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Grave Dirt Boy @gordbrush.bsky.social · 12h

so sad, those were supposed to explode someone else 😔

Live updates: Some dead after massive blast at Tennessee military explosives facility

Some people have died and more are unaccounted for after the explosion, officials say.

www.bbc.co.uk

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none of your twee spooky names impress me @24shaz.bsky.social · 17m

what do the letters BJ signify

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none of your twee spooky names impress me @24shaz.bsky.social · 1h

I‘d say don’t write an article about autism if you can’t recognise one of the most notorious disability abuses of all time! the one where a kid got murdered ffs!!

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none of your twee spooky names impress me @24shaz.bsky.social · 1h

came across one of those absolutely nothing-y autism articles in a German newspaper and it is illustrated with an image of facilitated communication AAAAAAAARGHHH

an article in German which is illustrated by a woman holding a boy’s arm over a letterboard, there are also some shitty ads along the side

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none of your twee spooky names impress me @24shaz.bsky.social · 1h

i don’t think non-verbal / verbal are useful distinctions in autism even casually as some LD autistics can be highly verbal with severe semantic difficulty etc, when someone says “nonverbal” i just think they’re lacking experience around autistic people

none of your twee spooky names impress me @24shaz.bsky.social · 2h

it’s gross to see these practices, put it in a format they can understand or gtfo

my son would be classed nonverbal by this standard, he is bilingual and can sign to accommodate his friends who can’t hear, which is more than these fucking researchers can do!

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none of your twee spooky names impress me @24shaz.bsky.social · 2h

nonspeaking / nonverbal are meaningless and researchers sometimes classify a whole room of people who can speak as “nonverbal” by asking them questions they don't understand (a standard by which everyone is nonverbal, i also could not answer a question i didn’t understand)

There is no consensus in the literature about how to define "nonspeaking," "nonverbal," or
"minimally verbal"42, particularly for individuals over 17 years of age. The spoken language abilities of participants ranged from a few word approximations to a limited number of utterances or
scripted phrases. Some participants could give verbal responses to highly practiced questions (e.g., "What's your name?"), but none could respond verbally to open-ended questions of the type they were asked in this study (e.g., "Have you ever experienced uncertainty?"). On the parent-report SCQ45, all but one participant was reported to be able to speak using short phrases or sentences (item 1), but none was reported to be able to have a "to and fro" spoken conversation involving turn-taking or building on what a conversational partner had said earlier (item 2).

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none of your twee spooky names impress me @24shaz.bsky.social · 19h

aye, indeed!

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none of your twee spooky names impress me @24shaz.bsky.social · 20h

that’s what they want

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none of your twee spooky names impress me @24shaz.bsky.social · 20h

the pigeons in my garden are so large??? gangsters

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none of your twee spooky names impress me @24shaz.bsky.social · 20h

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none of your twee spooky names impress me @24shaz.bsky.social · 20h

my garden 10 minutes ago. my elderly black cat splayed out flat licking her own tit while a pigeon stares at her like she’s daft.

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Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · 9d

#OnThisDay in 1861, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend "But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything." n.pr/3kVZvon

Black-and-white portrait photograph of an older man , darwin, with a long, full white beard and receding hairline, wearing a dark coat. He looks to the right in a serious, contemplative pose.

A small piece of handwritten text in cursive ink on paper, difficult to read but appearing to say: “But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything.”

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none of your twee spooky names impress me @24shaz.bsky.social · 20h

Aye, absolutely!

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none of your twee spooky names impress me @24shaz.bsky.social · 21h

I’m honestly not sure what I mean, but that was one of the things that crossed my mind. also the that you can tell it to fuck off could cross over into interactions with the real person, iyswim? and how could a child discern interactions it had had between real and fake?

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none of your twee spooky names impress me @24shaz.bsky.social · 21h

🖕

none of your twee spooky names impress me @24shaz.bsky.social · 21h

maybe it would be a handy stand in you can go 🖕 to without consequence, I dunno really

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none of your twee spooky names impress me @24shaz.bsky.social · 21h

Big Gas

none of your twee spooky names impress me @24shaz.bsky.social · 21h

interested in what effect having a fake teacher would have on pupil relationship to the real person teacher it’s based on?

Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 1d

Exclusive: Teachers will use 'deepfake' technology to create an AI avatar of themselves to deliver catch-up lessons for pupils who have missed school

Watch one of the school’s ‘deepfake’ teachers in our story below

schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-trus...

'Deepfake' teacher avatars to help pupils catch up

Academy trust staff to use AI generator to introduce resources for pupils returning to school

schoolsweek.co.uk

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none of your twee spooky names impress me @24shaz.bsky.social · 21h

they were shouting at me this morning. get fucked, im not paying, energy isn’t real

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 1d

Inverness pals! Our Real Utopias festival is starting tomorrow and there's so much going on.

The festival will feature films from Mexico to the UK, Kenya and Japan, exploring ideas from community responses to climate change to the power of libraries, tenants’ rights and trans identity and thriving.

A poster with bronze and purple graphics, saying Take One Action Film Festivals 2025, Real Utopias, Edinburgh 17-21 September, Glasgow 25-28 September, Inverness 10-12 October, Dundee 7-8 November

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none of your twee spooky names impress me @24shaz.bsky.social · 21h

loooooool

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none of your twee spooky names impress me @24shaz.bsky.social · 21h

oh no, have they put you in the water like a sickly dog :(

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none of your twee spooky names impress me @24shaz.bsky.social · 21h

how long are you in physio for? is it months and months for a shoulder?

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none of your twee spooky names impress me @24shaz.bsky.social · 21h

I’ve also had a young adhd adult whose mum died live with me for a bit & he was briefly in state care as a child when she was ill. adhd can have support needs too.

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