The pace of the world is the problem and not autistic me. Everything is about money, speed and efficiency and shames everyone else. Even if you're at maximum productivity it's do better next time. Everyone else is left to suffer with lots of difficulties to find a place for themselves and survive.

"aren't you here to make friends with everyonnnne?" fuck no, have you seen everyone? i want the resistors, the disrupters, the people who have finally had enough and don't want to play along any more or never could to begin with the ppl who see through this mess + don't look away just bc it hurts

I came out of my morning sessions with the realization that desperation in the face of environmental collapse is spreading fast.... This looks like great support! "Together, we learn how to slow down, replenish and bring care to the places of fracture."

Andy Rose@andyrose12.bsky.social · 2d ago

climateemotionalresilience.org/climate-emot... "We believe with Susi Moser that "Burnt-out people aren't equipped to serve a burning planet."

One of the most disconcerting moments of living in this timeline of the world in the U.S. is that A LOT of people in this country keep acting like there's a special line that needs to be crossed for fascism to *arrive.* The reality is that we are CURRENTLY living under Federal fascism. NOW.

Stronger mental health involves people with lived experience Ahead of #WorldMentalHealthDay, new WHO guide to support countries in shifting away from institutionalized #MentalHealth care models ➡️ person-centred care in the community that respect people’s rights & choices https://bit.ly/4yJjvBc

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

If you think you believe in human rights but also believe those rights can legitimately be revoked by a government (for whatever reason), you don’t believe in human rights.

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

As one who was knocked off a bike, across a street, and into the base of the utility pole that knocked me unconscious, ... Affirmed!!!

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 3d ago

I have had people On Here call it an overreaction to use the term "traffic violence." As someone who has been hit by a driver, I can tell you it's sure as hell violent. As someone who has been threatened by a driver, it's sure as hell violent. The entire system of car dependency is violent.

“I see protest as a genuine means of encouraging someone to feel the inconsistencies, the horror, of the lives we are living. Social protest is to say that we do not have to live this way." — Audre Lorde

more big government as in give people healthcare and childcare less big government as in have the right to murder and cage them

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Whenever White people talk about blackface or any number of similar topics, I'm reminded how little they get it. "Like, yes, there are specific instances in history" -- No John, there was *an entire artistic movement built around it*. "Sure but today-" -- Your people never stopped mocking us, John.

Dear dudes: this shit is not funny. If you’re a guy and your friends make these jokes, you have to call them out on it.

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘@kojamf.bsky.social · 5d ago

I'm sorry, needs to be shared yourbestiemisha Michael Brown

This is one of the (many) reasons I don't use it at all. At my age, the slow decline is real and my brain needs all the workouts it can get

John Breen@breen.tech · 5d ago

If you use AI regularly, I do think you owe it to yourself to occasionally try to do things without AI to make sure you still know how to do them. And to spend time reading and exercising your brain so you don’t forget how to think without these tools

Hi. Clinical psychologist here! Sometimes, people’s souls are simply cess pools of rotten humanity mixed with evil and stupidity—no diagnosis necessary—and that’s the explanation.

Amber Ying 應 緣@amberying.com · 6d ago

Some of you are getting too comfy saying that billionaires, AI tech bros, and all the other assholes have to have some psychiatric condition because being a complete utter greedy mean-spirited troll of a person must mean they're crazy. As an actual "crazy" person, fuck you.

Donald Trump recently removed all Title IX protections from LGBTQ people in general, not just trans people. The explicit goal is to create violent bullying that makes LGBTQ people suffer. The explicit goal is to see more Matthew Shepard and Brianna Ghey type deaths.

In a capitalist society, you're only allowed to talk about certain things and it must be done in a particular way. That's because even allowing discourse to happen allows it to exist as a possibility that can be actualized. You're not allowed to seriously discuss anything that's a threat to power.

Disabled people are over twice as likely to experience sexual assault than non-disabled people. In the US specifically, 2 in 5 women who experienced rape are disabled. Among US men who experienced sexual violence, 1 in 4 are disabled. Sexual violence is an issue of disability justice.

Re-sharing my big essay re: Harry Potter and being myself a trans, former fan of the series ... for anyone who’s not read it before … lithub.com/burn-harry-b...

Burn Harry Burn: Reckoning With My Harry Potter Fandom as a Trans Person

During the spring of 2020, as the world locked down and people were dead and dying and breaking apart and mourning and afraid and hiding, the British author J.K. Rowling decided to publish an open …

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The Haunting of Emily AF 👩‍🎤✨@rockstarelise.com · 7d ago

I feel like the overwhelming majority of people are just totally fucking oblivious. Even my own family, who are very supportive of me still read the NYT, and my sister is still a HP fan. It’s honestly too traumatizing for me to try to talk to them or anyone about this at this point. So frustrating

"I might not have been able to talk, but I knew hundreds if not thousands of words. Pretty silly to assume that just because someone can’t say something, they don’t know it." And yet, this assumption is made about nonspeakers every day in schools, care settings, and communities.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism@thinkingautism.com · last wk.

“Presuming competence means doing things like reading literature or school textbooks out loud, holding real conversations that are age appropriate (even if nonspeakers can’t respond), & meaningfully involving nonspeakers in whatever is going on." -Jace Pooley autismspectrumnews.org/the-power-of...

“Speakers get taught how to write and read and even speak their best throughout their entire childhood and beyond. […] AAC users […] should be given even more time. They are always expected to do even more with infinitesimally less than non-disabled peers." tiffanydjoseph.substack.com/p/push-back

Push Back!

Don't Let This Rushed Society Make You Rush Your AAC Communicator

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🚨TRIGGER WARNING🚨 Discussion of rape/sexual violence & strong language. ☑️ Bear ☐ Man This spoken word poem stopped me in my tracks The bear was never really the point. The point is why so many women understood the answer immediately Listen to her words. They matter. —Claire Donohoe🐻💜 #SheShed

I’ve gotten a lot of questions from journalists like, “If my son were in that group chat, I’d want him to say something. How can I teach him to speak up?” The question should be: “How do I raise a son who would never rush a fraternity?”

Honestly instead of learning new techniques to hack my nervous system I'd like to live in a equitable life-affirming society that didn't push me into fight or flight hour after hour. You?

"Sheryl, why do you focus on the US and Israel so much? Do you hate Western civilization?" I was born in a country built on stolen land with the forced stolen labor of enslaved people. Therefore, I will talk about how evil it is to steal land and enslave people and how we must make that right.

Every trans person who refuses to shrink their identity to fit the room is expanding the world for everyone else.

TIL: Before Hans Asperger or Leo Kanner, a Jewish-Ukrainian psychiatrist named Grunya Sukhareva defined autism in 1925. Both men did not cite her work. She also had documented how it affected women and girls, where the men did not. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunya_...

Grunya Sukhareva - Wikipedia

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So, friends, it’s not enough to say, “I would never do that!” What are you doing when you see something? Hear a heinous joke? Are you laughing along, even uncomfortably? Are you pretending you didn’t see the group message until morning? Or are you stepping up?

The prudent saboteur does not plan a caper, it lies in wait for opportunity to confound Nurses Teachers Fellow humans How will you be sand in the gears when your time comes? What can you safely do? What can YOU feel comfortable doing? Think about it in advance. What could that look like for you?