The point of all of this is that Obama was willing to change and grow and evolve his views on autism as the understanding of the science changed. Even in his statement right here, he talked about how the increase in diagnoses was because of improved screening. That shows a willingness to evolve.

note: you can only say what you want about me if what you want to say are good things about how funny and cool i am

Hawai'i Governor Josh Green has issued an Emergency Proclamation to protect public access to COVID-19 vaccines. The proclamation allows pharmacists to administer the vaccine to anyone age 3 and older who wants it, without requiring a doctor’s prescription.

Yup. Related, sometimes letting the voices who have knowledge and first-hand experience have the floor is more important than centering our own hot take, especially when we know there's much we don't know.

uber driver: what do you do? me: i'm a video game writer. uber driver: wow!! there's writing in those?

I work from home (not for the CDC), and it is a reasonable accommodation. So grateful to the union shut this down. If I had to go to the office every day, or even every week, I wouldn't be able to work effectively. I've been WFH for five years. I do the job just fine.

My least favorite thing about this era of American history are the people who yell "this is a distraction from xyz..." at every news story. It is entirely possible for 53 bad things to happen simultaneously. That's what happens when the government is run by goons intent on destroying everything.

WESTERN MASS!!!! Sunday 10/5/25 - Kimya Dawson Olive Klug Silvie’s Okay at Kitchen Garden Farm Sunderland, MA (near Northampton) All Ages Doors 6, Music 7 www.eventbrite.com/e/kimya-daws... Please wear a mask!

psa: Touchez Pas Au Grisbi, Night Moves, and Grosse Point Blank are all leaving criterion channel at the end of the month

iso: anyone with saddle nose deformity who masks regularly and / or ENTs who may have some knowledge on the subject — how’s it going? is there a way to be kinder to noses with connective tissue issues in masks?

So I see those protestors with the bullshit at Kamala’s book tour events again. Take your ass to Trump. WHAT DO YOU WANT HER TO DO?! They have smoke for everyone but the one person trying to turn Gaza into a resort.

There's a US military themed bot campaign targeted at Blacksky's PDS. If you see these accounts please report them to @blackskyweb.xyz I am proactively monitoring signups for suspicious accounts but some have slipped through. Thank you to the folks who've already reported them We'll suspend ASAP

"Trans people cannot live alongside people who promise to eradicate us from society." @katelynburns.com For Australians who believe that #TransRightsAreHumanRights, but think that the vicious attacks on trans people in the US can't happen here, read this. burns-notice.ghost.io/what-am-i-su...

‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’ It was originally ‘ekename.’ ‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.” Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it. Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'

The answer to why people think sex scenes in pop culture are unnecessary is that we as a society scorn people who practice the craft of making them good, and also scorn the very concept that it is a craft to begin with. It is, very frankly, a skill issue.

Nothing you did is the reason your kid has autism. AND Autistic kids are beautiful, wonderful, beloved members of our community ❤️

ICYMI, this weekend I refinished some old suitcases for my table display and they turned out SUPER CUTE. Just wrote a quick step-by-step on me blog if you are interested in the process!!!

Actually no Now that I think about it. Still be mean to Nate Silver

I'm exhausted and I should sleep. But I'm also concerned that if I don't stay up two hours past my bedtime shitposting, we may not defeat fascism

So. While I was on vacation in Taiwan, I received this exceedingly entitled email from "a fan" that I have just responded to. I think she'll regret emailing me, but I hope she reads my reply. I will post my (very lengthy) reply in this thread. #romancelandia #archaeology

Emily Oster and the rest of the Urgency of Normal people (who convinced everyone that taking risks with other people’s children was perfectly acceptable so she and they could get their childcare centers back) should rot in hell, but instead here we are

“Twelve percent of cases have required hospitalization, with 29% of those hospitalized aged 19 years or younger. There have been 3 confirmed measles deaths this year.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/cdc-...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

Read the thread. She saw it ALL coming.

My latest graphic novel, Flip, is out tomorrow! ✨

Happened to find this - it's a useful little website if you A) want to know why you should drop Substack and B) want a list of alternatives. A couple also have tools to import your old SS posts over. leavesubstack.com #kidlit

Wishing everyone a great Fall.

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Voting closes tomorrow at noon Pacific time. PLEASE don’t forget to vote. Every WGA election, turn out is dismal and this only hurts guild members. If you’re a lower or mid level TV writer, your vote matters now more than ever — we have NO representation on the BOD. Change that by voting!

Looking for something to fill the NaNoWriMo-shaped voice in your life? Check out #FirstDraftFall, our challenge to write a first draft in the fall, separated into three parts: October - Planning November - Drafting December (until the 12th) - Wrapping up See the full schedule at the link below!

The best part about inadvertently referencing Star Trek on Bluesky is that up to a dozen people will come just to talk about the ghost candle, or the chair, or that time Picard did the thing to the robots, or with the robots, or about the robots. It's an education every time.

Evergreen

It looks like academia dot edu very quietly deleted this clause, today, possibly in response to the increased reporting and documentation on this, including here: dailynous.com/2025/09/22/w... Which is not *less* shady as hell, so i stand by my recommendation to leave that place 🤷🏾‍♂️

In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit. So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

Okay let's do something trans, autistic and FUN, because I need it... and you might need it too 😮 Give me a page number and I give you a quote from my upcoming book SONG OF SPORES! My e-ARC has pages from 3 to 202. (Preorders here: www.brokeneyebooks.com/store/c62/So... )

Hello. Ordained Christian clergy here to ask you to never, never, never use the word Pharisee disparagingly. The Pharisees are the ancestors to modern Judaism.

The 'kin' of ‘napkin’ means "little." ‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.” So a napkin is a little tablecloth. 10/10, no notes.

The UFW wishes our Jewish friends a sweet #RoshHashanah. The first institutional religious support for grape strikers came when boards of rabbis in big Eastern cities declared boycotted products non-Kosher. More @ ufw.org/roshhashanah

come do Festivids! it's a lovely vidding exchange for small fandoms. If you've never made a vid before, this is a great way to start, or to get back to it if you've been away. there's lots of help and support and community around it!

The 80-percent-finished offshore wind farm Trump tried to kill for nebulous reasons can restart construction, according a judge

This book is so good and if you want fake dating and enemies to lovers and humor then yeah read this

Today is the perfect day to support Latine-owned bookstores, authors, and stories 🧡

Happy first day of Autumn! Now through the end of the month, get all seven books of the completed Fae Realm Series for just $7.50 total on my Patreon shop! We're heading into cozy season, and these books are a fantastic read by the fireplace with a fuzzy blanket. ❤️‍🔥 www.patreon.com/posts/comple...

if you have the great misfortune of being on linkedin: settings > data privacy > data for generative AI improvement > off

The New York Times piece today about US science is terrible and wrong—in many ways. I could write a whole article about this, but as one example: “To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…” No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.

l'shanah tovah, my good bitches. may we make incredible impressions on 5786.

Milton is very much a lap dog.