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Strange old hermit

@strangeoldhermit.bsky.social
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FKA FLAWS AuDHD Socialist Star Wars Geek Any/he/they. Profile photo: 48-year-old man with a beard staring at the camera. A deep red filter has been applied. Banner pic: night scene at Galaxy's Edge with the Millennium Falcon and Spires.

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Courtney Love Lies Bleeding 🫦 @hexadecibelle.fyi · 13h
the report, from professionals in the relevant fields, says that ADHD and autism is under-diagnosed and people affected by that are not given enough support in an appropriate and timely manner. but that’s not the result the government wants, so that means the spin apparatus has chosen this form.
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Lad dracula @andthecats.bsky.social · 7h
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Today's papers, the mail the times and the guardian all have headlines saying too many children are being misdiagnosed autism/adhd
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 12h
It's that time of year where we're going to start seeing adverts for going to work when you're ill. "Can't breathe? Headache? Throat feel like you've swallowed infected razor blades? Then you should spend £30 a week on lemsip so you can keep those share prices going bigger." Fuck off.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 12h
It's that time of year where we're going to start seeing adverts for going to work when you're ill. "Can't breathe? Headache? Throat feel like you've swallowed infected razor blades? Then you should spend £30 a week on lemsip so you can keep those share prices going bigger." Fuck off.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 21h
Facts: $10 trillion dollars is stored in tax havens. Politicians: we need to bring down the benefits bill.
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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
No, the UK isn't a poor country (its the 19th richest). No, we're not suggesting we "frisk" people at airports. No, the rich aren't scared of a tax they can easily afford. & No, we shouldn't base policy on fabricated data.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Started with a sore throat two days ago. Then yesterday felt a tiny bit achy. Today my temperature has been ever so slightly wonky. Now the cough and the snot have arrived. I need to be well for Friday and it's not looking good. 😫
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Is being disliked for seemingly no reason more common for ND people? I remember it as a kid and as an adolescent mostly but it's happened in adulthood too. Pretty rotten memories.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm a struggling autistic person getting no state support and having to just try to live the way capitalists want me to. At the same time politicians and so called journalists convince the public that people like me are overdiagnosed and claiming benefits we don't need. I hope they all die soon.
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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 06/08/2023
You ever get slapped in the face by a tweet so hard that you help destroy capitalism forever and ever
ZO @gramscifancam
the human body evolved over hundreds of thousands of years so u can sit at a desk in a sterile cubicle and look at fake lights in a box and pretend u dont want to kill urself and if u can't focus on doing that for 9 hours a day 5 days a week that's a mental disorder
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Even though City's first title is now null and void, I still hate QPR for passing them the ball and letting them win once they heard they were safe from relegation.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Even now, City fans
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We lived in Edinburgh for three years; had to move back here and a couple of years later, the kid was born. Now when we visit, we can't go to our old haunts because you can't take kids in pubs. Bow Bar Blue Blazer Guilford arms Cloisters Kay's Bar Cumberland Bar Barony Bar Cask and Barrel etc😢
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Taraaaaaaaaggghhhhhhh Zombies🧟‍♀️ @theblueststar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Imagine this happening to people with diabetes or heart failure. It wouldn't because people are still in the mindset that ADHD and autism as bullshit when they most very much are not. This country is a shit hole
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NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments
Patient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Since the Queen died, the American confusion between ma'am and Mum has reduced by 11%.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I was looking to see how much I might be able to get if I sold my old valve amp and the reviews made me want to keep it.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This says everything about the capitalist corporations that used to be British universities. Just obscene www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Backlash as Indian oil heir made professor of sustainability by Newcastle University
Role for Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest person, who also runs a controversial mega-zoo, met with incredulity
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Went for a nice evening walk and saw the big moon and sunset in the sky at the same time. Unfortunately one of us trod in dog shit. I think it's time to ban all dogs from going outside until all dogshit is eradicated from public spaces.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Stop replacing old pub interiors with tacky 21st century decor and those rectangle-backed seats. Please.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I don't understand the level 1/level 2/level 3 autism thing (my diagnosis didn't include a 'level'). When I'm struggling, I would definitely look like level 2 but most of the time and especially when I'm not being forced into situations that will overwhelm me, I definitely seem like a level 1.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Is it my right as a human to not get a headache when I'm outside, or is it someone else's right to drive an old car that pumps out fumes that give me a headache?
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Cunha as striker hasn't worked at all but they're trying it again and Sesko's not even on the bench. Ineos should have bought a backup striker.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Bit of time with my thoughts today and currently sitting in a music venue I've played in many times (though not for over 20 years). Makes me think again about my music and my dilemma: there will be people out there that think it's good but I'd have to put some work in to try to find them!
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Tom Watson now working for Palantir. Those of us old enough to have been politically engaged between 2015 and 2019 will not be surprised by this.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Our son's headteacher said one of the dumbest things I've heard in front of all year 7, 8 and 9 parents: "I don't know the science but we find that the children who don't have to be asked to straighten their tie tend to do better academically." Correlation does not equal causation you muppet.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
People are too tall: it's not efficient.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Got one of those Facebook notifications about a post on this day 14 years ago.
Facebook screen shot of an old post
'On this day 14 years ago'
"Apparently Ed Sheeran was the most illegally downloaded artist during the first half of 2012. WHY?! If you could steal any car you wouldn't choose a Nissan Micra, would you?"
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Support with legal fees for Bristol pro Palestine activists chuffed.org/project/1846...
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Support with legal fees for Bristol pro Palestine activists
Donate to support the Allianz 4, charged with £20K criminal damage for taking action to end complicity with Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems.
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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is exactly the outcome that the “gender-critical” movement, which is directing the EHRC, wanted. A situation in which trans people cannot exist in the workplace - or anywhere else in public - at all.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Stumbled across an old interview with Joe Gilgun talking about mental health and I couldn't have summed it up this well:
“This head of mine never rests. Do not make the assumption that because somebody has got mental health issues they are weak-minded. That person is terrified, anxious. Getting out of bed alone has been a huge, monumental task. Getting in that shower, brushing the teeth, somehow managing to eat their breakfast… Some will have children, and they have to go and do exactly the same thing you do at work, only they’re suffering like that. Now that to me is a fucking hard dude or gal.”
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's everything: as well as books, there's voiceover work done by people who are famous for other things; clothing ranges; perfume; actual actors being passed over for parts in favour of someone with a known face (Karl Pilkington a recent spot in a trailer for something I won't watch anyway).
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Proclaimers are ugly cunts inside and out.
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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I went back to listen to it and it’s genuinely quite shocking.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Never used to see riot vans around Manchester but the last couple of years they've been appearing on the roads. Must be all those climate and genocide protesters with their falafel bombs and tie die flamethrowers.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.
Facebook post showing the photo of three white women on a train with a group of black-clad, masked men being shared to a group called ‘South east patriots’
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The real population divide is between the 50% of the who would rather eat glass than speak on the phone and the 50% who, if they were eating glass, would still be talking loudly on their phones at the same time.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Dear Andy Burnham, How are you going to break the vicious circle below if you can't even recognise far right populism when it's dressed up in black and looting your towns? #ContinuityKeir
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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Quote post with a clue to where you are from. Originally, anyway.
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Wallace And Gromit: Preston's Menacing Look
Alt: Wallace And Gromit: Preston's Menacing Look
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Hi BBC. This is a group of fascist vigilantes trying to impose their vision of an ethnically pure UK on everyone through violence. We know you broadly approve of such things, hence the euphemising, but just letting you know we see what you're doing.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
LinkedIn telling me I'm a "top applicant" for a post that a) I don't want and b) I'm not an applicant for because I haven't applied for it. I wonder how many thousands of people have been told they're a top applicant for it? If I have it must be a lot.
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NJ @nojusticemtg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Of course Starmer is standing down. It's not like he ever wanted to serve his constituents.
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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If you're not using asbestos yet, you are being left behind. Everyone is using asbestos, there's no point in trying to fight it. Asbestos is the future.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Our broadband is down and we won't get an engineer until Tuesday. The 11 year old is going to find out what wet bank holidays used to be like.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I know this isn't terrorism. You know this isn't terrorism. The authorities know this isn't terrorism. But, once again, they have labelled protesters "terrorists", as part of the long-running programme to ensure that no one dares protest about anything any more. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Seven charged with damaging Trump’s Scottish golf course accused of ‘terrorist connection’
Course at Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort was painted with words ‘Gaza is not 4 sale’ and clubhouse was sprayed with graffiti
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