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Swish swish motherfucker.
AuDHD | alphabet mafia 🏳️‍🌈 | rugby player 🏉 | scuba diver 🤿
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There's probably something funny in the alt text.
London & Liverpool, UK
Ok gimme your smartphone recommendations for a 78yo who's not in any way savvy. Needs to still be getting security updates etc., but doesn't need to be brand new. Thx.
December 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Ok, I need to see that other people's families have interesting seasonal decor taste. My mum has a gonk santa, and my MiL has a collection of tin...things, and a resin Christmas chicken?

What have you got?
December 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Old people reminiscing at Christmas hits a bit different when it's memories of underworld enforcers, and personal security for people called 'Big Terry' and 'Cutthroat'.
December 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!”

“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
December 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
"And lo! There came the time when the first born of each household returned to the place of their upbringing to help their parents set up a Fire Stick.

And there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth."
December 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Cat sitter has introduced Frank to bird tv. We're all in trouble now (especially the TV)
December 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Yes. We're spending £476m on the militarisation of Calais - where babies are being tear gassed.

The fact people are hearing this for the first time is exactly why I made it the subject of the Christmas Day message.

We could be spending that money instead on a fair and managed migration system.
The UK government is spending £476m tear-gassing babies?

Someone needs to get real if they're to be taken seriously.
The Telegraph highlighting - yet missing - two vital points here.

1) We're not calling for £476m to be spent. It already is - this is about diverting it to actually helping.

2) Why "cruelty" in question? The £476m we're spending is part of an operation tear gassing babies.
December 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This is a salient observation
December 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
*slow clap* you absolute cunts
Whitehall celebrates on Boxing Day as Britain sold a record £20bn in arms around the world in 2025.
December 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM
(checks out. People totally buy it)
You can pretend to have your shit together if you want. They don’t really check
December 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM
How are those hangovers, campers? #FitnessWankers
December 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Being up early in someone else's house is confusing and fascinating. You have a legit reason to look in their kitchen cupboards (coffee? WHERE IS YOUR COFFEE?) and discover there are truly interesting combinations of contents that people store. Oh, this is the shoe polish and soup cupboard is it?
December 26, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Mr Bee has just given me this and is it grounds for divorce?
December 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Make a Bond film casual:

Octokitten
Make a bond film casual.

The Civil Servant Who Fancied Me.
Make a Bond movie casual

Brassfinger
December 26, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Know when to have a fucking rest
December 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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December 26, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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We don’t need AI to “be creative” for us; we need a world in which there is time and space to wonder, joke and play with words. To fuck around with color and texture, to experiment with an intriguing sound, without the need to immediately convert process and artifact into engagement to stay solvent.
December 26, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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The creepy Joshua Project is an evangelical group with Pence connections with a huge database of "unreached peoples" "prime for conversion to Christianity." They have tons of language data from missionaries that nobody else has.

Anyway, I stole all of it. Here's one off-putting visualization
Phyllotaxis - Souls
dr.eamer.dev
December 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Fascinating thread on new research—my fellow Autistic, AuDHD, and ADHD folks will find this of particular interest (and likely find it reflects our lived experience):

“Stimulants mimicked the effects of getting more sleep and anticipated reward, not attention.”

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This is your brain on Ritalin. Got your attention? Stimulant medications like Ritalin (methylphenidate) do, but not in the way you might think. They don't act directly on the brain’s attention systems! Find out what's really happening in @cellpress.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
December 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Happy holidays from your furiends at the zoo ✨

Thanks to Keeper Megan and Keeper Ali for the holiday pics!
December 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Oh ffs BBC.
My Christmases are exactly the same now as they were 45 years ago when we still went to church, just without midnight mass.

But you don't mean people who look like me, do you, you RACIST FUCKS?
December 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
FiL: "let's buy that nudist colony up the road then we can all live in it together"
MiL: "the one that's sinking?"
FiL: "Yeah"
Me: 👀
December 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Anyway; I hope you're having a pain-free Christmas. Thank you for being awesome, and supportive, and often voices of calm and sense.

I hope 2026 is kinder to us, and if not, that we can be kind to one another.
December 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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I’m not going to tell anyone what they should or shouldn’t do. But smoking killed my partner this year in the most unimaginably horrible way. He was 41. People: you don’t want that. I swear with every fiber of my being that you don’t. It’s beyond awful. I’ll have nightmares for life.
With more actors, pop stars and other celebrities spotted unapologetically smoking, the cultural taboo against it shows signs of ebbing. That worries antismoking advocates. 🔗 on.wsj.com/49om2X4
December 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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December 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM