I told my kid I was playing a song I had fond memories of from my childhood. At the first line, "Look into my eyes," my child screamed until I turned it off. How did I get so assimilated into the allistic world I could think that song is anything more than pure nightmare fuel? #ActuallyAutistic

Here's my parenting tip: Stop making laws that hurt LGBTQ+ kids.

Frances Hugle US semiconductor & integrated circuitry engineer. Invented techniques/equipment for fabricating microscopic circuitry, integrated circuits & microprocessors still in use 1962 co-founded Siliconix early semiconductor house. d. #OTD 24 May 1968 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances...

The tech bros gave us crypto currency that isn’t currency, artificial intelligence that isn’t intelligence, and prediction markets that are inside-trader scams. On the other hand, they have given us gigantic data centers that employ no one and destroy communities. So there’s that.

This regime hates disabled people. They view us as “useless eaters”. They’ve threatened “wellness camps”, Medicaid and access to many medications. They want people to suffer. Forcing them to lose their housing or give up their service animal is cruel & unusual punishment

I can't remember where I read this, but I once read autism described as fundamentally anti-capitalist because you're incapable of measuring things by someone else's value. The things you're told are valuable aren't to you and vice versa. And I kind of agree.

#WIPPIT The last thing Rujina expects a few weeks after her talaq is a marriage proposal from single dad, Zakaria She’s known Zak since they were teens; he’ll definitely be a better husband than her ex ever was Quickly tho, she realises that marrying a widower comes with its own heartbreak #A #R

me, explaining gay people to my kid: people can just love who they want my kid: cool! me, explaining homophobia to my kid: some people think there is only one way to be and are willing to become violent over that. those aren't safe people. my kid: 😥 yeah I'd rather do a lot more of the former

I mean that's why y'all need to think about the pervasiveness of sanist language. It's not just a political correctness thing. You may be hurting someone out there who's a mad person who has to hear or see it. You wouldn't know because we're too few & the ones of us out there are afraid to speak up.

the replacements.fyi site now lets you drop a package.json into it to see which dependencies can be replaced with native functionality, or more performant choices 🎉

You know those feel-good stories that don't make you feel good because it's about an individual trying to put a finger in the dike of a systemic injustice? We're teaching kids how to be that individual instead of teaching them how to see and fight the injustice.

*pop* core memory unlocked when I was a kid and the ice cream truck came I would often have SUCH anxiety about scrambling to get my allowance and going to meet the truck in time that I just eventually stopped trying because the emotional experience was so terrible not disspointment more like fear

I’m developing Plodding Recovery, a narrative game about a protagonist facing mental health struggles. I've finished implementing the "Dialogue" mechanic. Each time you respond to a character's dialogue, your Heart (HP) decreases but Satisfaction goes up. #gamedev #indiegame #screenshotsaturday

Slow Horses x The X Files When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed. #WipPit #A #Q #SF #T

moving to Seattle from Wisconsin when my kids were young was so eye opening Pre-school teacher = trans Classmates = nonbinary third or fourth grade = kids were coming out when I told my kids I didn’t come out in school they were confused. Bullying/hate was harder to understand than queer people

“how am i supposed to explain gay people to my kid” how am i supposed to explain homophobia to MY kid

TREASURE PLANET × FIREFLY × COWBOY BEBOP After finding an old wrist computer on a desiccated corpse, a bookish scavenger teams up with a prodigal engineer to discover its contents while going toe to toe with a ruthless pirate captain on a lawless space station colony. #WIPPIT #A #SF

When she picks the wrong pocket, sixteen-year-old Nia unlocks a magical talent she didn’t know she had. Now she’s posing as an heiress, a con man’s gone missing, and Nia and her band of would-be thieves are on the run from magehunters, mathematicians, and the governor herself. #WIPPit #F #YA #LGBT

I've told this story before, but I have a quilt with embroidered panels depicting the state flowers from all 50 states on it. Those panels were embroidered by my grandmother while she cared for her children who came down first with the measles, then the mumps. They were sick for months.

hell, the way trans kids, disabled kids and "problem kids" are treated by authorities basically makes them an all you can abuse buffet for someone who gets off on that kind of thing, and lots of people getting off on that kind of thing is basically an expected outcome of how power is structured here

SC Gov. McMaster signed a anti-trans bathroom bill into law on 5/15. In advancing the bill, it was amended so that schools could install a temporary outdoor bathroom for trans/nonbinary students — basically a porta-potty. The law includes that amendment. They’re making trans kids pee outside. 1/

People do not fall in love with stories because they have massive worlds where every stone is described and noted. People obsess over every stone in a world because the story made them fall in love with it, and they want more to the point of dissecting every scrap of information available.

Hey New York! It can be easy to think book bans aren't a big deal in a Blue State so we pulled together some information from PEN America for you. Keep pushing on your Right to Read legislation.

Introducing Personality Fire! The podcast for people who made the mistake of bringing their whole selves to work 🧑‍💻 ☕️ Join me, Elsa Williams, as I talk to a series of neurodivergent comedians, writers and performers about trying and failing in conventional workplaces. Warm regards. More soon.

"We are very good at saying children are all different.....And then, far too often, we teach them as if none of that is really true." www.ifcreativegroup.co.uk/post/we-say-... #OntEd #autism #neurodiversity

Are you seeing more reading since your school limited cellphone use during the school day? Or no change? Or something unexpected? We need the full story to be better advocates for school libraries. Please take the survey:

Every two seconds y’all want it to be a debate on getting food or groceries delivered. That’s a disability accommodation! Yes y’all, I know you hate disabled people having needs. Cooking & shopping are great, all can’t do that for themselves all the time, so we pay fellow working class folks fairly.

Regina M. Anderson (May 21, 1901 – February 5, 1993)[1] was an American playwright and librarian. Influenced by Ida B. Wells and the lack of Black history teachings in school, Anderson became a key member of the Harlem Renaissance. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_...

"I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance." -- Jane Addams, who died #OTD 1935

Katalin Karikó is one of the most extraordinary scientific stories of this era. A girl from a modest Hungarian household helped develop technology that saved millions of lives worldwide. In 2023, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that enabled effective mRNA vaccines.

Did you know May is #HaitianHeritageMonth? It was established to highlight the incredible culture, art, cuisine, and history of Haiti, particularly commemorating Haiti’s independence from France, which was won on May 18th, 1804. Here's a list of 19 Haitian authors you can read from this month! 💙❤️

a lot of ppl don’t seem to realize that even making a bad game is a massive accomplishment

do you REALLY need to explain EVERYTHING to the reader? no, they’re smart, they can figure out that the protagonist is always wearing crocs themselves

Bullies are cowards undeserving of celebration or elevation, Bullies are cowards usurping our self esteem or good will to feed their greedy souls, Bullies are cowards Bullies are cowards Bullies are cowards we can rise above them #poisonpen #solseed #inkMine #poetry

New blog: Exploring why attachment theory wasn't built with Autistic people in mind, how it has been used to blame parents like myself & looking at how understanding monotropism, the double empathy problem & Letsoalo's Neurodivergent Attachment Theory may help autisticrealms.com/why-attachme...

"These repeated assaults on linguistically diverse kids are inseparable, of course, from Republicans’ comprehensive attacks on immigrants and their families." #languages #languageeducation #languageresearch #languagelearning #langchat www.the74million.org/article/as-t...

I'm old enough to remember a time when if you wanted lies whispered into your ear you had to hire a grand vizier

Being autistic isn't anybody's fault because WE AREN'T BROKEN. We don't need to be fixed. We need to be supported and included. We need to valued and listened to. This would solve most of the barriers autistic people experience

2016 web developer worries: "man, divs really are hard to center!" 2026 web developer worries: "there are 639 compromised npm package versions in tonight’s Mini Shai-Hulud wave"

ddg is slightly better but it took me remembering that this was on defector to find it. "cocktails should be a little bit nasty" didn't pull it up. dont tell me about kagi defector.com/all-cocktail...

Everybody knows Franz Kafka, but almost no one knows his sister Ottla. She was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz on Oct 7, 1943 after volunteering to escort a group of orphans from the Terezin ghetto so they wouldn’t be afraid.

#Mememay 20. I might have thought of the name Soft Time even before I thought of the premise, but a title I thought of for a potential sequel would work for it as well: Maybe Yesterday Again Tomorrow.

There are authors so good that I'll immediately read their entire backlist, but there's actually a tier above that: Authors I love so much that I ration their books like health potions, saving them for when I really need them. Authors with one last book sitting on my shelf for years. Just in case.

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (1862 – 1931), more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. #CelebratingWomen

I code because it lets me be creative and express my mind. It is an exercise I use to help improve my cognitive function and create art. I know a lot of people do not understand my work and think I am wasting my time and do not appreciate what I create. That's ok I will create anyway.

2 out of 41. If you're in one of those two school districts in Utah, time to step up & take education back from the extremists. If you're anywhere else, always, always, always remember that when you stand up for the right to read, the majority of people stand with you.

"Pfizer, Moderna COVID vaccines 70% to 76% effective against severe illness in kids in 2022, data suggest" Incredible that some doctors devoted their nearly their entire pandemic output to making sure kids didn't get this vaccine.

Someone wrote Omicron has a lower long COVID rate than older variants… but it’s not zero. My friends… they wrote 4% at 18 months. On a population level, that’s massive. And it’s not a static number. If repeat infection increase risk of long COVID… the number will probably increase. ☹️

"the R slur is coming back" not within slapping distance of me it's not

“Nature works through underlying structures that are mathematical and physical yet what we experience is something emotional and poetic.” (Scientific zen 😌 )