Grandboss described me as "quiet but devastating." I like it.

New theory: air pollution causes autism but plot twist: it's the world trying to heal itself by creating a subset of humans who love trains so we can have more public transit and less pollution

Which is exactly why we don't let up making it very clear that Kirk was a Nazi. Let him be remembered for exactly the way he lived his life. Let Kirk hagiography be an explicit admission of sympathy for Nazism.

I’m autistic. Not because of Tylenol. Not because of vaccines. Not because of some headline. I’m autistic because that’s how my brain works. Stop treating us like a problem. Start listening to us.

this archetype remains undefeated

this is actually an incredible tactic.

Google and GoogleScholar are free, require the same level of user input and yield exponentionally better results. OR...you could pay $20 a month for this AI piece of shit. I searched for Scite on BlueSky and a disturbing number of academics seem to think it's good.

I think we all deserve some good news, as a treat 💜

"I feel like LeggyDog has been exhausting today, but I can't put my finger on why," I say, ignoring that she pooped in the basement, picked a fight with TinyDog, and accidentally bit me twice while tugging toys.

No disappointment like realizing 1) you misheard a song's lyrics and 2) you liked your version better

neurodiversity is Good Actually. just want to say that

Part of the intention with spreading these lies is to push back on social messaging that made it more acceptable to be autistic, in my opinion. The more social momentum they can create behind things making kids autistic, the stronger the message to autistic people is that they need to 'fit in.'

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Given that the American regime is going to be saying some stupid shit about autism today, I want to circulate this essay as a sort of inoculation. please read and, if you learned something, share it with the people in your life.

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Time to start naming who the senior naval officers in charge of this shit are. Because they need to be in jail.

Someone said “what does this mean” So I’ll try this My mom once told me “Sometimes the only way to be a good Christian you gotta stop going to a bad church” If you believe in love and peace , and they CHOOSE otherwise It becomes your duty to leave

New dog, LeggyDog, is a mighty hunter. I'd assumed some kind of sighthound (cf legginess) and, DNA test pending, I'm even more sure. She is very upset that i took it away and threw it over the fence and she keeps looking out the back door longingly.

Trump and Vance’s contradictory messages on these killings: 1: Our glorious military carried out hyper-precise attacks on dastardly drug smugglers. 2: If you’re an innocent fisherman, watch out because we might kill you by mistake!

If having a felony conviction on your record doesn’t disqualify someone from being the President, it shouldn’t disqualify someone from voting. People with felony convictions should be able to vote.

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

One thing to understand about most “Disney Adults” is that the parks have only gotten more expensive and crowded while offering less ever since they reopened in 2020 so it doesn’t take that much more to make people stop going. And the theme park forums are rightfully pissed about Kimmel

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

We have 6 hard dog chews in a variety of shapes and flavors. They both only want the one the other dog has.

No one should get violent threats. But if you’re gonna change your vote because of it, you should resign. I’Ve been getting violent threats all week and not only do I have no intention of shutting up, I think it’s evidence that we need to say it louder

I don’t understand why this is not getting more attention. The Trump administration is killing people with no legal basis.

Comic relief from the horrors: The racoon who lived in the dumpster behind my university newspaper office was named Sullivan after this court case. I once tossed it some granola bar and it came up to take the rest from my hand.

This essay, by an Egyptian-American former New Yorker staff fact-checker, is an incredible read And incredibly damning Huge recommendation

I hate how hard it feels to get excited for technological advances nowadays. They're almost all either overhyped fads from brain melted techbros, planet-devastating new and grotesque ways to make everyone poorer, profoundly enshittificated "improvements", or some unholy mix of all three.

the industries we're killing deserve to die or it's not hard to not get more conservative as you get older, you people are just racists

Having all entertainment be on demand all the time on nearly every platform you can think of is actually a net negative. Being forced to watch or listen to or even play movies/music/games you otherwise wouldn't pick helps develop a healthier taste in art.

Not everything should require you to make an account. or download an app, or a buy subscription service.

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Google had a near-perfect search algorithm in 2018 and destroyed it because making several hundred billion dollars a year wasn't enough for them

I am calling on every single congressperson to resign in disgrace. All of them. All sides of the aisle. bsky.app/profile/prot...

People legit yelled at me for 24 hours when I said it's extremely dumb to RSVP to a protest. Why hand your name over to a group organizing a protest/rally? Do you *want* to have to talk to the FBI? Treat anyone encouraging you to RSVP to a protest as a fed. End of.

Democracy, more than anything is a practice. I always think that the Civil Rights Movement succeeded because from the Civil War black Americans built institutions: universities, fraternities and sororities, churches, that engaged them in democratic practice.

I know a lot of people don't read good, and god knows a lot of Christians don't read their one important book good, but FFS how does a PASTOR think 'the valley of the shadow of death' is eternal life? (It's a quote, I can't fix it)

@ezraklein.bsky.social’s “eulogy of Kirk represents a broader failure to understand what’s happening to our discourse. When we praise bad-faith performers for ‘engaging’ with their critics, we’re not celebrating democratic norms—we’re rewarding those who exploit them.” — @mmasnick.bsky.social

It is genuinely humiliating as an America to have this sour, cowardly, narcissistic lout represent us and to know that so many Americans applaud conduct like this. Just deeply embarrassing.

I think TinyDog has figured out that LeggyDog is staying. Now trying to establish pecking order (humping order?). LeggyDog doesn't care. LeggyDog just wants me to throw the ball.

The lack of quotes—the unwillingness to let Kirk speak for himself—is particularly revealing. I can think of no greater indictment of Charlie Kirk’s character than the fact that all his friends and colleagues seem to desperately want us to mourn him, but do not want us to remember him.

If I were editing a college president’s guest essay about the importance of colleges hosting “difficult speakers,” I would ask her to clarify how her argument squares with her history of expelling students for protesting, and why speakers should be treated better than her own students.

When all you have is a hammer, you're inclined to see every problem as a nail. Well, all this guy had was a rifle, given to him by his cop MAGA family. And he was EXPLICITLY TAUGHT by his cop MAGA family that crucial sociopolitical problems should be solved with kill shots.

I saw someone say the DOJ wouldnt lie and I just need to know how anyone comes to that conclusion

You might think it should be a non-controversial belief among Democrats that "DC should be able to self-govern. But 31 House Democrats just voted to give Trump and Congressional Republicans full control over DC's sentencing laws. Shameful, heinous behavior from Vichy Democrats

Fuck anyone who accepted Kilmeade’s apology. Fuck anyone who said I should. Fuck anyone who supports Gruesome Newsome. Fuck anyone who looks down on the homeless. Homelessness isn’t a choice or a moral failing but being a piece of shit certainly is.