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Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 3h

The cats are in their beds. This has never happened. One of them sleeping in a designated bed is a rarity; both in beds is... concerning!

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Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 9h

Bones is in a nightclub explaining the mating rituals... my first anthropological discovery was the 'Coffee Pot Swap' a phenomena crucial to mating rituals in Nightlife in Ramsey. I discovered this while working behind the bar and significant participant observation...

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Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 9h

In the absence of any accessible medical interventions I am attempting to address my autistic burnout and salve the issues around late diagnosis by watching Bones and beginning to understand why losing my role at universities is causing so much distress... I need a community of squints!

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Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 12h

Or... we should return to bar tending being a respected and properly paid trade so staff know how to efficiently serve drinks rather than ripping off customers so pubs can keep employing kids the day after their 18th birthday for minimum wage.

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Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 13h

In the absence of a functioning or vaguely responsible CMHT I'm forced to look to private psychiatrists, except they all need an NHS referral and I can't get an appt with my GP for six weeks. So... that's shit!

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Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 14h

The Tories repealed the Summerland Act because they believed that an act banning flammable/melting cladding was just 'red tape' and that's how we got Grenfell and the cladding crisis of hundreds of unsafe, inhabited buildings. We have proof this is a bad idea...

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Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In my current state this seems a tad too prophetic for my liking...

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Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I love how cats show affection by just randomly appearing from nowhere and screaming in your face... I have one who hides on a windowsill so sometimes appears in midair. Chaos goblin love!

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Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Although of course in the UK the left of centre got elected and then did absolutely fuck all to fix anything and just did right wing stuff, so they got another guy in and he seems to be similarly feeble.

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Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Must of got that fella from YesCymru to do their investigation as well...

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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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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

People should differentiate "I don't like" and "this is bad". "I don't like jazz" is personal subjective, it does not mean it's bad, just that it is not to ones taste. "Political corruption is bad" is a statement of objective fact, it is a harm and net negative.

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Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I enjoy a good true crime documentary, but mainly the ones where the police fuck up. And I swear 90% of them come down to a super narrow, neurotypical set of assumptions about how a person 'should' behave when they've experienced a major trauma. I'd be in so much trouble if a murder happened near me

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The biggest con they ever pulled was convincing gullible idiots that pensions should be gambled. "Capital at risk" my arse. Pensions should be guaranteed under all circumstances. Otherwise, what's the fucking point?

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Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Managed to get up and out for my B12. Still have all the ADS symptoms and am now triggered by medical environments, so that's helpful...

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you've got an opinion you want on here - submit it to the form: forms.gle/1gNMupaNHQf8xeRE6

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Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If I'd known we could do this sort of thing, research committees would have involved a lot more interpretive dance...

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Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today will mostly involve attempting to take two cats to the vet at once. I am not overly hopeful of success but it may illicit shenanigans and the vet is if I only manage to get one...

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The front door of a home should only be used to welcome a baby, a newly married couple, and as an exit for a body in a coffin. At all other times, the back door should be used. This is only right and proper.

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Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Monk. Helped me a lot when I was diagnosed with OCD. And there was a monkey.

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Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Not only the arts would benefit from #ubi All aspects of human endeavour would benefit if everyone could sleep somewhere safe and eat enough.

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Introvert Problems @introvertproblems.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Trauma survivors can be MERCILESS w/ ourselves, telling ourselves EVERYTHING we feel or need is a "dramatic" "burden" we're imposing on someone else (even if we're alone in a room eating crackers). And right now someone's reading this thinking "OK, but I really AM that burden."

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“No one goes into academia to drive a Ferrari or live in a mansion. They do it because they love it. They don’t want to be striking. They just want a little bit of job security,” --- Theo Warshaw, Edinburgh University #HigherEd #teaching #student #strike #cuts www.theguardian.com/education/20...

theguardian.com

Edinburgh joins UK universities heading for strikes as cuts spread through entire sector

Students at Edinburgh, Dundee and Nottingham face a term without any teaching as sector struggles with rising financial uncertainty

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Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Probably worth remembering what the UK did in 2016 and that it has been systematically dismantling its HE sector ever since and only really funding Oxford and Cambridge. So no wonder it is the best in the world... it is the only one we fund!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well this 'bug' that fucks up scrolling in the Bluesky app is making Bluesky unusable (which is a problem for my autistic/traumatised brain) and needs fixing. If your scrolling app can't scroll thats a you problem, not something for me to fix @bsky.app

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Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think we need to try and trace why so many people link 'foreign actor' with Gerard Depardieu. I'm assuming a variety performance joke from our youth that has stuck in our collective subconscious? From when we only had four channels so we consumed collectively.

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Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Where I grew up our local bakery made a basic white loaf called 'White & Healthy' which always sounded very suspicious. Why are they having to tell me it is 'healthy' and what does that mean for their other loaves that don't include the word? Brown and poisonous?

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There's a van near me that sells "Genuine Baked Potatoes" and I never worried that anyone might substitute a fake potato until I read their sign. But they don't make any claims about the legitimacy of the fillings they let you choose. That'll be where the crime's happening.

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Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bluesky on my new iPad… when I’m scrolling, if I click on a post then leave a post my feed shoots back up to the top. Every time. It’s stopping me reading threads and comments. How do I stop this? @bsky.app

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Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

After ten years I got a new iPad.. I have no control over it. Zero. Just randomly poking the screen and hoping!

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Of all the things that facebook ruined, it was all the small clubs and events moving their online presence there. No more niche websites or forums. Just the dreary homogony of everything in the one same place - and assumption you were on facebook in the first place.

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Matt Nicholas @mattnic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hot take: professional archaeology in the UK accidentally invented the perfect modern career path. Break your back digging holes in your 20s and 30s, then spend the rest of your working life squinting at sherds and planning documents from behind a desk.

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Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We should. So we should probably make salaries enough to get a visa and stop people going on the news to say we all hate foreigners. Oh, and maybe try and save the HE sector so these foreign researchers have somewhere to do their research.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New word: CLICKWALL. (n) The opposite of clickbait. A headline so unappealing, promising so little reward even by the standards of these things, that it is physically impossible to tap the link to the article.

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Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah! Fuck you you equally tempered pricks... (As you may guess I a) only play naturally tempered instruments and b) am shit at the piano!)

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Companies that don't put a £sign on their menus, instead listing prices as 19.5 etc can have no legal recourse when I pay in tiddlywinks

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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

[Americans in 1348] oh no creg's got the pleg

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Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

An AI agent would not have done this!!! Do not put AI in charge of bullets and bombs!!! (I'm aware that world leaders are not following me here, but sometimes you just have to shout into the void and maybe someone will hear.)

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Call me old fashioned but I don't think the mission of Irish universities is to educate Chinese students in China or American students in America. We are not budding multinational businesses- we are a public service for students in Ireland, wherever they come from. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...