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Sam Smith. Not That One.
@scsmith4.bsky.social
She/her. DO NOT HUG. Tea, books, baking, bicycles. Chocolate. #OU Astronomy student. #ActuallyAutistic. 🏳️‍🌈
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I'm #autistic. I'm a stealth #disasterbisexual #xennial.
I'm a perimenopausal part-time astrophysics student, full-time broadcast news flunky, with a gift for falling off (a) bikes when stationary, (b) shoes with anything narrower than a Doc Martens sole.
Mostly, I'm tired.
Happy Nearly the Weekend.
I'm #autistic. I am a #chaosbisexual younger #millennial.

I'm a lapsed physicist turned historian turned forecasting enthusiast. Also I test and document software now idk. But mostly I'm tired 😂

Happy Friday, happy timezone
I'm #autistic. I'm #alivingnitemare I'm #Millennial. I'm a freelance writer, who also started on my first book which may be out by the end of 2029. But mostly.. I'm TIRED. TIRED of my brain controlling me, but I carry on, what choice do I have. Happy Thursday(or whatever day you're reading this).
I got this *ages* ago. Finally started it yesterday after reluctantly finishing Planetfall. Am going to have to read it a good few times, once to focus on the Orkney dialect and translation, then again to focus on the story.
November 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
RO LAREN TRUSTING A SHUTTLE OVER THE TRANSPORTERS SINCE FOREVER.
November 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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I've forgotten who said it first, but one of the grossest points of our currently landscape is the expectation that we should received clearly disorted and self-serving statements and actions from those in power in good faith and go along with their absurdities
"All I did was embolden a series of anti-queer, right-wing and anti-trans hate groups, and now there are more anti-queer hate crimes! I am appalled"

metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
Keir Starmer's fury after niece and wife 'beaten by blokes for holding hands'
'I thought the days of beating up people because they were gay were well behind us.'
metro.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Dangnabbit.
At least I've managed to only get something for the niblings.
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November 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Today I found out that a bunch of Gen Z folks I know don't eject USB sticks before removing them from a computer. Is this a universal thing? I'm genuinely curious.
November 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I'm fairly sure Doc's capybaras can help fix the world.

*other characters may be equally capable, just overshadowed.
I am opening ten slots for Silly Little Guys: simple doodles for use as avatars for your socials.
You should all know the drill by now but just in case:

⭐️ £30 each (PayPal only)

⭐️ No portraits

⭐️ Just simple, silly guys

DM me if you would like one!
November 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
November 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Three weeks ago I marked nine years on Testosterone.

I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
November 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Reasons to wear a BRIGHT PINK jacket: nannas with partial vision can see you clearly at the bus stop, which helps them find the bus they need for Sainsbury's, and when you get them onto said bus, they can spot you outside and give you a big wave as they go.
November 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
@emmanewman.bsky.social Just finished Planetfall. Gosh. What a journey.
November 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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"Much Ado About Nothing: Unmotivating "Gender Identity"" by Hernandez and Bell gives @floralashes.bsky.social a run for their money in the "best/funniest footnote in a paper on transness" category.

Paper: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...
November 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Anyone with solid advice and resources etc to back up those of us not wanting to use planet-killing predictive text machines?
My manager has clearly been told to tell us all to start using CoPilot in our emails and ceremony scripts.

My response was “over my dead body”.

Anyone got any helpful articles or further reading so I can be better informed before our team meeting next week? ❤️
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
It is absolutely not news, and so shouldn't be in the top half of the One O'Clock bulletin, but there's a report on a couple who're fostering eight labradoodle puppies and it's almost making up for the effect on my blood pressure of all the budget coverage.
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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🦑~ (ver. Eng)
November 26, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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New email autoresponder just dropped
November 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Me, whenever I stop for a moment.
November 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Pretty sure if they'd used this as the original theme tune it would have corrected everything wrong with Enterprise.
Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.

Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I do love it when the buses are all uncooperative.
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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If you're asking yourself
Where's all the sketch comedy?
Where's the family comedies on radio?
Where's the new comedy shows over Christmas?
Where's the biographies of Ramesses II that spend a good 5% of their short airtime on a bovine beauty pageant?
The answer is: Here, my friend. Right here.
Let's GOOOOO!

Factual sketch comedy, for families! Made by the team behind YDTM plus great comedy sketch writers & performers!
Out this Christmas on R4 (3eps) & Sounds (15eps)
It's Ya Gal's 1st production credit!
You're in for a good time, comedy fans!
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
November 26, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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The news was saying there's fewer puffins on the Farne Islands and I'm so sleepy I was like "what the fuck am I supposed to do about this" and I have been enjoying the idea of needing to go find some missing puffins
November 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Effectively writing my own pattern for this knitting project (an Xmas Nordic-esque cardigan for @samsgromit.bsky.social), using chunks of existing patterns, trial and error, and much iteration. It's coding, but cosy.
November 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I am now officially a student buddy. If you're doing next Feb's OU SP390 final project module, I will be among those on hand to comfort and guide you and prove it's possible to get through it with almost all of your marbles.
Not really, but I'm applying to be a student buddy. Had to write 300 words on why I'd be good at it.

Rewarded self with playing a bit of Sheep and a bit of Herdling.
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Appointment made for asthma review. Receptionist was v apologetic about only having 23 Dec available until I said there'd probably be enough baking done by that point that they could have some.
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Do not stop saying it. The second you do, *poof* goes the reminder.
My object permanence depends on my autistic need for habits and routine. I don't forget my tablets because I lay them out to be visible the night before; my keys are always on the living room door handle. Or else.
oh I have add life hack for this exact scenario:

you just need to repeat the thing you're looking for as you move from room to room. As soon as you leave a room you forget what you were looking for. So just walk through your house saying "keys keys keys keys keys keys"
I like the days when I walk to another room and instantly ask: The fuck did I come in here for?🙄😂
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM