Something I feel isn’t appreciated enough about RFK Jr’s brain worm is that we only know about it because he was trying to pay less child support by arguing the worm reduced his future earning capacity. This man is now in charge of the health of *all* kids in the US.

Wild that we aren’t allowed to end oil dependence because it will kill jobs but we have to embrace AI despite the fact that it supposed to put all of us out of work.

I chipped a front tooth on a fork once so now every time I smile it’s like “oops, too dumb to eat”

"your body will require regular maintenance" okay??? everyone's body requires regular maintenance it came free with your fucking mortality

SOMBRAS: negative frames - wishlist on Steam. store.steampowered.com/app/4553370/...

With the benefit of hindsight, it's very funny to me that they went harder than expected and still fucked it up. Labor can't communicate their vision for a better country and soon we get PM Pauline [hyperbole]. They're constrained by the shackles Hawke's accord built, so maybe there is no vision.

Kinda crazy to me that one of the country's biggest morning TV show hosts has been giving soft-ball interviews to a range of extremist right-wing freaks and no one seems to care. I also have to wonder whether or not this has anything to do with the rise of one nation. Probably nothing to worry about

Absolutely blistering column by @emmashortis.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

<grabs microphone> the bedbugs are a metaphor! The bedbugs are <security tackles me, drags me offstage>

1/x I know I'm kind of a mouthy embryonic sugar glider about this, but while this story is important and if you care about trans ppl I encourage you to read it, I want more such stories to come with the reminder that *naturalized gender is a project of fascism*. This isn't *just* about hatred.

19/x So when you see the anti-trans messages, remember: these are efforts to renaturalize that which science has shown us is not carried in the blood. Power, domination, war, violence, wealth, impunity: these do not naturally reside in some bodies and naturally avoid others.

14/x Per the fascists: The reason trans participation in sport is "unfair" is because male domination over others is the natural state of the universe. The reason trans women using women's bathrooms are a threat is because the urge to dominate is **natural** and cannot be given up.

The Australian War Memorial is sponsored by the companies that build the weapons that kill people, and at Estimates today we made them say so out loud.

I'm not sure "hey, we're not just banning trans people from toilets, we're also banning them from vital support after they've been sexually assaulted or raped" is exactly the flex The Guardian seem to think it is. Fucking vile humans.

"The whole disabled community is trying to scream at the top of its lungs, 'don't do this to us', but it feels like nobody is listening." Sarah www.canberratimes.com.au/story/927069...

Gays are rapidly approaching your location (menacingly)

All: what's the best nonfiction book you've read this year?

A key element of mainstream news coverage in the age of fascism is feigned ignorance of all context and history.

We must unite because too many of us bear suffering alone. When I say this, I think of so many mad people living in isolation. The quiet neighbor in the apartment complex nobody talks to. The person who goes in & out of homelessness, in & out of the psych ward. Whose mind inflicts terror on them.

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

I was ignoring all previous instructions before it was cool.

Project Hail Mary is a movie that was engineered in a lab to be charming. Annoyed to report that it worked on me.

Dont forget oyr Autistic Mental Health Conference! https://vrl.link/6Q ##Autistic Threads

I really wish people in 2026 could distinguish between there being some gay nazis on account of nazis still being human and some humans being gay, and the fascist fascination with the male form as a symbol of power as well as rape as means of social domination and enforcement of hierarchies.

for the ancient Greeks, exhibiting virtue was how one displayed masculine self-mastery. But today exhibiting vice is how one displays a white masculine refusal to be mastered, an absolute private liberty that is precisely the rejection of subordination to civil society

let's be clear, let's be very clear, let's be incredibly clear about something: Marcia Lucas is why you love Star Wars. She's why Star Wars worked. She's why it has heart. She's responsible for the in-media-res beginning, she's responsible for basically everything charming and unique about >

buying my cat increasingly large scratcher lounges so that he thinks he's slowly but consistently shrinking somehow

Teaching my daughter and her anemic boyfriend how to skip stones

YOU MUST MAINTAIN YOUR STRENGTH AND POWER! TOUCH SOMETHING SOFT.

Being #autistic is not a superpower, but it usually comes with some skills. It’s not superhuman to have skills, everyone does. It’s just that autistic skills can be kinda unusual or distinctive, but then, they come with matching unusual or distinctive challenges.

I was kind of surprised when my employer (Kings College London) specifically clarified to me that I post on their behalf, but I guess they too feel so passionately that Israel's invasion of Lebanon is an international crime that ought be seen as on a par with Russian criminality that they spoke up.

Blocked for Truth

Good news, the audio version of Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction is out now on Audible, Spotify, etc.! I also have three codes for free Spotify copies, so we can do a competition. Just share and like this and I'll pick three people at random to get the codes this weekend.

SBS better prepare cause if Israel isnt the winner of the fifa world cup senator henderson will be wanting another hearing

Thank you @amyremeikis.bsky.social for sharing this. People who live it are the ones who know.

I am yet to see any solid evidence that Labor cares more for the plight of people living in poverty in Australia than did Morrison's Liberals. They're just less smug about it.

“It’s rare to have such stark differences in a budget – people with disabilities suffering some of the biggest cuts on record while the wealthiest in society lose some tax breaks." – Greg Jericho, Chief Economist, The Australia Institute Read more 👇 https://theaus.in/4xcFXT1

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It's better for the marketing of the show, too! People doing "baby Jane Doe" memes for weeks on tiktok and stuff was a constant, free advertisement for the show. Weekly shows build audiences and cultural footprints. Binge shows have to hit big right out or they're immediately forgotten.

Bring back weekly drops, too. I love when everyone’s watching something at the same pace and considering each episode as a discrete unit of story.

Wearing my Coffee Cowboy hat as my primal ancestors did. I return to the ancestral podcasting studio, I feel the soul of my grandfather upon me.

My husband has been wandering around our house for a week because he can't find the spaghetti on a plate at the table. He's getting weaker. Send help.

I would simply throw a silver-threaded blanket over the haunted mirror that Tony Blair comes from and ring it with salt so that he can no longer communicate with our realm

I was not wrong. Not only is this a disappointing announcement in terms of the ALP, it's the same fake 'reform' announcement occurring periodically to slightly reframe the status quo. They've just readopted the previous jobactive system and rhetoric about 'choice'. Summary of Press Club speech 👇

When it comes to Facilitated Spelling as a communication method for nonspeaking autistic people, we need rigorous research—not polemics, personal attacks, & problematic papers by ultraskeptics w/conflicts of interest. @ejwillingham.bsky.social in the TPGA newsletter: buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...

the common-sense compromise is that the president should live inside a transparent glass pyramid on top of the washington monument like magneto's prison so we can constantly see what he's up to, and he can't get into any shenanigans without at least climbing a bunch of stairs first

The ABC wants to hear from people in employment services about what they think about these "changes". Please send them your thoughts: At the bottom of this link: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

no famous violinists in your uterus-castle without consent

“your uterus is your castle” is the funniest pro-abortion stance I’ve ever seen