Dear world, If you’re tired of hearing about Ukraine, Remember - we’re tired of living this war. But we don’t give up.

good days for people, bad days for furniture and clouds

Step 1: find a trans person of the opposite gender. Step 2: both go to the Texas detransition clinic and ask for hormones of your assigned sex at birth to undo the damage of gender ideology. Step 3: swap your free hormones with your trans homie. Step 4: transition.

mutants over broadway 🛹 (2022)

Boycotting Eurovision Today? Instead of voting, try donating the money to the new wing of the Palestine Museum of Natural History in Bethlehem. Protect and help to communicate about the natural heritage, its past and future, of Palestine 🇵🇸 Link: palestinenature.org/natural-history/

Results from the Flocking #paleostream! Sharovipteryx, Sinopterus, Pachycrocuta and Ptolemaia

Younger daughter & I found these fossilised crinoid rock stars (segments of the ‘stem’ of Jurassic feather stars/sea lilies, related to starfish & sea urchins) in the gravel on the edge of a lake nr Peterborough UK. She used them to make an ammonite:

Sinopterus with newly discovered iridescent feathers and stripy crest #paleoart #sciart

As a queer who grew up in the 90s, when it was completely normal to call everything you didn't like "gay," I'm begging y'all to push back on the use of homosexuality as an insult, even when it's leveled at people you hate. No, it's not more fitting because they're homophobic bigots. It's never cute.

A bill being proposed in California about consumers' access to games they've paid for once support from the publisher ends and servers are shut down has passed a vote by the appropriations committee. You know who's not covering this story? IGN Gamespot Polygon Gemastu Destructoid Kotaku and so on

grafitti na ścianie budynku, które dziś zobaczyłam: "Prostytutko, zostaw mojego męża!" co???? 🤣

It is not hijacking a person's death to point out that white people killed by ICE, or white trans people who get murdered, or white people of pretty much any cohort, get far more attention than our racialized counterparts. And I wish we could hold space for that.

🎵I prefer nettles, because they have no bones.🎵

Trying this again out of a lack of further options. I have a dear trans friend who is trying to escape a conservative state for Oregon but has been in under-employed hell for over a year now, working minimum wage in a transphobic workplace just to survive.

Having built communities where millions of people built their own sites, it may surprise many to hear that I basically agree with Adam. But only because it’s about *motivation*. People will make apps, or sites, because they’re inspired to, not because they can slop one out. MySpace wasn’t easy!

Would we tell a child who needs glasses they need to “learn to see without glasses”? Too many teachers, like Sarah, have adopted toxic attitudes that Autistic people must somehow learn to ignore our sensory needs, and fit ourselves into a world that is unwilling to flex to meet us where we are.

Vacations, nice things, celebrations, toys, and their child's college tuition too. Y'all need to remember what that standard of living meant.

We have so many ant colonies in our garden, I think we might as well start breeding numbats to eat those ants, and then send those numbats to Australia.

I love 200 year old art that looks like it’s something someone posted a week ago.

Fellows, I need some advice. Would you rather be honest to the therapist and get put into the psych ward and on watch, or don't tell the therapist about the reality of your problems but become unemployed and living in isolation?

Paging @marijuanamasao.bsky.social

So apparently my X account has been suspended for "inauthentic behaviour". That's the cost of not deleting it I guess.

Stop expecting humans to be resilient - it should be safe for all of us to be allowed to be soft and pliable and weak at all times - anything human that prevents this is part of the problem.

Yes, you are an Ableist anti-AI if you assume this. #Autism #Ableism #AI

Many autistic people grow up correcting assumptions, defending intentions, and trying to repair misunderstandings So yes - we may “over-explain” or “overthink” Not because we want to… but because experience taught us to

THIS is by far my fav starter pack to share. BIPOC Autistic people are among the least heard population when it comes to raising Autistic voices. White supremacy abuses our Neurokin and our research has done little to abate that problem Consider following! We need to listen more to these folks!

Most autistic people I meet *like* being autistic. It’s core to who they are & comes with many strengths What’s hard is surviving in a society that rarely accommodates, respects or tries to understand us There’s a BIG difference between being autistic & being unsupported Let’s not confuse the two

Related to my previous posts, Turing (in TurAnt EX) was cooked in the beginning, people who all criticize him are mostly like, normal people with normal hobbies, meanwhile people who worship him are mostly either transphobes, eugenicists, in the Epstein files, or multiple or all of them.

a ”funny” situation arises where marginalized people are simultaneously often hired ONLY to write about their identity but also not hired to report on anything that’s “too close” to their identity. leaving them chronically underemployed and broke!

analogously, imagine having perhaps the widest availability of different foods we've ever had due to technology and deciding your kids cannot avail themselves of it based on ideology and must eat what you decide they have to or starve. meanwhile, *you* are not eating what *you* don't like!

If I see one more person say, “But I saw a kid in Japan or *insert other country here* eat things American kids don’t” as some kind of gotcha I’m going to scream. Kids in other countries have different safe food and aversions, but occurs at the same rate.

A great time to remind everyone that "bringing the temperature down" is not a universal virtue.

I saw a post where someone said that my saying “will kill kids” is rhetoric and ‘not bringing the temperature down.’ I refuse to in any way shape or form minimize what happens when food aversions or ARFID isn’t taken seriously. It’s unethical to talk about “picky eating” without talking about ARFID.

New term. Disability Pablum: Content about disability that has been stripped of intersectional, racial, or political substance to avoid controversy or protect institutional funding.

Does anyone know where I can buy real or wooden tortoise shells for DIY earmuffs?

A part of me wants to be remembered as Autism's Adam Mickiewicz or Juliusz Słowacki.

I desperately want more research into ways to help my son communicate, eliminate his chronic pain, and increase the supports available for him and his peers. #ProfoundAutism advocates want more ABA, more institutions, and cure/prevention research. Our loved ones are the same, but our goals are not.

Re-upping a thread on how calling abusers "narcissists" is sanist ableism and there are other words to use so just use them and don't platform sanist ableism. The stakes are real. The harm to people who are not abusers but have NPD diagnoses is real.

Not for nothing, but I think a lot of people have wrongly settled on “Twitter became a right-wing cesspool because all the cool people left” instead of “All the cool people left because Twitter became a right-wing cesspool.”

I guess Bluesky is the non-evil Twitter but what is the non-evil Facebook. I just want to see my friends posting one-panel newspaper cartoons and then reply “oh my goodness!”

This is how Elon expected his Twitter purchase experience to go

this is an actual Bluesky Rule: if you have ever so much as exchanged a single like, you are required to hold up the book in the shop and say "hey my friend wrote this"

No one ever had to yell “adapt or die” to get me to use any other bit of technology in my life.

Hello from Hum Hole. Eurasian jay, blackcap and firecrest amid the standard cast.

... Twitter was actually doing a relatively good job of disseminating leftist ideas into the general social media-using world. And that's why Musk destroyed it. Because it was a platform that amplified marginalized and rarely-heard voices and those ideas did gain some degree of traction.

Autism advocacy that ignores race ignores reality 👌🏽 Autistic people don’t all experience schools, healthcare, policing, or diagnosis the same way. Inclusion that only works for some people isn’t true inclusion, it’s performance it’s ‘branding’

When autism conversations center only the most privileged experiences, countless autistic voices get pushed aside, Real advocacy means listening to people whose experiences are often overlooked, when it comes to autism even the media coverage is whitewashed

please understand. artists don't get nearly as much feedback (praise, comments or otherwise) as you think they do. much less than years and years ago. we don't know how much you like it. we don't know how it affected you. unless you say something, or recommend it, comment, reblog. anything.

Autism advocacy should challenge barriers for everyone, not just the people most visible online. If race, culture, and systemic inequality are treated as “too political,” the advocacy is incomplete.