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Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Research Development professional, Ethnomusicologist (Celtic/trad music), probably definitely autistic, Manx traddy/muso, feminist lefty (but not loony), Xennial, Welsh Indy, punk, with a soft spot for cats. Hiraeth for Ellan Vannin. Afraid for humanity...
There is a child stuck in the tunnel of goats... can we have a nurse to the tunnel of goats...
November 23, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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these chores could have been a montage
June 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Fascist Reform leader Richard Tice would get REALLY upset if you shared this widely on all forms of social media so lots of people can keep it and bring it out before the next election to show that he is as big a liar as Keir Starmer.

So please don't, he would be *very* upset.
November 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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The big daily task for many trauma survivors that goes unacknowledged by others in their sphere is how to realistically manage thoughts & feelings, while coping w/ physical fatigue, pain, & other limitations not even their own health care providers adequately understand or treat.
November 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Using a search engine is a bit like asking a librarian for help. Using GenAi is like asking an actor pretending to be a librarian for help.
November 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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The move into individual nuclear family homes was a huge mistake. We are all isolated now, causing depression and loneliness in old age. We should be living in multi-family, multi-generational shared spaces, like tribes
November 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Settling down to sleep when nearly 2stone of cats landed on my belly out of nowhere! Looked up to see Oshin with a wide eyed Finbar in a headlock... love these guys so much but did not factor in their combined weight crashing onto me in the dark! Absolute loons...
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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People say autistic humans “overreact.”

What they don’t see is the hours, days, years we’ve spent holding ourselves together for their convenience.

A meltdown isn’t an “overreaction.”

It’s the body saying I’m done absorbing what you refuse to notice.

Let that sink in folx.
November 21, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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NHS private finance diverts money away from healthcare, towards the pockets of private shareholders.

Cat Eccles MP’s motion can force the government to drop their NHS private finance plans from the Autumn Budget.

✉️Take 2 mins now to email your MP to sign the motion and protect patients.
November 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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As the ancient embroidery says…
November 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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I’ve never met an autistic person whose “behaviour” wasn’t completely logical once you understood their needs, their history, and their nervous system.

We’re not confusing.

People just aren’t listening.
November 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Alt text should become metadata for the image so if one person describes a meme/photo the description stays if the meme/photo is saved and reused.
November 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Emma Bernard, 30, who is often complimented on her friendly demeanour and effusive expressions of gratitude, has attributed her politeness to an extreme fawning response.
Trauma! “Polite” autistic woman just terrified of you
An autistic woman with impeccable manners is actually just petrified of displeasing you, it has been confirmed. Emma Bernard, 30, who is often complimented on her friendly demeanour and effusive…
thedailytism.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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News about the state of the world in general has become unbearable.
Living in the West feels like being a passenger in a car with no headlights or brakes, speeding down the wrong side of the motorway at night, and the 6-year old driver is in the middle of an intense psychotic breakdown.
November 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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The Roman Empire prospered due to open borders, mass immigration and diversity then fell because of huge wealth inequality and corrupt leadership. I just thought I'd mention it.
November 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Someone who "looks good for their age" has managed to shave a few years off. Someone who has procedures to look 20 years younger, looks ridiculous - to everyone.
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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William the Conquerer's oldest son was Robert Curthose, meaning "short trousers", which means…

WHOOOO LIVES IN A CASTLE IN THE 11TH CENTURY?
PRINCEBOB SHORTPANTS!
MEDIEVAL AND NORMAN AND ROYAL IS HE
PRINCEBOB SHORTPANTS!
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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When we had billionaires like Gates that funded charity we were relaxed about them. But some of us warned you: it's still just one man's whim. He could defund the work instantly. Musk proves the point. The way to ensure billionaires' money isn't used for ill is through taxation
November 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Big chonka ginger loaf...

#cats #catsofbluesky #ginger
November 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
What happened to this bit of punctuation?

:-

I used to handwrite it all the time at school and no one ever said it was wrong. Was it a thing? Did it die with emoticons like :-) ?
November 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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At least it's honest, right? Intrusive questioning of women who don't conform to norms about how they should look, and women then being banned if they tell their inquisitor to mind his own sodding business, has always been the logical end point for the patriarchal project that is TERFdom.
November 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM