A blessing and a curse of being autistic in my way of being autistic is that I will stay firm with what I believe to be right or wrong even if it is not popular or a person I previously respected tries to convince me that wrong is right and right is wrong. It is a blessing because when you figure out what your values are and live according to them as best you can each day, then it gives you resilience to cope with many types of stressors. Because you can acknowledge that something might be hard but you have the conviction that you are doing what you believe to be morally just. It is a curse because this makes me extremely unpalatable to many systems of power and the advocates for those power systems. But it is also a blessing because I am not motivated through social pressure in the way that most allistics seem to be. It is a blessing because the world itself is enough. And let's face it. I also have the comfort of my privilege. I can live, for now, in a house. I have food in my kitchen. I have electricity and running water that I can drink and bathe in. I own many pairs of shoes, I have a family, I have friends, I have cats and a duck. I have everything I need in the world. Why would I beg for social approval of people who would have me violate my values, when I have enough? I do not need the company of racists, they are a burden. Consider that if you are ever moved to comment violent racism in my replies - you only bring shame to yourself, you will gain nothing from me, my world is already so big and if you want to be part of it I will gladly make room for you, but you must be willing to part with your racism because I will not be parting with my values for your comfort.

I make cool postcards and decals with a pretty skull that says "Take your time or someone else will."

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I make cool postcards and decals with a pretty skull that says "Take your time or someone else will."

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The nectarine tree is blooming.

I am digging a place to plant a pomegranate tree and the duck was helping me today.

baby pineapple on a pineapple plant

I took the top off a pineapple and put it in the dirt a few years ago because the leaves are pretty, and I've had it in the corner of my living room ignoring it for the most part, and now ....

CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime.

The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense (not to mention a grave crime) and Congress should really act like it.

15 Republicans in the Senate could end this nightmare before it somehow gets even worse.

A graph with white and light grey striped background showing levels of COVID-19, RSV, FLU A, and FLU B levels for Ontario

Wastewater levels for Ontario, released today, March 6th, 2026…otherwise known as “during COVID”

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Excellent thread on the intersections of the filicide of disabled people, the pandemic, MAHA, war, and more.

thanks for this post. yes, we all know caregiving is hard. But the way in which murder by caregivers is excused and rationalized is so unacceptable. The disabled victims are not seen as full humans and victims.

And so on today more than any day before us, we must set ourselves to the grindstone and remember what Fannie Loud Hamer said:

Nobody's free till everyone's free.

We must remember what Frederick Douglass said:

"Power concedes nothing without a demand."

Knowing that, what do you demand?

And so today, on the disability day of mourning, we can understand that fighting filicide (the murder of disabled children by their caregivers) is such hard work because the real work we are doing is a fight against capitalist, imperialist white supremacy and the commodification of human lives.

There are no neatly drawn borders between these moral atrocities. Capitalism and white supremacy and islamophobia and the human trafficking rings run by pedophile killers, letting our elders die of covid for the economy so we can "go back to normal"... These fascist impulses intersect in messy ways.

Make no mistake that it is the same underlying values: the eugenics desire to categorize needs as burdens, the eugenics compulsion to minimize and deny the ongoing pandemic, the devaluing of children in a genocide and impulse to justify dropping bombs on their schools as necessary for capital,...

And here we are today, in the early morning of world war III, where the same institutions that brought us both pandemic denialism and the MAHA movement have now distinguished themselves through acts of terror, using AI to bomb a school full of little children in Iran.

The MAHA movement is not about improving quality of life but about improving the surplus capital available to the elites through eugenic policies that change the US population through social murder (premature deaths caused by social, economic, or political oppression, rather than direct violence).

Society carries sympathy for a parent who kills a disabled child because that parent has taken action to eliminate the needs that reduce the system's profitability. Capitalist cultures thrive when the burden of needs is eliminated. And this brings us to the core of the MAHA movement.

If the mere act of having needs is devalued and reviled by the interests of capital, it is no wonder that if a caregiver kills the disabled person who needs them that society will then villainize the disabled victim and valorize the poor, newly unburdened killer.

Merely the act of needing, needing support, needing care, needing accommodations, all these needs is what our capitalist society uses to devalue some and valorize others. Need itself is interpreted as weakness. In capitalism, needs detract from the profit margin, and thus they are reviled.

When covid first came around, for example, we could see laid bare the ways that parents declined to protect their children and elderly, and it showed us how one reason disabled people are killed by caregivers is that as a society we do not care for those who need care.

Every year when this date comes around it strikes me in new ways how the way that disability and caregiver murder and the devaluing of disabled lives intersects with the other issues. And this is the crux: the murder of disabled people at the hands of caregivers always reflects our broader society.

Today is the disability day of mourning, a day to mourn the loss of disabled people who were killed by their caregivers, and the way that society responds to these deaths.

Dark blue gradient background. There are two illustrated white candles. Text reads: Today, March 1st, is Disability Day of Mourning. Today our community remembers disabled people lost to filicide. Join ASAN for our virtual vigil tonight on our YouTube channel. The ASAN logo is at the bottom.

🕯️Today is Disability Day of Mourning, when our community remembers disabled people lost to filicide. Join us tonight 6pm ET for ASAN’s virtual vigil: youtu.be/HeF3LrHTuBM

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sanity is a compulsive ideal—it serves to maintain the status quo political reality. it devalues madness as the embodied testimony of living beings as they face unendurable experiences of power. it pathologizes discontent and idealizes adjustment to the dominant mode of production and power.

At the Rocky Horror Picture Show in Minneapolis, they’re throwing out ICE whistles shaped like dicks.

"A girls’ elementary school in Minab, southern Iran, was struck during a joint U.S.-Israeli military operation, leading to significant casualties among schoolchildren.

Reports confirmed that the strike killed at least 80 people, most of them children."

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Separation of church and state does not mean religious people are ineligible for holding public office. Having a divinity degree does not mean he is unfit to serve in government.

Someone asked if Loewy & Hanser were being paid through Epstein's funding of Tramo's org. I cannot answer that, but dollars are fungible and it is standard practice to pay advisory board members, see: www.advisoryboardcentre.com/insight/how-... for info about typical pay.

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