The Championship is going to be amazing next year.

City Xtra@cityxtra.bsky.social · 2d ago

Enzo Maresca vs Mauricio Pochettino. A new rivalry in Manchester. 🔵🔴

At the same time as disabled students are to be redirected from accessible software to using AI. Maybe the OfS would like to have a word with the DfE? wonkhe.com/blogs/cuttin...

Cutting Disabled Students’ Allowance software risks a postcode lottery for students

As the Department for Education weighs up removing most assistive software from Disabled Students’ Allowance, Carolyne Smith argues the department has yet to show its working – and universities could…

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It's shocking how racist the Swedish job market is. If your name sounds middle eastern or 'Yugoslavian' you're 30% less likely to get an interview. And it's worse when the job advert emphasises competence! Yet another example of a word that secretly means something else. Competence means 'like me'

Haya flyttade till Schweiz – svårt att få jobb med utländskt namn

Trots hög utbildning och arbetslivserfarenhet står många utrikesfödda akademiker utan jobb. Återkommande avslag har fått arkitekten Haya Alshahel, 30 år, att flytta utomlands. Idag gör hon praktik på ...

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There’s such a dearth of pro-trans allyship in UK establishment and institutions that it’s hard to see where a liberal shift could come from. Most likely chance of this happening is from a reaction to the overreach and hostility from the GC crowd, and/or cues taken from a liberal shift in the US.

Spoke to someone recently who works on philosophical debates around free speech / hate speech online and where to draw the line, including on AI. They said X is the only platform that doesn’t have any employees consulting in this area because Musk fired them all.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 7d ago

Looking (again) at X's performative minimal + non- compliance with legal duties under the Online Safety Act: to remove + prevent unlawful context. Its form allows up to 5 reports per user. It took 30 minutes to decide all 5 tweets were unlawful. They are restricted in the UK. The user carries on.

Changed my name when I moved to Norway because the locals could pronounce it better than me.

Steven Perkins@stevenperkins.bsky.social · 2w ago

please delight me with your most on-brand story from your childhood mine is that I quit Cubs after two weeks because it clashed with Coronation Street

Poor man needs to move to the UK where his philosophical beliefs will be protected under the equality act. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Italian chef fired from Queensland restaurant after refusing to put pineapple on pizza

He had told his employer, an Australian restaurant, that pineapple on pizza was "offensive" to Italian culture.

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Ok. So you're a west germanic language speaking people from the lowlands north east of France? 🎶That don't impress me, Dutch🎶

Jack Bernhardt@jackbern.bsky.social · 2w ago

ok. so you're the renowned Norwegian artist who painted The Scream? 🎶 That don't impress me, Munch 🎶

Oh no, Labour MPs, you do not get to crow about the Democratic tsunami considering what you’ve done since you won in a landslide. Looking at you, Darren Jones.

Times like today that I remember that within weeks of the 2024 result Facebook rewrote its moderation guidelines to allow calling gay people mentally ill

As the chips settle I will feel happy about the Incredible result in the US, but right now I’m feeling furious about how in the UK we elected a left wing government in 2024, who shifted rightwards based on vibes from the US, and we instead ended up with crackdowns on immigrants, trans women and porn

G🅰️reth@gbentl.bsky.social · 2w ago

Always think British coverage underrates just how much the political wind changing in the US changes British political discourse.

Hopefully a pattern that will eventually be repeated in Spain, once enough young men realise how fascists make things worse, not better. And maybe there’s a parallel too in fascists being ushered in after a period of relatively strong economic growth, emboldening some voters to take stupid risks.

The Upshot@upshot.nytimes.com · 2w ago

Seven in 10 men ages 18 to 29 now disapprove of Trump’s job performance, according to an analysis of the final three New York Times/Siena University national polls. www.nytimes.com/2026/11/02/u...

I'm about to become a two issue voter. This and trans rights. I don't give a shit about your vague train nationalisation plans or light shifting of union rules or returning power to renters because all that is meaningless if we have two-tier citizens. If it's not for all, it's for none.

Jon Featonby@jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 2w ago

Home Secretary confirming refugees who go through the asylum system will start at a 20 year route to settlement - but with 10 more years if they arrived irregularly. So many, many refugees will face a 30 year wait for settlement, all while facing reviews every 2.5 years.

We see this dynamic play out over and over with various bigotries: - old hate movement rebrands itself with a fig leaf - minority says "don't believe them, it's the same" - media gullibly believes anyway - rebranded movement increasingly drops fig leaf - media blames minority for "provoking" them

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 2w ago

peak "what did you say to make him hit you?" framing

Very little in recent years has been as clarifying as finding out I don’t come close to reaching the threshold of autism, in a full psychiatric assessment. I have so many of co-morbidities, experiences and even an autistic parent, so surely I would be autistic myself as well, right?

Hosted a party and noticed my Israeli and Iranian friend having a laugh together and exchanging numbers, and how unremarkable it was. They both have parents at “home” but have decided to make a life in the UK and hate their governments. What more is there to say?

I see a fear from many parents I know where they’re becoming more conscious of their own trauma and afraid they’ll repeat the cycle with their own children. The understanding of trauma is shifting towards something that occurs over a long period of time, not necessarily just individual moments.

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Very sorry to hear that we’ve lost Sir Paddy Stew, a real one. Perhaps the only consolation is it seemed a life well lived, and that he seemed to be having a lot of fun in his later years.

Not having to go to an office five days a week

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 3w ago

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

CAR-T cell therapy, biologics and vaccines. Also, understanding and treatment around neurodiversity and disability in general. I’m talking huge progress in just the last five years, let alone my lifetime.

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 3w ago

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

Or you could take the UK approach of letting over half a million people wait 4+ years because clearly that’s less of a big deal than a handful of people wrongly getting their hands on some speed.

Ina Hallström@killedbyproxy.bsky.social · 4w ago

Systematic review relevant to the discourse on diagnoses and meds. "ADHD was associated with increased all-cause mortality, suicide mortality, unintentional or intentional injury mortality, and natural-cause mortality, whereas ADHD medication use was associated with reduced all-cause mortality."

Zone 2 used to be cool, but now that zone 3 has become the new zone 2, all the hip young people like myself have moved out to zone 3.

James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 4w ago

My basic view is that, if you want to live in London, you either live within Zone 2 or you leave entirely Anything further out and you're living in some weird half-life London, no soul, a shadow of the real thing. More time on trains than living At that point you should accept your fate and leave

The blurb in this post is misleading. It betrays a bias that calls the results themselves into question. I feared what the report would recommend, but it was mostly fine. It said ADHD is underdiagnosed, only that there was a “risk” of over diagnosis, but no evidence this was actually happening.

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · last mo.

With much media coverage of a government report that ADHD and autism are being over-diagnosed, a claim which some experts have disputed, half of Britons now believe that the conditions are being over-diagnosed Over-diagnosed: 50% Under-diagnosed: 17% About right: 17% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

In Britain, people with diagnosed ADHD have a life expectancy 7-9 years lower than average (and those with autism 5-6 years lower on average). Do the British public think the diagnosis itself lowers life expectancy? The research suggests outcomes for undiagnosed people are even worse.

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · last mo.

With much media coverage of a government report that ADHD and autism are being over-diagnosed, a claim which some experts have disputed, half of Britons now believe that the conditions are being over-diagnosed Over-diagnosed: 50% Under-diagnosed: 17% About right: 17% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

I know the Christa Pike stuff has drifted out the news, but can she just be released now, provided she is not a threat. She did a horrific crime at 18 for which she was punished. She’s done 30 years on death row and survived a lethal injection. She has suffered enough for gods sake, just let her go.

I’m sure many people who read the telegraph don’t think they’re disabled either. They may need help with mobility, reading and communication, but they “will not be labelled or put in a box.” Because that would mean they’re like “those” people right?

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · last mo.

Telegraph Business News. Morning.

And be fair, this was epic cycling, but I’d remember it a lot less fondly if Lance Armstrong had kept all his titles. youtu.be/TCt_-ciEu_w?...

Mont VentouxTour De France 2000 - English Commentary

YouTube video by Matrix Cycling Media

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The Athletic | Football@theathleticfc.bsky.social · last mo.

If there was ever a contest where you tried to forget about precisely what it all represented, it was this one. www.nytimes.com/athletic/769...

There’s an understandable reason why this might not get shared much around my circles on Bluesky. But given my disability background, and the fact this is shaping up to be a very hard day, I found this a beautiful and uplifting story. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

A moment that changed me: I learned to read and write – at 42

I had worked for 25 years, married and started a family. But a crisis at the supermarket reminded me there was something missing from my life

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Maybe the most persuasive argument I could make for expanding access to ADHD meds: we can be annoying, unreliable, loud, avoidant and impulsive. Well, the most obvious change to those around me is that I’m a more present, nice and less grouchy person. And doesn’t that make things easier for you?

Nils 🥚@1wayoranother.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Elvanse was never about working harder, it was about being able to easily shift between tasks and hobbies without burnout, rumination and constant chasing of dopamine hits. I hadn’t appreciated how it would cure my alexithymia. Everything I’ve seen, experienced, remembered has been with new eyes.