HeretikalDeb

Incredible stuff from Steph here

*David Attenborough voice* ‘And now, as happens every few years, the council starts its regular consultation into transport in Cambridge. It is almost ritualistic. They will issue a grand report, make a grand plan, then do nothing at all. In a decade, the cycle will start again.’

News - No overdiagnosis of ADHD, say experts - University of Nottingham Experts are warning that far from being over diagnosed, people with ADHD are waiting too long for assessment, support and treatment.

What a surprise: Experts are warning that far from being over diagnosed, people with ADHD are waiting too long for assessment, support and treatment.

In a new British Journal of Psychiatry study experts say no robust evidence of ADHD over-diagnosis in UK www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/no...

Joss Whedon: greetings whedonistas and whedonistos!
Clive Barker: who're you?
Whedon: i'm
Whedon: i'm joss whedon!
Whedon: c'mon, you remember me!
Whedon: i was everyone's woke 90s bae!
Barker: hm doesn't ring a bell

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Super article from an old friend and colleague, and others:

Inclusive Neurodiverse Campuses: A Participatory Approach to Understanding Neurodivergent Belonging in Higher Education, Hamilton, L. G., Williams, J., Neilson, D., & Petty, S. (2026)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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@petewharmby.com isn't active on here these days, but he, along with others, has written a response to that Uta Frith TES article www.twinkl.co.uk/news/experts...

🎯🎯🎯

The rise of rejection sensitive dysphoria: ‘My chest feels like it’s collapsing’ It makes rejection, teasing or criticism feel unbearable, often prompting a strong physical reaction. Sufferers describe life with a condition that is only just starting to be understood

The rise of rejection sensitive dysphoria: ‘My chest feels like it’s collapsing’ - lots of neurodiverse folks get this. Do you? How does it manifest?
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Coffee bags, one is Tom of Finland with a Tom of Finland image on it. The other is Moomin with a Moomin leaning on a blueberry. More details: in the photograph of two "Art Roast" coffee bags on the shelf of a store with prices in euros. One of the bags is large and black and says HEAVY DUTY dark roast coffee beans, exclusive blend by Robert [I can't read it, it's in script]. The other is blue and says Blueberry coffee.

ah yes, the two genders

I spent a year inside the content moderation workforce in Nairobi and Manila — the human cost of making AI 'safe' is a class story nobody wants to tell - Silicon Canals The people who teach AI the boundary between acceptable and unacceptable content earn $230 a month in Nairobi and Manila. The companies whose products depend on that labor are worth trillions. This is...

“the story of making AI ‘safe’ is fundamentally a story about class, about which humans absorb the costs so that other humans never have to think about them.”
siliconcanals.com/sc-d-i-spent...

A sequel image of Little Mari and her dragon friend making toast (thanks to a friend giving me a prompt)

Onfim’s drawing of himself on horseback as a warrior defeating an enemy.

Two of Onfim’s works. On the left is a copy of a passage from the Book of Psalms he did for schoolwork. On the right is an apparently autobiographical depiction of a monster labeled with “I am a wild beast.”

Some more spelling practice by Onfim with some human figures who have round heads and varying numbers of fingers on their big hands.

Onfim’s writing practice accompanied by 7 little people in his particular drawing style, who tend to have very big hands with many fingers.

Nice AI-image-generating tool, but it will never be as great an artist as Onfim, a child who lived in the Novgorod Republic in the mid-1200s and who scribbled these drawings and schoolwork writings on birch bark at the age of 6 or 7.

AI is going to trash every single way that we had modernised university teaching and send us back to handwritten exams and vivas for every assessment. Which will bring back every problem with those assessment models (and make us seem even more out-of-touch even as we just try to do meaningful work).

Comic. [Person is sitting at a desk with a laptop, turned toward voice coming from off-panel.] VOICE FROM OFF-PANEL: I got you the ingredients for dinner tonight. Oh, and the plums in the fridge drawer are for my yogurt tomorrow; you should just leave them. Be back later! PERSON’S THOUGHT BUBBLE: Oh no. [caption] Help. It actually happened. I shouldn’t. But how can I not!?

Plums

xkcd.com/3209/

BAFTA Fallout I want to start this post with a significant caveat – attempting to talk about complex, emotive and highly charged issues within the constraints of the frenzied news cycle is difficult and unpredictab...

Read my post on the fall out of last nights BAFTA's here. This is an opportunity to increase understanding of oppositional tics and acknowledge the complex realities and impacts of the condition: www.touretteshero.com/safe/2026/02...

Can also recommend 'Two Hairdressers in Bagglyport', the loving tribute the Documentary Now! Team made of it. All on It X

This is one to check out on ITVX
www.itv.com/watch/docume...

The Day We Argued About Roman Numerals
 
Even now in my mind,
that row remains VIVID –
I tried to stay CIVIL
but you ended up LIVID.

I'm in love 🥰

Rita Moreno once dated Elvis Presley to make Marlon Brando Jealous. That’s the energy we all need a little more of

worst thing about uni students using AI for essays is that they don't even seem to be doing it so they can spend more time in the club, I'd have marginally more respect for them if their goal was to maximise their partying time, what are they even doing with the time AI frees up for them

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

These are so lovely! Perfect example.

a man in a suit and tie sitting in a chair Alt: A man in a suit and tie (in this case, Hugh Grant, acting the part of the Prime Minister in the file Love Actually) sitting in a chair and looking dejected before face planting the desk in front of him.

As I sit here with my head on my desk once again, I implore people to understand that universities are not just 'big schools'.

this is devastating

Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

i often think about this review

God forbid a woman have a hobby.

Lines of academy cadets, one in command red seated but at attention while in a wheelchair.

I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."

That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.

The beauty of Xiahoe a mummy from the Xiaohe cemetery wears a necklace of fermented dairy, cheese or kefir or something like that that points to another direction of creation for kefir coming from the east and not just in Caucasus area. It's from 1800BCE roughly and it's very well preserved since the arid climate and saline sands kept her very very well.

This mummy was discovered in the early 21st century wearing a necklace made of ...fermented dairy. The exact type of dairy is still up for debate but it could be kefir or similar...Lets find the long history of fermented dairy in Central Asia here:

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Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters

Born to wander the misty moors, forced to fight fascism - little toad like creature looking concerned

Born to wander the misty moors, forced to fight fascism (we can do both though, don’t worry)