Notes and links from Wed 17 June: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/06/17/notes-and-links-from-wed.html

Status:
The big crash came last night, though it mostly subsided by this afternoon. I’m reluctant to assign a cause: could have been Sunday’s allotmenteering, could have been the psychotherapy. Could even have been the rejection I got from the art thing I applied for. [cont at link]

Links:
- The EHRC trans code explained
- Amnesty International exposed years of anti-trans reporting at four UK newspapers.
- Cross purposes: how the England flag got caught in a tug-of-war between rightwing nationalists and football fans
- Heatwave hacking
- Simone Giertz
- What if everything was antimatter EXCEPT Earth?
- Moviedrome: Welcome to the cult
- Bubbles.town

Notes and links from Tues 16 June: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/06/16/notes-and-links-from-tues.html

Status:
Psychotherapy today (I used to just call it “therapy” but now I’m having regular occupational therapy it’s getting a bit confusing as to which therapy I’m referring to) which went well and left me feeling good, though it may have opened up some doors I wasn’t aware of as I was a bit off late-afternoon. Nothing too bad, I hope. Found my head spinning with opinions on “important things” which I can’t really do anything about, which is usually a sign that my brain is a bit sprained and needs to rest.

Links:
- How the heck do solar panels work?
- A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis
- Eleven Guardian readers on the weirdest things their dogs have ever eaten
- Garbage Day went to that cage fighting thing at the White House
- The SpaceX IPO is a giant unworkable con orchestrated by an overt white supremacist huckster
- Heading in the wrong direction
- Practical Engineering: How to demolish a bridge

Notes and links from Mon 15 June: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/06/15/notes-and-links-from-mon.html

Status:
Rest day, but once the usual morning stress-dream trauma passed I was determined not to stay idle so have lightly pottered around the kitchen and garden. No crash after yesterday's exertions but there's still time on the old PEM countdown.

Today’s links:
- Life, Love, Liberty: The spirit of Marjane Satrapi
- Phil Gyford w/e 2026-06-14
- The bands who got left behind when punk exploded
- Lessons from Slime
- Laura Kampf
- The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s by Jason Burke
- Networks of New York, 2026 edition
- Joy by Means of Production

📸 Bindweed is a nightmare, but the flowers are really nice…

Notes and links from Sun 14 June: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/06/14/notes-and-links-from-sun.html

Relatively busy day today, though I tried to manage it to prevent a crash. I think I did OK? Will find out tomorrow I guess.

First had a visit from a friend who I hadn't seen for a long time. They've also got CFS symptoms though haven't gone through the diagnosis process yet. It was nice to be able to suggest things that have worked for me, hoping they can head it off at the pass, as it were — I'm pretty sure if I'd had an intervention earlier instead of being stuck on a waiting list I wouldn't have gotten quite so disabled. It also occurred to me that explaining to others is how I deepen my knowledge, so helping them understand the CFS management techniques will also help me. Could be a win-win.

(Cont at link)

📸 We planted this apple tree on the allotment in memory of my mum a few years ago. It's established itself very well.

Notes and links from Sat 13 June: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/06/13/notes-and-links-from-sat.html

Rest day after yesterday’s occupational therapy which is always followed by a bit of a comedown. An hour of sustained concentration and conversation takes a lot out of me. So I’ve spent most of today in the garden, reading in the hammock and pottering in the shed.
Great-nephew M came over for a bit to hang out. His request, which was nice. Fi had come back from some art thing in Balsall He...

Notes and links from Fri 12 June: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/06/12/notes-and-links-from-fri.html

Had my monthly session with the NHS occupational therapist for my chronic fatigue today. This was the sixth session and we’re definitely over the hump of what I need to be doing and into how I’m getting on with doing it. Short report is things are going well. While there have been crashes and slumps I’ve anticipated them and managed them, and I’ve had extended periods of paced pottering wh...

Notes and links from Thur 11 June: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/06/11/231358.html

Pottering again, and while tidying the shed I came across the little bilge pump I’d bought some summers back with the intention of pumping bath water onto the lawn (which is annoyingly a few degrees uphill from the house) during a heatwave. I never got it to work, because CFS, but thought I’d give it a go with my new pacing skills. The trick was getting a 12v power supply with enough juice but then I found...