I really wish there was more discussion of physical aspects of autism because adults pursuing physical fitness, anyone playing sports, and kids struggling to survive gym class need to know they are working w a different instrument than neurotypical peers.

I've been meaning to do this FOREVER, but I have finally redesigned my fancy stained glass coaster set using all the knowledge I've gained over the past year, and I love them! I'll be getting new color combos up in the shop soon!

It took us a year to get Juno into housing, please help her family stay housed. She's looking for work, but discrimination is an asshole. 💕💸

Time for some CHRISTMAS MAGIC, y'all. A single mom I know locally has had her electricity cut off for non-payment. If anyone can help out, I'd definitely like to get her squared away by Christmas Eve. PayPal: donnajherren @ gmail . com Venmo: @ DONNA-HERREN-0 CashApp: $totallydonna

23 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- GenderBender, 1 of 11 companies FDA is trying to force to register chest binders as "medical devices," fires back: "Chest binders aren't a medical device in the same way that scissors used to give someone a gender-affirming haircut aren't a medical device."

"State psychiatric hospitals nationwide have largely lost the ability to treat patients before their mental health deteriorates and they are charged with crimes." "[M]ental health system makes it 'easier to criminalize somebody than to get them help.'" #Ohio #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration #Suicide

The mark of a free society is that there is the right to protest & to free speech. Greta Thunberg has been arrested in London for holding a pro-Palestine poster; tens of thousands of far right rioted at the Cenotaph pro-Israel, causing public disorder & violence. Only 25 of them were arrested!

Hey, y'all. Things are incredibly dire for Nic and I at the moment. We need whatever help folks can give. We haven't had any movement on our GFM in a month. Anybody who can share this post or contribute to the campaign are going to be saying our lives and help us make sure we can feed our babies.

Okay if I can be selfish for a moment: I'm delisted from itch. In the UK you literally can not see my profile. A big chunk of my income, my living money, comes from bundles like this. It would mean a lot if you could share it, send it to friends. 🧵 itch.io/s/175443/ver... itch.io/b/3377/bundl...

ICE killed an Eritrean Imam in one of their concentration camps this week. Can you imagine if it was a pastor?The dovetailing of #Islamophobia and immigration cruelty is because white Christian nationalism is our stated public policy. It really pisses me off. We have to fight it with all we’ve got.

If you are feeling helpless and hopeless in the face of the CECOT report, I’d like to suggest donating to HIAS. It’s a Jewish organization that actively protects displaced people and fights for refugee rights everywhere including against the Trump regime. 🧵

For decades, the FDA made it impossible to know which factory your prescription drugs were manufactured in. ProPublica built a tool to show you. Here’s how we did it.

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ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.

The available scents: Hot Cocoa Spice Cake Mistletoe #candles #smallbiz

Trump’s Greenland obsession is back: imperial vibes, zero consent. You don’t “appoint envoys” to absorb sovereign land in 2025 without looking like a cartoon strongman. Greenland answered with outrage—and honestly, the polar bear’s reaction feels about right www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Vineyard Wind has powered homes and businesses—and thousands of jobs—for a year.  Stopping construction days before Christmas, in the dead of winter, is reckless and dangerous. We're in touch with other states and doing everything we can to finish these projects.

Ordering soap and I'm over the moon that this sold out. It really does smell like skittles.

In fact, I find it kind of problematic to feed digitized archival materials straight into LLMs for processing/interpretation or to "begin critical engagement." Given that the current slate of LLMs are owned/run by some of the worst people on the planet, its worth being careful about.

"One thing non-autistic people are prone to underestimating, in my experience, is the energy cost of just getting places and existing in those places and then getting home again, readjusting to that, and navigating all the transitions in between." At TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2021/05/on-e...

Deep breath Ok I'm going to try and stay calm But I'll point out that AI translation is literally causing translators to be fired (see the whole Harlequin line in France) (1/?)

For reasons nobody can make sense of, a disgusting dense sphere made of dried fruit and candied peel is due to be served in homes around the world on December 25th.

This makes facially neutral policies--like poll taxes and literacy tests--that we know were adopted for discriminatory purposes legal. Organizations can now simply claim there was no discriminatory intent regardless of outcome. It's unconstrained institutionalized racism.

Read the full email Sharyn Alfonsi sent her team about CBS pulling their segment on the Trump admin’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Trans youth healthcare is based in decades of research and supported by every major medical organization in the US. Under RFK Jr, a handpicked panel produced a dodgy report claiming otherwise. It's a clear example of Kennedy's war on science. So why aren't news organizations treating it that way?

BCBS will take this unholy sum from me on 12/25. Merry F*ing Christmas from Donald Trump, Mike Johnson, and Senate Dems who carved the ACA out of the shutdown negotiations along with all their leverage. I'll keep my Christmas wish for them to myself. I wouldn't want to sound angry or anything. 😉

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Here is my face to let you know my car transmission problems are worsening and now the the cascade of issues I was worried about is starting to pick up speed. I really need any support people might offer get get out of this hole. V: colocha_rachel $: ColochaRachel PayPal via DM

I like the cogent, succinct responses below about US and China diversity to this stunningly stupid post excerpted by Aaron. (Sorry for the poor phrasing)

Reminder that ebooks are a great gift, easy to buy, instantly available to the receiver no matter the distance, and if you have someone on your list who would like a little escapism courtesy of fog-bound Holmesian mysteries set on Jupiter with slow-burn f/f romance & petty academia, here you go!

As I often say, I'm a historian because I like reading other people's diaries and rubber-necking drama. AI is built for people with no curiosity. It's anti-knowledge.

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If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.

Former NSA employee (16 years) with a pro tip for you. Released controlled document on the left, Epstein on the right. See the difference? In real redactions, some words, headers, and bits will almost always still be visible, but especially classification headers. These documents are UNCLASSIFIED

Kristie on the significance of her and Sam’s wedding as gay women 🫶🏳️‍🌈

Question: When the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights division tweets out a false statement about an individual that results in them being barraged with death threats based on their religion and ethnicity, which governmental agency would look into whether that student’s Civil Rights had been infringed?

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Itch*, not twitch, or fitch, or glitch, or stitch, or zilch, or switch, or kitsch, or Mitch Really, buy Ela’s books

when i was hearing the stories still spun as, this isn't going to be a big deal, i thought about two things: 1. In 1989, I had a lot of conversations with a research aerovirologist about how coronaviruses are nearly always airborne 2. I knew all about the Zul'gurub plague in WoW in 2005.

You know in January 2020 when the US was still pretending Covid wasn't going to hit us my parents flew to Port-au-Prince where they were subject to temperature checks upon landing. I think about that a lot.

genAI is STOLEN WORK. Using genAI in *any* capacity is trafficking in stolen work, supporting the plunder. Period. These facts aren't even denied by the AI companies, they just find ways to make that plunder seem benevolent. Using their product enables that lie. Stop enabling the theft of our work.

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What's up bluesky I've got a trans Regency romance with jokes and gags and a carriage chase if that's your gift recipient's thing. Plus Heated Glances oooo!

Epstein Survivor Jess Michaels: I'm feeling strangely validated. Because in plain sight, and with even with an act of Congress, we're seeing the exact same delays, negligence, corruption, incompetence that we've seen consistently and have been advocating about. They've actually proved our point.

THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...