PSSChristine
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PATSS Peer Support Specialist; Author; Educator; Storyteller. Comical Curmudgeon.
@jonathanconp.bsky.social
Every time I go grocery shopping, or have to go upstairs in our house to deal with the barrel of monkeys, I get the same feeling. 🤨🙄
My bestie and I swore we would be professional house hermits after all the covid lockdowns, and I'm sticking to it. 😏
Every time I go grocery shopping, or have to go upstairs in our house to deal with the barrel of monkeys, I get the same feeling. 🤨🙄
My bestie and I swore we would be professional house hermits after all the covid lockdowns, and I'm sticking to it. 😏
Word of the day, should you be feeling a little huffish, is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a love of solitude and the desire to be away from other people.
December 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
@jonathanconp.bsky.social
Every time I go grocery shopping, or have to go upstairs in our house to deal with the barrel of monkeys, I get the same feeling. 🤨🙄
My bestie and I swore we would be professional house hermits after all the covid lockdowns, and I'm sticking to it. 😏
Every time I go grocery shopping, or have to go upstairs in our house to deal with the barrel of monkeys, I get the same feeling. 🤨🙄
My bestie and I swore we would be professional house hermits after all the covid lockdowns, and I'm sticking to it. 😏
@jonathanconp.bsky.social
Just what we needed on this Friday 😂
Just what we needed on this Friday 😂
November 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
@jonathanconp.bsky.social
Just what we needed on this Friday 😂
Just what we needed on this Friday 😂
@jonathanconp.bsky.social
Remind you of any politician in particular? 😂🤣😹
Remind you of any politician in particular? 😂🤣😹
Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
November 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
@jonathanconp.bsky.social
Remind you of any politician in particular? 😂🤣😹
Remind you of any politician in particular? 😂🤣😹
@jonathanconp.bsky.social
Ain't it the truth? 🇨🇦☺️
Ain't it the truth? 🇨🇦☺️
August 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
@jonathanconp.bsky.social
Ain't it the truth? 🇨🇦☺️
Ain't it the truth? 🇨🇦☺️
@jonathanconp.bsky.social I recalled this line from a course I took years ago. I had to look up one word to see if I had recalled it correctly.
"Don't sweat the petty things, and the obverse is also true ..." (Don't pet the sweaty things) 😁
"Don't sweat the petty things, and the obverse is also true ..." (Don't pet the sweaty things) 😁
May 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
@jonathanconp.bsky.social I recalled this line from a course I took years ago. I had to look up one word to see if I had recalled it correctly.
"Don't sweat the petty things, and the obverse is also true ..." (Don't pet the sweaty things) 😁
"Don't sweat the petty things, and the obverse is also true ..." (Don't pet the sweaty things) 😁
@jonathanconp.bsky.social How perfectly appropriate 😂
In 2024, telecoms company O2 launched an AI chatbot called Daisy Harris who kept scammers on the line by talking incessantly about her cat.
May 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
@jonathanconp.bsky.social How perfectly appropriate 😂
@tabathasouthey.bsky.social @jonathanconp.bsky.social
🙄🤨 No surprise, really, it was, sadly, expected. What's the term I'm looking for ... oh yeah, inbred fuckwits. 🤨
🙄🤨 No surprise, really, it was, sadly, expected. What's the term I'm looking for ... oh yeah, inbred fuckwits. 🤨
Trump Administration Slashes Research Into #LGBTQ+ Health. More than $800-million in NIH grants canceled as of early May — nearly half of those terminated to date — covered the health of sexual and gender minority groups, by @benjmueller.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/h... via @nytimes.com
Trump Administration Slashes Research Into L.G.B.T.Q. Health
More than $800 million in N.I.H. grants canceled as of early May — nearly half of those terminated to date — covered the health of sexual and gender minority groups, The Times found.
www.nytimes.com
May 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
@tabathasouthey.bsky.social @jonathanconp.bsky.social
🙄🤨 No surprise, really, it was, sadly, expected. What's the term I'm looking for ... oh yeah, inbred fuckwits. 🤨
🙄🤨 No surprise, really, it was, sadly, expected. What's the term I'm looking for ... oh yeah, inbred fuckwits. 🤨
@jonathanconp.bsky.social
Pretty much ... 🤨
Pretty much ... 🤨
Now that the vote harvest has been brought in, hundreds of pundits across the country begin the laborious process of spinning these results into “every party across the political spectrum must be meaner to trans people” takes.
April 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
@jonathanconp.bsky.social
Pretty much ... 🤨
Pretty much ... 🤨
@jonathanconp.bsky.social
And here I thought the worst farts in the excited states came from politicians, particularly the pumpkin pariah 🤨
😁😂
And here I thought the worst farts in the excited states came from politicians, particularly the pumpkin pariah 🤨
😁😂
According to the head keeper at San Diego Zoo, the worst farts in the animal kingdom come from sea lions.
March 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
@jonathanconp.bsky.social
And here I thought the worst farts in the excited states came from politicians, particularly the pumpkin pariah 🤨
😁😂
And here I thought the worst farts in the excited states came from politicians, particularly the pumpkin pariah 🤨
😁😂
@jonathanconp.bsky.social
This looks interesting.
This looks interesting.
Vagus nerve stimulation may tame autoimmune diseases.
The next big advance in treating diseases like rheumatoid arthritis could be tiny pulses of electricity delivered to the vagus nerve, by Jon Hamilton www.npr.org/sections/sho... via @npr.org
The next big advance in treating diseases like rheumatoid arthritis could be tiny pulses of electricity delivered to the vagus nerve, by Jon Hamilton www.npr.org/sections/sho... via @npr.org
Vagus nerve stimulation may tame autoimmune diseases
The next big advance in treating diseases like rheumatoid arthritis could be tiny pulses of electricity delivered to the vagus nerve.
www.npr.org
February 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
@jonathanconp.bsky.social
This looks interesting.
This looks interesting.
@jonathanconp.bsky.social
Fascinating stuff 😊
Fascinating stuff 😊
Great to be featured in the @bpsofficial.bsky.social West Midlands newsletter this month, discussing my PhD research on the importance of telling life stories of LGBTQ+ people🏳️🌈📚
www.bps.org.uk/news/why-tel...
www.bps.org.uk/news/why-tel...
www.bps.org.uk
January 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
@jonathanconp.bsky.social
Fascinating stuff 😊
Fascinating stuff 😊
This looks like a fun and worthwhile idea. Anyone else up for giving it a go this year? ☺️ ❤️❤️
January 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This looks like a fun and worthwhile idea. Anyone else up for giving it a go this year? ☺️ ❤️❤️
@jonathanconp.bsky.social
This one always makes me laugh 😆
This one always makes me laugh 😆
Word of the day (of course) is ‘scurryfunging’, from US dialect: the frantic attempt to tidy the house just before guests arrive.
December 23, 2024 at 2:28 PM
@jonathanconp.bsky.social
This one always makes me laugh 😆
This one always makes me laugh 😆
@jonathanconp.bsky.social
Here's a good one to start the day 😊 (and I've been known to tartle quite often when down in the big smoke)
Here's a good one to start the day 😊 (and I've been known to tartle quite often when down in the big smoke)
Word of the day is a favourite, from old Scots.
To ‘tartle’ is to hesitate while introducing someone because you have completely forgotten their name.
To ‘tartle’ is to hesitate while introducing someone because you have completely forgotten their name.
December 1, 2024 at 11:43 AM
@jonathanconp.bsky.social
Here's a good one to start the day 😊 (and I've been known to tartle quite often when down in the big smoke)
Here's a good one to start the day 😊 (and I've been known to tartle quite often when down in the big smoke)
@jonathanconp.bsky.social
I just had to share this to give you a chuckle to start the day 😂
I just had to share this to give you a chuckle to start the day 😂
November 27, 2024 at 11:22 AM
@jonathanconp.bsky.social
I just had to share this to give you a chuckle to start the day 😂
I just had to share this to give you a chuckle to start the day 😂