Georgia Harper
@mindtheflap.bsky.social
A strange blend of autism policy analysis and silly Doctor Who discourse. Probably not helping the stereotypes. Views my own. She/Her. https://linktr.ee/mindtheflap
Pinned
STOP comparing London railway termini
St Pancras is MAJESTIC
Waterloo is GIANT
King's Cross is ADVENTUROUS
London Bridge is SHINY
Liverpool Street has MANY CONNECTIONS
Victoria is CONVENIENT
Euston
Paddington is HISTORIC
Marylebone is COSY
St Pancras is MAJESTIC
Waterloo is GIANT
King's Cross is ADVENTUROUS
London Bridge is SHINY
Liverpool Street has MANY CONNECTIONS
Victoria is CONVENIENT
Euston
Paddington is HISTORIC
Marylebone is COSY
Raise your hand if you have been personally victimised by the missing data submission in the quarterly NHS autism waiting times statistics
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Raise your hand if you have been personally victimised by the missing data submission in the quarterly NHS autism waiting times statistics
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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*
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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*
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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.
Autistic man neglects to plan conversation in advance, experiences literal Christian hell
An autistic man who routinely plans his conversations well in advance decided to ditch the habit of a lifetime “to see what it was like”, landing him in a Biblical underworld of Christian hell,…
thedailytism.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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
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.
Autistic man neglects to plan conversation in advance, experiences literal Christian hell
An autistic man who routinely plans his conversations well in advance decided to ditch the habit of a lifetime “to see what it was like”, landing him in a Biblical underworld of Christian hell,…
thedailytism.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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
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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... #SENDsky
November 4, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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... #SENDsky
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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.
November 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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.
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In which Jim asks the vexed question of why online fandom isn’t more excited that Doctor Who has a future.
buttondown.com/cooray_smith... New on Psychic Paper: New Doctor Who, you say?
"Look to the future now, it's only just beguuuuuu-un."
The announcement of a 2026 Doctor Who Christmas special less than a week after I wrote this led to considerable joy in this household and I’m sure many...
buttondown.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
In which Jim asks the vexed question of why online fandom isn’t more excited that Doctor Who has a future.
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This year I wanted to focus on one particular genre of music: psytrance.
filipwieland.bandcamp.com/album/type-p...
filipwieland.bandcamp.com/album/type-p...
Type:Psychic, by Filip Wieland
11 track album
filipwieland.bandcamp.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This year I wanted to focus on one particular genre of music: psytrance.
filipwieland.bandcamp.com/album/type-p...
filipwieland.bandcamp.com/album/type-p...
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And you call this a 'dojo' despite the fact that it's obviously a pussy palace
November 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
And you call this a 'dojo' despite the fact that it's obviously a pussy palace
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Oh hey they're finally releasing Surf & Turf
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
New The War Between the Land and the Sea imagery released as the series heads to BBC iPlayer and BBC One this December
The five-part series will showcase how the world reacts when a fearsome and ancient species emerges from the ocean, dramatically revealing themselves to humanity and triggering an international crisis
www.bbc.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Oh hey they're finally releasing Surf & Turf
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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
please don't cancel me
October 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
hot take: I think it's great news that there will be more Doctor Who
please don't cancel me
please don't cancel me
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...
The data: explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statist...
Special needs children are among 470,000 youngsters who are eligible for home-to-school transport covered by local authorities ⬇️
Almost 500,000 children eligible for taxpayer-funded taxi trips to school
Special needs children are among 470,000 youngsters who are eligible for home-to-school transport covered by local authorities
www.thetimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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...
The data: explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statist...
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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
October 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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
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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 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.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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 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.
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Please check your kids’ Halloween candy carefully this year.
I bit into a chocolate bar and found Microsoft Teams.
I bit into a chocolate bar and found Microsoft Teams.
October 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Please check your kids’ Halloween candy carefully this year.
I bit into a chocolate bar and found Microsoft Teams.
I bit into a chocolate bar and found Microsoft Teams.
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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...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
One in 12 secondary pupils put in isolation rooms at least once a week, study finds
Children with special educational needs more than twice as likely to be put in isolation, say Manchester researchers
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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...
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?...
youtu.be/JDxVGtarAME?...
Is Autism Overdiagnosed? I Read "The Age Of Diagnosis"
YouTube video by Georgia Harper
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October 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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?...
youtu.be/JDxVGtarAME?...
I am once again asking the UK political discourse to not drive away the man I love
October 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I am once again asking the UK political discourse to not drive away the man I love
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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.
October 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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.