Black and white 35mm photograph of hibiscus flowers drying on a crumpled cloth.

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The Cost Of SIR For Queer-Trans Community In West Bengal The SIR exercise left queer voters with two options – revisit the natal homes they fled early to find relevant documents or give up on their right to vote

The Indian regime is gleefully mass disenfranchising queer and trans people, cis women, Muslims, Adivasis, Dalits in a state it has consistently been unable to capture. Now their chances are higher than ever.

Larry Fessenden is so good in his HABIT (1996) that it makes my heart ache. "I'm committing suicide on the installment plan."

The Return of the King

35mm colour photograph, double exposure. A pine tree is silhouetted against the dark blue green night sky. A light is shining on top the pine tree and the raindrops in the air are illuminated.

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Tulip from the Turkish "tülbend" (muslin, turban) and the Persian "dulband" (turban).

Seersucker - anglicised from the Persian "shir o shakar" (milk and sugar). a nod to the textured alternating stripes on the fabric.

So beautiful.

All possible reasons for creating these arbitrary categories instead, are either stupid or evil - when it's not helping anyone be treated as an individual or have an improved quality of life with the support they need.

All autistic people need better supports.
We need to be working on the diagnostic criteria so it expands to include everyone who needs support (that is, everyone who is autistic). And on creating better accommodations.

That's it exactly. So much of this is just bad faith arguments that it makes my head hurt. Especially with the push against self advocacy / the Neuro diversity movement.

Was once asked "you are also safar-ing till Delhi?", by the passenger seated next to me on the train who insisted on talking (despite earphones and book) non stop through the journey.

Sigh. Imposter syndrome and (preemptive) RSD kick your ass in devious, draining ways.

Black and white 35mm double exposure photograph. Seascape with three spheres setting in the horizon centre and a wave in the foreground.

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6000-year-old civilization threatened by one cartoon ghoul totally unencumbered by the clang of a conscience, of a soul, for whom Dantean ideas of Hell seem specifically conceived. This disfiguring rage, rotting our kidneys. From the vantage point of my family in Iran's mortal terror, my own disfiguring rage seems comfy, lavish. The compulsion to leverage that delta, between their terror and my rage, into action. But what action? At what point does tithing merely what won't be missed of our resources - cognitive, financial, temporal - become obscene? Two and a half years (and counting) of impenitent autoplay genocide? The world's richest person canceling aid to millions of the world's poorest? Domestic secret police murdering civilians and disappearing people into concentration camps? Literal child sex traffic island? I'm actually asking. May Iran be free from all despite, domestic and foreign. May we all be forgiven. Kaveh Akbar

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There is no elegant way to say this—people with living hearts that could fit in my chest want to melt the city where I was born. At his elementary school in an American suburb, a boy’s shirt says: “We Did It To Hiroshima, We Can Do It To Tehran!” ( From The Palace by Kaveh Akbar )

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Kaveh Akbar

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Read to filth by that headline.

Ahead of West Bengal Polls, 2 Million Voters Are Excluded From Electoral Rolls—With Supreme Court Permission West Bengal votes on April 23 and 29—but millions who voted in the 2002 elections will not be able to because their names aren't on the rolls. A Supreme Court-steered process to fix this remains unfin...

A chaotic revision of electoral rolls placed 6 million electors under scrutiny in #WestBengal. 45% of these, rejected in adjudication, will approach appellate tribunals—too late for most of them to vote, writes Kavitha Iyer

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Forever 'Autism Shrieks' from here on. 10/10

Black and white 35mm photo of a section of a staircase diagonally cutting across the frame. A heavy white cloud is eating up the vase of flowers in the foreground, below the staircase.

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How AI could detect signs of mental illness Researchers in Japan used artificial intelligence to analyse people’s face movements and detect subtle signs of depression

Did you see this?
Horrible, intentional way to misdiagnose autistic people (and other inconvenient minorities), strip them of their rights and not allow them to advocate for themselves.

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This. And they're barely hiding their intention anymore. The poor science, the absolute stupidity of their claims - it feels like it's just a technicality for them. When it's clear what the end goal is.

35mm colour photograph. Landscape of the Shivalik range - blue gradient mountains, with a bright full moon and a single star visible in the sky. Wispy plum coloured clouds offer some contrast.

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#RahulGandhi further alleged that the CEC had not responded to 18 reminder letters sent by the Karnataka CID & the state’s poll panel chief seeking Internet Protocol address, destinations and OTP trails to establish who made the voter deletion requests.

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One rich, white, male 'comedian'.

These are lovely! Great compositions. Long exposure is so much fun.

Black and white film photograph. Shadow on a wall of a hand pulling the tilt cord to open the blinds in the room. The wall has three parallel vertical lines on the right. The light filtering through makes a diagonal pattern on the wall.

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How much we've lost by allowing genAI (and crap CGI) into these most fundamentally human of pursuits.
The magic Bava made with forced perspective, matte painted backdrops and lighting... ooof.
Love the milk carton skyscrapers. Just so much fun.

Understand a woman?! In this economy?

And how that bias could justify what was often being pushed anyway - a focus on 'looking better' rather than 'feeling' better, especially wrt ND kids.

Excellent coverage of the Stanford Neurodiversity Summit brought to you by @thinkingautism.com

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