Georgia Harper

The new Barbie comes with a range of accessories to reflect her status as an autistic woman, such as: - noise-cancelling headphones - a fidget spinner - intense social media scrutiny about how she's Being Autistic Wrong

turns out The Wow! Signal is even better when your brain isn't attacking itself

As ever, three quarters of "look at this asshole" is always "look at this". Don't do PR for the fash. Don't give free advertising to the worst bastards. There is no dunk witty enough to warrant amplifying their hate.

read all your "jokes" about the clocks changing, that's an hour of my life I will get back

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

PSA for the like five other people on here who aren't software developers: turns out the thing everyone's going on about involving the number 4 and the thing everyone's going on about involving PHP are two separate unrelated things

The Guardian's homepage right now... 1. "UK approves Jackdaw gasfield in North Sea" 2. World must cut emissions by 18% in four years ‘to find our way back’, UN says

Our #DoctorWho Circuit Breaker podcast has reached the inevitable Phone Game. Brave volunteer @theorangeone.insanity.tube joins @ftw.bsky.social and I to discuss Lost In Time's Castling event, featuring a static Doctor talking to people offscreen: cruisingthroughdoomsday.podbean.com/e/breaking-t...

We've done it! We have released another podcast in the month of October. Prepare for almost 90 minutes of me, @mindtheflap.bsky.social, and @theorangeone.insanity.tube complaining about poor mobile game design and some Doctor Who related content. Listen below! www.podbean.com/eas/pb-r53bg...

Would you take a job you can’t get to? Too many young people say no to work every year. Not because they don’t want to work. Tell the Transport Committee what your journey to work looks like by 16 October 📲 forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

The Policy Manager's Curse: Finished reading the Fonagy Review yesterday so I finally feel like I'm allowed to wade into the discourse without accidentally being personally responsible for damaging misinformation, but of course the news cycle has moved on 😅

Reading the review that sparked headlines around ADHD being "overdiagnosed", coming downstairs because @ftw.bsky.social said he was going to make lunch and finding him *behind the oven*

We're all just blocking the tweet, we're all just blocking the tweet Five mods do the job of one, we're all just blocking the tweet

An autistic person who has no issue living in an abode with a malevolent spirit reportedly quails at the thought of entering the Big Tesco.

The year is 2066. Doctor Who writers are huddled over the last remaining dictionary in the country that hasn't been chopped up and fed to the scanners. The question on their minds: what words have yet to be placed in front of "Of The Daleks?" cruisingthroughdoomsday.podbean.com/e/breaking-t...

The It’s a Superpower?? soundtrack is now out exclusively on Patreon! You can subscribe at any level to hear it or buy it as a one off (don’t go through the iOS app, it’s more expensive for ya)

Just going to put these two things side by side. One is the headline of the BBC live blog about the independent review on mental health, ADHD and autism. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6... The other is an excerpt from the exec summary of that review. www.gov.uk/government/p...

When I go to the doctors and say “doctor my back hurts and has done for twenty six years”, and they say “no it doesn’t; there’s nothing wrong with your back”, my back doesn’t stop hurting.

Here's the autism, ADHD and mental health review. I'd recommend at least scanning through the exec summary (20ish pages) to understand what they actually found, which isn't quite what the headlines are saying (though elements are still worrying!) www.gov.uk/government/p...

I really do not have time to get into a newspaper headline despair hole today, *and yet*. It almost doesn't matter what the detailed content of the report actually says, if this is the messaging people will take away. Autistic people have always been here and we are not going anywhere.

me in the near future

With the final report of the autism, ADHD and mental health review expected soon, here's a reminder of what their interim report actually said. We, as a community, helped bury this by giving all our attention to a misleading Times headline on publication day instead. Let's not do that again.

In the latest episode of Breaking Through Circuits, our podcast about #DoctorWho Circuit Breaker, we throw Latesha (who also did the podcast art!) in at the deep end of Doctor Who lore with Titan Comics' Dawn Of The Daleks: cruisingthroughdoomsday.podbean.com/e/breaking-t...

Every few months women are expected to publicly pour out the details of their trauma on the internet and then nothing changes and when the next big story breaks everyone still acts like they're just now learning that male violence against women is an issue

It feels so bleakly absurd that every few months there's a shocking story about some large group of men enacting violent harm on women and girls, and in the gaps everyone just goes back to arguing about whether immigrants or trans people in general might somehow be a threat to women and girls.

Friends - we are soft launching our It’s a Superpower?? season 2 Crowdfunder on here before we release it into the wild next week so our most dedicated listeners have a chance to make us look a lil popular first. If you have the means, we can’t overstate how helpful your pledges are.

Take part in our study on live music experiences! Please complete this ~30min online survey: redcap-2.bath.ac.uk/surveys/?s=A... We would especially like more representation in our sample from: - Neurotypical people - People who are global majority #neurodiversity #music #inclusion

We haven't yet seen this adequately addressed: Where will all the teaching assistants come from? The research exposing the reality gap in the government SEND plans www.specialneedsjungle.com/where-teachi...

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I have had to reassure at least one friend that Sophie isn't *actually* somehow a parody of me specifically

<TAPS THE SIGN> <AGAIN> if the government wants fewer young people out of work on disability benefits with ADHD, autism, anxiety, depression, it will have to provide actual meaningful NHS care for them, not just in theory, but in practice. Not just guidelines, but commissioned services in every ICB.

Very much enjoyed the group listen of the final episode of @thedailytism.com 's brilliant "It's a Superpower?" If you haven't already listened to it, why the hell not? It's bloody good. It's on podcast things and the like, as well as their Patreon.

Friends fear she may yet have some unexpressed thoughts

A friend who’s had to block out a few hours on their calendar to fully digest a meandering, 3000-word response to their question was really only hoping for a yes or no answer, sources have reported.

An autistic person is reportedly “going to be okay forever” after someone recognised the graphic on their T-shirt.

the odyssey, except odysseus is a woman trying to get to the toilet in a wetherspoons