Leah Jaclyn

@leahjaclyn.bsky.social

Reads a lot, works with kids, weird native bee friend, takes photos, probably learning a new craft right now. Profile pic by Ethan Kocak She/Her

Hey since you are all up atm Americans, I just saw a meme that suggests that your social security number is just... on some paper??? I thought it was a card?? I'm so confused

Archie, the cat who has owned a piece of my heart since he was a kitten has passed away, he was in all ways the perfect cat, and I'm glad he got to have a fancy last meal. But I'm devastated. He was 14 and it was not enough time with him by any metric.

The first day Archie arrived at our house in 2012His last day, laying on the bed with me

FUCK IT. Let's give away 2 more signed paperbacks of my latest novel. Repost/reply to enter! You might like it if you like: Folkloric creatures Old records Intricate psychedelic stories The idea of circular time All shares much-appreciated. PS YOU GET A FREE LINOCUT OWL BOOKMARK TOO IF YOU WIN!

My latest novel , Everything Will Swallow You, next to the sea, where it it largely set.psychedelic owl bookmarks made by my mum, Jo

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

We teach young girls to cover their drinks. Walk with their keys between their knuckles. Dress modestly. Have a buddy system. Yell “fire”. By the time we’re adults we have a novel length list of rules to follow to avoid being raped. Many of us are raped anyways. That’s why we’re enraged.

I'm part of an amazing team looking at what autistic children want from their speech and language therapy. Nobody has asked them before! We're currently using some brilliant materials, developed with and by autistic people, to make interviews accessible to all children, not just those who speak

What we want: how can Speech & Language Therapy best meet the needs of autistic children?

We are looking for autistic children (9 – 15 years 11 months old) to take part in an adapted interview about their priorities and preferences in Speech & Language Therapy.

We hope our findings will support the development of services in this area.

We are looking for children who can express a choice on these matters, using a total communication approach.  They should have a formal autism diagnosis which follows national clinical guidance on best practice.

If want to ask any questions about eligibility or to find out more generally, please contact us: NDSpeech-LanguageTherapy@manchester.ac.uk

Our team includes experienced & DBS checked autistic researchers & Speech & Language Therapists. Our interviews will be adapted to meet your child’s needs.

Funded by: National Institute for Health Care and Research (NIHR)
Sponsored and conducted by: Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Conducted with collaborators: The University of Manchester, The University of Sheffield

Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.

A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book has been republished. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.

this one was really tough, but #Pyromorphite juuust nabbed my vote for its usefulness in mitigating lead contamination. both are very intriguing minerals & this may have been the less strategic vote for #TeamQuartz, so vote with your gut, imo. #MinCup26

Mineral Cup & Ore Cup@mineralcup.bsky.social · last mo.

#MinCup26 Round 2 Match 6: It's a pair of soft, heavy lead minerals as vivid hexagonal phosphate #Pyromorphite is against spiralling rolled sheets of #Cylindrite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of clusters of small green puffball-spiked lime green pyromorphite clusters on a rusty-red rough porous rock and Metallic grey fibrous sheets and swirls of cylindric that resemble pencil shavings more than a mineral