www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kL9... Well, this is worth watching, about 'modern' alleged gold-standard, ABA.

Our system is broken. Medicare for All, now.

I meant the GOD!

It is not even just idiocy; it's more than that. There is an isolationist or malignantly insular aspect to the American psyche. What would be the harm to children or to the country if people were aware of different ways of writing numbers?

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

Asexuality is a spectrum, and all of us who fall somewhere on that spectrum have different relationships with sex and sexual attraction https://www.wearequeeraf.com/asexuality-is-a-spectrum-that-answered-a-lifetime-of-questions/

.. and actually the same goes in the work environment. If you have a colleague that seems to be always fidgeting or 'checked out', maybe they are autistic. Maybe asking them to look at you or stop stimming is badly affecting both their work and their stress. #autism

I want to share an insight from my brother; an autistic adult who works as a tutor for middle- and high-school children. #autism #education He works with a group of other tutors, mostly allistic. They were sharing notes recently on how to effectively work with autistic students. 🧵

UBI would let me get the medical testing and procedures I keep putting off done without worrying about having to take the time off with no short term disability coverage.

Universal Basic Income

It's actually ridiculous to describe Trump's evil behavior as "Unamerican". HE'S THE PRESIDENT! America elected him twice. Roughly half of the voting population voted for him; nearly 40% of the US approves of him today. He's VERY American! The question is, how do we make America less rotten?

Cats know exactly what they are doing 😸 #Caturday

Though I did not know it until recently; I'm autistic and ADHD. My "career path" consisted of finding people who would pay me to indulge my special interests, getting bored, leaving the job after two years, then finding someone else who would pay me. #autistic #adhd

The first palm rest is nearly done. I love the shape of the supports under the surface. Of course I'll have to clean those off, but I think they look quite pretty. #svalboard

Port commented: “I don’t want you to feel like you have to pretend to be something you’re not around me. What’s that noise? Are you… hissing at me? How did you manage to mess your hair up like that without touching it?”

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

I put my printer through its paces over the last week or so just to make sure it is working well. Now I have the parts files needed to start my build. I'll be starting with the big bits; the cases supporting the keyboards and housing most of the electronics. #svalboard

Weird how many racists like to self-identify themselves as racists.

Men, like all adults, have responsibilities. The simplest of those responsibilities is to avoid causing harm to others. To suggest the men are 'boys', incapable of good behaviour, is insulting, infantalising, and inexcusable. Be an adult and take responsibility for your actions.

Alex has found her favorite chair. #caturday

Way to go! 🔥👍💯❤️👏 This 14-year-old girl hands Megyn Kelly her ass for her utterly disgusting minimization of child sexual abuse. You go girl! #cdnpoli

I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.

Without minimising the effects of sexual violence on women and girls of all ages I'd like to say on behalf of young boys who were raped: #metoo

“What ChatGPT says about politics — or anything — is ultimately what the people who created it say it should say, or allow it to say; more specifically, human beings at OpenAI are deciding what neutral answers to those 500 prompts might look like and instructing their model to follow their lead.”

Gods no. Seattle is nice by US standards but it is still a place without public healthcare and with a US style militarised police force. Give me a nice European city any day.

Let's be a little clearer about this. Flights have been affected because of a decision long ago that air traffic control is a public good that should be funded by the government (unlike healthcare, but that's a different conversation).

Turkey issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and 36 other Israeli officials for genocide and crimes against humanity. Turkey is seeking international warrants too, which would oblige European states to arrest them.

Can confirm … saw a Fox and friends image and immedialty thought “Hey it’s that guy who wants to kill unhoused and disabled people”

Also,

If it wasn't for air, Bill Mitchell would not be such a big windbag.

Using food as a weapon is against several treaties and the rules of war.

An oldie but still relevant. www.aclu.org/news/privacy...

This is an excellent and really important point. At what point does money stop being a motivator for work? We know for most of us that we need income, and to get that we need work. But once we have a good home, healthcare, food and all the leisure activity we want, does money still motivate us?

I have decided to take on a project to build a gift for myself for Christmas. A Svalboard Datahand. svalboard.com I'll post some progress updates here with #svalboard Current status: I've ordered the kit which should arrive next week, and I'm bringing my printer back to life with a few simple jobs.

Every Irish politician needs to get off this racist’s website *immediately*. There is no excuse. #speirgorm

www.bbc.com/news/article... Portugal shows the USA how it is done.

stay focused

A lesson from history: During the great famine in Ireland in the 1840s there were certainly robber barons that took food out of the country while people starved. Perhaps the most famous of these is Trevellian, as mentioned in the ballad "The fields of Athenry"

Seriously? You want to see sex tapes with children?

@bsky.app A related question: Can you tell us what metrics you are tracking in relation to engagement and some idea of the relative value of these metrics to your ideal of what BlueSky should be?

In theory the press are there to create an informed electorate who can then use their votes to move their government in a healthy direction. In practice the press are there to keep the public too ignorant, propagandized and distracted to meddle in the workings of the imperial machine.

"An economy that kills, that excludes, that starves, that concentrates enormous wealth in a few to the detriment of the many, that multiplies poverty and grinds down salaries, that pollutes, that produces war, is not an economy: It is just an emptiness, an absence, a sickness." #PopeFrancis #Hope

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You don’t just wear a mask on Halloween. Yours clings long after the pumpkins rot, painted with steadiness you don’t feel, stitched tight to keep the cracks unseen. Every smile a patch, every nod a lie. Beneath it all, you're still breaking quietly. #vss365 #poetry #Halloween

The music cuts off awkwardly before the end, but this is an incredible NYC Halloween costume compilation.

A Scottish Happy Halloween to all who celebrate.

Even if the cause was not arson - the unchecked hatred that is being allowed to boil is going to cause something catastrophic. I remember the lead up to marching season in 1998 and how it culminated in the 3 poor Quinn boys being killed for being ‘other’. We have been here before, not long ago

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

"Don't be a sucker" 1945 United States Army movie about FASCISM.