Julie Stuart

Brain injury survivor, living with 3 autistics, probably neurodivergent as well. Non Newtonian liquid, apparently. Trans rights are human rights... she/her

[aimée 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @sapphyreblayze]

The thing that gets me about the online response to the European heatwave is the lack of empathy. If you hear that people are dying and your response is to smugly proclaim that it's not even that hot and they're weak for not being able to hamdle it, you're just a horrible person.

[Gaibrie Stephen @SGaibrie]

Australia banned social media for under-16s in December.

New peer-reviewed data in the BMJ just confirmed what most people suspected: it changed almost nothing.

Canada is about to copy the playbook. We should be asking harder questions.

I'll say what I actually believe first:

Social media harms adolescent mental health. The evidence is real. I have a daughter born this year and I think about this constantly.

But good intentions and good policy are not the same thing.

The data: 400+ adolescents surveyed before and three months after the ban.

12–13 year olds: no meaningful change.
14–15 year olds: slight decrease.
16+: use increased.

BMJ conclusion: "insufficient evidence" of any substantial early effect.

This is a policy created by adults and is remarkably easy to get around. Parents' accounts. VPNs. Private browsers.

Canada's Bill C-34 follows the same basic approach.

Platforms must verify users' ages or face significant penalties.

But the bill doesn't specify how age verification will work. That comes later but its where the privacy questions begin.

Whether it's facial estimation, government ID, or another form of age assurance, someone has to collect that information.

Potentially Meta. TikTok. Companies headquartered outside Canada, operating under foreign legal regimes, with data breach histories we already know about.

"We delete it afterwards" is not something the public can independently verify.

If the policy doesn't meaningfully reduce use, the only guaranteed outcome may be more data collection.

I'm not opposed to regulating social media.

I'm opposed to regulation that collects more personal data without clear evidence that it achieves its stated goal.

Good intentions aren't enough. Policy should have to work.

[Julie Stuart @JulieStuart19]

@tonysammon @Education_NI Let's face it, this is Tom Bennet - there will be absolutely no thought or variation of any kind from what he's already done to children in England...

[Erin Ekins (she/her) @QueerlyAutistic]

Non-autistic people are yelling about how distressing it is to witness an autistic person having a public meltdown without taking a single moment to consider how distressing it is to be an autistic person who is having a public meltdown.

[Verønica 🦉 @RootGr0ves]

Que poco se ha hablado de que la ciudadanía de Albania paralizó el país y quemó la casa del presidente porque le dio permiso a la sionista hija del Trump para construir un hotel de lujo en una isla protegida. Ahora después de 10 días tuvieron que revocar el permiso.

[I Dissent @DissentFu]

Please remember that it was @KylieJenner normalizing nonconsensual stalker glasses when even more women and girls are assaulted because of them.

[William Martinet @WilliamMartinet]

Hier soir, sur le plateau de Quotidien, Yann Barthès a tenu des propos absolument indignes.

Au sujet de la canicule, il a affirmé doctement que « tout le monde est logé à la même enseigne ».

Il a pris l'exemple de Bernard Arnault, expliquant que le milliardaire souffrait lui aussi de la chaleur.

Le tout sur le ton condescendant qu'on connaît bien dans cette émission.

Une telle déclaration relève d'un niveau de déconnexion stratosphérique. Elle est une insulte envers les milliers de femmes, d'hommes et d'enfants pour qui la canicule n'est pas un simple inconfort, mais une question de vie ou de mort.

Aujourd'hui, au lendemain de cette sortie, deux SDF ont été retrouvés morts de chaud dans les rues d'Argenteuil.

M. Barthès, vous devriez présenter de plates excuses, reverser votre million d'euros de revenu annuel à la Fondation pour le logement et disparaitre des plateaux de télévision jusqu'à l'hiver.

[Martin Ferguson @MrFerguson85]

📚Some background on Tom Bennett and the statistics around pupil satisfaction and school.
https://t.co/pOKENiFYWX

[Julie Stuart @JulieStuart19]

@Chris_McClem Especially that one, Christine

[Chloe Apter (she/her) @ChloeSApter]

Are you a UK-based autistic adult who has - like me - been assigned the "challenging behaviour" label or similar?

If so, I'm looking to hear more about your experiences for my MSc Psychology & Learning Disability research.

📧 [email protected]

Supervisor: @drstevenkapp

[ADHDDude @DudeAdhd]

Northern Ireland has had a traumatic past. The Northern Ireland education department does not not need this cunt advising them on anything to do with education. Under his tenure, behaviour has become worse in England.

[Julie Stuart @JulieStuart19]

@mgtruth "Zach Bryan" apparently... 🤷‍♀️

Fans flock to first night of Zach Bryan's sold-out Belfast gigs - in pictures - Belfast Live https://t.co/kV0fJrjUrn

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

I'm confident nobody will share this.

[Julie Stuart @JulieStuart19]

@adog00youtube @ClimbingCoachX Not that we owe you information that is readily available online, but this person explained it... https://t.co/736LR5igYr

[Beardy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @beardywxm]

@ClimbingCoachX 🌏 200+ countries are split into 6 global regions (Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, North/Central America, Oceania).
🏆 They play a multi-round group stage over ~2 years.
🎟️ The top teams win the 48 coveted slots to the World Cup.

[Julie Stuart @JulieStuart19]

@adog00youtube @ClimbingCoachX https://t.co/736LR5igYr

[Beardy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @beardywxm]

@ClimbingCoachX 🌏 200+ countries are split into 6 global regions (Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, North/Central America, Oceania).
🏆 They play a multi-round group stage over ~2 years.
🎟️ The top teams win the 48 coveted slots to the World Cup.

[Julie Stuart @JulieStuart19]

@shakespeare_d Exactly. For example, autistic meltdowns caused by the placement being unsuitable (either staff or surroundings or level of engagement) labelled as "bad behaviour" and punished... I experienced that with my son before he was diagnosed, but continue to see it to this day

[Julie Stuart @JulieStuart19]

@shakespeare_d Given his history in England, this will ignore the rights of any children who are different in any way, and the policy will end up punishing any who can't function under ridiculously strict discipline rules. All children will lose out in the end.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

A literal coverup

[Julie Stuart @JulieStuart19]

@BlokeOnWheels Nick Ferrari appears to be incapable of understanding *anyone's* experiences that aren't his own...