I think there's a balance to be struck between celebrating autistic traits and being self-aware and managing them.

Managaing our autistic traits is different from fixing, erasing, masking or camouflaging them.

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

hands down would demolish

oh no wont somebody think of the cars!

Health gains of low-traffic schemes up to 100 times greater than costs, study finds Research looked at three London boroughs to value overall health benefits of active travel over 20 years at up to £4,800 per head

READ: “Policies to help people walk & cycle such as low-traffic neighbourhoods can create public health benefits as much as 100 times greater than the cost of the schemes, a long-term study has concluded.” AND the benefits continue to grow even higher over time.
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How Helsinki and Oslo cut pedestrian deaths to zero After years of committed action, neither city recorded a single pedestrian fatality in 2019

“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo & #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.” #VisionZero www.theguardian.com/world/2020/m...

Ha ha. Cool word of the year, Macquarie Dictionary. With, let’s face it, such a rich vein of application. I mean, pretty much the entire reason this here platform exists. Let’s hope, touch Laminex, it doesn’t fall prey. With thanks to @womensagenda.bsky.social.

In effect what this means is the 2024 Presidential election was the first in which a majority of people never read a newspaper.

The Australian election next year will be much the same.

So not sure why the ALP would give a damn about trying to appease news.corp, and Nine papers.

woohoo exciting times ahead

They should just rename vaccines “supplements” so everyone will like them.

Would be great if every politician in Victoria could read this and understand the policy implications

looks different but so yumss

The Australian Public Servant Who Helped The Oil Industry Convince The World That Stopping Climate Change Was Too Expensive Brian Fisher, an economist employed for decades by the Australian government, was essential to obstructing not just climate policy in Australia but global climate action.

This is a very important and interesting read about Australian climate change policy:

“The Australian Public Servant Who Helped The Oil Industry Convince The World That Stopping Climate Change Was Too Expensive”

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omgg he’s so cuteee

I cannot believe they’re going defcon 1 this.

The confected outrage over this is simply ridiculous, and is just fuelling complete misinformation over this.

When in government their own transport plan literally recommended exactly this - organise the fleet into different lines.

The first X’Trapolis 2.0 train rolled off the production line today at the Ballarat North Workshops

With testing to commence this year, the new trains will enter service next year on the Craigieburn and Upfield lines.

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