Steven Shorrock

The catastrophic impact to local health where the air is poisoned, as well as to our global ecosystem as they literally set the planet on fire and fill the atmosphere with pollutants

My hunch is that non-autistic people do not spend months/years reading books about autism, following accounts of autistic people, paying for assessments, or feel the need for a formal process.

And if you pass the test…you have a label that non-autistic people would not want.

I see what mine have had to do, and there’s little on the skills they’ll need: basic, personal, social, occupational, citizenship. Some really useful courses are disparaged and discouraged. The more folk I meet from more backgrounds, the less faith I have that secondary schooling is for for purpose.

The school system we have is designed to produce professors, not the vast majority of life paths that people go on to take and the skills they need. Little about the planned secondary school experience, in particular, prepares children for what they are about to encounter on leaving education.

Frith has joined Peterson and Mate on the end career hot take podium.

#autism

So, they’re going after autistic people. Next it’ll be people with ME/CFS.

Wait…they already did those.

Dr @binitakane.bsky.social explains how a theory that #MECFS is caused by deconditioning and a fear of exercise permeated medicine and framed the illness as psychological. This led to the patients being neglected, gaslit, and some would say abused. Causing huge trauma for the community.

16y/o: I think it’s classist that my journalism course isn’t counted as a Scottish Higher, nor the course on creative thinking.

Putting EHF into practice: five (more) challenges www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Understanding culture and conversation in organisations with Prof Tom Reader and Prof Elizabeth Stokoe

A EUROCONTROL ‘double bill’ webinar on Tuesday, 24 June 2025 - 13:30 to 15:30 (CEST; Brussels time)

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Donate to Save Beau’s Vision -treatment fund to access tovorafenib, organised by Emma Johnston My name is Emma and I’m Beau Johnston’s mum. We are in a race a… Emma Johnston needs your support for Save Beau’s Vision -treatment fund to access tovorafenib

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This is a friend of my daughter's. She is studying law and will lose her vision if she cannot access treatment only available in the US.

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A very strong start to 2025 on the British and Irish alternative music scene open.spotify.com/playlist/6DD...

Starbucks’s UK retail business paid no corporation tax last year US-owned coffee chain dived to £35m loss after paying £40m in royalty and license fees to parent company

Starbucks’s UK retail business paid no corporation tax last year “after paying £40m in royalty and licence fees to its parent company.”
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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High levels of toxic chemicals found in paper receipts used by US retailers — The Guardian Holding the receipts for 10 seconds absorbs enough bisphenol S to break California’s safety rule, research finds

High levels of toxic chemicals found in paper receipts used by US retailers

Holding the receipts for 10 seconds absorbs enough bisphenol S to break California’s safety rule

“People can protect themselves by not taking a receipt or asking for an email receipt” 😳 apple.news/ACuZPYCF3Tn-...

Common artificial sweetener makes you three times hungrier than sugar A widely used artificial sweetener increases brain activity in regions involved in appetite, suggesting it makes people hungrier

Common artificial sweetener makes you three times hungrier than sugar
“artificial sweeteners may encourage overeating”

www.newscientist.com/article/2474...

Over-50s urged to take part in cancer screening — BBC News Cancer charities say bowel cancer is the fourth most common, but early diagnosis can save lives.

Over-50s urged to attend bowel cancer screening - BBC News apple.news/AzkZMBF09Tja... If you receive the kit, PLEASE do it straight away.

Quaker Parents Were Ahead of Their Time - The Atlantic

www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

As an autistic (level 1) person... I feel like my autism is only about 10% observable (and due to YEARS of masking, you'd have to be looking VERY closely to see it) and 90% internal, which impacts every aspect of how I exist.

And I feel like more people should know this.

Seems this reflects a general finding that significant advantages remain (in muscle mass, bone structure and density, VO2 max, as well as any height and reach advantage obviously), hence the suggested open/third category. There’s usually a middle way, or I like to think so…

The Participation of Trans Women in Competitive Fencing and Implications on Fairness: A Physiological Perspective Narrative Review - PubMed Debate has surrounded whether the participation of trans women in female sporting categories is fair, specifically the retained male physiological advantage due to increased testosterone compared to c...

Not my expertise but this is one of the papers on the specific sport pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... Don’t know of other research but the proposal seems sound.

I’ve been only twice. The border police treatment entering from Canada 8 years or so ago was bad enough.

There is virtually no better commercial you can run for the European defense industry than these two sentences uttered by Trump.

No matter with whom I’m talking about this on this side of the pond, the common understanding is that this is going to severely damage the US industry.

From Rasmus Jarlow, Danish politician: "I don't know if there is a kill switch in the F35's or not. We obviously can not take your word for it. As one of the decision makers behind Denmark's purchase of F35's, I regret it. The USA can certainly disable the planes by simple stopping the supply of spare parts. They want to strengthen Russia and weaken Europa and are showing that they are willing to do tremendous damage to peaceful and loyal allies like Canada just because they insist on existing as a country. I can easily imagine a situation where the USA will demand Greenland from Denmark and will threaten to deactivate our weapons and let Russia attack us when we refuse (which we will even in that situation). Therefore, buying American weapons is a security risk that we can not run. We will make enormous investments in air defence, fighter jets, artillery and other weapons in the coming years, and we must avoid American weapons if at all possible. I encourage our allies and friends to do the same."

I mean... holy shit.

German man with green card ‘violently interrogated’ by US border officials — The Guardian Berlin checking if US immigration policy has changed after Fabian Schmidt becomes third German to be detained

German man with green card ‘violently interrogated’ by US border officials - The Guardian apple.news/AVVKtq6wTSt-...

It was bad enough before. Not sure I’ll ever enter US again.

Psychology as a whole neglected complexity and systems thinking. Neither were taught on my degree and I only discovered after (through systems ergonomics/human factors).

AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.

Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones.

Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

Arrest warrant issued for member of cult exposed by BBC — BBC News The BBC exposed the Lighthouse life-coaching organisation for ruining the lives of its members.

Arrest warrant issued for member of Lighthouse life coaching cult exposed by BBC apple.news/A-_ZtxFGwQAO...

I like this take on the question! I sort of took anaesthetists to be the more patient of the medics.

In that case I’ll go with neglect of custom.

15y/o: If you were in prison for something, what would that thing be?

Pressed send to early, this was 15’s question to me 😅