lol someone on the comm team has had a long week

Going to tell all my pregnant friends to load up on Tylenol so that their kids get autism and the United States can finally get some high speed rail before I die.

And because that extra work is invisible to nondisabled people who don’t have to engage with it, it leads to the belief that disabled people are self-segregating or somehow aren’t doing enough to make ourselves part of the world.

Disability accommodation represents a failure to plan and build accessible infrastructure —work structures, public spaces, events. We force people thru appts, paperwork, mtgs w their boss and HR…bc of structural failures. The work of being included too often falls to individual disabled people.

Shout out to @juliametraux.bsky.social for consistently remembering that autistic people are a part of any audience and can hear the things that public figures say about us!

“The long history of trying to ‘cure’ or eliminate autism has been a history of terrible abuse and dangerous sham treatments." I spoke to @autisticadvocacy.org's Greg Robinson and @drstevenkapp.bsky.social about the awful autism presser yesterday. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

calling autism a “tragedy” and saying that there should be fewer autistic people are eugenicist talking points. Everyone who opposes such views also needs to recognize the ways in which everyday ableism left the door wide open for a person like RFK Jr.

the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists

It's Baby Safety Month.

Note that Kansas’ referendum vote took place in AUGUST. And people turned out to vote to defeat it in droves. Ezra Klein is a dipshit.

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

It is insane for this to be the only evidence you cite in your editorial about political violence. The far right has been responsible for the majority of terrorist attacks in the United States for years. Republican leaders routinely celebrate extrajudicial killings and refuse to regulate guns.

It's worth asking why every elite institution is issuing statements like this rather than pointing out the obvious fact that the institutional right commits and glorifies violence far more than the left. Is there a reason you feel you can't say that out loud? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...

Those reading this as approval of Kirk’s killing are reading words that aren’t there. I don’t want to live in a world of normalized violence. Charlie Kirk spent his life ensuring we all have to live in such a world. We do everything a disservice to elide the reality of that.

The most piercing judgments of Charlie Kirk I see today are the ones that simply quote his words for all to hear. What a legacy he earned.

Charlie Kirk woke up every day and made a conscious decision to be the Charlie Kirk we all saw. That’s the meanest thing I can think of to say about pretty much anyone, and it also happens to be completely true. We can remember what he did, and we can remember who he did it to.

And we all know that’s true, because that’s all he did. Ultimately, that’s all he was, because he never bothered to be anything else. And now he’s gone, so let’s do him the honor of remembering him with accuracy.

The truth of the matter is that if anyone but Charlie Kirk had been killed at today’s shooting, then Charlie Kirk would be out there right now using the shooting as pretext to deliver arguments designed to make sure that the next shooting would happen, and the next one, and the next, and the next.

It’s fine to say that violence is never the answer, but I can’t help but observe that for Charlie Kirk violence was always the answer, and it was the only answer he offered, and, because of the privilege that he refused to admit he had, he could enact it from a comfortable and respectable place.

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

Honestly, if Gavin Newsom is fondly eulogizing this Temu branded Baldur von Schirach, it’s safe to assume he is cool with fascism as long as he’s in on it.

Anyone who wants a Covid vaccine should be able to get one, no matter what state you live in.

I would like to take this opportunity to remember Melissa Hortman, a serving Democratic politician assasinated by a right-winger.

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

Meanwhile AI is still a great advancement, congrats techbrahs

Some new street art spotted in DC 🤣

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

I hope everyone realizes that calling human beings “cockroaches” is *exactly* how the Rwandan genocide began.

Please start believing it when these people say they want to do violence to the rest of us and start responding accordingly. We can't share a society with these people

“They are also being comforted by their girlfriend they met at camp. You wouldn’t know her. She lives in Canada.”

One thing I know for sure is that if *I* called the cops and said “some guy just threw a sandwich at me” they would consider me to be a huge baby and think I was wasting their time.

1 in 3 women have been stalked at some point in their lives. New study finds that women who were stalked or obtained a restraining order were significantly more likely to develop cardiovascular disease than those who had not had these experiences. hsph.harvard.edu/news/stalkin...

bonus points for this also being AI's fault

a specific skill I've developed over the past ~20 years is crafting responses to emails sent to me, but intended for that other Naomi Wolf

So our preschool runs from 9 to 2. What do you do for childcare after 2? Fuck you, that's what. Also please come back here at 10:15 for the parent-child sing-along, even though you're paying us so you can work during the day. We're $2000 a month btw

It's wild how little thought is given when scheduling children's care or education to a parent that might, you know, have a job during the day

My school district has scheduled the first day of school for a Thursday, an absolutely unhinged day to start school on

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

ok but counterpoint: i'm tired and i just fucking can't

for every public service you destroy we add a gender

you should not be allowed to work in the next administration unless you are part of a polycule and have at least six tattoos and rainbow hair

this era of trump destroying every institution in the name of being anti-woke and ending DEI will usher in an even more woke era than ever thought possible

Kevin McLeod, who for 20 years has been the "royalty-free music guy" online, has just launched a new website where other composers will also be offering royalty-free music for anyone to use in their projects: freepd.com

Game Changer pride stickers are out now 🎉 (with massive thanks to @samreich.bsky.social for giving me permission to sell them!) UK: canopyrobin.sumupstore.com/product/game... International: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4333...

The step is always knowing who to ACTUALLY be mad at.

A reminder for those that are still willfully obtuse: Many, MANY of us are survivors of childhood sexualized violence and have had to watch and recognize the behavior of the predators in power while NOT addressing the toll it takes on our psyches because it’s “unprofessional.” Read that again.