I do not think the most significant cultural shifts will come from a World War, Class War, Race War, or whatever other battle people weirdly fantasize about. I think it’ll be an integration of the idea that children are people and not the property of their parents.

Most fun book of the handful I have read during my winter vacation is @cheriepriest.com The Drowning House. Tense, quick paced, flawed characters. Inspired my gingerbread house to be haunted wreck (poorly executed by me)

There is a new @annleckie.com novel in 2026! My favorite thing about the upcoming year so far

Pelvic girdle pain (hyper mobile and middle age- not pregnant) is the price I pay today for walking by the ocean and exclaiming at the giant wildlife. Explained to husband that it’s like being kicked in the balls from the inside for hours.

www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co... “But complicity seems too easy. Isn’t everyone, in one way or another, complicit in systems of exploitation that sometimes they choose not to see, and that sometimes they can’t see?”

Things I have to explain as an autistic person with a (mostly) ADHD family: - I do not need stimulation. I need peace & quiet. - I spend all my time trying to lower my cortisol, stop being overstimulated, and get back to baseline. - I love you but I know exactly how many minutes we've been talking

I want to live in a world where even if there's a "cause" of autism found, the answer would be "so?" But we don't live in that world, and that includes people on all parts of the political spectrum.

How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

“To me, disability is not a monolith, nor is it a clear-cut binary of disabled and nondisabled. Disability is mutable and ever-evolving. Disability is both apparent and nonapparent. Disability is pain, struggle, brilliance, abundance, and joy.” - Alice Wong Disability rights are human rights.

Apparently even toddlers should read @tkingfisher.com

Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.

What are walnuts but bitter and disappointing pecans

finished Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear (sweeping space opera chock full of character self contemplation) and the Aknowledgements read like really fascinating dinner conversation list including the likes of @clpolk.blacksky.app @wiswell.bsky.social @byzantienne.bsky.social etc I want to listen in

Our November issue has arrived, featuring @elienyc.bsky.social with a SCOTUS preview, Maya Vinokour with a retrospective of the Cybertruck, Bijan Stephen on PUP and Rico Nasty, and more. Subscribe to read it all now: subscriptions.thenation.com.

LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm

My personal timeline is full of autistic people trying to explain that there isn't more autism than before, it's just that we're better at detecting it, and there's nothing more autistic than hoping explaining something at length will help matters when nobody is really listening.

“Male loneliness” is a vague, empirically unfalsifiable Potemkin village of an argument meant to smuggle yet more anti feminism into popular consensus.

THERE. ARE. NO. 'CAUSES'. OF. AUTISM. (other than being born as a member of Homo sapiens, which is a huge risk factor for turning out to be Autistic).

I know I am only a humble speech pathologist, but for the professional record I reject everything that RFK says or will say about autism, and it’s important to recognize what he’s really saying is that to be neurodiverse is worse than to be dead

My son is autistic, largely nonverbal. He reads a lot, is smitten with all things Lego. He excels in school. He finds his ways to communicate. There’s nothing wrong with autism. The rhetoric drives me mad. It’s on us to make the world easier for neurodiverse folks, not to push them to conform.

Anyway, I’m really quite done with living in interesting times, thank you.

Congrats to @roxanegay.bsky.social! people.com/roxane-gay-a...

You are complaining that the film correctly portrayed the POINT OF THE FUCKING STORY. This is what happens when you defund literature departments.

I sincerely believe we would understand him better were his surname Brown or Jackson. The Kennedy moniker still confers prestige (gag). But he is a basic male disordered-eating eugenics-pipeline health influencer promoted beyond all his abilities or sense.

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

These rancid losers doing everything they can to sink Mamdani just makes me more enthusiastic about his political future! I’ve gone from being like “he seems neat” to “HE’S THE GODDAMNED FUTURE, LOCK IN, PEOPLE!!!!”

Watership Down at 11. Explains 90% of everything about me. No regrets

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

My first book We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation came out four years ago this month. It simultaneously feels like it came out yesterday and a century ago. I did it in hopes that people would take the needs of #ActuallyAutistic people seriously 1/ www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...

"Tired" by Langston Hughes

Favorite books I read the past couple weeks is absolutely The Witch Roads by @kateelliottsff.bsky.social Fantasy that’s story driven with fantastic characters (she’s a whiz of fully adult women characters) - there’s a sprinkling of romance but it’s not a romance book (don’t make me say Romantasy 🫠🤢)

Lawsuits from men against the doctors who provide abortions to their partners illustrate that men understand abortion bans as legal codifications of their private right to dominate and control women.

I honestly don't know how any of us are supposed to be functioning in this fucking world right now.

No, this is NOT "data". "Data from families" is purely anecdotal. Not science. Get this guy out of there. Now.

The answer to "what did people do before... ?" is ALWAYS "they died". They died in shockingly huge numbers, and that's why we call modern technology a lifesaving technology.

I don't know y'all, I was raised to understand that lying about the motivations and actions of Jewish people, writ large, is classic antisemitism.

A lot of people who keep saying “but people who are really disabled will be fine” are about to find out that “disabled” is a real schrodinger's cat type of label where you’re disabled for the purposes of elimination targeting and able-bodied for the purposes of benefits

As someone who did molecular simulations in undergrad and grad school, I’m telling you now that a computer cannot fucking know about drug interactions.

This total unfamiliarity with the actual reality of the manufacturing work they champion is one way you know that what they’re advancing is not an actual economic policy but a fantasy of masculinity.

Meissner accurately points out that to have vaccines and monoclonals that work as well as this is an amazing accomplishment (F protein is metastable and conceals the most critical epitopes for neutralization in the postfusion form; it is an intrinsically difficult antigen to for antibodies).

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

Thank fuck for the Don't Just Let Everybody Die cavalry

Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired

How have a never heard of the Aud novels @nicolaz.bsky.social I read her historical fiction but am absolutely intrigued with Aud

Ok we had Great Blue Heron at San elijo Lagoon yesterday but this one I am not sure. is this a black crowned heron? A green heron in shadow? #birds

Itoh Peony like a magnificent dessert