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People swimming in a lake. In the middle a non-binary person in a red hat smiles and does thumbs up to the camera.

3rd anniversary of cold water swimming

A look back at the past three years of bouncing around in cold water

Standing across the River Mersey with the tide out and fog rolling in around the city of Liverpool.

Can AI help with mental health?

This week Buzzfeed announced 10 reasons why they would be using AI to help write content on their site, and you’ll never believe what happened next! Mass firings! I really feel for the writers there. Surely they can’t be replaced by AI? If you’ve played any video

A large Chinese arch lit up at night in purple with a car going through it.

So long Twitter

Last week, Elon Musk’s Twitter denied 3rd party Twitter apps access to the Twitter API. No reason was given. No-one from Twitter mentioned it or offered to look into the issue. Something clearly happened though, and a week later we were told that 3rd party Twitter clients were

Venice. Tall white buildings stand against a blue sky. The middle one has columns and a cross on top.

Yearly Theme Review

I believe that attempting to force restart your life 6 days after Christmas when you’ve probably got a tax return to start is a bad idea. Setting New Year Resolutions is setting yourself up for anxiety leading to depression. Unless, oddly, that’s your resolution but then if you

Black and white photo. People taking photos from Brooklyn promenade of the Manhattan skyline.

Hello 2023

Word up! It’s 2023! I hope you’re as happy as a sandboy, which is apparently a thing meaning blissfully happy. That sounds like a nice place to be. It goes without saying, which is why I’m writing this, that it’s OK to be as happy as

At dusk a single street light is turned on illuminating the promenade.

Happy Queermas?

Let’s put a pin in Christmas for now. I’m half way through and I’m at the stage all I want for Christmas is not be disabled, able to just do stuff and not suffer from depression. My brain does not make it easy to do anything. I’

Dusk on the banks of the River Mersey. A new moon rises and there's a slight orange glow on the horizon behind the city of Li

Happy Queermas

After spending the last few weeks wondering, “What is Christmas? Why is Christmas? Who is Christmas?” I bumped into a phrase via BBC 6 Music. Queermas. My brain lit up. Queermas! By Jove, they’re onto something. Would it be possible to dump the issues with Christmas and instead celebrate

The Milky Way galaxy floats in a sea of stars above a bay with mountains on the horizon.

Was my camera an early stimming toy?

A few years ago I found some Super 8 mm film footage of me playing with a camera as a young boy. I may have been 4 or 5 at the time. The camera has a range finder like look to it, but I doubt my parents were able to

What even is this time of year?

As I write this it is the 2nd day of Advent, aka 2nd December… one google later Wait, it’s not. Advent started on 27th November. It’s the 6th day of advent. So, Advent Calendars start on the 1st of December and countdown to Christmas. But Advent, the Christian

A street in Zagreb, Croatia. Most buildings are three stories high and painted yellow / orange.

An autistic person travels to Europe – Part 4

Disability in Croatia Before leaving the city of Split, my body decided it didn’t need my breakfast coffee. I followed the sign to the WC to be greeted by a full-body high turnstile gate. To the side, a woman sat by an open door with a disabled wheelchair

Sunset over Lake Geneva. Clouds roll over the mountains in the distance and yachts bob about on the lake.

An autistic person travels to Europe – Part 3

Ordering foreign food in a foreign language As an autistic person, I have food issues. If we go out somewhere I make sure they have a plain burger on the menu as anything else will be too complicated to order. At home I can eat all kinds of food, but

An autistic person travels to Europe – Part 2

Overload In Croatia, we got a coach from the capital City of Zagreb to the seaside port of Zadar. We booked specific seats as I’m 6 foot 5 and wanted the best legroom possible, and upon arrival found two women in our seats. Explaining the situation to the coach