Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social

Probably about time I took advantage of the intro offer (again).
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Gamer’s Dilemma www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/april/gamer-s-dilemma
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not sure I can manage it again. The word 'crestfallen' is my kryptonite, and makes my heart contract. He personifies it at the end. But, yes, great film.
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@shattenstone.bsky.social

Guardian football newsletter on intra team punchups funnelled me here. Interesting to see how abuse of players around race or sexuality or intellectual pursuits has/hasn't moved on. Also made me sad again about Vialli.
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Inspired watching World Championship gymnatics, I'm going plan a scoring system for transfers from wheelchair to toilet, shower, or bed based on time, style & efficacy. Extra bonus point for shouting 'I am gymnastics!' mid transfer. Points deducted for use of fall alarm or over extravagant swearing
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@pickardje.bsky.social saw this, and thought of you
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Can you spot the problem in an accessible hotel bathroom?
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www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/oct/21/elmet-booker-violence-greed-yorkshire-heath-fiona-mozley
ooooooooooooooh - sounds super interesting
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love @jonathanliew.bsky.social football columns, but this is something else - Measured, accurate, ringing a very loud and insistent alarm bell.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/10/immigration-debate-country-remigration-right
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shoes on after 30 mins reading about football, and a restorative emergency stale scone. My friend bought me this a few weeks ago. Seems apposite
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Pride v. energy. Wheelchair quandary pt 37 - getting your frigging shoes on.
Is it better to a) go out with 2 besocked feet on the footplate (bit shonky) b) one shoe on, one sock (current level of readiness) c) give up exhausted and stop in (again). I've already burned spoons getting trousers on.
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"If giving the land of England back to the people of England is theft, I am quite happy to call it theft."
open.substack.com/pub/orwell/p/if-giving-the-land-of-england-back?r=djez9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Read this yesterday. Very powerful for those of us with long term conditions which won't be on the death certificate, but will leach away life incrementally through UTIs, choke hazards, chest infections, falls. I agree. Thank you Stephen Sedley and @lrb.co.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n08/stephen-sedley/not-terminal?utm_campaign=1320530_20250510icymi&utm_medium=email&utm_source=LRB%20email&dm_i=7NIQ,SAXE,3EID4T,2CQC9,1
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Hence emergency services and a big hammer.
It's amazing how little you give a shit about flashing your minge at a fireman and firewoman when they are helping you get back in your wheelchair after being trapped on/in a toilet for an hour.
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They did not. Called into action, after wonderring where the hell I was, my beloved tried to unlock the door using a coin to turn the lock. Surprise! The mechanism was not attached.
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Yes, it was me.
Yes, I've used it before and knew the grabrails were insufficient but trusted that tasty dinner/panic/social embarrassment would override useless adaptations.
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Exciting times in a well known chain brasserie in Leeds as firefighters have to break into the accessible toilet to rescue a middle aged woman unable to get off the toilet.
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when I was 13 I was a Spandau Ballet fan, whose main life question briefly was 'Gary or Martin?'.
Now I'm 53, and ruminate ' @barneyronay.bsky.social or @jonathanliew.bsky.social ?'.
Your writings amuse me even when the subject is of no interest.
Thanks (and Pseuds Corner can do one).
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www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/02/errol-graham-disabled-man-death-review

Errol Flynn. When governments spend huge amounts of money to stifle policy cruelty
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The major downside of bluesky for the perpetually suggestible earworm afflicted (me)...rolling ELO internal soundtrack
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The mighty Rebecca Solnit
lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-how-to-comment-on-social-media/
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