)
Also, I see what you did there hehe Have you tried Port of Morrow yet?
I had so much fun doing this project. Nick let me help choose the songs and the sequence, title the album, conceptualise the artwork, and script this promo. Apparently some other bugger wrote, sang and played the songs, but you can't have everything. God, he's good. BUY THIS RECORD. #MakeNickRich
Fancy a laugh? R4 is repeating Alone series 2, just 6 years (almost) after it first aired. On the plus side, it’ll all be a surprise, even to me. Mondays at 2.15, from today. Starring the all wonderful Angus Deayton, Abigail Cruttenden, Pearce Quigley, Kate Isitt and @bennettarron.bsky.social
Danny has a theory…
Just home from a lovely long lunch with a friend I’ve known since we were 4 but haven’t seen in 5 years. 👍🏻 (I know several days of #PEM crash is now on the cards, but some things are worth it 😊)
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Ahhh. I always wondered what those lyrics were. Ta 👍🏻
Yeesh
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Ugh - hope your painkillers can take the edge off it
An easy crochet leaf tutorial from MeemaMakes. These are v pretty 🍂 🍃 🧶
Where I am S and W winds are coming across the country, but N and E are coming from the arctic/North Sea brr…
WSW is usually relatively warm here - it’s when the compass tips N or E it really gets cold
Oh I thought that was every day 😉
Beautiful! 😍
Even with a WSW wind, it’s feeling cold enough today that I’m tempted to put the heating on… A feels-like temp of 10C according to the MetOffice 🤔
Ugh. I hope RM will give you some compensation for it
Watched the BBC weather and now stuck with a Status Quo earworm.
… and this is Truce, from the album Vessel (2013) (If you don’t know, they bookend a story arc threaded through every album in between) ❤️
This is Intentions, the final track of the Twenty One Pilots album Breach, launched today… 2/3
The whole Intentions/Truce thing is just genius. How many beautiful songs could sound so beautiful in reverse? |-/ (See below) 1/3
Alexa, turn off the United States.
Highland hillwalkers asked to look out for space rocks ☄️
Was about to say the same! 😄
The new Twenty One Pilots album is out today! 🎉 Hoping my CD might arrive today 🙏
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Why does the new Mitchell and Webb series refuse to pin itself on the ‘continue watching’ section of the Channel 4 app? 🤔
This afternoon, in addition to Charlie Kirk, there was a school shooting. Bullets don't know and don't care if you are a Republican or Democrat. It is time for Republicans and Democrats to find a way to work together to reduce gun violence. www.wcpo.com/us-news/crim...
I'm truly sorry to hear about the horrific shooting of Charlie Kirk. Political killing is the paradigm of friend and enemy politics, and friend and enemy politics is the enemy of democracy.
The biggest most beautiful Sympathies ever
When charities (and thus #pwME themselves, by and large) have to fund the research for your major neurological condition because your government is refusing to, despite having spent an average of £2.93 per patient per year on ME research, vs £33 for MS.
“Melania and my sympathies go out”?? 🤨
… so far |-/
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Trans people are currently the front line in the battle for civil rights. If we don't support them with everything we've got now, our own rights will be up for debate as the fascists work their way down the line. Women's reproductive rights + gay marriage are already on the chopping block in the US.
You’ve done your best, let go of mistakes, and start each day anew! This quote about how best to meet each new day was shared by Ralph Waldo Emerson in a letter to his daughter.
Ugh, fine, I'll share the one thing I wrote about my mental health: “Sometimes just verbalising it makes it go away... That’s especially true of... suicidal ideation... Mostly, it’s an escape valve thought, an extreme form of ‘Ah, fuck it all.‘” precastreinforced.co.uk/2022/05/10/s...
If it were half its current price (around £9.99) I’d consider it. Yeah, the ads can be a right pain sometimes!
YT subscription is way out of my budget sadly
The heroes and monsters stuff I usually think of as ‘action’ rather than Sci fi It’s not really a prejudice for me. I used to spot occasional things back when Neighbours was on there. After that I checked back a few times but gave up after finding nothing, and now honestly just forget it’s there
I check itv occasionally since discovering they have a few of my old favourites, like Sapphire and Steel 👍🏻
Funny - channel5 is the one I *never* think to check! (Even more rare than me checking itv) Ta. And lots of sci-fi isn’t ‘silly’ 😊
I thought I was going to escape it too (hoping it was genetic) but I eventually caught it in late 2023 - 2 months after my last covid vaccination 😬
Where did you watch it? I can only find it on paid subscription. (Also, didn’t know you liked Sci fi!)
My parents haven’t (not in your tl but adjacent lol)
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