Aisling Walsh
@aislingwalsh.bsky.social
Writer & Researcher
Sociology post-doc at University of Galway
Fiction Reader at Anomaly Litmag
I write about movies and neurodivergence at: https://autcasts.substack.com
Proud #NeuroQueer (She/Her)
Sociology post-doc at University of Galway
Fiction Reader at Anomaly Litmag
I write about movies and neurodivergence at: https://autcasts.substack.com
Proud #NeuroQueer (She/Her)
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Aisling Walsh
@aislingwalsh.bsky.social
· Dec 31
Life, like writing, in 2024 had many ups and downs. But I'm grateful to @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social @aljazeera.com @redpeppermag.bsky.social @theguardian.com @uk.theconversation.com @wcorklitfest.bsky.social, among others, for providing a home for my words!
See links below 🧵
See links below 🧵
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I was absent for three days. I had my gallbladder removed due to the lack of healthy food and the many infections in my body☹️. I am now in pain. Please donate to pay for the operation, buy medicine and healthy food. Everything here is expensive. Donate, I beg you.😭
gofund.me/7fc0e346
gofund.me/7fc0e346
November 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"
Define your agelessness with the greatest videogame to ever exist
November 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Define your agelessness with the greatest videogame to ever exist
I'm going to take a screensh💩t is my new favourite typo 🤣🤣🤣
November 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I'm going to take a screensh💩t is my new favourite typo 🤣🤣🤣
Genuine question: Is this for real?
Kim Kardashian shares her frustration in a new TikTok after failing the California bar exam, calling out psychics who told her she’d pass.
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Genuine question: Is this for real?
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By me: Israeli armed forces and settlers used bombs, dogs, poison and machinery to attack Palestinian water sources over 250 times in five years, new data reveals @pacificinstitute.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel attacked Palestinian water sources over 250 times in five years, data reveals
Armed forces and settlers used bombs, dogs, poison and machinery to attack people and infrastructure at key sites
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
By me: Israeli armed forces and settlers used bombs, dogs, poison and machinery to attack Palestinian water sources over 250 times in five years, new data reveals @pacificinstitute.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
The faces of all those FF and FG cronies (including a very flushed Bertie) having to celebrate Catherine's inauguration are priceless 🤭
#Breaking Catherine Connolly has signed the Declaration of Office at St Patrick's Hall in Dublin Castle to formally become the tenth President of Ireland | Follow Live
Connolly inaugurated as 10th President of Ireland
Follow live updates as Catherine Connolly is officially sworn in as the tenth President of Ireland.
www.rte.ie
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The faces of all those FF and FG cronies (including a very flushed Bertie) having to celebrate Catherine's inauguration are priceless 🤭
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📣New research
Q: What do neurodivergent people think about words like "neurodiversity".
A: it's complicated; they use it, but it has limitations and could stigmatise.
Full paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
(1 of 2)
Q: What do neurodivergent people think about words like "neurodiversity".
A: it's complicated; they use it, but it has limitations and could stigmatise.
Full paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
(1 of 2)
‘A Lovely Safe Umbrella to Describe Yourself With’ or ‘Meaningless’: An Online Survey of UK-Based Neurodivergent Adults’ Views of Neurodiversity-Related Terminology - Aimee Grant, Jennifer Leigh, Moni...
Background: Neurodivergence refers to people with ways of behaving and thinking that diverge from the norm. Examples include Autism, Attention Deficit Hyperacti...
journals.sagepub.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
📣New research
Q: What do neurodivergent people think about words like "neurodiversity".
A: it's complicated; they use it, but it has limitations and could stigmatise.
Full paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
(1 of 2)
Q: What do neurodivergent people think about words like "neurodiversity".
A: it's complicated; they use it, but it has limitations and could stigmatise.
Full paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
(1 of 2)
Best thing about The Gilded Age is watching Christine Baranski and Cynthia Nixon squabbling
two women sitting at a table drinking tea with the words @tvresidence above them
ALT: two women sitting at a table drinking tea with the words @tvresidence above them
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Best thing about The Gilded Age is watching Christine Baranski and Cynthia Nixon squabbling
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Stores can provide important access to health resources and community—but queerness demands that we dream bigger
Can queer sex shops ever truly be radical? | Xtra Magazine
Stores can provide important access to health resources and community—but queerness demands that we dream bigger
xtramagazine.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Stores can provide important access to health resources and community—but queerness demands that we dream bigger
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Hold on, friends! It's going to get spooky! To celebrate 10k followers, I'm answering your questions about Palestinian folklore here in this mega thread.
November 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Hold on, friends! It's going to get spooky! To celebrate 10k followers, I'm answering your questions about Palestinian folklore here in this mega thread.
For the second time this year I've been confused with the award-winning queer Irish director Aisling Walsh (as opposed to moi, the queer Irish would-be writer)... still hoping this confusion will, somehow, benefit my literary career 🙈
November 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
For the second time this year I've been confused with the award-winning queer Irish director Aisling Walsh (as opposed to moi, the queer Irish would-be writer)... still hoping this confusion will, somehow, benefit my literary career 🙈
This goes for the so-called "human rights" lawyers too, and I'm saying this as someone with 15+ years experience in the human rights world 😒
It is a truth universally acknowledged that lawyers are the absolute worst...
November 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
This goes for the so-called "human rights" lawyers too, and I'm saying this as someone with 15+ years experience in the human rights world 😒
It is a truth universally acknowledged that lawyers are the absolute worst...
November 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
It is a truth universally acknowledged that lawyers are the absolute worst...
Wondering how much more fiendish the evil 😺😺😺 will have become for Season 5 of Stranger Things 🧐
electricliterature.com/malevolent-v...
electricliterature.com/malevolent-v...
Malevolent Vulvas Collapse the Veil Between Worlds in "Stranger Things" - Electric Literature
Myths about monstrous vaginas and the evils of female pleasure help maintain worldwide patriarchy
electricliterature.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Wondering how much more fiendish the evil 😺😺😺 will have become for Season 5 of Stranger Things 🧐
electricliterature.com/malevolent-v...
electricliterature.com/malevolent-v...
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I walked back to northern Gaza for six hours with nothing. I'm carrying my children. Now I'm sitting in the street with no shelter, food, clothes, or medical treatment. We have nothing. Please, please, donate to my family to buy a tent and food. I'm so tired 😭😭
gofund.me/7fc0e346
gofund.me/7fc0e346
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I'm the receiver for Doaa's fundraiser, we chat almost every day. Any support you can provide helps, including sharing Doaa's posts! 🙏
That thing in period dramas where we'll get a woman pregnant "out of wedlock" to create drama, but then we'll make her miscarry or kill off her child to take care of the "mess" and so she can carry on being single and interesting for the sake of the plot 🤷🏼♀️
November 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
That thing in period dramas where we'll get a woman pregnant "out of wedlock" to create drama, but then we'll make her miscarry or kill off her child to take care of the "mess" and so she can carry on being single and interesting for the sake of the plot 🤷🏼♀️
Classic!
November 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Classic!
I'm the receiver for Doaa's fundraiser, we chat almost every day. Any support you can provide helps, including sharing Doaa's posts! 🙏
November 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Accounting kitty 😻
I can forgive her for messing up the receipts I spent the last hour organising ( 😭 ) because she's just so cute 😻😻😻
I can forgive her for messing up the receipts I spent the last hour organising ( 😭 ) because she's just so cute 😻😻😻
November 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Accounting kitty 😻
I can forgive her for messing up the receipts I spent the last hour organising ( 😭 ) because she's just so cute 😻😻😻
I can forgive her for messing up the receipts I spent the last hour organising ( 😭 ) because she's just so cute 😻😻😻
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This open-access book marks the first historical overview of the autism rights branch of the neurodiversity movement, describing the activities & rationales of key leaders in their own words.
Edited by @drstevenkapp.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Edited by @drstevenkapp.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
November 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM
This open-access book marks the first historical overview of the autism rights branch of the neurodiversity movement, describing the activities & rationales of key leaders in their own words.
Edited by @drstevenkapp.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Edited by @drstevenkapp.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Not that it did him any good 🤣
Fianna Fáil has confirmed broadcaster Ivan Yates provided four hours of interview and debate training to its candidate Jim Gavin during the presidential campaign in September
FF says Yates provided debate training during campaign
Fianna Fáil has confirmed broadcaster Ivan Yates provided four hours of interview and debate training to its candidate Jim Gavin during the presidential campaign in September.
www.rte.ie
November 3, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Not that it did him any good 🤣
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"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.
November 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.
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Tonight! Please give generously and share widely. PS: poetry is good for your soul. Come join us. #WeKeepTelling #MawasiProject
We are reading and wording and telling this Sunday to raise funds for displaced families in Mawasi. Please give what you can and join us either way to celebrate Palestinian poetry. #WeKeepTelling
chuffed.org/project/mawa...
🖌️Jane Burn (we are in awe of your beautiful work)
chuffed.org/project/mawa...
🖌️Jane Burn (we are in awe of your beautiful work)
Help displaced families in Mawasi
Make a great change for the better: help relieve the suffering of displaced families in Mawasi, Gaza, who are facing hunger, thirst, and heat.
chuffed.org
November 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Tonight! Please give generously and share widely. PS: poetry is good for your soul. Come join us. #WeKeepTelling #MawasiProject
Funny how a country that colonised and wreaked ecological destruction on a significant portion of the world has a poor connection with "nature"... it's almost like those two things might be connected 🤔
“Although Britain is believed to have one of the highest levels of membership of environmental organisations in the world,
this apparently pro-nature indicator was found to have little impact on closeness to nature”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
this apparently pro-nature indicator was found to have little impact on closeness to nature”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Britain one of least ‘nature-connected’ nations in world – with Nepal the most
Others languishing near bottom of 61-country study include Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan and Spain
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Funny how a country that colonised and wreaked ecological destruction on a significant portion of the world has a poor connection with "nature"... it's almost like those two things might be connected 🤔