Fergus Murray
@fergus.oolong.co.uk
Monotropic writer, science tutor, Autistic community organiser and independent researcher. Based in Edinburgh.
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Fergus Murray
@fergus.oolong.co.uk
· Jan 24
Hi everyone!
I'm Fergus Murray. I'm a science person, writer of nonfiction, and #Autistic community organiser (Chair of @amasedin.bsky.social). Also #ADHD, but I often just say I'm monotropic.
I'm here to post and learn more about #neurodiversity, politics, science, language and other things.
I'm Fergus Murray. I'm a science person, writer of nonfiction, and #Autistic community organiser (Chair of @amasedin.bsky.social). Also #ADHD, but I often just say I'm monotropic.
I'm here to post and learn more about #neurodiversity, politics, science, language and other things.
I thought I might make a pinned thread of my threads here (some of which are effectively photo albums) starting with this long Introductory thread:
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Well in that case you should DEFINITELY start adding alt text to your posts - it's not difficult, and it's an essential part of your job.
February 10, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Well in that case you should DEFINITELY start adding alt text to your posts - it's not difficult, and it's an essential part of your job.
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So if an Irish Citizen who lived and worked in USA for 20 years, married to a US citizen can be snatched & thrown into overcrowded internment camp, rife with disease, on starvation rations, intimidated by guards..
I can’t go to USA as an Irish Tourist I might join him or maybe shot as a terrorist 🤷🏼♂️
I can’t go to USA as an Irish Tourist I might join him or maybe shot as a terrorist 🤷🏼♂️
Irish man detained for five months in 'concentration camp' by ICE
Seamus Culleton, who has been living in the US for almost 20 years and is married to a US citizen, said "I don't know how much more I can take", it's "torture".
news.sky.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:58 AM
So if an Irish Citizen who lived and worked in USA for 20 years, married to a US citizen can be snatched & thrown into overcrowded internment camp, rife with disease, on starvation rations, intimidated by guards..
I can’t go to USA as an Irish Tourist I might join him or maybe shot as a terrorist 🤷🏼♂️
I can’t go to USA as an Irish Tourist I might join him or maybe shot as a terrorist 🤷🏼♂️
What a disgusting way for obsessive anti-trans bigots to waste public money.
February 10, 2026 at 4:57 PM
What a disgusting way for obsessive anti-trans bigots to waste public money.
Good lord, and the @financialtimes.com pays you actual money for your political commentary?
February 10, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Good lord, and the @financialtimes.com pays you actual money for your political commentary?
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Recommending again the huge range of blogs and resources on the Autism Central website, by and for neurodivergent people and parents (whether neurodivergent or not).
www.autismcentral.org.uk/news will take you to the blogs, and general articles & news, for example.
www.autismcentral.org.uk/news will take you to the blogs, and general articles & news, for example.
News | Autism Central
We'll let you know when new resources are added and share updates on the programme here.Stay up-to-date and sign up to the monthly newsletter.
www.autismcentral.org.uk
February 10, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Recommending again the huge range of blogs and resources on the Autism Central website, by and for neurodivergent people and parents (whether neurodivergent or not).
www.autismcentral.org.uk/news will take you to the blogs, and general articles & news, for example.
www.autismcentral.org.uk/news will take you to the blogs, and general articles & news, for example.
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Tim Allan may be getting less attention than Morgan McSweeney, but his links raised serious questions - and they’re part of the wider pattern of questionable appointments.
This isn’t really about individuals.
It’s about the state of the Labour Party.
news.sky.com/story/invest...
This isn’t really about individuals.
It’s about the state of the Labour Party.
news.sky.com/story/invest...
Investigation demanded into Keir Starmer's comms chief's lobbying links
Tim Allan's minority ownership of a lobbying firm has led to accusations of a perception of a conflict of interest.
news.sky.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Tim Allan may be getting less attention than Morgan McSweeney, but his links raised serious questions - and they’re part of the wider pattern of questionable appointments.
This isn’t really about individuals.
It’s about the state of the Labour Party.
news.sky.com/story/invest...
This isn’t really about individuals.
It’s about the state of the Labour Party.
news.sky.com/story/invest...
I've embedded an excellent illustration by @4nikkolas.bsky.social but the version below is even better - I'm just wary of including moving graphics on pages people are trying to read!
(hopefully Nikkolas will tell me if he doesn't want it included at all... 😬)
bsky.app/profile/4nik...
(hopefully Nikkolas will tell me if he doesn't want it included at all... 😬)
bsky.app/profile/4nik...
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
February 10, 2026 at 3:20 PM
I've embedded an excellent illustration by @4nikkolas.bsky.social but the version below is even better - I'm just wary of including moving graphics on pages people are trying to read!
(hopefully Nikkolas will tell me if he doesn't want it included at all... 😬)
bsky.app/profile/4nik...
(hopefully Nikkolas will tell me if he doesn't want it included at all... 😬)
bsky.app/profile/4nik...
I've put up a page on the Weird Pride Day site explaining why we felt the need theme this year's event around Weird Pride in a Hostile World.
Or... maybe not really explaining why, because it seems painfully obvious. But definitely explaining something!
weirdpride.day/2026-context
Or... maybe not really explaining why, because it seems painfully obvious. But definitely explaining something!
weirdpride.day/2026-context
February 10, 2026 at 3:16 PM
I've put up a page on the Weird Pride Day site explaining why we felt the need theme this year's event around Weird Pride in a Hostile World.
Or... maybe not really explaining why, because it seems painfully obvious. But definitely explaining something!
weirdpride.day/2026-context
Or... maybe not really explaining why, because it seems painfully obvious. But definitely explaining something!
weirdpride.day/2026-context
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after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
"Specialist teams, composed entirely of volunteers, will be assigned to the task."
...
"The legislation would not apply to Jewish Israelis who kill Palestinians in similar circumstances."
At least 110 Palestinians have already died in prison prison since the start of 2023.
...
"The legislation would not apply to Jewish Israelis who kill Palestinians in similar circumstances."
At least 110 Palestinians have already died in prison prison since the start of 2023.
February 10, 2026 at 10:16 AM
"Specialist teams, composed entirely of volunteers, will be assigned to the task."
...
"The legislation would not apply to Jewish Israelis who kill Palestinians in similar circumstances."
At least 110 Palestinians have already died in prison prison since the start of 2023.
...
"The legislation would not apply to Jewish Israelis who kill Palestinians in similar circumstances."
At least 110 Palestinians have already died in prison prison since the start of 2023.
Amazing.
Also, you know it's actually really easy to include alt text when you post a screenshot of text like this?
Also, you know it's actually really easy to include alt text when you post a screenshot of text like this?
February 10, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Amazing.
Also, you know it's actually really easy to include alt text when you post a screenshot of text like this?
Also, you know it's actually really easy to include alt text when you post a screenshot of text like this?
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They’ve taken kier out, blown in his slot, and popped him back in for the ULTIMATE reset
February 10, 2026 at 9:26 AM
They’ve taken kier out, blown in his slot, and popped him back in for the ULTIMATE reset
Oh, lol
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No 10 claims Starmer 'positive, confident and determined', despite resignation of two key aides within 24 hours - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Starmer tells No 10 staff politics can be ‘force for good’ after McSweeney and Allan resignations – live
Prime minister tells Downing Street staff he wants government to move forward ‘with confidence’ amid Mandelson scandal fallout
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Oh, lol
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Look, it's all very well having experience, and evidence, and scientific studies, and whatnot, but how can that possibly compare to the thrill of confidently reposting the assertion that there's One Weird Trick To Defeating Teargas?
Thread. 🧵 (1/x)
On the superiority of water as the primary decontaminant for tear gas and peppery spray on skin and eyes.
To make it clear to people, this is a thread. Some of you are not clear on the concept. I will reply this with another post and mark it with a number in (x). And so forth. (1)
On the superiority of water as the primary decontaminant for tear gas and peppery spray on skin and eyes.
To make it clear to people, this is a thread. Some of you are not clear on the concept. I will reply this with another post and mark it with a number in (x). And so forth. (1)
February 10, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Look, it's all very well having experience, and evidence, and scientific studies, and whatnot, but how can that possibly compare to the thrill of confidently reposting the assertion that there's One Weird Trick To Defeating Teargas?
I do love @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social.
A genuinely nice man, who also knows when and how to be brutal, in the gentlest possible way.
www.facebook.com/633167224/po...
A genuinely nice man, who also knows when and how to be brutal, in the gentlest possible way.
www.facebook.com/633167224/po...
February 10, 2026 at 9:24 AM
I do love @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social.
A genuinely nice man, who also knows when and how to be brutal, in the gentlest possible way.
www.facebook.com/633167224/po...
A genuinely nice man, who also knows when and how to be brutal, in the gentlest possible way.
www.facebook.com/633167224/po...
Diane Abbott reading my mind here
(Or rather, reading the country and drawing the same conclusions)
(Or rather, reading the country and drawing the same conclusions)
@hackneyabbott.bsky.social : "I can't see [Starmer] lasting beyond Mays election"
"Why are they waiting until May?"
"Because they're going to be catastrophic elections, and I think the idea is, let him stay there & take responsibility"
"Why are they waiting until May?"
"Because they're going to be catastrophic elections, and I think the idea is, let him stay there & take responsibility"
February 10, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Diane Abbott reading my mind here
(Or rather, reading the country and drawing the same conclusions)
(Or rather, reading the country and drawing the same conclusions)
This being Ed Miliband, I wonder if he might actually believe this stuff
February 10, 2026 at 9:01 AM
This being Ed Miliband, I wonder if he might actually believe this stuff
Tragically, almost everything this government has done has undermined what Ed Miliband thinks is the whole purpose of the government.
Ed Miliband says the decision to appoint Mandelson undermined the whole purpose of the govt, which is to stand up for the powerless against the powerful & wealthy.
Except your record is going after the disabled & scapegoating refugees while refusing to tax the super rich more.
Except your record is going after the disabled & scapegoating refugees while refusing to tax the super rich more.
February 10, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Tragically, almost everything this government has done has undermined what Ed Miliband thinks is the whole purpose of the government.
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Govt to spend £5bn to pay off 90% of the English councils debts for supporting children & young people with special educational needs.
The real problem is privatisation and profiteering by corporations, huge wealth transfer from public to private
How long before the write-off needs to be repeated?
The real problem is privatisation and profiteering by corporations, huge wealth transfer from public to private
How long before the write-off needs to be repeated?
£5bn council SEND debts to be paid off by government
It comes days after the Local Government Association warned that eight in 10 English councils would face bankruptcy, if they had to honour deficits.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Govt to spend £5bn to pay off 90% of the English councils debts for supporting children & young people with special educational needs.
The real problem is privatisation and profiteering by corporations, huge wealth transfer from public to private
How long before the write-off needs to be repeated?
The real problem is privatisation and profiteering by corporations, huge wealth transfer from public to private
How long before the write-off needs to be repeated?
Once in a blue moon, she even goes landscape format
youtu.be/8auCFvjXb5k?...
youtu.be/8auCFvjXb5k?...
The problem with apex predators... || PaleoRewind 2024: February
YouTube video by Astrid Lundberg
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February 10, 2026 at 6:38 AM
Once in a blue moon, she even goes landscape format
youtu.be/8auCFvjXb5k?...
youtu.be/8auCFvjXb5k?...
Nah, she's brilliant. Don't hold her verticality against her. It's not all short, and none of it is shallow.
February 10, 2026 at 6:36 AM
Nah, she's brilliant. Don't hold her verticality against her. It's not all short, and none of it is shallow.
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• A doc sued for prescribing a debunked autism therapy
• A man who says vaccines are “poisoning children”
• A woman boosting autism "treatments" using stem cells from rabbits
This is not a QAnon conference line-up, it is the people now guiding US autism research
www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...
• A man who says vaccines are “poisoning children”
• A woman boosting autism "treatments" using stem cells from rabbits
This is not a QAnon conference line-up, it is the people now guiding US autism research
www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...
RFK Jr.’s Picks for a Key Autism Panel Include Advocates for Bizarre Theories
Among those Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently named to a federal autism committee are people who tout dangerous treatments and say vaccine manufacturers are “poisoning children.”
www.wired.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:26 PM
• A doc sued for prescribing a debunked autism therapy
• A man who says vaccines are “poisoning children”
• A woman boosting autism "treatments" using stem cells from rabbits
This is not a QAnon conference line-up, it is the people now guiding US autism research
www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...
• A man who says vaccines are “poisoning children”
• A woman boosting autism "treatments" using stem cells from rabbits
This is not a QAnon conference line-up, it is the people now guiding US autism research
www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...
Hooray!
Have you found Astrid Lundberg yet? She's not the most femme-presenting, but otherwise very much in line with what's bringing you joy today!
She is also openly Autistic, so that's nice too.
Have you found Astrid Lundberg yet? She's not the most femme-presenting, but otherwise very much in line with what's bringing you joy today!
She is also openly Autistic, so that's nice too.
February 10, 2026 at 5:38 AM
Hooray!
Have you found Astrid Lundberg yet? She's not the most femme-presenting, but otherwise very much in line with what's bringing you joy today!
She is also openly Autistic, so that's nice too.
Have you found Astrid Lundberg yet? She's not the most femme-presenting, but otherwise very much in line with what's bringing you joy today!
She is also openly Autistic, so that's nice too.
It really is extraordinary.
February 9, 2026 at 11:18 PM
It really is extraordinary.