Stuart Dexter

What does an autistic person look like? 🧵

This is your regular reminder: patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system of oppressions that privileges male dominance and some women benefit from it.

Feminism is not women or anything a woman does just because she's a woman. Feminism is the destruction of patriarchy.

Feminism is liberation.

Submitted a s75 charge back claim start of December. It took Jaja 6 months to reject my claim as the car was for my daughter not me.

So credit card purchases are only protected if the item is for use by the card holder, not for gifts?

@moneysavingexp.bsky.social

Here's a thing to watch out for:

Bought a rubbish car from an unscrupulous dealer with my Jaja credit card. Dealer said it was fine, mechanic said it wasn't safe to drive.

RESCHEDULING:
The @pitponyband.bsky.social show at the Cluny is moving to Saturday 24th May, with a message here from the band.

All November tickets remain valid for the new date, and any refunds can be actioned from point of purchase.

This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.

Asked at this press conference about the rising number of children diagnosed with Send, and what could be done to help them, Farage replied: It’s a massive problem. I have to say, for my own money, when you get to 18 and you put somebody on a disability register, unemployed, with a high level of benefits, you’re telling people aged 18 that they’re that they’re victims. And if you are told you’re a victim, and you think you’re a victim, you are likely to stay [a victim]. So many of these diagnoses, for Send before 18, for disability register after 18 – so many of these have been conducted on Zoom, with the family GP.

Being disabled does not make someone “a victim”, Nigel Farage. Having state support to go to school does not make someone “a victim” either.

These kind of remarks are in many ways why I wrote Who Wants Normal? Disabled young people deserve more than this vile narrative.

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Farage talking arrant and nasty shit here. You can't get an autism/SEND diagnosis from a GP. People are having to wait years for one. This is just Trump/Kennedy stuff, with a flavour of Badenoch & the right wing UK media

I have created a Starter Pack for British Trans Activism

Let's start organising and making the UK a better place. We've been on the defense for too long

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LBC producer: who shall we get to comment on the Pope's death?

I know! Anne Widdecombe!

Class.

YouTube video by Silver Mt Zion - Topic Movie (Never Made)

This track has soundtracked some of the darkest moments in my life and some of the most hopeful. 25 years later it still moves me in many, many ways.

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"You know that you're changing lives and doing something good..." - North Tyneside Care Academy Charlotte's Apprenticeship: From leaving college unsure of what to do next, to becoming a full-time member of staff at Key Enterprises, Charlotte’s story shows how the right opportunity can open doors...

So: 5 minutes ago I was watching my 4th child come into the world. And now this has happened. Not quite sure how.

www.northtynesidecareacademy.org.uk/you-know-tha...

so I do absolutely, entirely agree with this but it also does feel like the logical endpoint of treating university as "a thing you have to do for three years otherwise you won't get a job" - if you're not making a case for why a uni education is useful, don't expect people to actually respect it

What a stunning clip!

The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Bearly Politics (@i_ratus ). The tweet reads: “‘Yes, you’re wearing a suit, BUT DID YOU EVEN SAY THANK YOU?!’” Below the tweet, there is an image of three individuals in a formal setting, with two of them seated on ornate yellow chairs and gesturing with their hands. A penguin is standing on one of the chairs, dressed in a small suit. The background includes a fireplace, a flag, and other decorative elements, suggesting a formal or official room.

We have a winner!

YouTube video by CafyokeKareoke Iggy Pop! Live in San Fran

Clem's drumming in this Iggy performance is phenomenal. During the intro it's as if man and drums are one - he looks like he's having the time of his life.

youtu.be/yHqqrbgJbuw?...

YouTube video by KEXP Gloria - Beam Me Up (Live on KEXP)

The sun is shining. Time for 'Beam Me Up'.

youtu.be/xEF-0Teil44?...

How come I've only just discovered Sara Parkman? It's wonderful!!!

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My designs get lots of publicity in magazines and online and it looks like I’m doing really well.
The reality is that it’s bloody hard work being self employed and it’s not getting any easier.

Have a look at what I do and repost. Thanks.
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A certain 'end of football trophy drought' celebration has scuppered our plans to revisit our wedding venue, so we're celebrating a year of married bliss by going to the scene of our first date for a meal - which was several months after we met and was aided by 'eat out to help out'.

That's 2 tickets for the Fugazi film booked. Looking forward to this one 😁

Wow. Have we regressed 400 years and started persecuting Quakers again?

Watched Adolescence. It is good and brilliantly acted. I don't think that the 1 shot thing helped the overall story, though. It's obviously very clever and meticulously planned and added extra tension to the first 2 episodes but meant that the resolution was awkward and convoluted.

Still good tho

100%

Statement by Starmer on showing adolescence

You know what I’d call for if I was prime minister - more funding of youth clubs , extracurricular activities, and mental health support - but showing a film looks like concern while costing very little

📣 Clive Lewis: “This is about the maintenance of a model that was never built to serve the public. But here’s the irony. The greed of the water industry has cracked open the door—and through it—we glimpse an opportunity. An opportunity to shatter the myth of water privatisation’s inevitability.” 👏

This old tweet made the front page of reddit, or so I hear.

Well, the new @prolapseband.bsky.social is a bit good.

So, somehow, this was a whole year ago! We had an absolutely perfect day and we are absolutely perfect together.