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HeretikalDeb
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Queer, Disabled. Sometimes angry, always tired. Working towards something better.
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Is it Christmas yet?

#medievalsky #medievaladvent

@camdiglib.bsky.social Dd.5., f. 207r
December 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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I heard there was a secret meat
With paprika, and spicy heat
But you don't really care for sausage
Nduja

...sorry, I can delete this. I've just seen a few posts in this format and I wanted in.
December 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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"And Tiny Tim, who did not die" = heartwarming, Christmassy.

"And Tiny Tim, who would not die" = sinister, alarming.
December 18, 2023 at 10:16 AM
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Start your morning with some classic 70s psychological horror from the BBC!

"Traditionally it's the night when the office boy shakes hands with the boss, and his secretary gets to kiss him."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxAz...
1970: The Office Christmas Party | Man Alive | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
www.youtube.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:11 AM
It's always such a shock when this comes out. So, so many people we said goodbye to over the year.
December 17, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Here we go!

“Diagnosis has become the unofficial currency of support, not because the law demands it, but because the system has outsourced its moral & legal responsibility to a clinical gatekeeper.”

theautisticadvocate.com/there-is-no-...
December 15, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson.

Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!

[BIG ASS THREAD]
a man reading a book to a young boy
Alt: a man reading a book to a young boy
media.tenor.com
June 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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For anyone in Cambridge this Friday, Trans Liberation Cambridge are running a maker's market for local queer artists to sell their lovely things!

It's a night market in a public library, being run by a local grassroots community group for trans folks. Nothing not to love about this! ❤️
Makers' Market!
6.30-9.15pm, Friday 12th December
Milton Road Community Library, Ascham Road, CB4 2BD

We're gathering 18 fabulous queer & trans makers under one roof! Find unusual, beautiful and strange gifts for your friends, lovers, and selves. Trinkets and treasures for all budgets.
December 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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"Either stop giving me directions or you do the driving, Thomas. Oh right. You CAN'T. Because your arm is in Naples. So SHUT THE FUCK UP."
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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An independent taskforce *just* did a huge review of ADHD in England, and the conclusion was that it's "under-recognised, under-diagnosed and under-treated."
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
NHS England » Report of the independent ADHD Taskforce: Part 1
April 2025
www.england.nhs.uk
December 4, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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the thing all the discourse around Eurovision and Israel seems to miss is that: Russia got kicked out!! there is not only precedent, there is immediate and *still active* precedent. it’s the hypocrisy as much as anything
December 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Dawson's Fleet.
🚨 BREAKING - New Star Trek: #StarfleetAcademy Poster!

The first season of the new #StarTrek live-action series premieres January 15th on Paramount+

🖖 Will YOU be watching?
December 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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They’ll come.

damn but this is good
Hope is here.

Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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and again - literally just the hobby horse of some random anonymous Twitter accounts, enraging how quickly they managed to turn their horrid posting into actual government policy and rhetoric
“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says.

Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says.

Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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This is just to say
I have prompted your LLM
with poetry
and broken it

Forgive me
it was so funny
I couldn’t not
November 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Jennifer English realizing she's a lesbian and falling in love with one of her mocap directors (Aliona Baranova) over the course of making BG3 and seeing all the queer folks embracing Shadowheart and the impact the game had is genuinely one of the best stories in game production in a long time
Congrats to Jennifer English for winning the Best Lead Performer award at the 2025 #GoldenJoystickAwards!

And her acceptance speech about queer joy was a love letter to @aliona.bsky.social 🥹🌈
November 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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'Critical washing' is a very useful phrase I've just learned thanks to this paper. And while it relates to AI we can apply it in other areas. Key for me would be safety, wellbeing and mental distress in education settings where there's a huge amount of discussion and little comparative action.
November 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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The grotesque spectacle of a Labour government — a Labour government! — promoting the idea of stealing from refugees to appease the far right
November 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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In "Sex Isn't Real," @beansvelocci.bsky.social traces the history of attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life, demonstrating that it is not the cis people who fit the categories but the categories that flex to make them fit. Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/TinoJLg
November 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM