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vaneharriet.bsky.social
ex-homeschool kid • ex-fundamentalist • ex-Saskatooner • ex-academic • mom to a non-speaking autistic teen • unlearning it as I go
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mood: talking my 14-year-old self down from her vehement desire to braid and/or knit a Victorian mourning bracelet with all the hair I just thinned out into the sink (there’s definitely enough of it guys and it is definitely braidable) (don’t worry I won’t)

don’t know what my brain is doing today but I hate it

oh my god 😭😭 I want one so bad

v long, especially exhausting day and tomorrow is a) Monday b) still half term 😓

went on a clipper ride today - unexpected but kinda cool to see St Thomas’ Hospital flying the Intersex Progress Pride flag!

pretty London being pretty

saw a crocus today, come on spring **fist clench**

ok this is pretty good 😆

fuuuuuuuuck off

NO KINGS, ONLY TRAINS is a pretty great 2028 slogan for anyone who wants it

mood

“How do you tell people that you’re on their side? How do you convince someone that you are with them at the end of the day?” @ifbookspod.bsky.social is always a good listen but I particularly liked this one open.spotify.com/episode/3Tbk...

I just hemmed a pair of jeans and omg my arm is going to fall off how did seamstresses do this

"The mission: Force Americans to turn to high-speed rail by making flying in an airplane unthinkably terrifying."

If you do nothing else in this life, you've got to be kind.

Mark Carney famed radical

lest you think I exaggerate

my favourite Reddit comment so far:

omfg you guys (apparently (incredibly!!?) 8 injuries and no fatalities)

10.30 am on a Monday and this week has already made me cry that jagged dry-eyed helpless kind of crying bluuurgh