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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 6h

Indeed, precisely because such conspiracy theories around autism exist and have become mainstream, there is a massive amount of real medical science made public to explain why autism diagnoses have increased over time since the 1990s. The report instead blames it on social media, it would seem.

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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 6h

The review is definitely at odds with the medical literature on why the number of autism diagnoses has risen since the 1990s. In rejecting the established reason for the increase in autism diagnoses this century, the government is cutting close to some very dangerous conspiracy theories.

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Banjon @beardybanjo.bsky.social · 9h

I grew up* in back when ADHD was considered a completely fake diagnosis invented by Americans and big pharma and/or stigmatised to the point that a diagnosis was seen as little better than a ticket to a young offenders institution. I wonder why so many people my age got diagnosed in their 30s & 40s

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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 6h

A fascinating editorial decision from the BBC, to make the headline a scaremongering “AUTISM AND ADHD ARE BEING OVERDIAGNOSED”, and then, four bullet points later, have the author of the report quoted as essentially saying “nah, that’s bullshit, actually”.

ADHD and autism at risk of over-diagnosis, says report, as author warns of rise in mental ill health
Summary
• An official review in England finds there is a risk of people being over-diagnosed with
ADHD and autism - three key findings from the report
• As well as neurodevelopmental conditions, the review looks at mental ill health, particularly in younger people. Our health correspondent explains the difference
• It was commissioned earlier this year after Wes Streeting, then the health secretary, said there was an "over-diagnosis" of mental health conditions
• Speaking to Radio 4's Today programme earlier, review chair Prof Peter Fonagy said Streeting was "with respect, completely wrong"

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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 5h

Fun to think that we had a whole inquiry into the practices and ethics of the British press and yet a newspaper can run a splash that completely inverts the findings of a major medical study, just for kicks. bsky.app/profile/chri...

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 3h

Simply read this summary on what is driving the increased prevalence of mental health distress from the long awaiting final independent report into teenage mental health. Now compare it to the public discussion on mental health which basically comes down to social media and over-diagnosis.

The rise in mental distress among children and young people has unfolded alongside profound changes in the conditions of childhood. No single cause explains it. Family life, education, communities, digital environments and economic security all influence whether children feel safe and connected, have time to recover, can participate in everyday life and can look to the future with confidence.

Among the possible drivers, digital environments and educational pressures show the closest correspondence with the timing and pattern of rising distress. Neither is likely to be the principal cause. The evidence indicates that these environments have become more significant contributors than for previous generations, interacting with family circumstances, economic insecurity and existing vulnerability rather than operating alone. Continuous comparison and visible evaluation, disrupted sleep, reduced opportunities for belonging and recovery, and growing uncertainty may reinforce one another.

The strongest protective factors for mental health are supportive parenting relationships, positive educational experiences, and community participation and belonging. The pandemic, economic insecurity, pressures on families and the decline of community infrastructure do not explain the trend on their own, but they have intensified pressures and weakened sources of protection. These effects are not evenly distributed. Children experiencing poverty, discrimination, SEND, care experience or family stress often bear the greatest burden.

Prevention cannot rest solely on helping children cope with environments that place growing demands on them. It also requires action to improve those environments: more inclusive schools; protected time for rest, play and belonging; stronger community infrastructure; reduced poverty and insecurity; practical support for parents and carers; and enforceable duties on digital platforms to protect children while preserving the connection and support they can pro…

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 5h

The thing that pisses me off about about this is that loads of the people employed in the arts and entertainment and crucial to its success are unseen workers in jobs that are considered trade when they're not in services of the arts

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Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com · 6h

As tiresome as it is to hear Andy Burnham saying "innovation nation" over and over, it's arguably even worse to hear this talk of industrialisation. We have great, valuable export industries in the arts, TV, the BBC and higher education. All are being filleted; thousands out of work, and what for?

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Nyika @puzzledbyadream.bsky.social · 5h

Oh fuck off, no it doesn’t. What it does is give you the self understanding (and possibly medication) to succeed in life instead of thinking you are just a bit crap at stuff. www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

thetimes.com

ADHD label ‘risks lifelong harm to children’ as diagnoses surge

Landmark government review warns of a ‘tipping point’ as figures show the proportion of youngsters with an autism diagnosis has risen 40-fold

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 18h

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

Paul Ifeanyichukwu Gabriel @ @...•2h
Can you explain to me like a 5 yrs old ?

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Every video game -- and every piece of software -- will be personalized exactly to your preferences.

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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 3h

Just in time for someone to cite this article as a reason for not making adjustments and get their face torn off in an employment tribunal

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 4h

Fundamentally, Palantir is a fairly boring piece of software that is quite good at consolidating old incompatible databases which the public sector is full of, but it is just visibly a national security concern to embed a hostile power into every bit of the public sector, come on.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 14h

I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 17h

you never have to believe a word these people say about how it's a Hard World and Hard Things Must Be Done. they get off on this shit. one thing to think Hassan being executed is justified, another entirely to do it one handed while jacking yourself off like this.

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 17h

A major part of the reason why they want to live stream the execution is so that you personally will get upset with them for live streaming the execution, because upsetting you makes them happy. It’s all just so exhausting

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Incredible hype shot of a hedgehog

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

gorgeous framing of the idea that the increase in divorces in the 70s and later was not obviously a huge net good for society as well like no no you're right, before the 70s marriages were perfect, totally equal, the lower rate of divorce was definitely not due to massive structural disincentives-

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M☿th @monroetempleton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the Falklands is a really interesting litmus test insofar that it's a profoundly unambiguous example of self-determination, and yet we have this kind of dialogue from (in this case) reactionary centrists who advocate a much more pro-fascistic Darwinian foreign policy

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The Uncle Entrepeneur @uncledennis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think that, up until ~20 years ago, if your parents were really awful you could move a few towns over and only call 1-2x per month, maybe visit on Xmas. Now that the expectation is constant connection you have to be much more explicit to make them go away!

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Uk continues to have people pandering to headlines like “billionaires are fleeing the UK” and muttering about paying too much tax whilst vast numbers of people in fact pay little tax & have disproportionate amount of property ownership.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The simple answer, btw, is to pick a couple high-profile targets and destroy them. And the painfully obvious two to start with are (1) Elon's companies and (2) Oracle. The Oracle Corporation is one of the worst rent-seekers in the US. And Elon's just committing crimes left and right.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was raped at a frat party. It’s a shockingly common experience and preventative interventions in college are way too late.

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The answer to the question "what happened to the labour aristocracy" is largely "their kids went to red-bricks and their grandkids live in Shoreditch"

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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The intelligent, self-educated working class of that era went on to have children and grandchildren who were middle class, because in that era education did specifically drive social mobility. We've gone from two thirds of the population in manual/routine jobs to well below half

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the UK has three industries: higher education, whisky, and Games Workshop.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I actually laughed out loud when I read the incident that put him into the 18-day-coma, which I would feel bad about in any other context than sociopathic religious grifting.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think the problem is that for whatever reason, society/the media/whoever have correctly determined we need a way to reintegrate millions of people into society and from that incorrectly determined the way to do so is for the people who were wronged to apologize to the people who wronged them.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I love how euphemistic 'recruit workers' is here. Silly ministers, don't they realise they need to snap their fingers and create funding for training, and then travel forward several years for those workers to be trained?

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

These people think Israel is a settler-colony run by American expats that will collapse tomorrow if we just pass enough motions, when what it actually is is a borderline-rogue, nuclear armed state sat right in the middle of a geopolitical powder-keg.

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Lizany @1minutetoeleven.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

salem's lot when i was all of SEVEN which was the first in a long list of wildly age-inappropriate films that my parents made me watch as a kid

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

From the Home Secretary whose own policies have helped bolster human trafficking and who ended the family reunification route which actually helped women and children avoid these irregular routes. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

theguardian.com

Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood

Home secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is almost certainly true, and the UK fails women refugees in multiple ways, including by refusing safe routes to come here, wrongly rejecting asylum claims, barring family reunion & not recognising trafficking victims promptly or at all. If only Mahmood had the power to do something about this

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Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood

Home secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Getting Jacob Rees-Mogg to turn into Will Stancil for an hour is some real gonzo Video Game Achievement But Real Life shit. Absolutely incredible.

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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A common theme that drives me absolutely wild with elections/polling these days: 1. Right wing wrecks everything 2. Left of centre figure elected 3. Left of centre can’t fix all the damage in 5 seconds so the right wing, who have got 10x worse in the meantime, lead polls again/win next election

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Why would you allow this in court ever in a million billion years

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 03/10/2026

I despise this with the passion of a thousand burning suns

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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Decided to test this for myself and Pangram told me with "high confidence"(!!!!) that sentences of a fic I wrote in literally 2018 were AI-generated

A pangram screenshot. The actual text is: To Victoria’s surprise, Alex is the first to voice his support. “Fuck it. Let’s do it,” he shrugs, standing up and striding over to the front door. Victoria raises a skeptical brow at him, but swiftly turns her gaze to the rest of the group, awaiting their responses.
“If it’s going to… for lack of a better term, eat us, no matter what… then it might be easier, psychologically speaking, to speed up the inevitable,” PupDOS agrees; and then suddenly, she smiles. Not polite, not humouring, but genuine, almost… relieved. Sazley sees the smile, and barely conceals a frown, but no one else seems to take notice. “I’m in,” PupDOS says, and she is surer than she’s been about anything of late.
Sazley is quick to follow, breaking out into an awkward grin to suppress her nerves. “I, uh, I guess this is our best shot,” she says.
Sabrina and Rebecca exchange worried glances, neither one completely confident about this plan. Both of them sit for a second, just processing the possible pros and cons of going along with Victoria’s idea. Finally, Sabrina reaches her hand over until it is resting overtop of Rebecca’s, and she leans over and whispers something in her girlfriend’s ear. Rebecca smiles a little, and then she nods.

18% of it is highlighted as AI by pangram with "high confidence": Only two spans are highlighted as AI: the end of the Sazley paragraph, "I, uh, I guess this is our best shot," she says, and the first two sentences of the next paragraph: "Sabrina and Rebecca exchange worried glances, neither one completely confident about this plan. Both of them sit for a second, just processing the possible pros and cons of going along with Victoria's idea."

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Listening to an interview with Alan Milburn on Radio 4 and it’s so telling about the ocean of difference in attitudes between people who think they were in the New Labour government and people who were actually in the New Labour government.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a dreadful argument from Burnham. Empirically false - almost 6m people were granted settled status; about 4m are currently resident. More importantly panders to racism/xenophobia, and directly contradicts argument made in his speech about migrant contributions.

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"The party has also said it would look closer at whether parents' earnings and savings should be factored into welfare payments for their children" So according to the Tories, it's wrong to means-test benefits for boomers... but totally fine to do so for their adult children children.

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Conservatives pledge 'tough love' benefit rules for under-25s

The party says it would bring in new work requirements for young people claiming Universal Credit.

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fundamentally the BBC is being captured by an ever more niche audience as it desperately tries to goose online engagement and TV viewing figures. It cannot survive as a universial service if it keeps acting in this way.

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I do just fundamentally think it's not appropriate for a taxpayer funded broadcaster to be talking like this.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s as if had James Callaghan stood up in 1976 and saying “for the past 30 years we’ve been too concerned with price stability”.

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Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Healy on ITV just now saying we have a system which asks "how much are you entitled to" and that's absolutely not true, the welfare system in the UK has loads of conditionality to look for and find work, it's so weird Labour keep pretending otherwise

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Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You came into power and raised the cost of employing people, especially for entry level jobs and have been non-stop talking about how amazing AI is to boost productivity, which in reality comes through reducing entry level roles, and now have decided the cause of youth unemployment is welfare

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Luca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I await the first time a politician proposing some nuts new immigration restriction is asked what is otherwise the media’s favourite question: how are you going to pay for it??

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