Been in the Emergency Department for 12+ hours and I genuinely wish a neurotypical person could experience this - even just for a few hours
It’s sensory hell: unpredictable machine beeping, bright lighting, noise from all directions…
There has to be a better way for autistic people to access care
We really are just gonna have to go to places like Mastodon or whatever, ain't it?
Bsky touted the freedom that twitter wasn't allowing, and now it's the same boat all over again.
Cheeto is having his second one on one, face to face meeting with Putin. He is prepared to give up Alaskan minerals. I said it before, I will say it again. Trump is a Russian agent receiving orders and giving secrets. And there is a high chance the USA won't own Alaska and Hawaii after 2030.
POTUS is a coward! Preparing to sell off Alaska’s resources to Putin. It’s not your land and water to barter. Treating Alaska as a colony to be brokered in war
Zero consultation with Alaska Natives, zero consultation with local Alaskans
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This week the diddler in chief will be traveling to Alaska, which he believes is in Russia, for his annual performance review.
I hope every reporter there asks him about his continued attempts to distract from
the Epstein files.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
An autistic person fell into a hole...
Doctor: Hmm you don't look like you fell in a hole
Employer: We can't give you a ladder because it would be an undue hardship
Society: What hole?
Autistic community: We've been there before & figured out how to climb out... we can help!!
It's three years this week since the UK media reported that 1000 families were going to sue the Tavistock (Gender Identity Clinic) for medical mispractice. There wasn't one "family", let alone 1000. It was clear, at the time, that it was bullshit propaganda, and even clearer now. 1/
If you're in the UK and a fan of my work, it is time to start contacting your reps every day about repealing this. Otherwise soon, all of my work will become inaccessible to you unless you buy my print books and get them shipped to your house. I wish I was joking. The time for action is NOW.
70% of Americans believe same-sex couples should be legally allowed to marry.
But Christian White Nationalism doesn’t care about national sentiment. They are deluded into believing they’re saving unholy sinners from an amoral society.
The movie The Purge, but only super-rich people are allowed to commit crimes and get away with it, and it’s every day… and I’m just describing our country right now… never mind.
Everybody calling payment processors and raising a stink about this, you're doing amazing, and I'm proud of you.
A shoutout to everyone who is trying right now... Trying to do the right thing. Trying to stay open. Trying to keep going. Trying to hold on. Trying to let go. Trying to find their flow. Trying to stay afloat. Trying to meet each new day. Trying to find their balance. Trying to love themselves. Trying new things and new ways. I see you. I'm there too. We're in this together. S.C. LOURIE/TINYBUDDHA.COM
Is the cost of living crisis getting you down?
-we should give another billion to israel for child murder
-another 100B to ICE for kidnappings
-send the troops to DC to do policing
-cut 800B in medicaid
america first btw
There is no crime problem…
“Crime” is a response to a problem
The problem is poverty…
The problem is inequity
since living woman is an autofailing procedure of being woman (a woman can never be the perfect and true full woman because this pursuit is an intentional patriarchal contradiction) every attempt to demarcate exactly the line between the true and false female is a police tape to get women tangled in
I believe this one needs to be posted once again...😎
The open internet going away is a demonstration of the same problems everywhere else. It stipped being an open internet when companies were allowed to outright own so much of it and force us into specific platforms and patterns. Now they have you, why wouldnt they squeeze? They know you cant leave.
A picture of the meal described above
Sticky gochujang chicken thighs over brown rice with Brussels sprouts
This!!! Never stop resisting! ✊️ The orange menace/dictator, the genocide in Gaza....ALL of the things happening in this world are either engaging or extremely depressing. It beats you down...makes you feel hopeless. Don't give up tho!!! Change is possible!!! 💜
You know what would actually reduce crime and homelessness?
Universal healthcare, free education, affordable housing and a basic living wage.
When people have their most basic needs met, they have happier and healthier lives.
Those hoarding the wealth don’t want to give us those things.
Begin Transmission listing on amazon, under a fucking Harry Potter ad, showing it is only available in audiobook, audio cd, or hardcover and has only 25 five star reviews
sadly amazon remains vital to a book’s success
so imagine my surprise to look at my book listing and see it not only under a HP ad (holy shit) but the digital and paperback versions are GONE
AS ARE 78 CORRESPONDING 5-STAR REVIEWS
people being confused as to what sex or gender I am used to feel gender affirming and now it just feels like a potential hate crime liability
not gonna change who I am or how I present, just saying it sucks that a prior source of joy has been taken away
You will in essence be asking millions of users to go through the hassle of uploading ID - injuring their privacy & risking identity theft in the process - to correct their age, simply to restore your ability to monetize them.
You will also interfere needlessly with their access to videos.
With all due respect, ma'am: Bullshit.
This bill will lead to widespread identity theft, fraud, and suppression of free speech. It will do nothing to protect minors.
Actually, as other similar bills have shown, it will, in fact, put minors in MORE danger.
When you call your reps about KOSA and SCREEN mention data leaks like this. Mention how online security really isn't secure and asking folks to hand out their IDs willy nilly just isn't practical and puts everyone involved at risk of identity theft.
The SCREEN act will be a nightmare, please call your reps and yell
Thinking back to every major data leak ever and how once one of those happens with people's real IDs it will be the single greatest identity theft disaster in history and a lot of people will never be able to recover from it
They'll tell you to "think positive" as if your feelings were a choice you made poorly. But you know better - you know that real healing happens when we stop pretending we're okay and start believing we're worth fighting for, messy feelings and all. CALDSTAR
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#resist