"It might be a temporary relief to succumb to false promises of turning the autistic kid you have into the neurotypical one you thought you would get—but it would also be a betrayal, because few kids are as in need of clear-headed advocacy as autistic kids." thinkingautismguide.com/2025/07/iden...

New from #SCIMaP - analysis of the White House’s Proposed FY 2026 National Science Foundation Budget. Take-home: Slashing NSF by >50% will lead to ~$11 billion in economic loss and extensive job loss and reduced training opportunities in communities nationwide. Report: osf.io/e8rnc a 🧵

Damn, I did not expect USA Today to be the front line of accurate coverage on trans sports issues but here we are. Big props to Nancy Armour for this.

I'm about to tell social media again about the then-director of the Broward Sheriff Office's Child Protective Investigative Section asking why a Disabled woman's family "allowed" her to have sex, let alone get pregnant at all. And took a newborn from the Disabled woman without cause. Hang on.

Thread. I remember some rumblings in tech in the early aughts, and love some of the ideals (think "The Hacker Ethic" vis-a-vis the Protestant work ethic, etc) but... this is a great thread.

Been saying. This has been a concern of Disabled people in the U.S. for years at this point. It's something a lot of other folks for some reason don't entirely get. Often the same folks who think the ADA has actual teeth and does way more than it actually does, come to think of it.

Our current admin hates disabled people 🌈 www.afge.org/article/cdc-...

Every anime and media convention (that isn't ReedPop, I guess?) - I mean, I'd be worried if I spent so much time and money trying to arrange guests, and then have sudden cancellations of travel visas. Not the group itself canceling, but literally the visas being approved then canceled.

It sucks the way the humanities are being eroded & labeled unimportant. For every rant against a “new identity,” there is an ancient poem or painting or song or or or that tells us there is nothing new under the sun

Remember that new study? Yeah we been knowing. 96% of BLM protests were peaceful; same for 99% of the pro-Palestine protests… And while I saw lots of reports on the study, I can’t say the same for the bigger news: That Trump scraped the study from all government websites — like it never existed!

Having two panel presentation ideas based on Silent Hill f, but buying it when I'm overdrawn this week is obvs a bad idea. But also: religious horror framing, foxes, & the dangers of only viewing a living practice/culture through media? Anyway, here's paylink: www.paypal.com/paypalme/kit...

More than 40 media outlets published anti-trans misinformation in the wake of the Charlie Kirk shooting, according to research from @transjournalists.org Here's why that's such a big deal ⬇️ (Video for @xtramagazine.com by me and @cody.boats ) www.tiktok.com/@xtramagazin...

Shanah Tovah, New York City. Here's to a sweet and hopeful New Year.

Got reminded of a couple Snow Patrol songs and ooof, the feels and memories. L'shanah tovah but may the old year and its curses be gone. And may we still love, even in this world.

I start my new job in two weeks on October 6. It’s a year-long contract (fully remote) for $180k, which works for me b/c it gets me exactly what I need & allows me to accomplish a helluva lot. Also, a reminder: if you’re a Black software engineer, DM me b/c they’re still recruiting to fill spots.

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

So let me get this right: Meta has taken an accessibility device and made it totally and completely useless to people who normally use the accessibility device. Without custom prescription lenses, these Meta “glasses” literally exclude the 50% of the population who use eyeglasses for vision.

If you can make it to NYC, check this out: also "Personal Branding for Introverts" is definitely on my list now...

If you know, love, and/or are someone who shouldn't be fasting on Yom Kippur for any reason at all -- and mental health needs are health needs -- then Jewish law says that it's a *requirement* to care for yourself. This site has tons of great resources, and you can now order care packages, too:

“or as having a reproductive nature contrary to the individual's biological sex” Post-menopausal? Off the Internet with you!

this is SO goddamn tortured because making trans identity illegal in law without also having cis people catch strays is *literally impossible*.

I know things are horrible right now. If you have good news/compliments/small wins to share... I could use the mood boost. Maybe we all could.

September is Su*cide Prevention Awareness Month. Seems fitting that @beadleandgrimms.com did a partnership with TakeThis.org then (the Shield of Faith): beadleandgrimms.com/products/tak...

I know things are horrible right now. If you have good news/compliments/small wins to share... I could use the mood boost. Maybe we all could.

We can’t produce fearless investigative journalism without job security and a fair contract. After almost two years of bargaining, we need your help. Show your support for @propublica.org workers by adding your name to our petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Laugh at Trump’s ridiculous innumeracy, sure. But the commander of the world’s most powerful military is responding to relevant questions about the laws of armed conflict by claiming that the existence of drug deaths in general permits him to kill anyone he feels like, which is very serious.

chuck's gotta go, man just can't even pretend to meet the moment we're in, you cannot be out there talking about bipartisan funding for the health care system when the VP is threatening your constituents with loss of employment and freedom for speaking their minds in public

Charlie Kirk literally kept a hit list of professors he disagreed with to target with harassment and threats from his followers. He did not value or create "free speech".

the thing i love about society is how we make massive scientific advances then some absolute hobgoblin says it isn't real and people just believe him. they believe the hobgoblin. doesn't even need proof.

Also you can't say Baltimore is a horrible place without pointing out some of WHY. History of redlining is EXTREMELY visible. And how the slumlords are never a part of that "why" explanation... despite settlements (& amazing reporting by @propublica ) like this.

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Hey! If you're struggling with the volume of ... stuff in the main feeds today, you should take a look for some of the other feeds and hashtags out there. I really enjoy #birds #mammals #FlowerReport #MorningWalk Craft Sky, and Fiber Arts. Go have a browse of the feeds! You'll find some relief.

You are under no obligation to mourn the death of people who would’ve celebrated yours.

every Tesla "innovation" turns out to be style-over-substance bullshit that has no place in a product class where peoples lives and livelihoods depend on safety and reliability

Sure seems like Big Pharma spent way way more energy, money and lobbying capital on fighting Dems on prescription drugs than doing anything about the Secretary of HHS casually, and without any real evidence, telling everyone their products kill kids and give them autism.

there is a certain irony around tech bros who believe that the work of writers is largely worthless, while also claiming at the same time that they desperately need to use that written work - without compensating human authors - so they can make a bazillion dollars off LLM products.

Justice Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson, in dissent: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."

Leaving aside his contempt for taking domestic violence seriously, please remember that DHS has repeatedly argued that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a dangerous menace to the nation because of allegations of domestic violence. Is it not a crime? Or is it a crime so serious it merit deportation?

"Science says I can't do the thing that I see in children's books because real life isn't Curious George, and now I'm mad at woke libs for breaking the image of the world I formed at 5 years old and never ventured beyond" truly is a core conservative belief

Agreed and adding: and queer kids. And yes, that means trans kids too. Even if they're now adults.

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.

And if you really want to think about why so many adult children go no contact with their parents/natal families? It’s because the models of abuse have not kept up with the modes of abuse. Most child abuse doesn’t come with bruises, dirt, or starvation. It’s far more insidious and plausibly denied.

Bad things can’t just happen. The world is orderly and causal, not random. Bad things are someone’s fault. So they must be someone else fault. Because if they aren’t someone else’s fault…

autism moms and transphobic parents are basically the same phenomenon. They want to believe that the kid being different, not what they expected is due to an external damage, that hurt their child. Their property. Because they do see kids as property.

All this autism shit has me thinking about something I’ve believed in for a while now: The anti-vax/autism movement gained traction because it found an audience of parents who refused to believe they had faulty genes, so saying autism is their fault was reprehensible to them.