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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 2d

Pity Labour won’t attack them on it because
a) they think, despite all experience to the contrary, that they win voters by attacking migrants, not defending us
b) they themselves have basically the same attitude towards disabled people

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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 2d

It’s despicable & anti-Christian. It represents worship of the nation ahead of worshiping Christ in the poor, hungry, thirsty, unclothed, sick, imprisoned, stranger. How many of the people Jesus hung around with, & valued, would be deported under this plan?
Worse, it’s plausible Labour will copy it.

Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 2d

Or just consider the policy and how many of the people Jesus hung around with and valued would have been deported, or be orphaned by deportation, under this policy

Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 2d

And if you think that description is harsh, read the quote at the end it this thread

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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 2d

It says something that I had to go look it up to check if this worshipper of nation, not Christ, is from Reform, Labour, or the Tories

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

The Established Church needs to find a voice on this kind of dehumanising depiction of men, women and children who have come to our country, being spilled all over the place to say the only thing that has human value is a salary above £38k and thst any foreigner who ever earns less must get out

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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 3d

Ban Jesse Singal and unban Łink

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Goldsmiths UCU @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social · 3d

UCU NATIONAL BALLOT ⚠️
These are all the important dates you need to keep in mind:

🗳️ Ballot open: Mon 20 Oct – Fri 28 Nov 2025
📮 Post vote by: Wed 26 Nov
🔁 Replacement ballots: 27 Oct – 23 Nov
🕔 Register/update membership by 20 Nov, 5pm

For info on the dispute: goldsmithsucu.org/2025/10/22/u...

UCU NATIONAL BALLOT: WHY VOTE YES/YES - Goldsmiths University and College Union

On Monday, 20 October, UCU and other unions in higher education launched a national dispute against the employers’ association (UCEA). Let us be clear: we do not believe that the ...

goldsmithsucu.org

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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 5d

Mythbusters leaflet on migrants & crime from the North East's PCCs.
* Migrants don't increase crime.
* UK isn't swamped by asylum seekers.
* Migrants contribute to public finances & access fewer benefits than locals (not that this affects human value/rights).

northumbria-pcc.gov.uk/new-migrant-...

New ‘Migrant Myth Busters’ Leaflet Launched to Tackle Misinformation and Rising Hate Crime - Northumbria PCC

A powerful new online resource designed to challenge misinformation and promote understanding about migration has been launched today by the North East Migration Partnership, in collaboration with the...

northumbria-pcc.gov.uk

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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you!
The link to the (great) Mel Baggs article should be replaced with a wayback machine link or something.

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 6d

Autism is not just about being "quirky," and those who claim otherwise should not be taken seriously as autism advocates, org representatives, by the media—or by anyone who wants to truly support autistic people. From @epballou.bsky.social via TPGA archives:

thinkingautismguide.com/2018/05/auti...

Autistic Commonality and the Illusion of “Quirky” — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM

When I am talking about being autistic, I am not talking about being quirky. If you are, then we are not talking about the same thing.

thinkingautismguide.com

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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 6d

Yes but she’s also getting glowing reviews and exposure in the more liberal (not to say left) media

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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 7d

2) A critique of a prominent exponent of overdiagnosis discourse, in which I argue that they're the Radio 4-friendly version of RFK Jr.: rejoiceandcomplain.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/nothing-about-us-with-suzanne-osullivan/

Nothing about us with Suzanne O’Sullivan

Photograph of two people at a protest holding a banner with images of various disabled people and slogans including “Disabled people fightback”, “Nothing about us without us&#8221…

rejoiceandcomplain.wordpress.com

Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 7d

I've written a couple of blogs on #neurodivergence #neurodiversity -related matters recently.

1) a deep dive explanation/critique of the DSM-5's "levels" in #autistic #autism diagnosis: rejoiceandcomplain.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/l...

Let me level with you (an analysis and critique of the DSM-5’s autism levels)

A screenshot of level 3 of the 1988 computer game Dangerous Dave. You are not a “level 1/2/3 autistic.” You are not a “high/medium/low support needs” autistic. You do not “have high/low functioning…

rejoiceandcomplain.wordpress.com

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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 7d

I turned this post into a blog: rejoiceandcomplain.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/n...

Nothing about us with Suzanne O’Sullivan

Photograph of two people at a protest holding a banner with images of various disabled people and slogans including “Disabled people fightback”, “Nothing about us without us&#8221…

rejoiceandcomplain.wordpress.com

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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 7d

I turned this post into a longer post and that into a blog. rejoiceandcomplain.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/n...

Nothing about us with Suzanne O’Sullivan

Photograph of two people at a protest holding a banner with images of various disabled people and slogans including “Disabled people fightback”, “Nothing about us without us&#8221…

rejoiceandcomplain.wordpress.com

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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 7d

Actually a lot of threads on the long Covid side but here’s a blog instead: bsky.app/profile/long...

Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · Apr 15

📚Suzanne O'Sullivan in her new book 'The Age of Diagnosis' has claimed that Long Covid is psychosomatic

There has been ALOT of media attention on this

👉Our contribution on the tropes, techniques & tricks used...

www.longcovidadvoc.com/post/the-suz...

The Suzanne O'Sullivan Show:The Age of Celebrity: Sickeness, Health and Why Doctors Have Gone Too Far

They will tell you that it’s progressive, groundbreaking, science pioneering into unventured territory...

www.longcovidadvoc.com

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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 7d

Good threads on O’Sullivan:
bsky.app/profile/timc...

Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · Mar 27

I worried I'd been a bit hasty criticizing Suzanne O Sullivan for her takes on ADHD & autism in Age of Diagnosis. Sadly not. In her interviews she's an absolute wrong un, claiming non-impaired people co-opt the label autism because they have a 'romanticized view' of having a 'superpower'. Um. What?

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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 7d

Another day, another media doing the opposite of “nothing about us without us” (about us and with the person who we would least like to platform; the radio 4 friendly version of RFK + long Covid denier Suzanne O’Sullivan)

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 7d

More I read of this piece the more I feel how few "experts" on neurodivergent individuals ever speak to us. It's hard enough to get reasonable accommodations as it is. Rather than reducing those available we should be working to increase them, including for adults.

www.thetimes.com/article/acda...

Extra time in exams ‘unhealthy' for children with ADHD and autism

Suzanne O'Sullivan, a neurologist, tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that 'accommodating' pupils could do more harm than good

Peter Chappell

Friday October 17 2025, 8.15pm, The Times

Extra time in exams is "not healthy" for children with disorders, a neurologist has said.

Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan warned that it was the wrong approach to “accommodate” children at schools by giving them 25 per cent additional time to complete their answers.

She said it was “really concerning" that an emphasis had been placed on “accommodating" pupils with disorders, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism, rather than addressing the root cause of a condition, or questioning whether a pupil has it at all.

“Your child gets a diagnosis and they get extra time in exams, for example. I feel that isn't a very healthy way forward. I think that we should be looking at interventions rather than accommodations,” O'Sullivan, the author of Age of Diagnosis: How the Overdiagnosis Epidemic is Making Us Sick, told the Cheltenham Literature Festival.

"What accommodation does, it says, well, we'll give you extra time in exams so you can manage better, but there's going to be a point in the future when extra time will not exist, and by giving it to young people in school I feel like you're creating first of all the impression that they need the extra time, that they perhaps cannot learn any other way.

"You're also setting up an idea that the world will accommodate them. Let's face it, the world is not going to continue to accommodate people.

"We really need to look at what we're doing when we identify children with problems. We should be helping them to work within a messy, difficult world, not setting them up to believe that the world will change to accommodate them."

Surge in ADHD diagnoses attributed to TikTok

O'Sullivan said that the adult world was at risk of telling young people that the "difficulty as you face your A-levels is to do with a neurodevelopmental brain abnormality when there's no scientific evidence for a neurodevelopmental brain abnormality in people

with mild autism or ADHD".

She added: "Imagine how difficult that is if you are defining a person according to a brain abnormality in teenagers, how difficult that will be to overcome in the future."

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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 7d

O’Sullivan is a wrong’un. She’s the radio 4 friendly version of RFK. She’s a long Covid denier too.

bsky.app/profile/timc...

Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · Mar 27

I worried I'd been a bit hasty criticizing Suzanne O Sullivan for her takes on ADHD & autism in Age of Diagnosis. Sadly not. In her interviews she's an absolute wrong un, claiming non-impaired people co-opt the label autism because they have a 'romanticized view' of having a 'superpower'. Um. What?

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 7d

There is evidence supporting this globally already. When you repeat far right framing you end up normalising it. We're seeing same thing with Labour pandering to the far right, and how they're actually helping Reform gain support with their rhetoric and policies.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds

Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers

www.theguardian.com

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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 8d

Dammit i forgot to delete the and.
Should read:
if you say “people with … neurodiversity,” you’re doing neurodiversity wrong.

Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 8d

Note to Helen Whately: if you say “people with … and neurodiversity,” you’re doing neurodiversity wrong.

Also note to Rachel Reeves: if you’re being led by far right lies (“free cars”) filtered through Reform and Tory policy, you’re also doing neurodiversity/politics/life wrong.

Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 8d

“Rather than giving people “free cars”, the Motability scheme allows disabled people to use their PIP to lease new cars for 3 years.”

My colleagues Rowena Mason and @guardianheather.bsky.social report with a disclaimer every media outlet should be using tonight. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Chancellor says she ‘can’t leave welfare untouched’ this parliament as budget looms

Rachel Reeves understood to be eyeing cuts to Motability scheme as she tries to plug hole in country’s finances

www.theguardian.com

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Christopher West @christophernwest.bsky.social · 8d

The SSCE Postgraduate Conference 2026 invites abstracts (up to 250 words by 6 Feb 2026) exploring pilgrimage, neighbourliness, and ethical encounters in Christian thought and practice. Email: [email protected]. Please share and register here. #callforpapers #cfp #theology #ethics

A poster for the SSCE PG Conference 2026. The theme is “Christ Beside Us, Christ Before Us: Pilgrimage, Neighbourliness, and Encounters in Christian Ethics.” The plenary speakers are Luke Bretherton and Joshua Hordern. The event is on 6 May 2026 at Christ Church Oxford.

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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 10d

Two people I have happily voted for

PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 11d

Should be an interesting watch
#nzpol

Zack Polanski and Chlöe Swarbrick in conversation on this week's episode of Bold Politics.

YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski

youtube.com

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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 14d

Do you use Letterboxd? It’s a website/app for just such tracking (though tv shows not yet fully on there; only if it’s a one-off season so far).
Here are screenshots of some of my stats

Screenshot of stats from Letterboxd showing 2,351 films logged for all time

Screenshot of stats from Letterboxd showing how many movies watched per country and language

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