got some sneak peek photos of my beer can label! 🏳️⚧️💙🌸
Bon (she/her)
@deannawol.bsky.social
Professional organiser; Mastodon Profile: @bon@mastodon.ie; Amateur violinist, writer and creator of things out of wool; Believer in true equality for all.
I am trying to figure out how not to be resentful right now. I am a manager, and I think a good one, but resourcing is so tight right now that there is no capacity to cover OOO, so I am doing cover. Not terrible, but people just dropped stuff with no regard, and I have to pick it all up.
I love being a woman. Really trying to remember why though! Today started with having my cervix acid washed with legs in stirrups. Precautionary but it didn’t look right to the GP so given I want to go on HRT and we didn’t want any risks. Turns out I have cervical entropion. Perfectly normal. 🥳
Working through one of my #storygraph challenges about indigenous history and I backed out of a book about First Nations history written by a white guy that dedicated the book to God. Much prefer an actual indigenous voice. Bonus she speaks Cree in the book!
Went to doc to talk about perimenopause and HRT... Now have potential hospital appointment in next 2 weeks because well... My cervix is looks wonky. Don't even ask how those two items go together, but I'm about to get an acid wash _in_ my whatsit! So yeah, I guess smears are important...
StoryGraph tells me that I've read 110 books this year to date. But suddenly I can't get past the first page of books and my attention is wandering off mid sentence. I hate brain fog. I hate it with a fiery passion.
Some wee scrote just set the park behind us on fire... again. That's 2 times today. Fire engine in attendance, but what the actual hell, kids. Get a non-fire related hobby!
F’ing hell, just did weekly shop and meal prep and my pain levels are through the roof. Can’t lie down because slow cooker is still on. But holy hell, my body hates me right now.
In news that surprises no one who knows me, I have been researching perimenopause given I seem to be in the middle of it, and ladies, why is it that we only hear about mood swings, night sweats and hot flashes. The changes women go through because of estrogen are really varied and not discussed!
Getting fed up with vestibular migraines thanks to menopause! Like seriously, were the stress headaches not enough that you’re hitting me with week long migraines now? And stealing my ability to read text. 😰 The orange glasses help stop the screens stabbing me in the eyes but don’t help reading.
As I went out to pull in our bins this morning, I saw the most adorable hedgehog sauntering down the path. I was a little shocked because I have never seen a hedgehog in real life before, and I genuinely thought they were nocturnal. He was a fast little bugger too... Didn't approach, just said hi.
So I am going to an SLT meeting later this year and we are apparently getting swag. I just got asked for my jacket size and my home country (specifically not where I live but where I call home)… Wanna guess what I answered?
Why does my brain believe that freedom needs 3 ee's? I keep spelling it freedome, instead of freedom.
Bodies are bastards! I had an anxiety dream bad enough to give me a stress headache! How is that fair? Painkillers deployed, let’s see how it goes…
This is worth it just for "I Want This Twink Obliterated!" but genuinely, this is a great bundle!
Bona Books 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼@bonabooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago2026 Pride Bundle, the Twinks are in you! A genuinely incredible bunch of books for $30: An Oz masterpiece from Geoff Ryman, books by @chazbrenchley.bsky.social & @fozmeadows.bsky.social, brilliant releases from @neonhemlock.bsky.social @wtpress.bsky.social @wctracy.bsky.social, and MORE. 💙📚🌈📚
And talking of working together, Starmer has once again used the Supreme Corrupt to remove civil rights because he is too cowardly to do so openly in Parliament. Cue platitudes about “dignity and respect”. www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig...
‘The biggest rollback of disability rights in a generation’ – Charities respond to Supreme Court ruling
mind.org.uk
The building that houses the agency responsible for containing the spread of invasive pests in the United States has a bed bug infestation
The Federal Government’s Insect-Defense Agency Is Infested With Bed Bugs
The department sent staff home twice, but has declined to do so a third time after the insects returned.
notus.org
In College we had a teacher who "taught" us Java, he held a lab exam for 2 hours every Wednesday where he programmed 90% of an assignment and left us to do the last 10%. It didn't matter if we understood the assignment or not, we were graded on it. I ran into an error and couldn't resolve it.
So... I just spotted a post on the UFC thing at the White House and I genuinely thought that it was an AI joke. It's not. What the actual hell?
Today is not a brain day! I had to look down to remember whether I put on a top or not. (I did!) But I have a whole load of work that needs to be done, and I have no brain to get it done.
Holy crap, it's way too hot for anything... I'm sweating just sitting.
This was the first thing I learned in my lifesaving courses. Helped me save three kids! Read the article, please!
Trish Greenhalgh@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 2mo agoEvery summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
As a teacher of English, I can definitively state that yes, this is exactly what happened. Particularly, the curse words. ◡̈
Katalin Karikó is one of the most extraordinary scientific stories of this era. A girl from a modest Hungarian household helped develop technology that saved millions of lives worldwide. In 2023, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that enabled effective mRNA vaccines.
Does anyone in my friends list remember a film called Harrison Bergeron?
