What?! This is awful! I’ve been going to that museum since I was little and I now take my daughter.

Nothing compares to the look of sheer horror on a healthcare professional's face when you have to explain to them that you're asexual.
'But, but... that's positively anti-Darwinian!'
F**kin' A. 🤙
'Yes, I breathe through this 3rd eyelid & have the remnants of a prehensile tail.'

According to Dr. Neff, a pioneer in this research, there are 3 parts to self-compassion:
1. we must be kind to ourselves.
2. know that suffering is common.
3. practicing mindfulness “micro-moments of self-awareness of what we’re feeling and experiencing”

There's nothing quite as accurate as a pair of cycling trousers to tell you how far off your ideal BMI you are.
(15cm, 8.5kg & 2.3.)
Beats calipers, measuring tapes & scales all to hell. Research project?

I have a habit of reading out loud if I'm trying to get my head around something.
Google Assistant pipes up & asks me to say something.
What 4 words am I most likely to say? (4,3,4,2)

🧵 #mlpfanart

Got inspired by Jane Gumball to actually go through and make my Nightmare Cadence design named

'La vedova vuota'

Cadence's name in the show is 'Mi Amore Cadenza' which is Italian for 'My Love Cadence'

This name translates to 'The Hollow Widow'

More details below

You just found your old Walkman… What tape is inside?

When I was at school my favourite cassette said:
'New York Reality Check 101.'

***It was Bryan Adams***

I'm really excited to present some results from my PhD at this talk next week! Please do come along if you're interested to hear more about my work mapping out sleep and mental health symptom trajectories 😁

Came across this gem secondhand and had to get it. What are you all reading this Sunday?

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Do not forget the Robins as they are waiting for you.

Annual honesty (lunaria) starting to flower. The leaves taste like cabbage & the seeds like mustard. Fatty acids from the seeds have been used to treat multiple sclerosis.
Last year it got absolutely decimated by Cabbage White caterpillars. Good to see it back again!

the problem with zines as a practice research method is that they are sometimes just very silly

I have this recurring dream where I'm trying to repair an old barn/doocot to make it inhabitable.
I'm pinning a tarp to the ceiling, sealing gaps, scrubbing/cleaning and making a lean-to before the next downpour comes.
Not a proper restoration, more like a quick-fix.

Out for a trundle this morning. Blackthorn blossom everywhere, poplar & whitebeam sprouting into leaf. It might be a very wet spring, but it is definitely spring.
(Pictures are from a tree catalog as I'm rubbish at taking photos.)

'Hi. I'm self-acceptance.'

'And I'm self-improvement.'

'Hey, self-improvement, how was your day?'

'Oh, man, been working extra hard today.'

'Working on a project?'

'Nah, just trying to get ahead.'

'Ahead of what?'

'You know, ahead of the curve.'

'Oh, right, the curve.'

Great article on dermatillomania (skin picking disorder) and its link (often) with OCD.
This is an excellent description of this condition which many sufferers keep secret because of the sense of shame they feel.
Often overlooked by therapists, and an important subject to talk…

I've done a shockingly bad job of promoting this, but! I'm going to be at College of Psychiatrists of Ireland's spring conference next Thursday, talking a bit about neurodiversity, the double empathy problem, and how non-autistic people can be more autistic in their communication. Come say hi!

How Narrative Counts in Phenomenological Models of Schizophrenia

muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…