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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 19h

I've got a renewal quote for house insurance that's cheaper than last year what the fuck's going on.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 20h

Anyway, at least each day not drinking saves me enough to buy a dress or whatever off Vinted.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 21h

I don't even want to drink now but I still can't stop thinking about it. I was asked to do a pro/cons list and one of the huge pros is being able to fucking think about something else.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 22h

Saw someone post about Rowling Derangement Syndrome and it really ought to make someone think twice when they're nicking patter off Donald Trump.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just noticed I'm wearing a mouldy tshirt. It's been washed so it's stain rather than active mould at least. Not sure if I'm getting away with it looking like part of the fabric design.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Think that's enough arguing in news comments for today.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Had an email about a cockup in work so bad I began my reply with, "Oh, good lord"

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Appointment with support worker today, I am now considered 'abstinent' on the basis of 10 days in 14 without alcohol, ending with six continuous days. Moving me on to relapse prevention.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not drinking is more effort than managing with a perpetual hangover. I'm completely spent. The drawer's empty.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Turns out I can still feel absolutely awful about myself even when not drinking.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Looking at what people are at a food festival and baulked slightly seeing the first alcohol vendor and I guess that's going to be an ongoing source of hazard/anxiety.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

End of day 4 with no alcohol. New record.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Going to B&Q for pliers. Hoping they have a burger van.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm being expected to take me and the kids on a two hour round trip to visit my mum in hospital on a school night, a thing that not a single person involved will enjoy. Totally pointless.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I forgot that Christian Concern was Darlington Nurses too, not just Sandie Peggie.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A lot of attention is paid to JK Rowling's funding of anti-trans cases but plenty of significant ones are openly backed by Christian fundamentalists.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Christians shouldn't be allowed to self-ID. They should have to live as a Christian for at least two years and satisfy a panel of experts that they've been doing so and intend to do so permanently.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Got three onions caramelising in a big casserole dish, going to give them about an hour.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My liver has noticeably reduced in size #liver

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🎶slathering oestrogen on me legs🎶

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Probably saved about forty quid in booze costs so far this week.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

They keep coming up with new politicians whose names I have to mute.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

ok, did some drinking tonight. can't even really explain it, didn't want to, i was very keen to keep my three-day streak going, see how long i could get it. but there it is, streak broken.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bizarre how people on LinkedIn will use their professional accounts to argue with the RNLI.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Very fine dex job to do this morning where each mistake costs a hundred quid.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

72. Probably stop direct reporting there unless any significant milestones happen.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There must be a joke about the Piddington Peas but buggered if I can find it.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Short of burning it down and rebuilding, I don't see how the house will ever get tidy. It's too big a job.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

the kids have solved the Ship of Theseus problem. It's the same thing if some of the crew remain constant or the number of parts is less than 10. You're welcome, philosophers.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Imagine needing a government to agree what sex you are.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ha, got invited for a flu vaccination as a high risk patient due to liver disease (NB: self-afflicted)

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You May Offend as an album title for the Proclaimers is exactly what you'd expect from people who've had their minds burned away by social media. Twitter-addled pricks.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I was determined to earn another 24 hours dry but being at home with nothing to do had me crawling up the walls and I caved. Will try again.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

lol, not on my fucking watch you won't (usual ignorance of education being devolved is taken for granted of course)

Braverman said under a Reform government, schoolchildren will be forced to sing the national anthem and “our great hymns”.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I need some more male clothes for work but shopping for them is so depressing. All so dull.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Work is much nicer when: -there's nobody else in -i don't have to be home by any particular time

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There's probably a photography project in decaying covid signage.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Jon Ronson's book has made Graham Linehan even more angry and insane, something I wouldn't have believed possible.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Got my 24 hours, as they say in recovery parlance. Doesn't sound like much but I wouldn't even be able to guess how long it's been since I went that long without a drink.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Back to school time is always a bit more stressful because I have to communicate with the kids' mum to get information and it always goes wrong in strange and unpredictable ways.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

kid2's first day at big school is about to begin.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Paraphrasing slightly but today my support worker said if I don't leave my job I'll die. Not the first time it's been said by someone I'm seeing in a therapeutic context.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Probably going back on the antidepressants. Was worth a go I suppose.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Pleasantries in work emails should be banned. Bollocks do you hope I'm doing well.

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oatmaster @oatmaster.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In the interests of the environment work have taken away my printer and rendered two full toner cartridges obsolete, each of which represent about five years of typical printing.

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