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Catastrofrac @catastrofrac.bsky.social · 6h

Finding it really tough to be so limited physically just as I was getting up to speed with sorting my place. All the resilience I regained by the meds & freeing myself is useless if it's in a body that can now get fully overwhelmed by me walking about for a couple of minutes.

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Catastrofrac @catastrofrac.bsky.social · 10h

I transferred him [? I'm guessing from proportions] to the windowsill but he decided he'd had enough of my shit & made his way hastily out of the window.
Meanwhile, my heart still feels a bit like it just punched itself.

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Catastrofrac @catastrofrac.bsky.social · 10h

I use a light plastic jug to fill my kettle. It normally lives on the draining board in a perpetual state of once & future use. Just went to make myself a cuppa & it's an honest toss-up if it was more of a shock to me or the spider who'd built a little bed in there.

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Catastrofrac @catastrofrac.bsky.social · 11h

It is just the most elder millennial romance that I have strained my neck turning to watch my beloved walk past me.
So now we're a gender-swapped Orpheus & Eurydice but for health reasons.

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Catastrofrac @catastrofrac.bsky.social · 1d

You really think a government actively seeking to make every system worse & more punishing than the hell the tories created is going to stop at illegal DNRs, starving pensioners, & 1,600+ dead homeless people?

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Catastrofrac @catastrofrac.bsky.social · 1d

It's weird to me that so many people seem to be under the impression that mandatory ID will be a one & done when they already make us prove we're still disabled every 18-36 months. When they ask questions like "How long do you expect to be an amputee?"

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Catastrofrac @catastrofrac.bsky.social · 2d

Becoming more suspicious of the increasing number of accounts that just post screenshots of other people's posts.
What are you trying to herd engagement for?
These aren't dunks. There's no added context or comment. They aren't memes. Just weird AF.

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Doc Garby @docgarby.bsky.social · 3d

I hope everyone finds the kind of love I have, a partner who doesn't end the relationship when you quietly sing,

🎵Stegoslide, Stegoslide,
Giving a wash to your underside🎵

while cleaning the Stegoslide in PowerWash Simulator

Screenshot from the game PowerWash Simulator showing a dirty Stegosaurus shaped slide in a play area

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Catastrofrac @catastrofrac.bsky.social · 4d

Got my heart in my throat for all the people flying & pushing tin right now, cos if there's one gutting of American protections that is most likely to end in the most deaths soonest, it's not funding FTC.
Always know where your exits are, lovelies.

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Catastrofrac @catastrofrac.bsky.social · 6d

Genuinely not comfortable with the new line, being repeated in all quarters, that Brexit happened "cos we were lied to!"
I had access to all the same obvious & indisputable evidence as every other Brit at the time. No one forced anyone to vote Leave. Live with your conscience. Cowards.

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Catastrofrac @catastrofrac.bsky.social · 8d

I suspect that my beloved & I are lucky to not have wider circles. We are likely unbearably lovey-dovey by most standards. We've definitely already long beaten my entire prior life total of times someone has complimented me & I've believed it, & it's only been months since we started.

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Catastrofrac @catastrofrac.bsky.social · 8d

This goes double for changes to products' formulae or full discontinuation.
E.g. Sanex did an antiperspirant I could use without reaction for a handful of years then chucked it in.

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Catastrofrac @catastrofrac.bsky.social · 8d

The anxiety is real. When you've found something that works for you & it wears out or runs out, there's no way to know if anything will work as well again. Even something as simple as a tea-strainer. When minute changes in weight & design can ruin everything? It's exhausting.

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Catastrofrac @catastrofrac.bsky.social · 8d

The anxiety is real. When you've found something that works for you & it wears out or runs out, there's no way to know if anything will work as well again. Even something as simple as a tea-strainer. When minute changes in weight & design can ruin everything? It's exhausting.

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Catastrofrac @catastrofrac.bsky.social · 8d

In one of those access is weird moments, the little tea-strainer I bought for 17p from QD 17 years ago [cheap plastic with steel mesh], which I ended up using to grind herbs by gently rubbing them through, has begun to surrender to metal fatigue.
What if they just don't make them like they used to?

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Catastrofrac @catastrofrac.bsky.social · 8d

I mean, we've got loads of cool stuff to see & do too - even more if you venture out to the near countryside - but our food is definitely a serious highpoint.
Also the peeps at Namaste are seriously good eggs, which a lot of restaurant owners seem to forget is an option.

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Catastrofrac @catastrofrac.bsky.social · 8d

Living in the capital of veggie/vegan food has its perks.
Like gorging myself on veggie korma & gulub jamun.
And also watching my veggie beloved be delighted by choice & variety.
Namaste Village is reason to visit the city all on its own.

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Catastrofrac @catastrofrac.bsky.social · 8d

Living in the capital of veggie/vegan food has its perks.
Like gorging myself on veggie korma & gulub jamun.
And also watching my veggie beloved be delighted by choice & variety.
Namaste Village is reason to visit the city all on its own.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 9d

This is eugenics.

This is what disabled people are trying to warn you about.

People with learning disabilities had DNRs placed in their files, without consent, during the early days of COVID.

Now this man was left to die:

www.itv.com/news/2025-10...

www.itv.com

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Catastrofrac @catastrofrac.bsky.social · 8d

It's the Imperial War Museum now so they'd probably be right at home.

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Catastrofrac @catastrofrac.bsky.social · 8d

Ultimately they snapped in half for the same reason the Comets exploded: we didn't understand the science yet.
Square hatches produced stress cracking, the steel contained too much potassium & sulphur to remain ductile at cold temps, *any* welding doesn't arrest cracks.

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Catastrofrac @catastrofrac.bsky.social · 8d

Genuinely glad to find Oceanliner Designs aiding in dispelling the myth of "bad welding" being what took out the Liberties & T2s. It was a poor excuse for racism & misogyny at the time, even, but now we actually understand the basic metallurgy, brittle fractures in steel, it's just a lie.

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Catastrofrac @catastrofrac.bsky.social · 8d

What should be celebrated as one of the greatest achievements in labour by the people, for the people, saving lives all over the world by teaching willing volunteers new skills, is unfairly maligned by so many still believing the original [wrong] conclusion.

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Catastrofrac @catastrofrac.bsky.social · 8d

Genuinely glad to find Oceanliner Designs aiding in dispelling the myth of "bad welding" being what took out the Liberties & T2s. It was a poor excuse for racism & misogyny at the time, even, but now we actually understand the basic metallurgy, brittle fractures in steel, it's just a lie.

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Catastrofrac @catastrofrac.bsky.social · 8d

This also feeds into the reason societies & individuals so often join the attack, if only tacitly. We lay bare the interconnectedness & interdependence of all humanity. "Independent Living" is a hoax. Everything we have, everything we are, depends on everyone else.

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Catastrofrac @catastrofrac.bsky.social · 8d

I am genuinely surprised that at least one of Big Pharma hasn't raised the issue that killing all the disabled people would destroy their profit margin.
Our continued existence funds breakthroughs across the world.

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Catastrofrac @catastrofrac.bsky.social · 8d

Part of the reason so many governments attack disabled people who can't work is capitalism. We aren't using our labour to make someone else rich.
Never mind that we still pay tax on top of the massively increased cost of disability. Never mind that everything we need help with is a job created.

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Catastrofrac @catastrofrac.bsky.social · 8d

Part of the reason so many governments attack disabled people who can't work is capitalism. We aren't using our labour to make someone else rich.
Never mind that we still pay tax on top of the massively increased cost of disability. Never mind that everything we need help with is a job created.

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Catastrofrac @catastrofrac.bsky.social · 8d

Anyone still arguing that the ID scheme is anything other than fascism when our current government is publicly labelling protected human rights as "Un-British" is telling you exactly who they are.