This was within blocks of the bar where Matthew Shepard was targeted in 1998. It is worse today. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/06/3-me...

Every time I see a social media post about a retail job making applicants do a fucking personality quiz, I'm horrified all over again. This should not be fucking legal. There is no way they don't screen out neurodivergent folk.

#autchat A4 They don’t notice I am in distress (with the only exception being some other autistic folk — I think of one time when a perceptive autistic just somehow made food show up in front of me). See my A3 for how to help.

#autchat A3 Helps: not making me express my needs. Guiding me towards a quiet place. If it is near a mealtime just put food in front of me, don’t ask if I need it (if I can talk I will say no). Calming animals also help. Get me home or to my home base. 1/2

#AutChat A2 Easy: noise. Bars, restaurants, cafeterias are the worst. But also exhaustion makes me more prone to this, so a day of social interactions is tough — add a social party and I will be in a shutdown.

#autchat A1 Ya, they are awful and mostly exhausting. I can do basically zero advocacy for myself in that situation. I know I need things badly but can’t express it. When I emerge from the shutdown I just need sleep

A reminder to people who want to exclude kids from pride: The reason we have pride is in part because kids (among others, obviously), who ran away from abusive homes, threw bricks at cops at Stonewall. This is our history. Really.

I.E. you wouldn't say green is "more color" because it's blue and yellow combined. Nor is yellow "less color" than red. They are *different*. But all are color.

I have serious concerns with the amount of autism science that is counting numbers of autistic traits as if this has some sort of relationship to whether someone is autistic or not. Autism is a spectrum (think multi-colored), not a continuum (I.E. there isn't "more" and "less" autism).

I signed up for one of the evening concerts, got my free tickets, etc, for the Freedom250 propaganda thing. I signed up *after* the artists that night backed out. Still no official communication that they won't be there or anything else about the event.

What are some disability myths? I'll go first. MYTH: Someone w/ significant, life-impacting disabilities will have some documentation about them. Truth: Some people do, but formal evaluation is not easy or available to everyone and the person themself often knows w/o eval that they are disabled.

I appreciate the Foucault reference. But also...grrrrr. And I say this as someone who is faceblind: the last people we want doing this is Meta.

This dude should just change his party affiliation already. Clearly he wants the GOP nomination for pres in two years. www.denverpost.com/2026/06/03/j...

If only someone could figure out how to make milk safe to drink! It'd be such a big deal the process would be named after them.

So they let the bags belonging to the man found with a bomb fly on the plane without him and only screened them *after the flight*? abcnews.com/US/man-alleg...

Reminder that Klingons say TRANS RIGHTS BRING HONOR TO YOUR HOUSE

It would be a lot cheaper to just leave us alone in Sainsburys and see what happens

In fairness, they may or may not have thrown bricks, but they did chase the cops (who beat and attacked queer people) into the bar and then tried to set the bar on fire...with the barricaded cops inside.

It doesn't matter if she's cis or trans. Leave people the fuck alone in bathrooms, people.

Why did you transition? Right answers only I didn't want to die without being who I am. I not only didn't die, but I started to live.

Ah, it starts. Politicians with "concerns" about single sex spaces, youth (defined as including some adults) trans health care, and "men in women's sports" tell us they respect the trans community. No pride for you if you don't support trans youth, trans women in sports, and trans women as women.

In Sikh culture, when the racists started attacking us because they thought we were Muslims, we didn’t correct them and say we were Sikhs because the point is it shouldn’t happen to anyone. As a cis woman, I do not correct someone attacking me because they think I am trans for the same reason.

Oh it gets better. The email:

I registered for the June 27th Freedom250 evening concert because I'm genuinely interested in how they allowing ticket registrations to hear two artists who backed out -- and if/how they'll communicate that to people who get tickets.

I had to update Freedom250.club *yet again* with the new headliner, a former reality TV star! This festival is getting better and better -- why have music at a music festival when you could have someone rant at whoever was president in 2020 who definitely wasn't him. (/sarcasm)

the bus. you've once again invented the bus.

How many times do we have to state that parent mental health issues correlate with their kids’ autism diagnoses because the parents are most likely undiagnosed ND or autistic folks, not because MH issues “cause” autism? Not as many as we need to, it appears: www.union-bulletin.com/news/nationa...

Glad to see the right wing continues to use Nazi salutes to own the libs. But it fits: Jewish people are only useful by the right wing as a rhetorical "gotcha". Just like women, Black people, disabled people, etc.

I like to imagine that Cologuard had a printing error on their shipping label and some random dude is getting thousands of turds shipped to him every day, and has no idea why.

I built freedom250.club last night, and already had to update the lineup! Exciting things are happening!

The world's dumbest woodpecker loves my house. Every morning this week this bird has pecked a metal vent pipe on my house. Yes, metal pipe.

This is what happens when you are a neurodivergent techie who hates fascists. You get satire sites. freedom250.club

THIS! Dem social media is basically polishing turds at this point.

I fell into the rabbit hole of Victor Marx, GOP candidate for Colorado Governor, today. Is there any candidate for GOP who isn't a (bad) scam artist?

The entire GOP plan for Texas Governor appears to be "Our guy is a real man. The other guy is really a vegan, trans, sissy woman. You need a strong MAN, not a weak woman, to lead." That's basically been the GOP's campaign strategy in major elections for 30+ years.

The AASPIRE Measurement Toolkit is now available! This is a set of accessible, participatory-generated questionnaires that can be used to measure the outcomes that are most important to autistic adults. They can be used in clinical, community, and/or research settings. aaspire.org/measurement/

I'm old enough to remember when the go-to insult by Republicans for Bill Clinton was "he's the first black president". Calling Talarico the "first transgender senate candidate" is exactly the same. We should have a better response than this from the Dems.

Permission to all my friends: Feel free to come to my house and bang on my windows, doors, etc, when it finally happens. Any time, day or night. I want to celebrate.

The best conservative America has to offer when it comes to culture. I am kind of surprised ChatGPT isn't headlining.

Auditory processing disorder testing is fucking exhausting. My productivity this week has been basically zero -- each testing session (there are several) leaves me completely exhausted. Glad I'm done now!

I apparently "live with autism." I looked under the bed and in the closet. Where else could autism be hiding?

Rates of autism - see www.bmj.com/content/392/... - are likely equal between boys and girls. So it is hard to see how circumcision has anything to do with this.

What boggles my mind more than anything else about AI art is how standards and QC seem to have been utterly abandoned. I'm pretty sure if an artist had turned this in it would have been sent back with notes. And the fixes wouldn't take too long to make. But apparently no one gives a fuck any more?

I agree autistic should be taught to swim. But I'm *REALLY* skeptical of the "autistics are 160x more likely to die of drowning." That came from a press release about a study (the study shows a very significant, but not 160x, increase looking at table. (thread) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

I got a new roof. The next time it rained, it leaked. I yelled at the roofer, but they said it was not their fault, it was their new high tech hammer they used, so they shouldn't face any responsibility. This post is about LLMs and AI.

I'll believe this when I see it. There is zero chance this will be done in 2028 like the airport thinks -- I guarantee there will be a surprise and it'll take 10 years longer than the two they plan, being DIA. www.denverpost.com/2026/05/26/d...

Still thinking about the conservative freakout of seeing a happy trans influencer...with a beer can. Our survival and joy angers the asshole class. If you needed a reason to do something you enjoy when so many assholes are doing awful things, this is a good reason.

Talking to trans+autistic people about gender is like going to graduate school for gender. Reading published research on trans+autistic people is...not that.

I wear a mask when traveling. This sounds like a bonus: I can piss off quacks!