Two dogs passive aggressively fighting over a bed

Never lose sight of the truth that the current state of the world was never inevitable. This is not the way things HAD to be, nor where things were "always headed." The Cold War nearly ended in nuclear fire multiple times. America's western border was once the Appalachian Mountains.

Okay, I gotta get to work on this project [opens Discord] I gotta get to work on this project! [opens Bluesky] I GOTTA WORK ON THE PROJECT [opens Discord again] THE PROJECT!!!! [opens Bluesky to make this post]

remember, you have something to live for (2/2)

cw: transphobia, suicide my best friend is dead — reupload, 2023 (1/2)

this one doin numbers on mastodon but bsky doesn't let me have enough characters

🔵 LA MESA | A semanas de la segunda vuelta, la economista pasó por La Mesa con una advertencia al que llegue a La Moneda. Además, analizó el verdadero estado de la economía, la herencia que recibirá el próximo Gobierno y por qué Chile está “mejor que hace años, pero lejos de donde debería estar”.

Coming soon in Chile

🖋Tribuna | "La educación pública de Chile se recupera de manera progresiva y auspiciosa, a pesar de los efectos del cierre de establecimientos durante la pandemia". Por Nicolás Cataldo Astorga dozz.es/fe_pe5

Informe de hoy de la OCDE sobre pensiones, acá el apartado Chile www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

"¿Y por qué tengo que pagar yo tu sanidad?". Porque yo pago tus carreteras o el alumbrado, por ejemplo. ¿O esas también te las puedes costear con un módico seguro de 130€ al mes?

God, a thousand times this. That's the thing with dopamine being tied to task initiation - there's a set of gears that won't - CAN'T - engage in my brain, but none of my problems are with analysis. I can be fully aware of all the necessary steps, and stressing about starting, and just... not.

Anyway that's how I learned the way I think of fairness is systemic. It's not fair if it doesn't work for everyone. It's not fair if it relies on magical thinking and erasing the bits of work that get passed down the line. It's not fair for 4 employees to be lazy and one to have panic attacks.

True story, I was someone's workplace GPT and they got a cash recognition prize, a raise and a promotion off of my help before I un-adopted myself on the grounds they were interfering with my work. Things have been pretty steadily downhill for them ever since.

I contacted a university disability/accommodations office for my dyslexic husband to see if he could get any of these fabled student supports. "IS HE PERMANENTLY AND IRREPARABLY UNABLE TO FUNCTION?" they inquired. Upon learning he in fact functions sometimes, they said no to supports.

Having a mental illness is so funny because you'll explain your thought process to someone and they'll be like, "Well that doesn't make sense," and you're like, "Right, yes, you've grasped the basic concept of mental illness."

My current boss helps me prepare for every interview (consultants interview a lot) by reminding me the best answer to the question "do you have experience in X" is never just "no" even when that is the truth. You're supposed to spin a related experience or say how you would do it if you could.

It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.

I find it fascinating that almost every person's home I visit now has an area set up to be camera-ready, whether through Zoom, a YouTube camera, or something else, to make your living space aesthetically pleasing for people who will never actually physically enter it.

I don't expect the bluesky mods to enforce their TOS against government accounts. But they are the ones who decided to make the social media site where all the autistic people hang out. "Say what the rules actually are, then apply them like you said you would" is a bare minimum for this crowd.

I started watching videos about competitive tetris players and my mind has been completely blown. These are levels of autism previously thought unreachable. I can't believe people wanna get rid of autism, it's the only thing powerful enough to propel competitive tetris and that's a good thing.

I will never forget the coworker, a mother of an autistic child, who asked me in all seriousness if I REALLY thought that being autistic was a different experience than being an autistic kid's parent. If I really thought she didn't fully understand her kid's experience.

If you are an autistic person who believes doing taxes is crazy hard because you grew up watching your ADHD dad agonizing over them so you've avoided them as hard as you can your whole life Just try it. It might all make sense to you. And then you can help your ADHD spouse 😭

"No special treatment" usually means "but I don't think this is my job" or "but I don't know how to do this" or even "but how will I explain this to my other employees" and those are all problems for a manager to solve, not their disabled employee. You don't need a checklist. You need a leader coach

Today I had to explain to my husband that Epstein Island and Mar-a-Lago are not the same place. I'm so mad at this timeline.

"I don't have any problems, why am I so tired" syndrome

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves.

I like to use "parent-first" language to talk about parents who are actually supportive and trying to do the best for their autistic kids. You know, they're not Autism Parents™, they're parents with autistic kids

An update. If they get one freebie, so do all of you. Thanks for being great!

Imagine you lived in the 18th century. Smallpox kills 1 in 3 cases. Yet you can’t culture pathogens, don’t know germ theory, and have no idea what a virus is. How would you invent a vaccine? In a new episode of HARD DRUGS, we trace the history of vaccines!

"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.

rampant and unashamed transmisogyny across our political, media and legal classes has carved huge holes into which other bigotries will happily pour. the cis establishment could have stopped this. they chose to encourage it. so I can only assume they’re going to choose this to encourage, too.

Israeli forces target buildings in central Gaza's Bureij and eastern Khan Younis.

you've tweeted 452k times since december 2013. that's 103 tweets a day. assuming you sleep 8 hours a day, that's a new tweet every ten mins for twelve years. talking about how to attract a high value man. brother, you need to attract a HIGH VALUE JOB

The great tragedy of Eastern Europe was that ethnonationalists looked at these diverse societies, proclaimed them to be impossible, and then worked to make these sordid proclamations a reality.

Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.

ICE attacked another disabled protester today, spraying chemical munitions right in the face of someone walking with a cane. They claim they were conducting a targeted enforcement and she was “in the way”. They’re bullies & their enforcement is becoming a mass disabling event.

It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.

I get a surprisingly large number of responses saying “This is because the public are stupid” but for real, if that was the key issue, then it wouldn’t be necessary to constantly shitehouse people with the most misleading and inflammatory messages they can get away with. There would be no need.

Journalists who came up through the ranks, knew their readers names, recognised their faces and understood their concerns 1st hand have historically been the backbone of the press. The right-wing corporatization of media has replaced it w an elite “ruling class” corps utterly out of touch w readers

Condé Nast’s recent hirings and layoffs reflect how media corporations are undermining journalism and democracy. This dangerous trend is widespread in corporate media www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Like I say: in America, they have Fox News. In Britain everything is Fox News, whether in the screaming shit-up-the-walls version of the Mail or in the arm’s length Many People Would Contend We Need More Migrant Camps form of BBC News. And this is much, much worse.

Rowling not even the first British writer to do that.

Oh, come on... study authored by Dr. Doll?!? Can't take this timeline srsly anymore.

Es precisamente lo que diría una persona que estuviera recibiendo coimas y la hubieran pillado.

There are those in the development sector that try to romanticize rural life, but most people really are happier living around lots of other people voxdev.org/topic/migrat...

Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art

the requirement is, of course, “be white” amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...