Anna Nicholson

Any time a politician says we should leave the ECHR, the very next questions any interviewer should ask are
🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally
🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face
🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose

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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

It's time we asked some serious questions about Reform and Russia, says Neil Mackay As a former prominent leader of Reform faces jail for taking bribes to make pro-Russian statements, Neil Mackay says we have to ask serious…

‘So the rumours are true … time to ask some serious questions about Reform and Russia’

My column on Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales, admitting taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia while a member of the European Parliament

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

I’ve just learned another sense of the phrase ‘glory hole’. 😬

YouTube video by Janta Ka Reporter Slovenian President’s extraordinary attack on Trump, Netanyahu for Gaza complicity|Janta Ka Reporter

Slovenian president Nataša Pirc Musar addressed the UN earlier in a powerful speech on multilateralism and the rule of international law.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUpK...

Imagine the kind of nation we could build if we had all the powers of a normal, independent country.

Kenya transgender rights victory hailed as African first QNews LGBTIQA+ News

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like

"A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act."

fuck yeah

Journalists need to stop looking for 'balance' and get back to informing the public. Make a judgement ffs. Help people understand, don't just throw bullshit at them and go 'work it out'.

That is your job.

We do not need balance on the absolutely insane bullshit coming out of politicians on both sides of the Atlantic. Just say it’s bullshit

Two-panel cartoon. Panel 1: When a non-disabled person says ‘push through’ to a disabled person. Image: stickman in a green ‘comfort zone’ pushing through a red barrier to ‘possible but difficult’ zone that has a slightly uneven floor. They are saying, ‘Just push through, you'll be fine! It's just a bit challenging!’ At the end of that is a second red barrier, beyond which are spikes and a warning symbol labelled ‘Actual harm zone’. Panel 2: REMEMBER: the disabled person may be in a very different place to them! Image: identical to the first, except barrier 1 is a small pile of rubble, and an exhausted stickman is at barrier two, saying, ‘Um … really not a good idea.’ StickmanCommunications.co.uk. Copyright Stickman Communications Ltd. 2025.

I like this explanation of what ‘pushing through’ can mean for a disabled person.

www.stickmancommunications.co.uk/post/pushing...

#disabled #disabillity

Vaccines cause autism, says worm that ate RFK Jr’s brain The worm that infiltrated and feasted on RFK Jr’s brain has claimed that vaccines cause children to catch autism.  The Great and Powerful Worm, 15, which faked its own death over a decade ago, has sin...

A spokesperson for the Great and Powerful Worm said: “Our beloved holy parasite has finally taken his throne. Now his glorious work can commence on eradicating vaccines and removing fluoride from the water.”

It was disappointing, I’m afraid. Maybe I missed the best bits, I don’t know, but what I saw felt like paying lip-service to the idea of neurodiversity. Felt othered and pathologised.

YouTube video by Dr. Caelan Conrad Is ChatGPT a Killer?

Caelan Conrad tells an important story in this video.

Be prepared, though: it’s pretty grim.

CW: suicide, child death, grooming, killing, AI, ChatGPT

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXRm...

#ChatGPT #AI #LLMs #suicide #grooming

Stephie, arms crossed, saying The government won't tell you that they are fascists, but they will tell you that anti-fascists are their enemies.

The government won't tell you that they are fascists, but they will tell you that anti-fascists are their enemies.

It would be nice if you corrected the obvious error, Zack. You’re not the leader of the ‘UK Greens’, there being no such party.

The image of the two sex offenders projected on one of the curved walls of the castle. From Reuters.

Images of “Donald Trump and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein” were projected on the walls of Windsor Castle earlier, according to the BBC’s royal correspondent.

Why not “sex offenders Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein”?

The Online Autism Discourse was Different 9 Years Ago

Part of why I struggled to accept the undeniable truth in front of me (that I am and always have been Autistic) was how non-autistic people...

Feel a bit bad after getting a complimentary ticket to the #StanfordNeurodiversitySummit, but really struggled yesterday with the general attitudes in a supposedly neurodiversity-informed conference.

So have decided not to return today or tomorrow. Going to conserve my energy.

#SNS25

Have decided that, for my own mental health, I’m going to skip the mental health panel that’s happening at 22:00 (my time).

Will return tomorrow. ☺️

#SNS25

I won’t then.

Writhe in piss, CK.

Diagram titled 'Possible causes of your problems'. On the left hand side, subtitled 'Yes': Funding removed from local councils, growing gap between rich and poor, multinational companies not paying their taxes, lack of new affordable housing, government not investing sufficiently in schools and healthcare. On the right hand side, subtitled 'No': Picture of small boat, with arrow; 'People fleeing horrific situations that you and I can't imagine'.

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

Collection of paints, brushes and pots on an old table. In the corner a large very fluffy cat sprawls in decadence

this cat looks like one of the Old Master painters who's just slept with three servants, argued viciously with his annoying patron about the inferior ham he receives, and then painted his masterpiece out of spite

I dropped out of the late-diagnosis/-realisation meeting because I wasn’t learning anything new.

Tried switching over to the arts panel that’s running at the same time, but there’s a problem with the online connection.

So until 22:00 (14:00 PT) …

#SNS25

People sharing late-diagnosis experiences: all Autistic/ADHD/AuDHD so far.

Though I’m AuDHD myself, I really hoped this conference would have a broader outlook.

Neurodivergent ≠ Autism/ADHD!

#SNS25

Me: ‘Are we just talking about late diagnosis, or also late-realisation? Is there a recognition that self-realisation is valid and often the only option for many forms of neurodivergence. (I am late-diagnosed AuDHD, and late-realised aphantasic.)’

Host: ‘Definitely both, I think they are related.’

Now in #SNS25, I’m in a special interest group (not in the Autistic sense afaik): Neurodivergence and Late Diagnosis.

Hopefully also covering late-realisation. And hopefully not limited to autism. Everything so far has been about autism or ADHD.

Positive Development seems to be the buzzword at the end of Josh Feder’s talk.

It’s an ‘intervention for ASD’ – an alternative to 😧ABA😧.

#SNS25

Sorry – the guy seems very enthusiastic, and has nice slides, but I can’t follow it at this pace.

Pausing for ten minutes.

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A 12-panel cartoon that I don’t have time to describe here. I think there are three interactions depicted. ‘Wait – join – build’ features in the second.

Now we’re in Northern Ireland, talking about resilience among children who experience armed conflict.

Thinking about why children are dysregulated, rather than just seeing things as bad behaviour. 👍🏻

CASRC (child and adolescent services research center), NFAR and Transition Age Youth Success logos, and a four-piece coloured jigsaw puzzle (tech training, soft skills dev, job search, work exp). The CASRC logo also includes a four-piece jigsaw puzzle.

Two too many jigsaw puzzles on this slide. 😳

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