PSA: Arsenic, which occurs naturally in soil, is building up in rice fields around the world due to global warming. This is heavily not good for anyone as millions survive on rice as a staple, and many underprivileged people may eat rice as their only food. www.earth.com/news/king-of...

Study finds that the 'king of poisons' is building up in rice fields around the world

Rice feeds billions, thriving in warm, wet fields. Those flooded fields can also make arsenic available to rice plants, poisoning the grains.

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Ahem. We’ll have our #NPR and #PBS back, or we’ll set loose the vengeful spirits of #BobRoss #WayneDyer #BarbaraSher and #MrRogers on your sorry meatsacks What they leave undone, #BigBird #OscarTheGrouch & #MrTeeth will finish Pray they leave the Skexis in the vault. www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...

Federal judge rules cuts to humanities grants were 'unlawful'

The ruling deems the government's termination of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities "unlawful" and allows a lawsuit brought by humanities groups to move forward.

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A Happy #Lughnasadh / #Lammas / Loaf-Mass / First Fruits of Harvest to you! #pagan #witchcore #harvest #festival

#Herbalist folk, 11 min MUST HEAR tut on forgotten female who saved ancient herbals from obscurity. Her “Scented Garden” which I’ve found again (yay!) was required reading in the Saffron Walden School of Medical Herbalism & Aromatherapy I attended in the 80’s. worldherblibrary.org/episode/elea...

Here’s your 3rd in this short trifecta of 1-minute #CozyCool bedtime stories, from the “Little House” books. Listen for an extra shot of chill during this extreme heat. Let the words sink into your bones to keep you cool all night ❄️ Look for more #1Minute #bedtime stories soon & please share! 😊🌻

A 1-minute “Cozy Cool” bedtime story to remind my #Neurodiverse, #Autistic & #ADHD folx that winter’s cool can be a comfort, even in the midst of extreme heat. Enjoy these #CozyCool stories from the classics, if you need an extra shot of chill in your day. From “Farmer Boy” by #LauraIngallsWilder

Here’s a 1 minute “Cozy Cool” bedtime story to remind my #Neurodiverse folx, how cool your mind & body can be, even in the midst of extreme heat. I’ll be posting more of these #CozyCool stories from the classics, so if you need an extra shot of chill in your day, feel free to listen and share!

Door’s open & I’m lecturing on Zoom, freshly roasted pecans & pistachios cooling on the kitchen counter. Cue a tell-tail noise & sudden yell at Luna: “Oh HELL no, you are NOT licking my nuts!” Both audience & neighbors: “Whuut?!” 😳 We all lost it & died laughing. That kitkat! 🤣 #Caturday #Cats

a white cat is standing on a kitchen counter near a pot on the stove

ALT: a white cat is standing on a kitchen counter near a pot on the stove

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This is the corker of all stoppers for us #AuDHD folk! Learning to take *all the time I need to answer a question* (even days, hours, weeks or months) has been a key #adulting lesson / skill I’ve acquired only through relentless #selfadvocacy Turns “toxic trait” into “I’m my best mate!” 🥰🌻

ADHD Jesse@adhdjesse.com · last yr.

My toxic trait is saying yes to things I have the ability to do, without considering if I have the time, energy, or motivation.

New #NeuroTribe Vibe #podcast drop! This time: “How to Set a Durable Gratitude Anchor for Emotional Self-Regulation” A new twist!! Takes 3 minutes to create & you’ll have it for life. Worth a listen, especially for my fellow #autism #autistic #ADHD #AuDHD #LGBTQIA folx 💋🥰🌻 noomvibe.app/tl/riTj

Such strong mixed feelings from so many of us in the Autistic community. What do y'all think of this study? #AutRes

Yeshes.Online 📎🌻🖖♾️@handle.invalid · last yr.

Paper here - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A friend on Facebook posted the rooty yamforest on the right & got the #eldritchhorror response on the left. I belly-laughed ‘til I cried. Plant that thing before it reaches the children! 🤣🤣🤣 In other news, it’s been a minute. Howya doing? Auntie M. loves yer gutz! 🥰 #bellylaugh #laughter #yams

Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom, but also a reminder: freedom delayed is freedom denied. #Juneteenth #BlackHistory #FreedomDay #NeverForget

Oh wow. This is stunning work. Happy Juneteenth! #HarrietTubman is a chosen #ancestor of mine, and I love how this honors her spirit, and that of thousands who made the journey on the #UndergroundRailroad Bright blessings, all around!

ProfKFH@profkfh.bsky.social · last yr.

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

Teach your children well. Here’s a 1 minute coaching segment on *what* to teach them One one point of this, #Nature and #Forest #schools can be found all over the world. They teach #kids to love animals & nature, and to be #environmental warriors in a #warmingworld None where you live? Start one.

Great recommend if you like rabbit-hole binges that lead you to #knowledge you didn’t have: the Arts & Culture app. Brilliant presentation on #Juneteenth - go check it out! Also, found the Webster fam - in the app. Mom did genealogy. This is Lady Elizabeth Webster, my 10 or 12x great-grandma!

*Maine*, damn it. Am currently in Mexico and so am failing in two languages!

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

Good news! In the state of Mane it now against the law to use restraints on adults with intellectual disabilities and autism. Let's hope this is a precedent. Via A. Ne'eman. www.mainepublic.org/politics/202...

YES we get to be mad that autistic people and our families don't get enough supports—But NO ONE gets to blame autistics for being autistic. One way to be an autism ally is to calmly ask unkind or thoughtless autistic-shamers, "how would you feel if someone blamed you for the way your brain works?"

Making #LionsMane soup & LOVE this one perfectly gorgeous geometrically divided Shitake. Beautiful! 😍 Also: Chantrelles, Straw Mushrooms, #Maitake, Bunashimeiji, #ginger & #turmeric root with herbs, spring onion, carrots & garlic in chicken bone broth. Delicious! Peep alt text for ingredients

Shareholders of 22 of the largest corporations in the U.S. have voted to reject anti-DEI proposals in 2025. Shareholders of companies including Costco, Apple, Walmart, Google, others, have voted against anti-DEI proposals this year. Scorecord at Impactivize: www.impactivize.org/2025-shareho...

Impactivize Shareholder Scorecard™ -

2025 Anti-DEI Proposals and Shareholder Voting Results

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PayPAAAAL FTW! ALL of our pal, and now my preferred choice bc of this. #DEI forever! 🌈

Nancy Levine Stearns@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · last yr.

💥 PayPal shareholders voted to reject an anti-DEI proposal at its annual meeting yesterday (tally TBA). Proposal asked PayPal to report on charitable giving, citing PayPal's relationship with the Human Rights Campaign where PayPal has a perfect score on LGBTQ+ initiatives.

The Role of Shame in Recovering from Traumaa

The Role of Shame in Recovering from Trauma - EFT Tapping Training Institute™

With Connie Dawson, PhD What role can feelings of shame play when working to find resolution for healing from trauma? In this free Tapping out of Trauma interview, Connie Dawson, PhD, the author of Life Beyond Shame explores with us the many ways that the feelings and state of shame can effect and interfere with…

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Reposting for the record, to spread positive, helpful research, and for friends researching this. Thank you @tomkindlon.bsky.social! cc: @peterspotts.bsky.social

Tom Kindlon@tomkindlon.bsky.social · last yr.

US (New York) research: Characterising dysfunctional breathing seen in post-acute sequelae of #SARSCoV2 using approximate entropy publications.ersnet.org/content/erjo... "The purpose of this paper is to identify an objective metric to distinguish DB patterns from normal breathing patterns on CPET”

#Neuro #Queer talmud! I’m not even Jewish, and I wanna take this class! Go get it, Neurojuicy wisdom seekers of the House of David…and Davida…and #neurofabulous *You*, #SparkleKippah 🏳️‍🌈👒 🥳 Way to go Rabbi Matthew!

The Autistic Coach | Mati (he/they)@theautisticcoach.bsky.social · last yr.

In addition to being an autistic peer-support coach, I'm a teacher of Talmud. I'm teaching a 4-week course on gender beyond the binary in the Jewish tradition. www.theautisticrabbi.com/autistic-tor...

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

Tin soldiers and Cheeto comin’ We’ve always been on our own This summer I am the Drummer — This bullshit is gonna go. ✊ apnews.com/article/immi...

Protests intensify in Los Angeles after Trump deploys hundreds of National Guard troops

National Guard troops have begun arriving on President Trump's orders in response to immigration protests.

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Turning off, turning back on, shaking the hell out of this mixté snowglobe Finest of fey, Come out & play!

Writer-Alane Ray@writeralaneray.bsky.social · last yr.

#autisticstuff Working on it...and dude, there's a lot of groups (one in particular) I am not keen on belonging to or being part of... that's a "Nah thanks, I love my soul too much for that. I'm good."

#Autism isn’t trainable, despite schools turning us into good dogs We’re great mimics We’re good at maintaining the appearance of normalcy to avoid persecution We may or may not be aware of doing so, as being #Minimized and our self-protective reaction to it, is baked into #autistics from birth

Victoria Duncan@victoriaduncan.bsky.social · last yr.

If we make eye contact we'll still be autistic If we make small talk we'll still be autistic If you never see us have a meltdown we'll still be autistic These are differences that reach into our brains, our muscles and our gut. They're not trainable.

#Monotropic split theory explains how #Autistic individuals experience cognitive overload and #burnout due to forced attention to multiple demands leading to energy deficits + mental health crises, made worse by social pressure so we never CAN catch up. No, we don’t all have “the same 24 hours”

Monotropic Split and Mental Health - Emergent Divergence

Monotropic split, introduced by Tanya Adkin, explains how Autistic individuals experience cognitive overload and burnout due to forced attention to multiple demands. This split contributes to energy d...

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