I know this is a radical position that will probably enrage people But hear me out: What if this thing we call autism is just the way some peoples’ brains work Not an illness. Not a brain injury. Not a defect. Some. Peoples’. Brains. Are. Different. And they don’t need to be fixed

A funny thing about RFK announcing he is pinning autism on Tylenol, is that this immediately pissed off a whole lot of anti-vaxxers who had their own pet theories for abusing kids. Many of whom are probably sending him death threats right now. Do you think between now and then he'll hedge on it?

If you are in need of entertainment (and you still bother with Netflix): Haunted Hotel is a delight Smart & silly in equal measure. Think Gravity Falls with the humor & pacing of Lower Decks (but for the horror genre) It’s also a Spot-the-Easter-Egg treasure trove for horror nerds

The future of all conventions held in the US, unfortunately:

Adults to me as a kid: It’s high school, sweetie. People grow up. They stop acting like that. It gets better. I promise! Me, an adult looking at Congress: “Only” high school. Sure, pull the other one.

Today’s cat is once again begging for treats #CatBreak #BlueSkyCats #CatSky

Apparently, it’s socially unacceptable to compare anyone or anything to Hitler. Mention Hitler, and you’ll be shouted down with a chorus of “Godwin’s Law”. Well sod that. Until we start comparing Trump to Hitler, we’re unprepared for what is barrelling towards us. 🧵1/4

Pretty soon there’s gonna be a new religion And its fundamental precept will be: He died so we can commit these sins (against all the people we eagerly wanted to erase anyway)

#poem You can feel that terrible tremor as the last load-bearing pillar of a possible world — a world once promised kindness equity reason and collaborative good — gives way And we tumble into the fetid chasm of unchecked hate

Still really trying to wrap my head around the fact that the last bastions of genuine journalism in mainstream US publications are Rolling Stone Magazine & Teen Vogue But I’m thankful for them

Sweet Bliss getting some lap time #CatBreak #CatSky

In Argyleshire, skilled folk targeted enemies with a Corp Chre (or Corp Chreadh) - a Clay Body This was a humanoid figure representing the target Stabbed with pins or broken glass, the harm was believed to pass to the target [from: Notes on Folklore Objects Collected in Argyleshire] #WitchSky

This is brilliant and I would go one further: Find some of his most vile, racist, sexist & transphobic statements (won’t be hard). Misquote them to say the exact opposite of the hate he intended - make them tolerant, kind And then let his followers correct you by quoting what he actually said

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Today’s cat is just hangin’ around #CatBreak #CatSky #BlueSkyCats

They would like nothing more than for you to disappear so you can stop being their problem Why would you give that to them?

Nazis were firmly entrenched in the US prior to us joining the Allies’ fight in WW II (Ford, Disney, et al) I don’t think they ever left Operation Paperclip gave us an excuse not only to keep the ones already here, but import others under the guise of usefulness Any shock they run things now?

Is it “demonization“ though when they are behaving like they desire hell on earth?

Somebody in a local Ohio book group was complaining about how they find it so exhausting that people keep criticizing authors’ behavior to “cancel“ them And as I was typing a response, I realized, absent any other evidence, I measure a person’s character based on how they treat their pets

Gigi Edgley & Virginia Hey of FARSCAPE shared their portable fan with me in the Walk of Fame at DragonCon one year when we were all absolutely melting in the Atlanta heat

Reality got you down? Escape into the haunted alleys of a faerie-infested metropolis in this system-neutral urban fantasy creature supplement #TTRPG

Keep your head on a swivel & don’t be swayed

I don’t know about anywhere else, but #Ohio has devolved to the point where people who were wearing anti-Trump gear are being physically removed from county fairs.

As much as it’s fun to dunk on Donnie, there’s a pernicious wisdom in equating asylum seekers with asylum residents Repeated enough, it erodes the public understanding of the term - in the same way the average person only hears “cult” now for “occult” - a confusion intentionally encouraged

Today is a very sleepy day because we spent from 10:30 PM to 6:15 AM at the emergency vet because Mystery scratched her eye (either got something in it that washed out before we got to the kitty ER or caught a claw while playing rough) Wound is minor (thankfully). Pet parents are exhausted. 🐈‍⬛💙

Some real guts - from Cleveland (Mrs. Amelia Robinson would be so disappointed with the leadership of our state now) #CLE #Ohio

Today’s cat is two gray buddies kissing noses #CatBreak #CatSky #BlueSkyCats #Caturday

I hate telling this story, but when tear gas is in the news... telling always feels importantm Tear gas is an abortifacient. When I was tear gassed, we were trying for a baby. The following day, I bled in a way I never have before. Like no period of my life before or since. Horror movie stuff.

NEW: Ohio Chaplain Freed From Jail as DHS Drops Deportation Case “This is beyond my dreams,” Ayman Soliman told ProPublica in a call just after his release. In a case marked by errors and inconsistencies, DHS had accused the children’s hospital chaplain of providing material support to terrorists.

The US has blown up another boat near Venezuela.

Make a song into food: We Are the Champignons

Make a song into food: Ramen Up that Hill

The co-authors are a collection of absolutely the people you'd expect. But also, this is a piece of bad philosophy whose arguments run parallel to those that were used to structure race as a "natural kind," which is to be expected given the folks involved.

Added another dozen community copies for folks who aren’t afraid to take gifts from the fey #TTRPG

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🧵 A LITTLE MYSTERY 🧊🔍✈️ Northern California & the Carolinas: what do they have in common? Aside from burgeoning populations, dynamic economies fed by high-tech industries, and concentrations of top-notch universities?

Today’s cat is slightly possessive. #CatBreak #BlueSkyCats #CatSky

✂️ zine clubs are resistance. zine fairs are resistance. zine meet-ups are resistance. zine swaps are resistance. zine fests are resistance. ✂️

One wonders how many of the people at these networks so swift to carry out the Orange Dictator’s whims are also in the Epstein Files

For some inexplicable reason, this brilliant 1938 anti-Appeasement cartoon by the great David Low came to mind when I looked at the list of the Mega-Powerful / Hyper-Rich at yesterday’s Windsor Castle nosh up for our superhuman masters.

Ruffalo: I'm reaching out to all of my brothers and sisters in the entertainment industry, to join us...They're coming after celebrities because they know we are the last ones to actually be able to have our freedom to speak. So use your platform wisely, use it generously for this movement. #NoKings

I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi. This is *not* normal. I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.

And insightful thread, and a fun distraction from all of the other deviltry in the news

Them: “We know. And we don’t care that you know, because we’re getting away with it anyway!”

Yes, everything in my country is both literally & figuratively on fire, but I’m still gonna make art to amuse people, goddammit #TTRPGs

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We sure are having a real normal one here in the Home of the Free USA 🇺🇸

Kamchatka is at it again:

To the person who bought a bunch of my stuff over on Itchio (and paid generously, even on the free items) thank you Really needed that boost today ❤️

Called it. They 100% made that weird text exchange with GenAI And it -reads- like GenAI Someone should subpoena the prompts they used to “forensically“ recreate those texts. I think the prompts would reveal more - at least about the agenda of the investigators