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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 6h
Police in Bristol said they asked organisers of a far-right protest in city centre to move it or reschedule, because the big Shine Night Walk big cancer charity 10K fundraising walk of 2,000 people - mainly women - was planned for Friday night. Police confirmed the group refused, so walk postponed.
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Far right 'were asked to move' protest for cancer charity fundraiser
Police say they asked far-right Bristol Rises protesters to change their plans but 'an agreement could not be reached' so now the big Cancer Research event has been postponed
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 4h
Clippy the Word for windows assistant says:

Hey, it looks like you're waiting for ideal conditions to do that thing you've been wanting to do. Need I remind you that ideal conditions do not exist and will never happen?
•I'm aware
•Wow, rude
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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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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Lisa Simpson meme the screen says “billionaires won’t create jobs if we tax them” is a myth made up by billionaires so we won’t tax them.
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Given students I’ve been supporting have been forced to turn to private providers (which the Church pays for) because the waiting lists are so insane, the system failure are already here *and it’s not the patients’ fault*
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Scornflake Ghhhoul @scornflakegrrrl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
First there were too many gays, then too many depresseds and of course too many transes. Now it’s too many neurodivergents. And why should we be happy if we could just be normal. Arseholes.
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Privatisation in a nutshell: 1) Steal from us something we own. 2) Sell us back an inferior service 3) Charge us a higher price. The pattern is the same everywhere: royal mail, water, railways, the NHS, public services, council services…
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You can use sex as a shorthand label to DESCRIBE a set of biological features that usually occur on one of two combinations. It's handy to be able to say "male" instead of "functioning penis and testicles, testosterone at healthy levels, good response to that testosterone, presumably fertile"
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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The reason for this absurd definition, which was set into law by the supreme court many years after the equality act was written and put into place by an institutionally transphobic court that refused to allow any trans rights group standing to speak, is because you can't use biology to define sex.
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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Reminder that "biological sex" is not a thing that exists. It is a legal fiction in every place that refers to it. In the UK, in the equality act, it means "the sex that was written on your original birth certificate." Incidentally, it doesn't matter if that's due to a clerical error.
theguardian.com
‘We were horrified’: parents heartbroken as baby girl registered as male
Parents told Nottinghamshire registrar’s error on birth certificate cannot be changed
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Dani Donovan 👩🏻‍🎨 ADHD Comics @danidonovan.com · 08/10/2026
did it hurt? when you realized you over-explain because you're constantly bracing for judgment that hasn't actually happened yet
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Slurms MacKrueger @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The bit where the mice all put on their sunglasses, perfection
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 06/10/2026
You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 05/10/2026
Convinced that mRNA vaccines are gonna go down in history like the invention of antibiotics
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Punished 'Woke' Bane @baneforyou.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Austerity junkies be like "just one more spending cut man, that'll solve all the problems" for decades and never admit they have a problem
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026
I implore all cis people to read this.
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
God this shit was cool as fuck
Still from the movie Jurassic Park showing a raptor with genetic code projected onto it
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
spiders georg spiders georg eating breakfast with spiders georg it's just spiders should have guessed eat them all 'cuz i'm his guest breakfast with spiders georg
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Heartbreaking VIDEO for all my cis followers on here (please share with any other cis people you may know) It’s about Andy Burnham’s new Transphobic Section 28 in schools and the harm caused to one trans child as a result. I never say this but I will now; Please watch don’t scroll.
youtu.be
Trans kids are no longer safe in UK schools
YouTube video by Cool2BTrans
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For those in England & Wales who don’t get them on the NHS: private flu & covid jabs are available from today. I’ve just had both at my local pharmacy. £115 for the pair. Yes, that’s expensive, but if you’re a freelancer & don’t get sick pay it’s probably a lot cheaper than taking time off.
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
AI cannot and will not ever be able to employ contextual judgment the way a person can. it does not have any social adeptness. it does comparative pattern matching, it doesn’t actually KNOW anything in the way a human does
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Michael Legel @mjlegel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Professor Boops Boops @foxurchin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Went to the pub to briefly catch up with a friend I haven't seen in over a year, which was lovely in and of itself, but has also made me realise how much I miss just going to the pub with a friend.
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Robot Mel @robotmeile.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you see an increase in cancer diagnosis you don’t impose a wait limit on time it takes people to get assessed. You employ more cancer specialists. People are going after a disability because it’s an easy target. This is state sanctioned suffering, abuse and neglect.
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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
IRL I work w/disabled people who to varying extents rely on govt support to simply get to work. It has already been cut beyond the bone. They have to seriously consider that they no longer get to go outside. You can never convince me those responsible are not only morons but truly, deeply evil
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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
All the shite with the govt/media openly questioning if ADHD is even real is really mad because it gets framed as yet one more example of people wanting to "leech off the system" or whatever. Basically everyone I know who has gone through the diagnosis process desperately, *explicitly* wants to work
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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻
A painting of fat blobby bears
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Brosephine so scary 🎃 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Museums are so cool. “Wanna go see some old stuff?” Fuck yeah I do
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 15/09/2026
What I like about Ed Sheeran's "apolitical" excuse is that it reveals what "apolitical" really means for most white people. It doesn't mean apolitical, it just means "goes with whatever the majority does." That is radically distinct from apolitical.
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
you can destroy the world with a random number generator if you hook it up to the nukes, but you need a guy to do that. sans human interaction language models do nothing. they cannot think. they're not getting any closer to thought. they never will
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the only threats "AI" poses to society are when people put it in charge of things that require thought, or crash the economy over it, or destroy the environment to power it. but it's people doing all of those things. AI poses zero threat by itself as it cannot do anything due to not existing
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Professor Boops Boops @foxurchin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Due to a self-inflicted minor foot injury, I have to sleep with socks on. I hate sleeping with socks on. Technically I only need to keep one sock on, but the only thing worse than sleeping with socks on would be sleeping with a single sock on. My brain is very normal.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 12/09/2026
Obviously the Code of Practice doesn't apply to employers, but the Code is itself clear this is very likely to be unlawful in the context of service provision
The service provider should consider whether there is a suitable alternative service for the trans person to use. In the case of services which are necessary for everybody, such as toilets, it is very unlikely to be proportionate to put a trans person in a position where there is no service that they are allowed to use.
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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is exactly the outcome that the “gender-critical” movement, which is directing the EHRC, wanted. A situation in which trans people cannot exist in the workplace - or anywhere else in public - at all.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
This is the world JK Rowling helped create. This is what Harry Potter is funding. All the legal challenges to enforce this regime are backed by Rowling and her Harry Potter money.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
A trans man in the UK has been banned in the workplace restrooms after he was forced to use the women's restrooms to comply with the new EHRC guidance. The women complained because he is visibly male and so they told him he can't use any bathroom.
A screenshot of a Reddit post from the r/LegalAdviceUK subreddit by user Dijstraanon, titled "FtM transgender facing two different issues at work? England."
The post text reads:
"Brother in law is trans FtM and presents fully as a man. He's now facing an impossible situation at work with his employer telling him that due to recent legislation he must use the toilet of his birth gender. BUT several female colleagues have raised a grievance about him using their gendered toilet.
His employer has told him that he cannot use the toilet while he is at work until they sort it out and cannot give him a timeframe to do so. They do [cut off] have disabled separate toilets.
In the mean time one of his female colleagues has accused him of sexual harassment because he was used their gendered toilet. His menstrual cycle meant he needed to use the toilet.
He's been with the employer for just over 5 years but only in this location for 18 months. The location is mainly male with just a handful of females, and his workshop only has male toilets.
I do not know how to support him and as he's not in a union there is no one to turn too right now."
The post has an orange "Comments Moderated" tag, 169 upvotes, and 134 comments.
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Courtney Love Lies Bleeding 🫦 @hexadecibelle.fyi · 12/09/2026
im really hoping this is the end of the “trans man gotcha” argument. people didn’t listen to trans men when they asked us all to stop it, but this should bring the reality into sharp fucking focus.
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Professor Boops Boops @foxurchin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I had entirely forgotten about the fear of sharks behind grates in the swimming pool. Had nightmares about that as a kid!
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 11/09/2026
I would never want AI to take away the joy that I get from learning new things. I can't imagine why anyone would! I don't care how fast it can spit out code. The process, the problems that need solving—and sometimes the frustration—that make this work joyful.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
im inclined to agree with the techlords that AI is dangerous. again, not because it's alive but because they're insisting on putting it in positions where it can hurt people, leaving aside the promised jobpocalypse they're promising us. chimp with gun
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eerie dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 08/09/2026
Thinking about how Just Stop Oil members got years in jail for *planning* to blockade the M25, when AIUI anywhere you can get via the M25 you can get via other, lower-capacity routes, but a fascist paramilitary seizes a giant port, to which by definition there are no other routes, and it’s crickets
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/06/2026
A three panel meme of Fred Armisen in Parks & Rec as Raul.

Showing support for Palestine? Straight to jail.

Protesting about climate change? Jail.

Inciting racist riots? Believe it or not, straight to Radio 4 Today programme.
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 08/09/2026
you HAVE to get on board with beanie babies. beanie babies are going to leave you behind. you must devote your time to studying all the new beanie babies and how it impacts yuor life. also theyre alive and im in love with iggy the iguana
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/09/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars.
Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Art by Jonatan Maldonado
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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 07/09/2026
shit
hyprdrvn on threads

Executive function: "Do it now so you can relax later"
ADHD: "Counteroffer: remain vaguely stressed all day"
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/09/2026
Police are violence managers, working for those who have at best resigned themselves to managing fascists
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