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Dr Katie Twomey
@k2mey.bsky.social
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Autistic fan of autistic people. Prob AuDHD. LGBTQ+ ally because obviously. Routine goblin. She/her. Sweary, sorry. Lecturer (UK), researcher in language development, psycholinguistics, autism. ♾️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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Irresponsibly posting my location on social media
Google maps zoom in of Tutt's Clump, just off Rotten Row
October 29, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
A picture of The Krankies, a fairly sinister husband and wife comedy duo from the 80s where the wife plays a schoolboy. Brrrr.
October 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Anyone invested in my dad's foundling kitten, she is now entering her deliberately challenging teenage phase
Mostly white teenage cat with black patches on either side of her face exposing her belly in an entirely inappropriate way, simultaneously looking at the camera and saying "what of it?"
October 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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In that case have a look at my best friend's big garlic! I want to get into growing giant pumpkins now.
A white female hand holding a perfect bulb of garlic, trimmed up all pretty like. The bulb is about the size of a cricket ball
October 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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The in-laws visited and brought us a giant onion
A white woman's hand holding an onion that is genuinely the size of a two month old baby's head
October 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Autism adjacent (well he puts up with me so I have questions) ginger coat
Middle aged man with round glasses and curly hair in an orange jacket-coat type thing made out of corduroy
October 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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I acknowledge I have already been out-coated but
Middle aged autistic chaos in human form wearing wide legged trousers and a bottle green and black checked overcoat,. doing what looks like a side lunge, for reasons I cannot fathom. There are definitely not several boxes of wine under the table behind her.
October 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Unsolicited tick pic
A great big fat insect. Its red-brown legs are at the front and it has a huge, pale beige, bulbous abdomen. A bit like me actually.
October 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Daphne has got a new weighted blanket for my birthday
A shorthair tabby cat sitting on a grey plush waited blanket (which is MINE I think you'll find) with a sense of utter smug entitlement
October 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Big conker.on a hand with rules for scale. Hand os about 16cm long at the longest point and the conker is about 4cm wide. Impressive (conker not hand)
October 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Today I found a conker that is so mahoosive I can't even close my fingers around it. This year's conkers are... well, bonkers #tinyjoys
A more wrinkly than I'd like white lady hand holding a fucking massive conker. I have quite big hands. In the background is a white and rainbow striped blanket and cheap arse grey and white Dunelm rug masquerading as something expensive and Victorian.
October 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Daphne's sister Daphne empathises
A misleadingly young looking tabby cat, sitting on her plinth (a cardboard box she's inexplicably fond of), looking downwards in an "I'm not disappointed, I'm just angry" way. There is a jaunty fabric deckchair leaning against white wall in the background. It has predominantly orange stripes interspersed with yellow, green and pink. It's from the 60s probably. Anyway it's cheerful but it's not doing anything to improve Daphne's glumness.
September 30, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Alright everyone. It's all a bit stressful innit. Here is my cat Daphne sleeping on a plastic bag. She knows why that's an appropriate place to sleep but we don't. Cats are the best
Tabby cat curled up on a white plastic bag. The bag is on a grey and white oldey worldy faux Victorian or something rug. I don't know, we got it from Dunelm. The rug lies atop a wooden floor which can only be described as ginger because we fucked up our varnish choices
September 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Batcat enjoys tickle, rejects moniker
Tabby with very large, pointy ears (and unnecessarily long white whiskers) getting tickled on the head by a white hand. She's sitting on a rumpled rewoven white and rainbow striped blanket Daphne heard me calling her Batcat and is not pleased (same cat, furious looking face. Hand swiftly removed)
September 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Wordcloud with the heading "What does success in 2035 look like to you?" The central phrase is "I will be retired"
September 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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It was this kind! Dismayed to find out they go on eBay for about thirty quid. I had about 100 of the gits before my mum made me chuck them out 😂
Four Fiendish Feet yoghurt pots. They have feet and scary cartoon faces. Pot 1: some kind of green-eyed demon in lemon yellow. Pot 3: peach coloured vampire. Pot 3: pink Frankenstein's monster. Pot 4: pastel skeleton. Ensemble: ridiculous thing for a child to collect
September 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Daphne's doing a cute
Tabby cat curled up on a grey blanket. She's got her little hands on each side of her face like some kind of film star or something. Ridiculous animal
September 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Some bookshelves, which are painted white x as is the wall. There's a plant banging from a blue ceramic pot and if I'm honest it's probably on the way out. Books are arranged in rainbow order because I'm an autistic mess. Oh also there's an unopened bottle of wine, because I understand the importance of self-restraint (ha)
September 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Daphne, Daph, Long Daphne, Mrs Magoo, Miggins, the Maoist, Gary, Player Number Three, Fat Lad, Daphsticles
A tabby cat with big ol' ears looking dozy. She's sitting on a human's lap. Human is wearing black jeans and a dark green cable knit cardigan. You can't see the human's face; the picture is taken side-on to the human. The cat is facing towards the camera but looking down and to one side. She is clearly tired of the human's bullshit.
September 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Hobbit inequality
Two panels depicting maps. Upper showing the US with the words "tell me where you are from" in all caps. Lower showing a Mercator projection of the world with the words "using only 2 words", also all caps. All text in black in a sans serif font.
September 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Tonight we found a potato that looks exactly like @derekalanmeins.bsky.social
A middle aged man with curly brown hair and a brown beard with flecks of grey. He's wearing a purple t-shirt that says Abolish Manchester on it (it's a music reference apparently). He's smiling and holding up a potato with the little rooty bits that grow out of them which look very much like his hair. I drew eyes, a mouth and a beard on it. We have not eaten Potato Derek and will update as grows up.
August 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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A tree trunk with nodules that look like a frog
July 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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She is rightly proud of her efforts
Tabby cat curled up on her side like a little prawn, rejoicing in the miasma she has just farted into my living space
July 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Anyway, I feel like I've been quite grumpy today so here is the cat Daphne who lets me and Derek live in her house #tinyjoys
A tabby cat lying on her side facing the camera. She's partially under a rainbow blanket with white stripes in between the colours. Her paws are poking out in front of her and she's blatantly doing the "look at me I'm doing a cute" thing. She's fit but my god doesn't she know it.
July 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Kitten update. Dad has chosen the name Binkie (sadly not a Pratchett reference) but stepmum wants Juno. Dad is saying they'll have to double-barrel it. Just found out they don't know whether it's Ms or Mr Juno-Binky, so am welcoming my first nonbinary family member with open arms.
A tiny black and white kitten on a green cross-stitch cushion. Black around the ears and eyes with a flash of white up the nose, and white big and front legs. Little white belly and a black saddle, with a pointy black tail. They're looking interested in something in the foreground, like they're learning to do that cat thing where they bosh a pencil off a table for no reason other than to infuriate their humans. Godspeed dad and stepmum
June 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM