there are good things left in this world too. even improving things.

I’m providing diagnostic evaluations for folks 16+ in NH, MA, CT & NY who may be Autistic. My process involves a robust informed consent discussion so that people can decide what’s right for them w/o any commitment. I’m strict to DSM-V-TR because that’s my duty, & so not all my clients are diagnosed

Now would be a good time to buy the parent of newly-diagnosed #ActuallyAutistic child the book Neurotribes by late friend @stevesilberman.bsky.social. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/310415...

u.s. politics or whatever it is now has gotten so bizarre that i don’t understand what’s going on at all any more. i go do work for a few hours without internet and i come back and the president has declared war on the tooth fairy or something.

i know a lot of liberals, leftists, democrats etc and have never met one who thinks that if bill clinton engaged in pedophilia he shouldn’t be fully prosecuted for it. as far as i’m concerned he can share a cell with trump.

For the third year in a row, to the day, extreme weather has hit Vermont. Some locations in the Northeast Kingdom and Addison County were heavily impacted last night. We will work together to make sure everyone has what they need to recover, as Vermonters do. I’m thinking of everyone affected.

for a while the supreme court was at least mixing some good in with the bad sometimes, but is that just over now?

sorry science people but this is 100% true

This heat wave is absolutely bone crushing. I'm so glad I installed central air two years ago. But if you're without AC, or you're dealing with a heat wave for the first time because it's reaching areas that don't historically get this hot, here are a few tips from my years of poverty in a desert:

1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so. 🧵

is there a way to force the bluesky feed to be chronological ? i sometimes use it to monitor news events as they happen and i don’t need posts from 16 hours ago at that time.

1. The US Transgender Survey has finally been released, and the results are stunning. - <1% of people are less satisfied after HRT. - The most common reason for detransition, pausing transition, or stopping transition is transphobia. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

my take on the current #inaturalist issue as a user since 2011. i’m definitely concerned about the future of the site both because of this and other changes in the last 2 or 3 years. but i think people should hold off on deleting data for now.

some write a “wreck of the elon shitsgerald” song

oh wow it’s me. other than i have a male body.

reminder: parents of autistic kids are often also autistic.

imagine your child was trapped in their own head, were in pain, and couldn’t communicate. now imagine you met someone similar to your child but who could talk. they could tell you a lot about what your child needs. now imagine you told that person they were a liar and to go f*ck themselves.

some autistic people don’t pay taxes and others were the backbone of our country’s tech edge and cultural prominence as well. even if you could remove autism it would be cultural suicide to do so. i do know one autistic person who doesn’t pay taxes and should, though. Elon Musk.

it’s a literal witch hunt - as in they are trying to find the outlier humans they don’t like and eradicate us. we’ve been here before. how many of the witches they burned do you suppose were autistic? i’m guessing a very high number.

it's me with your friendly reminder that not only was the "connection between vaccines and autism" DISPROVEN it was launched from fraud at the cost of traumatizing young Autistic kids w/ unnecessary medical procedures WAKEFIELD PAID HIS KIDS' FRIENDS $5 FOR BLOOD AT A BIRTHDAY PARTY! c'mon now!

this is true for me. SSRIs reduce my anxiety a little for a while but i quickly have to increase dose until the side effects are too high. and going off them is awful. most of my anxiety is linked to sensory issues or social issues like schedule changes. just autism.

4 things about autism you may not know... 1. Autism is hereditary – Some studies have estimated that up to 90% of the variance in autistic traits is due to genetic factors.

does anyone actually feel “awe” at watching an empire destroy itself for no reason? just its enemies i guess.

Happy #InternationalBeaverDay, everyone! 🎉🎉🎉 Remember to hug all the beavers you meet today. 😘🦫🦫🦫

This winter was ~6° colder than last year's record warm season. Ski & snow sports across New England boomed once again with the colder air. We had closer to normal ice days with a bump in snowfall totals from the year prior. #winter #spring #boston #mawx #nhwx #vtwx #riwx #ctwx #mewx #climatechange

A strong ridge of high pressure is over the SE U.S. and will intensify to record strength (pink colors) on Thu-Sat. This ridge will lock the jet stream into a “stuck” pattern, resulting in repeated rounds of thunderstorms with torrential rains over the Central U.S. (image from polarwx.com/models/)

Asked for by no one, but my taxonomic rant is finally here in substack form open.substack.com/pub/ecospher...

RFK Jr. is elevating some of the most incompetent and publicly reviled anti-vax autism pseudoscience grifters, by literally putting them in charge of an HHS autism study. All the trigger warnings for harm the Geiers have caused to autistic people and their families. www.statnews.com/2025/03/26/r...

this is just to say i have started a war chat in signal which you were probably saving for secure communication channels forgive me it was delicious no foia i invited a random reporter fyi

they say this about autistic people and other various marginalized groups too and it’s always false. LGBT+ and n/d people are far more likely to have violence against them than be violent. the most violent demographic is cis white men.

i don’t believe for a minute they will consider my comment but i left one anyway. maybe it just gets me put on a list. but im probably already on that too.

This is what the US Department of Education means for Vermont: $490 million for education. Funding for 40% of staff in the state education agency. $28 million in loans for UVM undergrads. $17 million in loans for Vermont State University students.

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Trump Administration rolled back an Executive Order protecting and supporting Tribal sovereignty and self-determination this past Friday, calling the action “harmful”

Every article reporting on Chuck Schumer’s capitulation to Trump that doesn’t mention this is committing journalistic malfeasance www.nbcbayarea.com/news/nationa...

Yikes. You don't see a "high" risk for severe weather but every few years... Stay safe out there y'all

gtfo schumer

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

it’s already shutdown you naive bag of pathetic goo. don’t vote for republican crap your constituents don’t want.

too many things I care about are in flames

Updated key messages from the NWS Storm Prediction Center for the multi-day regional severe storm outbreak on Friday (3/14) and Saturday (3/15).

yeah if they are already shutting down all the parts we care about why should we vote for their shitty budget

obviously this is a horrible idea. but they’ve broken the system so badly it doesn’t really matter. either trump’s “government “ collapses soon or the whole country goes. he’s not able to lead or govern and none of the stuff he or musk has done can work at all.

we need a much better presidential candidate than this guy.

1. Major news in transgender care. Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines. They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the Cass Review in England. Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care. Subscribe to support our journalism.

really tired of watching large swaths of my species doom themselves to death or shorter shittier lives rather than just reject social norms that we know are harming them. like just listen to people with knowledge of something and don’t disregard the answer because you don’t like it. that’s it ffs.

Halting weather balloon launches in Albany is a disaster waiting to happen. No weather balloons means weaker storm tracking, worse forecasts, and more lives at risk. Our community needs full National Weather Service staffing now!

ABC News has now fully taken down the old 538 website, including all interactive projects since 2014. Aside from erasing history this prevents access to publicly released data, including raw polls, averages, model estimates & story dta. Totally unacceptable for a company (allegedly) doing journalism