Raise your hand if you have been personally victimised by the missing data submission in the quarterly NHS autism waiting times statistics

Really enjoying today's discourse about how they can easily get around James Bond being seemingly dead by simply *INSERT APPROACH THAT HAS PROMPTED REAL-LIFE OUTRAGE FROM SOME ANGRY DOCTOR WHO FANS IN THE PAST SIX MONTHS HERE*

Lloyd Didcot, 32, took the unusual step to not carefully prepare a mental script for his coffee order last Friday and, subsequently, experienced the actual, literal torture of eternal damnation for about five minutes in his local Costa.

This reminds me, I've got to write scripts for the GP call I've waited two months for that I probably still won't manage to say and get fobbed off

NEW POST: @captaink77.bsky.social gives a stark warning that reforms for #SEND funding reforms will be immensely painful—but the current situation is chaotic and sinking fast. www.specialneedsjungle.com/s... #SEND#SENDsky

Haven't been able to stop thinking about the bravery of this man. Just another morning, off you go to your nice, normal rail job, and by the end of the day you've put your life on the line to save other people's.

In which Jim asks the vexed question of why online fandom isn’t more excited that Doctor Who has a future.

This year I wanted to focus on one particular genre of music: psytrance. filipwieland.bandcamp.com/album/type-p...

And you call this a 'dojo' despite the fact that it's obviously a pussy palace

Oh hey they're finally releasing Surf & Turf www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

hot take: I think it's great news that there will be more Doctor Who please don't cancel me

DOCTOR WHO

You would think from this framing that "special needs children" made up the majority of that number. Or that the majority of them received single-occupancy transport. And you would be wrong on both counts. The data: explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statist...

In UK political and media culture, it's worse to be called racist than it is to be racist. Can't really get anywhere until that changes

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

Please check your kids’ Halloween candy carefully this year. I bit into a chocolate bar and found Microsoft Teams.

Hey isn't it weird that so many children have mental health conditions, and neurodivergent conditions where a formal diagnosis generally requires distress, and are too frightened to go to school? It must be overdiagnosis, just ignore this, nothing to see here... www.theguardian.com/education/20...

I see this book's author is all over the press again rallying against the evils of *checks notes* giving disabled students reasonable adjustments in exams, so I should probably plug this video youtu.be/JDxVGtarAME?...

I am once again asking the UK political discourse to not drive away the man I love

For context on just how far the Overton Window has shifted to the right on this issue, here’s a snippet from the BNP’s 2010 manifesto.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | There was a technical issue with the lower thirds on the UK version of the BBC News channel overnight. The UK channel was switched to the international version to correct the issue, resulting in no on-screen clock.

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

Great to see the findings from this much-needed project out today, and to be able to work with these wonderful folks! @agatataga.bsky.social, @mindtheflap.bsky.social @drhollyjoseph.bsky.social

Embracing Complexity's priority-setting exercise for research on neurodivergence is now published in Neurodiversity! Huge project led by @agatataga.bsky.social, paper co-written by @drrachaeldavis.bsky.social, @drhollyjoseph.bsky.social, and yours truly: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I am going to crumble into dust

I got a potato and wire and a copper penny but I couldn’t find a zinc plated screw. I put it all together anyway, but it didn’t work and now I’m being arrested for attempted battery.

you're right and you should say it

A new project from @abracadazma.bsky.social aiming to review a massive archive of video games. I cannot confirm or deny being so bad at Monkey Golf that I basically broke the game in the process... gamesfromthevault.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/s...

The second game from my new blog - this time the randomiser has chosen Super Monkey Ball on the Switch! gamesfromthevault.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/s...

First post of my new blog! Delve into a collection of over 1000 games, as a random number generator picks which game to cover next! gamesfromthevault.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/g...

which one of you is this

I guess I can look forward to being sent that "I apologise too much" Guardian advice column approximately 38,000 times in the next week

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“I don’t smoke,” Hapworth told us. “But that’s no excuse. You never know when you’re going to need to set something on fire.”

So @ftw.bsky.social has just pointed out that the bullet journal method is very similar to the Agile method he uses at work, and I don't know what to do with this information

I find it really interesting that US autism politics has turned into "it's a terrible epidemic and must be eradicated" at the same time as UK (etc) autism politics has turned into "it's mostly overdiagnosed and must be doubted" Of course the end result is the same: no need to figure out support 🙃

Hey, it's rough out there. For years now I've sworn by youfeellikeshit.com on the bad days. It's an interactive flowchart going through a range of self-care needs. Successfully dragged me through combined Hormone Nonsense and Political Nonsense yesterday. Take care and log off if you need to ❤️

I see the media is still unquestioningly repeating everything Nigel Farage says, and I'm just so goddamn tired

"There are no proven therapies or drugs that ‘cure’ autism. Most autistic people and families want research to focus on better understanding and support." Joint statement from the major UK autism charities: www.ambitiousaboutautism.org.uk/about-us/med...

Autism isn’t “caused” by Tylenol. Or vaccines. Or anything. It’s inherited. It’s natural. It’s human. The hunt for a “cause” is just the hunt for someone to blame - and blame only makes sense if you think being autistic is bad. We’re not. But if you continue saying this shit, you are.

Quiet reminder, as exhibit A in this theory, that you can’t tell a disabled person’s support needs from what they look like or their online presence.

Today's various discourses will have to wait until I'm feeling better from a combination of "hormones going haywire again" and "the appropriate emotional response to the likely future Prime Minster wanting to deport your partner". In the meantime: please do not deport or push away my partner thanks

Did you know that per-pupil state special school funding hasn't changed since *2013*? Almost all the inflation in my adult life, not covered! So yeah, of *course* councils have to spend more on top-up funding, and transport because there's no places locally, which families are then demonised for 🙃