people punish autistics for being too blunt > autistic people learn and incorporate scripts to avoid punishment > large language models use the same scripts > people get suspicious of the script > people accuse autistics of being AI > people say “Don’t do this,” without offering solutions 🙃

I filled in the survey and so can you! tomorrow is the deadline, so get on that. headlight glare is bad for other drivers of course, but also for pedestrians and cyclists and other non-car travellers. tell them to regulate that shit!

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight

my to do list over the next few days: things for getting ready for service dog - 5 items things for dealing with MCAS being a nightmare - 4 items things for dealing with trying to navigate support services - 3 items other disability things - 3 items other Adulting - 2 items Disability is Exhausting

It’s a good day for everyone to turn on two factor verification on Bluesky. Also on all your other online accounts.

This should not be a controversial opinion. We know this direct aid appeal is exactly the situation human traffickers exploit. It’s well documented. Wanting to help is great. Ignoring the signs that you’re supporting different human suffering helps no one in Gaza. It hurts even more people.

It's ALIVE!!! dsq-sds.org/article/id/6...

Very unimpressed by pop neurodiversity influencers and their AI apologia. More bullshit claiming that anti-AI stances are classist and ableist and racist. Meanwhile, AI is built on exploited black labor, kills disabled people every day, disposesses the working class, and drinks all our water.

Where as a society are we investing our resources if the labor of caring for and accommodating disabled bodies is labour worth automating? This is the insidious ableism in the rhetoric of pro-AI apologists who hide behind positive disability principles.

I'd like to have a working sleep schedule made of something besides pain and anxiety please

The operators of any site have access to a lot of metadata that the average user can't see, and it's anywhere from "pretty easy" to "trivially easy" to identify around 90% of batch account creation once you get the metadata patterns of a particular network mapped out well enough.

omg those astronauts who are parents? THEY CAN LITERALLY TELL THEIR CHILDREN “I LOVE YOU TO THE MOON AND BACK”

a spacecraft landing is literally like ALL THE SCIENCES AT ONCE textile strength is important and wind and water are important and what kind of metal they used on the outside and the trajectory of re-entry and the distribution of weight and mass inside the thing and atmospheric conditions and

[Food intolerances] I will say, I do have a very small sample size of people besides myself who tolerate homemade ferments WAY better than store bought Who are also diagnosed with MCAS, or have the related HATS mutation + a bunch of digestive issues Again: it's hard to know why without a lab!

Turn your lights off for the migratory birds!

My high school keeps emailing being like we want impressive alumni stories! What great things have you done so we can tell the current students! And I'm like lol it'd be funny to propose writing an article for them about quitting and going on SSI in order to survive

Choosing what to get my dog for her birthday is the hardest challenge. 2 years old is such a milestone for a dog!

I really enjoy that introducing myself in ASL class is actually introducing my cat and feel like this is appropriately autistic

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

Don't forget: It's okay to leave an event or interaction to manage your symptoms if you need to. I've lost count of how may times I've needed to go outside to cool down or to relieve sensory overload, or so I can process an environment and work out how best to navigate it in peace/where I can think.

Well now, would you look at that? A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of SEVERE disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

the inability to get text messages to an ip relay phone number is an incredibly annoying limitation made worse with two factor authentication Anyways i can't make a patient portal for this doctor because it requires texting me a number and i can't receive a text in the only number they saved for me

"Freedom isn't free" is "thoughts and prayers" in wartime.

they have a giraffe version of my dog's favorite toy i feel like i need to get this for Autism Party Giraffe reasons

like its *so very hard* when what the best thing is for me is overwhelming and exhausting and takes up all my energy. when i can't get a moment's piece. when the things that people say about service dogs feel so very simple and low effort. it's hard and exhausting and life changing

its like every day i keep being like omg i really am getting a dog here Sometimes its with screaming about how overwhelmingly exhausted i am but its always like omg this is really happening

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100+ year old Pasteur Institute in Tehran was a premier infectious disease research institute and vaccine manufacturer It is a reason Iranian kids like me born in 60s had access to measles vaccines soon after they were developed in the west

every time my watch gives me an end of the day alert that it was a high stress day i'm like thanks for the info lol its 2026

Reminder that you can mute words for a specified period of time like say 30 days

This weekend and always, NO LILIES FOR KITTIES. www.fda.gov/animal-veter...

I do think it can be frustrating for people to confront the fact that you can do everything right in terms of skill, talent and work and still not succeed because of factors outside of one's own control. But this is just a fact of life, in writing and outside of it. Just do the best work you can.

Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is taking Indigenous culture past the Moon: his mission patch was designed by Henry Guimond, an Anishinaabe artist, incorporating one Indigenous perspective about the seven sacred laws, which are represented by animals. 🧪 #ArtemisII

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

The fact that every different part of who I follow is talking about the artemis launch feels like one of those so very important things about what brings people together

Guess we now have an answer to "how far will I go to manage my sensory sensitivities" And the answer is, email a complete stranger and complete a side quest in order to obtain the pattern that will hopefully let me hand sew a garment to accommodate my sensory needs

The one good thing about April is that nearly all the big AAC companies have sales for part of the month so really if you're looking into AAC at all look into these sales and also look into AAC more whether or not you get an expensive app

going from trans day of visibiility to autism bewareness month is always a mood anyways, april is terrible and support your local autistics i can't even say anything about acceptance or anything with all the discourse. just. support your local autistics. april is such a multiplier on the awful.

Having more than survival is good actually. Things that make you happy are good and necessary and important.

anyways i may or may not be being forced to apply to a waiver program under threat of losing access to other supports if i don't and if i apply it may or may not be causing me to lose supports i am reliant on any may or may not otherwise help literally this is the amount of information i've gotten

you'd think that the disability support people who have been talking to each other about maybe needing to change what Official Mechanisms you go through for supports would know better than to say just "a meeting about future plans" when they're literally talking to an autistic person

Exactly! I can see a little, but not well enough to read a screenshot on my phone. And if someone has slow internet the picture might not load. There are many reasons it is considerate to include.

I think I’m connected to some Alaskans here, please consider asking your attorney gen to protect disability rights (also FL, IN, KS, LA, MO, MT, SD, TX): autisticadvocacy.org/2026/02/take...

While many of us are focused on ICE and Trump, anti migrant violence is escalating everywhere. Today EU Parliament voted for far-right deportation regulations that would allow member states to deport migrants to offshore detention hubs outside EU borders & more militarized immigration enforcement

I deleted a post of cool recent story recs by trans authors because people seem to be already going back into the closet and I don't want to out anyone, but I also don't have the time right now to meticulously check because this was to be a short break while I am finishing up Passover prep. Sorry 😢

Sorry to be blunt, but we think there's two distinct TDOVs happening today: One is the performance of activism for allies to coddle them with good vibes, the other is by the mass of unemployed desperate people hoping someone will buy them pizza today.

I do not think that "abolish ICE" is unpopular or fringe. I think it is an extremely mainstream view. More people should say it. More people should be calling for it.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! My newest knitting pattern, Thrive, is live now on my PayHip! 100% of the proceeds from sales go to the Transgender Law Center, and the pattern is a celebration of trans joy, love, and gender euphoria stitchesandstringtheory.com/b/XebnY #TransJoy #Craftivism #Knit 🧶

For Trans Day of Visibility I am again going to hope my trans friends and loved ones can get a little less visibility and a lot more peace

Youth is not wasted on the young. Youth is actually hard work.