JPuddlegoose
@jpuddlegoose.bsky.social
Disabled, Neurodivergent (autistic, adhd, tourettes)
Practitioner, speaker, writer
Trustee @togetherforthecofe.bsky.social
Member #CofE #GeneralSynod + Nazareth community
Tomato-grower, knitter-of-hats
Practitioner, speaker, writer
Trustee @togetherforthecofe.bsky.social
Member #CofE #GeneralSynod + Nazareth community
Tomato-grower, knitter-of-hats
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I've never felt more ashamed of being a Labour supporter. Not even during Iraq, where at least we had cabinet members resigning in disgust. Now: just jostling for position.
If I wasn't already turning my back on the party I've backed my whole life, I would be now.
#ImmigrantsWelcome
#NotInMyName
If I wasn't already turning my back on the party I've backed my whole life, I would be now.
#ImmigrantsWelcome
#NotInMyName
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I've never felt more ashamed of being a Labour supporter. Not even during Iraq, where at least we had cabinet members resigning in disgust. Now: just jostling for position.
If I wasn't already turning my back on the party I've backed my whole life, I would be now.
#ImmigrantsWelcome
#NotInMyName
If I wasn't already turning my back on the party I've backed my whole life, I would be now.
#ImmigrantsWelcome
#NotInMyName
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What is it like to live surrounded by illegal Israeli settlements and under constant threat of violence? On a hilltop farm just outside Bethlehem, Daoud Nassar and his family continue to live, resist and hope. We were privileged to invite Daoud - remotely - to talk to us about it this summer.
November 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
What is it like to live surrounded by illegal Israeli settlements and under constant threat of violence? On a hilltop farm just outside Bethlehem, Daoud Nassar and his family continue to live, resist and hope. We were privileged to invite Daoud - remotely - to talk to us about it this summer.
Powerful letter from Clare Herbert in today's Church Times
October 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Powerful letter from Clare Herbert in today's Church Times
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New report: "Life in the world’s most polluted town" covering the huge lead contamination in #Kabwe, Zambia, its terrible impacts on children and the case for corporate accountability
By @actsa-uk.bsky.social
#pollution
1/3
actsa.org/new-report-l...
By @actsa-uk.bsky.social
#pollution
1/3
actsa.org/new-report-l...
New report: Life in the world’s most polluted town - The origins of lead contamination in Kabwe, its impacts on children, and the case for corporate accountability
Four mothers tell their stories alongside the medical, legal and moral case for corporate accountability by Anglo American in a new report about lead contamination in Kabwe, Zambia, by Action for Sout...
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October 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
New report: "Life in the world’s most polluted town" covering the huge lead contamination in #Kabwe, Zambia, its terrible impacts on children and the case for corporate accountability
By @actsa-uk.bsky.social
#pollution
1/3
actsa.org/new-report-l...
By @actsa-uk.bsky.social
#pollution
1/3
actsa.org/new-report-l...
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This is absolutely vile. I get that Ghosts fans bring West Horsley Place a LOT of tourism, but this is disgusting. To evict a 70 year old woman who's lived there 20 years for a holiday cottage for fans?? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'It's going to break my heart' - woman faces eviction from Ghosts estate
Baschea Walsh says she feels
www.bbc.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This is absolutely vile. I get that Ghosts fans bring West Horsley Place a LOT of tourism, but this is disgusting. To evict a 70 year old woman who's lived there 20 years for a holiday cottage for fans?? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Yesterday I had the honour of being on the team for this fantastic annual event. By, with and for disabled, deaf and neurodivergent people. Every participant extending the love, courtesy, accessibility & generosity that our faith asks of each of us. Utterly wonderful. #CanTheseBonesLive
Here's this year's @livingedgeconf.bsky.social, as mentioned in today's wonderful seminar hosted by @naomijacobs.bsky.social . There are still a few spaces left, both onsite and online.
cantheseboneslive.eventbrite.co.uk
cantheseboneslive.eventbrite.co.uk
Can These Bones Live? Disability, wilderness, hope and God
Exploring experience of wilderness & how hope grows. With talks, workshops, groups, art, theology, liturgy. Hybrid event - on site & online
CanTheseBonesLive.eventbrite.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Yesterday I had the honour of being on the team for this fantastic annual event. By, with and for disabled, deaf and neurodivergent people. Every participant extending the love, courtesy, accessibility & generosity that our faith asks of each of us. Utterly wonderful. #CanTheseBonesLive
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These freaks keep getting on TV talking about opposing antifa and how they believe antifa wants to destroy them, and not a single person in mainstream media has asked or commented on what is the opposite of antifascism and who is threatened by antifascists
October 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
These freaks keep getting on TV talking about opposing antifa and how they believe antifa wants to destroy them, and not a single person in mainstream media has asked or commented on what is the opposite of antifascism and who is threatened by antifascists
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As Toby Young points out, Black people are over-represented in advertising. He somehow forgot to mention they are over-represented in poverty, unemployment and homelessness statistics too.
October 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
As Toby Young points out, Black people are over-represented in advertising. He somehow forgot to mention they are over-represented in poverty, unemployment and homelessness statistics too.
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Imagine the Labour Party leader calling out racism & fascism, explaining how 14 years of Tory cuts impacted on integration, and the need to properly tax multi-millionaires and billionaires, in the way that the Green Party leader Zack Polanski did on Question Time last night.
Yes. Just imagine that.
Yes. Just imagine that.
October 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Imagine the Labour Party leader calling out racism & fascism, explaining how 14 years of Tory cuts impacted on integration, and the need to properly tax multi-millionaires and billionaires, in the way that the Green Party leader Zack Polanski did on Question Time last night.
Yes. Just imagine that.
Yes. Just imagine that.
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Layan Nasir, a 25-year Anglican Palestinian, was taken into Israeli custody on Thursday, although she had previously been told that her seven-and-a-half month sentence would not start until November.
Concern expressed after Israelis imprison Layan Nasir
The 25-year old Anglican Palestinian was convicted, in absentia, last month
www.churchtimes.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Layan Nasir, a 25-year Anglican Palestinian, was taken into Israeli custody on Thursday, although she had previously been told that her seven-and-a-half month sentence would not start until November.
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If anyone doubted that the BBC is deliberately not covering the Russian/Reform bribery scandal, those doubts should have been removed by Fiona Bruce interrupting to prevent it being discussed on BBC Question time last night. #BBCQT
October 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
If anyone doubted that the BBC is deliberately not covering the Russian/Reform bribery scandal, those doubts should have been removed by Fiona Bruce interrupting to prevent it being discussed on BBC Question time last night. #BBCQT
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Oregon National Guard general said that if they were deployed, his troops would be instructed to protect the protesters, not ICE.
October 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Oregon National Guard general said that if they were deployed, his troops would be instructed to protect the protesters, not ICE.
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Huge thanks to @krysiawally.bsky.social , @jpuddlegoose.bsky.social & Bernice Hardie for sharing their work in faith communities for disability inclusion & social justice at @learningmet.bsky.social. Great to host such interesting speakers on a topic we don’t talk about enough in #DisabilityStudies.
October 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Huge thanks to @krysiawally.bsky.social , @jpuddlegoose.bsky.social & Bernice Hardie for sharing their work in faith communities for disability inclusion & social justice at @learningmet.bsky.social. Great to host such interesting speakers on a topic we don’t talk about enough in #DisabilityStudies.
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I will not back down.
Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.
What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.
What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I will not back down.
Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.
What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.
What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
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My Bangladeshi 🇧🇩 born friend with whom I talk about cricket & rugby in the pub told me that he was abused in traffic today by someone with not much grammar and told to ‘get back on his boat’
He has lived here since he was 8 years old and is a valued local accountant 😔
Only White people can stop this
He has lived here since he was 8 years old and is a valued local accountant 😔
Only White people can stop this
October 2, 2025 at 7:17 PM
My Bangladeshi 🇧🇩 born friend with whom I talk about cricket & rugby in the pub told me that he was abused in traffic today by someone with not much grammar and told to ‘get back on his boat’
He has lived here since he was 8 years old and is a valued local accountant 😔
Only White people can stop this
He has lived here since he was 8 years old and is a valued local accountant 😔
Only White people can stop this
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Speakers: @krysiawally.bsky.social on research into autistic people's experiences of mosques & churches; Bernice Hardie on WAVE, a community #WithNotFor people with learning disabilities; @jpuddlegoose.bsky.social on neurodivergent & disabled-led work in the Church of England #AutRes #Disability 2/2
September 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Speakers: @krysiawally.bsky.social on research into autistic people's experiences of mosques & churches; Bernice Hardie on WAVE, a community #WithNotFor people with learning disabilities; @jpuddlegoose.bsky.social on neurodivergent & disabled-led work in the Church of England #AutRes #Disability 2/2
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I'm excited to be chairing an online symposium on Religions, Faith Communities & Disability on 8th Oct 12-2, as part of Manchester Metropolitan's Learning Disabilities and Autism Research Group seminar series. Speakers and topics in the next post... Details and sign-up link at tinyurl.com/3pdjmn4d 🧵
Please join us for a symposium on Religions, Faith Communities & Disability, 8th Oct 12-2pm, online. @krysiawally.bsky.social, Bernice Hardie and @jpuddlegoose.bsky.social will share research and action for inclusion in faith communities and beyond. Sign up: tinyurl.com/3pdjmn4d #AutRes #AcademicSky
September 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I'm excited to be chairing an online symposium on Religions, Faith Communities & Disability on 8th Oct 12-2, as part of Manchester Metropolitan's Learning Disabilities and Autism Research Group seminar series. Speakers and topics in the next post... Details and sign-up link at tinyurl.com/3pdjmn4d 🧵
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I would refer us also to the fast-growing research evidence into ABA causing trauma & 'behaviour'. But as long as teams have a belief' that the child has had a lovely childhood with great interventions, and is just choosing to behaving badly, it's fine to drug them into submission.
Is it?
Is it?
September 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I would refer us also to the fast-growing research evidence into ABA causing trauma & 'behaviour'. But as long as teams have a belief' that the child has had a lovely childhood with great interventions, and is just choosing to behaving badly, it's fine to drug them into submission.
Is it?
Is it?
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Gentle reminder that autistic mums are a) more likely to have autistic babies and b) more likely to have pain conditions that need Tylenol (paracetamol). Tylenol doesn't 'cause' the autistic babies.
It's not rocket science.
Unfortunately, some leaders gave up science in year 3, I think.
It's not rocket science.
Unfortunately, some leaders gave up science in year 3, I think.
September 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Gentle reminder that autistic mums are a) more likely to have autistic babies and b) more likely to have pain conditions that need Tylenol (paracetamol). Tylenol doesn't 'cause' the autistic babies.
It's not rocket science.
Unfortunately, some leaders gave up science in year 3, I think.
It's not rocket science.
Unfortunately, some leaders gave up science in year 3, I think.
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Today, in 'What happens when ABA is used on children', we have the frankly shocking account of an eight year old boy.
www.cureus.com/articles/361...
At this very young age, he's already endured a parental divorce, ABA, other 'behavioural' interventions, restraints, and enforced mental health stays/
www.cureus.com/articles/361...
At this very young age, he's already endured a parental divorce, ABA, other 'behavioural' interventions, restraints, and enforced mental health stays/
Paliperidone as an Alternative Treatment for Behavioral Symptoms in Childhood Autism: Case Report of an Eight-Year-Old Patient
This case report discusses an eight-year-old boy diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD), who ...
www.cureus.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Today, in 'What happens when ABA is used on children', we have the frankly shocking account of an eight year old boy.
www.cureus.com/articles/361...
At this very young age, he's already endured a parental divorce, ABA, other 'behavioural' interventions, restraints, and enforced mental health stays/
www.cureus.com/articles/361...
At this very young age, he's already endured a parental divorce, ABA, other 'behavioural' interventions, restraints, and enforced mental health stays/
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BBC, Reuters et al about the frantic race to save some of Gaza's historic artefacts.
Fadel al-Otol, one of Gaza's leading the effort. From Switzerland, his new home, he and others guided volunteers and aid workers to move truckloads of artefacts to a safer loaction.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
Fadel al-Otol, one of Gaza's leading the effort. From Switzerland, his new home, he and others guided volunteers and aid workers to move truckloads of artefacts to a safer loaction.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
September 17, 2025 at 3:45 AM
BBC, Reuters et al about the frantic race to save some of Gaza's historic artefacts.
Fadel al-Otol, one of Gaza's leading the effort. From Switzerland, his new home, he and others guided volunteers and aid workers to move truckloads of artefacts to a safer loaction.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
Fadel al-Otol, one of Gaza's leading the effort. From Switzerland, his new home, he and others guided volunteers and aid workers to move truckloads of artefacts to a safer loaction.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
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half of the BBC website is Charlie Kirk stuff and I'm confused, I thought we're in Britain
September 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
half of the BBC website is Charlie Kirk stuff and I'm confused, I thought we're in Britain
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How can we share knowledge and insight across generations within our communities?
Read and watch searching conversations on faith and action between young Quakers and older members of the Welsh Quaker community.
Read the full blog, and access our new film, here:
Read and watch searching conversations on faith and action between young Quakers and older members of the Welsh Quaker community.
Read the full blog, and access our new film, here:
You can always ask me: intergenerational conversations about faith
Extract of an intergenerational conversation about Quaker faith
www.quaker.org.uk
September 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
How can we share knowledge and insight across generations within our communities?
Read and watch searching conversations on faith and action between young Quakers and older members of the Welsh Quaker community.
Read the full blog, and access our new film, here:
Read and watch searching conversations on faith and action between young Quakers and older members of the Welsh Quaker community.
Read the full blog, and access our new film, here:
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If you’re waking up to yet another news programme on tv or radio that is over platforming REFORM with 4 MPs and not mentioning any other opposition party, you know what to do. Sign here and get anyone else you know to sign. Fair coverage now. Takes 30 seconds petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Petition: Ensure plurality of political coverage across UK broadcast media at all times
We want to ensure that a plurality of views from all political parties in Westminster are represented and the nations parliaments are heard all year round, not just election times. The rules for coverage during elections should apply at all times.
petition.parliament.uk
August 27, 2025 at 4:47 AM
If you’re waking up to yet another news programme on tv or radio that is over platforming REFORM with 4 MPs and not mentioning any other opposition party, you know what to do. Sign here and get anyone else you know to sign. Fair coverage now. Takes 30 seconds petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
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We’ve got one heck of a lineup of speakers for our autumn lecture series at St Martin in the Fields starting next month
August 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
We’ve got one heck of a lineup of speakers for our autumn lecture series at St Martin in the Fields starting next month