Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles)
@jamieandlion.bsky.social
Monotropic semi speaking adult writing about neurodivergent play & adventures. MTB, digital a11y, AAC user, podcast host & lion tamer (he/him)
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Graeme Hart, 42, and his wife Karen, 43, issued a joint statement about their son, Finley, five, saying: “You don’t understand how hard Finley’s autism is on the whole family. Do you know how many times we’ve seen the same episode of The Octonauts?”
Parents of autistic boy in ABA: “We torture him out of love”
The parents of an autistic boy have released a statement explaining that they subject him to a cruel and humiliating therapy designed to make him behave less like himself because they love him.…
thedailytism.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Graeme Hart, 42, and his wife Karen, 43, issued a joint statement about their son, Finley, five, saying: “You don’t understand how hard Finley’s autism is on the whole family. Do you know how many times we’ve seen the same episode of The Octonauts?”
Damn. More tummy issues. Had a rough night but I’m more or less back to normal now. A few careful days and then I’ll be okay.
December 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Damn. More tummy issues. Had a rough night but I’m more or less back to normal now. A few careful days and then I’ll be okay.
Helping a friend with university paperwork and it’s a very weird experience.
On the one hand. The paperwork is very difficult and frustrating… but… there’s also some super helpful lovely people who can help… so it sort of works out okay in the end.
Nervously waiting for accommodation info now!
On the one hand. The paperwork is very difficult and frustrating… but… there’s also some super helpful lovely people who can help… so it sort of works out okay in the end.
Nervously waiting for accommodation info now!
December 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Helping a friend with university paperwork and it’s a very weird experience.
On the one hand. The paperwork is very difficult and frustrating… but… there’s also some super helpful lovely people who can help… so it sort of works out okay in the end.
Nervously waiting for accommodation info now!
On the one hand. The paperwork is very difficult and frustrating… but… there’s also some super helpful lovely people who can help… so it sort of works out okay in the end.
Nervously waiting for accommodation info now!
I’d love to know why YouTube / iPlayer / Disney+ etc are absent on the Switch 2…
I bet there’s backstory there and maybe we will hear it at some point in the future.
It’s very annoying as it’s the perfect hardware for watching stuff :)
I bet there’s backstory there and maybe we will hear it at some point in the future.
It’s very annoying as it’s the perfect hardware for watching stuff :)
December 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I’d love to know why YouTube / iPlayer / Disney+ etc are absent on the Switch 2…
I bet there’s backstory there and maybe we will hear it at some point in the future.
It’s very annoying as it’s the perfect hardware for watching stuff :)
I bet there’s backstory there and maybe we will hear it at some point in the future.
It’s very annoying as it’s the perfect hardware for watching stuff :)
Oooof. Brutal.
I feel so lucky my friends understand my injury.
When I hit “erm, I can’t stand up right now” they help rather than push me to “just try”
It’s a game changer for prevent things getting worse.
I feel so lucky my friends understand my injury.
When I hit “erm, I can’t stand up right now” they help rather than push me to “just try”
It’s a game changer for prevent things getting worse.
December 8, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Oooof. Brutal.
I feel so lucky my friends understand my injury.
When I hit “erm, I can’t stand up right now” they help rather than push me to “just try”
It’s a game changer for prevent things getting worse.
I feel so lucky my friends understand my injury.
When I hit “erm, I can’t stand up right now” they help rather than push me to “just try”
It’s a game changer for prevent things getting worse.
Stopped watching the F1 regularly as its was an awkward time + quite boring…
Have been following this season from afar and watched the final race live with the BF.
Was fun. Nice to see a genuine championship decider come down to talent + strategy :)
Have been following this season from afar and watched the final race live with the BF.
Was fun. Nice to see a genuine championship decider come down to talent + strategy :)
December 8, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Stopped watching the F1 regularly as its was an awkward time + quite boring…
Have been following this season from afar and watched the final race live with the BF.
Was fun. Nice to see a genuine championship decider come down to talent + strategy :)
Have been following this season from afar and watched the final race live with the BF.
Was fun. Nice to see a genuine championship decider come down to talent + strategy :)
GameChat on the Switch 2 is kinda amazing. Parallel play, collaboration, connection and damn good fun.
Impressive accessibility too :)
It’s completely revamped how I play games with my friends. :)
I need to write a proper blog post about it at some point.
Impressive accessibility too :)
It’s completely revamped how I play games with my friends. :)
I need to write a proper blog post about it at some point.
December 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
GameChat on the Switch 2 is kinda amazing. Parallel play, collaboration, connection and damn good fun.
Impressive accessibility too :)
It’s completely revamped how I play games with my friends. :)
I need to write a proper blog post about it at some point.
Impressive accessibility too :)
It’s completely revamped how I play games with my friends. :)
I need to write a proper blog post about it at some point.
Extremely interested in Metroid Prime 4… and I’ve behaved myself and asked for it for Christmas :)
My friends are amazing and it feels very silly but fun to be telling them about such things hehe.
My friends are amazing and it feels very silly but fun to be telling them about such things hehe.
December 8, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Extremely interested in Metroid Prime 4… and I’ve behaved myself and asked for it for Christmas :)
My friends are amazing and it feels very silly but fun to be telling them about such things hehe.
My friends are amazing and it feels very silly but fun to be telling them about such things hehe.
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Scientists recently combined the DNA of a cheetah with the DNA of a crab.
Things went sideways real fast.
Things went sideways real fast.
December 7, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Scientists recently combined the DNA of a cheetah with the DNA of a crab.
Things went sideways real fast.
Things went sideways real fast.
Doing something a little weird today… doing medium ADHD meds… not for work / nerdy stuff… but to help me get a bunch of house stuff done without getting overwhelmed.
Much woooosh!!
Much woooosh!!
December 8, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Doing something a little weird today… doing medium ADHD meds… not for work / nerdy stuff… but to help me get a bunch of house stuff done without getting overwhelmed.
Much woooosh!!
Much woooosh!!
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“Looking happy isn’t meaningful if you’re rewarded for affecting happiness & punished for looking visibly distressed. Making the best of a bad situation isn’t consent.” This is a post about ABA therapy specifically & special ed in general, by Real Social Skills:
realsocialskills.org/2015/07/17/a...
realsocialskills.org/2015/07/17/a...
Appearing to enjoy behavior modificiation is not meaningful – Real Social Skills
realsocialskills.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
“Looking happy isn’t meaningful if you’re rewarded for affecting happiness & punished for looking visibly distressed. Making the best of a bad situation isn’t consent.” This is a post about ABA therapy specifically & special ed in general, by Real Social Skills:
realsocialskills.org/2015/07/17/a...
realsocialskills.org/2015/07/17/a...
Erm… for folks with a Switch 2… if ya want extra storage space it’s probably a good time to buy some.
Looks like the daft price inflation for RAM and Storage is coming for SD Express cards next :(
www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
Looks like the daft price inflation for RAM and Storage is coming for SD Express cards next :(
www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
SanDisk reportedly jacks up flash prices by 50% as memory makers cash in on AI-fueled demand
This move underscores a rapidly tightening memory market, affecting both flash and DRAM.
www.tomshardware.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Erm… for folks with a Switch 2… if ya want extra storage space it’s probably a good time to buy some.
Looks like the daft price inflation for RAM and Storage is coming for SD Express cards next :(
www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
Looks like the daft price inflation for RAM and Storage is coming for SD Express cards next :(
www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
Sam is so right.
Culture issues come home to roost as things like reliability problems.
Especially if a company looses a lot of institutional knowledge quickly which is a huge issue in tech right now.
(Also go follow Sam, he rocks. Damn good human doing interesting things)
Culture issues come home to roost as things like reliability problems.
Especially if a company looses a lot of institutional knowledge quickly which is a huge issue in tech right now.
(Also go follow Sam, he rocks. Damn good human doing interesting things)
The last Cloudflare outage, folks were sending me the post-mortem saying it was a really great technical deep dive. And it was!
But my retort was that with two big outages really close to each other, my worry isn’t the tech. It’s that this may be a sign of cultural problems compounding internally.
But my retort was that with two big outages really close to each other, my worry isn’t the tech. It’s that this may be a sign of cultural problems compounding internally.
December 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Sam is so right.
Culture issues come home to roost as things like reliability problems.
Especially if a company looses a lot of institutional knowledge quickly which is a huge issue in tech right now.
(Also go follow Sam, he rocks. Damn good human doing interesting things)
Culture issues come home to roost as things like reliability problems.
Especially if a company looses a lot of institutional knowledge quickly which is a huge issue in tech right now.
(Also go follow Sam, he rocks. Damn good human doing interesting things)
Wooo. At a random last minute event to see @robinince.bsky.social & friends to aid Gaza.
Lurking on the floor down the side on a spinal cushion snuggling Lion :)
Lurking on the floor down the side on a spinal cushion snuggling Lion :)
December 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Wooo. At a random last minute event to see @robinince.bsky.social & friends to aid Gaza.
Lurking on the floor down the side on a spinal cushion snuggling Lion :)
Lurking on the floor down the side on a spinal cushion snuggling Lion :)
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Excited to finally get to share this credit :)
Had the opportunity to work on Metroid Prime 4 Beyond during my time at House of Moves!
Had the opportunity to work on Metroid Prime 4 Beyond during my time at House of Moves!
December 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Excited to finally get to share this credit :)
Had the opportunity to work on Metroid Prime 4 Beyond during my time at House of Moves!
Had the opportunity to work on Metroid Prime 4 Beyond during my time at House of Moves!
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Only first instance but this feels quite significant - it was lawful, post For Some Women Scotland, to offer trans inclusive workplace toilets.
BREAKING: Employee who demand a trans-exclusive toilet policy loses employment tribunal. All claims, direct and indirect discrimination, harassment, and 1992 Regs, dismissed.
Judgment: www.gov.uk/employment-t...
Judgment: www.gov.uk/employment-t...
B M Kelly v Leonardo UK Ltd: 8001497/2024
Employment Tribunal decision.
www.gov.uk
December 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Only first instance but this feels quite significant - it was lawful, post For Some Women Scotland, to offer trans inclusive workplace toilets.
Waking up in Brussels… off to speak at a ITU / UN event today… talking about my work exploring AI tools for Digital Accessibility stuff :)
Excited and a little overwhelmed. Big adventure today!!
Excited and a little overwhelmed. Big adventure today!!
December 3, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Waking up in Brussels… off to speak at a ITU / UN event today… talking about my work exploring AI tools for Digital Accessibility stuff :)
Excited and a little overwhelmed. Big adventure today!!
Excited and a little overwhelmed. Big adventure today!!
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
I wrote a little about one of my favourite neurodivergent brain hacks… a well timed ‘productive distraction’.
It’s a good way to transition from one big thing to another… with a carefully chosen little thing in the middle.
Here’s a post about em: spacedoutandsmiling.com/blog/2025-11...
It’s a good way to transition from one big thing to another… with a carefully chosen little thing in the middle.
Here’s a post about em: spacedoutandsmiling.com/blog/2025-11...
Spaced Out & Smiling
spacedoutandsmiling.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I wrote a little about one of my favourite neurodivergent brain hacks… a well timed ‘productive distraction’.
It’s a good way to transition from one big thing to another… with a carefully chosen little thing in the middle.
Here’s a post about em: spacedoutandsmiling.com/blog/2025-11...
It’s a good way to transition from one big thing to another… with a carefully chosen little thing in the middle.
Here’s a post about em: spacedoutandsmiling.com/blog/2025-11...
Mark Kelly would be an excellent president. A literal life of service and achievement in science and public life.
He’s everything trump isn’t.
He’s everything trump isn’t.
Re: Kelly
They're about to give a man who would be an unbeatable presidential nominee a huge moral platform and I don't think they've thought this through.
They're about to give a man who would be an unbeatable presidential nominee a huge moral platform and I don't think they've thought this through.
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Mark Kelly would be an excellent president. A literal life of service and achievement in science and public life.
He’s everything trump isn’t.
He’s everything trump isn’t.
Yay. Mostly finished with emails, paperwork and messages…. About 3ish hours today.
Time to go do some nerdy things :)
Time to go do some nerdy things :)
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Yay. Mostly finished with emails, paperwork and messages…. About 3ish hours today.
Time to go do some nerdy things :)
Time to go do some nerdy things :)
Ann always writes beautifully, this article is no exception. Well worth a quick read for anyone involved in neurodiversity stuff.
New blog for the lovely national Autism Central team that I work with. This one, on autism and intersectionality. www.autismcentral.org.uk/news/blog-in...
The aim of the project? A world where autistic people and their loved ones can find joy.
I think that’s something worth aiming for.
Do you?
The aim of the project? A world where autistic people and their loved ones can find joy.
I think that’s something worth aiming for.
Do you?
www.autismcentral.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Ann always writes beautifully, this article is no exception. Well worth a quick read for anyone involved in neurodiversity stuff.
*drools in former stage tech nerd*
EMU by ENTTEC: Real-time stage lighting powered by Avalonia!
✨ Controls 8 universes (4,096 channels)
✨ Audio-reactive lighting
✨ MIDI/VST3 integration
✨ Cross-platform
Pro lighting engineers trust Avalonia for mission-critical shows.
enttec.com/product/dmx...
✨ Controls 8 universes (4,096 channels)
✨ Audio-reactive lighting
✨ MIDI/VST3 integration
✨ Cross-platform
Pro lighting engineers trust Avalonia for mission-critical shows.
enttec.com/product/dmx...
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
*drools in former stage tech nerd*