We've gone from noone even talking about it, to a almost daily attack on needs, access, care, behaviour, funding.
It's not normal. It's a focused campaign.
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We've gone from noone even talking about it, to a almost daily attack on needs, access, care, behaviour, funding.
It's not normal. It's a focused campaign.
Think it is about time realise there's a war on #Autism & #ADHD not just misinformation.
It's a active campaign to sow division and mistrust. To undermines our voice and send us back to a darker time. Noone is misinterpreting in good faith here anymore. There's enough evidence.
There's political context which is very likely why this piece was commissioned, why now and why it first appeared where it did. She may not care about that, but the person who commissioned it very likely does know and care.
I say this every year, but:
The uni students I'm teaching are thoughtful, intelligent, will make everything they encounter better.
With a new addition for 2026:
They deeply hate AI.
I didna speak
whan it bleetert doon.
Ma man wis gey taen up wi’ getting us
sortit, an’ it wis fell lang afore we had
the bastes in an’ the fowl settled…
—Eunice Buchanan, “Wife to Noah”
published in MARKINGS 30 (2010)
#poem #poetry
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/wife-no...
Two rabbits capture a man from the margins of the Smithfield Decretals.
A rabbit decapitates a man with a sword.
A rabbit fires arrows at a hound with a longbow, from the margins of the Smithfield Decretals.
Murderous bunny rabbits from the margins of the Smithfield Decretals 🐇🐇🐇
c. 1300-1340, Royal MS 10 E IV
A miniature of the construction of the Tower of Babel, from Boccaccio's Des cas de nobles hommes et femmes (Add MS 35321).
The British Library’s Medieval MSS team now have a presence on Bluesky @blmedieval.bsky.social
Follow for updates as we restore more of our digitised content online!
Walsingham writes to Bowes and Davison in Edinburgh, telling them off for not writing more frequently. He's worried that James is not 'so forwardlie disposed in heart to embrace th'amitye of England as he doth outwardlie pretend', and to be fair his grumbling is probably displacement ... 4/
Kirk of the Covenant, Dalmellington in East Ayrshire could become a community observatory and museum for a Scottish Dark Sky location.
Read about the Dark Sky Discovery👇
www.darkskydiscovery.org.uk
And the story here 👇
www.cumnockchronicle.com/news/2590685...
Correct!
We are UK-wide, and our pilot for online tuition for trans or non binary students starts in the summer.
We are delivering the pilot at a heavily subsidised rate this summer -the equivalent of just £2/lesson.
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"Never forget that a political, economical or religious crisis is enough to cast doubt on women's rights. These rights will never be vested. You have to stay vigilant your whole life."
Simone de Beauvoir, 1949
#WomensDay #IWD2026 #8M
Two firefighters resting, sitting on the plinth of the "Citizen Firefighter" statue.
Quite an image on the BBC live page (www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...; no photographer credited).
Sounds as if they've saved the station and the hotel, and more importantly, without loss of life.
Citizens; heroes.
While we're acknowledging heroes, hats off to Mr Kongira here.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
UK Wide online tutoring for trans kids.
essehouse.co.uk/the-esse-hou...
If you have been blessed with a trans child;
1. Keep them away from the NHS
2. Try and move abroad if you can
3. Be prepared to fight transphobic staff at school
4. Find other sources of hormones/medication. If you can, get a car loan to pay for them.
5. Protect them from all governmental agencies.
People should be REALLY scared by this, it's normalising refusing healthcare to a section of the community for entirely ideological reasons with absolutely no medical reason
State of the UK - "Lollipop men and women will wear bodycams after being abused by motorists and cyclists." [Telegraph]
If hormones, or puberty blockers, were so dangerous, nobody would be allowed them.
That some people are and that trans kids can even, notionally at least, stay on them if already prescribed, tells you all you need to know.
It strikes me that what the Cass review has 'achieved' is a manufactured lack of evidence. It doesn't feel a million miles from what the tobacco companies used to do.
"Like all propaganda, the Cass Review is not intended to stand up to scrutiny. It is intended to make a bang, a media blitz across the country saying trans healthcare is bad, which can then be used by the government to justify further restricting access to gender-affirming care."
a blurry photo of a smiling young woman, holding a pet dog on the dockside in happier times. The only known photo of Madeleine.
black and white photo of a single stack, ex-merchant RN vessel
To mark International Women's Day, meet Lt Cmdr. Madeleine Barclay. First Officer on HMS Fidelity.
To my knowledge, the first woman to officially serve as First Officer on a Royal Navy vessel deployed on combat duty. Achieving this involved a three-way war between Navy, SOE and the WRNS /1 🧵 #IWD
Added to this, people with anxiety and depression are treated like absolute shit by society which means that those societal pressures get worse and their mental health gets worse
Christine de Pizan and the Sibyl surrounded by sun, moon, and stars
#InternationalWomensDay
BL Harley 4431; Christine de Pizan, Various Works including Le chemin de long estude; c.1410-c.1414; France, Central (Paris); f.189v
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Christine de Pizan writing in her study, with a dog by her side
#InternationalWomensDay
BL Harley 4431; Christine de Pizan, Various Works; France, Central (Paris); c.1410-c.1414; f.4r
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Christine de Pizan before Reason, Rectitude, and Justice; and Christine with Reason building the Cité des Dames
#InternationalWomensDay
BL Harley 4431, f. 290r
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Rectitude leading Christine and other worthy women into the city
#InternationalWomensDay
BL Harley 4431; Christine de Pizan, Various Works incl La Cité des dames'; 14th century; France, Central (Paris); f.323r
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I have little positive routines of doing nice sensory stuff I enjoy when I feel anxious and I find that helps a lot
I gave up on 'normal' since I work from home :-) I get sensory joy from lots of bright & colourful lights, love warmth & nice scents so I lean into that & use pleasant scented stuff + noise cancelling airpods wt soothing background sound mixes against noise & warm soft clothes & hot water bottles.
Or that autistic people are exaggerating social difficulties and so are making thinking errors that need to be challenged when discrimination is actually happening to them.
This is the front line talking therapy on the NHS and it can be terrible for autistic people.
Cognitive behavioral therapy - to identify and replace irrational mistaken thoughts, but when a neurotypical therapist works with an ND person they can end up gaslighting them because they dont understand sensory differences and think eg. gradual exposure therapy works with noise sensitivity