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Sarah

@positivesarah.bsky.social
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Writer, reader and history nerd. Anne Boleyn fangirl. Loves cheese and coffee and music. Keeps chickens and secrets, is generally harmless and avoids arguments. Not good in the morning. #totp #books

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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Empress Reginius Georgius Reacts with 'Ew'
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
An AI doctor in your pocket - how can the NHS get patients to trust it? www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-doc...
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An AI doctor in your pocket - how can the NHS get patients to trust it?
The subject of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is something that divides many a dinner table. Not everybody trusts it.
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
On the face of it, weight-loss jabs & old-school slimming clubs don’t have a lot in common - would they surrender to biology over willpower when they realised that GLP-1s really worked? Nah. But the debate just got interesting. #slimmingworld #GLP1s mostlyevidencebased.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
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The end of the weight loss culture wars?
...the biology -vs- willpower argument just got interesting!
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One little thing that's making me happy when the world is a bit shit is the complete AUDACITY of the squirrel that keeps coming into our garden, hunting for food and burying stuff... Right under the beaks of our chickens. Who don't seem remotely bothered 😊
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Happy Dancing Squirrel
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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.” ― Virginia Woolf writingforwellbeing.co.uk #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity
Virginia Woolf
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Some days, knowing that I'm likely going to be freelance again soon after four years of employment feels quite positive and exciting. Other days it's absolutely terrifying...
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You know what I really hate about Trump? The fact that he's made me viscerally hate another person. Him. I've had plenty of people upset me in my life and don't particularly like them. But hate? Never really felt it before. Disgusting, loathsome man.
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Derek Morrison (@gastonbc44) on Threads
OMG this is BRILLIANT!!! Enshitification is a business model. Our Nordic friends use the dryest humour ever to point it out. Love it!
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
All these AI images are making me want to draw again...I was never that good but I used to love drawing until I got RSI 20 years ago. I'm just sick of everything looking the same. Identikit images and designs. I think I preferred it when it was really bad and people had three hands or six fingers.
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
mostlyevidencebased.substack.com/p/being-fat-... Well it wasn't. But the discourse is still 'you're lazy' if you use the jabs... 🙄
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Being fat was never your fault
...what GLP-1s are teaching us about the weight struggle
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Christchurch Park in Ipswich is always pretty in late summer/autumn, too...
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm so tired right now. Life, the news, AI images of eighties fashion, all of it...just utterly exhausted by everything. I think I need to go to the park and watch the squirrels.
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Erin Krakow: This Too Shall Pass (When Calls The Heart)
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What has happened to people that's turned them into the sort of morally vacant creature that thinks attacking a charity for saving lives is the right thing to do? Even if they get the *right* charity. What's happening to compassion?
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Funny that, isn't it? Who would have thought a vaccine worked? 😂
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Polite request: Can billionaires please stop effing up the planet? It's very old, and we don't have another one. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Earth and Moon View (Dababy2015murder)
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/09/2026
UK to force Apple and Google to block explicit images on children’s smartphones
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UK to force Apple and Google to block explicit images on children’s smartphones
Lisa Nandy says government will introduce legislation after talks deadline ends without breakthrough Apple and Google will be forced to block explicit images on children’s smartphones by law in the UK after talks failed to produce a breakthrough, the government has said. The legislation commitment puts ministers on a collision course with two of the biggest players in Silicon Valley, months after the government announced a social media ban for under-16s. Continue reading...
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'm so discombobulated right now. Yesterday I made some eggs on toast for tea, but forgot I had added Marmite and then added smoked salmon too. Took me ages to work out why the salmon tasted different. But it actually worked! First meal I managed to finish all day 😂🍴
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Kasey Jones @nikitairoh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is brilliant. Made me chuckle...
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It happened to my step dad. He eventually found an old school GP at his practice who took him off almost everything, saying he was literally being 'poisoned' by the combination of meds he was on. He felt much better afterwards.
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Not my image, I took it from Pinterest but I really love it!
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Look, spiders, I've got enough going on at the moment without you buggers invading my house and making me run into the kitchen like a girly wuss.
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
That's a niche joke, but I know where you're coming from.
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In more positive health news, I turned down the flu jab this year. I'm no longer obese and don't qualify! And I reported my weight and blood pressure for my latest HRT review and my BP is actually LOW.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Brown bear floating along in Bristol Bay Alaska: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My eyes...
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Good Night: Stained Glass Sunset
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Is it bad that I've had so many aura migraines recently that I've started to get used to them? This too shall pass but why do they always come on out of absolutely nowhere??
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Cortisol Decrease
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
youtu.be/ekc_aR5LyAk?... I've had this classic eighties tune on the brain all day long. It's a bit of a classic and sums up my mood right now 🎶
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Erasure - Ship of Fools (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by Erasure
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I don't even have to ask who you mean...
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If you want to know where my mental state is at this week... I just got on a train to meet up with a friend in Felixstowe... An hour early. Oops. #stressed 😳😳 At least the sun is out and Felixstowe is pretty.
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I could get behind that!
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Oh oui!
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It's so lovely there. And they have an absolutely top notch antique/junk shop next to the car park 😂
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We've never had so much health information. So why are we still confused? www.linkedin.com/pulse/weve-n...
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We've never had so much health information. So why are we still confused?
It's never been this easy to find health information. We have access to more of it than we've ever had at any point in human history.
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I think this week will be much improved by binge watching the whole of Rivals again, to cheer myself up. Being on Mounjaro, a big fat cake doesn't do the trick any more... #stressed #cortisol.
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Rivals: Rupert Campbell Black
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I've spent all weekend, and will probably spend all next week, when I'm on official annual leave from the office job, writing. Apart from the time I spend at the gym (yay) pool (yay) optician (er..OK) dentist (OK) and hygienist (eek). I do have ONE fun lunch date booked in, though. 😀
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Busy Cat Typing on Laptop Meme
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The cost of weight loss drugs is creating a two-tier society when it comes to obesity and it’s making people who are desperate for a solution to their weight problem look for answers on dodgy websites. Ideas, anyone? chicksngiggles.substack.com/p/let-them-e...
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Let them eat salad - the new diet divide
...why so many people can't afford weight loss meds - and the NHS can't do anything about it.
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
mostlyevidencebased.substack.com/p/battle-of-... Does weight training really help with bingo wings during and after weight loss? You'd be surprised...I looked at the research to find out what works and what probably doesn't.
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Battle of the bingo wings
...can you beat the baggy skin after weight loss?
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The cost of weight loss drugs is creating a two-tier society when it comes to obesity and it’s making people who are desperate for a solution to their weight problem look for answers on dodgy websites. Ideas, anyone? chicksngiggles.substack.com/p/let-them-e...
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Let them eat salad - the new diet divide
...why so many people can't afford weight loss meds - and the NHS can't do anything about it.
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Oh no, not another heatwave warning 😱 ☀️ I looked up a few research papers to see what the experts think is the best way to chill out in the heat. You might be surprised! mostlyevidencebased.substack.com/p/how-to-kee...
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How to keep cool with heatwave v.02 incoming
...research tested strategies against getting too hot next time.
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Tuuune! Killing Joke weren't my thing as a 14 year old girl but I did really like that one...
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Thank you, we took on three other girls with Petal - Mrs Bitey, Sainsbury and Dora. We lost Dora earlier this year but Sainsbury (she was almost completely bald and looked like the last chicken at the supermarket) is still going strong, as is Bitey. We love them all, funny little characters 🔥
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I feel your lack of sleep. I'm up an average of three times most nights, I fall asleep quickly when I go to bed but then I'm awake again and needing a stretch the loo or whatever. Hot weather makes it even worse! But I get to mid afternoon and I reckon I could sleep for hours 😂
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Petal didn't make it 😭 She seemed to be better for a few days but we think she had a growth. She passed away last weekend. We rescued her from a commercial farm and she retired to a better life as a pet, but our rescue girls don't tend to live long lives, sadly.
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Clearly I was too sleep deprived to add the link 😂😴😴😴
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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Why can't midlife women sleep any more?
...and why won't my legs stay still?
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
My relentlessly crap sleep led me to try and research midlife sleep, restless legs and hormonal fluctuations. I spoke to experts and looked at research but I'm not sure if I'm any the wiser... How are you sleeping? 😴
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I sleep for exactly 6 hours and 19 minutes last night. Meh. youtu.be/V3Evmh8IiAY?...
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Monday Morning 5.19 (Official Video)
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Sarah @positivesarah.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I need to post more on BlueSky! Meanwhile, my latest post: The algorithm will see you now... I had an argument with a woman on FB today, who told me she was taking legit #retatrutide - and I eyerolled myself into next week... #mounjaro #wegovy open.substack.com/pub/mostlyev...
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The algorithm will see you now...
How social media is shaping GLP-1 use
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