so interesting how most of us with aphantasia never knew anything was different about us. every person i’ve ever talked to with it all thought (frequently STILL think) that people don’t actually SEE anything in their minds eye, that people are just using that language. we’re in denial.

this really is a significant blow to the global far right. Hungary under Orban was more than a financier and place to host events: it was a proof of concept

Our regular gentle reminder that autistic people are, on average, more peaceful than nonautistic people. Research shows that it is also generally a protective factor against crime, not a cause of it. Any person can claim that something 'caused' someone to be violent. That does not mean it is true.

this is what teenagers in movies looked like during the iraq war

My copy arrived a few days ago. Slowly working through it. It’s really good so far I remember arguing about some of this stuff with @suereviews.bsky.social about a decade ago. This books been brewing a long time! Sue & Robert are great authors… but also incredible people… well worth a follow :)

"Gen AI" is not politically neutral, even & especially when using it against political opponents. This isn't some "tying a hand behind your back" situation, this is literally harming yourself and everyone else by giving legitimacy and credence to a deeply dangerous technisocial paradigm. So stop it.

yesssssssssss a mom game involves levels of Not Getting What You Want that would make gamers firebomb studios

fine

Arch!

Them: “I don’t like that you call ABA (applied behavioral analysis) ‘conversion therapy’.” Me: “I believe this is a good example of the phrase ’facts don’t care about your feelings’ in action.”

Lmao. Riley Gaines let Donald Trump, an elderly man notoriously allergic to exercise, stand next to her at a podium and say he’d beat her in a swim race purely by virtue of his sex. She laughed along! And this is the thanks she gets! Tremendous.

That perennial parochial US-only issue, bombing the shit out of countries in and around the Persian Gulf

I didn’t know this, did you? Amazing!

THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.

*My* Australian psyche at the news of a notorious war criminal’s arrest

#BenRobertsSmith is charged with FIVE war crime MURDERS. • ABC News headline: mentions he's a Victoria Cross recipient, no mention of murder. • GuardianAus headline: mentions he's a national war hero AND a Victoria Cross recipient, no mention of murder. Word choice in headlines frames the story.

Could’ve spared you all this rant and posted this instead

Saw somebody claiming on reddit yesterday that autistic people are literally incapable of cruelty (unlike those awful neurotypicals) and I CANNOT get over it. Apparently our uwu nervous systems simply cannot bear it 😔

Please witness this very good dog who always waits patiently outside the cafe.

Ooooof

In these ghoulish tactics, we can see the true hate--how they fear and loathe our humanity, our legendary hospitality, our inexhaustible generosity, our dust-stained fingers, our calloused hands reaching again and again into the rubble. They aim to destroy humanity itself. They will not succeed.

i want to cry. my first game. i've seen this trailer dozens of times and it still amazes me every time. so excited for you all to get to know Mesa and Santana, and all the other strange characters we're creating in this equally strange world. thank you so much for your excitement. 💖

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Ok I'm bored and want to procrastinate work so let's do a thread instead. Wanna hear a story? Alright then, story it is. So gather around, children, because now we're going to talk about the most important science book you've probably never heard of. Ready? Off we go, then.

"My dog keeps pissing on the carpet, perhaps he is aware of and self-consciously trying to subvert Erving Goffman's dramaturgical theory of self-presentation."

When a so-called ceasefire produces the deadliest day of the war.

The story of our age is billionaire narcissist men who are widely known to be frauds or creeps within their industries but are allowed to destroy the world in plain sight because American media & business view rich confidently-speaking white men through an infinitely-forgiving lens of merit.

"sorry I can't come to your once-in-250-years party. I'll be busy doing something it would actually make much more logical sense to do four days later. I bumped it up on purpose so I could throw it in your face. eat shit forever, amen" there is no hater on earth like a hater from Chicago

Imagine devoting your life's work to perfecting the seatbelt and then the first time there's a serious accident every occupant of the car goes flying right through the windshield. This post is about the founding fathers.

Relatedly, it's weird how much more emotional people are about attacks on Iran than attacks on Lebanon. Like yes *I'm* more emotional because half my family lives in Iran and as much as I want no one to be bombed it does hit different when it's your grandma, but what's the average American's excuse?

Words mean things and to call giving millions of human beings a reprieve from mass murder "chickening out" implies that carrying out this crime would be a courageous thing.

the jubilation surrounding charlie kirk was a dress rehearsal for what we really wanted and the entire right wing ecosystem knows it

listen, I am trying to be reasonable here, but if you are an In The Know Political Person and you publish a memoir with damning information that you kept secret in order to get a big book advance, you should be skinned alive over several weeks

Somewhere out there is a beautiful garden world whose most powerful inhabitants aren’t actively trying to kill it.

Watching Artemis II at the same time as everything else going on felt heartbreaking. Theres is a younger version of me in my head that still enjoys things, and it closed its box of space toys, with their little American flags, and walked out of the room for good

A reporter at Climate Change And Energy Minister Chris Bowen's daily press conference appears to suggest that renewables are somehow responsible for petrol rises and that Australia actually needs to drill for more oil.

“Just like we are experiencing in the U.S., this could be the Golden Age of the Middle East!!!” 😬

this goes hard as fuck

As an abusive rapist patriarch, everyone in the whole world panicking in fear at his threat is affirming to his actions and worldview, it does not move him or his people toward change, just the opposite, it's pleasurable, he lives for this (this isn't a critique of feeling/expressing that fear!)

Trump has proven his genocidal intent. Australia is providing surveillance and targeting support for US military strikes. Albanese must withdraw resources otherwise we will be complicit in any war crimes involving mass casualties

Come on then, and remove him.

I think I owe this insight to @fleerultra.bsky.social but political theatre actually moves opinion! It matters! It sets agendas! and it’s bizarre that the Dems (and the global centre-left) are determined never to get on the stage.

Given that everything seems to be going off the rails, I'd at least like to see if there are any dog bed historians on Bluesky - amateur, professional or otherwise! - who could weigh in on the important dog bed painting questions of the moment🙏

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

i want you to know that the mtsw Board of Directors took a vote this afternoon and directed our executives NOT to post about the brimless Dodgers cap out of Respect for imminent nuclear war.