TW for the linked article. Autistic people get almost no support under the current systems in the UK. Mental health services are almost nonexistent. Some theoretical help is in practice impossible to access if you have additional needs / ADHD. Do we matter? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

they banned trans women from playing snooker because we have an advantage in placing balls inside small openings

pro wrestling is cool because people will be like "yayyy big meaty men slapping meat 🥩💪" but it's actually more "big meaty men establishing incredible amounts of emotional trust in order to keep each other safe doing dangerous physical maneuvers 🥺"

It’s a crime that in a society which goes crazy for sriracha and hot sauce that Sambal Oelek isn’t available in every supermarket

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

Vince Guaraldi Christmas album.mp3

You see a lot of “why did Sir Keir pick McSweeney” but the truth is that Sir Keir is Derek Zoolander: a beautiful, clueless, incurious oaf that bad people could use to assassinate the Prime Minister of Micronesia.

*incredibly* humourless 'I researched this for a novel once': yes, she would go "well they're doing that a lot. They crucified a thousand people on a single day last year. That's what they do, they crucify a bunch of people. Poor Josh. He was kind of an intense guy but he didn't deserve that."

We've mostly developed three things in the twenty-first century: an app that erases labour, a digital wallet that evades taxes, and an algorithm that abuses your attention. But we've developed each of them over and over again.

DAVID BYRNE: Water dissolving! Water removing! ME: Oh yeah? DAVID BYRNE: There is water at the bottom of the ocean 🙂 ME: That’s so cool buddy. Did you learn that at school today? DAVID BYRNE: Remove the water 😡 carry the water 😡 ME: Hm how about we carry some juice in your sippy cup bud?

I cannot find one flaw in this argument

All that 'best tweets' business has helped me decide this is my favourite joke format now. Are there more as good as these?

absolutely cannot get this image out of my head. i should be working on my book

The problem is I've spent literally twenty years training myself to always read the prefix meta- as meat-

Think about this one like once every 45 minutes

In April and May, I’ll be leading a FREE workshop series for trans migrants with LoveTank CIC in London as we work together to create a zine! Writing, collage, photography, everything! Share with your friends: www.outsavvy.com/event/34810/...

I think about “normal to want and possible to achieve” all the time

My initial introduction to voice notes was deeply traumatic (the panic of having twenty minutes sent by someone abusive when you know you can't listen for a few hours is deeply specifically textured). But as they've eased back into my life I find them so fatigue friendly. And a lovely gift for some.

I'll be honest with you. After that episode of Letterkenny, I reckon I'd break vegan to try a single packet of all dressed crisps.

WHAT ARE THE CANADIAN PRODUCTS

One thing that has not been remarked on I don't think is how FWS says trans people retain our previous legal rights if we pass (obviously Patrick Hodge doesn't offer a sophisticated read on theories and practices of passing). But that at the same time you can literally be put in prison for passing.

Oh god yeah the Elliot Gould one is the truest answer

So many to choose from, but i love this one

I don't think this was originally a tweet but I also can't verify. But it is the perfect soul of peak tweeting to me

The tweet is long-gone but I'm constantly thinking about the early-days-of-Covid photo of two heart-warming kids messages in a window and a third picture which very much misjudged the tone. IT'S CORONA TIME!

yeah no I want it to look exactly like this please

I don't think I can explain the extent to which I have given up on any support for anything ever.

Gvt & press: OMG stop 'self identifying' as stuff without a clinical diagnosis! It's woke. Us: Can we get diagnoses then? Gvt & press: No Us: Can we at least get a GP appointment to talk about it? GP: uhhh, does it look like exactly 8am to you? Are you currently on hold & lucky today? Then fuck off.

Afflicted by an amnestic framing device, our only hope of salvation is that one paragraph on page 4 of your favourite RPG.... whatever one of those is. open.spotify.com/episode/7jaK...

I know fiction is sexy but honestly more people should try creative nonfiction - memoir, deep dives into topics you're fascinated by, investigations, hybrids of all these things. It's such a potentially rich & transformative way of exploring being alive, & writing it can kind of change your life.

Happy deathiversary to Charlotte Brontë — though as my class discussed yesterday, she lives on…

Okay. So like. I see a lot of lists of good self care things. Can anyone point me to a list of things you can ask for when someone says 'let me know if there's anything I can do to help'? Or can we make one now? What can I ask for when I'm struggling?

Just saw my first TDOV post that wasn't angry and/or despairing. After about half an hour scrolling and at least fifty TDOV posts. What a great time to be visible.

NO DRAB GAB TUESDAY

Once again Caelan smashes it out of the park. (This trope (Joke? Conspiracy? Whatever it is) has annoyed me for a WHILE)

@ava.foxfort.net and I will be recording a new but why vikings this week. We would like your convention related questions please. We had a great time at Airecon but what pitfalls are there to be avoided at such events?

This was my favourite Glen Baxter

Put myself through two wringers at once today by stirring up a load of old trauma and also bingeing the second half of The Pitt season one. Obviously I'm doing great.

hey train perverts wanna see the shinkansen cloaca

I gave a talk in Edinburgh recently that I have turned into an article. It's on how to interact with folk like myself when you have a game to promote. Hope you find it useful. giantbrain.co.uk/2026/03/28/h...

Does this mean that I, a sizeable breast-haver, am just inherently good? All decisions I make are justified and righteous because tits. Excellent.

I sometimes wonder if people think we’re exaggerating when we say ‘there’s no medical help for ME/cfs’ but there’s genuinely almost nothing. One fairly useless course (exercises, condescending ‘advice' and CBT) and maybe some low dose amitriptyline, which did fuck all for me.

I have all sorts of differences in my politics with Penn Jillette but I admired the episode of Bullshit on UFO contactees where they concluded by saying these people are lonely & vulnerable & the fact this is the only way they feel listened to is our failing, go visit your neighbour, speak to folks.

Hello Bluesky, this may be a bit of a longshot but does anyone on here know a penguin expert who might be up for answering a couple of questions about penguins for me?

if I were having kids take the piss outta me this bad I would simply not admit to it in a national newspaper

Yes I know that but what *is* it?