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fun fact this is what "emotional labor" means it is not actually when your loved ones expect you to care about their feelings also it is very ableist

This is a point we must not forget when campaigning against this unjust law.

Such a mystery, what MASS DISABLING EVENT could have happened after 2019 to cause this?

This is notable and not good. Teen Vogue was an unexpected avenue of hard hitting journalism and I suspect that will not continue..

FYI if you have a Spotify membership, Indivisible is asking people to cancel until they stop running ICE recruitment ads. Instructions on how to do it here: www.youtube.com/shorts/TKp7c...

I'm a kitty in a sealed box I hide I'm wanted dead or alive

Folks still try to get away with the excuse that they can’t make the move to Bluesky because there are no sports. It’s not true and it hasn’t been true for some time.

A very #HappyDiwali to those who celebrate! I am not religious in any form, but as a secular #ActuallyAutistic magpie I feel inclined to celebrate all of the winter light festivals (and I believe modern Christmas extremely counts as one) collectively as the #ShinySeason...

A World War II veteran was a contestant on Deal or No Deal

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

"Windows update is commited to helping reduce carbon emissions" fucking is it, what about Copilot?

I think it's also important to note that meltdowns in black women may look different because it is not *safe* to display signs of your "average" meltdown. Suppression of, avoidance, and isolation during a meltdown is taught/learned.

British Broadcasting Conservatives strike again

A4: For a long time it was a bit "if I had one" and even as I hit adolescence I made most of my friends online at a time (early-mid 00s) when that was still very much seen as weird and/or dangerous. (LJ tags were my portal to interest-based location-agnostic community; once that opened...) #AutChat

A3: School was simultaneously the place I thrived (as a stereotypical academically-inclined autistic nerd kid) and despised (sensory triggers everywhere). University shifted the balance a bit but lectures were still sometimes a challenge, especially the Absolute Unit first-year classes #AutChat

A2: Notable for being deferred - didn't start university until 20 and at least the second of my "gap years" was unwanted - but immensely fulfilling, outside of some mental health and dietary challenges, once it truly got under way #AutChat

A1: Helped a lot by my early diagnosis! But my spiky profile complicated things in that I craved adult company over my peers as a kid, and then struggled to gain autonomy or even know I wanted it until that dam burst, late but quite explosively, at 16 #AutChat

A0: David, early-diagnosed autistic who may or may not be otherwise neurodivergent 😂 #AutChat

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

There were two people inside this mosque and comes after a Imam was stabbed in Hounslow last week. Mosque fire being treated as arson and hate crime www.bbc.com/news/article...

Two things that are very obviously true: The Israeli government's genocidal actions in Gaza are monstrous and A lot of equally monstrous antisemites are using Gaza as an excuse to attack Jewish people.

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

Oops! All Projection

📢 We'll be closing our survey for #autistic adults at 9am Tues 7th Oct (UK time) so just a few days left to take part. ⬇️ Open to autistic adults anywhere in the world 🌍 share your experiences of stimming and #mindfulness - we're keen to hear about good and bad experiences. tinyurl.com/Aut-Mindful

Important PSA! Charcoal is a natural absorbent. Unfortunately it's quite liberal when it comes to WHAT it absorbs, meaning: it absorbs ANYTHING that goes into your stomach and gut. That includes all the active substances from ANY kind of medication you take (incl. contraceptives, vitamins et al).

This is me on the scale of energy *treats x-axis as a mattress* I am at zero

[Chappell Roan voice] big cosy hug

It's October! Darkness is ascendent! I'm able to go under my Giles Corey blanket pile again! HAPPY BAT MONTH 🦇🖤🦇

If you use plagiarism machines you are facilitating these dystopian developments

No way 😮 so the people willing to fire loyal employees for AI and use it as a free shortcut, are unwilling to pay for the product too? Wow, this is totally new and unpredictable behavior that I am totally surprised by.

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

With alt text: click on the original post for the link to the news article it's referencing

If I need to use crypto because of governments banning HRT, that doesn’t mean crypto is good. Without the government causing problems, there would be no need for it. Crypto fuckin sucks actually. Making money by the idea of making money, trading numbers back and forth at the expense of the earth.

If people don’t communicate their needs, issues, or triggers and hide things from you only to unleash them like a deluge that’s toxic as hell. You deserve people around you that will have those hard conversations, communicate clearly, and foster actual community. True friends grow together.

Much hype during Thursday Night Football (brought to you by Jeff Bezos and a hologram of Charlie Kirk) about this Sunday's game in Dublin at legendary Croke Park between the Steelers and Vikings. I'm just back from Dublin and If ya don't think sports is political... www.thenation.com/article/soci...

These ID cards, if introduced, will also absolutely be used to further that awful, bigoted new guidance about trans people not being allowed into public toilets in the UK. There are so many reasons to be against them. I've signed, & if you're a UK citizen, you can, too.

The UK government's technology policies are ridiculous. Online Safety Act; making people use proprietary software to file tax; trying to force Apple to backdoor their messaging; frotting Big Tech, and getting moist for "A.I.", and now Digital ID.

They told me to make myself at home, so I turned the thermostat all the way down and buried myself in every single blanket they own

Subtly downgrade a band The Penultimate Dinner Party

Alright, we understand it's ridiculous that pregnant women are being discouraged from using Tylenol... Now we just need to take that a bit further & consider how tough it is for people with chronic pain to get adequate pain management & how stigmatized their meds are. Everyone deserves pain control.

Tired: insisting <insert stupid thing here> causes autism. Wired: helping Autistic people live and move through the world around them.

@rigg.lgbt 🦇 HAPPY DARKNESS ASCENDANCY NIGHT 🦇

Hey, Autism is not a disease. While not all Autistics have food aversion, it is found in a lot of Autistic and neurodivergent folk. If you want to stick it to the people sharing and celebrating the spreading of misinformation about Autism, share stuff made by Autistic folk. Like my book:

i need you to look at these excerpts and tell me you see what’s really going on TELL ME YOU SEE IT

Use this YouTube link to watch my opera-- 6 PM Pacific, 9/19! It will also work after that, but don't you want to come hang out with me? 🥺 youtu.be/e_A94tDTpWY