Bake a potato, put cottage cheese on it, then put chili crisp on top of that.

It's horrifying and and grotesque that so many people (scientists! Doctors!) for so long claimed (and some still do!) that autistic people don't feel empathy. What a monstrous and harmful lie.

for disability pride month I would like to remind everyone that disability includes people with severe, "ugly" disabilities that are often left out of disability conversations. people w/ schizophrenia, BP1, BPD, DID, and other severe mental illnesses still deserve respect

A lot of autistic people exist in a world where people make it clear that we did something wrong, but hardly ever explain what went wrong. After enough of this, confusion, anxiety, and self-doubt become near-constant companions in social situations

As a longtime NYT subscriber who is completely open to and supportive of the idea of Biden dropping out I find this article breathtakingly irresponsible. I cannot believe it was published.

I think the worst thing about having bad knees and hips isn’t the chronic pain or even the flair up pain, but having to deal with old, abled people going “sore knees!?! wait until you my age!”

My thoughts are that my spiritual tradition is Black southern hoodoo influenced by voodoo, Ifa & ancient Kemet, so the New England witch type is not my witch type, but how a Black woman would navigate those more white spiritual spaces is really interesting to me.

The thing about Black folks as a people is that we understand how to keep joy in our hearts during hard times. You see the Palestinian people doing that too during their genocide. White American culture seems to lack this capacity severely compared to us.

Another one ~ Death of Black man, Dvontaye Mitchell, pinned to ground by four Milwaukee hotel security guards draws George Floyd comparisons www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

There should no outrage about what the NYT publishes anymore. They're established as hella ethically shady & constantly purveying white supremacist capitalism. They also remain one our nation's most important papers of record & still do some things well. But quit being exasperated about them.

My job as a deeply struggling person in life culturally endowed to handle extremities of fascism that people who aren’t Black know almost nothing of what it’s like to bear is not to coddle & say, there, there, to those hopeless about the world. It’s merely to share why that’s not my choice.

Ok firstly know your race isn't indicated well but you seem white. I don't coddle whites, I keep it pushing. I appreciate your sharing from your antiracist journey. Continue listening to Black people & learning the best ways to relate to us as nonblack. And don't shove multiple responses to us.

If you steal $1000, you can be sent to prison. When health insurance companies steal $50,000,000,000, they get tax breaks, subsidies and government contracts, while the people they steal from die or go into debt. But keep blaming immigrants and poor people for rising crime.

The AI hype cycle is really a massive mis-investment of society's accumulated wealth (held under capitalism by rich people) that dwarfs the most wasteful bonfires of resources under the Soviet Five Year Plans.

My comrades in ADHD and/or Autism You are allowed to have needs and take up space Someone getting angry at you for saying a truth they don't want to handle is not your fault You are not responsible for someone else's poorly managed emotions We are not the fault in their flawed society

The Telegraph wants you to feel sorry for a retired couple who made a £1.3 million profit on a £300,000 home.

Out of the hospital. It's not pneumonia. It's something worse, and they can't help me. They recommended I seek pulmonary specialists across the state, because they've never seen anything like what I have. My lungs are full of bleeding lesions, some with holes. I need a health potion and a miracle.

“National greatness” is a pernicious lie in any context. “Russians and Americans have a lot in common—much of it unhealthy—including an ‘imperial provincialist’ outlook, a tendency toward grandiosity and conspiracy theories, and a penchant for violence” www.bugbeardispatch.com/p/some-july-...

My wonderful grad advisor once diagnosed why a lot of my academic writing read as convoluted & dull (he prob didn't use those words): I give too many caveats & scope conditions BEFORE stating the main point; they almost always belong afterward Still today, regularly, I realize this is my problem

It’s important to understand that we’re subject to indoctrination & propaganda from our government. We receive an extensive training to hold America’s alleged values dear in our upbringing. Until you investigate them, much of what you think of America is what the government wants you to think.

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I have been saying for at least a decade and a half that this is a major unexploited wedge issue for Democrats.

Before today’s Twins game there was a moment of silence for Vikes rookie Khyree Jackson, killed in a car crash overnight. The “moment” lasted maybe 5 seconds. I’ve seen those go a full minute at Premier League matches on TV. It’d serve Americans well to STFU, just for a minute.

Your job as a leftist is to get more leverage to get more stuff. It's *always* easier to do that with liberals in power.

Software development is in crisis: it is failing harder and harder and creating usable software that does productive things; more and more it can no longer even recognize usability as its primary goal. This is separate from the accessibility crisis, but has the same cause: tech's anti-human bias.

Been in a lot of organizing spaces w a lot of different people. You’re not the first self righteous white person I’ve encountered & you won’t be the last. It’s never interesting & always tedious. You’re not the world’s most enlightened person, you’re just someone who figured you could be John Smith.

Fact check: There’s a myth that “80% of parents of autistic kids divorce,” but it’s not true. The divorce rate is pretty much the same when parents inside and outside our community are compared. (CN: Article contains deficit-based language.) www.kennedykrieger.org/stories/inte...

8 years ago today Philando Castile was murdered. The criminal legal system failed to convict the cop who shot him despite the recorded evidence. We had to watch that video live just 24 hours after we watched cops shoot Alton Sterling in the back. (The video does not play at link)

A friend just sent me this photo of THE DEAD TAKE THE A TRAIN, the novel I wrote with Cassandra Khaw, at Shakespeare and Company in Paris.

Whores are the actual heroes & cops are the actual villains.

my favorite historical tidbit is that Nora Ephron, who was married to Carl Bernstein at the time, figured out that Deep Throat was Mark Felt and apparently told a TON of people just like casually at parties she is my hero

You always need to be at the ready to disavow an abuser. How much you used to like a person before you knew he dated his nanny in her twenties as a rich old man & published an unethical volume on sexual assault doesn't matter at all once that comes out.

This is particularly important to understand because Trumpist authoritarianism is the descendent of Jim Crow far more than say Hitler or Pinochet or Orban, and it's going to look a lot more like 1930s Mississippi than 1930s Berlin.

Happy disability pride month, everyone, apparently there are a bunch of assholes on this site who think a magazine cover that expressly suggests use of a mobility aide equates to unfitness for leadership is a-ok, actually.

Also white people, you do not need to take upon yourselves to correct Black people online. That's something y'all ain't gotta do. If we're wrong, it's cool. We're usually way more accurate than y'all however. A white person stepping in to correct a Black one is in all cases a racist microagression.

A guy in a wheelchair "ran" the country triumphantly for over 12 years, but go ahead and keep showing your ass, The Economist.

“No way to run a country”: well, Economist editors, a man who used a wheelchair and a walker once saved your home country’s *ss, hm?

“I know you have ADHD, but I want you to take half a pill on even days & a full pill on odd days.” -Screw that “Daily mood tracking surveys!” -Screw that “You have PEM, but the bigger issue is clearly being unconditioned [read: fat], so I prescribe exercise!” -Screeeew thaaaat #Disability

Probably worth contemplating that well-scrubbed white American conservative Christians may be the most evil group of people in the history of mankind, when it comes down to the final tally of human suffering.

I'm not going to spread that Economist cover with the Presidential seal on a walker because I don't spread stomach-churning ableist trash, but what a shocking collapse of editorial standards. The editor who commissioned that image should be forced to resign in shame.

There’s people so shocked at how rude and sweary im getting at their labour defences but i think it’s important they learn that this is now the reaction labour will provoke in minorities. You got the tories out. Now you are the tories.

Judge Marchan says “fuck it, this guy was a remorseless prick, needs to learn a lesson”sentences him to 6 mos. in jail at the sentencing. Kathy Hochul—hoping to right her sinking governorship—refuses the Supreme Court’s order to release him. Biden doesn’t lift a finger to enforce it citing immunity

finally! some frothing, genocidal transphobes are in power in the UK

The entirety of the Americas was full of people before Europeans, whole and rich civilizations with cities and artwork and histories that settlers almost or in some cases completely succeeded in destroying. It’s too great a tragedy to put into words.

Neurotypicals: Life isn't fair. Get used to it. Neurotypicals when an autistic needs accomodation: If we did that for you, we'd have to do it for everyone or it wouldn't be fair.