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Love cats, art, books, stationery, collecting, tea, interested in political history. Am autistic +I have Turner Syndrome. Veggie. She/her.
π₯ REWIND | Feature | BBC One COW clock: repositioning and centre dot mystery.
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Infinite Witchells
People think itβs the Witching Hour, but thatβs wrong. Itβs the Witchell Hour
24.10.2025 23:05 β π 28 π 6 π¬ 0 π 1Thinking of you all in Jamaica.β€οΈ
25.10.2025 19:15 β π 89 π 26 π¬ 2 π 0~ Clocks tonight ~
(If they do this where you are)
Watch Big Ben's bongs in 4K: youtu.be/KnAjjR9HJXU
25.10.2025 10:23 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0This means that from 6pm on Saturday, the hands will not be showing the correct time until 2am on Sunday. π
25.10.2025 10:23 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 1 π 2Our clock mechanics will be testing the mechanism. They will lower the clockβs weights to stop it running and perform maintenance. π§
25.10.2025 10:23 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0At 2am tomorrow morning, all the UKβs clocks will go back. This includes the clock in the Elizabeth Tower. π°οΈ
25.10.2025 10:23 β π 18 π 5 π¬ 7 π 1Well done-hope it pays off and makes a difference.
24.10.2025 17:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
A white and brown bunny is nestled under a floral quilt, with its head resting against a pillow.
23.10.2025 21:22 β π 1054 π 207 π¬ 4 π 12
Here is Bronte's Go Fund Me page again www.gofundme.com/f/dsg9a4-sav...
23.10.2025 21:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Latest update on Bronte the cat, she is home β€οΈ www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...
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Picture of an adorable young female tabby cat. Browns, dark brown with a little white mouth. Sitting on a table (that she probably wasnβt meant to be on) in front of a vase of flowers. Her name is Nala otherwise known as The Station Cat and sheβs gone missing.
The St Michaelβs Station (South Liverpool) cat π has gone missing. She has a real home but would hang out at the station most days. She didnβt even like people that much but we all miss her. Trying every platform to help find her.
19.10.2025 08:04 β π 7 π 6 π¬ 2 π 1
Hi Carolyn, this has reminded me that there is a clip of a young Adrienne Clarkson interviewing Margaret Thatcher in the 1970s www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX2w...
18.10.2025 20:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Sorry to hear this but glad you weren't seriously hurt. Hope your hand heals soon.
18.10.2025 18:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A common snipe is perfectly camouflaged in the reeds and dry brush of its wetland habitat. Its mottled brown and white plumage helps it blend in while resting. Please visit http://www.lukehaigh.co.uk. #Birds #lukehaigh #birdphotography #photography
A common snipe is perfectly camouflaged in the reeds and dry brush of its wetland habitat. Its mottled brown and white plumage helps it blend in while resting. Please visit www.lukehaigh.co.uk. #Birds #lukehaigh #birdphotography #photography
18.10.2025 17:32 β π 66 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0Exactly! Being autistic is who I am. The lack of understanding and accommodations--that's not inherent to autism; that's inherent to ableism.
16.10.2025 01:43 β π 24 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0
Inclusion canβt come from erasure.
Removing neurodiversity and diagnosis from education doesnβt create belongingβit silences it.
True inclusion means recognising difference, not pretending it isnβt there.
autisticrealms.com/inclusion-ne...
Extra time in exams βunhealthy' for children with ADHD and autism Suzanne O'Sullivan, a neurologist, tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that 'accommodating' pupils could do more harm than good Peter Chappell Friday October 17 2025, 8.15pm, The Times Extra time in exams is "not healthy" for children with disorders, a neurologist has said. Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan warned that it was the wrong approach to βaccommodateβ children at schools by giving them 25 per cent additional time to complete their answers. She said it was βreally concerning" that an emphasis had been placed on βaccommodating" pupils with disorders, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism, rather than addressing the root cause of a condition, or questioning whether a pupil has it at all.
βYour child gets a diagnosis and they get extra time in exams, for example. I feel that isn't a very healthy way forward. I think that we should be looking at interventions rather than accommodations,β O'Sullivan, the author of Age of Diagnosis: How the Overdiagnosis Epidemic is Making Us Sick, told the Cheltenham Literature Festival. "What accommodation does, it says, well, we'll give you extra time in exams so you can manage better, but there's going to be a point in the future when extra time will not exist, and by giving it to young people in school I feel like you're creating first of all the impression that they need the extra time, that they perhaps cannot learn any other way.
"You're also setting up an idea that the world will accommodate them. Let's face it, the world is not going to continue to accommodate people. "We really need to look at what we're doing when we identify children with problems. We should be helping them to work within a messy, difficult world, not setting them up to believe that the world will change to accommodate them." Surge in ADHD diagnoses attributed to TikTok O'Sullivan said that the adult world was at risk of telling young people that the "difficulty as you face your A-levels is to do with a neurodevelopmental brain abnormality when there's no scientific evidence for a neurodevelopmental brain abnormality in people with mild autism or ADHD". She added: "Imagine how difficult that is if you are defining a person according to a brain abnormality in teenagers, how difficult that will be to overcome in the future."
More I read of this piece the more I feel how few "experts" on neurodivergent individuals ever speak to us. It's hard enough to get reasonable accommodations as it is. Rather than reducing those available we should be working to increase them, including for adults.
www.thetimes.com/article/acda...
If you see so-called experts in the media on about 'overdiagnosis', the dangers of 'labels' or why accommodations are bad for ADHD or autism, you've found a crank.
They're popular for reactionary attacks to cut costs and the bloodsport of punching down on others. Avoid.
Also don't buy that paper
Also funny theres a review on both of these....its good.
Culture warriors see not sick Britain, but a plague of βoverdiagnosisβ. How convenient | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett | The Guardian share.google/QTSzQXslqMxZ...
I'm very sorry to hear you were denied a vaccine. Don't understand the approach at all, seems very short sighted. Surely the more people vaccinated the better.
18.10.2025 15:54 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Sami Timimi: Why βinventedβ SEND labels are disabling pupils.....
"Diagnostic labels are medicalising young people for behaviours once considered ordinary and are contributing to unsustainable workload in schools"
Beyond harmful.
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
As for this a rebuttal published in ResearchGate describes Timimi's critique of ADHD as a "misrepresentation of the existing scientific literature" based on "faulty logic, selective citation," and "ignorance of the vast literature" on the disorder.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Important warning for #PublicHealth
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Sharing this appeal I came across on Facebook in case anyone would like to donate for Bronte the cat β€οΈ www.gofundme.com/f/dsg9a4-sav... Bronte was badly attacked by a dog π
13.10.2025 22:16 β π 1 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
βͺThe medieval Palace of Westminster burned today in 1834. Turner was on hand to paint it. β¬
βͺThe replacement building was supposed to cost Β£710,000 and take 6 yearsβ¬
βͺIt cost Β£2.4 million and took 24 years.β¬
βͺWith a decade of snagging. β¬
He looked lovely, very sweet β€οΈ
15.10.2025 21:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I canβt emphasize enough how useful being autistic is for academic research. In particular, the ability to make connections & spot patterns across large quantities of data. I feel like this is what my brain was made to do. #Autistic
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