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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 01/10/2026

Black History Month is a time to engage with and celebrate the contributions of Black communities who have been fundamental to shaping and inspiring the UK’s culture and history. This month and beyond, the Green Party celebrate the strength, commitment and leadership of our Black communities 💚

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy Black History Month. Celebrate by buying my books (*fast voice* Other history books are available, terms and conditions apply, all history is Black history when you make Black stories the focus and therefore you should buy my books every month not just this one) geni.us/HistorysMost...

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.

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Scottish Ethnic Minority Autistics @semascot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Autistic people are significantly more likely to experience suicidal ideation than the general population. For racialised Autistic people, the risk is compounded by the very systems that should be keeping them safe. Burnout from years of masking. Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Autumn migration is kicking off! 🍁 Have you noticed any of our winter visitors arriving? Stay tuned: we'll be shining a daily spotlight on the birds joining us for the colder months. Check out the Arrival Boards to see who’s flying in and when! 👇

Graphic titled “Arrivals”, showing when a selection of wintering birds arrive in the UK and when they typically leave. Bar-tailed Godwit arrives July–October and departs March–April; Grey Plover July–November, departing April–May; Knot arrives in August and leaves April–May; Sanderling arrives in August and leaves in May; Pintail arrives August–September and leaves March–April. Redwing arrives in September and leaves in March, while Lapland Bunting arrives late September–October and leaves March–April. October arrivals include Purple Sandpiper, Brent Goose, Pink-footed Goose, Shoveler, Bewick’s Swan, Barnacle Goose and Fieldfare. Brambling arrives October–December. Most of these birds depart between March and April, although Pink-footed Goose leaves February–March and Bewick’s Swan in March.

Graphic titled “Arrivals”, continuing a seasonal guide to wintering birds in the UK. Goldeneye arrives August–December and departs March–April. Snow Bunting arrives September–November and leaves February–March, while Pochard arrives September–October and leaves March–April. Great Grey Shrike, Red-throated Diver, Rough-legged Buzzard, Teal, Woodcock, Jack Snipe, Long-tailed Duck and Shore Lark all begin arriving from October, mostly staying until March or April. Water Pipit arrives in late October and leaves in April, while Whooper Swan arrives late October–November and departs March–April. Waxwing arrives November–December and leaves February–March, and Smew arrives November–January and departs March–April.

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Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’d like to see posters with symptoms lists on the back of public toilet doors and in doctors’ surgeries.

OVARIAN CANCER
SYMPTOMS
→ Tummy pain
→ Bloating
→ Feeling full
→ Needing to pee more
Ovarian cancer symptoms can also include indigestion, back pain, changes in bowel habits, post-menopausal vaginal bleeding, and extreme tiredness.
ovarian.org.uk

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This article opens by saying there's a 'surging demand' for 'diagnoses of neurodiversity'. I'm sorry to inform you the neurodiversity rate amongst the population is 100%. What you probably meant was 'neurodivergence'. This is not just me being pedantic... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

theguardian.com

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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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hans Asperger's paper on 'childhood psychopathy' has this memorable bit: 'While we have never met a girl with the fully fledged picture of autism, we have, however, seen several mothers of autistic children whose behaviour had decidedly autistic features. It is difficult to explain this observation'

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

People do have "legitimate concerns" about things like housing, rising cost of living, NHS waiting lists etc. That's absolutely fair. Despite political and media rhetoric, absolutely none of those concerns are solved by attacking asylum seekers and other migrants. 1/

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Well… we really made it 🥹🖤 Happy Black Autism Acceptance Day ✊🏽🫶🏽 Today is about celebrating Black autistic voices, our brilliance our joy, our stories & our right to be seen, heard,respected & accepted exactly as we are 🥰 Not an afterthought 👌🏽

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 18/09/2026

Autism acceptance isn't about pretending everything is fine if it isn't. It means understanding why autistic people do things, not blaming them (or your autistic self) when it's hard, or when you have competing needs. Ideally, it also means cherishing joy harder. (So much harder.) #neurodiversity

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What is hard is to keep alive on a world you don't belong to.

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Jen C Mars @jencmars.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Look at this absolute beast

Close up photo of a confluent leaf beetle. The beetle is metallic green for its face and pronotum, and a cream color with dark metallic green spots for its elytra. Its legs a deep orange color. The face is sporting a MASSIVE mustache, and it appears to have a ferocious expression

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Scottish Ethnic Minority Autistics @semascot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We sincerely wish Jason's family our condolences and solidarity, and vow to keep fighting for justice. At SEMA many of us needed time to process this news as we watched the past month's onslaught of articles against him and the wider neurodivergent community from many angles.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Edinburgh folks, I've been told that this is a spectacularly well-done exhibition.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Excuse me... a tiny Lapwing has toddled into your feed. 🥹

A fluffy Lapwing chick stands on a path with oversized legs and tiny feet, looking as though it's setting off on an important little adventure. Its soft cream, brown and black down contrasts with the beautifully blurred green background.

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Cos Michael @cosmichael.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Our over 50's #Autistic adults meet up is on Thursday 23rd July, 11am-12. All autistic people aged 50 or over are welcome to this informal peer group chat. This month we're talking about Circles of Trust. It's free. Register for a link at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Poster for Autistic adults aged 50+ online meet up. Informal free online discussion with a theme & discussion. Sessions won't be recorded.
23rd July theme: Circles of Trust. 11-12am. Facilitated by Cos Michael

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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

From the CRAE archives: “Trapped in a no-win situation” a qualitative exploration of autistic adult's experiences of loneliness Grace et al. 2025 crae.ioe.ac.uk/trapp... #SummarisedByHumans #CRAEresearchSummaries

CRAE summary card for Grace et al. 2025, "Trapped in a no-win situation: a qualitative exploration of autistic adults' experiences of loneliness." Line illustration of a stick figure standing inside a glass bowl, hands pressed against the curved walls.

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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 11/01/2026

Autism: my safe food is toast ADHD: I require variety and novelty AuDHD:

A paper plate held in a left hand with four slices of white sliced bread toast, all with different spreads. At 12 o’clock we have just buttered toast. Going clockwise there is cinnamon and powdered sugar, then creamy peanut butter, then blueberry jelly.

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Vaila @vaila.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

For the attention of: the Labour Party.

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Elly is 3 birds in a gardening hat @almost-elly.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Muppets Pride and Prejudice with Janice as Jane, Camilla the chicken as Charlotte Lucas, Floyd Pepper as Mr Bingley, Pepe the king prawn as Mr Darcy, and Miss Piggy as Mrs Bennett. The only human character is Lizzie.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Who needs another Black-necked Stilt? #birds

Elegant black and white wading bird with long, black beak and unbelievably long, thin pink legs. It is wading through shallow water in a prairie slough. Bird looks like it’s on a mission, striding right to left.

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Black autistic people deserve more than symbolic visibility. We deserve leadership opportunities, fair compensation for our expertise, and a seat at the table where decisions are made not just a photo opportunity after the fact

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

“Harmful medical experiences, stigma, misinformation and lack of transparency have all made it hard to talk about being intersex, difficult to access safe, informed and accessible services, and hard to collect data on the experiences and needs of adults with innate variations. This needs to change.”

theconversation.com

What people with intersex traits want you to know

People born with variations of sex characteristics have bodies that are a little different to social and medical expectations.

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Vaila @vaila.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Nice sky as we were waiting for the football to start last night. #Sunset #SkySky #Scotland

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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 20/06/2026

some studies suggest that 25% of Autistic adults attempt suicide 1 in 4 Diagnosis of autism in adults is not attention-seeking or trend It’s the context we need to do more than just survive When you know a risk, you can lower it, and just by knowing more about ideation It’s suicide prevention

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Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

No, BBC news platforming bloody John Curtice again, the Aberdeen South result is not Scotland's verdict on transition away from oil, it's the verdict of the single geographical group of people most personally invested in continuing the oil industry.

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Tam @supertamtam.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

For #wildlifewednesday, here is a naughty little Red Squirrel 😜 You can tell he's a troublemaker! 😂 #Wildlifephotography #Naturephotography #photography #mammals #Minnesota #SquirrelLove

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Vaila @vaila.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Quite a fun game is to come up with any human trait and try to figure out how autism researchers would make it, somehow, be a negative strike against us.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

TEENY TINY TOAD ALERT!!!!! It was so small I thought it was a little jumping spider. But I was right next to the creek where the toads mate so I looked more carefully. I can not believe I actually got a decent photo. It was less than a centimeter from nose to butt & ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE!!! #herps 🌿

A close up photo of a tiny little brown toad on the ground. It's kind of lumpy and unformed looking and must have just emerged from the water.

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I figured we could all use a little smile at the end of the week. This little black bear cub was an absolute joy to watch. He/she was having a blast running up and down trees while their mom munched on grass. #mammals 🌿

An adorable little black bear cub sticks their tongue out at the photographer from where their perched on a fallen spruce tree.

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Tony Beales @tonybeales.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I've just realised it is #WoodpeckerWednesday so I had better let this green woodpecker come out and say hello! Photographed on Monday in Scotland. #UKwildlife #birds

A green woodpecker emerging from its nest hole in a tree. It is leaning down and forward with almost all of its body out of the hole. Its head is slightly raised showing its white neck, black cheek and the red on top of its head. A slight red moustache is visible, indicating it is a male. Its back and wing are pale green.

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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 11/06/2026

Feeling really exhausted by bullshit this morning. All the decades of misinformation and misdirection on migration. The endless lies about trans people. Professors of politics still pretending they can't understand why people hate Starmer so much... This stuff is so pervasive, and SO wearying. 😖

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10/06/2026

This women's group wanted to raise £1,000 to help the victims of last night's attacks in Belfast. It's already at £56,000. chuffed.org/project/1854...

chuffed.org

Support people and groups impacted by racist attacks

We are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast.

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 10/06/2026

A gentle reminder: Some kids and adults never use the toilet independently and that should be OK! Some take longer than their peers to become independent and that should be OK! Some can lose those skills when stressed or ill and that should be OK! #disability #neurodiversity #toileting

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Nicole Filippone, Autistic Advocate & Author @nicolefilippone.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I shared a post yesterday asking if anyone would be interested in participating in a study looking at the causal link between autism and cPTSD... I now have over 1,400 people signed up to be notified when I am ready to move forward. I am floored.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

"Which is to say it was a perfectly normal morning, no better or worse than any parent of any kid might have. Normal is not what we would have predicted in those first 24 hours. But normal is what we have." This is one of two messages on this. I wrote about #DownSyndrome and prenatal testing.

startribune.com

Perry: An influencer couple had an abortion, then spread misinformation about Down syndrome

Last week, YouTuber Jesse Ridgway (McJuggerNuggets) and his wife Ashley announced she had an abortion earlier in the week after a prenatal diagnosis of Down's. But the debate that followed was full of...

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

"The second: In our lives together, in fact, pretty much the only times that Down syndrome becomes a real problem, let alone a crisis, is when we encounter a system not designed to support our lives. To fix the ableist systems and ideologies everywhere, that’s the work."

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I’ve been photographing a lot of big things this past week, but sometimes it’s the little things that really catch my eye. 🌿

The structural beauty of two ostrich ferns slowly unfurling.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

“The fact that Budapest Pride – and hopefully Pécs Pride – can now take place freely, is a shared success for everyone who has spoken out on this case.” Excellent news from Hungary. Pride remains as important as ever. We need to organise so all LGBTQ+ folks can thrive with safety and freedom. 🇭🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

amnesty.org.au

Hungary: Dropping of charges against organisers of Budapest and Pécs Pride a testament to the power of solidarity

JOINT PRESS RELEASE: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HUNGARY, HATTER SOCIETY, HUNGARIAN HELSKINI COMMITTEE & HUNGARIAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION The courage of

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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The EHRC code of practice frames appearance based gendered assumptions i.e. assumptions around what are masculine and feminine traits at the centre of how you determine biological sex. It's not just that the code is segregationist and harmful to trans people. It is also hideously patriarchal.

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 04/06/2026

Crime drama fans have been left bewildered by Channel 4’s latest offering, which features a sleuth protagonist so neurotypical that he is completely unrecognisable as a detective, critics have claimed.

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Audiences baffled as TV detective not even a little bit autistic

Crime drama fans have been left bewildered by Channel 4’s latest offering, which features a sleuth protagonist so neurotypical that he is completely unrecognisable as a detective, critics have…

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 03/06/2026

CN: eating discorders. Autistic &/or ADHD patients who have eating disorders [ED] have more psychological distress & worse functioning, esp. if AuDHD. We should be screening for neurodivergence in ED services to improve individualized care and improve outcomes. www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

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Frontiers | Time to notice neurodiversity in eating disorder services: a three-year real-world analysis of autism, ADHD, and AuDHD

IntroductionAutism and ADHD frequently co-occur and each of them are overrepresented in clinical eating disorder (ED) services, where they are associated wit...

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Chris Fisher @fisherspeaks.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Plains Spadefoot toads have woken up with the rains of the past few days. Their courtship and breeding is a lightning round of activity - timed to be completed before the newly formed ponds have vanished. #Ab #herps

A pair of Plains Spadefoots in amplexus in a breeding wetland.

A pair of Plains Spadefoots in amplexus on the edge of a breeding wetland.

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 03/06/2026

A Brazilian program paying farmers to preserve forests they are legally allowed to clear has prevented over 30,000 hectares of deforestation in the Amazon and Cerrado. Now, the initiative is looking to scale up by using carbon credits and commodity premiums to fund long-term conservation.

mongabay.cc

In Brazil, a project paying farmers for forests is looking to scale up

Landowner Carlos Roberto Simonetti gets three harvests per year from the corn, soy and cotton plantations on his 17,000-hectare (about 42,000 acres) farm called Fazenda Natureza Feliz, or Happy…

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Not a big fan of people saying a story isn't getting enough coverage. Normally it turns out it is, just not in a specific outlet, or manner they think it should. Yesterday's verdict does seem to genuinely be getting a fairly disproportionately low amount of coverage though considering its importance

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