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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

My mum has no-one now. I'm 300 miles away. I've been diagnosed with three new illnesses in the last six months, and am at my limit of coping. She's alone, and I feel awful, but I also feel nowhere near well enough to travel. Everything just feels so cold and so empty. I don't want this life anymore.

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I got a call that woke me at 8am, which is never good. My uncle died. He was my mum's last sibling alive (she's one of four) and she advocated tirelessly for him after a brain injury, and (after his wife died) has visited him every day in his care home. I don't know what more can happen this year.

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i'm incredibly tough, but medical gaslighting fucks me up no end. and to also drop 'oh did you know you have x' on someone, as well, super-casually (when no, oddly, i haven't been privy to the results of my mri until RIGHT NOW) and not tell them anything about what that means? just get fucked.

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

days like today are why i hate going to hospital. i've had a condition for 20 years. i KNOW it is that condition. today's consultant decided to try and persuade me i didn't, couldn't tell me a justifiable alternative, and also casually dropped another condition that showed on my mri without warning.

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i fear ts x max martin/shellback songs aren't for me, sadly. i'm glad for anyone enjoying the tloas era, but (just for my taste) even the weaker songs on ttpd were miles better than this. but that's ok! i'm glad someone likes them and her being happy is cute. can't enjoy every flavour of everything!

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just had a phonecall from ENT, who (for various insanely complicated and multi-departmental reasons) might want me to have a lumbar puncture, and this is my number one medical phobia of all time, as they've never been able to do one successfully before. I am so so so fucking tired of everything.

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The snippet we heard on the trailer sounds exactly like the famous 'wait for me, I'm coming' part from the musical Hadestown, if you're familiar with that. I heard it once and went, huh??? Tune is almost identical.

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Good luck to anyone who gets my organs if I die unexpectedly, because I have a strong feeling you will somehow inherit through osmosis my pathological love for any Jim Steinman song, as this is also how I was raised. (Also, I'm an Aries, so have fun with your new feral personality.)

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Cracked it, Swifties. Morse code for zero is 5 dashes, which, written down, looks like a five letter word. _ _ _ _ _ You know what is a five letter word? Clown. (ilu all this is said with affection)

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My favourite show is Hannibal, named for a killer who becomes fascinated with taunting an FBI agent who (after actually losing his mind from said games) sort of wants to be left alone but is obsessed with him in return and can't stop playing the game. Beginning to think Taylor Swift would beat him.

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Been in hospital ten hours now, and still waiting for a CT scan. I only went to the GP this morning, thinking it would be routine. I think I'm going to be here all night, in a chair. No sleep, no pain relief, no food, no drink, just lonely and sad. I want to go home. I don't want this to be my life.

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

£600 later, he has a urine infection. he has to to be on antibiotics for two weeks, and the tablets are the size of a house. even half a tablet has to be broken into three bits. he can sense crushed up pills in food, so i have to force them down him, and i hate it. can things stop being so much. :(

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

took my cat to the vet this morning, as he was lethargic and hadn't eaten/drank in 24 hours. i hoped it was an infection or upset stomach, but they think this bladder is a little larger than normal, so they've kept him in to do tests. i just cried when i left him. i need him to be ok. he's my boy.

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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A few years ago I went to a pig sanctuary and most of the pigs were stoned from eating green acorns. This one, Wilbur, couldn’t stand up and was too big to lift, so the staff had to leave him in this bush and wait for him to sober up.

Wilbur, a stoned pig lying in the dirt and unable to stand at Pigs in the Wood sanctuary, Huddersfield. I later adopted him.

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Then may I introduce to you: PAIN. (In a good way.)

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If only you were in the UK (I'm assuming you're not) as I just ate a pack today that, by the end of it, I wanted to scrape the pain off my tongue with my teeth. And I love the burn of Salt and Vinegar. But this pack was something else!

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

i need leslie odom jr to STOP because watching him in hamilton from the front row? a religious experience. age has nuanced his portrayal of burr perfectly. he cries after the duel and it is an emotional gutpunch. his comedy is a delight. his voice richer. his comfort in the role, deeper. perfection.

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"It's given a lot of people permission to be themselves, to not dream it, be it, which is the motto of the movie, really. I would like to be remembered for that." Farewell to Tim Curry (1946-2026) #RIP

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry was my first introduction to queer coded media. I loved The Worst Witch books as a kid, and his camp scene-stealing turn as The Grand Wizard in the film, spoke to something in a young me that didn't even know what queer was, just that I was someone else, other, different. RIP, my icon.

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

i am supposedly travelling to london tomorrow to see leslie odom jr in hamilton, and then back on thursday, on the train. let's play guess exactly which two days are going to be affected by thunderstorms and flash flooding, which we all know never messes with our indestructible rail network. 😐

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Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 25/08/2026

When a good and decent person leaves this world, I think the best thing we can do to honor them is to try to put even more goodness and decency into the world. It's not that we can replace them or their contribution. It's just that we need it all the more now that they're gone.

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

i speak to the sleep clinic on wednesday but can't explain how distressing this is. i nearly fell over just filling my cat's water bowl. i am a human zombie. i ask for so little. so fucking little. i survive on so fucking little. and now i'm supposed to be ok with less? no-one could cope with this.

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

i am awake maybe 6 hours a day. every bodily need (sleep, food, hydration) is causing problems. sleeping like this is so dangerous for circulation. i can't see my housemate. i can't help in the house. my cat doesn't understand why i can't stay awake. i don't want to do this anymore.

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

get up, fight to stay awake, try to eat/drink for blood sugar and dehydration, have to nap, get up, fight to stay awake, try to eat/drink, try to spend an hour watching tv so something happens outside my own head, have to sleep, get up, drink, go to bed, repeat, every 24 hours. this isn't living.

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

That's so good to know, thank you! I have an appointment in the next few weeks, and I'm thinking of asking their pressure advice, yes, as I'm unsure (even though my AHI is below 5, which is the magic number) that my episodes are still too many. I really appreciate the advice. It's all... a lot. 😩

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Thank you, seriously. I feel like my life has been robbed from me. I'm getting 12+ hours and could go back to bed within an hour of getting up. I keep telling myself it's sleep deficiency of years and my body trying to catch up, but it's really reassuring to hear it from someone. I appreciate you!

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Sorry to threadjack, stranger, but can I ask... did that ever stop? I am fully committed with my CPAP, with good numbers, but no matter how much sleep I get, I CANNOT stay awake. I need some hope here. 😅

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

i have no clue what to do atm. i was diagnosed with sleep apnoea, and have been using a cpap machine. i am religiously sticking to it, and my numbers are good. but i just can't stay awake. at all. i could sleep 20 hours a day easily. it's really terrifying me, as i want a life. i want to do things.

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I think of Japan, who often has (very urgent) text alerts, and always makes them bilingual. So yes, agree. Street signs, letters, etc, go for it, put Welsh first and English second. But for anyone older/less savvy with Google translate, that 5 minute gap between texts probably felt like a long time!

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I realise I'm in Wales, but to send an government emergency alert entirely in Welsh first, instead of Welsh/Engish at the same time??? I only extrapolated it wasn't an emergency because of 'barbeciwiau' but imagine it was??? English didn't arrive until several minutes later. Cheers for that!

An UK emergency text alert, on an iPhone lock screen. It says 'Severe Alert' in English, with the whole body of the text in Welsh. (It is about the danger of wildfires at present, and asks us not to have barbecues, or create small rubbish fires, etc, as it needlessly puts emergency services at risk.)

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

ice couldn't concentrate at work either, so i feel this is entirely in the spirit of the thing tbh

tom kazansky (val kilmer) in the movie top gun, sitting in a classroom. he is supposed to be paying attention to the teacher, but instead he is obsessively staring at pete mitchell (tom cruise), a rival pilot who is beautiful and a bit of a menace and will absolutely end up his gay navy wife ok the last bit isn't canon but yes it is

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Played with my cat today, and took many unflattering photos of him. I was about to delete one, until I zoomed in and saw HIS TINY TEEFERS. LOOK AT THEM. I AM VERKLEMPT.

A black cat with a bright green collar is sitting on a garden wall. In front of him, separating us, is a set of vertical metal railings, decorated with fake leaves and a trellis. I am poking a stick through the railings, and my cat is jumping up, claws extended, to paw at the stick. His eyes are wide and excited and you can see his large white teeth.

Zoomed in photo of the mouth of my black cat. His large fangs are visible, but inbetween them are two rows of teeth, top and bottom. They are arranged like human teeth, but are each the size of the head of a pin. SO TINY AND ADORABLE.

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Omg, I got that once from a pain management clinic, and (for some reason???) got the kitchen scales out and was compelled to start weighing all the mangos I had. No idea why, to this day. Wild stuff. Hope it works for you!

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

tw: cancer my mum just called. my cousin (who is like a second daughter to her) has a collapsed lung, out of nowhere. she's had an urgent scan and they think it's fluid on the lungs, a blood clot, or cancer. my mum is beside herself. i don't know why my family gets hit so hard by everything. fuck.

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

my body feels an ikea unit with bad instructions and i'm frantically googling how to put it back together except my tools are an overripe banana and a single sock and so i just lie here prodding my thigh and experiencing the pain of twelve billion nerve endings on fire all down my leg someone end me

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

TIL that the recurring nemesis in my life (perimenopause) which has made the last year a game of 'where has my personality gone?' and pops out every day like a semi-credible batman villain, could be the cause of my worsening frozen shoulders and sciatica??? is there anything this bitch doesn't ruin?

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Janagaraj's Unique Walk with a Box

Alt: a man walking with a limp, dragging one leg like it is a dead weight, and holding onto his butt cheek as though in pain. aka me right now.

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

i got out of bed, opened the front door and told him to move it on as he was scaring the shit out of my cat, and slammed the door. i am done being polite with selfish cunts who only think about themselves. i swear people have just got more and more inconsiderate and i want to move to antarctica.

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

i hate people i hate the summer holidays i want to live somewhere quiet i am losing my mind kids are outside screaming for 12 hours a day and some selfish fuck just stood outside with his untrained barking dog and having a loud chat while making no effort to control it and scaring my cat to death

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elizabeth @lizznotliz.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

LiveJournal, I miss you every day. 💔

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"I love you more than the world can contain in its lonely and ramshackle head." Sufjan, the poet that you are.

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I know Morrissey is a total tool, but nothing punches me in the gut as hard as the simplicity of: "last night I dreamt that somebody loved me."

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"Love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night." I try and live by this.

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Laura 🩸 @criminalbiscuit.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Still don't think a greater depiction of love-making exists than this. I know it's been quoted (and covered) to death but, to me, it stands alone. "And remember when I moved in you, the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah."

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