amberlin.bsky.social
I dislike bio’s, really.
I’m a late 40 year old female with a 24-year-old daughter. We have two dogs, two cats, one guinea pig.
I was Arletta on Twitter. Went to Mastodon, but I don’t remember what name it was. I left though.
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Mr. Northern, you may eat the cheese.
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Not sure how unless they actually conclude that it’s a confidence vote. But then that would make them idiots, tbh.
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Also, ADHD can be really debilitating, even disabling. Having to deal with things like your brain being hyper, hyperfixations, forgetting your own name, never mind appointments or even why you entered a room, never being on time for, you know, anything is… disabling.
And PIP isn’t about working.
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I got many eye rolls for the above.
The only age appropriate materials bit lasted until about 15 when she stayed overnight at a friends and they watched a horror film. Something I didn’t know until months later, when she decided to inform me that it didn’t scare her.
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She’s been told since about 7 that video games etc aren’t real. That the actions in a game etc aren’t to be done in real life.
We have, since the point that I allowed her on to SM, discussed that “internet challenges/trends” are largely ridiculous and shouldn’t be done either.
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My daughter wasn’t allowed a SM account until 13, and I kept a fairly rigorous eye on her.
She didn’t get a mobile until secondary and it had to be off in school. They took them away for a time and asked a parent to come get it if the kids so much as looked at it.
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Yeah, basically. Over in the UK news, our foreign secretary has been speaking to an American equivalent. Upshot was: They think it will give time for “cool heads to prevail” and come up with “a diplomatic solution”.
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Still trying to work out the logic between one and the other. They don’t correlate.
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Still want to get their other welfare “reforms” through, remember.
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The hell is “competitive victimhood” when it’s about?
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Ugh. I don’t watch BBC anyway. There’d be even less reason to once they do that.
Only have a TV licence because a) I don’t want to get threatening letters until the end of time.
b) Not the bill payer.
c) Both my mum and daughter have occasional forays into on demand terrestrial TV.
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That’s as maybe. But I don’t want to hang out in a Nazi bar, thanks.
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Maybe when she went to school, she shared a class with 7 others called Susan, and decided in adulthood that to make herself stand out, she needed to add an extra s.
The name of choice when I was at school was Sarah, both with and without a h.
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Is it going to be forced? Will there by payment? Would it be mandatory to show it to whomever you were seeing for whatever reason?
These are my issues.
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It isn’t, as such, an objection to digital ID that is my issue. Lots of countries do it without issue, as far as I know.
My issue is that it’s going to end up as some sort of
“Papers please” to prove your nationality. Then to me it becomes an issue.
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A psephologist who doesn’t know how elections work. How useful are they really?
An opinion by me.
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I don’t personally have a first satnav story. My mum was taking my younger by 3 years brother back to uni. So I guess late 90’s. They had a satnav that kept “recalculating” loudly. Mum had the person she was with turn it off.
Not really had much luck with them since. She prefers an atlas still
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Even on mud tracks, which amazes me.
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There were these books. They were known as an atlas. They were filled with maps. You could get local ones. You’d figure it out before you left. You took the book of maps with you.
This is how we navigated in the before times. There were road signs and people we could ask if we got lost.
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I’m not even American and even I know you have hurricane seasons.
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Spoiler: No. You need equipment and soldiers, which we seem to lack.
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“I’m not on drugs. Mine are legal” *nods sagely, walks off smelling finger* - Some media company owner 2025.
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Plus the article about how MP’s can’t get used to being somebody to not being somebody. So they do what they can to remain somebody.
NB Not saying that you’re nobody if you’re not an MP. But to go from being a person that literally has people hanging on your every word. To not. It’d mess you up
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I think, personally, that her ego and psyche just couldn’t handle being so unceremoniously dumped twice. That she needed someone to blame it on and the Bank of England became it.
And she’s just trying to make hay off the back of it. To stop being the laughing stock of the political world.
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Or, for that, give it cancer.
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Not least of all, being PIP isn’t an out of work benefit.
People are really reluctant to employ disabled people <—- one of the main points to their consultation.
Taking people’s support away won’t make them more employable.
The only justification is they want to spend less money.
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Found it funny. I read the article. In summation: Well, yes, the NHS is not a good employer, but please don’t strike. It will undo all the good Labour has done in the NHS since. K. Thanks. Bye.
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Last I knew there were 6 who lost the whip for rebelling over it. They only gave it back to 4 of them, I believe. My memory might be fuzzy on that front.
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Oh. Is it similar to the ex-Tory MP who was a teacher, who was basically unemployable too.
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My cats go to the vet approximately every 3 months for defleaing/deworming.
I’m not the one that takes them, as it’s mum that drives. It’s me that one of them sulks at for at least a day.
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They did keep going “AI is the future”. Only reason I recall this is because I pointed and laughed at the time.
That it’s become their magical money tree wouldn’t be surprising.
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^^^ This. It’s his present stick with which to beat Starmer.
“I connect better with the average worker bee… er… person… than you do”
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Nothing overly bad happened, we don’t think. Lot of mopping later though.
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Can you imagine saying this for anything else:
“The bank not letting me rob them is ruining my life plan”
“I need to rip this CD to my computer and share it with my friends so I can be a DJ”
“I am going to copy and disseminate all these books so I can be a librarian”
I’d get jailed, fined etc
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Oh, that’s the “extra time to find a replacement that doesn’t exist” thing.
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*blinks*
I… erm… what?
There’s about one in every town and they’re usually empty, but I wish him luck.
Mum used to go to a line dance in ours. They went through three refurbs to try and attract people.
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Attendance Allowance being the only one, but that’s for those that are pension age, I think.
There’s nothing that will replace the PIP, Pension Credit and Carer’s that myself and my family will lose.
Then you get to the funding that my daughter won’t get that enables her to socialise.
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Lmao.