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  Elon fanboy posting that Democrats would be cruel to put Musk in jail because that would "keep him away from his kids". Sort of like how putting me in jail would prevent me from running all those ultramarathons.

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  Isn't it a bit weird how so many populist efforts to gain power involve voter suppression? Like, if you really were supported by the vast majority, who are sick of being downtrodden by a tiny elite, then surely you'd want as many people voting as possible?

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  Is anyone doing any research into how AI posters/flyers/ads all look completely different but exactly the same and so obviously AI, all at the same time? Because I reckon there's a lot of interesting useful data to be had there.

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  You know how about two months' worth of the usual rain went missing this Summer? Well it's just turned up in Cardiff.

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  What idiot calls their far-right dating site 'WhiteDate' and not 'OKKKCupid'?

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  "The Lowe down" was RIGHT THERE! If you have a punnable name but refuse to use it as such, you shouldn't be writing autobiographies. This is a hill I will die on.

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  NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

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  11yo Daughter: "Where are you going, dad?" Me: "Just to the toilet" 11yo daughter: "Good luck!" ...what does she know that I don't?

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  Just got a spam email titled "The baking soda trick: how to restore male sexual potency" I mean, don't get me wrong, a lot of guys appreciate a nice clean oven, but not in THAT way.

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  Reading 'Thud' again, because why the hell not, and yet again I find new expressions of Pratchett's genius I'd not considered before. E.g. the Detritus-Brick relationship. How do you make physical violence heartwarming? HOW??

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  Interesting scenario, there are TWO 'train guys' in this carriage, having separate work meetings on their phone's loudspeaker, both trying to passive-aggressively 'out business' the other. It's like stags butting antlers, if stags were insufferable arseholes who spoke only in corporate jargon

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  "You can't imagine the woke youngsters of today being much use at the D-Day landings!" You can't imagine the older sorts who say crap like this being much use at D-Day either. They clearly lack the wherewithal to operate a machine gun nest.

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  This isn't really relevant for anyone on this platform, and I have no idea how you'd look them up, but the Chinese editions of my two books for younger readers were published this past weekend, by Beijing Science and Technology Press. So that's cool. #Books #China #Teens #MentalHealth #Parenting

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  IT WAS ME!!! *I* ATE ALL YOUR TAX! And you know what? ...I'd DO IT AGAIN!!! #taxes #reform #books #WelshGovernment

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  Should you be in/around Neath this Saturday (17th October), please do consider coming along to my event for Neath Arts Festival, at the Town Hall, at 6pm, where we'll be doing a fun discussion of my debut book The Idiot Brain, and all the ridiculous stuff it led to. Free entry! #Books #Arts #Free

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  I often meet fellow cat owners who want to compare cat escapades, which usually leads to me saying "My cat is such 'a cat' that he made the international news" And they laugh at this obvious exaggeration Then stop laughing when I point out that it really isn't one https://www.newsweek.com/case-poses-photo-house-window-problem-twitter-1834379 #Pickle

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  Should you be in/around Neath this Saturday (17th October), please do consider coming along to my event for Neath Arts Festival, at the Town Hall, at 6pm, where we'll be doing a fun discussion of my debut book The Idiot Brain, and all the ridiculous stuff it led to. Free entry! #Books #Arts #Free

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  Confessions of an official waste of taxpayer’s money https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/confessions-of-an-official-waste?r=24oxwv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Being deemed an official waste of government funds in a feeble attempt at political point scoring that's then amplified by the mainstream media is an odd experience. My latest post explains my side of the story (seeing as nobody else asked) #Reform #PlaidCymr...

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  Confessions of an official waste of taxpayer’s money https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/confessions-of-an-official-waste?r=24oxwv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Being deemed an official waste of government funds in a feeble attempt at political point scoring that's then amplified by the mainstream media is an odd experience. My latest post explains my side of the story (seeing as nobody else asked) #Reform #PlaidCymr...

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  Should you be in/around Neath this Saturday (17th October), please do consider coming along to my event for Neath Arts Festival, at the Town Hall, at 6pm, where we'll be doing a fun discussion of my debut book The Idiot Brain, and all the ridiculous stuff it led to. Free entry! #Books #Arts #Free

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  Should you be in/around Neath this Saturday (17th October), please do consider coming along to my event for Neath Arts Festival, at the Town Hall, at 6pm, where we'll be doing a fun discussion of my debut book The Idiot Brain, and all the ridiculous stuff it led to. Free entry! #Books #Arts #Free

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  Right-wingers invoking the 'silent majority' But the thing about the silent majority is, if the majority of people have decided to stay silent about something, then they clearly don't want it talked about, possibly because they know it's bad/wrong. So we should respect that. Because democracy

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  "By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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  Given that a barely qualified psychiatrist making one 10 year old briefly go without meds warranted weeks of primetime coverage about how #ADHD is a myth, this report, which is orders of magnitude more conclusive, will surely receive even more attention. Any minute now... #TheGreatADHDMyth

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  RE: https://ohai.social/@Garwboy/117270549593473203 Fun fact: I wrote this, my first @theguardian.com article in years, weeks ago. I wasn't told it was published today, only found out because a belligerent stranger emailed me directly to call me a cretin for not recognising that overpopulation is the real problem Some things never change

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  There’s a surprisingly simple reason for England’s high antidepressant use: lots of people need them https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/14/england-record-antidepressant-use-gp-guidelines-overprescribing?CMP=share_btn_url My latest article, for the... [checks notes] Guardian? Doesn't ring a bell, must be some new publication. #mentalhealth #antidepressants

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  FFS, @Guardian. Max Pemberton is NOT an expert in #ADHD, he's a psychiatrist specialiseing in older patients, with a bizarre agenda against #Neurodivergence, a regular column in the Daily Mail, and a dangerous TV show to promote Remember when you had actual experts regularly writing for you?

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  Only just found out about this For the record, you don't get multiple genetic markers and one of the most effective medications known to science with 'social constructs' Channel 4, this is, in scientific parlance, an absolute fu*king disgrace that will genuinely endanger lives #c4 #ADHD

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  A lot of bugs around makes me realise: You know what you never see any more? Fly paper. Used to be pretty common in the 80s/90s, and seemed pretty effective. But I guess having the insect equivalent of a public gallows in your kitchen is a tricky sell when hygiene standards are a thing

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  Happy NINTH birthday to the truck battling dog dominating home invading malevolent trickster god in a small furry body that is Pickle. Long may he allow us to continue to exist. #pickle #birthday