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Xander Flatt @xanderflatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Guys, can you take it again? I had my eyes closed.

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Xander Flatt @xanderflatt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I went to see @charlottechurch.bsky.social 's Late Night Pop Dungeon a few years ago and it was hands-down the most fun and entertaining gig I've ever been to.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a gottle of geer

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Xander Flatt @xanderflatt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Cocaine isn't addictive, it just smells really good.

Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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-Once upon a midnight- Beastie Boys: DREARY -while I pondered, weak and Beastie Boys: WEARY -Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten Beastie Boys: LORE

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Xander Flatt @xanderflatt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think the people today who are convinced AI is thinking are the kind of people who, 25 years ago, would have added 'please' and 'thank you' to their google searches.

Xander Flatt @xanderflatt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It's possible to point out that the new HP series is a bigot-driven, hate machine that will directly fund the oppression and deaths of trans people and that everyone involved is morally compromised beyond redemption WITHOUT sharing the trailer.

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Xander Flatt @xanderflatt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The gravity of this statement took a while to catch up with me. I ran over the edge of a cliff and just kept going straight. Then I looked down.

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Wile E. Coyote's Classic Cliff Fall

Alt: Wile E. Coyote's Classic Cliff Fall

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 29/08/2026

Watching VFX Artists React today and learning that Wētā Workshop no longer has a miniatures division made me so sad. Apparently studios just don’t want them anymore, they all want CGI. So sad

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Xander Flatt @xanderflatt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One of my jobs 10 years ago was cross checking addresses to send vulnerable kids in Edinburgh books from Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. Her legacy cannot be overstated.

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Xander Flatt @xanderflatt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Warren Beatty owns the film and tv licensing rights for Dick Tracy, but they will lapse if 10 years go by without him releasing anything. So now, once a decade, he does an interview with TCM as Dick Tracy in full costume just to hold on to them. I respect that.

Xander Flatt @xanderflatt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

You want to live like spreadsheet people You want to see whatever spreadsheet people see You want to sleep with spreadsheet people You want to sleep with spreadsheet people like me?" But she didn't understand So I used a pivot table and some charts to turn data into actionable insights

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Xander Flatt @xanderflatt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The purpose of a system is what it does. If they wanted to help people, they would. They want to help asset owners.

Xander Flatt @xanderflatt.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"Actually we went quite close to some real Bronze Age remains, but we avoided Dobby's grave," Imagine what this fan group could achieve if they tried to combat something as harmful as, you know...

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Xander Flatt @xanderflatt.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

You play as a shade of red: the game is rougelike

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Xander Flatt @xanderflatt.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Firstly: No, they don't. Secondly: "we attempted delivery of your package from low-earth orbit earlier today but no-one was available to sign for the charred remains"

Xander Flatt @xanderflatt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We reached out to The Umbrella Corporation but no-one in their Racoon City office was available for comments

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Curator Rob @curatorrob.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is what the future looks like...

A sign, next to a road and on a grass verge. In black on a white background it says 24 hour cheese vending machine. An arrow point off to the right.

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Xander Flatt @xanderflatt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

If you consider how racist you need to be for musicians that you shared a bill with to start an anti-racism charity to combat your views.... that's how racist Eric Clapton is.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Only just found out about this For the record, you don't get multiple genetic markers and one of the most effective medications known to science with 'social constructs' Channel 4, this is, in scientific parlance, an absolute fu*king disgrace that will genuinely endanger lives #c4 #ADHD

New Channel 4 documentary, The Great ADHD Myth?, seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct

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Xander Flatt @xanderflatt.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Excuse me while I go and sit down in the museum with the other fossils.

EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

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I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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Xander Flatt @xanderflatt.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

After 800 miles, two taxis, six trains, three missed connections and about 50ft of a mild jog, I finally got my well-read copy of Depraved: The Story of Dangerous Art signed by @daisydixon.bsky.social It changed how I view art. Bought @portybooks.bsky.social signed @bookspacecardiff.bsky.social

A copy of Dr Daisy Dixon's 'Depraved: The Story of Dangerous Art' stands upright on a wooden table

The inside cover of the book, signed by Daisy Dixon.

Xander Flatt @xanderflatt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Standard bluesky response: In choosing Neutral Milk Hotel, you have chosen the side of the Oppressor Milk Hotel.

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Xander Flatt @xanderflatt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

If your only experience of food poverty is reusing a slice of lemon for your second gin of the afternoon, sit down and shut up.

Jon at Handiwork Games @handiworkgames.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

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Everyone on here be like “oh yes I am a games designer with very strong opinions”, meanwhile here’s Anna age 12 out-designing all of you with her amazing pavement games. G’aun yersel, Anna.

A photo of a chalk game on a pavement where players are invited to dodje the lightning.

Another pavement game featuring a number of stages presented as physical challenges, dance zones, memory and performance challenges.

The credits section of the local pavement games, crediting Anna age 12, and suggesting people create their own games.

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A solid example of "I'm not doing it to change the world, I'm doing it so the world doesn't change me."

World Cup 2026: World Cup rings for winners as Donald Trump to attend final

But they were all of them deceived, for another ring was made. In the land of Switzerland, in the fires of Mount FIFA, the Dark Lord Infantino forged in secret a Master Ring... One Ring to rule them all!

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Donald Trump will present the trophy to the World Cup final winners on Sunday, and rings will be presented to the victorious side.

It makes sense that he'd need to move onto burning more fossil fuels having immediately burned through his credibility and any goodwill.

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Xander Flatt @xanderflatt.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is grim. If you show children that they're not allowed to enjoy something because people will make fun of them; all they learn is to hide what they like and to make fun of others. Your children are not a blank page on which you decide what to write.

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I'll hit 68 in 2053. By that time, state pension age will likely be 70+. And with cuts to welfare and increasing wealth inequality, healthy life expectancy in many places will be lower than that.

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Xander Flatt @xanderflatt.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Probably won't go down very well in Edinburgh North and Leith...

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Xander Flatt @xanderflatt.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Over the years, I've learned many life lessons from @themountaingoats.bsky.social . Today I learned that Napalm Death performed "You Suffer" at the tiny desk. This might be the most profound one of them all. Or, at least, a close second behind the availability of Pan-Asian supermarkets in Hell.

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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of:

improved recognition
changing help-seeking behaviour
institutional incentives
pressures within existing service pathways
Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.

These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including:

real increases in distress in some groups
improved recognition of previously unmet need
changing expectations about support
systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance
Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need.

In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services.

The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

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Xander Flatt @xanderflatt.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Said Hernan Cortes to the governor of Cuba...