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Tinkerer, hacker, helper of autistic people. Expect positivity, mountain bikes, fabrication and adventure. Queer as. She/They 🇬🇧/🇫🇷/🇪🇺/🏳️‍🌈

London, UK
Joined December 2014
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Good adventure today with @ratheruseful :) Still learning about my body and working stuff out. Woo for exercise.
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🧵Yesterday rocked. It’s fun to meet interesting folks… & joyful to explore new tools. Yesterday had both! We visited a startup developing a mobility scooter with nifty tech to keep it stable & upright. It’s a game changer, perfectly filling the gap between my ebike & stick
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Really fantastic day. Just made it home with a huge smile. Big thanks to @ratheruseful for support today. Love this pic… nice bit of well place scaffolding to lean on! Can’t wait till the new podcast series launches! Will let everyone know when we have the release dates :)
Really fun recording day for the 1800 seconds team: myself, @spacedoutsmiles and @robyn_steward chatting to @chloeshayden about her new book, being Quinni from #HeartbreakHigh, and living your best neurodivergent life 🙌 episode and clips coming with the new series soon! 👀
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Someone leaking the entire no fly list on this fucking blog is the funniest thing I've ever seen
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To those far-right English speakers who are up in arms about the idea of ditching gender-specific pronouns… is it also woke nonsense that English ditched gender-specific definite and indefinite articles centuries ago? Get a grip, y’all. If you’re that threatened, see a shrink.
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Rest is not a reward. Rest is something you're inherently worthy of. It is as essential as food/water. It makes you better at everything else. There's no shame in resting, meditating, going for a walk, or watching a little Netflix. Allow yourself to relax, refresh, and recharge.
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Ending the week on a high. Really fab chat with work stuff this morning and good exercise around hadliegh this afternoon with @ratheruseful Had a seaside(ish) burger for lunch. Sore. But good sore.
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Really exploring the limits on ebikes today with @ratheruseful. Wheel size options, shape, how to do the setup, really deep diving to try & understand the pain It’s super fun. Hurts a lot, learning lots. Exceptionally happy to even be riding again. Love this video oli made!
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This might be the happiest tweet I’ve written all year. Our experiment worked. I cycled up the hill on the trike is a super low gear. Then rode all the way back down on my bike! Video by @MisterWookie who helped make this happen. Here’s a thread 🧵 about it!
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I think these photos pretty much bookmark the start and end of the transition with my body. From a life where walking was trivial to a life where it’s not The 1st is @ratheruseful out riding before this happens The 2nd a selfie from a ride we did this week We’re doing okay :)
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Today was amazing. Ended the day day with a ride around one the local parks with @ratheruseful It’s wonderful. I am so grateful & happy with what we have achieved since my injury. Life is different now. But full of adventure.
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🙌🏽🏳️‍⚧️
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If you dropped out of school because you had undiagnosed ADHD, autism, dyslexia etc, you did not fail. The education system failed you.
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Today is perhaps one of the worse days of my life to date. The drs have done what they can. There no simple fix I can’t walk because of damage due to the infections. The infections are gone I should walk again. We don’t know how long. Intense physio starts next Bloody hell.
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Police & Crime Bill allows for:- • Gypsy & Traveller vehicles to be seized; • 3 months jail or £2.5k fine for a nomadic life without a travellers passport; • Banning of “disruptive” protests; • Up to 10 years jail for damage to a statue; Dangerous, totalitarian legislation.
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I am HOME! Here’s the moment I walked out of the hospital. I am on the mend. It’s slowly starting to hit me how close we came to something much worse. Got another few days of antibiotics and I am exhausted. But overall am damn good. Lots of sleep ahead.
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Wow wow wow. I have the most fantastic possible news. They fixed they pain. Details not suitable for Twitter but they fixed it!!! Words still hard but the pain is stop. Maybe a few more days till home. But it’s fixed. I am so happy. I jumping up down happy. To be outside.
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Had some fun riding around the nearby forest with @ratheruseful. Super mellow gravel riding with a thin layer of mud over the top. Was super fun. Really chill. Got utterly covered, but it thin / light mud which makes cleanup easy.
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I eat some flour I eat some yeast I turn into a leavened beast
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Big push tomorrow and Sunday to get these school bikes sorted.... Wish me luck 😂 #freebikes4kids #giving #community #cycling #recycle
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