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JayEsstoo
@js2.bsky.social
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Ageing IT dunce. A tough old bird so I'm told. #ActuallyADHD at age 56, mourning the life I cd hv had. Prolly autistic too. Less "Suaviter in Modo", more "Fortiter in Re" ID not verified so cant do DMs New #allotment & new (to me) campervan=life-changing❤️
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JayEsstoo @js2.bsky.social · Aug 2
Anyone do #colouring in?
As in #colouringbooks etc?
If so wd you pay a Ko-fi for a PDF download of a few #doodles to colour in?
I been doing 2 #doodleart classes/week since 2021, got loads sketchbooks full.
ChatGPT suggests selling PDFs of them to fund getting some printed as a colouring book.
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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 4h
The UK government does not have a debt problem. It has a poverty problem. It has 4 million people are living in crisis in this country, and they are the government's responsibility because it could solve their problem, and it won't, and that is the real national emergency we've got.
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JayEsstoo @js2.bsky.social · 3h
Ha! I've given up with evening meds, no chance of remembering, I'm wiped out by 7pm, even forget to lock door or go to loo before climbing into bed exhausted.
Now labelled "Non compliant with meds" by nurse at GP surgery🙄
Ppl give me "helpful" tips as if I've not thought of those things myself 😡
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JayEsstoo @js2.bsky.social · 3h
I didn't know what to expect re position or size so wearing oversize fleecy top & joggers. Appt at Boots at noon. Quiet day pottering altho it's lovely & sunny so will take dog to beach later.
They think I have "white coat syndrome". Due to bad experiences I find health appts v stressful.
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JayEsstoo @js2.bsky.social · 4h
Reluctantly & despite expectations I have to grudgingly admit Mixed Berry is ok. In fact quite nice.
So it's good to know that I now have a viable alternative.
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JayEsstoo @js2.bsky.social · 4h
I was over optimistic about the phone signal, having to hot spot off another SIM in old phone to get online as no signal for the past half hour. Sighs 🙄😬
I suppose yesterday was just a fluke.
And despite saying last week that they'd refund month's payment, #Smarty payment gone out as normal today 😡
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JayEsstoo @js2.bsky.social · 4h
Oh! I was thinking that it should be fairly straightforward & a lot less stressful than having to do battle with GP receptionists & unpleasant regular appts for BP checks at health centre or chemist which always sends my BP sky high compared to my own readings at home.
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JayEsstoo @js2.bsky.social · 4h
Challenging my #autistic aversion to change, Aldi was out of Golden Syrup porridge pots which I've had every morn for 2+yrs so forced to try the Mixed Berry 😲
Well out of my comfort zone.
What if I don't like it? 😱
I suppose I can always add golden syrup to it 🤔
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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 5h
the real debt crisis in the UK is about private debt, not public debt. It shows how austerity, low wages, speculative markets and broken benefits drive ordinary families into despair, all while the Treasury celebrates its so-called “fiscal discipline.”

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...
What is the UK’s real debt crisis?
There’s a real debt crisis in Britain – but it’s not the one the politicians or journalists are talking about. While Rachel Reeves and the media obsess over government borrowing, 4 million people are...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
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JayEsstoo @js2.bsky.social · 4h
Why?
Almost empty car park & someone has to park right next to me.
Happens in almost every almost empty car park? Why?

#Sheeple
#LonelyCarSyndrome
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JayEsstoo @js2.bsky.social · 5h
Morning ORCs, late up again today after busy day yesterday. Phone signal much better yesterday but worse again today 😬
Managed to see a sunrise today, now rising exactly South East behind the hill.
Wearing a blood pressure monitor for 24 hrs today, shd be interesting altho a quiet day today.
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JayEsstoo @js2.bsky.social · 16h
Ty, I know someone on Giffgaff who has offered me their referral code & I think we both get a bonus so I'll check out their deals & the O2 signal here.
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JayEsstoo @js2.bsky.social · 1d
Morning ORCs, yesterday turned out dry after all but was a waste of a day, mostly spent trying to sort out mobile internet problems.
Lots (of chores) to do today which I'd intended doing yesterday.
Still in bed as v tired but I can hear that it's wet out there ☹️ & reluctant to move 🙄
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JayEsstoo @js2.bsky.social · 1d
Ty but 3 network signal is the problem, Smarty also uses 3.
I don't have a landline & need about 120-150gb /month (no TV either so I have to stream anything I do want to watch).
Plus the hassle having to research new deal & port number, change DD, etc again having only done it 6mths ago.
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JayEsstoo @js2.bsky.social · 1d
I've just had 5 hrs mobile internet signal with only 1 drop out 🎉 & a reasonable speed though not great, but it only takes about 10 seconds to load a page instead of several minutes!
Wondering if this is just a serendipitous coincidence after sending a snotty email to #Smartymobile
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JayEsstoo @js2.bsky.social · 1d
Yeah but you're OC ORC & that's a v worthwhile role, contributes a lot to many, probably more than you realise. It's a community now, which you've been instrumental in building.
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JayEsstoo @js2.bsky.social · 1d
Yep. Grifters. Farage was happy enough to take MEP salary & now MP salary but does nothing to earn it. With an EU passport.
Tice living tax free in Dubai.
Cameron who did it to save himself & his political career.
All rich men, robbing the country & laughing at the gullibles who believed their 🐂💩
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JayEsstoo @js2.bsky.social · 1d
I suspect its a prob with local 3 transmitter/ mast in town centre since beg of Sept. I'm on 4thfloor not overlooked so should get good signal, I used to till end Aug.
Signal is bit better now outside of office hours.
No signal 9-5.week days.
Wasnt too bad on Sun.

I'll have to switch to EE I think.
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JayEsstoo @js2.bsky.social · 1d
Smarty uses 3 & it seems the problem is with 3 near me. I get good Voda signal here in flat but bad in town centre so switched to Smarty which was great everywhere from March to end of Aug, then crap in flat & town centre.
I get good 4g/5g with Smarty half a mile up the coast & from Aldi downwards.
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JayEsstoo @js2.bsky.social · 1d
PS. Posted sitting outside in car park for the past couple of hours trying to get a signal & it may or may not post 🙄😡
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JayEsstoo @js2.bsky.social · 1d
So I'm telling everyone not to use Smarty as their Ts&Cs apparently say that they may /may not offer you the mobile internet service that you thought you'd been paying for.

And customer svc is shite.
But most utility companies cust svc is shite these days.

End of rant.

Smarty = Not Smart

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JayEsstoo @js2.bsky.social · 1d
So I'm just going to have to put up with very limited internet access another couple of days till I can get away in van again & can get good 5g signal 3 miles away.

The whole town centre is affected but Smarty have been implying it's just my signal. Basically fobbing me off.

Twats.

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JayEsstoo @js2.bsky.social · 1d
But I don't want to switch - its a social tariff deal £12/month, I dont want to waste hours or expensive PAYG data on another cheap SIM trying to find another really cheap deal & port my number again. And I've got so much going on at the mo last thing I need is more paperwork.

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JayEsstoo @js2.bsky.social · 1d
Then Smarty said they want to be honest & transparent so they'll give me a PAC code to switch as they can't say whether the signal problem will ever be fixed despite their website saying they've been working on it nearly 2 months to restore normal connection.

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JayEsstoo @js2.bsky.social · 1d
I pointed out that I'd just spoken to the local mobile phone shop who told me the signal has got so bad in past 2 months (since the merger with Voda) that he now tells customers not to use 3 or Smarty & no longer sells their Sims.

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JayEsstoo @js2.bsky.social · 1d
Then they said they would refund this month which I thought had already been done as they said they would do that over a week ago.

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