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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 · 09/10/2026
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 · 20h
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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 · 09/10/2026
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 · 09/10/2026
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 · 08/10/2026
Facts: $10 trillion dollars is stored in tax havens. Politicians: we need to bring down the benefits bill.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I said a couple of weeks ago that I hadn't been ill for ages and it would be nice to have a break from work. I didn't mean this week.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Cancelled my plans for tomorrow cos I'm definitely not going to one well enough and I wanted to get my money back. Really fed up about it.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Green?
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
That too. Never watched it.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I enjoy not watching both of these. But have you tried not watching GBBO, Strictly, or The Voice? I can't decide which is my favourite to not watch.
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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 · 08/10/2026
If you mix this with syrup, BHT and BHA, it will take the same as anything else you guys eat.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Motorcyclists do get hurt and even killed a lot by cars. But that is very surprising given how fucking loud motorbikes are.
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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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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yeah, definitely.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Not only is there risk, removing red tape can increase future costs and create problems. Example: The housing estate my Dad lives on is getting upgraded gas supply and it's a massive job which is taking months because of lack of standards around previous installations.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yeah of course, I was meaning that I tend to imagine all retired people were impacted by the war and rationing when actually that's now probably a small proportion of them.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I was having similar thoughts recently. When I think of older or retired people I think of the war and rationing. But someone who was 20 when star wars came out is now 69 or 70.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Nah that's his own daft fault. If he's anything like our cat, he won't learn.
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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 · 01/10/2026
It's not surprising, though, because all of the media has chosen to forget about any recessions that were 100% caused by neoliberal capitalism. So they win, because most of the public swallow the tripe about the 70s even if they were alive and doing very nicely during it.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In the 70s, if you wanted to make money out of a private endeavour you had to make a product or provide a service that people chose to pay you money for and everything else was provided by the government or local authority. Now capitalism is part of every single thing you can possibly consider.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In the 1970s machines in factories were running 24 hours a day, with workers on shifts getting loads of overtime pay. Someone like that could afford a house on a single income. Then in the 1980s all that work transformed into redundancies, derelict towns and despair.
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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
And it wasn't a salary cap rule it was a spending v revenue rule. As I understand it.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That's one of the things. They also faked sponsorship deals to allow them to plough more money into the club. And they withheld and falsified reports to hide it all. Other clubs who have fallen foul of FFP have been the ones to bring it to the PL's attention.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
See my other reply. Or do some reading if you want to know what they've done wrong.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If other clubs have done/are doing it then all the best players in the world wouldn't have been turning out at the Emptyhad every other weekend.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Clubs have to show their financial accounts and City tried their best to hide it all. A hacker looking for dodgy clubs (they didn't target City specifically) exposed their internal discussions.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There are rules about how much clubs can spend related to how much they make. City used a series of methods to lie about how much they were making and how much they were spending. So far - and anything after 2018 has not yet been investigated - the fudged numbers add up to at least £900m.
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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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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Me: "It's over and it's fine now so I can move on." My autistic brain: "No, no, this is how I keep you safe."
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absofuckinglutely. I carry every negative experience with me: I can't shift them.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeah, it's obvious because everyone kneels to play snooker, right?
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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 · 25/09/2026
Never liked her. Yes, there's a complicated history but you know what's not complicated? The fact that Palestinians have been persecuted in their own country for decades. It's also not complicated to point out that Israel has been a genocidal regime for at least the last three years.
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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 · 23/09/2026
They've brought these things in and have they speeded up airport shit? Have they bollocks.
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If someone threw milkshake at me in the street I'd be really pissed off but that person would not face any criminal proceedings. Why is it different for fucking farridge?
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Strange old hermit @strangeoldhermit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You appear to have propellers on your head so I assume you don't need roads.
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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
Keep it but tax house sales at different rates depending on how long it's been off the market for. I only just thought of this so it might not stand up to scrutiny but it might be a fair way to tax some of the magic house price money.
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