Apparently Reform is saying they would retract settled status. Besides being nasty to the individuals concerned the rerospective impact of changes like this undermines trust in the government and would exclude from the UK people doing necesary jobs. This this policy apears to be pure scapegoating.

I have stopped ironing my clothes (I only started doing this years ago when I moved out of London) as a peronal response protest re the fashion for torn jeans. Unfortunately the problem this sort of personal protest is nobody knows they are a protest so they are stunningly ineffective

We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

Yesterday, the largest far-right protest in UK history marched through London, led by racist Tommy Robinson. Today, we say: They don’t speak for us — and they won’t have the last word. This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.

read this and now I can electrocute people again

I think this is a really good piece www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...

For Charlie Kirk’s sake, we should all tone down the political rhetoric, right?

The cognitive dissonance (which is perhaps generous) from the government on the state of free speech comparing its response to the far-right against those protesting the proscription of Palestine Action is increasingly hard to comprehend, as govt belief moves into govt (in)action.

I'm so pleased, its sunny and raining at the back of the house and sunny and dry at the front. I've always wanted to experience the point at which it is raining one side and dry the other. This could be an item from my (non-existant actually) bucket list

There are more Christian Zionists in the US than there are Jews in the entire world, and polls consistently show that they hold, on average, more right-wing views on Israel-Palestine than do American Jews. But no one is spray-painting "Stop the genocide" on a megachurch in Omaha.

I went to this, and although it was moving I started to wonder what impact it had on actual starving people Then I remembered my mother telling me that as a Jew growing up in Nazi Germany hearing that there was international concern about her situation was important to her and made a difference.

This is so true and useful to remember.

Great news: the High Court has granted permission for a full judicial review of the government's order proscribing Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act. Let's hope he government's idiotic and draconian order is overturned.

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Sadly the response to Gina Rippon's article in the letters page has been negative (and also IMO ridiculous) www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Apparently the police asked about autism when making this inappropriate arresst. (I don't know what to make of this, I wonder what difference it would have made if he said he was autistic) www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Woman explains how the elderly who attend Pro Palestine protests are terrorists who must be stopped. youtu.be/iy3icAPWguo?...

Another positive article about neurodiversity (although I do which they'd get the terminology right, neurodivergent is an individual neurodiverse is the whole population). The narrative around neurodiveristy really does seem to be changing for the better. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Great to see an article by a professional that is applauding autism diagnosis www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Political pressure means a reprieve for some who were set to be cruelly harmed, but this is way too small a concession to accept. Greens demand the full withdrawal of cuts to PIP and any changes only through working with Disabled people to get it right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We have deep concerns about government plans to designate Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. Nonviolent protest, and even acts of vandalism, should not be labelled as terrorism. Civil disobedience has been a powerful force for positive social change. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Thank you Apsana Begum 👏

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

The post is here: www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-jay... I'm not a LinkedIn fan or regular user, but I went there to repost this.

This is a great article by @cosmichael.bsky.social . She has been active on this topic for as long as I've known her (quite a while). Although I'm even older than her somehow the relevance of this hasn't quite got through to me till now.

I don't understand why nationalisation of Thames Water, my local water company should be temporary, or why it was every OK to give national assets away for individual profit www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Very unimpressed with Labour. A longer transition period for people who are cut off from benefits, how do you "transition" to extreme poverty. Also this stress on "working people" when in fact their policies reward those that don't work but own stuff. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

That @libertyhq.bsky.social had to go to court to defend democracy against both Conservative and Labour governments is shocking. Now that Labour has FINALLY accepted defeat in this legal challenge the government must now review ALL arrests made under these unlawful powers

I'm so glad someone else is saying this. I have been arguing for a while that just as we merged the seperate diagnoses of Asperger's and autism we need to merge ADHD and autism. But as with Asperger's people don't like a less stigmating diagnosis being subsumed into a more stigmatising one.

Quitting my lucrative job as an international fentanyl smuggler to pursue my true passion, vacuuming the hallways of a Holiday Inn Express

The follower notification system here seems weird, it often tells me that multiple people have followed me, but if I look the follower numbers its gone up by one. This seems to happen every time it goes up by one, while I people could be unfollowing me, I don't think this would happen consistently.

Reproductive rights are under attack! Take 2 mins to write to your MP TODAY to demand that abortion is decriminalised action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...

Just listened to Rachel Reeves on the Today programme. Not good. She stressed how the govt was committed to helping working people (meaning I assume people working in the money economy) but failed to mention swathes of the population in including disabled people who aren't working.

I find this story extraordinarily sad, obviously for the people concerned but also as a sign of where we are as a country. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This seems really weird to me. 1) what exactly is "autism itself" given there is no biological test for #autism the term doesn't make sense 2) Alexithymia is a an interoceptive quality which means it is itself a sensory issue. This article seems to using a lot of words and concepts to say nothing.

Trying to sort out stuff on my computer I found this from a trip to the chemist during Covid when it was closed with this notice on the door

It's sad but not surprising that the care sector is failing when wages are so low and immigrants scapegoated for societies failings. When the set up is that support for the most vulnerable is low on the list of govt priorities these things will continue to happen. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

This is extremely disappointing, Equality and Human Rights commissioner seemingly unaware that Trans rights are Human rights. Could have come from Orwell's 1984 doublespeak. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Often #autistic people attribute their feelings of be an outsider to a co-occuring aspect of themselves, in my case it was being a child of German Jewish refugees, in this article it was being gay. So important to recognise intersectionality. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Nigel Farage says abortion laws are “utterly ludicrous.” MPs are watching. We have days to show them: the public backs abortion rights. Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...

The Israeli government is perpetrating war crimes in Gaza and the UK is complicit. I joined the Red Line for Palestine around Parliament today, calling on the government to enact a full arms embargo and sanctions on Israel now. #StopArmingIsrael @pscupdates.bsky.social

I salute the author of this article www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... and find the statements of the judge chilling. He just doesn't seem to believe the science that we are facing a climate catastrophe worse than traffic disruption if we don't act.

great thread from @annmemmott.bsky.social who was mentioned in our staff meeting today for her amazing ability to cover #autism research.

If you have a Labour MP and you haven't written to them yet to urge them to loudly oppose benefits cuts, phrase PLEASE do that soon!

I've just signed this letter to the British Prime Minister saying that British Jews support UK government action to end the war in Gaza and bring the hostages home. Add your name: secure.yachad.org.uk/page/172039/...

I’m profoundly sad to say that as of today, I’ll no longer be able to do my job as co-artistic director of #Touretteshero because of a recent decision by #AccessToWork to cut my support by 61%. Read & share this post, the hardest I've had to write: www.touretteshero.com/2025/05/23/a... 1/4

Several people recently have said to me "age is just a number" to me that is like people saying "I don't care about money" . Both of these things seem to me to mean "at the moment I don't have to worry about age/money". Age is one of the biological determinants of mental and physical function.