Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

Here is the full report: web.archive.org/web/20260709...

The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.

JK Rowling offers to fund lawsuits against Amnesty is a headline that will cut through.

JK Rowling has used her wealth to stoke the fires of a worldwide pogrom against trans people to where she's silenced a Holocaust scholar after JK engaged in Holocaust denial & now done the same to Amnesty International for their warning about trans eradication, but keep buying your Harry Potter crap

Just to add Hunt For The Wilderpeople onto the list of things Sam Neill was great in.

politicians want everyone to speak well of terrible people who died because many of them are terrible people who will die

The sun - the "big light" that tortures every autistic person

"HEAVY GIRL I WILL FOLLOW YOU" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih7G...

Early start tomorrow/Monday… I (Matt) have got a mix airing on Voices Radio - an hour of morning music featuring Yusuf Lateef, Baaba Maal, Anne Briggs, Domenique Dumont, Jasmine Myra, Edu Lobo and more. Enjoy. www.voicesradio.co.uk

Oh, is the dance floor a place of communion? Is it your church? Is it about building community and chosen family? This is the first I’m hearing of it.

Pleased to spot some personalisation on my copy of Smiley Smile. Even looks a bit like ‘Ashton’

You listen to an assemblage of sounds that somehow combine to reveal a higher truth while exercising on a stationary bicycle? Ummm, ok Theodor Adorno.

Some Señor Dedos for the sunny day.

Phone box message

Hey friends, still time to get your annotated music equipment pics in - it's shaping up really nicely as an A5 booklet. Best to email them if poss (drop me a line for the address).

I think about this quote (and act on it) at least once a week.

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Apologies for excess undercarriage, but look at this hot guy…

I broke into Serj Tankian's house to leave a bunch of keys upon the table as a joke but when I got there I forgot what I was doing and got very scared. A life-threatening prescription med interaction had caused sudden confusion. He came down and held me to comfort me until medics arrived. Great guy.

My mum has been sent (via a distant relative) her great-great-great grandfather’s ship log book from 1856. Mad that, isn’t it.

In the end, there were just a lot more human rights abuses than I was expecting from the human rights lawyer.

Podcast is an acronym for Pair of Dickheads Carping about Something Trivial

PAAAAT! www.huffpost.com/entry/clive-...

Goodbye and good riddance to the most anti LGBTQ PM of my lifetime. Lives were ruined for absolutely no benefit, and now an entire marginalised group is going to suffer a generation desperately trying to claw back their hard won rights thanks so him.

“So close, it’s not fair!”, I cried, having lifted the wrong card playing memory.

Someone else just discovering that the world cup (like the Hootenanny) was filmed months ago.

Honestly the impression I'm getting is that people think the issue is that Brianna was able to access online support networks that made her feel able to come out as trans, and that getting murdered is just what's to be expected if you let that happen.

if I were rich I’d get a beautiful painting done of this in the renaissance style and hang it at the top of the staircase in my marbled hallway

Here’s the unfanciest of pedals with the most obvious of setup markings. Still, the little guy’s more than old enough to vote and drink.

Got musical equipment that you feel requires notation to be most effectively used? Matt would love to see them (as would I. I live for this).

Niche publication idea on one of my favourite aspects of band life - a small fanzine of DIY signage on instruments/pedals/mixers etc (examples below). Stickers, sharpie, gaffer, whatever - would be great to collect as many as possible. DM here (or get in touch for email address). Send away!

Currently housebound after putting my back out b̶u̶n̶g̶e̶e̶ ̶j̶u̶m̶p̶i̶n̶g̶ picking up the dog's food bowl.

This album by @theleaflibrary.bsky.social is absolutely irresistible btw

Meet our alligator.

Ahem… (includes free stuff) theleaflibrary.eo.page/newsletter

Went and did a design, didn’t I.

Enjoying the "shit... the kid's got an art project due in tomorrow morning, where's the Pritt Stick?" vibe of this new sleeve.

Happy birthday to this daft pig.

Happy Boltcamp Friday!

feat. @matthewjashton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social @davidlancecallahan.bsky.social @andygwaith.bsky.social @thepoppermost.bsky.social @misselizabethlove.bsky.social @thenamelessbook.bsky.social @mrdanielbro.bsky.social amongst others

Finally got around to buying the oldest (as in, been on there the longest) item from my 1433-strong Bandcamp wishlist! Poor old Windy and Carl have been on there a good 9 years, at least. windyandcarl.bandcamp.com/album/intros...

@acloudtotheback.bsky.social #interviews @matthewjashton.bsky.social and Lewis Young from @theleaflibrary.bsky.social about their most recent @fikarecordings.com release. "Our community values this music a great deal and is very good at sharing things that have been uncovered.." #indiepop t.ly/SM0ca

Teaching the kid the importance of household maintenance at granny’s place.

How was your record store day?

Regretful that we never got around to covering this in The Left Outsides: youtu.be/n-GlusH0JAo?...

The pong these guys are kicking out is quite something.

It would be funny if it was all actually for a new Maximo Park record.