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Vicki Wistow

@vickiwistow.bsky.social
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Ghost Detective, #ActuallyAutistic, generous supporter of local pubs. I used to keep a diary, but stopped because I was boring myself. She/her 💖💜💙. Wunt be druv.

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 01/10/2026
No, ABA therapy is not "medically necessary" for autistic children. And if you encounter people who tell you that it is, have them read this article: thinkingautismguide.com/2025/03/when... #BetterWaysThanABA
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When You Have No Choice But ABA Therapy — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
You may know that ABA is a questionable therapy. But since not every parent can avoid ABA, what can those parents do to protect their kids?
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Chris Lutton @chrislutton92.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#CelebrityTraitors
Withnail and I meme in the rain, saying "I've told people I'm a traitor by mistake"
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Shahan Miah @shahanshahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've just declared myself as a traitor by mistake #CelebrityTraitors #TheCelebrityTraitors
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Vicki Wistow @vickiwistow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Richard E Grant 🤣 You’re either a genius or a fool, but I love you either way. 🤣 #CelebrityTraitors
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Bold Strategy Cotton - Dodgeball
ALT: Bold Strategy Cotton - Dodgeball
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Gillian @gillianmcshane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
lol
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As the midterms approach, I want to remind folks that pandemics have historically given rise to fascism The fear associated with death and disability on a massive scale makes it easier for authoritarians to seize power Vote accordingly Protect disabled & marginalized people. Get them to the polls
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Fed study ties 1918 flu pandemic to Nazi Party gains
The paper examined municipal spending levels and voter extremism in Germany from the time of the initial influenza outbreak until 1933.
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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I will believe all the sad-eyed stuff about NEETs, lost generations, opportunity crisis etc. when the people saying it are talking about in terms of investment rather than cuts
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This Labour government could have responded to the genocide in Gaza in so many ways, instead they cut aid. This is a dereliction of duty.
Stuff of nightmares UK cuts aid to Un Gaza food operations by 78%
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nobody could have predicted this. It’s not as if Britain has a history of damaging its own economy in order to chase the satisfaction of a clutch of racists.
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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...
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The RNLI aren't traitors; they're heroes
I have spent weeks shadowing lifeboat crews. Here's what they do and what it's like.
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Jon @jonwed.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is where the endless mantra responding to racist scare stories as "legitimate concerns" gets you. Just how abhorrent is this…
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Wonder Mutt @wondermutt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fucking fascists attacking the good ones again.
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Absolutely disgraceful. Who are the patriots and who are the traitors here?
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Ms. Deathwish #Exist2Resist @msdeathwish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What the fuck are we.doing and whi isn't this all over the news. Burnham you have allowed this to on and it's a disgrae And appeasing them only emboldens them.
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David Sefton @wallace2411.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Bloody horrific - how long before social media bots incite attacks on A&E staff for treating non-whites? (Where will those Reform donations be spent?) Surely even folks who’ve been ‘radicalised’ have some vestige of awareness? Not far off heading for the hills 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 to hide from all the nonsense 😬
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David @thatdlh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I can't help but feel that not that long ago RNLI members being targeted by violent thugs would have been front page news.
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 18/09/2026
That's the Overton window moving. People always wanted to do this to RNLI, but now thanks to politicians and the media repeating what they say without question they feel empowered and entitled to do this
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tina @christinag.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Actions taken to terrorize members of the public... If only we had a word for that...
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Michelle @perfectcircle77.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Why is it that we have to listen to the “legitimate concerns” of the scum who do this? Where is just anyone from the government to condemn this? Not some mealy-mouth words but actual full-throated condemnation.
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised"
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Mr too tired for a halloween name @laotianrockrat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's agent: Ok fuck me that was a wild few days. Still we should be over the worst of it now...
Twitter post by that cunt Stephen Yaxley-Lennon expressing solidarity with Ed Sheeran (not reposting the exact text because fuck whatever he has to say)
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Spoooooky Twat 👻 @speccytwat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Damn those middle class brats, and their ridiculously pretentious double-barrelled surnames… right, Mr Yaxley-Lennon? 🙄
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Vicki Wistow @vickiwistow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My bad habits lead to…
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Alexandra Halaby 🇵🇸 @iskandrah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"While celebrities defend their silence, children continue to be killed. An Israeli “double tap” airstrike killed this child as he rushed to help a wounded paramedic YESTERDAY. This is someone’s precious child! He mattered! Say something!!!" (from Ms. Rachel)
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Every time I write on disability benefits etc, I’m reporting facts. But I’m also challenging the idea of what a disabled life could look like. They say we’re lucky to have money to eat. I say we’re entitled to down sangrias in Valencia.” Me on media ableism: frances336.substack.com/p/how-to-cla...
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How to clap back against the British media’s attacks on disabled people
And why the long game is sometimes the best
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Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If Kuensberg & Mason were to change their roles to Celebrity News Editor it would require absolutely no changes to their limited skillsets.
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 13/09/2026
One downside of trawling newspaper archives when researching an article is stumbling upon old stories from the Daily Mail.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"We're not broke, we're being robbed" #BlameMillionairesNotMigrants meme via Joshua ABD
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My first morning in the Omaze house. I didn’t sleep. I could hear crying from behind the door I’m not allowed to open.The only thing to eat is frozen prawns. I went for a wander round the 4 acre garden and found a box of VHS tapes marked ‘For the next one’. I’m sure it’s fine. I’m sure it’s all fine
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
12 September 2012. Hillsborough Independent Panel concluded that the 1989 football stadium disaster was due primarily to “a lack of police control”. The report also revealed that 41 of the original 96 victims “had the potential to survive”.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 10/09/2026
okay so what you’re gonna do for this one is, you’re gonna scroll down a bit, click on ‘Google street view’ and then go thru the house that way www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...
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Check out this 5 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove
5 bedroom detached house for sale in Wonersh, Guildford, Surrey, GU5 for £2,000,000. Marketed by Queenwood Property, Surrey
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🇵🇪✊🏽 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Queer, Racial, Disability, & Youth Liberation is suicide prevention Reproductive justice is suicide prevention Ending houselessness & food insecurity is suicide prevention Landback, climate action, & anti-imperialism are suicide prevention #SuicidePreventionDay
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Jae 🏳️‍🌈 @jaeauthor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This week’s Sapphic Book Bingo category features sapphic books with an autistic main character. Check out the 15 recommended books on my website: jae-fiction.com/sapphic-book...
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Sapphic books with autistic characters - Jae
Check out these sapphic books with autistic characters
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
absolutely incredible work. outstanding. no notes
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 10/09/2026
I think what Badenoch meant to say here is: “British employers are dependent on welfare to subsidise a massively underpaid workforce” - particularly when you consider that around 40% of claimants are actually in work. But that’s just me splitting hairs, I suppose.
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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
For those in the US and UK.
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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Off to see the Bayeux Tapestry today, don't tell me who wins
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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Someone just described a post as “leftie propaganda” and the reply was “take a propaganda at deez nuts” and I may never stop laughing.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Somehow, it does not feel like a coincidence that a lot of the panic about the autism diagnosis being overly broad or too many people being diagnosed came just as more #ActuallyAutistic women received a diagnosis. www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar...
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Autism Diagnoses Are Rising In Women — But Not In Men, New Research Finds
More women are getting answers later in life, and researchers think there may be a reason why.
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 01/09/2026
Experts have cautioned the general public about the dangers of autism acceptance, warning that it may lead to autistic people being treated like human beings.
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Experts warn autism acceptance may lead to actually respecting the buggers
Experts have cautioned the general public about the dangers of autism acceptance, warning that it may lead to autistic people being treated like human beings. Ffiona Maw, from the anti-disability…
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Vicki Wistow @vickiwistow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Bid an emotional farewell to my beloved Charles Street Tap last night. So many happy memories of the place. Not least bc of Sally Vate’s On the Game shows & Ed’s amazing seasonal decorations, but a genuinely inclusive and welcoming haven. Not just a great water hole, but a whole vibe. 🌈
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dillo saint dillo @dillo.media · 31/08/2026
i think twitch did something like this recently as well and somebody asked the guy in charge of it "why couldn't yall make it opt-in, instead of having it on by default" and he was like "well if we did that then people wouldn't use it" and I think that should be illegal actually
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Upbuilding and constructive instead of tearing down and destructive. I like this much better. IG: @wainwrightbookbinding
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I have never seen a moral panic grip a country so quickly or thoroughly
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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
can i just say he got way better treatment than the thousands of people who seem to be just stuck in horrific conditions, even if they're happy to go back to their home countries
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Wait, he gets to go immediately but a family with a 7 year old and a pregnant mom who was trying to self deport is held for a month?
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Vicki Wistow @vickiwistow.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Life comes at you fast…
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is why I talk about what’s happened as a problem of intense *elite* radicalisation, as a problem imposed from the top, rather than a response to Yer Da driving himself daft on Facebook.
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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
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