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How do you relate to nature?

How are you resourcing yourself for the week ahead? How are you remembering that you don't just work for the Earth you are the Earth? How are you connecting in to ancestors that gave all they had so that we could be here facing what we have to face?

What's wrong with this person? Or, what's wrong with the world around them? At The Wider Existence, Helen Edgar and I keep asking the second: symphrenia, distress as ecosystem, monotropism, madness and joy. Free to subscribe. https://www.thewiderexistence.co.uk #ActuallyAutistic

Carve this into your fucking BONES. It takes care and effort to call people out - it's WORK - and I for one don't enjoy pointless conflict with my friends & comrades. If I take the trouble to try to call you in, it's because I think you're worth the trouble.

neuroconverse.org/index.php/jo... I like this. It's new research about autistic people eating a familiar food on a regular basis. A long list of benefits to doing so, as explained by the autistic participants. We've had the idea that huge food variety is vital for autistic lives. Is it?/

Trans and Autistic people were the first killed, too. Almost like too many people are failing the open note test.

i don't need to read again. you said nobody is pro-abortion. i am pro-abortion. why? because it's health care. and i'm pro health care. just like i'm pro-chemo, i'm pro-abortion. reducing stigma around abortion care is important and insisting nobody is pro-abortion feeds into harmful narratives.

10 “Nice” Things Neurotypical People Unknowingly Do That Harm Autistics You may think you're being nice, but you're actually hurting your autistic loved one. Here's why. www.thearticulateautistic.com/10-nice-thin... #Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #AutismMom #AutismDad #AutismParent

Did you know that Autistic people are at a 9x or greater risk of dying by suicide as compared to non-Autistic people? It’s true 😔 It was true even before *gestures outwardly, with great fatigue* all this happened We deserve to know regardless of perceived ability/need Adult diagnosis matters.

"If trans people want a boycott of The New York Times, where's the call to do so?" Here is a declaration laying out how the NYT is a key driver of trans genocide, why boycotts work and why anyone who gives a damn about trans lives and rights must boycott The New York Times.

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

As autistic people have been saying repeatedly, the accommodations most of us need would benefit everyone.

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

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."

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 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!!!

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.

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.

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.

"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.

“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

🚨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?

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?

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🎯 'A man raped her' instead of 'she was raped.' Have you ever read a headline that reads "A bank was robbed by a suspect?" Nope. It's "A suspect robbed a bank."