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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Found this beret left on a bin this morning. Me, staring at it: ‘I want to put it on.’ Jay: ‘Fuck no. Absolutely not. What if there’s nits in it?’ Me: ‘But they’d be nits playing golf.’ Jay: ‘Giant golf. As opposed to Mini Golf.’

Golf green beret sitting on a blue bin. With flag and golf ball on it.

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Smithdown ASDA lighting up for me tonight, out of respect

Green ASDA supermarket sign but only ASD is lit up

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I too will be pulling out of the Ed Sheeran tour

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A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs @500songspodcast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“I wasn’t shocked because I had won the Grammy, I was shocked because Tony Bennett had said my name.” Amy Winehouse would have been 43 today.

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Look, nothing (and I mean nothing) will ever taste as good as an ice-cold Diet Coke after a plate of salty chips drenched in vinegar.

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In today’s visit to the GP, I misheard a doctor examining my stomach telling me to hold hands. What she’d actually said was ‘cold hands.’ But it was too late

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Found this yards from a drain so am guessing It snatched Cousin It. Otherwise they’ve eloped which is quite nice, really

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I would happily just listen to Andrew dissect old children’s tv themes.

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abby (sports) @stabbyabby.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We’re all gonna have to work so much harder at making the world a better place to make up for the loss of Dolly. She did 100 people’s worth of good deeds

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Would kill to watch a Louis Theroux style documentary about anorexia that’s instead hosted by Danny Dyer, who spends sixty minutes being completely boggled that 'these people don't fancy anything'

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Would kill to watch a Louis Theroux style documentary about anorexia that’s instead hosted by Danny Dyer, who spends sixty minutes being completely boggled that 'these people don't fancy anything'

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Ed Stern @edstern.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Another absolute belter of a piece. Lots to chew on here.

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Weird that you can cross the street and expect to stumble upon a Michael Jackson tribute act. Yet to see somebody in a striped tie doing his best ‘Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport’ outside the Lord Street McDonald’s, however

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Outraged to see I’m in an autism starter pack. I’m blatantly autism bread course. Or pudding

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Bus Wankers (Magical Mystery Tour Edition)

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I do wonder if some of Arday’s claims described in The Guardian (the intruder, receiving a whole pig and poison, which he alleged to have reported to police) were some form of delusions. Why wasn’t he assessed by a mental health team, and instead paraded all over the news? Because he was black.

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Loz ⚔️ @lozzagilbert.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

So pleased to be cast alongside Elsa in the new series as the first wheelchair-using character, Benny Fitzscrounger! In place of a wheelchair (as it was too unrealistic for a fantasy setting), Benny is generously lent a broom transfigured by the Mota Bilitum spell

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Unfortunately I put this on social media as a joke and a former colleague thought this was why I left the NHS

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Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 14/08/2026

I think Jason Arday was a fantasist who ended up terribly out of his depth. I think his institutions put him there because it was good for their optics, with no thought for safeguarding. I think they tried to respond to the cracks showing by covering them up, and I doubt it was the first time.

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 14/08/2026

This. And I'm already seeing people erase his disability in real time. This isn't only about his Blackness, the NYT made a huge deal of his disability and reading level. This is how racism & ableism work together, they intersect to harm all Black people and target Black disabled people for death.

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Even in death he's "the black academic" in the Guardian.

Jason Arday, the black academic who resigned last week as a professor at the University of Cambridge, has been found dead at his home in south London.

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The truth is out!! Delighted to announce I’ve been cast in the new Harry Potter series as the first openly autistic character, Milda Spergers

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

New piece on Uta Frith’s recent statements here, originally written for The National Survivor User Network. (I’ll confess: when I first read ‘autism’s become broad, too broad’, I thought she meant too Northern)

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Uta Frith confirms my longstanding grudge against psychology: there’s a problem with power and…

A new paper by developmental psychologist Uta Frith claims that the diagnostic threshold for autism has become ‘too broad’, to the point…

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

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Uta Frith confirms my longstanding grudge against psychology: there’s a problem with power and…

A new paper by developmental psychologist Uta Frith claims that the diagnostic threshold for autism has become ‘too broad’, to the point…

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

New piece for @nsunnews.bsky.social on Uta Frith and the worrying trend of voyeurism within autism research that has endured longer than any sappy Instagram infographic on burnout. Wrote this for the only reason I ever write anything: I felt like I had to.

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Uta Frith confirms my longstanding grudge against psychology: there’s a problem with power and permission

When the power shifts to a community owning the language, there is profound discomfort in medical spaces and beyond.

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National Survivor User Network @nsunnews.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"When the power shifts to a community owning the language, there is profound discomfort in medical spaces and beyond." @pidgewilliams.bsky.social responds to a recent paper claiming that the diagnostic threshold for autism has become ‘too broad’. www.nsun.org.uk/uta-frith-co...

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Uta Frith confirms my longstanding grudge against psychology: there’s a problem with power and permission

When the power shifts to a community owning the language, there is profound discomfort in medical spaces and beyond.

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Third Crow @thirdcrow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is a great article, very on-point.

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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Uta Frith confirms my longstanding grudge against psychology: there’s a problem with power and permission

When the power shifts to a community owning the language, there is profound discomfort in medical spaces and beyond.

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Hi, I’ve started to use Instagram more regularly again (largely for writing purposes). You can follow me at @pidgewilliams or here: www.instagram.com/pidgewilliams

Opinion

Telly is weird. As an autistic person, l've never felt "wholesome'

Elsa Williams, writer

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Hello, these are original drawings and paintings that I made with my hands and brain and soul. They are also for sale because I also need to eat and stuff. Sadly we are corporeal. Thanks for looking. www.chloecumming.com

Grover and Kermit on Yupo paper, watercolour

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Hi, I’ve started to use Instagram more regularly again (largely for writing purposes). You can follow me at @pidgewilliams or here: www.instagram.com/pidgewilliams

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Been commissioned to write a piece about my concerns around clinical authority in psychology (in response to the new Uta Frith paper on autism). Just as a writer, not an expert or professional. Should be available soon.

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Please follow the silly little TikTok I’ve started for a cafe on Lark Lane in Liverpool (it’s very gay and there’s lots of puddings) www.tiktok.com/@pippinscorn...

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Please follow the silly little TikTok I’ve started for a cafe on Lark Lane in Liverpool (it’s very gay and there’s lots of puddings) www.tiktok.com/@pippinscorn...

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Hear me out. What if autism was magnetically attracted to me?

Telegraph article screenshot: Anybody can have autism now, says research pioneer

Academic warns that ‘almost magnetic attraction’ to having condition means term is being misused

Photo of Uma Frith, psychologist

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

There’s times I second guess whether I’m qualified to be writing about autism at all (simply from my own experience), due not to being an expert in the field of research. Then a so-called expert says this and I realise it’s all okay! Thank you, Uta!

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Leading expert says ‘anyone can have autism now’ as she claims spectrum is too broad

Professor Dame Uta Frith said social media could also be spreading ‘simplified or misleading ideas’ about autism

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A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs @500songspodcast.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Big news! 🤩 We recently passed 14,550 Patreon supporters, and we’re deeply grateful to each and every one of you. By signing up to the Patreon, you’ll be supporting Andrew researching and producing new episodes whilst gaining access to a whole library (we’re talking years) of bonus content.

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Get more from Andrew Hickey on Patreon

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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A real shame to see the BBC axe Live at The Apollo. It seemed like the only show on TV that actually lets stand-up comedians do stand-up comedy, and was a great platform for introducing newer acts to a TV audience.

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The families of Southport do Merseyside proud. They speak of their daughters with love, tenderness and courage, and better the lives of local children in their name. This documentary (aired last year) captures that. Remembering Alice, Elsie and Bebe.

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BBC One - Our Girls: The Southport Families

The parents of Alice, Elsie and Bebe on the love and legacy left behind.

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This team works so hard round the clock. Fantastic news and so deserved. Go and listen right now!

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Turning 30. (Captured by my sister, Lucy)

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Gave the socials graphics a little update.

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Bluesky! I’ve got a little part-time social media gig at an independent, queer-friendly Liverpool cafe. The owners are lovely and I’d love surprise them with some business over summer. Give @pippinscornerliv a follow on TikTok. Please share and like some posts? ❤️ vm.tiktok.com/ZN81DbjFd/

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