Caroline Hearst
@autismmatters.bsky.social
Escapee from the takeover of Twitter where I chatted about autism and things that grabbed my attention. Autistic. Jew. Old.
https://www.autismmatters.org.uk/
https://www.autismmatters.org.uk/
Hmm. sounds like you're describing autism there. Maybe calling these traits unassociated with the actual meaning of the word dyslexia means they can be diagnosed as something less stigmatising than autism.
Dyslexia isn’t just about difficulties with reading or writing, it’s also about unique strengths in creativity, communication, and problem-solving. Understanding both sides helps us create environments where dyslexic learners can truly thrive. #DyslexiaAwareness
October 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Hmm. sounds like you're describing autism there. Maybe calling these traits unassociated with the actual meaning of the word dyslexia means they can be diagnosed as something less stigmatising than autism.
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Today marks the two-year anniversary of the horrific October 7 attack.
As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all.
Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.
As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all.
Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.
October 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Today marks the two-year anniversary of the horrific October 7 attack.
As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all.
Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.
As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all.
Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.
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The attack on the synagogue in Manchester and the attack on the mosque in Sussex are completely horrifying. Violence anywhere is terrible of course but it takes a certain tenor when it’s clear that people are being targeted because of their identity.
and criminalizing protest won’t fix it. like ??
and criminalizing protest won’t fix it. like ??
October 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The attack on the synagogue in Manchester and the attack on the mosque in Sussex are completely horrifying. Violence anywhere is terrible of course but it takes a certain tenor when it’s clear that people are being targeted because of their identity.
and criminalizing protest won’t fix it. like ??
and criminalizing protest won’t fix it. like ??
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I am Jewish.
I grieve the murders.
I support peace in Gaza.
I see murderous rhetoric on Insta/TikTok from people feeling Israel's actions in Gaza justify every trope they've ever heard.
This war has not made Jewish people safer, including the hostages which it was apparently meant to be saving.
I grieve the murders.
I support peace in Gaza.
I see murderous rhetoric on Insta/TikTok from people feeling Israel's actions in Gaza justify every trope they've ever heard.
This war has not made Jewish people safer, including the hostages which it was apparently meant to be saving.
As we all still process our horror of the antisemitic murders of two members of Manchester's Jewish community, efforts have already begun to smear critics of Israel's genocide in Gaza as all tangentially culpable, while police are trying to stop people protesting www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Police ask for Palestine Action protest to be postponed after Manchester attack
Exclusive: Organisers say protest will go ahead as planned and it is up to Met whether or not it prioritises arrests
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I am Jewish.
I grieve the murders.
I support peace in Gaza.
I see murderous rhetoric on Insta/TikTok from people feeling Israel's actions in Gaza justify every trope they've ever heard.
This war has not made Jewish people safer, including the hostages which it was apparently meant to be saving.
I grieve the murders.
I support peace in Gaza.
I see murderous rhetoric on Insta/TikTok from people feeling Israel's actions in Gaza justify every trope they've ever heard.
This war has not made Jewish people safer, including the hostages which it was apparently meant to be saving.
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.
September 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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
September 20, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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...
Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name
notinourname.org.uk
September 20, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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...
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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.
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.
September 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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.
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.
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read this and now I can electrocute people again
Brilliant piece on the casual erasure of of a female artist from a landmark moment in pop culture. And the answer to the question, Why don’t Peter Blake’s other album covers have the power and impact of Sgt. Pepper?
Years ago I wrote this piece about national treasure and dreadful old c**t Peter Blake. Have just dredged it up for my new best friend @typetheclouds.bsky.social who had the good sense to buy my fucking book™ at the Hastings book fair.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/ja...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/ja...
September 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
read this and now I can electrocute people again
I think this is a really good piece www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...
Acceptable Losses
Whose deaths get to be deemed unacceptable in supremacist America, and whose are deemed necessary? And who does the deeming?
www.the-reframe.com
September 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I think this is a really good piece www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...
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For Charlie Kirk’s sake, we should all tone down the political rhetoric, right?
Charlie Kirk refers to Democrats as "maggots, vermin, and swine"
www.mediamatters.org
September 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
For Charlie Kirk’s sake, we should all tone down the political rhetoric, right?
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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.
‘Business secretary Peter Kyle was asked by Sky News’ Trevor Phillips this morning if the demonstration – organised by far-right activist Tommy Robinson – “disturbed” him.
Kyle said the number of people who turned out for the protest shows free speech is “alive and well” in the UK.’
For shame
Kyle said the number of people who turned out for the protest shows free speech is “alive and well” in the UK.’
For shame
Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
September 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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
September 12, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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
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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 question the credibility of this report. It says most anti-semitic acts are vandalism. Is a spray-painted "No genocide" on a synagogue an anti-semitic act? It's difficult to say when the Israel claims to be killing on behalf of Jews, and most synagogues are unequivocally supportive of Israel.
August 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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.
Hundreds of people joined @ukfost.bsky.social today to say stop starving Gaza, end the war of annihilation& bring the hostages home. Magen Inon & Mira Awad spoke powerfully. We all feel so broken & helpless, but we must keep going.
I spoke about Awdah: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I spoke about Awdah: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
August 4, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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.
We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.
August 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This is so true and useful to remember.
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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.
Let's hope he government's idiotic and draconian order is overturned.
July 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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.
Let's hope he government's idiotic and draconian order is overturned.
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⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
July 23, 2025 at 6:46 AM
⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
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July 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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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...
July 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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...
July 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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...
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Woman explains how the elderly who attend Pro Palestine protests are terrorists who must be stopped. youtu.be/iy3icAPWguo?...
Woman explains how the elderly who support Palestine at protests are terrorists.
YouTube video by Rosie Holt
youtu.be
July 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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/...
‘Intrinsically connected’: how human neurodiversity could help save nature
Biodiversity is linked to people’s diversity, and nature lends itself to people who are different, says author Joe Harkness
www.theguardian.com
July 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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...
Why the antagonism over the rise in autism diagnoses? It’s actually good news | Gina Rippon
A ninefold increase is the result of huge advances in our understanding – and brings the hope of fulfilling lives to many more people, says author Gina Rippon
www.theguardian.com
July 21, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Great to see an article by a professional that is applauding autism diagnosis www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...