@risingson2.bsky.social

He Him (you can she her or they them me, I don't care)

Btw the ahistorical knowledge of why Ceuta is not a colony like Azores is getting out of hand. There was not even a Spain when Ceuta belonged to one of the territories that ended up being Spain

I've seen too many times the evolution of "person with the greatest gotchas on twitter" to weird fascist crank for not to fear for the sanity of Derek tbh and watching the countdown with anxiety

a bluesky reply from someone I don't want to mention because these folks always search for themselves several times a day

Well, yesterday I watched “the man who shot liberty valance” for the first time. Came for the western, stayed for the very funny and dark take on US politics

Wow. The Department for Education has just published new projections which estimate that the number of pupils in state-funded schools in England will plummet by more than 9% by 2031 amid falling birth rates And yet this issue receives probably 1,000th of the coverage the immigration debate receives

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of:

improved recognition
changing help-seeking behaviour
institutional incentives
pressures within existing service pathways
Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including:

real increases in distress in some groups
improved recognition of previously unmet need
changing expectations about support
systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance
Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need. In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services.

The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.

That’s how it a Guardian writer could win awards for revealing Peter Mandelson’s deep and extremely dubious associations in Russia and be publicly congratulated for it by colleagues who had previously not mentioned it at all and certainly not treated it as a serious matter requiring urgent attention

it is, in my opinion, either remarkably stupid or deeply cynical to try to explain this away as something to do with attention spans and engagement, rather than the British media all at once moving from breathless promotion to scandalous exposure, like a murmuration folding itself across the sky

Here’s a thought, maybe don’t pop over to X to see what’s going on but, if you do, maybe keep it to yourself and not share any screenshots