ANNOUNCEMENT: Autistic Women Oversharing is back! We're returning for a second series of our podcast with a raft of hilarious guest hosts from the Daily Tism team. Join us on your favourite podcast platform for Episode 1 next Thursday the 15th of January!

Yes, so so wrong in all kinds of ways. Don't say 'Legos' near me. I'll frown and tut in the background and be repeating all day to myself, "It's Lego. It's always been Lego. Stop it!' - until I've totally annoyed myself.

A researcher is looking for participants to take part in research about improving access to healthcare for LGBTQ+ people living with chronic illness. Please see the poster for more information. If you would like to participate, please email him directly [email protected] #LGBTQResearch

Boy do we have some exciting news… to everyone who’s been asking if we’re taking on new writers, the answer is finally yes! We’re hiring! Sharpen your pencils, comedy writers - you have two weeks to perfect your applications to be our next freelancers!

Looking forward to Notts Pride tomorrow. See you there! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #Pride #Nottingham

I'm choosing Garden Birds.

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden. #FridayReads

I love this. Thank you for making me smile (often), Moose.

I was proud to be able to adopt a couple of Snorp at the weekend, at Notts Trans Pride. I think they're settling in well, and they make me smile. They are adorable small #ClayCreatures with large personalities. Please look out for them. #Snorp

Very powerful. You are a fantastic writer, Elsa, and we need your words and we need your satire. We need all of you. Thank you for sharing. I hope the powers that be are listening.

So glad I spotted this, reposted by someone else. I've just booked to watch the livestream.

An exceptional analysis of some of the 🤯 errors in the Supreme Court Judgment. Something has gone very wrong indeed. (Published by kind permission of @translegalproject.bsky.social). goodlaw.social/nid3

Trans people are who they say they are. If we allow people, even allies, to say that they are biologically not-that, then we are conceding a conceptual and rhetorical ground that we should not concede.

Thanks for another great news show @thedailytism.bsky.social To everyone I know: Watch! Watch! Watch! (That's three times at each of your favourite volume settings.)

Wow! Just wow! This is far too close for comfort. This also covers days that aren't annual leave but are supposed to be non-working days for those like me who are not quite full-time!

I've been gender non-conforming all my life. I'm tired of people harassing & questioning me when I use public toilet spaces. I know best which bathroom to use! Also: I now define my gender as a non-binary lesbian. Get used to it! Solidarity with all trans people. Trans rights are human rights.

Got interviewed by @itsjoshmilton.bsky.social for the Metro. The article interviews disabled people on the impact of the UK governments proposed savage benefit cuts and looming policies of austerity metro.co.uk/2025/03/26/i...

The Chancellor said today that she would not do anything to put household finances in danger Yet the government’s own assessment shows their cuts to health related benefits risk pushing 250,000 people into poverty, including 50,000 children 📢 Their assessment also found... 1/3

This news day is going to shit, isn't it. It feels like the most vulnerable people are being deliberately and cruelly targeted and denied the support and respect that keeps people alive.

Making hate and abuse the thing that’s protected tells us a lot about who we are. (Clue: really much more like those guys over the pond than we like to pretend!) As ever, the people who want to debate free speech just mean they want to use slurs.

Absolutely surreal that the university has been fined more than half a million for pro-inclusion policies that they *didn't even enforce*. Stock left because students *exercised their free speech* and it made her uncomfortable.

It’s #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek so I’ve put together a short list of queer books with great neurodivergent protagonists and themes on our website - all of them with links, as well as the suggested reading age. Read the full blog: www.proud-geek.co.uk/post/queer-b... #booksky #NCW

Yes, I booked my ticket this afternoon for: Intense Fascination: A Celebration of Autistic Creative Writing. For others who want to go, it's on Saturday 29 March 2025, 9.30am - 5.30pm, online. Tickets are £15 / £10 (concessions). And see more here: beyondthespectrum.uk/bts-writing-...

I'm going to resist this one. At almost 56 years of age, I'm starting to tell myself that I don't have to be the one who has to solve everything, although it's harder to let go of the worry that creates. The emotional baggage is packed in tight. Everything's a work in progress.

Things I used to get up to: Leading on the choreography for fundraising and awareness-raising flash mobs. On this day in 2014: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ti2...

Autism in therapy: Monotropism, meditation and autistic flow. River Marino with their chapter from 'On Being an Autistic Therapist', edited by Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social and published by @pccsbooks.bsky.social. Repost for your chance to win a copy! www.bps.org.uk/psychologist... #PsySciSky

This LGBT+ History Month, the Consortium Team have chosen five incredible activists and changemakers to highlight who have helped shape a more inclusive and just society: 💜 Paris Lees 💙 Leila Zadeh 💚 Harvey Kennedy-Pitt 💛 Fox Fisher 🧡 Reeta Loi 1/3

OUTpatients offer support and info to LGBTIQ+ people impacted by cancer, they are involved in all sorts of work to improve cancer screening and care for LGBTIQ+ people, and they work to raise LGBTIQ+ people's awareness around the importance of cancer screening. Take a look:

Today we celebrate the right to read. #BooksellingIsNotACrime On Feb 9 Israeli police raided the Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem, seizing books and arresting Palestinian owners Ahmed and Mahmoud Muna. Today we will be donating 10% of takings to the Educational Bookshop.

Proud to have been part of the protest in Manchester on this day in 1988. But it should never have been necessary. We must not go back there. Support all LGBTQIA+ communities.

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

Read the thread below for reasons to support @wearequeeraf.com Their crowdfunder is at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/queeraf2025

I have a cartoon in the current Private Eye. I drew the curtains.

Exciting things happening on Weird Pride Day, like this! (I hear it's also Pancake Day.)

Enjoying all the pictures of cats today, and many lucky cats being rehomed with good people.

Just replaced the mat and all bungee rings on my bellicon rebounder. There may be bloody knuckles & cuticles, perhaps a broken nail (which, given how short they are, is quite some feat)! It was a workout in itself. But I have succeeded. There's a firm bounce. Not bad for first time replacing alone.

I look forward to reading this. Thanks to @magpiepages.bsky.social for making it available.

Signed and now sharing. Please sign if you are in the UK.

The moment of finding this cartoon was good, however 🙂

As we begin LGBT+ History Month in the UK, let's never forget. What's happening in the US right now should terrify everyone. It's too easy to feel shocked and stunned by the news, and find it unfathomable that one man can do this. There's no time to be numb. We need to rise up and act.

Welcome to the 21st UK LGBT+ History Month! Celebrating 20 years since Schools OUT first launched UK LGBT+ History Month in 2005. Thank you for making it such a success! This years #LGBTplusHM25 theme is ' #Activism & #SocialChange' Find out more: lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/lgbt-history...

Six weeks to publication! Couldn’t have done it without @bridportprize.bsky.social a ‘Sliding Doors’ moment @jolyonmaugham.bsky.social for recommending me to Antony Topping @greeneandheaton.bsky.social @imogengc.bsky.social for expertly guiding me Alice, I miss you immeasurably. This is for you.

Do you have a heap of assorted essays, flash pieces, chapters, ideas, and you think you have enough to turn it into a book? If it seems scattered and overwhelming—and you’re not sure what will fit where—here are ideas for organizing your material and moving forward, from Lara Lillibridge.

This is really helpful to assess themes and structure, even when planning totally new material - because I know it will draw on those previous fragments. I'll hold on to this as I move forward into a renewed relationship with memoir. Thanks @laralillibridge.bsky.social

Celebrate the demise of spectrum 10k by getting the Daily Tism to the 10k followers - then we will be the spectrum 10k

"If you’re writing poetry, then you’re a poet" is always helpful to remember.

No executive order can truly erase LGBTQIA+ people. We’ve always been here. 👇 https://www.wearequeeraf.com/no-executive-order-can-truly-erase-lgbtqia-people-weve-always-been-here/

30 years on from my appearance on Dyke TV (read about that here www.nickihastie.uk/my-writing/p...) I'm back in my 'Free Beth Jordache' t-shirt celebrating the iconic Brookside lesbian kiss in this new video short. Grateful for an opportunity to still feel relevant! www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW0E...

“It’s a relief to know, to be honest. I’ve always felt like something about me was different. When I see other cats slow blinking at their humans, I’m like, what are you doing? Turns out they were trying to avoid prolonged eye contact.” thedailytism.com/scientists-d...

Oh dear - it's almost like Becky had been round to my house first, and then assumed we're all the same! Because 19 and 21 are two of my favourite TV volume levels. Odd numbers provide comfort here. Apologies to Emma Bernard and others. Becky still should not be let near anyone's TV remote control.