I was radicalized by a kind elderly Presbyterian minister in a brightly colored cardigan who played with puppets and told me that people could like me exactly as I am and that everyone is different and that's great and we should like them exactly as THEY are.

Paging Dr @hobbesq.bolasgang.com

Hey, Canada 🙋🏻‍♂️ Any chance you want a trade? US takes Manitoba and you get Minnesota. Win/win, right?

"Grandparents may feel very worried when they hear that their grandchild is autistic. This may be because they may be confused about what autism is, and what it isn’t." A friendly and neuro-inclusive autism primer, from @annmemmott.bsky.social: www.autismcentral.org.uk/news/blog-gr... #autism

Today marks 14 years since 17-year-old, unarmed Trayvon Martin was shot and killed while walking home. 14 years later, we’re still demanding a country where our children can walk home in peace — without being treated like a threat.

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

I do not think cis people truly understand just how dangerous this Kansas law is. This is terrorizing trans people. Imagine not being able to go into work this week because you're told you could go to jail if you drive with a previously completely valid driver's license??

A reminder that autistic and ADHD folks are significantly more likely to die by suicide or to preventable medical complications... and that's just the diagnosed ones that can be part of a verified data set. We just lost a teacher and they were absolutely One Of Us.

🗳️ Take action today to protect our right to vote! The SAVE Act would make it much harder for some disabled people to vote. Learn more and take action with our plain language action alert! autisticadvocacy.org/2026/02/save...

A micro version of this happened to me when I was 14. Summer job mowing lawns in cemeteries, after torrential rain (in flat land) led to graves collapsing. One sunk 10in as I was riding over it, enough to tip the tiny Toro I was driving, backwards onto me... still running. Final Destination stuff.

The reason you stand firm about sports participation and bathrooms is because it never stops with sports participation and bathrooms. And it never stops with trans people. As we've been saying the whole goddamn time!

Mama Garcia texted me and called Trump "pinche pendejo," but loved Abigail Spanberger.

This. Again, if the topic of discussion is the intersection of racism and ableism, in particular, anti-Black racism and Tourette syndrome with coprolalia, listen to people who have expertise and lived experience with both.♥️👍🏿 And they will say the same things that I and other Black folk have said.

Reminder: non-Black people don’t get to dictate how Black folks respond to the n-word. Period.

ICE activity continues to interrupt daily life for students, staff and families, despite the announced end of the two-month surge of federal immigration agents. Students attend school remotely, staff monitor arrival and dismissal, and leaders wonder when they can resume normal school operations.

Absolutely not. Black men don’t commit suicide by hanging themselves. By which I mean Black men don’t commit suicide by hanging themselves. Or, to put it another way, Black men do not commit suicide by hanging themselves.

Being Black & autistic: With Double Consciousness, a Black person has to understand white people, but white ppl don’t have to understand them. With The Double Empathy Problem, autistics have to understand non-autistics, but not vice versa. Gyasi Burks-Abbott: thinkingautismguide.com/2023/04/a-co...

Parents of autistic kids: Please understand that if you constantly feel overwhelmed by the demands of parenting, it may be because you share traits with your children: Many parents find out they are autistic only after their own kids are diagnosed. At TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2024/06/how-...

How China is reporting on the Epstein Files.

PSA for Discord's new age verification! If you get hit by it and refuse to give them any ID or face scans as you should, here's a way to just... bypass it. Go to Settings - Family Centre and then just enter a date of birth that's 18+ It's really that simple. Give them nothing.

No, Disney. Absolutely not. I am in a state which automatically fails all rolls for psychic damage.

Confirming from suburbs. Goons just came down our street with a van, dressed in bright green/yellow saftey jackets, pretending to be something (we weren't stupid enough to open the door). Canvassing people don't operate at night, with SUV & sedan backup, in fireteams of 2 sweping down a street 🙄

Yup. From our Daycare today

Confirming from suburbs. Goons just came down our street with a van, dressed in bright green/yellow saftey jackets, pretending to be something (we weren't stupid enough to open the door). Canvassing people don't operate at night, with SUV & sedan backup, in fireteams of 2 sweping down a street 🙄

Minnesota residents and lawmakers say the promised drawdown has not materialized, and they are seeing ICE use more covert tactics to continue operations across Twin Cities suburbs. By @ncsscibelli.bsky.social

Centering Black autistic women’s voices too much? White fragility kicks in. Tears. Defensiveness. “Why are you excluding us?” Suddenly the focus shifts to white feelings instead of Black disparities. That’s the problem.

I swear, I'm gonna start a #NeurotypicalsTranslated series.

Focus on test data when 3/4 of the staff fears retaliation from problematic admin. Focus on ACCESS tetsing for kids who are just coming back to the building after fearing secret government police. Focus on building trust when deans are the biggest bullies our students have. #InserviceDoodles

"Take care of yourselves" or "self-care," is really "Hide any struggles or differences you experience, because it's rude to make us witness the impact of our policies and practices." When spoken by any establishment or workplace, it's a proclamation of ableism.

It’s okay for white autistic women not to be centered in every autism convo. When I center Black autistic women, “we struggle the same” shows up 😒 you don’t. Research/media center whiteness, Black kids are misdiagnosed, diagnosed later, and face racial barriers

“I’m Kind of Stuck in the Middle. I Don’t Know Where to Go”: Race, Autism, & Intersectional Stigma Among Black & White Autistic Adults by Jones & team explored how intersecting identities shapes autistic adults' experience of stigma & marginalization. NEW FREE journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I'm exhausted and about to pass out but Tonight I performed my poetry at a burlesque show in the most scantily clad outfit I've worn in public 4 people told me I made them cry. 1 person felt compelled to hug me as I left the stage. Multiple ppl told me I'm their favorite poet Life can be good

“Whenever we go past that school, Ty's like: ‘Am I going back to jail, Mom? Are you taking me back over there?,’” Ty’s mother said. “I felt like nobody at that school was really fighting for him. They were too busy trying to justify what they did.” (Pub. Nov. 2024)

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

Sitting for dinner on a much-needed Daddy Parole night and two old white folks start talking about videos and podcasts at another table. I'm waiting for the MAGA shit to turn my stomach, prepping for the public argument... They're on about debunking sasquatch & ice fishing lake rescues. Love MN.

It's another day of screams. Goblin2 has been food-aversive again, and has been shrieking for the past 4hrs. I swear, I'm gonna pop the first person tomorrow to cheerfully ask how my weekend was, or spout some "take care of yourself" BS about getting rest over a long weekend.

the Black Panthers were right

Discussing what's in OP's thread with a community presenter, they added context I needed: Ableism was also a shield to abuses of slavery, i.e. "You don't want him, he's <insert disability>," embedding another another aspect of white supremacy into modern culture. This, this, THIS ⬇️

In my latest article, I write about how ICE raids in Minnesota echo the imprisonment of our ancestors at Fort Snelling, at Bdote, and the execution of the Dakota 38. This isn’t new. The land remembers. So do we. #iceout @sfchronicle.com www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

The reality of being autistic is losing all types of relationships... friendships, romantic partners, jobs... having absolutely no idea what you did & never being given a chance to even understand because no one is willing to communicate with you because "you know what you did"

Last month kicked off the newest #HalvarMechs campaign, an entire unit in Force Command instead of single pilot like last year. Stories drive me (a big part of why I quit Magic is the worldbuilding of a cohesive IP dying to Fortnite-ification), so I'm putting more emphasis on narrative than play. 1/

My small public school district, comprised of 95% marginalized students, maybe 1800 kids across all ages and programs... Has 30 administrators. 30 people with Principal, Director, or Coordinator in their title. All with a salary to match. But we're "justice centered." 🤡

I'm not saying that the US is a racist country. But I am saying that the highest paid government employee in most states is a college sports coach🤡, and that college sports is a racist system that exploits poor Black kids in a way that would be wildly illegal in most countries. 🤔OK I am saying that

Let's kick off a #HalvarMechs resurgence in my nerd posting because MH requires a change. A couple folks I've gamed with for the past 17mo have adapted a Battletech Force Command system for a new monthly campaign. So let me tell you about Commander Na'Teisha Barron's pirate company. 1/

Over the years, my special interests have been Battletech, Star Wars EU, football, and Magic. Football died a long time ago when I gave up coaching (parents are horrible) and Magic's corpse is currently twitching on the floor. Y'all are about to get Mech'd if you don't mute #HalvarMechs.

I used to post a lot about Magic. It was my autistic special interest, a fixation transcending hobby that only neurokin and -cousins understand. Without that, I'm stuck in a social media event horizon, circling The Horrors™️. I need to bring back some nerdiness, even if I'm speaking to the Void.

Johannesburg’s Nyamakop Studios turns African artifact repatriation into a bold heist game. Protagonist Nomali and a crew of ordinary citizens reclaim 70 real-life artifacts taken during the colonial era. The 30-person dev team includes people from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania.

Hey can we bring back all those internet safety campaigns we had when I was a millennial teen? It is NOT my job to parent someone else's kids and have to submit my ID to places to sanitize the internet for some puritanical outrage about kids. Parents should be doing this themselves.

In honor of Black History Month, we are highlighting Instagram accounts that enlighten and inform about the Black neurodivergent and disabled experience. From @ejwillingham.bsky.social, in the latest TPGA newsletter: buttondown.com/TPGA/archive... #autistic #neurodiversity #BlackHistory

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation: