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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Agreed. I can find it hard but I try to not use headphones to listen to music or an audiobook every time I go for a walk. I’m trying to get myself comfortable with my own thoughts and let them wash over me so my brain can eventually calm and relax without distraction.

    Just let the walk itself be the gentle stimulation.


  • I do love a good walk.

    My two favourite are a beautiful hill/mountain walk in the sun with a light breeze to keep me cool or at night through a sleepy town or village with a light fog where the orange streetlights shine through.

    Both are so peaceful, it helps calm my anxiety.



  • I’m going to say something controversial:

    IMO, Game of Thrones is massively overrated (even without the terrible later seasons) and is just an excuse for a porn and gore fest. I put it in the same category as shows like The Boys.

    If you like it, fair enough, you do you, but nothing about that show resonated with me in any way.




  • I wouldn’t say it’s odd, but ask yourself if YOU feel safe doing it. If you don’t, is there something you can do to make you feel safer?

    It may have no mobile signal but does the house have a landline phone for you to make a check-in call with other friends or your parents?

    Does someone outside of the group know the address of where you’re going and what day you’ll be heading back to where there’s signal? Can you turn on location sharing in your phone with some people you trust? Is there a way for you to meet up with these guys before hand to get a vibe check on them?

    It’s good that you want to push yourself outside of your comfort zone, but do not feel bad saying “no, I don’t want to do that” if YOU don’t feel safe.

    If you feel safe then great, have fun, and let us know how it went 😊




  • Got five words for you: Tabloid Press and Social Media.

    Very few here in the UK actually possess the mental facilities to understand what is going on, hence why the most popular pastime is getting drunk and shouting at a screen showing millionaires punt a ball around an overly manicured field for 90 minutes.

    All they know is that after decades of Conservative government and now under Labour, their lives haven’t improved since the 2008 financial crisis. It’s only gotten slightly worse.

    So they fall hook, line, and sinker for far-right grifters who’ll happily serve up easy to understand boogymen to blame all their problems on because these cunts promise radical change as a departure from the managed slow decline the middle neoliberal parties offer.

    In the end, these Gammons will vote for the Sunday Roast and I will take great pleasure laughing openly in their faces.