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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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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
At this point, it's just pathalogical
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qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ok, John!
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qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You say that name and all I see and hear in my head is "don't touch me when I'm on the toilet!"
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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most disappointing video you’ll see today.
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qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For sure, and I do at first couple listens, but after that... I'm harsh, I kick the ones I don't like to the curb! Then again I'm not an absolute loyalist to any band or artist, much less in fact than when I was younger. I may be strange, dunno
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qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Playing an album in full... It's not for me! Not keen on the skipping chapters in a book analogy, as how many books do you read as many times as you would listen to an album? After a while you just know you don't dig certain tracks. Life too short, spread your ears to other things!
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qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Huh? How has Lucy Connolly been destroyed? She's getting paid to spout horseshit on X... just like Braverman et al.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026
AI has lost the Mandate of Heaven I’m afraid. WSJ saying it’s a “when” the ai bubble bursts. SNL dabbing on their biggest names for being weird. FT says 50% of chips sold in 2026 and 2027 have nowhere to go. Hundreds of billions short on revenue for even 10% ROIC. A disaster.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33
Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
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qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Well I'm sure it's not my kind of old school techno!
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Sara @greatnelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If test scores is the measure of success then I have to concede that teaching to the test is remarkably effective but is it worth the losses elsewhere? The arts, humanities, languages, oracy, critical thinking, and mental health are a few that come to mind.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving?
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I only heard the Brian and Roger podcast with her in it for the first time the other day. What she does with Brian is all I will think of now when I hear of her, even more than a wilting lettuce
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qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yup, last caller I think it was
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qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Last caller I think... "And skip to the end!"
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anyone remember that time when two fighting aged men living at those barracks ran amok and assaulted a member of the public.... why didn't Piddington declare independence then I wonder? www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2324828...
oxfordmail.co.uk
Soldiers banned from every pub in Bicester after 'dreadful' attack on civilian
Bradley Barr and Owen Thomas, both 20, were given community orders
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qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I heard a frothing boomer calling for more on LBC this morning. These sort of people really can't see they're being played more than anyone
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
when you work at the BPAF but you’re beginning to realize there’s not going to be a successful IPO
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 12/09/2026
Reform has already enjoyed several years of support from a loss-making TV channel whose main function seems to be to give money and favourable coverage to its MPs. The government has done nothing about this. It's probably a more effective way of spending millions than Farage will manage.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A serious democratic society simply cannot allow this. That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas). The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much. It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power
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qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The railway station in S&S, yes me too!
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qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
POV: success! You have hit the north tower
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qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ah yes the mighty Doctor Avalanche! Also bands like Cocteau Twins using one for their amazing music meant I never had any qualms about their use in any genre
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qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"in the Temple of Love!"
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qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We have an expression for it over here in the UK, coined by @mrjamesob.bsky.social, I believe - the footballification of politics. I suppose you can help yourself to the term soccerification
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
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qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Do herself an injury? No, that would be the multiple scumbags who set on her, mate. "She walked into my fist" defence
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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A real test now of the media's appetite for Cambridge professors and their ethics.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI
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qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Incredible scenes!
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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.
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qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Wow, Get Out of Jail free card, bought with pocket change, and then no doubt can carry on committing the same crimes/negligence anyway. Papering over cracks
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qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I have but two words. Da f*ck?
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qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
youtu.be/IfHJgZptH-w?... As this lovely song outlines...
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STORYBOOK INTERNATIONAL UK Opening Larry Grossman 1983
YouTube video by ILOVETHE80S
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26
Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I asked once about it on Twitter I think, but no responses. Did I dream it? I think it was a Mod based thing. 2/2
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qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We had something similar in late 70s and early 80s Bucks playgrounds, but even more than this I remember kids going round chanting "1, 2, 3, 4, sound o-of chipmunk!....1, 2, 3, 4...", gathering a larger and larger group that I think removed into some sort of bundle. 1/2
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qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This mix of mine might also work...Listen to transfixture - 90s techno-trance - volume 1 by various artists on #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/l22qnGWwLwX5...
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transfixture - 90s techno-trance - volume 1
A look back at some older tracks that were of a time before techno and trance really split off from one another. Some of this falls more in what you might call the techno camp, but I've chosen the mus
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qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Chain Reaction is great, but also check out what might be considered the pre-cursor to that, Basic Channel. Timeless Berlin techno that keeps on giving
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