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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

And when are you going to make it available to people outwith the US? It can't be that hard.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Sweetheart, have you ever actually listened to the Archers?

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I know. It's like calling Gaza "a humanitarian crisis" rather than genocide.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social had it occurred to you to interview Robert Reich on Leading?

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

@thetrawl.bsky.social Before you bang on about "the boomers" think of those of us who ONLY have the state pension. Can you live on £921 a month? I didn't think so. We can never retire, until we fall over and end up in a horrendous care home. Just think before you speak.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The killing of one Trump supporter marks a dark day in the history of the US, but multiple school shootings do not?

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

As the daughter of refugees from Hitler I found driving through England terrifying today. English flags flying from lamp-posts, cars, houses, everywhere. Talk about inter-generational trauma. I felt properly unsafe and unwelcome. They'd not notice me because I look and sound right, but my parents?

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I discovered this today - an academic told me. I was shocked.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

It would be lovely to have the picture somewhere - I did a screenshot but it's not very clear.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I can't say I agree. I much prefer Kelso. And as a place to live, give me Selkirk anytime.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Not much, but I could tell you loads about Hawick in the Borders...

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

When will it be shown in the UK?

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

It's no good, you know. Once you've read / seen The Frogs, you can't forget ληκύθιον ἀπώλεσεν even if you are trying to be serious.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Apparently my face is not recognisable as a real face. So says the AI that's supposed to verify that I'm an adult. Well, I have been wearing it for nearly seventy years and I am pretty sure I am real.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

"Madness is an affliction which in war carries with it the advantage of surprise". Churchill said that in 1941 and although the US is not, strictly speaking, at war, I think we can all see the truth of that.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

ooh! I might even be able to go for the first time this year!

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

I am reminded of an old Jewish joke. Like most Jewish jokes, it is amusing but also tragic. In the trenches. Suddenly Moshe Cohen stands up and yells: "Are you meshugge to shoot like this? There are PEOPLE here!"

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

They are spoilt children. I wonder if they know that people find them ridiculous and embarrassing.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Welcome to the community of absolutely not freaks but normal logical intelligent empathic human beings who don't waste time or energy on stupidities because Society Says So.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Godawful doesn't touch it. Even the questions which aren't directly insulting are stupid. A play or a museum? Which play? Which museum? A library or a party? Which library? Which party? And how tired am I? And....!!!!

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

(and in case anyone doesn't already know this and calls me an antisemite, I am a Jew)

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Can someone tell me how it is not genocide to shoot at civilians (whom you starved) trying to get food? Can someone tell me how it is not genocide to bomb hospitals and schools? Can someone tell me how it is not genocide to kill children? It is genocide and Israel is replicating the Holocaust.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Agreed. And that is where the problem begins.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Such a relief to see this posted. I have been saying this ever since the decision and been called all sorts. I will be sharing this to all the people who have called me a terf (etc etc) for saying no, please actually READ the decision and you will find it does not say what you are saying it says.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Can you expand a bit? Films? Telly?

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I'm sorry, but not surprised, at the wait. That is why most adults without "obvious" (ha!) co-occurring conditions don't even try to go the NHS route. We collect our pennies, maybe over years, and go private.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Acknowledging that we need support makes us reflective human beings. We need community, to give and to receive support. As Naoki Higashida says, "this is being human".

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

That's how I feel too. Thank you for expressing it.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I know petitions are pointless, but still - sign this one. actionstorm.org/petitions/du...

actionstorm.org

Sign the Petition

Keep Trump out of Parliament

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Had you thought of the floor? I was not designed chair-shaped and always choose the floor when I can. Alternatively, a cuddle chair? Not sure whether a chair has a neurotype or a sexuality, though.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Actually...yes. I wish I could hide in my hair like you.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

John Swinney did call it ethnic cleansing.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I guess that at least means that ordinary humans in the US have not collectively gone off their trolley - the US did not take leave of its senses and vote for a lunatic, rapist, and convicted felon.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

We really do need to wake up. The Chancellor of Germany in 1932, Franz von Papen, said of Hitler: "That man for Chancellor? I'll make him postmaster and he can lick stamps with my head on them". Who was his successor, the very next year?

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

There are advantages to being old and getting your news from actual websites on an actual laptop. The Guardian and Al Jazeera, since you ask.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

That's the thing. Someone posted on FB that there are few people with sensible politics. I think it's much more that there are few people with any actual politics at all.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

No, but you'd love Hawick. Gwan gwan gwan you know it makes sense.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

This book is coming out in February. It is a tour de force written by 23 autistic counsellors / psychotherapists and edited by me. All sorts of amazing people have already endorsed it (I am slightly stunned). But actually...it is brilliant and you should buy it. www.pccs-books.co.uk/products/on-...

pccs-books.co.uk

On Being an Autistic Therapist 9781915220561 – Publication date 06/02/25

This book is about working as autistic counsellors and psychotherapists. It is a collection of stand-alone chapters put together by members of the international online collective Autistic Counsellors ...

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I do indeed. But I suspect I won't be here much, just as I was never on Xitter much. Facebook is much more accessible for me.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Tell them they didn't ask me or anyone I know either, so we cancel each other out.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

But "behinderung" suggests a better word. Autism is a *hindrance* in society as currently constituted.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Next step, Thought For The Day.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I am loving this, despite the fact that NONE of the bits of music are the sort of thing I'd normally listen to. Because I get why you love them and so I can love them too. As I said on Xitter, though, I am a bit concerned that you may be becoming a National Treasure.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I'm in the Borders too. There is a Selkirk for Yes group, not to speak of Pensioners for Indy Selkirk and the Valleys.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Stop being ageist. Your "Granda" may well be in one of the economically active groups, and fiercely pro-independence. I don't see the young people coming out to support stalls, leafletting, doorstepping, or rallies. It's us, the over-60s, who do most of the heavy lifting.

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Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Ah! Of course people use different names in different social media, and there are 1500 people in the group so (I confess) I don't always spot the names even when they are the same.

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