Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh Houston𝙱𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚅𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚒𝚛𝚎 𝚂𝚕𝚊𝚢𝚎𝚛 @bethyvampireslayer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yes, the adult thing to do is sit in silence while rights and societal inclusion you have had for decades are now being removed and the candidate who is supposed to represent you agrees with those rights and inclusions being removed. Your reaction isn't adult or responsible. 073
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh Houstonhannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'm on strike for the next five weeks with @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social because management continues to threaten mass compulsory redundancies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukEdinburgh University lecturers begin five-week strike over cutsMembers of the University and Colleges Union are walking out in part of a long-running dispute over job and course cuts. 711951
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonLaura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 10/09/2026For Houston and Angel, some forms of knowledge become available only once we stop merely talking about creeps and fully become creep. 🪲 Configurations of Creepiness 📖 Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1080/0969... #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepinessdoi.orgPSYCHOPATHIC HYMN FOR THE CREEPSThis article combines techniques from critical neurodiversity studies, trans auto- and autist-ethnography, and speculative creative writing to offer a neuroqueer account of creepiness from the insi... 111
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonLaura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 24/09/2026... a collaborative roundtable featuring @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @mostlyvoids.bsky.social @lejhouston.bsky.social @madeleinerose.bsky.social @sholtonbradley.bsky.social, asks what happens when creepiness becomes a way of researching, reading, creating, and thinking together. #CreepStudies 111
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonNels Anderson @nelsanderson.zone · 02/09/2026If you too would like to stop using increasingly shitty software made by bad people who make the world worse, I wrote a guide for how to lessen/end your small team's dependence on US-based tech services: nelsanderson.zone/a-guide-to-d...nelsanderson.zoneA Guide to Ditching US Tech (for Game Developers)This post is based on a guide from Paris Marx, host of Tech Won't Save Us, author of one excellent book and upcoming (likely also excellent) book last updated September 2nd, 2026 At this point, it's... 16578276
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonBirmingham UCU @birminghamucu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Please read and share this open letter from staff at risk of compulsory redundancy in Modern Languages at the Uni of Birmingham. It calls for the redundancies to be halted, for the equality impact assessment to be released, and for meaningful consideration of alternatives.birminghamucu.org“A national catastrophe” at home: open letter on redundanciesWe write as Translation and Interpreting staff at risk of compulsory redundancy at the University of Birmingham, together with the Birmingham UCU Committee. In brief: a University whose Vice-Chance… 04252
Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Genuinely so stoked to be part of this incredible, tentacular, gleefully bizarre venture. Huge congratulations to our amazing editors and to all involved. Run, don't walk, to read it. 143
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026This 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. 101646563
Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Experimenting with erasure poetry over on Substack: lejhouston.substack.com/p/tolerances... 020
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonLaura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Houston and Angel develop a neuroqueer, autoethnographic account of creepiness from the inside, transforming a "too-close reading" of J. G. Ballard's Crash into a methodology for "talk[ing] about creeps." #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #NeuroQueer 111
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonLaura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 10/09/2026🎶 Psychopathic Hymn for the Creeps: Neuroqueering Creepiness from the Inside Lloyd Meadhbh Houston & K Angel What if “creep” wasn’t a label but an assignment to embrace? #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #NeuroQueer 121
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonLaura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 07/09/2026It is publication day for Configurations of Creepiness. More to come over the next few days, but for now, enjoy this sneak peek at our Foreword. Read the full issue here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cang20/3... 2227
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonLaura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 10/09/2026More posts to this #CreepStudies and #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness mega thread today! Featuring @lejhouston.bsky.social and K Angel. 121
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonMinx Marple @minxmarple.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Delighted to share the publication of THE EROTIC HAUNTOLOGY OF AUTOCORRECT: in Angelaki: Vol 31 , No 3-4 Configurations of The Creepy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... If you’d like a review copy, let me know 1247
Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 07/09/2026It's here! "Psychopathic Hymn for the Creeps: Neuroqueering Creepiness from the Inside" is a collaborative autist-ethnographic romp by myself and K Angel: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Fans of Ballard, Cronenberg, and all things fleshly and losing, check it out. 141
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonT. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Headlines: Such-and-such technology may someday be as smart as human brains! Reminder: *We already have human brains.* Billions of them. Most of them living in poverty and being exploited for the obscene benefit of a tiny number of the worst people in the world. 13872862044
Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I'm doing a sponsored fire walk in October for the amazing Cabaret Vs Cancer. I'd really appreciate any support you can offer: wonderful.org/fundraisers/...wonderful.orgLloyd Is Fire-Walking for Cabaret Vs Cancer | Wonderful.orgMy best friend, Karl, is a cancer survivor. He developed an extremely aggressive cancer in his late 20s that ultimately required the removal of most of 020
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15/08/2026The Daily Mail's best paid columnist is Boris Johnson. A man more deserving of scrutiny across the last two decades than practically anyone else in public life. 571171324
Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I have set up a Substack (sorry) and posted my first piece - a collaboration with the amazing @amygaeta.bsky.social originally written for a zine on s*x and disability: lejhouston.substack.com/p/fucking-au... Check it out and give me a follow if you fancy.lejhouston.substack.comFucking Autistically (with PJ Harvey)written in collaboration with Amy Gaeta 021
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonBelfast Telegraph @belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 27/07/2026I’ve thought long and hard about commenting on the controversy over the cancellation of the Women’s Rights Network (WRN) event at Féile an Phobail — not because I don’t have an opinion, but because it is a debate that attracts the most toxic elements, writes Allison Morris 🖋️ tinyurl.com/bdhmtsju 0198
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonKirsty McTear 🏳️⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 17/07/2026This was posted over on LinkedIn by @hexhampride.bsky.social, and I endorse every word of it… 511149
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonThinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 07/07/2026"Any time in the last 20 years, Simon Baron-Cohen could have asked the autism community or looked beyond his own biases at the existing literature […] but he was too busy being galaxy brained about autistic people." @ejwillingham.bsky.social on SBC, in our newsletter. buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...buttondown.comSimon Baron-Cohen has entered the chat againThis time in a Guardian piece in which he (sort of) retracts some previous assertions about autistic people and tees up a new multimillion dollar project. 39536
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonLucy James @lucyjames.games · 01/06/2026Some news from me! I quit GameSpot to launch something new. Introducing @lookingfor.game, an independent weekly newsletter where I highlight upcoming PC games and deliver demo codes straight to your inbox. Sign up at lookingfor.game 🥳lookingfor.gamelookingfor.gamelookingfor.game is a weekly newsletter that highlights upcoming PC games and delivers demo codes and playtesting opportunities straight to your inbox. Curated by Lucy James. It's time to find your ne... 2553777663
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonLesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 11/05/202650 free advance eprints available of my review of Katherine J. Parkin, The abortion market: buying and selling access in the era before Roe www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FMHAH...tandfonline.comThe abortion market: buying and selling access in the era before RoePublished in Women's History Review (Ahead of Print, 2026) 0104
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonSam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Going through an issue of the TLS from last December, I find a philosophy pun courtesy of Nigel Warburton that surely deserves wider currantsy. 720156
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 06/05/2026But tell me again how gender is fixed, innate, and binary. 46613
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonCN Lester 🏳️⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Have been on the same dose of Prozac for 22 years, after doctors trying different SSRIs/dosages throughout my teenage years. SSRIs have saved my life: they're not 'happy pills,' they're not shameful, and eugenicist bastards like RFKJ are precisely that - eugenicist bastards. 0177
Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Genuinely thrilled to have collaborated with the amazing Zara Slattery on this comic based my research on sexual health and cultural value. Huge thanks to @drannehanley.bsky.social and @claireplmartin.bsky.social for facilitating it, and to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding the underlying research. 083
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonChris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Given that academic job interview season is in full swing, for those of you who are in permanent positions - maybe check in on your precarious colleagues. I can guarantee a lot of them are having an awful time which is exacerbated by the fact that they have to do this every year. 0319
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/04/2026Feels like reality is setting in that there's been no oil getting through the strait of Hormuz for 2 months and countries are literally going to run out. Europe is on the verge of being out of jet fuel. Meanwhile, the stock market is st all time highs. None of it makes any sense. 771139194
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonPhil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 18/04/2026This is one of the most upsetting and disgusting things I've ever read. 72611
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonMegan Woodward @megan-woodward.bsky.social · 16/04/2025I'm very pleased to be supporting Dr Alice Hall and Dr Melissa Oliver-Powell in running the brand new research network, Reproduction and the Humanities, at York. We welcome members working on themes relating to reproduction across a range of disciplines reproductionandthehumanities.wordpress.comreproductionandthehumanities.wordpress.comReproduction and the HumanitiesA research network funded by the Centre for Modern Studies, University of York 173
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonKathryn Salamander: Witches' Road or bust 🎃 @transsalamander.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Biological sex does not mean "the thing we assume you are based on your genitals observed at birth." It's mostly a misnomer, but insofar as it describes anything real at all, it's a collection of biological attributes, many of which can be changed with HRT. It's neither binary nor immutable. 533993
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh Houston🏳️⚧️🇨🇩🇵🇸UnionBaddieMaddie @decolonizeunions.bsky.social · 07/04/2026👇🏻🎯Mandatory reading for my cis followers 34510
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 26/03/2026It's actually really fucked up watching so many people clamor to watch a new television series created by a woman who has proudly bragged she'll use the money she makes to try and kill my entire community. 312306543
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonPlashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 24/03/2026This week’s horror is our introductory module, which examines the literature, art, music, dialect, film and TV from the region 1500-2025 being forcibly replaced by an entire ‘success in HE’ module featuring two weeks on how to use AI. I designed my module to incorporate proper study skills… 2723074
Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Had an amazing day facilitating a neurodivergent zine-making workshop and doing some lino printing as part of Rebecca Worthy and Tiffany Murphy's brilliant "Different Strokes" event. It felt really good to slow down, chat, and think with and through my body rather than in spite of it. 040
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonAlan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 17/03/20261/3 Since I wrote this response to Nigel Biggar’s malicious and completely false attack on me and university colleagues in The Spectator he has re-published it on his subscribers-only substack with me as the poster boy for “bad” history teaching at Sussex. alanlester.co.uk/blog/smearin... 59840
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonHeartbreak Welkin @umabreakdown.bsky.social · 10/03/2026I love that these financial phantoms are all that gets quote unquote produced now. From now until the rapidly approaching apocalypse, a series of rug pulls and cries of "all my apes... ☹️". 042
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh Houstonnoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 04/03/2026i wind up tweeting this basically every time there's an article like this, but the fundamental thing to me: ask yourself whether you earnestly believe there's more social pressure to be trans, or more social pressure to be cis. it's actually a super easy one! 111115222
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh Houstonelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it. The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it 640952015
Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Looking forward to talking eggs and autism with @amygaeta.bsky.social tomorrow as part of the @ndhumanities.bsky.social symposium tomorrow: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neurodiver... You guys aren't ready for The Zone. 041
Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Thrilled to be performing in some new work by the amazing Danielle James as part of the Front and Centre festival at the Playhouse in Derry this Saturday. www.derryplayhouse.co.uk/event/first-... If you're in town, don't miss it. 040
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonThinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 01/03/2026CN: Murder Today is the Disability Day of Mourning, where we hold vigils for disabled people killed by their caregivers. George Hodgins—whose murder inspired Zoe Gross to hold the first DDOM—went to my son's school. My feelings remain raw 14 years later. -SR thinkingautismguide.com/2012/09/auti...thinkingautismguide.comAutistic Lives: Not Less Valuable — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISMOur society needs to more honest about parenting realities, & how to accept, support, and respect children with autism and other disabilities. 15329
Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Delighted to read Divya Victor's fantastic "Angelical Salutation of Every Girl in History" as part of @trincollcam.bsky.social's LGBTQ+ Arts Night yesterday. Huge congratulations to Jaysol Doy and his team, Lord Smith, and @trevorproject.bsky.social for a beautiful celebration of queerness. 030
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh Houstonparker @p42k32.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Divya Victor's Angelical Salutation lifts every girl into a chorus of resilience. I read it with liberation theology and Christ consciousness, then share the piece here: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/02….theatlantic.comA poem by Divya Victor: ‘Angelical Salutation of Every Girl in History’A poem 021
Reposted by Lloyd Meadhbh HoustonRachel Martin @racheljo.bsky.social · 24/02/2026www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su... 662109683