Only one week until #GivingTuesday. Reason #1 to give: Love!

Can everyone else read these long ass text messages that we get to glimpse on the characters’ phones for 2 seconds on every tv show now? Or do y’all just not care that you can’t see what they’re saying? It drives me nuts

WOW! Autism Society of America, The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, the Autism Science Foundation, the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network and Autism Speaks put out a statement denouncing the CDC changing its website on vaccines autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...

SNAP is a lifeline for workers in low-wage jobs. Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker. Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps. Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.

Tribute thread to a legend. Rest in Power Alice Wong ❤️

Rest in Power, Alice Wong.

Watching my stories (trashy reality tv) alone and commenting into the void: Demi’s hair looking this atrocious is Jessi’s best revenge!

It’s been two weeks since RFK said there is NO evidence that Tylenol causes autism (oops! lulz) and it’s funny how my phone has NOT been blown up by the people who were so eager to treat me like a dumbass for not believing that BS in the first place. Maybe they’re still writing their apologies…

AWN honors Native American Heritage Month, and celebrates the TWO SPIRIT, (ALSO: 2SPIRIT, 2S, or TWO-SPIRIT) people of Indigenous North America then & now

The only memorial for Cheney should be about the 4000+ service members who lost their lives because he lied about WMDs.

Counting down and it's four weeks until #GivingTuesday! We're featuring the top 5 reasons to give in this series from AWN Art Director, Erin Casey. Number 4: Healing www.mightycause.com/organization...

“When autistic trans and nonbinary artists share their voices, they show how art and activism can work together to create meaningful change.” ❤️ Love this, from AWN’s new digital media intern Makayla

Congrats Jules!! This is great news for everyone at AWN & for the community “In my new role as Co-Executive Director, I practice servant leadership and humility, in which the success of leadership is measured by how well the people in our community are doing.”

Shower thoughts: “ashes to ashes and dust to dust” is actually a pretty weird way to describe the cycle of life. Would make more sense to say water to water or even goo to goo. Anyway, happy Scorpio season! 💀

Watched this tonight and it was for sure one of the best docs I’ve ever seen. I did cry… a LOT. Was not expecting body cams to be so compelling but this is an exceptional film

October is LGBTQIAP+ History Month!

Please look out for vets at the protests this weekend. Sometimes big crowds, yelling, and tight spaces can trigger PTSD for combat vets.

Not looking for a circ debate - but the word “early” is doing some WEIRD work here 😳

Please… give me a fire trine. And I say that as a mostly water girlie. I’ve had QUITE enough of the feels tyvm 😂

Hell yeah. (Idk how to add alt text to a repost but it’s two similar side by side photos of Greta Thunberg, smiling and wearing a shawl with in a fabric/pattern that looks like a keffiyeh, over a tshirt that says “autism” in flame font w a picture of a skeleton wielding two big weapons)

Nice

I hear someone somewhere at the back of this store loudly clapping on the 2s and 4s to “Basket Case” by Green Day and I know without a doubt that is my kid 😂

Listen one thing I live by is my food thermometer. I consider myself a fairly empathetic person but I really can’t understand why you wouldn’t use something that costs $5 at the store and consistently tells you EXACTLY when the meat is perfectly cooked. This is genius level tech

This whole thread is very good and I can relate strongly. The culture around autism had been getting so much better in recent years and I hope the regression of the current moment is short lived

If my writing about autism does anything, whether it be in my books, my columns or my reported stories, I hope it advances the idea that autistic people are whole human beings as they are with legitimate needs and inner lives that deserve to be told the same as other stories.

AWN Responds to the Tylenol & Autism Announcement

Okay guys I'm going to walk us through this one step at a time. The beauty of simple facts is: anyone can understand them if they bother to try. Most don't. But you will, right? RFK is pretending he came up with the autism-Tylenol link & ppl are buying that BS, but some of us still remember 2022...

For all my ADHD heads on meds, but especially those taking Lisdexamfetamine and its brand name: they changed the formula, right? My prescriber warned me several mo his patients taking the generic noticed it falling off. I’m on the brand but efficacy is TANKING in the last 2-3 mo, it’s so obvious

This is all I want to see on social media today

@cnn.com…if we can’t trust a convicted child sex trafficker, then who can we trust?

Guys once again what we’re NOT gonna do is throw people who have struggled with addiction under the bus because RFK Jr is a piece of shit, okay? Y’all’s Venn diagrams are an absolute clusterfuck

Please don’t mistake this as pure stupidity, read it as deliberately worded, BARELY veiled straight up eugenicist propaganda. Soft launching the idea of culling genetically “inferior” ppl from the population. Once again if anyone doesn’t know what Aktion T4 was please get to googling

🎤🎶and I gave my life to Christ, in a Cracker Barrell parking lot🎶

What’s the record for most flat tires in one year? I’m up to 3 in 2025, 4 in the last 10 months. Not on the same road, not even in the same part of town. Before that I hadn’t had a flat since 2009 (oddly enough I had 2 that year)

Week ahead mini forecast! 🧵 If you like my horoscopes, get a full Rising Sign weekly forecast for only $5/mo here: www.patreon.com/milkywayastrology Today on Monday we got a repeat of the Mars-Mercury sextile we had last Thurs energizing your Libra and Leo houses...

Deja vu, or is it? Seems like there is a non zero chance that this was NOT the first time I found myself packing up my stuff for a move while singing along to “Do It To It” by Cherish

Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are. Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates and, thereafter, everything by JCO I could get my hands on. I think I was 12 or 13; god bless public libraries #books #booksky

Astrology peeps is ANYONE feeling Venus and Jupiter today? because YIKES. From where I’m standing the Mars-Saturn opp is still sooooo loud (they are on my nodes so that’s a factor, but still)…

Week ahead mini forecast!🧵 Today has a Saturn-Uranus sextile that could help w improvements in your Aries & Gemini houses, but w a Void moon in Pisces it's not a super-productive day. Mercury stations Direct in Leo: any recurring issues that frustrated you in July should finally begin to resolve...

Cat is in her owl mood tonight. Lookin just like Old Brown right before he rips off Squirrel Nutkin’s tail.

The inhumanity with which this administration treats our trans servicemembers is horrifying. They should be thanked and celebrated, not forcefully removed from service. The cruelty is the point. apnews.com/article/air-...

When I first found out I have an Aries moon I was like… are you sure? 😂 I’ve learned a lot since then but this episode about Aries decan 3 crystallized my understanding of this placement. Now it alllll makes sense whoa 🫦

I just wonder, what’s the Venn diagram for people who believe autistic echolalia is a meaningless repetitive behavior and people who believe AI’s copypasta pastiche is self-aware sentient communication?

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

On this Chairteenth, we celebrate the good folks of Montgomery, especially our guy AquaMayne. Special shout out to the folks who, within 72 hours, recreated this in their apartment complex. A COMMUNITY!! 💀

Unfortch I fear crypto has changed the game massively and we Poors are lagging in realizing this bc we’ve always been too poor to fuck w crypto. But when wealth is TOTALLY decoupled from national currencies the entire world economy = every billionaire for himself. I suspect we’re already there

Next month’s job numbers are the street you grew up on and the last thing you ate.

“That’s a yes” like it’s a huge gotcha moment is genuinely very very funny

Don’t mind me I’m just thinking about the subset of Boomers going through a Pluto opposition simultaneously with a transiting Saturn-Neptune conjunction opp their natal Saturn-Neptune conjunction and how there’s never been a more “may you get what you deserve” moment 👀