But social media is the problem obv

More than a fifth of UK’s ‘austerity children’ scarred by poverty, study says Researchers say hardship is a direct legacy of welfare benefit cuts imposed by Tory governments in recent years

More than a fifth of UK’s ‘austerity children’ scarred by poverty, study says www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

This whole thread is just joyful.
This is such good news for democracy, for Europe, for the Ukrainians. Hooray!!

Front Cover of me holding the book: Neurodiversity A Very Short Introduction Robert Chapman and Sue Fletcher-Watson Oxford Uni Press

Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction
by @drrobertchapman.bsky.social and @suereviews.bsky.social

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This is SO good!

Love that it talks about the normalcy paradigm and neurodiversity-lite!

NHS care for ME now Campaigning for ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) to be medically managed safely, to protect families from permanent disability or death from neglect of the illness.

justice4me.uk call for evidence - time sensitive!! If you know anyone who has severe/very severe ME, or severe/very severe Long Covid, in England or Wales please ask them to fill out the form and send it back to admin@justice4me.uk by Friday 17 April 2026.
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Re-educating our immune system to tackle chronic disease Groundbreaking research out this week is taking a novel approach to help chronic disease

Actually forgot- I wrote this a bit ago!

Well that was a crap day out

I couldn't stick the pacing/structure but lots of people like it 🤷‍♂️

Late to the conversation, but I'm kind of unbothered by this lack of replication. If the study is not internally valid to begin with, then being able to replicate it only means replicating systematic biases. And something tells me this is likely to be a bigger problem in the literature.

Exciting to see the main trial results from iCATs out today! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

About 45% of pet ownership is walking by them and badly singing little songs that integrate their names. If you can’t do this, then I’m sorry, you are not ready for the responsibilities of owning a pet.

Bluebells and wood anemones under the trees

3 blue plates of scallops, prawns, and chips on picnic table

A tiny Lego figure of Jesus in front of a tomb made of pebbles

Yesterday's haul: a walk in the woods, lunch at the fish market, ice cream at the beach, and the discovery of this odd little Easter tableau down by the bins.

I went and saw Project Hail Mary.
A guy came in with his service dog and the dog sat there the whole time just concentrating on the movie.
Afterwards I told the guy I was amazed your dog watched the movie like that.
He replied, me too especially because he hated the book.

The lived experience of persons who attempt suicide: a bottom‐up review co‐designed, co‐produced and co‐written by experts by experience and academics This is the first bottom-up review of the lived experience of persons who attempt suicide. The study has been co-designed, co-conducted and co-written by experts by experience and academics, focusing...

World Psychiatry ~ The lived experience of persons who attempt suicide: a bottom-up review co-designed, co-produced and co-written by experts by experience and academics.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Absolutely devastating article on one little, beautiful, remarkable piece of what we lost to DOGE

My great-aunt shot Mussolini in the face, says Llangrannog woman Philippa Gibson's great-aunt Violet tried to kill the Italian dictator in Rome on 7 April 1926.

My great-aunt shot Mussolini in the face

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Violet Gibson YouTube video by Lisa O'Neill - Topic

Ooh m.youtube.com/watch?v=vrUk...

norman rockwell's 'freedom of speech'

emotional regulation and emotional suppression are two different things, and the people who routinely emphasize the former are often engaged in the latter

Indentured labourers typically had shorter periods of indenture than this in the 19-th century British empire.

Woohoo!

M4 and the bloody Boro have punctured that nicely

It's crackers, but might as well travel in hope! I woke up, and there it was.

Football Optimism score rising inexplicably

Next week’s disability cuts will make people destitute – and you might not understand how bad they are until it’s too late | Frances Ryan If new claimants don’t meet strict criteria, they’ll lose half of the health element of universal credit. Don’t ignore that: in life’s lottery, that could easily be you, says Guardian columnist France...

“Ministers justified reducing support for people too disabled or ill to work by arguing it would remove the “perverse incentives” that discourage employment… as if a twentysomething bedbound with ME just needs “incentivising” to get back to the building site”
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As much as "prediction" in the phrase "statistical prediction" implies something about the future it's actually just about the past. The data was collected in the past and a stats test on the data is about that past data. Maybe it's also true for the future, but that's not what it describes.

Not angry just very disappointed

The graph of Bluesky users over approx. 18 months. the first and last points are marked, and a positive slope line runs between them.

also: line did go up

There was some cursing

Excruciating