Historic ‘causes’ of #Autism

My #Heiresses tour is underway! Book now to catch me in #London #Birmingham #Wigtown #Glasgow #Edinburgh #Bridport & #Mold www.mirandakaufmann.com/events.html Hope to see you on the road! Don’t see your town? Feel free to ask your local bookshop/library/museum/venue/soapbox to send me an invite…

Calling all London people! A private company is charging patients to use wheelchairs at hospital. Think this stinks? Be there tomorrow and show your displeasure at this cashing in on patients! Details below. Please share 👊

Dear America, Unfortunately, your president is being an utter wazzock again. Could you please get the deranged, narcissistic oaf to pipe down? And if you could elect someone with the barest modicum of dignity next time would be *very* much appreciated. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Living History photography thread! At Château de Crèvecœur en Auge daily life circa 1475 is brought back to life. A Norman lordship, a harvest festival, work. More accurately reconstructed than in most films & TV shows... Photos © Barry's Photography www.facebook.com/media/set/?v...

Our #rivers are in crisis – polluted & stripped of their natural features. We’re calling on the government to urgently make #SpaceForWater & support a network of nature-rich river corridors including meadows. Sign the petition and help restore our rivers: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

And what we all desperately need as the climate collapses around our ears are cheaper flights and more aviation emissions Reeves - like the rest of the Starmer clique - appear to be inhabiting a planet where there is no climate emergency www.theguardian.com/business/liv...

Well, as we seem so keen to repeat the 1930s, we may as well go the whole hog and do the 'heir to the throne hangs out with fascist regime' thing...

I've seen a few posts celebrating the Your Party thing as, if it succeeded, it'd gift Reform a win by costing Labour votes. It's weirdly arrogant to assume the left will blithely vote for a party that's impoverishing pensioners & disabled folk, ignored genocide & chosen to cozy up to fascists.

Claims of human exceptionalism are tumbling almost daily. "Classification linked to verbal labels can emerge in non-human, non-linguistic species living in natural settings." We need to understand ourselves as human animals, part of nature, not separate from it phys.org/news/2025-09...

I'm sorry, but this is unjustified, optimistic, drivel Governments across the world are turning away from green measures and FF corporations are expanding operations Best we can hope for is a return to the Pliocene - 3C hotter and sea levels eventually up 20m www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Found more Favolaschia claudopus - Orange Porecap in a different woodland this afternoon. It’s definitely spreading. #FungiFriends #FungiFriday

timeline cleanse on this friday. mud wizard taunting stuck cops during a climate protest in germany

Mating season has arrived in my house… well for house spiders anyway 😄 Casually climbing the wall next to my Tv. In a pint glass for scale, still image in the comments. @britishspiders.bsky.social #Spiders #Nature #Biodiversity #Camden #London

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit. Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil. 1🧵 #PlaymobilÖtzi #PlaymobilInfestation

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Whoever would have guessed that rearing a non-native species in vast numbers for agricultural purposes would have a detrimental impact on the environment as wild pollinators lose out in the competition for resources, huh?! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Loser shit but make it a gross invasion of privacy

Well, this is interesting. I hope we'll soon be offered similar protection in the UK, though given the government seems in thrall to the tech bros to the point of utter capitulation to their demands... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Starmer's sold the UK cheap to some of the most repugnant corporations in the world, with disastrous consequences for the environment. And all to appease a fascist regime. His incompetence, arrogance and sheer craven stupidity has fucked this country over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

All politicians should be subject to full scrutiny. Instead, our craven, supine government facilitates censorship of the press to prevent Trump from being held to account. Kyle's assurances over freedom of speech are ringing very hollow. Absolutely despicable. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

Potential workaround if you're already logged in and get prompted by the ToS notification: opening this "privacy policy" link www.academia.edu/privacytakes you to a page where you can access the drop-down menu and reach "account settings." From there I was able to delete my account without agreeing.

BBC News - "In his own speech, the King praises the US president for his 'personal commitment' to finding solutions to world conflicts". Meanwhile... BBC News - Israeli tanks push into major Gaza City residential area www.bbc.com/news/article...

Just out of curiosity, does Windsor Castle have an oubliette?

"..and now we move on to Liars.."

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

I posted this 7 months ago and it's only grown more relevant every day since. Which is, you know, annoying.

'In the letter, seen by Research Professional News, [Adrian] Smith said he was sure that many fellows “will share my concern at the events of the last week and the growing tendency to resort to the language of violence in pursuit of political programmes'. 1/2

"There’s something very sinister.....when peaceful protest becomes terrorism: when an ad van going around Windsor Castle perfectly legally is stopped by the police, taken away, and those people prevented from expressing a point of view" Jeremy Corbyn www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

A quarter of your energy bill has gone in straight profit to the privatised energy corporations Anyone out there still think they shouldn't be renationalised? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Outrageous bollocks from a pathetically thin skinned Government which is willing to humiliate Britain on the international stage to brown nose one of the most dangerous men the world has ever known. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I wish more people would call this what it is: a lie/scam to increase unpaid labour. Management know many of us won’t give crap feedback, so instead we work evenings/weekends or let other work slip. Their spreadsheet is happy, students still get decent feedback. All the burden is on the Lecturer.

European summer temperatures are teetering on the edge of 50C Inevitable that this threshold will be crossed in the next year or two And the heat - and the death toll - will just keep on building www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The greeting he deserves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Genius.

A thread worthy of your attention!

A small, and presumably sub adult, male Flower Crab Spider (Misumena vatia) found in the garden waste bin today. The males are not something I see very often. @britishspiders.bsky.social #londonwildlife

Just one more example of the Israeli Government avoiding scrutiny of its actions. MPs and doctors, @simonforstroud.bsky.social and @peterprinsleymp.bsky.social have been denied entry to visit the West Bank.

"You've let me down, you've let the squadron down... and worst of of all you've let yourself down."

Many of us have been warning that far-right rhetoric has been ignored or, worse, normalised by Labour for years. It would, of course, be cynical to note the timing of Streeting's comments coincide with Starmer's leadership position beginning to look a tad dodgy. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Starmer still won't acknowledge it was a fascist demo on Saturday. We desperately need a leader with the political acumen to tackle the far-right; instead we have a weak appeaser who, even now, doesn't truly appreciate the threat to democracy in this country. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Was Streeting is the answer, if the question is 'give a single example of the extent of the rot endemic throughout Labour.

So far, 2025 has felt like living inside a Hieronymus Bosch painting

Hope America proves to be interesting.

The likelihood is, there won't be any investors by 2050 - and very little to invest in www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Unfortunately, we have a Labour government seemingly determined to outflank Reform on immigration . . .These attacks are having a severe impact on the financial health of the sector” - @drjogrady.bsky.social in the @theipaper.com today inews.co.uk/news/flag-wa...

The government's own estimates predict a 5 billion litre per day shortfall in public water supplies by 2055, which will be exacerbated by usage by data centres. Starmer's supine surrender to big tech demands will be an environmental disaster for this country. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...