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.

For folks who don't know this intimately - ADHD is tied to hyperactive dopamine reuptake. Our brains make plenty of dopamine, but they also recycle it faster than we can use it - like a busboy taking away your plate at a restaurant after you only had the first bite. Dopamine regulates EVERYTHING.

bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass

looking for something tender and evocative and (most importantly) gay to read this weekend? DON’T FORGET TO BREATHE, our autistic-as-hell sapphic YA is available right the heck now: a.co/d/dLYndhl

10/10 take. No notes.

Liberty University finally gets to launch that phrenology PhD program they’ve been working on

I see lots of apps and pop "science" socmed trends about this too: face shape/body shape/limb length etc can tell you something about the person. It's not cute or a curious game or quiz (as it's often presented), it's normalizing race science and eugenic thinking. It's all been debunked, stop it

ah yes, the famously liberal New York Times, keystone of the radical left-wing movement, official paper of Antifa™️

lol

Maybe nobody in the great big world cares about this. But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

I'm at my favorite super-queer-friendly, super-lefty coffee shop and there's a couple near me where the guy is encouraging the girl to listen to Tucker Carlson

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

remember, remember,

I think the voters are saying they don't want the Democrats to be Republican Lite.

Ragnar Lothbrok is pretty explicitly thirsty for his wife Lagertha, but nowhere near as thirsty as he is for Æthelstan the second he claps eyes on that pasty Angle monk

I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.

One of our country's greatest war criminals just died, the president is arguing with himself about whether or not to let 40 million people starve, and there is an actual courtroom drama about a five dollar footlong. How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.

It's Native American Heritage Month and this is your daily reminder to support Native/Indigenous creators, artists, beaders, authors/storytellers/writers, etc... all year around and not just during Native American Heritage Month!

if you’ve ever wondered what working memory is and what it looks like when yours, like mine, is bad: I had to give a different medication to each dog, each pill wrapped in cheese, and as soon as I couldn’t see the pill anymore, I couldn’t remember which was which.

Here’s something really graphic for Halloween:

honored to announce i have been awarded this years LOUD HANDS AWARD FOR AUTISTIC STORYTELLERS from @autisticadvocacy.org. much of my confidence to trot with this unique way is due to the autistic creators who came before, and to think i could pass that on and inspire others means so much. thank you

And here is the Little Free Library World Map: littlefreelibrary.org/map/

thanks to 4’s years-long fixation on Bluey—and his joy when I do the voices while reading or playing pretend—I’ve spent a lot of time listening to and thinking about Australian accents, and have come to the following conclusion: pronunciation rules are more like guidelines than actual rules

90% of my favorite horror authors are Indigenous. there’s a huge difference between “I loved this scary book” and “oh no I have to lie down about this,” and Indigenous horror has basically perfected the latter.

me: a guy here was arrested for assaulting a woman while he was cosplaying as a nazi officer Dad: what is cosplay me: *explains* Dad: sounds like a nazi who stopped "cosplaying" as a normal person This man's ability to randomly say insightful thing while also putting cosplay in quotes is a trip

have you ever felt like public health is an overreach? do me a favor and look up tertiary syphilis or, alternately, the concept of "shitting yourself to death", which used to be something that happened with medium regularity

Bluey is so ADHD-coded and I will die on this hill

My Halloween story "The Last House on the Cul-de-Sac" is in the Halloween episode of No Sleep! www.thenosleeppodcast.com/episodes/s23...

NYT, a year ago today.

i made a helpful reference

i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT "he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality "this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening START WITH WHAT IT IS not what it isn't

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

🧵Spotted at a Country Festival in Aotearoa New Zealand: Numerous tiny humans and their dads are lined up to sit in a fire engine and to make the BIG HOSE go. Both tiny humans and dads showing equal levels of excitement. This is a FIRE ENGINE. You don't get cooler than that. (1)

Please donate to food banks but also consider finding out if you have a little free pantry around you; they sometimes get to people who won’t visit food banks. If they take non-food items, things food banks don’t provide like baby wipes/diapers, menstrual products, and packages of socks go quickly

Okay, who made this? 🤣 (Seriously, I want to credit!) (h/t @jerryjamesstone.bsky.social but re-uploading rather than reposting so I can add alt text.)

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

The dark romance girlies have every man fooled into thinking we all have an abusive stalker fantasy. No, baby. Use that bass in your voice to ask me about my day. 😂

No one should EVER monitor Nazi space without a strong support network that can check them regularly and watch for signs that the propaganda is taking hold, and address that reality promptly. Without a rock solid accountability network, it is playing with fire.

I just dropped my goodest boy off at the vet for suspicious lump-removal surgery, so good vibes are very very appreciated. also behold his perfect old man face

My friend told me that her 14 year old son started doing laundry on Sundays for some of his elderly neighbors. He doesn't charge for the labor. And now he is the most popular person in the building and has non stop pies, cookies, and cake. The 14 year old should be our model of modern masculinity.

What you're seeing in Florida will be what hits the federal level in a year or two. Don't look away or write it off as Florida. This is THE blueprint. McCarthyism was good, actually, is the new historical story.

hey how do you tell an adhd brain you DON’T have plenty of time, actually? asking for a friend who is always late to everything, who is me

yesterday was release day for me so I very purposefully ignored The Discourse on here, but in case my opinion could not have been easily deduced: fuck anybody, fuck everybody who has a nazi tattoo. every last one of those shitstains. every single one.

our beloved secondborn, DON’T FORGET TO BREATHE, emerged today, directly into your hands. it’s very gay and very messy and we hope you love it as much as we do 🤍 bookshop.org/p/books/don-...

Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.

Today!

Argentina: where the original Nazis fled

I love that we’re all unanimously like “listen that building is not sacred to me and it has a bloody history and if it came down ethically I probably wouldn’t shed a tear, but watching this man smash a wrecking ball into the side of it from sheer selfish malice has unexpectedly fucked me up”

law is a social construct