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Allison Moon 🌙 🍁 @shewandersferal.bsky.social · 19h

#FascistsCan’tDance

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 2d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

thinkingautismguide.com

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 1d

Virtual eugenics enabling machine

J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 1d

Genuine question - what are OpenAI’s Sora and other video generation tools good for?

I am honestly trying to understand what is so important that it’s worth the cost. If you have examples, I would be interested to hear them.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized

People are using OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate videos of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in ghoulish ways.

futurism.com

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Craig 'VI' Slee: VALIS, right? @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 1d

Ah yes. In no way is this repeated usage of the image of arguably one one of the most famous disabled people in history symptomatic of a eugencist society running on meta-eugenic structures. Nor is is it indicative of the way gen AI enhances the fash aesthetics. In. No. Way. AT ALL. (!) /sarcasm

J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 1d

Genuine question - what are OpenAI’s Sora and other video generation tools good for?

I am honestly trying to understand what is so important that it’s worth the cost. If you have examples, I would be interested to hear them.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized

People are using OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate videos of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in ghoulish ways.

futurism.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

15 UK banks ordered to snoop on state pensioners and other benefit claimants under DWP crackdown.

No court order needed. No right of appeal.

Banks will pass cost to other customers.

Those accused of fraud won't get legal advice. The making of another Post Office type scandal.

15 banks ordered to snoop on state pensioners under DWP crackdown

The Telegraph newspaper reports banks will be required to monitor pensioners’ bank accounts and share payments data

www.birminghammail.co.uk

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social · 2d

Just a reminder that Jenrick is known to have frequently associated with white nationalists and neo-Nazis, including at a rally organised by a supporter of the neo-fascist Homeland Party. Once you know this, you'll see these pathetic outbursts him being an open white nationalist.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

Under any other leader Jenrick would have been sacked for saying this.

Under Badenoch he'll probably get a promotion www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses

Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

www.theguardian.com

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david-s.bsky.social @david-s.bsky.social · 2d

The NHS and Social Care will cease to function under Labour's racist policies.

Whether Labour, Reform or Tory, the competitive hostility of the political class is accelerating poverty, ill health and preventable deaths.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses

Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

www.theguardian.com

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Learning Disability England @learningdiseng.bsky.social · 2d

Easy Read: Autism and Paracetamol

Did you see this resource from United Response? It explains in plain language how some people claimed that taking paracetamol during pregnancy might cause autism — and what the evidence actually shows.

Read more here: tinyurl.com/bdhdmwpj

Easy News: Autism and Paracetamol - United Response

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 2d

i don’t really understand why this made me start bawling i just really love seeing people try to help each other in creative ways and that this shit is necessary

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

“Advocates are particularly concerned over the facilities’ use of Pfas gas, or f-gas, which can be potent greenhouse gases, and may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought. Other f-gases turn into a type of dangerous compound that is rapidly accumulating across the globe.”

Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom

Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 3d

I dunno man, try listening to marginalized people *before* shit goes wrong, and maybe it won't keep being like that

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 4d

“I am begging the autism research and clinical community: Please put more efforts into autism-specific medical accommodations and training so that people like my [high-support adult autistic] son can get the medical care they need.”

www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/cli... #autism #neurodiversity

Clinicians must put more effort into autism-specific medical care

Without it, autistic adults with high support needs like my son are missing out on treatments that could reduce their suffering and improve their quality of life.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Sara Davis @literarysara.bsky.social · Mar 24

Follow for updates related to disability rights in the US ⬇️

Disability Rights Watch (US) @disrightswatch.bsky.social · Mar 24

Weekly update thread:
www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/02/09/w...

Week 1: What Happened? - Disability Rights Watch

Things are happening quickly. We'll include a weekly round up of disability-related concerns, events, and polices on this site. Removal of the "Accessibility" page, and all ASL content from the White ...

www.disability-rights-watch.com

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Sep 2

I would genuinely like us to build a better, more compassionate, consent-oriented, marginalized-peoples-centered, & just technosocial paradigm of "AI," & for "AI"'s current paradigm to fuck right off into the sun, reduced to its component subaatomic particles, & lost even to the mind of god. Thanks!

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 4d

We can already be pretty certain that among those other groups who will be denied basic protections will be trans and non-binary, disabled and poorest. Their announcement of how groups they plan to exclude from asylum, which requires leaving the Refugee Convention btw, alone sets the groundwork.

The party also plans to restrict the grounds for claiming asylum to those facing a threat from the government in their home country, excluding claims from those fleeing conflict or "less tolerant" laws on religion or sexuality.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 4d

This is truly chilling, and goes waaaay beyond immigration. When you have political parties saying that you don't need lawyers, courts, judges etc because the government cannot make mistakes absolutely everyone should be worrying. What starts with one group tends to expand to others.

Key to their proposals is a plan to abolish the Immigration Tribunal, which hears challenges to failed asylum claims, handing the appeals process instead to a team of officials within the Home Office.

The Tories also plan to abolish taxpayer-funded legal aid in immigration cases, with a document on the proposals arguing there "will be no need for lawyers" because claims would be "fairly assessed against the criteria".

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Netpol @netpol.org · 3d

If the state wants to avoid cumulative protests, maybe the answer is to stop its cumulative support for injustice, its cumulative inaction on the climate crisis and its cumulative complicity in genocide.

It won't: and so, no matter how many new laws ministers create, protests are inevitable

Netpol @netpol.org · 3d

The Home Office sham "consultation" on cumulative protests closed on 29 September, so this immediate announcement shows Labour had already decided – yet again – to expand public order powers, well before the Manchester attack that is now used to justify it
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

www.theguardian.com

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david-s.bsky.social @david-s.bsky.social · 4d

All the evidence from Labour conference points in one direction: More cuts to disability benefits

www.disabilitynewsservice.com/all-the-evid...

Via @johnpring.bsky.social

All the evidence from Labour conference points in one direction: More cuts to disability benefits

Information from Labour ministers and other party sources has shown beyond any doubt that the government is preparing for further attempts to cut spending on disability benefits over the next 12 mo…

www.disabilitynewsservice.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 5d

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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Brooke @usuallyflannel.bsky.social · 5d

I would never consent to appointments being recorded and interpreted by AI. Don't assume they'll tell you. Ask your medical providers and opt out. Or if they try to sell you on a shiny new "tool" so they can focus more on you, say no. Doesn't matter how hard they focus if the notes are wrong.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d

Uhhh…

9 Doctor-Approved Ways to Use ChatGPT for Health Advice

If you know how to use LLMs like ChatGPT the right way, they can help you better understand your health.

time.com

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Eva Naprika @evanaprika.bsky.social · 7d

Institutional Abuse, Neglect and Harm in UK Community Mental Health Services: A Scoping Review of the Peer‐Reviewed Evidence - Edwards - 2025 - Health Expectations - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Institutional Abuse, Neglect and Harm in UK Community Mental Health Services: A Scoping Review of the Peer‐Reviewed Evidence

Background Statutory guidance relating to the prevention of institutional abuse, neglect and harm does not reflect the contemporary organisation of UK community mental health services. Historical as...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Nell @nellh.bsky.social · 7d

Such an important article from @researchpixie.bsky.social et al

More time and research needed into this neglected area

Eva Naprika @evanaprika.bsky.social · 7d

Institutional Abuse, Neglect and Harm in UK Community Mental Health Services: A Scoping Review of the Peer‐Reviewed Evidence - Edwards - 2025 - Health Expectations - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Institutional Abuse, Neglect and Harm in UK Community Mental Health Services: A Scoping Review of the Peer‐Reviewed Evidence

Background Statutory guidance relating to the prevention of institutional abuse, neglect and harm does not reflect the contemporary organisation of UK community mental health services. Historical as...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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