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pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 16h

can someone even explain what 'financial groundhog day' even means? it's not a term that exactly summons visions of a doomsday scenario

screencap from the independent saying without cuts the November budget will be a "financial groundhog day"

pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 16h

i mean i would have liked to have had the "root cause" of my adhd addressed with stimulant medication but they don't want us to have that either so

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 20h

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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pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 16h

(that said i'm a cheater anyway because i will definitely have the occasional bivalve as i'm not entirely convinced of their sentience and rope grown mussels are ultra sustainable)

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pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 16h

in response to the previous thread, vivera makes a pretty okay vegan shawarma and oumph kebab from iceland isn't bad either! ofc, i suppose nothing really beats falafel in the shawarma/kebab replacement department though

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pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 1d

pope leo disbanding opus dei is cool but if he really wants to get my attention he can do courage international next

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1d

While I'm Plaidposting: @delythjewell.bsky.social's speech at SNP Conference was so beautiful it will absolutely make you weep

www.youtube.com/live/ANcmhgd...

#SNP25 Day 3 | Session 6: Powering Scotland’s Future

YouTube video by Scottish National Party (SNP)

www.youtube.com

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pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 1d

and no, small town/village doesn't count as rural

if campbeltown and mallaig can have flats, so can your town

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pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 1d

barring actual rural areas, i think single family detached homes are fundamentally immoral

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 1d

i really don't think it was meant to be a dig at the greens or refusal to work with other indy parties! it's just that we're not going to get another referendum under this wm government and it makes sense not to promise one barring extraordinary circumstances

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pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 1d

yeah i'm 99% sure that the reason we went for the whole "only an snp majority counts as a mandate" thing is so people can shut up about us not having gotten another referendum yet when we inevitably do not get a majority (but snp+greens is)

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pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 1d

love to be 100% convinced that what i have feels like covid but keep testing negative on the lfts

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pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 1d

ugh annoying i definitely linked it once on my old twitter but i can't find it now

horrifyingly it is seared into my memory and will never leave though

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pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 1d

on*

pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 1d

was this the one where he said he couldn't get it up if he knew the woman was in birth control?

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pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 1d

obviously this is about new zealand but the technology isn't any different and our populations are very similar

Indoor air pollution from New Zealand’s 523,000 wood burners was estimated to account for 446 hospital admissions for heart and lung problems, and 101 early deaths annually, in a country with a population of just over 5 million people. Breathing fumes from gas cooking indoors created more than 1,000 hospital admissions, 208 early deaths and more than 3,000 new cases of childhood asthma each year.

pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 1d

it's extremely cool and good that we caved to a bunch of nonsense fearmongering and ditched our plans to ban new builds from having wood heating

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Wood burning and gas cooking hugely costly to healthcare systems, New Zealand study finds

Experts suggest replacing gas hobs with electric ones, saying it is a win–win for health and the climate

www.theguardian.com

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Kaukab Stewart MSP @kaukabstewart.bsky.social · 1d

A few thoughts as we reach the end of Hate Crime Awareness Week. I have the privilege of representing one of the most diverse constituencies in Scotland, and see every day the strength, joy, and beauty our diversity brings.

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 1d

Whether Farage becomes PM or not doesn’t really feel like it matters any more. He’s won the narrative, his policies are being implemented. This isn’t good for Britain and it’s certainly not good for Scotland, and the only escape hatch from this awful xenophobic mess is independence.

Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 2d

My American partner works in a specialist role for a multinational, one of three globally.

Her visa is in renewal. Her father died this week. She can't go back until the Home Office "computer says yes". Her route to ILR has now been restarted to begin at zero of ten years, after years here already.

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pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 2d

sooo has anyone ever had a case of covid that made your teeth hurt?

pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 2d

a number of your mutuals live here!

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pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 2d

This makes total sense but it had never occured to me that filters do literally nothing

pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 2d

Huh

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Experts urge UK to ban cigarette filters to protect health and environment

Researchers say filters do not reduce toxicant exposure and are major contributor to plastic waste crisis

www.theguardian.com

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pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 2d

(sorry i just really don't think it passes 2 & 3!)

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pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 2d

(and just in case you think i'm being biased because i don't like their beliefs: i am a mega nat but i also think the grainger tests were misapplied in the case that found scottish independence to be a protected belief)

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pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 2d

i'm rambling here obviously and i have a horrific fever but it is just so fucked! i can't think of any established religious belief let alone made up circa 2015 nonsense that we've extended this degree of tolerance for incredibly bigoted behaviour

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