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Rebecca Crinnion @crinners.bsky.social · May 24

This man .... follow him. I have never heard anyone explain Autism and the world that Autistic people have to navigate better.
#SendreformUK #Autism #AutismAwareness #SEND

Dean Beadle @dean-beadle.bsky.social · Jan 8

A clip from my speech at the opening ceremony of the Windmill School

Rebecca Crinnion @crinners.bsky.social · May 24

Oh my word. This equation & what you say !! This has literally blown away all the very complicated ways that I've tried to argue with schools for years to understand that schools environments, actions and attitudes create the anxiety and barriers, not the other way round.

Rebecca Crinnion @crinners.bsky.social · May 16

Books should be read by real humans that empathise with the story and characters. AI is going to destroy the human art of storytelling which humankind has needed since existence... this is so worrying 😟

Rebecca Crinnion @crinners.bsky.social · May 16

@equityuk.bsky.social
#Audible #AI #VoiceActor #humanNarrators
Please share. this is a devastating and short-sighted move. I'm a voice actor so it directly affects me, however as a customer this is NOT what I want....

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Rebecca Crinnion @crinners.bsky.social · May 5

@pattidigh.bsky.social This is so heartbreaking. As the mum of an Autistic, gay child, it resounds deeply. I send you my love and support from the UK.

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Rebecca Crinnion @crinners.bsky.social · May 5

This is one of the most heartbreaking and important posts I have read in a long time. Beautifully written. Love and support to anyone living in fear because they just want to be... ❤️

Patti Digh @pattidigh.bsky.social · May 4

Traveling while trans in the year 2025. pattidigh.substack.com/p/what-count...

What country am I in, again?

Why I no longer want my son to fly

pattidigh.substack.com

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Rebecca Crinnion @crinners.bsky.social · Apr 25

Wow. How much lower can they stoop!!

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Rebecca Crinnion @crinners.bsky.social · Apr 25

Ohhhhh boy is she in for a BIG surprise!!!!

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Rebecca Crinnion @crinners.bsky.social · Apr 25

Thank you. So succinctly said. I am terrified for my Autistic children following this announcement by RFK jr and I am in the UK!! I can't even begin to comprehend what people in the US are going through. 😪

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Rebecca Crinnion @crinners.bsky.social · Apr 20

Now more than ever... you are not alone ❤️🌈

#proudmumofLGBTQ+ #transSupport #LGBTQ #Ally

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Rebecca Crinnion @crinners.bsky.social · Apr 15

Let's hear it for @cnn.com 's @kaitlancollins.bsky.social. Yet again she got Trumps knickers in a twist for having the guts to ask the questions people are starting to avoid.Goooan girl.This is what female empowerment is about, not floating in almost space for 11 minutes in a phallus shaped tin can.

Trump and cabinet tear into CNN journalist Kaitlan Collins in Oval Office showdown

Donald Trump and his cabinet hit out at a CNN journalist during a tense Oval Office showdown after she asked about a man mistakenly deported to El Salvador. Kaitlan Collins, CNN’s chief White House co...

www.independent.co.uk

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Rebecca Crinnion @crinners.bsky.social · Apr 8

This morning I am having a cup of tea in bed, like an old dowager and I am not apologising for it !!! #easterHolidays #tea #cupoftea #teaInBed

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Rebecca Crinnion @crinners.bsky.social · Mar 26

www.threads.net/@mrs.frazzle...

frazz (@mrs.frazzled) on Threads

I don’t usually post these here, but it’s a special occasion

www.threads.net

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Rebecca Crinnion @crinners.bsky.social · Mar 3

#JohnLithgow you absolute genius !! #trumptyDumpty

youtu.be/5D0KDM8eM6c?...

Ep. 1: "Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown" Starring John Lithgow

YouTube video by A Confederacy of Dumptys

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Rebecca Crinnion @crinners.bsky.social · Feb 19

🤣🤣🤣

Rebecca Crinnion @crinners.bsky.social · Jan 28

Fair do's...

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Rebecca Crinnion @crinners.bsky.social · Jan 20

Erm #DonaldTrump. I think you'll find America was not the 1st to split the Atom. That was done in Cambridge UK by Walton and Cockroft at the Cavendish Institute in 1932. America split tgere 1st Atom 6 years later...

Rebecca Crinnion @crinners.bsky.social · Jan 3

Yourself included

Happy New Year xxx

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Rebecca Crinnion @crinners.bsky.social · Jan 1

Goodbye 2024 ! Good riddance.
Love luck and happiness to everyone in 2025 !
#HappyNewYear #hello2025 #effoff2024

a woman in a white dress is standing next to a man in a black suit .

ALT: a woman in a white dress is standing next to a man in a black suit .

media.tenor.com

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Rebecca Crinnion @crinners.bsky.social · Dec 10

Tell you what isn't hard. Finding 100 "important " things that suddenly need to be done instead of getting started !!

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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · Nov 27

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St. John Barned-Smith @stjbs.bsky.social · Nov 27

"Across Texas, residency applications in ob-gyn dropped significantly. Data from the Gender Equity Policy Institute revealed a fifty-six-per-cent spike in maternal deaths in the state between 2019 and 2022."

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Texas Ob-Gyn Exodus

Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state.

www.newyorker.com

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Rebecca Crinnion @crinners.bsky.social · Nov 27

That is a horrifying statistic ! I really feel so helpless for my female friends across the Atlantic. I also feel terrified as the mother of daughters, as we see this ideology slowly seep into conversations here. Thank you for sharing.

Rebecca Crinnion @crinners.bsky.social · Nov 24

Bit late to the party, but Happy #doctorwhoday !! I am so honoured to be a teensy part of this incredible universe xxx
#actor #voiceactor #DoctorWho

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Rebecca Crinnion @crinners.bsky.social · Nov 20

I will have to check this out. Congrats 👏

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