Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.

What is motonormativity? I'm on my way to an air pollution event in a city centre and the organisers have put the driving directions ahead of the public transport directions in the email

Other birds seen on my wander around Summer Leys yesterday included a Chiffchaff, a large flock of Goldfinches, Robins, and a couple of Bullfinches. @wildlifebcn.org #birds #northantsbirds #Nikon

the neurodivergent urge to wonder if you are performing Friendliness correctly. if your Friendliness has been appropriately calibrated to the situation at hand.😮‍💨

Back in 1997 there were just 11 booming male Bitterns left in the UK – almost extinct. Thanks to conservation by @rspb.bsky.social and @naturalengland.bsky.social 283 booming males were recorded in 2024. Les Cater shares his story and stunning photos of these rare birds ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Weather enforced early curtailment of ringing activities today but not before another pretty fair arrival of late migrants was tapped into at the Bill: total of 41 included 12 Goldcrests and 6 Chiffchaffs + the sixth Cetti's Warbler of the autumn and the first Black Redstart of the year

Was it worth getting up at the crack of dawn for the last big high tide of the year? I think so

Reminds me to put the insulation back on the outside tap this weekend, and make sure the trampoline tethers are secure:

If the government really wants to tackle the whole 'a whole pile of folks are off sick' thing, they could start by treating sick and disabled people as *people,* not broken office equipment. Oh, and acknowledging that post-viral disabilities are real, and covid happened, that'd be a start.

Public service announcement: if you're working in state schools or the public sector and you want sight of the data behind this article, hit me up (DM here, or email on the @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social site) Thread in graphs below

"if we are worried about why the costs of looking after learning disabled people has ballooned in recent decades, we should stop being so binary in our calculations and become more transparent about where the money is being spent" Excellent by @stephenunwin.bsky.social in @bylinetimes.bsky.social

OH YAY IT’S A WINTER OLYMPICS WINTER! Suddenly feeling so much less despondent about the descending cold and dark…

You know what - it would be really life affirming if just for once - THIS 👇 was the story

Athens hoopoe street-art

A new guide to ensuring that planning and urban design addresses the needs of neurodivergent people:

📣 SNJ & IPSEA yesterday met SEND Minister Georgia Gould. We restated the law must be retained & fully implemented in deed, culture ➕ sustainable funding. Getting more disabled adults into work starts with being fully included in education. The Minister said she’s keen to work with us

"Drag pantomime". Amazing. No notes.

What percentage of politicians in your country are still relying on this site as a primary means of public communication? It feels slightly maddening that this isn't being treated as an extremely urgent problem.

The whiter the area the more likely it is to have a Reform problem. Immigration isn’t the problem, otherwise you’d get Reform in more diverse areas - it’s fear of change among older people.

NEW POST: “It’s not a compliance issue—it’s a design failure,” say child psychologists, as they call for systemic action on children's mental health and "harmful" rigid school attendance and behaviour policies www.specialneedsjungle.com/n...

Completely rational action for parents and this has been under discussion in our local area’s SEN parent group

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Did having more ABA mean that autistic children 'behaved' better? No. "..the inclusion of cumulative hours of applied behavioral analysis ... did not yield significant changes... indicating that increased therapy hours did not predict greater improvement"

Grok’s going to decide what you get to see on X. WHY are people staying? Why?!

I think I could run for election on the single issue of removing the calories from the menus of restaurants. Sir, I am hungover. I do not want to know this delivery could feed an adult puma for a week.

Let them eat ballrooms. Tacky gilt ballrooms built entirely out of bad taste and bribery.

This is quite an important point that very rarely gets covered in conversations about private vs public healthcare - emergency care. Because as a rule, private hospitals have neither the facilities or skills to handle acute illness and accident (no A&E, ITU or MDT set of staff) - and even more 1/

Really cool interview caught this morning from @thinkingautism.com Believing in Nonspeakers and Communication Rights share.google/MA3qXvW3RmnW...

Brace for another wave of x refuges

Uber Eats now has has "AI" written menu item descriptions. Complete with a warning they could be incorrect. What the hell?

It's that moment again for National Trust members to vote to keep the entryists out. Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October Quick Vote link keeps the AstroTurfers out. Then share. Thank you. secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...

The Japanese tea garden at NT Kingston Lacy earlier this week. A kind lady took our picture nearby, capturing my daughter giving a serious eye roll while standing between her two mums 😂

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What does the night bring us? Monitoring channels warn: 400+ drones, and maybe missiles. Devices are charged. How different our Fridays are. Yours and mine. Yes, yes. I’ll stay strong, alive, caffeinated, and only a little jealous.

New @birdtrack.bsky.social migration blog! ➡️ www.bto.org/our-work/new... Reports of winter thrushes are on the up, there’s been an increase in Yellow-browed Warblers after a below average autumn so far & records of Short-eared Owls arriving off the sea along the east coast of England. #Ornithology

Interesting. But let's see. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

If you're newly coming into your Disabled identity, it's worth learning some history of Disabled people's activism. Just get some context. And even if you're not newly coming into your Disabled identity, it's still worth it.

not to repeat the obvious but: if they are doing this to one of the most famous Western activists alive, imagine what they are doing to the people whose names we will never know

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame. tinyurl.se/crR

The Jungfrau peak catches the last rays of sun over the Lauterbrunnen valley. 🇨🇭 📷

HMCI says some complaints parents make about provision are "heartbreaking".Sometimes these parents feel that they have battling the system for their child's entire lives, he says. (It's good to hear this sympathetic view; too often parent perspective is pitted vs that of schools).

🌟New piece out today in @theconversation.com on Autistic people who are non-speaking or semi-speaking (they can speak some times) theconversation.com/why-some-aut...

Now that it’s the time of year when the obscurely-funded right wing Restore Trust, a private company, try once again to take over the National Trust, my annual reminder of what they want to do with our history & heritage. blogs.sussex.ac.uk/snapshotsofe...

We are so pleased to announce next month's #CRAEwebinar. Jada Brown will be speaking on 'Understanding the embodied experiences of Black, autistic university students in the UK' Do join us: Thur 6th Nov 4pm

National Trust members, remember to vote to keep out Restore Trust. The quick vote may not be your favourite thing, but it's the best way to stop them and not split the vote.

There are four house martins feeding above my head. They’re six inches long and are about to travel 6,000 miles. That’s about 63 million times their body length. The lunatics.

If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh.

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