Thanks, Ross! I love the social anxiety that comes with the autism.

Thank you Elliot!

YES

THANK YOU hope you enjoy tremors and remind me to tell you about the time I was in a Kevin Bacon tribute band

Have spent the day trying to be charming around strangers and am now going to spend the evening obsessing over whether they were really laughing at my jokes or were just being polite

Orban lost that election all by himself. Let’s not give credit to JD Vance for stuff he didn’t do, only stuff he did do, like killing Pops Francis.

Haven’t bought tickets yet but YES

Looking forward to booking a holiday in Budapest!

I hope you’re feeling joyful tonight. Appreciate the caveats. It’s good to be realistic - but I also hope that your family home is cheering at the results.

Gran Fury's 1989 artwork Kissing Doesn't Kiss Greed and Indifference Do featuring three multiracial hetero and same sex couple's kissing

Have missed two concerts this weekend - one with Ramunas Zilnys - because I have been crashing on some schoolwork AND YET I am also enjoying making arguments for postmodern art and architecture as a good thing in this world

Uhhhhhhhhh

How were the lines? When I went last year it was mobbed and I could’t get a good shot (but it was also a Jubilee doors venue so)

Isle of Dogs pumping station

Limehouse Link Tunnel Entrance

So is that an aversion to postmodern architecture or the Docklands? I think it's unfair to conflate the two. There are some great examples of postmodern architecture in the Docklands but it's not the only place it exists in London.

does he think large ones should be alllowed in the arena? Would he allow the EU flag or just ones belonging to countries?

it took me a while. I kept looking at the pizza for something weird.

Serious question: why do you think postmodern architecture is terrible?

The allegations? it was all kinds of everything. People said it reminded them of her.

This analogy is even funnier today considering how other wives are clearly jumping out of airplanes.

Real ones remember

What's your point and what does it have to do with autism and why are you bothering me in the first place? If I wanted to be bothered by strangers, I would not have included that I was autistic AND Philadelphian - both traits that signal MYOB

As an autistic person, l am glad we are using World Autism Awareness Month to remind everyone that autistic people can be dipshits too!

(but as always - my disclaimer: I'm not an asshole because I am autistic. I'm an asshole because I am a Philadelphian.)

The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV’s Ambassador With the Avignon Papacy The Free Press has documented a closed-door Pentagon meeting in which a senior Trump official lectured Pope Leo XIV’s ambassador on American military supremacy.

www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-pentag...

Americans didn’t vote for Al Smith or JFK in their respective Presidential elections because they were worried they would be taking orders from the Pope.

When I learned this as a child, I thought it was ridiculous. Render unto Caesar, etc?

Who knew this is something I hope the VP would do now?

Migrants in Lebanon displaced again as Mideast conflict escalates YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

Anyway, I am thinking about the Jesuit Refugee Service in Lebanon today, and I hope that their staff and everyone they serve are safe and sheltered as we pray/wish for peace:
youtu.be/ILpJelg44bw?...

The Pope (and the Catholic Church) exist outside the traditional American right/left wing axis. But because abortion was the main organizational principle in American Catholicism for so long, Republicans forgot about everything else the Church stood for, like the inherent dignity of every human.

I don’t know if it’s airheads so much as a shift in the type of content people are producing - the bloggers are sitting out this year; the video producers may not be, but among them there are a higher percentage of people who get views from different types of content - reactions vs critiques

Roundels out of proportion, colours wrong, font not Johnston Underground. Sorry to say that Mr Polanski has lost the autistic vote

I will defend pineapple on pizza because Personal Taste Differs

the writing off of people who like certain songs (Estonia/Italy) as old/"wine moms" and the discounting of their opinions because of that

How any of us are continuing to function is beyond me (a person who is now calmly going to an appointment like everything is fine)