Oh I love this guy.
You’ll all come back and tell me he’s a raging leftie of the worst order and I shan’t care.
When you can make me laugh like a loon in a cafe on my own like this I will give you all my time!
Emma Kok singing “Voila”.
Don’t just skip past this one. This is worth listening to. Trust me. You know you can trust me by now, right? This song gets better and better as it goes on.
If nothing else, I’m posting it so I can hear it again.
This guy's chickens kept getting targeted by hawks, so he started feeding local crows. Now he has an army of crows that patrols his property and chases the hawks away.
I happen to have just finished co-authoring a paper with someone who uses Word. This is precisely what happened every time I opened it in Google Docs.🤣
Oh. Take a moment to listen to this
Teacher Eda Nives harmonising with a student, a 9 year old little girl (whose identity she protects by not showing her face which I also love)
Wow wow wow. Heavenly singing 🎵 🎶 🎵 ❤️
‘Autistic Barbie’ by Mattel just landed. So, let’s get into it.
She is thin.
Conventionally attractive.
Feminine.
Long straight haired.
Neatly presented.
Barbie-proportioned.
Minidress and long legs.
And what marks her out as autistic?
Headphones. A fidget spinner. And I quote, a ‘vacant look in her eye’ according to Mattel, to represent that ‘autistic people struggle with eye contact’.
That’s it.
Be real with me. This is not representation of autistic lives. It’s aesthetic labelling. Autism reduced to a single, sanitised visual cue that has become popularised through social media stereotypes. Headphones function as a shorthand for ‘sensory sensitivity’, which is then flattened into ‘autism’.
This is branding and commodification of autism.
“Autism is where you have headphones on and a vacant look in your eye.” I mean. Are we being serious?
Nothing about this doll reflects the material realities of autistic people’s lives. There is no engagement with power, exclusion, or harm. Autism is treated as something you accessorise, not something that shapes how you are treated by schools, employers, healthcare systems, families, friends, partners, police, courts, prisons, or the state.
But forget about all that. Look pretty, get your legs out, and play with your fidget spinner, sis.
My new article sharing my views has arrived.
What better way to kick start the New Year than a message from @ryanseacrest
Graham's back, and so is the Wheel!!!
Tune in tomorrow night for more spinning action, and see if our contestants can take home a big win!
@grahnort @itvxofficial #wheeloffortune#newseries#gameshow
OMG the T-Shirts and what is happening behind is hilarious.This is funny in my opinion. Sorry for any bad language Typical #British holiday they say! Have a #monday smile to start your week off. 🙈🙈😆😆😆😆