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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 17/09/2026

Non-autistic parents and professionals are lobbying for the term "profound autism." But autistic people themselves think the label is dangerous & will lead to autistic people with more needs getting less help. In @autisticadvocacy.org's #ProfoundAutism toolkit: autisticadvocacy.org/the-profound...

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The “Profound Autism” Label Hurts Autistic People

Functioning labels don’t help autistic people get what we need. They hurt us. Recently, some people have started using a new functioning label called profound autism.

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Baggage @labaggage.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It always struck me as an underappreciated consequence for descendants of enslaved people not to be able to trace a family history. I am very glad that Ancestry has made slavery records from the 19th century searchable. It's a good thing I think, way overdue. www.ancestry.co.uk/search/colle...

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Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1813-1834 - Ancestry

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Baggage @labaggage.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

@adhd-alien.bsky.social has written/drawn an amazing book, which left me crying in many places at how beautiful it is and how seen I felt while not leaving me feeling left out when my own experience has been different. This is a book that I think a lot of people would benefit from reading. 5 stars.

A bright pink and blue book titled "Feeling like an ADHD Alien by Pina Varnel" on a mossy wooden table top

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Ben Potts @ben-potts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We have less than two weeks left in our national survey on emergency department experiences. If you are Autistic or ADHD and have been to A&E, we would still love to hear your views and about your experience. Take part: edsurvey.link #AutRes #ADHDRes #Autism #ADHD #Neurodivergent

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you would like to add your voice to tens of thousands of people thanking RNLI volunteers for their work, 38 Degrees have organised this open letter to express public support (at a time when a hateful fringe have been intimidating & abusing RNLI volunteers) act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...

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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI

This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...

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Jaunty Art @jaunty.art · 04/10/2023

Tron Javolta

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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Natalie P (is not a vampire) 🦇 @sashette.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Genuinely not sure whether to laugh or cry. I mean, it's funny but it's not wrong and it's so fucking bleak. You want to shout "these idiots, their money will mean nothing when the earth burns!" but... it will. Because it will keep them alive for longer, and that's all they care about.

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Honest Government Ad | Ai Data Centres

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

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Baggage @labaggage.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

gamelab.virtxgroup.com Got a kid - 8-17 - who is interested in writing computer games, this might be a fab thing for them this summer.

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VirtX Game Lab · Summer 2026

Your child becomes a Global Tech Creator this August.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

“Who knows what other childhood curiosities are quietly growing into world-changing ideas right now in bedrooms, backyards and notebooks across the globe? The next big breakthrough might not come from a high-tech lab. It might come from a 10-year-old who just can’t stop wondering about butterflies”💖

Photo of 10 year old Japanese boy, Jo Nagai, with a black and white swallowtail butterfly on his jacket collar and another one on his index finger as he smiles at camera. Caption reads:

A Japanese boy noticed his butterflies seemed to recognise him. He spent two years designing an experiment and proved that metamorphosis does not erase memories formed during the caterpillar stage.

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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 04/07/2026

“Left to itself, power moves to protects the institution, not the child”

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Baggage @labaggage.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Some wonderful people are working on a new game. If you are interested in fantasy RPG video games and have a few minutes, you could fill out a survey here - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F..., or sign up for more info here - sycoraxgames.co.uk/titles

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Help Shape Our Next Game

We're an independent games studio crafting a fantasy RPG. It features 3D turn-based combat in highly polished arenas. Narrative elements are delivered via lavishly illustrated, 2D, interactive graphic...

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

GOD. DAMN. This Louisiana man fucking COOKED like I’ve seen very few people cook before.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 06/05/2026

Have you watched a video of a bat eating a banana lately? If not, don't you think it's about time? youtu.be/S8zhnXZdTFM?...

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'He's Cranky': Rescued Bat Enjoys Banana

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

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Supporting Healthcare Heroes UK (SHH-UK) @shh-uk.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Today is Long Covid Awareness Day. Long Covid is not over - especially for healthcare workers. They were there for us. Today, we are here for them. #LongCovidAwarenessDay #SafeAir4All Read more: shh-uk.org/working-i...

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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Weird Pride is a practice of becoming. A feral devotion to staying alive as ourselves in a world that keeps trying to make us something else autisticrealms.com/weird-pride-... Free Tickets to @ndhumanities.bsky.social More Than Neurodiversity Event Wed 4th March www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neurodiver...

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Weird Pride in a Hostile World | Autistic Realms

Weird Pride is a practice of becoming. A refusal to shrink. A quiet, feral devotion to staying alive as ourselves in a world that keeps trying to make us so ...

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I let out an audible gasp. What in the absolute fuck. There's a dark, dark, history of this. Of forced sterilization. I am so, so sick.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Today’s poem is called ‘How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail’.

How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail

I would rather
eat Quavers that are six weeks stale,
blow dry the man bun of Gareth Bale,
listen to the songs of Jimmy Nail,
than read one page of the Daily Mail.

If I was bored
in a waiting room in Perivale,
on a twelve-hour trip on Network Rail,
halfway through a circumnavigational sail,
I would not read the Daily Mail.

I would happily read
the autobiography of Dan Quayle,
1001 Things You Can Do With Kale,
selected scripts from Emmerdale,
if it meant I didn’t have to read the Daily Mail.

Far better to
stand outside in a storm of hail,
scratch a blackboard with a fingernail,
be swallowed by a humpback whale,
than have to read the Daily Mail.

If I was blind
and it was the only thing in Braille,
I still would not read the Daily Mail.

Brian Bilston

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Baggage @labaggage.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

A little burst of green in a dark world

A sprig of green beech leaves brightly lit by the sun against a dark forest background. The trunk of the tree and some ivy are also outlined by the light on the left of the picture.

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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

M.E.: "How it can shrink one's world, bit by bit" by Kornelia Paulsen (who no longer appears to be on X or IG). #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #SevereME

artist's impression of life: with 5 sections: before ME; mild ME; moderate ME; severe ME; very severe ME

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Oh no. It's Monday again. Isn't it.

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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 22/02/2026

#AutRes Being Autistic made me a better floor nurse and makes me a better prescriber & diagnostician 💯 Autistic healthcare professionals could fill the staffing shortage (read: labor crisis) if we paid fair wages, had universal healthcare, and accepted more PT positions w/in healthcare settings.

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Why We Need More Autistic Health Care Professionals and How to Support Them - Sara Eileen O’Neil Woods, 2026

Many autistic characteristics (especially attention to detail, social nonconformity, monotropism, and knowledge of autism) set autistic health care professional...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/02/2026

The entire British media fabricated a "scandal" at Tavistock and there were only 8 complaints over an entire decade. Yet the most actual common issues were about access to care and waiting lists. www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

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NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight

An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.

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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

"I have long Covid. Don’t call my chronic disease a ‘journey’: I would sooner call the experience a bad trip" Screenshot from February 2026 AMMES newsletter www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/c... #chronicillness #LongCovid #hiddenillness #invisibleillness #Spoonies #Spoonie #ChronicallyIll #MEcfs

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I have long Covid. Don’t call my chronic disease a ‘journey’: I would sooner call the experience a bad trip
Like an estimated 20 million Americans, I have an incurable post-acute infection syndrome that goes by the name of long Covid. Some people refer to the long Covid experience as a “journey.” I wish they would stop. I’m pinned down by it, stuck with it. I feel like I’m getting nowhere. Sugarcoating my bitter pill, a chronic disease, by calling it a “journey” might sweeten it for you, but not for me.
Read more here>>

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

2023- 1 in 5 Doctors had long covid. 1 in 4 nurses also have long covid. We will end up at a tipping point without action, with gaps throughout the labour force and at that point it will be very hard to turn things around. www.bma.org.uk/media/7318/b...

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Sometimes you just need a basket full of baby otters to make your day complete. Oh, look what I found! You can thank me later....

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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Post-translational modifications within fibrinaloid microclot complexes distinguish Pre-COVID-19 POTS, #LongCOVID, & Long COVID-POTS & reveal disease-specific molecular pathways by @resiapretorius.bsky.social et al. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Screenshot from Science for ME update #POTS

Post-translational modifications within fibrinaloid microclot complexes distinguish Pre-COVID-19 Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, Long COVID, and Long COVID-POTS and reveal disease-specific molecular pathways — Renata Madre Booyens et al.
"PTM profiling reveals distinct yet overlapping biochemical signatures invisible to standard blood tests" "Long COVID exhibits pro-coagulant fibrinogen modifications with metabolic dysregulation. PC-POTS and LC-POTS shows predominantly immune-oxidative disruptions"

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 09/01/2026

Autistic people are the most empathic, fair and generous people I know. And Simon Baron Cohen's earlier studies are very poorly designed. Fight me.

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Baggage @labaggage.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Those who know me on Facebook, I have lost my account there. Gone completely.

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