Marie

"Trauma doesn’t stay neatly contained in the past; it shows up on paperwork, at parents’ evening, in moments that should be ordinary."

It's time we stop the courts failing women
https://goodlaw.social/jb6i

Couldn’t agree more.

The Israeli Army Unit That Recruits Teens With Autism Many autistic soldiers who would otherwise be exempt from military service have found a place in Unit 9900, a selective intelligence squad where their heightened perceptual skills are an asset.

Everything about this makes me feel deeply uncomfortable. Lines are blurred between exploitation and inclusivity.

Maybe it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that this could happen in the UK.

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

No, autistic people are not ‘mind blind’ – here’s why The idea that autistic people lack a ‘theory of mind’ has shaped ASD research for 40 years. The evidence never supported it – and it’s time to move on.

What if we stopped trying to 'fix' autistic people and helped them instead?

By shifting priorities, especially since the very research used to justify 'fixing' them is often irreproducible, we could actually make life more bearable.

YouTube video by BBC Politics Jess Phillips: “I have never turned a blind eye" on grooming gangs

How many more times have we 'turned a blind eye' while others were placed in harm’s way for the sake of science or social research? From abuse, psychiatric neglect to the torturous treatment of Autistic & disabled individuals, we have become a nation defined by “turning a blind eye”.

In other news, this is 30 years old, now I feel incredibly old.

Fifteen St Andrew's Healthcare staff arrested amid abuse claims Patients and their relatives say there is a culture of abuse at a mental health hospital.

It’s the same attitudes toward vulnerable individuals.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists may claim they are 'improving lives,' but the reality suggests otherwise.

Every SEND family’s nightmare.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand 'Test and Trace' Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel Exclusive: Boris Johnson's senior advisor pushed for Covid contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison

Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand 'Test and Trace' Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/10/31/d...

On Terms: Is There a Problem With “Problem Behavior”? A Bibliometric Prevalence Analysis - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Purpose Language shapes scientific interpretation, clinical decision-making, and public understanding of autism. Although much attention has focused on identity-first versus person-first terminology, ...

Behavior analysts are alarmed & appalled (at great length) by what they claim is "a notable shift away from the term problem behavior" to characterize autistics link.springer.com/article/10.1... rock-bottom ABA standards, with zero evidence re accuracy & consequences of terms used in autism research

Registered: "the experiences, barriers and enablers of autistic peoples' safety across life stages and contexts"--an umbrella review www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... autistics "face serious threats to their safety such as victimisation, discrimination, violence, abuse, neglect, bullying..."

YouTube video by Jonathan Pie A Royal Reckoning

Sound on. This is excellent.
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YouTube video by should be asleep Hiroshi Yoshimura (吉村弘) - Wet Land (1993) [Full Album]

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Surely all this is not without meaning.

Worth noting.

Institutional Misogyny -

Refers to the way specific organisations (police, legal system, healthcare, or schools) operate. It occurs when the "rules of the game" within an institution, even seemingly neutral, result in the mistreatment or exclusion of women.

Checking social media and seeing the most implausible crap ever, only to realise it might actually be true.

This is one helluva crazy episode of Black Mirror / Outer Limits / Twilight Zone (*delete where appropriate).

I really hope parallel universe me is doing okay.

Statistics on child sexual abuse | NSPCC Learning How many children experience sexual abuse in the UK? We looks at the available data to understand the scale of abuse and to support services, organisations and agencies in making evidence-based decisi...

This should not be normal.

A reminder from the NSPCC: research with over 2,000 young people suggests that 1 in 20 children in the UK have experienced sexual abuse.

Even more abhorrent are those in positions of power who betray that trust.

learning.nspcc.org.uk/research-res...

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit

Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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*NB. This occurred under the previous Govt. But the obstruction about who worked with my son, false names & missing documents still persist.

Wait til you hear abt autistic children being involved in Applied Behaviour Analysis studies. Their parents deceived abt “tutors” who worked with them, the research & their children harmed as a consequence.

Parents scapegoated & state sponsored abuse. Not so fanciful now is it?

Is this code for something? Cos I’ve searched a few emails & there’s no typos. Everything about this is weird.

YouTube video by PowerfulJRE Andrew Huberman Explains Why Scientists Hung Around Jeffrey Epstein

Don’t know if I’m reading too much into the conversation here and I’m not a usual Joe Rogan listener, but this interview with Andrew Huberman is a fascinating exchange.

From 2 yrs ago and undeniably articulate, but also strategically placed language?

youtu.be/FRZ9EK1e2R0?...

‘Labour Together broke the law’ The think tank that propelled Starmer to power hired private investigators to shut down scrutiny of its dark money - I speak to one of its targets, journalist Paul Holden

Labour Together's fantastical narrative about a hack led media outlets to spike stories about how McSweeney failed to declare £730k in funding

That money paid for Starmer's leadership win. This is hugely significant

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labour-tog...

Starmer faces questions over visit to Palantir office alongside Mandelson Former ambassador was also shareholder in lobbying group that counted US tech firm as a client

New on FT website:

Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract.

www.ft.com/content/5bba...

Neigh. Me neither :/

Haven’t you heard? Those of us not in the files are all losers, one of the few times I’m ecstatic at being a loser. :)

Entitlement, privilege and depravity, that’s what’s wrong with them Jon.

“Working” is doing some heavy lifting. Client journalism at its most deranged.

Epstein files reveal deeper ties to scientists than previously known Latest batch of documents show researchers consulting the financier and sex offender on publications, visas and more.

Newly released files from the investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein reveal that his ties to the scientific community were deeper than previously known.

go.nature.com/3Oq4Po2

The Epstein files read like decades of institutional failures and human rights violations.
Spiritual and psychological war.