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Joanne Simmonds

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I’m currently rewriting my @BathSpaUni novel. I paint, write and swim with AuDHD and hEDS. ‘Misogyny is envy with a dick.’ Edna O’Brien. I write a Substack here: https://joannesimmonds.substack.com

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Joanne Simmonds @josimmonds.bsky.social · 12d

A flash of inspiration.

Free to read.

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A flash of inspiration

A small writing task is completed

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melomys @melomys.bsky.social · 3h

AIDS quilt repair workshop today. #Volunteer for good.

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Joanne Simmonds @josimmonds.bsky.social · 3h

Everybody posting that they have volunteered their crafting skills to help places out, so I'll join in and boast I've knitted six angels for MU. I think I can boast as it’s not donating 🤔🙏

Joanne Simmonds @josimmonds.bsky.social · 6h

A movie you’ve seen more than seven times in a GIF

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Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 8h

Is Anton dressed as someone in particular? He really does suit the older Victorian lady look. #strictly

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Joanne Simmonds @josimmonds.bsky.social · 8h

Terrifying documentary about a mother accused of Munchausen syndrome by doctors and prevented from seeing her daughter, who had complex regional pain syndrome. I should imagine it's a risk in the EDS community with all the bruising.

www.netflix.com/gb/title/813...

Watch Take Care of Maya | Netflix Official Site

In this documentary, an anguished couple in Florida battles authorities for custody of their ailing daughter after being accused of child abuse.

www.netflix.com

Joanne Simmonds @josimmonds.bsky.social · 15h

I noticed that it wasn't happening so often at the start of the year but it has been confirmed by Apple Watch. Hopefully they'll leave me in another year or so 😩❤️

Joanne Simmonds @josimmonds.bsky.social · 15h

I don't think I've ever been in so much pain in my body, disappearing after a few days and morphing into stomach cramps. I'll stop whinging now.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · May 21

Painting created by Margaret Rose c.1965, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey, where she was compelled to live.
This is one of only three surviving works by her & no biographical information is currently known to us

Painting of a witch with white skin a anf grey bobbed hair wearing yellow robes and pointed hat walking down a path in a green landscape brandishing a sparkling wand, accompanied by a small black cat

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Joanne Simmonds @josimmonds.bsky.social · 15h

This week has been very challenging. No hot water at the usual gym/pool, the most horrendous PMT (luckily only six times a year now due to approaching menopause) and the afternoon darkness. A terrible week, but I’m still here and I’m ready for another week 💪💪💪

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Alex wants musubi. @alexandraknew.bsky.social · 1d

One of my work colleagues is casually walking around the office and I am losing it every time i see her. (Her husband apparently has the blue costume.)

A woman dressed like the red Yip Yip from the Muppets

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Pablo Picasso @pablopicasso.bsky.social · 5d

Françoise with a Bow in Her Hair (Françoise au nœud dans les cheveux)
https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/1145598

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Simon Opher @simonforstroud.bsky.social · 1d

This week, the government announced that menopause will now be included in free NHS Health Checks — helping millions more women get the care, advice, and support they deserve.

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 1d

There's nothing spookier at Halloween than to sit around the fire with a group of good friends and tell each other ghost stories. Especially when you remember you haven't got a fire, or any friends.

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Linda K Sienkiewicz @lindaksienkiewicz.com · 2d

“We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.”
~ Émile Zola

#writers #books

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Denise Brown @caregiving.bsky.social · 2d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/r...

In Senior Homes, A.I. Technology Is Sensing Falls Before They Happen

www.nytimes.com

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 3d

‘Witch Hare’ linocut print.

matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/bloc...

#BLOCTOBER2

A linocut illustrated print of a witch hare next to the plate.

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Joanne Simmonds @josimmonds.bsky.social · 2d

I understand this is annoying but the people unwrapping food could be having a hypo and those nipping out for the loo might have connective tissue issues. Saying this, we are still annoying 🤨

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Is it OK to talk at the cinema? How about if it’s just during the trailers? | Polly Hudson

Some might argue that streaming movies at home has given us all etiquette amnesia. But when it comes to disrupting a screening, I think the rules have some nuance, writes Polly Hudson

www.theguardian.com

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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 3d

Bookbanks is a wonderful new charity giving books to people at food banks. A simple, brilliant idea that everyone in the book world should get behind: open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/b...

Bookbanks

A good deed in a weary world

open.substack.com

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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 4d

‘Every first draft is perfect because all the first draft has to do is exist.’
— Jane Smiley
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 4d

Me: waits 6 months to see a specialist

Specialist: “You should see a different specialist.”

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Joanne Simmonds @josimmonds.bsky.social · 4d

Putting my assertive telling someone off nicely hat on. I suppose this is a self-advocacy skill.

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Bay Area Reporter, America's LGBTQ Newspaper since 1971 @bayareareporter.bsky.social · 16d

As the Vatican publicizes its changing tone on the LGBTQ community, a new generation of current and former Roman Catholic content creators are shining a spotlight on high-control pockets of homophobia and so-called "conversion therapy" within the church.

Queer current, former Catholics confront conversion therapy, homophobia

Like a lot of kids, gay, straight, and in-between, Cade Bradley recalls his middle school years as having been a “socially awkward and confused phase in life."

www.ebar.com

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 4d

I always carry a barge pole with me, just in case I want to not touch something I don't like with it.

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Joanne Simmonds @josimmonds.bsky.social · 4d

I did my SAD lamp for half an hour this morning, and I feel like I've had an additional coffee without the palpitations or anxiety. (I've recently reduced to one coffee a day).

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4d

The whiter the area the more likely it is to have a Reform problem. Immigration isn’t the problem, otherwise you’d get Reform in more diverse areas - it’s fear of change among older people.

Buxton: Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK

How national concerns affected a local election in the heart of the Peak District.

www.bbc.com

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