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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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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Ash @ashhuntly.bsky.social · 18h

The graphs in the very article show that diagnoses were around 0 to 1 percent in 2000 and have risen to a STAGGERING…. uh, 4 to 5 percent. A reasonable person might attribute this rise to the phenomenon known as: “we began diagnosing people.”

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Ash @ashhuntly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’m almost envious that Amazon was so personal here. Mine just used its Sherlockian level of deduction to determine: “buys dog treats to an Edinburgh address = owns a dog and lives in Edinburgh.”

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Tabby Arcade @tabbyarcade.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Some dude explaining why he doesn’t read books. (From a video of a woman quoting a passage from a book she likes)

Books are second-hand experience, and importing them into my system risks diluting the structures I carved through direct contact with the world. Jade reads to feel held; I read the world by letting it bite. Fiction is beautiful, sure
- but beauty is bait, and I don't let bait rewire my neural architecture.

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Day 8 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh against the job cuts imposed by senior management and their burgeoning salaries. Yesterday, a victory: the Principal announced he is stepping down in 2028. We must, however, change the system that elects Principals ...

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jbralston.bsky.social @jbralston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He failed at Hong Kong but still got the post at Edinburgh. He tried to destroy Edinburgh and still got knighted and lauded. He can't leave soon enough. A blight on higher education. www.scotsman.com/education/pe...

scotsman.com

Peter Mathieson to step down as Edinburgh University Principal after years of turmoil

Sir Peter made the unexpected announcement at Tuesday’s meeting of the university court

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

One of the big reasons I cut off my parent is realising that the hurt, frustration and shame I felt as a kid and an adult was actually not normal at all. I wasn't part of some new cultural movement against my parent, it was the opposite, that my experience was something of a cultural outlier.

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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

41% staffing cuts in the Faculty of Arts at UoN. We're entering a wilderness of creativity and critical thinking.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

'seven women...have told the Guardian they are survivors of domestic abuse carried out by key figures in the anti-immigration street patrol movement. All have chosen to come forward to make the public aware of the patterns of violence behind this new form of activism.'

theguardian.com

‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols

Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Healthcare experts have signed an open letter to Health Secretary Yvette Cooper escalating concerns over the rationale behind NHS England’s evidence reviews of gender-affirming care for under-18s. Read the full statement here: transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/10...

Text reads: Experts escalate concerns over NHS England’s evidence reviews of gender-affirming care. Healthcare experts have signed an open letter to Health Secretary Yvette Cooper escalating concerns over the rationale behind NHS England’s evidence reviews of gender-affirming care for under-18s.

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Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've been wondering what's actually up here for a while + you're not going to believe this but the answer is, once again, private equity. www.avclub.com/shout-factor...

avclub.com

Shout! Factory put old "lost" TV directly into fans' hands—until one day it didn't

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

it was smart of jacob geller to only post about what he did to his 50k followers on here instead of to his 1.5 million youtube subs or on his patreon. that way fewer people know about it and he limits the financial hit

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Ash @ashhuntly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Prison abolition and restorative justice have been relatively fringe issues in leftist spaces (note: fringe and unimportant are not the same thing). When they do come up, it’s most often in relation to breaking the cycle of judicial abuse, poverty and crime within marginalised communities.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 05/10/2026

UCU members at Edinburgh uni are on strike today. Over 400 film and TV professionals, including Alan Cumming, Hugh Bonneville and Michelle Dockery, back their call to reinstate three creative programmes. Cuts are hitting universities across the UK: educationitsours.org.uk/map/

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Skybox @skyboxcritics.com · 04/10/2026

Consider The Woodchipper by @edgarallanbro.bsky.social CW: sexual assault, rape "Let me be clear: you are not a victim of what Geller did." Read on:

skyboxcritics.com

Consider The Woodchipper

A response to "What Do We Do With Jacob Gellar?"

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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is what I'm talking about when I bring up that genAI bots are making it impossible for an open web to actually exist. It becomes expensive, a pain, and domain providers like cloudflare are profiting off both the people making bots and the people who don't have the tech skills to fight them off

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

My GP recommends swimming for my back. I want to go. There are 2 communal changing rooms. Labour say I should use the mens. I am a visibly female woman with a GRC. If I use the mens there's a serious risk of me being confronted and worse. So where do I go? I don't. I'm segregated from society.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this sucks. you want "restorative justice" as opposed to punishment, but what has he restored? what has he done? what does a youtuber losing his career for admitting to be a rapist have to do with carceral abolition when he has never and will never see prison time, or even actual consequences?

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