Emma
@autistic-me.bsky.social
Autistic and chronically ill. Interested in disability, education, research and change. And cute animals and music 🐧🐶 🇬🇧
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This..⬇️ anyone means anyone! Resulting in long term debillitaing illnesses, unable to work or function normally, not knowing how youre going to get through the day from the moment you wake up, if you're lucky enough to get some decent sleep. 🤷♀️🙏🏽
One Public Health department is telling the whole story. Shining a light on those who are being less than transparent! Oopsie!
November 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
This..⬇️ anyone means anyone! Resulting in long term debillitaing illnesses, unable to work or function normally, not knowing how youre going to get through the day from the moment you wake up, if you're lucky enough to get some decent sleep. 🤷♀️🙏🏽
Hopefully the other parties take note of this. Reform voters are not united and with the right messaging can hopefully be swung... #HopeNotHate
Who supports Reform and why? The charts that show who favours Farage’s party
Who supports Reform and why? The charts that show who favours Farage’s party
Based on largest poll of supporters, these charts and maps show five distinct groups that could hand Reform a majority
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Hopefully the other parties take note of this. Reform voters are not united and with the right messaging can hopefully be swung... #HopeNotHate
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“His main theme was that the country was fucked. Largely because of Brexit. Weirdly, he has no memory of being the main architect behind the Brexit vote. He seems to think it happened in a world in which he played no part.”
Farage - the foghorn of failure.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage - the foghorn of failure.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nige is no longer laughing at himself as he ‘performs’ yet another big speech | John Crace
Reform leader is trying to make it as a mainstream politician – which involves contradicting himself and gaslighting voters
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:51 AM
“His main theme was that the country was fucked. Largely because of Brexit. Weirdly, he has no memory of being the main architect behind the Brexit vote. He seems to think it happened in a world in which he played no part.”
Farage - the foghorn of failure.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage - the foghorn of failure.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.
Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.
Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.
Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.
Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.
October 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.
Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.
Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.
Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.
Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.
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When you demonize and mistreat the immigrant, the poor, the starving, and the marginalized, I'm not interested in hearing about your religious beliefs.
You've already shown me what they are by how you're demonizing and mistreating the immigrant, the poor, the starving, and the marginalized.
You've already shown me what they are by how you're demonizing and mistreating the immigrant, the poor, the starving, and the marginalized.
October 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
When you demonize and mistreat the immigrant, the poor, the starving, and the marginalized, I'm not interested in hearing about your religious beliefs.
You've already shown me what they are by how you're demonizing and mistreating the immigrant, the poor, the starving, and the marginalized.
You've already shown me what they are by how you're demonizing and mistreating the immigrant, the poor, the starving, and the marginalized.
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Please Starmer, stop blaming immigrants and human rights lawyers. You are making this country into a sewer of hatred and division.
None of our problems are because of too much kindness.
None of our problems are because of too much kindness.
October 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Please Starmer, stop blaming immigrants and human rights lawyers. You are making this country into a sewer of hatred and division.
None of our problems are because of too much kindness.
None of our problems are because of too much kindness.
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Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it.
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
September 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it.
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
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In some ways, an oddly upbeat vibe, for a musical rundown of the backsliding #freespeech situation developing in the US ... but this is our 🎵 parody "Freedom of Speech" to the tune of #Disney's "Under the Sea" - with some familiar faces cut in. 😎
youtu.be/DyoYRN8cc-g
#Kimmel #Colbert
youtu.be/DyoYRN8cc-g
#Kimmel #Colbert
"Freedom of Speech" - Marsh Family parody of "Under the Sea" from Disney's "The Little Mermaid"
YouTube video by Marsh Family
youtu.be
September 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM
In some ways, an oddly upbeat vibe, for a musical rundown of the backsliding #freespeech situation developing in the US ... but this is our 🎵 parody "Freedom of Speech" to the tune of #Disney's "Under the Sea" - with some familiar faces cut in. 😎
youtu.be/DyoYRN8cc-g
#Kimmel #Colbert
youtu.be/DyoYRN8cc-g
#Kimmel #Colbert
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Well, this is terrifying. Not just because there are people so openly explicit in their deranged transphobia, but because in practice segregation of trans and non-binary individuals is already occuring, and not just in US. We're seeing it in UK and elsewhere 1/
www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/18/r...
www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/18/r...
Republican makes 'disgusting' call for mass institutionalisation of trans people
Texas Republican Ronny Jackson has been branded 'disgusting' after calling for trans people to be banned from public life.
www.thepinknews.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Well, this is terrifying. Not just because there are people so openly explicit in their deranged transphobia, but because in practice segregation of trans and non-binary individuals is already occuring, and not just in US. We're seeing it in UK and elsewhere 1/
www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/18/r...
www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/18/r...
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Trans rights are human rights.
September 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Trans rights are human rights.
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Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3
September 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3
Sometimes it feels like the hardest part of chronic illness is being an observer. Seeing everything, feeling it all, able to do nothing. At times I've found ways to channel it +make some small difference. Then everything changes and I'm stuck again. An empath, relying on others with no end in sight.
September 4, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Sometimes it feels like the hardest part of chronic illness is being an observer. Seeing everything, feeling it all, able to do nothing. At times I've found ways to channel it +make some small difference. Then everything changes and I'm stuck again. An empath, relying on others with no end in sight.
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What if your body couldn’t bear light, sound, movement — or even touch? Today, #SevereMEDay, we ask you to imagine living that way not just for a day… but for years. For people living with Very Severe ME, this isn’t a metaphor — it’s reality. 🧵
August 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
What if your body couldn’t bear light, sound, movement — or even touch? Today, #SevereMEDay, we ask you to imagine living that way not just for a day… but for years. For people living with Very Severe ME, this isn’t a metaphor — it’s reality. 🧵
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The posthumous album of young singer Kara Jane was released to mark #SevereMEDay. Despite a life of immense pain and restriction, Kara Jane left a legacy of beautiful music that has moved and inspired many thousands of people around the world while raising money for research. bit.ly/3UVX752
August 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The posthumous album of young singer Kara Jane was released to mark #SevereMEDay. Despite a life of immense pain and restriction, Kara Jane left a legacy of beautiful music that has moved and inspired many thousands of people around the world while raising money for research. bit.ly/3UVX752
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Skegness, one of your absolute finest people right here. Buy her a drink whenever you see her.
July 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Skegness, one of your absolute finest people right here. Buy her a drink whenever you see her.
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Most folks are far closer to becoming disabled and/or homeless than they realize.
It’s not a moral failing.
It’s not something you can “try harder” your way out of.
All it takes is one illness, accident or stroke of bad luck.
We all need & deserve better social supports
It’s not a moral failing.
It’s not something you can “try harder” your way out of.
All it takes is one illness, accident or stroke of bad luck.
We all need & deserve better social supports
July 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Most folks are far closer to becoming disabled and/or homeless than they realize.
It’s not a moral failing.
It’s not something you can “try harder” your way out of.
All it takes is one illness, accident or stroke of bad luck.
We all need & deserve better social supports
It’s not a moral failing.
It’s not something you can “try harder” your way out of.
All it takes is one illness, accident or stroke of bad luck.
We all need & deserve better social supports
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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The UK pretending that sex is binary doesn't just hurt trans people! Intersex people aren't even recognised officially in the Equality Act and IGM still goes on!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Add intersex to the Equality Act as a protected characteristic
We want the government to make sex variations a protected characteristic under the Equality Act.
petition.parliament.uk
July 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The UK pretending that sex is binary doesn't just hurt trans people! Intersex people aren't even recognised officially in the Equality Act and IGM still goes on!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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NEW FROM ME -
Britain is abandoning international medical consensus on disability.
Every other developed nation recognizes cumulative impairment as genuine severity.
We're about to become an anomaly—and the logic of 4+ suggests it was deliberate.
tinyurl.com/mwwb5xv4
Britain is abandoning international medical consensus on disability.
Every other developed nation recognizes cumulative impairment as genuine severity.
We're about to become an anomaly—and the logic of 4+ suggests it was deliberate.
tinyurl.com/mwwb5xv4
Who Will Count as Disabled Tomorrow?
The dangerous redefinition of welfare disguised as Labour's compassionate reform.
tinyurl.com
June 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
NEW FROM ME -
Britain is abandoning international medical consensus on disability.
Every other developed nation recognizes cumulative impairment as genuine severity.
We're about to become an anomaly—and the logic of 4+ suggests it was deliberate.
tinyurl.com/mwwb5xv4
Britain is abandoning international medical consensus on disability.
Every other developed nation recognizes cumulative impairment as genuine severity.
We're about to become an anomaly—and the logic of 4+ suggests it was deliberate.
tinyurl.com/mwwb5xv4
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Please help Emma if you can? She’s a fab researcher and it sounds like a fun project!
I'm looking for some #ActuallyAutistic #uni students in the UK, for my MSc dissertation. You'll find or create images representing your experiences of identity development at #university. You can share ideas anonymously with other students via Discord. More info here bit.ly/3FuX2l5. Thank you!
June 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Please help Emma if you can? She’s a fab researcher and it sounds like a fun project!
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Sounds absurd to assert that a person's desire to know what my genitals are is more important than my desire to keep my genitals private but here we are.
June 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Sounds absurd to assert that a person's desire to know what my genitals are is more important than my desire to keep my genitals private but here we are.
I'm looking for some #ActuallyAutistic #uni students in the UK, for my MSc dissertation. You'll find or create images representing your experiences of identity development at #university. You can share ideas anonymously with other students via Discord. More info here bit.ly/3FuX2l5. Thank you!
June 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I'm looking for some #ActuallyAutistic #uni students in the UK, for my MSc dissertation. You'll find or create images representing your experiences of identity development at #university. You can share ideas anonymously with other students via Discord. More info here bit.ly/3FuX2l5. Thank you!
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SO CLOSE‼️ Just over 7k 🔼 to the MAGIC 100K! petition.parliament.uk/petit... Defend Disabled children's #SEND rights! 📤 with family, school, FB/WhatsApp groups, non-SEND pals—SEND can affect any child at any time: "It could be you" (but you'll have a lot less money than a lottery win) SIGN & SHARE!
June 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
SO CLOSE‼️ Just over 7k 🔼 to the MAGIC 100K! petition.parliament.uk/petit... Defend Disabled children's #SEND rights! 📤 with family, school, FB/WhatsApp groups, non-SEND pals—SEND can affect any child at any time: "It could be you" (but you'll have a lot less money than a lottery win) SIGN & SHARE!