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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 8h

Can we normalise RSVPing for funerals? It would make planning a lot easier.

sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 13h

Every Friday my dad would take a bag of groceries each to three food banks. This week I emptied his cupboards a took a last bag to each of them from him. The refugee forum, they said, “Oh, we’ve missed your dad, how is he?” Then both volunteers gave me a hug and said how sorry they were.

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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 20h

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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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 23h

Who cares if it makes for a better experience for both teachers and students?

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Just had the small satisfaction of telling a conservative canvasser that the elector in this house is now dead, and even if he was still alive, would never vote for them in a million years.

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Co-op funeral care charge extra, for £20 a day, for every day over 21 days from when you first contacted them, the funeral occurs. Even though you have no control over when the hospital will issue the death certificate or when the crematorium has space.

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Emily Collins @emily1collins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Not only was Johan paid more, he was also perceived as more human-like than Johanna."

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

God, if you thought weddings were expensive, try organising a funeral.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.

thecut.com

The Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual Violence

The “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.

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Emms @emms.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well look at my shocked face 🤔

'Bully in every way': domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK
street patrols

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What Archer and the Cornell 7 have in common is clubbable men being protected for their misdeeds by other, similar men. And women being the ones who suffer.

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Monica Coglan was cross-examined for 13 hours by Archer’s lawyers in the libel trial. She was frequently in tears as her entire life and character was attacked. She died in a car crash before Archer was found guilty of perjury in that trial. Before it was found she’d told the truth all along.

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

But we wouldn’t want a PROMISING YOUNG MAN’s life to be ruined, would we?

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not now, fatal medieval plague. There’s too much going on already…

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.

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Holly Brockwell @hollyqueenofspayeds.com · 04/10/2026

I'm tired.

Screenshot of my Instagram story because it won't fit in the text. In short, we've built social media apps that promote content about male violence only to the victims - - women - - and the men get to read about anything else. And then people wonder why we're angry and triggered while they haven't seen a word about Cornell.

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My son accused me of being uncool. I pointed and said, “But look, these trousers are cool!” He said, “Urgh, no, those are ‘groovy’”, making the word groovy drip with disdain. Ouch.

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you are wondering how that cat gets on top of that wall: It gets on top of the shed and then just runs up the wall like it’s Spider-Man.

A large stone and mortar wall, as high as a house, with an orange cat perched on top of it, staring at me.
Against the wall are two sheds (one painted with a mural by two German students some years ago…). From the top of the sheds to the top of the wall must be something like eight feet. The wall is not smooth like a plastered wall. But it is pretty even. Because it’s heavily mortared, it’s not got lots of handholds (pawholds?) like a dry stone wall would.

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Has anyone else got an indoor slug infestation this year? There’s generally been fewer slugs in the garden than usual this summer, I thought, because of lack of rain. But still, I keep finding more of them than usual inside. Little slimy trails on my sitting room carpet.

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Now we’ve finished all of NuWho, we’re watching the film from 1996, with Paul McGann. I still would.

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Going into the second hour of my son’s explanation of Minecraft Dungeons 2, I’m at least thankful that Scandinavian corporations are teaching our young that fascist empires are evil and must be defeated. Doing the lord’s work there, Mojang.

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think this is an excellent name for a laundrette.

A sign (in a car park, in Galashiels) that reads Sheets and Giggles Laundry.

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Remember when you used to Google something, and find what you were looking for on the first page of results? Good times.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 02/10/2026

another thing I learnt about modern dating by secretly being a member of those weird Facebook groups for years: Clare's Law should be seen as one of Theresa May's best achievements as home secretary youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/here-i-am-...

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gracias, President Sánchez. Yo también quiero eso. (Finally, five years of Duolingo comes into its own…)

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Brizo75 @brizo75.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Will we "all be in it together" again like last time? The UK’s wealth gap has grown by 50% in eight years – and poses a strategic risk to the nation - LSE Inequalities share.google/fuhu2zdJgh48...

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The UK’s wealth gap has grown by 50% in eight years – and poses a strategic risk to the nation - LSE Inequalities

The size of the UK's wealth gap is not only unfair. It poses major risks to our economy, society, democracy and environment. How should policymakers respond?

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For those of you who remember my #TerryAndJuneland tweets from the old place, poking fun at my parents… My dad died yesterday. Here’s him singing the song that won him the Radio Nottingham Songwriter of the year award in 1982. His proudest achievement. youtu.be/Wo6wzD9hM08?...

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SLEEPING IN GRANNY'S BACK ROOM - Original song - © Dave Collins, Nottingham UK

YouTube video by Dave Collins

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is all very well, Burnham, but are you going to tax the rich?

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pretty sure England must still be in drought.

Photo of a few feet of footpath. Earth and scrubby grass, few fallen leaves. The ground is deeply cracked - like when mud dries up in really dry weather. The cracks are big enough you could put your finger right into them.
This is northern England (near Middlesbrough). It’s rained many times since the long rain-free period this summer. It rained on Sunday in fact. But clearly the water table is nowhere near back to normal.

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Am I allowed to use it as an opportunity to punch them? In which case it’s Farage.

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James Woodfield @jameswoodfield.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nationalising social care would reduce its costs by removing expensive parasites. “Social care systems are being deprived of millions of pounds as private companies extract large profits, with much of it going to firms owned by private equity or based in tax havens.” lowdownnhs.info/private-prov...

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Millions extracted in profit from publicly funded social care - The Lowdown

Social care systems in three regions of England are being deprived of millions of pounds as private companies extract large profits, with much of it going to firms owned by private equity or based in ...

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Rubio says foreign actor was ‘clearly’ behind suspected RAF Fairford plot” Who do we think? Stellan Skarsgård? Javier Bardem? Surely not Antonio Banderas?

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Sandra L Lester 🇨🇦 #KillBill22 @sandrallester.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ads for Gibney’s doc, Musk, have been banned on most social media, so let’s get the word out here. “Musk” is a four-hour look at a title character who attempts to control the conversation in various ways, including with alleged suppressions on X, which he bought in 2022. It opens in theatres Oct. 9.

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My brother was reading out a crossword to me and dad. Brother: “Overburdened postal worker.” Dad: “How many letters?” Brother: “Too many letters. Hundreds.”

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just been reading about Hari Budha Magar, the first double amputee to climb Everest. So now I’ll stop complaining about how my legs hurt. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hari_Bu...

en.wikipedia.org

Hari Budha Magar - Wikipedia

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Fun fact: All Universal Credit claimants get reviewed and have to submit four months of bank statements, for DWP staff to pick over and compare to submitted earnings and expenses. This can be as often as twice a year. How often do self-employed people and businesses get audited that thoroughly?

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