Katharine Richards

Everything that is happening to the Labour Party is something they have chosen to do to themselves - to prioritise unscientific, unpopular cruelty on a minority group over everything else they stand for. I won't forget. I'm unlikely to forgive.

Autistic people enjoy parallel play? Well, first of all it's called Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

At the risk of going all conspiracy theory, yesterday I posted about taking part in the Green Party action day in CDF on Insta and now it’s throwing up right wing accounts in my feed. I’ve blocked/reported them as they come up because fuck right off, but at the least it’s a very curious coincidence

Change Everything A practical and hopeful guide for anyone who wants a route map to a fairer, greener future, by a veteran former Green Party leader

Have you just joined @greenparty.org.uk, or thinking about joining the rush?

With perfect timing @wiltonsquare.bsky.social has published the Second Edition of #ChangeEverything, setting out, in accessible, easy-to-read form, Green political thinking

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I think… I think I really needed to read that too

And I’ve had some lovely and interesting conversations with people. So I’m always super glad I’ve done it afterwards, and feel real buzzy. Which’ll be that Hope thing that I’ve been reacquainted with in recent months and it feels damn good.

I’m not going to pretend that leafleting and door knocking is easy for me because it takes me, an introverted autistic with social awkwardness and anxiety issues, soooo far out of my comfort zone. But my experience to date is that people, even the ones who don’t want to engage, are really nice.

But hey, if I’m gonna accidentally be channelling anyone it may as well be the person who inspired me to get politically active in the first place.

Me, modelling the campaigning coat

Early starts on Saturdays for me but I’m not going to work today, I’m taking part in another Green Party action day instead. See, I’ve got my Green Party badge and am wearing what Amy calls my campaigning coat on account of how, after I bought it, we realised it looks a bit like the one Zack wears.

Well this is rather lovely. And really interesting

Exactly. Incredibly frustrating

I’m not impartial because it’s my wife, but I would highly recommend The Squarepeg Podcast where Amy has conversations with late diagnosed autistic women. Patreons even get to hear her chat with me. Ikr… Anyway, that’s the end of the ad

‘The masking idea has no scientific basis’. Sure, it’s just the little matter of our actual lived experience but sure, you go off on your vibes Uta. And yes lots more women are being diagnosed later in life but that’s in large part because of gender stereotyping not because we were never there.

An illustrative piece in that it says the quiet part out loud: When you ask *who* is "wrongly" included in the autism spectrum, the response is almost always "women".

In other fields, this phenomenon of women being immediately dismissed, overlooked and underdiagnosed is called medical misogyny.

The @greenparty.org.uk MP @elliechowns.bsky.social had already tabled one first

Discovered the Open Space channel on YouTube and every episode is a tour around a stunningly beautiful mid century modern house and it is so calming. Would 10/10 recommend

The cat sitting next to me on my bed with a look of utter disdain on her face because I wouldn’t move over any further for her

The cat lying down on the bottom step of the stairs holding my James Elliot book that is hers now. Maybe she’ll let me borrow it when she’s finished reading it

The cat lying on one blanket and cwtched under another one. Her forearm (foreleg, whatever) draped over the top blanket, all casual like, while she listens to the sounds of her dinner being prepared in the kitchen (a tin of cat food being opened in a Michelin starred French accent)

Need a little breakette from politics scrolling for a bit? Me too. So check out my favourite photos of my cat from last month

Let’s get back to judging people/politicians by their character and their actions, not by which demographic boxes they may or may not tick.

Solidarity ✌🏽🙏🏽💚

Now's a great time: join.greenparty.org.uk

Brilliant explainer

Absolutely 100% agree

I love the photos of these three. An incredible achievement and Hannah Spencer rightly looking so happy. And I know this is not the important bit but they are rockin’ those fits! They look so vibrant and so full of vim and vigour. Bloody brilliant!

A thread so good it earned a follow. This is the pep talk we all need today. 👇

This is exceptionally thoughtful and well said.

Going for the ‘let’s all go to war and rally around the flag’ option to try and stop voters abandoning you left and right now is it?

Tomorrow’s post: omelettes, breaking eggs, something, something, can’t ask for another medal for stopping a war if you’ve not yet started that war

And if you liked that, come back tomorrow for more not original and one day behind the times takes

Labour: we’re an island of strangers and need to be brought back together

Reform: non-whites need to integrate

Muslims: act in the interest of the whole community of which they’re a part and engage with the democratic process

Labour and Reform: NO, NOT LIKE THAT!

Just resumed listening to episode 4 of the Love Canal series of the American Scandal podcast and it picked up at ‘how much do these politicians think we’d put up with before we rebelled?’ and my listening choices have never felt more on point

Shit! In all the excitement I forgot I’m supposed to be getting ready for work