Frankly I think the cultural obsession with being one's pets' mommy or daddy is emblematic of a real lack of creativity and inability to think outside of the relationship dynamics specific to the nuclear family, but what do I know

The degree to which grown adults will lie to children about random and insignificant things because it pleases the adult to see the kid enjoy the lie is truly alarming

Some good news: Balloon releases will soon be illegal in Louisiana because of the risks they pose to the environment and wildlife

Every time I have to two-factor into something, I get a little closer to replacing my smart phone with a "d*mb" Nokia brick

Happy Pride Month reminder that bisexual women who are married to men are still, in fact, bisexual. 🏳️‍🌈

Something I think we should add to the list of AI tells is that everything is now "quiet" "quiet moments" "quiet impact" "quietly discontinued" "quietly changed" How quiet was it, if you found out and are sharing it with everybody else? It means nothing when used like this. Stop adding filler!

Being a teacher means that, at any time, I wield a great power to clap-clap-clapclapclap and a room full of people will stop talking to pay attention to me, but being a college professor instead of K-12 teacher means I never know when my spell will be successful.

🌈PRIDE IS HERE! 🏳️‍🌈 Be prepared for me to be obnoxious as fuck about being queer for the next 30 days!

I dunno how if this an undiagnosed autistic thing or what, but did anyone else grow up with the adults around them constantly complaining about kids doing an age appropriate behavior so you'd empathize with the kid to help the adult understand, but then that was the wrong thing for you to do?

Anywho let me get back to work. I actually LIKE being a leftist. I'm not embarrassed by the Left(s). I'm not apologetic. I think we should be loud about our ideas and our programs. They are the right ideas.

Not a fan of the autism is a superpower narrative but we are shit-hot at having two completely unrelated conversations at once with the same person

Met a new friend today

The AASPIRE Measurement Toolkit is now available! This is a set of accessible, participatory-generated questionnaires that can be used to measure the outcomes that are most important to autistic adults. They can be used in clinical, community, and/or research settings. aaspire.org/measurement/

I may actually hate every aphorism and saying that has ever existed, but "we're feeling machines that think, not thinking machines that feel" has got to be near the very top of the list

I have a virtual conference on online learning to attend today. The theme: AI and ethics. Every session is about how to cram AI down students’ throats ethically. But we can’t. How do you use a technology built on plagiarism, fascism, and consumption of non-renewable resources ethically, exactly?

to be trans in 2026 is to be subject to ever increasing violent and dehumanizing news bits about your community while everyone else around you is excited about the knicks or whatever

*cough* it’s not vaccines it’s not Tylenol it’s not circumcisions it’s not bubble butt it’s not circumcisions it’s not Tylenol it’s not vaccines it's not Circumcision Tylenol & Autism is not a problem to SOLVE & I'll never understand why "Autistic people oppose a cure" isn't the end of the debate

Today's hot take: You are not responsible for planning for every detail or contingency of an alternative in order to earn advocating for a systemic societal change that you know you want.

What do you mean PARASOCIAL? Everyone I follow here is my friend. Their wins are my wins. Their fights are my fights. My *friends* are on my shelves+are writing TV shows+ are winning court cases. Have I ever met them IRL? Have I ever seen an oxygen molecule... and yet I breathe.

If we don't nickname the generation younger than Zoomers gen αI, what was it even all for?!

More people need to wake up to the active trans genocide in this country. It’s never talked about anywhere.

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

I am medically incapable of multitasking, except sometimes randomly when doing only one thing at once feels like it might actually kill me

AI always calling your ideas “fantastic” can feel inauthentic, but what are sycophancy’s deeper harms? We find that in the common use case of seeking AI advice on interpersonal situations—specifically conflicts—sycophancy makes people feel more right & less willing to apologize.

I can't quote the original post, so here's that article: www.science.org/doi/full/10....

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

To think I could be having a lavender phosphate right now but I'm not 😔

See also: "discourse" does not mean "people arguing with each other" or "people seeing who can say their different takes more loudly than the rest." Nobody really knows what discourse means, but it is certainly not a synonym for "argument" or "heated debate."

I'm sure people are gonna be extremely fucking normal and not weird about Caleb Shomo coming out as gay 🙄 I hate straight people but I love my favorite band

“how am i supposed to explain gay people to my kid” how am i supposed to explain homophobia to MY kid

I didn't think I'd have to say this but if someone is talking about a mental health treatment that is helping them, you don't need to bring up how much you would hate it, how it wouldn't help you, how something else would be better, how you would find it a waste of money, etc

Checking a tour announcement I already checked several times just in case they snuck in a date within a six hour commute from me

Ecosia.com Or Duckduckgo.com You really can just stop using Google search, at least for most things most of the time. I don't need to see a million more examples of bad AI being bad. Just move on. I promise it isn't hard.

Here's your hot take for the day: I don't need every package to ship in 0.02 seconds. Yes I will wait for my package like waiting for my husband to return from the war, but I also don't mind waiting impatiently. Not everything is urgent. It's fine if things take time.

You've probably seen the word #Landback somewhere and instantly had some feelings. It sounds blunt, which is part of why a lot of people tend to have an instant reaction or jump to some very problematic misconceptions about what it means. So, let's talk Landback, from my POV and work.

If you vote against trans right when they need you most I will never trust you. If you make excuses for people who put trans kids in danger we will never, ever be in solidarity. You either meet the moment or get fucked.

this is, yes, a very specific message to a very specific group of cis people but hey we are overrepresented on this app so: when your otherwise well-meaning friends say they don't understand being trans the answer is "you don't have to"

I didn't read any books about trans people as a kid. I didn't talk about gender identity in school. I didn't know any trans kids, adults, or other role models. The first time I heard about transness it was framed as mental illness. I still turned out to be trans.

I love how many people have told me that they know how I won't have much going on this summer, since I just completed my PhD and my job doesn't start until the fall. None of them are academics.

Autism Speaks? If you're me, autism doesn't shut the fuck up

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

Is your cat mean and bitey, or do you light candles, deodorize the house with strong scents, and/or smoke or vape in your home? YOUR PET ISN'T AGGRESSIVE, IT'S JUST IN PAIN, YOU'RE HURTING YOUR CATS AND DOGS.

Anything anyone compliments or criticizes me on at a metal festival I assume is only possible through the sheer magic of eating my body weight in Island Noodles

Fascism doesn’t go for anyone ‘first.’ It goes for multiple targets all at once, but it’s also flexible in terms of which ones are prioritized.

The change comes as arXiv and others struggle to manage an influx of AI-generated materials masquerading as rigorous science.

🎶 let the words come out of me: PURE ECSTASY! 🎶

Natasha Weaving, 27, who has been told by ignorant bystanders that she “doesn’t look autistic”, genuinely could not look more autistic if she tried.

Left a sign in the shared laundry for my apartment building asking anyone if they'd found my lost socks, with the other socks of the pairs next to it so they'd know what I'm looking for. Anyone wanna take bets about whether my missing socks will be returned vs my socks on the sign will be stolen?