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Like so what if Tylenol does cause autism? That’s my question.

Alfred Hitchcock’s The Neurotypicals where Tippi Hedren is pecked to death by these basic ass idiots

Muting ‘autism’. Just can’t.

Thing is, the right don’t respect any such high bar. So if the rest of us do, we just give them an endless series of freebies. Stop pulling punches that really don’t need to be pulled.

My review of Ayoush Lazikani’s ‘The Medieval Moon’, in the latest @historytoday.com

the reason you don't engage in a data-driven argument with fascists is that it legitimises the idea that if the data went the other way their core argument would be acceptable it is not and should be rejected wholesale from first principles

Visited the lovely @rjsalter.bsky.social and her gorgeous little chappie. Brilliant day.

'sex matters' -> 'ethnicity matters' you just know they aren't far off from 'race matters'.

If you write professionally in the UK, make sure to sign up to ALCS for your fair share of royalties

On a barely moving delayed train. Why is everything in this country so shit?* *rhetorical question

When people ask you what something basic is instead of Googling it

‘In disbelief’ have they been living under a rock?

This is what the current Labour Party is enabling and emboldening.

Yet again: a childless (as far as I know) man telling others what to do.

HITS FROM THE BONG

There should be actual consequences for this stuff.

Church of St Peter and St Paul, Tring, from our walk yesterday.

What about Farridge’s German wife then?

We are on @uonucu.bsky.social jubilee picket set up!

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

We know who made this number up - it was the Centre for Policy Studies. However, after I pointed out two major errors, they have admitted it is completely wrong and have withdrawn it - see note on their webpage here. cps.org.uk/research/her...

The team that brought you ‘Shaping for Excellence’ at Leicester, which ended in several colleagues winning unfair dismissal cases at employment tribunal, are now doing their best to shape Bangor for something too, but, once again, it doesn’t look to be excellence.

Buried details: the 18% of kids whose identities shifted over the course of the study were overwhelmingly between binary trans and non-binary or vice versa. The number who shifted between binary cis and trans was very low indeed - out of a subset of 254, precisely *one* kid shifted in this way.

Modern language education is probably the best educational crisis in Britain but gets very little coverage because we assume the rest of the world just speaks English as a second language

And just like that … ECZEMA SEASON

Suddenly the Greta Thunberg statue at the University of Winchester seems less annoying

People!Close the bloody sliding door of the train toilet when you finish! Jesus.

Nephew and his Mum have a regular borrow my doggy called Athena. She’s an iggy and very friendly

This is a great way to choose a boyfriend

I described Charlie Mullins' comments here - calling migrants who come here legally to work "rubbish" - as racist lies. Apparently he's moved to Spain (or Dubai). Good riddance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NArb...

"UK students are lazy and lack entrepreneurial spirit" - Labour www.bbc.com/news/article...

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Don't forget to tune in for tonight's episode of King and Conqueror, in which Harold and William discover a crashed spaceship while Edith and Matilda team up to fight a giant beetle.

the hypocrisy isn't a bug - it's a feature

Been a shit week since getting back tbh. But here’s me modelling my @ihr.bsky.social pin badge on the train.

Patricia Routledge is an icon in all ways.

Ladies, he replied!

Note the pernicious deployment of the term "identity politics", and who and what it is used to denigrate. If the UK left's civil war of 2025 results in people who do this being consigned to the trashcan of the movement's history, that will be something, at least. observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Off to Tring to see my nephew Arthur and his Mum. Hoping I’ll get a tour of the ‘dead zoo’ (natural history museum) from the expert (Arthur).

Again I get this but if you come to areas like mine that’s exactly what it is being used for, that’s what it means right now, and no amount of waving it with good vibes is going to change that

Sick of flaky musicians who enquire about buying my bass and then ghost me. Just say you’re no longer interested!

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This is a great idea👇 If you're in Shropshire, Shrewsbury Food Hub takes fruit: they had about 50kg of pears off us which mostly went to school holiday clubs www.shrewsburyfoodhub.org.uk

Lots of people saying they’ve got bumper crops of apples and such atm. If you’ve too many and don’t know what to do with them, ask your local Foodbank or cooperative pantry if they could use them! Dad got 2kg to the Fishguard Foodbank earlier.

Watching Homicide: Life on the Street season 4 and the male cops waking up to the fact Kay Howard is smoking hot is hilarious 😂

Yep. THE and rankings are a curse.

Go Jimmy!!!

This is a pretty straight/fair writeup of my discussion with Charlie Mullins. [The headline is inaccurate: as the article says, I described him as racist for describing legal migrants who come here to work as "rubbish" who bring "8 or 10" people who claim benefits.] www.gbnews.com/politics/cha...

I would say I'd rather stick a potato masher up my arse but Embery might do a crowdfunder to sue me