*endorsed

Feels like a metaphor.

Guantanamo Bay is rapidly expanding—140 new tents in 5 days. The Trump admin plans to detain up to 30,000 migrants there. This isn’t just policy; it’s people’s lives. 🔗 news.sky.com/story/guantanamo-bay-rapidly-readied-in-response-to-trump-deportation-plans-13304271

We currently live in a social world of magical thinking shaped by the cult of technological progress. Co-creating ecologies of care beyond the human allows us to experience beauty in a world that is completely out of control autcollab.org/2025/01/24/t....

General reminder to please post things that might cheer people up or at least raise a wry smile, or even hopes. Not just bleakness. And if your timeline is full of the latter, actively seek out the former. There's a lot of great stuff happening. People are still mostly good. As are cats and dogs.

This week more people are reading autcollab.org/2023/11/28/d.... The cultural compost heap is composting. The fertility of the compost is going up.

After months of relentless work, we’ve done what no one else has globally—correlated financial data of the de-escalation, and restraint industry. This data, will soon be submitted to the UK government inquiry. ✊ bsky.app/profile/agai...

There is a co-evolved natural pace to the flow of life at each of the different scales within the kingdoms of life. We currently live in a social world of magical thinking shaped by the cult of technological progress. autcollab.org/2025/01/24/t...

It is time to celebrate our interdependence! —Jorn Bettin Interdependence is the only way out of most of the most pressing issues we face today. —Mia Mingus

A passage from the Tao that’s frequently worth revisiting.

These are good things to remember!

Day #8 of setting a record daily low for Arctic sea-ice extent. Dec. 17, 2024: 405,000 km² below the previous daily record.

"I’m an Amazon worker myself but also a professor of anthropology at Duke University." Fantastic read from Orin Starn. www.sapiens.org/culture/amaz...

There are no words to express my joy, the tears flowed as the vote was called. The remarkable individuals who made this a reality—some of whom I’m honored to call friends—are a testament to the power of perseverance and unwavering dedication. #StopInstitutionalChildAbuse

It's not enough to let people know that vaccines don't cause autism. We also have to affirm that autism is not something to fear, that autistic lives are worth living and supporting, and that autistic people deserve to exist and be loved. Original exchange on Twitter: x.com/Sara_R_Rocha...

A compassionate frame of love as vulnerable mutual knowing is compatible with a panpsychic relational philosophy. Everyone wants their experience to be taken seriously. We are embodied spirits, compelled to make sense of this world. We can only do so in good company. autcollab.org/2024/12/16/g...

Here’s the truth: Supporting marginalized groups doesn’t take anything away from you. Equality isn’t a competition; it’s about fairness. When we lift others up, we lift everyone up. 💜 #BetterTogether

Psychology has a place, but how it feels to be Autistic and what motivates us to do things in a particular way don’t always fit the clinical narratives. That’s why it’s so important for us to be active participants in any kind of assessment and to tell our own stories in our own way.

Thank you so much for sharing your story! The psychology community is way behind the autistic community at recognizing & understanding autism -- which only makes sense, groups & individuals always know themselves better than experts looking in from the outside!

#Thread If you’re wondering if you might be Autistic but ruling it out because some of the diagnostic criteria don’t apply read on. Initially Autism wasn’t considered a likely explanation for my difficulties because I was married, employed, seemed to cope with change, and had social skills.

Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Then let's talk. Let's be realistic. Prepare for the worst whilst working to build the best we can. The best won't happen by itself, by just floating into the future, because the river ends in the desert, not in the sea.

We've entered the pandemicene, and devastating climate change is upon us, along with a cataclysmic tide of oligarchical authoritarianism. 🧵

I'm nearly 60 now. I have decades of experience at this. You won't like what I see for the future of the world. 🧵

I'm not a prophet. But I'm autistic, and many autistic people are naturally good at pattern recognition. The more information we gather over time, the more frequently our predictions can turn out to be correct. 🧵

It's like... they may be right on some points, but that doesn't make them decent, and it prevents them from reaching their full potential.

This says more about the "science" conducted by researchers who submit their work to the funding criteria of the Autism Industrial Complex than about the neurodiversity movement: "... there is no consensus in the scientific community on the validity of the neuro-diversity argument".

ABA therapy advocates often claim that ABA is "evidence-based." Thing is, the term "evidence-based" is a bit arbitrary. And “we shouldn’t have a separate set of lower standards that we only apply to autism research.” Researcher @kbottemabeutel.bsky.social: thinkingautismguide.com/2020/05/conf...

some days just seem to top the list as most overwhelmingly insurmountably dark and difficult - even the blue sky seems to have been shrouded today

I’m so tired of how heavy & destructive politics has become - I’m so tired of not being able to have productive conversations around that bc too many are not getting objective & factual information - I’m so tired of seeing this crazy nose dive into chais while feeling completely powerless to stop it

The Autistic, Authentic, Autonomous Collaboration community grows organically, at human scale, at a human pace, one trusted relationship at a time autcollab.org/knowledge-re.... Join us! The most appropriate path for Autistic people depends on the surrounding social environment and stage of life.

The Monotropism site houses an extensive archive of Dr Dinah Murray's writing about autism, neurodiversity and the nature of the mind. Here is her 1992 paper for the Durham autism conference, where she introduced the idea of monotropism. #autistic #history monotropism.org/dinah/attent...

But the neurodiversity movement has done far more for very disabled people than the bloody Guardian ever has. For anyone who wants to understand the connection, I highly recommend studying the National Autistic Taskforce guide to care. nationalautistictaskforce.org.uk/nat-guide/

I don't know a lot of autistic people who are happy with portrayals like The Good Doctor, and a big part of that is because they have learnt almost nothing from the neurodiversity movement! These are representations put together by people who *do not* listen to autistic folk about our experiences.

New public alert 🚨 Really proud of this work with Dr. Melissa Stoffers available open access rdcu.be/d0gLX

Autistic culture is a world of infinite diversity beyond the neuronormative imagination. Every Autistic relationship is unique. Many of us are traumatised. Cultural metamorphosis requires radically reframing everything we understand about cultural adaptivity autcollab.org/2024/11/26/a....

Underneath the surface of internalised ableism, no one wants to be seen and heard by many. Everyone prefers to be understood and loved deeply by a few, and everyone wants to love and help. Continuous dialogues about commitments is what makes life sacred. autcollab.org/2024/11/22/t...

Many Autistic people have great difficulties to think of the world in hierarchical ways. This is a reflection of innate human collaborative cultural capabilities in combination with a much reduced capacity for maintaining cognitive dissonance on an ongoing basis. autcollab.org/2024/11/18/t...

We can't talk about inclusion, equity, accessibility, or disability justice without also including chronically ill or medically vulnerable people.

Sensory processing sensitivities are more the norm than the exception among those with neurodivergence, severe mental illness, and complex trauma, so it’s unconscionable that staff aren’t trained to understand and help.

It’s not okay to guilt young people who’ve realized they’re #actuallyautistic (after being told they had BPD) into feeling morally obligated to uphold the BPD construct in public space for others. Both the ICD + DSM acknowledge that BPD is so heterogeneous it lacks scientific validity. #AutismNotPD

New from @rcpsych : “Autistic people are sometimes misdiagnosed with personality disorder. This is because these two diagnoses share some similarities. Healthcare professionals should consider this when making a diagnosis of #autism or #PD”. #AutismNotPD tinyurl.com/4kt6z6tm

This is awesome

South America Is Drying Up In August and September, huge portions of South America were shrouded in intense smoke from wildfires raging in the Amazon and other parts of Brazil and Bolivia, as #GlobalWarming increases both drought and flooding problems. eos.org/articles/sou...

1/2 When he taught high school history, Jim Nehring used to hand out several textbooks’ takes on the same historical event, each offering a different account in a tone of absolute certainty. Students learned more about the topic but they also came to question authoritative pronouncements.

Humanity is primarily facing a crisis of institutions and collective imagination. Many of us would be unable to recognise a healthy human scale cultural organism if we encountered one. This should scare us all. jornbettin.com/2024/11/04/h...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Useful BBC article about #AutisticElders