If I needed ChatGPT to do basic algebra for me I would not advertise it, but hey, what the hell do I know, I'm not a LinkedIn influencer!

POV: That co-worker who keeps calling city living "a bad financial decision" is begging you to spend the weekend at his house in the middle of the mountains.

Ways being a high-masking autistic person is similar to being a fluent speaker of English as a second language, a thread:

Llevo desde enero de 2023 tomando dos de estas pastillas cada mañana para mantener dormido mi cáncer. El precio del tratamiento de un mes en USA es de $1696.75, más de $20.000 al año. Más que el SMI. Claro que mataría (mataré) por mantener la sanidad pública.

Ways being a high-masking autistic person is similar to being a fluent speaker of English as a second language, a thread:

Telling some teammates about that time I worked in a company whose CEO sexually harassed every single woman in the office. HIM (dismissively): That's never happened to me. ME: Yeah. Cause you're a guy. HIM: But it hasn't happened to anyone I know, I've either. BITCH, I JUST TOLD YOU--

Economic value of government spending. Just one example. For every $1 spent $1.50 to $1.75 in economic benefit. Moral good and smart economics.(Also fuck people who don't want to feed our neighbors) frac.org/programs/sup...

Rest in piss.

"Avoid talking about politics. Instead, talk about something neutral, like the weather." I don't know how to tell you this, but, you see--

A few weeks ago, I was talking with a co-worker about how fully remote jobs are disappearing. "Working from the office is good for the economy," she said, without a trace of irony, "Without it, people won't buy cars or clothes or go to restaurants." I've been thinking about that ever since.🧵

(…since *apparently* there is need of explanation: We didn’t ban coal mining, we instituted worker protections, gave them rights and let them form unions.)

Remember how we looked at how exploited and unsafe coal workers were and our solution was to ban coal mining?

Way back in the 80s I knew a radfem woman who HATED me. I didn't have the words to understand that I am enby, but I suspect she picked up on it. Plus the fact that I was unapologetically sexual, fucked men. Then later encountering feminists who saw women as sacred, the divine feminine. Fuck that.

Alright, gang, time to talk about radfems, biphobia, transphobia, and why "Gender of rape" is a transphobic dogwhistle, whether Street Scrypt knows it or not.

Hey gang, can we report this person for hate speech against bisexual people? Remember, don't engage, just block and report @streetscrypt.bsky.social

Update: a biphobic lesbian 100% unironically replied to this to agree with my strawman. I'm going to start a marching band.

When the law is more concerned with sculpting society to a certain image instead of actually protecting people, it's usually fascism that you find when you pull it up by its roots. Or colonialism. Or Theocracy. Or... (It's like undoing Russian nesting dolls)

The disdain the gay community has for bi people is so foolish. Straight passing bis aren't traitors, we're ideal moles

Biphobic lesbians will be like, "I could never date a bisexual woman, what if she leaves me for a man?" Skill issue. I cannot stress enough how much of a self-own that is. If she wants to go back to men after dating you, turn in your lesbian card, cause you've failed.

Important thread!

You know this, but surprisingly large numbers of people don't: housing first reduces all kinds of problems with not having an indoor address. When I heard that, I had a serious "why do we keep trying anything else", and as you point out, it's ego > outcomes.

This year, our county has two things on the ballot to increase tourist taxes to pay for a new stadium... instead of something to increase tourist taxes to pay for new homeless shelters.

And remember that being part of a marginalized group doesn’t let you off the hook. Recognizing intersectionality is crucial. You are white before you are trans. You are able bodied before you are queer. It’s not about who is more oppressed. It’s about uplifting the voices that are drowned out.

Yep.

It is for another thread, but these unserious people might be shocked to find that one of the best ways to reduce dangerous drug use and addiction is pretty much exactly the same as what you're explaining is needed to make sex work safer.

Nothing about us without us doesn’t just apply to Autistic people It’s sex workers too and any other marginalized group listen to the people you want to help, ask them, heed their message otherwise you’re not “helping” you’re just being oppressive nothing about us without us any of us all of us

I'm out of the game these days but few things have made me happier this year than learning that Belgian sex workers have managed to unionise and get a collective labour agreement in place. Baby steps but I'm glad it exists.

It is already illegal for your employer/Landlord/Manager to hit you, threaten you, steal from you, or coerce you. Difference is that if sex work is made illegal in ways other labor isn't, those in it can't access the necessary labor protections treat it like any labor and empower all workers!

To expand on that: a sex worker once talked about how laws to prosecute procurers often end up targeting them. For example, sometimes sex workers will protect or "keep tabs" on each other, waiting in a nearby location for them to return. Sometimes they recommend clients to each other.🧵

Here in Sweden, we have laws against buying sex and being a procurer, but not selling. As a result, some sex workers get evicted because if they work from home their landlords can get charged with procuring.

Makes me think about how rules against "brothels" ended up harming SWers who shared flats or work spaces for safety, financial or housing reasons. Landlords were using it as a reason to evict people leading to precarious housing and dangerous work conditions.

Whenever I meet a "feminist" who wants to abolish sex work, I instantly know I'm talking with an unserious person who is not willing to do the work. Let's imagine, for the sake of the argument, that they were right and all sex workers were trafficking victims who wanted to leave sex work. 🧵

The music cuts off awkwardly before the end, but this is an incredible NYC Halloween costume compilation.

Sex work solidarity as healing: in four parts - Amber Dawn (Via: gatheringbones.tumblr.com/post/7787388...)

"I think slutty costumes are empowering!" "I think slutty costumes are degrading!" Would love to participate in the debate but I just saw a pirate in a leather and lace corset and a skirt so short I could see her asscheeks and now my Dyke ass is fully incapacitated. Ask again tomorrow.

It's Halloween, that time of the year when I'm reminded that I'd enjoy doing my make up a lot more if the goal was not "faking gender conformity passably enough to avoid discrimination at work" but "corpse."

Everyone at the office needed a clue to figure out what I was dressed as, which is how you know it's a good costume.

There are a lot of historical figures who may have been autistic (including Andy Warhol, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Emily Dickinson, Michelangelo, and Mozart) just so everyone knows

What if you met the love of your life but they were a Disney Adult?

Who has not been defeated, but those who never tried? Isn't failure as intrinsic to the human condition as breathing? Doesn't it prove that we seized life by the scruff of the neck and tasted everything it had to offer? So really, isn't making a stir fry too salty to eat success in itself?

"Autism is just a Gen Z fad." Sure, thing, bro. Anyway my parents are entering their 70s. Dad vocal-stims by repeating an Edgar All Poe passage over and over. Mom compulsively factors license plates into primes.

One of the most toxic elements of corporate culture is the idea that you should only tell a manager about a problem if you also have solution for it. What, so if I don't have the right expertise to solve a problem I should just let it keep ruining everyone's day?🧵

It doesn't get better: we MAKE IT get better.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

It goes like this: 1. They go hungry 2. Politicians tell them immigrants stole their food 3. They become more racist 4. They vote for right-wing politicians 5. They go even hungrier And so on and so on. The kind of person who will fall for this cycle once is unlikely to ever SNAP (🥁!) out of it

My toxic trait is that I think we need to pick one of the actors who are taking part in the Harry Potter audiobook and do to them what fanboys do to any actress or PoC who joins the Star Wars franchise.

Met a woman walking through Tokyo last night, must have been a seamstress or something because she was holding a big pair of scissors. I think she asked me something but it was hard to make out from under her mask. I just said, “Sorry, I don’t speak Japanese!” and walked on. Hope she got home safe

Pro-tip: if someone dyes their hair pink, you don't need to tell them that their ears are pink. They know. They likely spent three hours in front of the mirror scrubbing them clean before giving up. And if you choose to tell them anyway, then you, my friend, are the asshole.

The best way I can put it is: you know that guy who, when you turn him down after a date, DMs you to call you a slut and say you're a stuck-up bitch who wasn't that pretty anyway? Well, sometimes I have to interview that guy.