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Fucking hell. A synagogue conducting active shooter training isn’t proof that an attack on the synagogue was a false flag any more than a school conducting active shooter training is proof that school shootings are false flags. Synagogues are community hubs and receive threats *constantly*.

Text from the book DIY Culture: The White Book was a project by Justice? in Brighton to publish a directory of activist groups in Britain. When it was completed and published in 1995 it was renamed The Book “We asked some black groups why they hadn't responded and were answered by looks of incredulity - we're stupid.

Christ.

I remember when he “sold out Norwich Waterfront”

Right. 3000 words into my lit review now, which is probably just under halfway? Feel like I've still got a lot to get in.

I absolutely do!

The opposite of what we have at the moment! I have a mild theory about the "wrong" people ending up in DEI roles because people w/ lived experience are so much more likely to burnout due to coming up against endless "no"s to their own inclusion. But I am absolutely SURE someone has written on that.

Ooooh, yes that looks useful! Thank you!

OH! Minority tax!

Hmm, I am maybe thinking of invisible labour?

I can find a fair bit about how teachers, social workers and nurses experience this in advocating for others, but not much in the sense of it being yourself and others like you that you have to fight for.

Has anybody got a good academic reading on the concept of "self-advocacy fatigue/burnout"? As in, when having to be an advocate and role model for your own identity/rights becomes exhausting? #AutRes #AskingAutistics #Neurodiversity

Yup

Finally got round to rebooking an appointment with university disability services today. Last time I tried they cancelled it and I did the obvious adhd thing of never remembering to rebook.

Please do not read this if it might be triggering, but this is a really excellent bit of journalism and a story which needs to be shared.

Headshot of Dr Sullivan. She has blue eyes, and a short brown bob haircut with a fringe. Text on image reads: Dr Emily Sullivan, Co-Director of the CTMF & Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Technology.

Text reads: ERC PhD studentship: The Ethics and Philosophy of Science of Machine Learning. Applications are open for this funded PhD Studentship, to begin in September 2026. Application Deadline: 16 March 2026, More info: edin.ac/46cHXPd

Applications close on Monday (16 March) for this fully-funded PhD studentship in the Ethics of AI and Philosophy of Science!

Supervised by our CTMF Co-Director Dr Emily Sullivan, this studentship is part of the @erc.europa.eu project TOY: Machine learning in Science and Society: A dangerous toy?

Amazing how much more ready you feel for life after a good night’s sleep. Yesterday everything felt fully unmanageable.

we dare you to find a museum more ready

What they say is "Everyone wants to be Autistic"

They mean "Everyone wants compassion and accommodation for their sensory sensitivities and social tolerances"

& like - fuck yeah we do!

But they also are implying they will NOT recognize our needs and WON'T support them, so that's not a safe person

I clicked on an Instagram post about a happy dog – and opened a hellish portal | Polly Hudson Little did I know this cheerful animal had just died. Ever since, my algorithm has been serving me up more of the same ...

This KEEPS happening to me. And since I have an interest in inclusive education, it’s very often children who have died as well. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

On Uta Frith, its worth noting she's been doing this kind of thing for decades. In her 2008 book "Autism: A Very Short Introduction" she wrote that attempt to shift from a deficit to difference perspective is "peverse" and said that if you hold that perspective then the book is "not for you".

When my three year old son is sat on the loo doing a poo, he pulls a face that looks just like Michael Gove and it haunts me.

That’s Fin.

Did you not also recognise our cats?

Christ my skeets are very boring at the moment. Have some cats (and a Dan)

So, in New Zealand, Grad TAs hold office hours.

a man in a suit and tie is wearing sunglasses and says mr worldwide ALT: a man in a suit and tie is wearing sunglasses and says mr worldwide

Me hitting some German students taking over my table with a “tchuss”

This seems very bad. We need to be self-sufficient in food now more than ever.

I've realised that I have a lot of anxiety about being tired/burned out, and sometimes that makes things worse, because the mere thought of doing something I am really capable of doing will make me anxious. And being anxious makes me tired.

a man in a suit and tie is wearing sunglasses and says mr worldwide ALT: a man in a suit and tie is wearing sunglasses and says mr worldwide

Me hitting some German students taking over my table with a “tchuss”

I work on my PhD when????