whitesidesw.bsky.social
@whitesidesw.bsky.social
AuDHD Social Worker. Always looking to understand a little more each day. Radical action enthusiast.

He/Him
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You have to be crazy or completely corrupt to look at the UK with its billionaires who don't pay any taxes and its ripoff Energy Companies, polluting scumbag Water Companies and come to the conclusion that Disabled People and immigrants are the problem.
March 31, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Twitter Classic:

Fun Fact: The first time "Big Chungus" was ever mentioned was in 1998's METAL GEAR SOLID, between Solid Snake and Liquid Snake:
March 31, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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it's all love, if we don't take the time to build community and understand each other we are not gonna make it
February 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
#socialworkers, what is a book or resource that you swear by? What small pieces of information or quotes have a big impact on your practice?

Looking to learn how social workers around the world are practising and what I can steal for myself
February 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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we had a great 8 years of it being acceptable to be publicly queer but the right tapped into their hysteria and are trying to push us back decades. this is why the left warned of relying on rainbow capitalism because their support was about profit above all else. the solution is for us to not hide
New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill"

www.404media.co/meta-deletes...
Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes
Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed.
www.404media.co
January 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Autistic Review of Lake Como.

Lovely place, lots of random loud banging for no reason.

Public transport and restaurant booking times are not adhered to.
December 31, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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Carter has passed. An accomplished man. A brilliant legacy. Although for many of us he died years ago when he refused to condemn, gamer gate
December 29, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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simply buzzing from this ✨
December 24, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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I've pulled together more data than ever before on the state of additional support needs in schools, liberated it from government and SQA spreadsheets, and presented it in ways that, I hope, make it accessible for everyone.

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2473278...

@heraldscotland.bsky.social
December 12, 2024 at 11:14 AM
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December 12, 2024 at 11:32 AM
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Luigi Mangione’s manifesto does something truly groundbreaking in the genre: it is edited for brevity
December 10, 2024 at 10:46 PM
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My new documentary on Spartan Bare Knuckle Fight Club is out now, really proud of this one, would appreciate a share and a watch if you have the time x

youtu.be/UlOmwOqgPVM?...
Inside the brutal world of bareknuckle beef fighting
YouTube video by JOE
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December 10, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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just from a folklore point of view, "attractive hooded man kills billionaire head of hated business with bullets inscribed with political slogans and then vanishes" is narratively breathtaking
December 7, 2024 at 9:54 AM
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there it is. best bit of documentary photography I'll ever do.
December 7, 2024 at 12:25 PM
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they will see
December 3, 2024 at 4:56 AM
Being Autistic and working is fucking HARD. I feel so conflicted because the way I think makes me a good social worker, but the meltdowns and burnout is so difficult
November 28, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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I am on my knees begging you for a morsel of perspective
November 20, 2024 at 10:38 AM
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Why it can be so hard for parents to find good autism info: "From refrigerator moms to extreme male brain theory to ABA therapy, the world of conventional medicine has frequently been as wrong about autism as the outright quacks." Emily Paige Ballou, at TPGA:

thinkingautismguide.com/2024/11/what...
November 19, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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Sheep from Age of Empires II: Age of Kings (PC)
November 18, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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PERCEPTION - A dog barks and a gunshot echoes off the walls of some distant building. A woman's voice...

SHIVERS - REVACHOL FOREVER.
November 18, 2024 at 12:26 AM
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Interoception – how we feel what our body is doing – has been linked to wellbeing. A team, with Geoff Bird, looked at a new app that might how accurate someone is at feeling signals form their body. It uses the ‘Phase Adjustment Task’.
November 18, 2024 at 9:09 AM
Aotearoa has been in the public eye recently, and I love the Maõri word for Autism,Takiwātanga, meaning 'In my/their own space and time'.

A beautiful word which encapsulates so much.
November 18, 2024 at 8:21 PM
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Putting children in prison will not cure delinquent behaviors. Delinquency is just a symptom of capitalism. Children (regardless of their behaviors) need to be cared for and nurtured, not thrown in a cell and abused every day.
November 18, 2024 at 2:17 PM
All the Disco Elysium fans on this app will be acting like me when I'm invited to a family event and Mums watching
November 17, 2024 at 10:06 PM