One, God in Christianity is literally without a gender, and I know that as a Jew; Two, I know Cornyn is an asshole but he has maybe a single scruple where Paxton has none; and Three, this may be the point where I stop giving Texans the benefit of the doubt.

If you can get past the bullshit AI accusations and the studio-related controversy, and recognize that it's not Disco Elysium, ZERO PARADES FOR DEAD SPIES has been a genuinely good game so far. I love how vulnerable the protagonist is. I love the game mechanics. I like being challenged.

The rest of Illinois flat-out loathes Chicagoland (the city & its mostly-liberal suburbs). It's like, that's fine, just stay away from us and keep living off our taxes.

*head explodes* #broadview6

I normally really hate citing the Sun-Times, but it's relevant here. If even the paper in town that leans Republican reports the charges being dropped and the prosecutor looking like a vindictive twat, it's not looking good for him here. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

What they don't say is that 8 Democrats - including 3 members of the Congressional Equality Caucus that posted this with such righteous outrage - crossed the aisle to vote for this. I wish everlasting shame for all of them, but that would require the ability to feel shame.

This needs to be a thing.

1) While I'm not sad that Mel Brooks is still with us, it's always a bit sad when it reminds me that Rob Reiner isn't; and 2) Blazing Saddles is still, 50 years later, so fucking funny. Madeline Kahn was a legend and everyone else in it is just A++. Nobody does better satire than Mel Brooks.

Dear cat that meowed at my building's back door just as I was about to go to sleep: I hope someone let you inside. You sounded so much like my beloved, departed orange boy that it brought tears to my eyes. At least it's neither broiling nor freezing outside. I don't have to have that nightmare.

I'm seeing way too many people nowadays acting like all on the left have an obligation to get down in the sewers with MAGATs because they think it will change right wing minds. I've been called a spoiled child because I don't believe victims owe emotional labor to victimizers. Stop that shit.

I hate Susan Collins, but essential tremors do not affect her ability to do her job, & you are an asshole if you think they do. Susan Collins shouldn't be in government because she's a(n allegedly corrupt) asshat. Not because her hands shake. Fuck all of you and your ableist bigotry. I am enraged.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

youtu.be/GOQFWGiJqWI?... This song has helped give me hope for the last few months. It's almost at a million views and I'd love for it to get there. #protestmusic #jeangumacrooy #independentgirls (didn't want to use "nasty evil gays" as a hashtag just in case 😅)

I am in a bad mood, for I have been forced to defend Susan Collins of all people. She's an idiot who shouldn't be a senator for *many* reasons - BUT HAVING ESSENTIAL TREMORS IS NOT ONE OF THEM. People who call themselves leftists making shitty jokes & saying it's "disqualifying" are fucking gross.

This is how I feel about autism research. I don’t WANT to sound like an anti-science wacko, but sometimes the scientists make that really difficult!

I swear to God it feels like this sometimes. It really does.

"O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market-place!" Beatrice, «Much Ado About Nothing,» Act IV, Scene 1

Bluesky has been consistently showing that I have like 30+ notifications when I don't. It's starting to make me nervous.

This frightens me. So much of the other shit is just dick measuring, but this is Defcon 4. We must pack the court if we ever get control back.

Don't be fooled. This entire initiative is designed to shut up the autistic people who can advocate - to tell us we aren't really autistic, that we're just weak or hysterical. I will not be silenced. #actuallyautistic

Was looking for recs on good historical biographies. First list I see has Alison Weir at the top. Am reminded Weir said once, with her full chest, that Empress Matilda was never crowned because she was too mean/rude bc she was "probably menopausal." Don't be like Alison Weir. #misogyny #history

link.springer.com/article/10.1... Another big new review of evidence around crime and autistic people. Are autistic people more likely to commit crime? No.

This is an extremely thoughtful thread about the alleged shooter at the WHCA. His actions were wrong - violence only begets more violence - but he does not read as an unhinged or angry person. He reads as an ordinary man pushed to the brink - and unfortunately, I doubt he'll be the last.

Dear #Steam: as solid as you are as a company, you do something that drives me nuts, and I have to vent. When you say something is "Playable," but I have to use the tiny trackpad instead of the control sticks on my #SteamDeck, it is not playable for me. I would kill for a separate designation.

Both my parents worked at newspapers for 35 years+ each. Both of them retired when they saw the way American media was going. I don't blame them. The way the WHCA handled this alleged shooting (who knows what happened? No one seems to have a straight fucking answer!) is patently obscene.

I did a stupid. I was knitting before bed and I realized I fucked it up. Needed to frog and start again. Forgot I was knitting with yarn doubled, so got a giant knot post-frogging. Got fixated on untangling it for 2.5h, snapped, threw needles at the wall, threw knot away & cried. I feel so dumb.

General fyi: if you follow me and like several of my posts without ever having posted on your account, I will ABSOLUTELY take you for a bot and block you. Sorry, it's weird.

Seeing non-autistic people express shock at this and say we should call the parents instead makes me feel so jaded. You know who fights for this shit in schools and constantly opposes the bans that we try to put on extreme measures like this? Non-autistic parents and teachers.

Guys. Blocking quote posts means that very often, disabled people can't experience your tweets. We can't add flashing light warnings or alt text. Please think twice before doing it.

As an attorney I am finding this blackly funny. As a human woman, I'm grossed out. As a fan of Jacksepticeye, I feel good that he tried to expose Mr. Beast a long time ago. I'd rather watch people with y'know, morals.

Stay alert, Chicago.

So last night at Coachella, the Strokes put up a powerful video protest showing leaders and statesmen who were overthrown and/or killed by the CIA. I wanted to post it - but it's a Coachella stage and the flashing lights are rough, so I wanted to add a warning. The OP blocked quote posts. 😡

Read this whole damn thread, and understand a little bit better why I deeply hate "Autism Awareness Month." It's not for us. It's for everyone to talk -about- us.

In much more amusing news, I saw someone here ask why Leon doesn't have grey hair in the latest #ResidentEvil game, since he's pushing 50. My answer, quite simply, is that the internet would go wilder than 40-50 feral hogs. Tell me I'm wrong.

It is so tiring to see people condemning RFK Jr for his ableist drivel and then turn around and be ableist themselves. Like, any ally in a storm, but you still see me as less than you.

I'm not trying to call anyone out specifically, but during this "Autism Awareness Month" 🙄 I kind of feel like I should speak up in general: A whole lot of you are talking about characteristics of autism and ADHD interchangeably, acting like it has to be all one or all the other. That's untrue. 1/

I am so goddamned sick of being told that what the Mad King does in the name of this country is my fault and I'm basically supposed to die to set things right. Way too many people telling me that we're not doing enough for their liking when all they do is mock us from afar. Insufferable arrogance.

"BuT ABA iSn't LiKe ThAt aNyMoRe!!1" 🙄

Steam is having a Lovecraftian Days sale. Send help to my wallet.

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

There genuinely, in good faith, seems to be a disconnect between American reality and the rest of the world. Some people just love to shit on us (understandably); others seem to labor under a misapprehension that we have a working political system that can remove that monster from power. 1/3

I'm sick and had a terrible night of sleep. My mailperson lied to me about something I badly wanted to get arrive. I just saw another smug European bleating about how we should be in the streets. And then I read that monster's post and none of it seems to matter.

Autism spectrum: it's a circle, not a line. By @neurodivergentschoolpsych #adhd #adhdawareness #neurodiversity #neurodivergence #neurodivergent #braindifferences #learningdifferences #studentmentalhealth #inclusion #ymhc

Hell is a dietician with vocal fry blithely talking about making a salad every day - getting up and chopping things - to a chronic pain patient with not much money. I want to punch a wall.

Ugh. Bad Jew, bad. I almost forgot Pesach starts tonight. Chag sameach, everyone. 🥖

It's April. Fuck. It can be a hard month for me, since it's Autism Awareness Month - which means, for the most part, witnessing the hideously ignorant takes of people who don't think about autism and autistic people at any other time. Bear with me, and I'll try not to get too ragey on main.

It's #transdayofvisibility. I'm not trans, but my best friend is. Trans rights are human rights, and trans people deserve the same dignity and respect as anyone else. This is not negotiable, and if you think it is, go crawl in a hole. 😁

youtu.be/oqpHc3pB8x0?... Anti-evangelical, not specifically anti-religious, but either way it had me CACKLING. #music

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

A take that's going to get me ostracized from the Resident Evil fandom that I still feel strongly about: RE4R isn't the best game in the franchise. Its runtime is bloated and there are too many fights that feel repetitive or even pointless (why was Krauser even there? What a waste of time he was).