The autistic community have been here before, with the pervasive myth that vaccines caused autism. Do you know what that caused? Dead children, killed by preventable diseases because people were so scared of their children becoming autistic, or otherwise subjected to ‘cures’ like drinking bleach.

Tomorrow Trump will announce the ‘cause’ of autism, something he says is ‘out of control’. He also doesn’t care if (read: that) what he says is wrong. Autism isn’t out of control, but ableism is. Autism isn’t out of control, but eugenics are.

Great date night at Hobbit Night at Amazing Art Studio. We even won trivia (team name: Beren and Lúthien) by out nerding the other nerds. We’re hanging the You Shall Not Pass sign on our dog door. Dan’s wood art is going in his office. I also made a Prancing Pony stein. @izzos.us

Belgian-born chef on Top Chef: “Belgium has so many culinary influences from the countries that conquered us. And we’ve been conquered a lot.” Um, The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda would like to have a word regarding Belgium’s status as a subjugated nation.

Just get rid of replay if you can’t overturn that play. Jazz Chisholm was CLEARLY safe. #Yankees

Pedro Martinez saying that he’d handle Judge by hitting him every so often to “keep him in line” is classic asshole Pedro. #Yankees

Listen, I know that baseball is largely a male-driven conservative sport, but it still makes me so sad to see the Yankees shaking hands and posing with Donald Trump like he wouldn't deport half their team without losing a second of sleep. I just always think there's a line, and I am always wrong.

The Yankees paid tribute tonight to Charlie Kirk, for seemingly no reason as Kirk wasn't from NY or lived in NY. President Trump will be at Yankee Stadium tomorrow to mark the 24th anniversary of 9/11 attacks. As a Yankees fan, I am embarrassed and sorry.

24 books in July. 📚💙 #booksky These are my top 5-star books this month. I highly recommend all of these.

@izzos.us: Wanna work on laundry downstairs and play our (PS5) game (which involves me watching for the story)? Me: I’m not sure I feel like knitting. I just did it for 2 hours straight. Dan: You could just watch. And not knit. Me: Hurrumph. *grabs knitting bag* 🧶 Happy Friday #Knitsky!

Absolute fucking ghouls...

Hot off the Knitting Needles! My Marmalade and Flames Shawl using the Plumpy pattern from Andrea Mowry! I made it for the Yarniacs Colors of Fall Knit-a-Long. I used Mrs Moon Plump DK and Malabrigo Silky Merino & Rastita. I’m pretty happy with it for my first real brioche project! #knitsky 🧶

The correct plural for Octopus is apparently “hotly debated” among grammarians. I have so many questions. How many other debates are there? How fierce do they get? Who decides these debates? Is it like the Oxford comma, which I have strong feelings about? Inquiring minds (me) want to know.

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If Lisa Murkowski's next opponent doesn't run an ad saying that at a critical moment for our nation, Murkowski showed *less spine than Susan Collins* it will be a colossal failure on the part of their campaign.

Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie. One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears. They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.

The ugliness of this bill doesn't stop. Senate Republicans also voted against your right to breathe clean air.

Schumer and Jeffries should condemn this and demand an apology from the President - or they should resign, or be primaried.

A quarterly update: 165 books! I’ve been knitting a different temperature blanket like project this year. This is a book shawl, each 2 rows is one book read with the color corresponding to the genre. I’m reading a lot more non-fiction than anticipated. #knitsky #booksky 💙📚🧶 Pattern in ALT.

First Pride Month finish. I made this to honor my eldest child and to replace my chair shawl at work. I’m hoping it is a subtle show of LGBTQIA+ support at my federal government office that made me remove my pronouns from my signature line. Pattern in ALT text. #showmeyourknits #knitsky 🧶

honestly one of the most encouraging recent developments is the naked opportunism of Governor Gavin Newsom, and I pray that there are copycats www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

bro i told you to file final_final.docx. this is final.docx bro

If someone has an accent I assume they are a better person than me in every way

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

This should be *more than* sufficient to allow a person who wants to go protest to seek and obtain an injunction against the use of force against protesters

#knitsky 🧶 is having a good laugh at gaming being one of the most expensive hobbies around

My teen, who crochets, didn’t know about Ravelry and I’m gonna have to rein in my excitement. Teens are like angry cats - if you don’t correctly walk the tightrope of nonchalant and helpful, they hiss and roll their eyes. #crochet #knitting 🧶

81 years ago. When people still realised you have to fight fascism.

Mega historical bust ups. A thread. 1. King John and Philip of France The powerful foreigner cynically helped put the incompetent, odious sex offender on the throne only to launch an all out war against him. John bankrupted his kingdom, fell out with everyone and shat himself to death

"You're technically not losing rights, because you've been operating under the misapprehension that you had more rights than you actually did" Cool man. I have a report that you may find very interesting

Breaking news: Michaels has announced the acquisition of Joann's intellectual property, including its private label brands. It says Big Twist yarns to be sold at Michaels are in development and will be available later this year. #craftsky 🧶 knitting.craftgossip.com/michaels-acq...

FEMA Head announces that hurricane prediction will return to the traditional method of reading the entrails of pigeons sacrificed to the god Poseidon.

My home of Missoula just voted to establish the pride flag as an official government flag of the city, thereby circumventing the state's asinine pride flag ban. 🏳️‍🌈 Missoula is once again showing how to fight back against policies that seek to erase the LGBTQ community.

Uh...I am completely convinced this explains like 95% of "Bigfoot" sightings...

um, you couldn’t PAY ME to touch this book or support it. never in a thousand years. wow. ew. ick. 📚💙

Happy pride!! #knitting 🧶

A few throw-size blankets I’ve knit in the last year. Patterns and yarns in the Alt text. 🧶 #showmeyourknits

This was me...today...about like 3 hours ago.

When you can’t outcompete, just ban them. Classic.

Yes this probably somewhat due to his recent criticisms but it’s really just that his allowable time as a SGE is up. This does not signal that DOGE is done. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Fuck this guy. The blatant discrimination and segregation is literally in his words- “Hey, listen, we love you. We want you to be part of our community, but this is just the one place you can’t play, and let’s find other activities for you to be involved,” he said.” www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

Fuck him. The rate of autism diagnoses is up because the rate of misdiagnosis is down, particularly with cis girls who often mask their symptoms. See JAMA / Kaiser article from 2024: divisionofresearch.kaiserpermanente.org/more-women-y... thehill.com/homenews/adm...

#showmeyourknits Purple from the last couple years. Patterns in alt text. #knitsky 🧶