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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13h

the utter futility of appealing to the same system that demanded it must execute Christa Pike, asking it to produce justice for Jane Doe in the Cornell case…

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Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Humanities will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no humanities.

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Derek Sweetman @dsweet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have never seen neurodiversity used this way: "These include limiting the number of assessments the ICBs will pay for in any given year and using “clinical prioritisation” criteria to restrict assessment to those with the most serious signs of neurodiversity."

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NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments

Patient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses

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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 26/04/2025

🧵autistic professional trauma flashback them: hey we’re going to need you to do this unethical thing me: oh no that’s unethical them: no it’s fine me: but you said it was unethical thing them: well it is THAT thing but it’s actually ethical me: no it’s not them: why are you being so stubborn?

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Slavoj Žižek has my dream job. I watched him speak in front of a crowd for 45 minutes uninterrupted about whatever he felt like while the host watched helplessly. when he finally finished she said "wise words" and he said "I HATE WISDOM" then started talking again

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Derek Sweetman @dsweet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

More than 33% of households. It has been obvious for awhile that our economy is a mess around here and I know a lot of ex-feds who are still out of work.

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

It’s telling that the only thing most people are interested in knowing about autism is what causes it & how to avoid it. How are #autistic people supposed to live in a world that sees us this way? As a “risk” to avoid rather than as fellow humans & community members?

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Derek Sweetman @dsweet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I liked this more than I expected (my expectations were not low, they just weren't existent. It was an impulse Libby checkout). It is a good and entertaining book!

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Proofreads for the book are done, y'all. Manly while Stimming: Autism and the Myth of the Masculine Ideal comes out March 30, 2027. Pre-order here. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eric-...

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Manly While Stimming

Unmasking Autism meets Notes on Being a Man in this one-of-a-kind reimagining of contemporary masculinity in the autism community.Society’s definition of m...

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Derek Sweetman @dsweet.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Made my first trip to SPX today, even though I've lived nearby since last century. Daughter came, too, and found things she liked. My Philippe "Here Comes a Special Boy" shirt got nice comments from the older potion of the crowd.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Take a minute to really absorb the scale of what you're seeing. This is 'Cueva de los Cristales', the Cave of the Crystals, near the city of Naica in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. The crystals are selenite, a type of gypsum. They formed over the last 1 million years. (📷: Javier Trueba, MSF)

A man stands in a cave filled with white crystals, many of them much taller and larger than he is. The scale is hard to even understand.

CREDIT: Javier Trueba

From the C&EN article I'm citing below:
"For millennia, conditions within the Cave of Crystals (290 m underground) were perfect for the growth of gypsum crystals, allowing them to grow to their massive size. Credit: Javier Trueba/MSF/Science Source"

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Derek Sweetman @dsweet.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am equally as smart and hot as @andrewhickey.500songs.com . I can live with that.

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 06/09/2026

Science fiction is when the main character is autistic and fantasy is when they have ADHD.

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Derek Sweetman @dsweet.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I took a 10-minute break from what I was doing to watch the end of a college football game and now my life is consumed by 1-second-trutherism

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Derek Sweetman @dsweet.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I don't think we ever did this in Gitmo. I've already got enough material for human rights class. I don't want more.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If you use a wheelchair, are you worried that you might not be able to use a cybercar? No problem. Your first fare includes some sort of miracle cure that allows you to not just walk again but to also store the wheelchair yourself.

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ToughPigs @toughpigs.com · 05/09/2026

50 years ago today it was time to play the music, it was time to light the lights. Happy birthday to the most sensational, inspirational, celebrational MUPPET SHOW!

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Nobody: Universities: what if we kept trying to expand while having fewer and fewer staff

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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops

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ash blu @ashblu.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

omg this was healing to read. i'm not disordered. i have real issues that need help being understood! #autistic

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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 25/08/2026

It would be very, very irresponsible for people to visit this link with their Bittorrent client, download the Amnesty report that J.K. Rowling had censored, seed it, and share the link as widely as possible. So don't do that.

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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

2025-26: the first year Canadian universities employed more tenured/TT professors over the age of 70 than under the age of 35.

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Derek Sweetman @dsweet.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Just got a phishing email announcing ICE arrested GMU faculty. I predict a lot of people are going to fall for this.

An email from "Amab Podder PhD" accouncing that "Federal Immigration ICE Detail GMU Faculty Members." It is a phishing email, trying to get people to click the link in "a temporary list of potentially impacted individuals."

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

THIS. With my students, I've had other adjuncts be like, "But what if a student without -insert issue- wants more time??" I give them more time. It's called being a reasonable, compassionate person. Giving them an extra day or two on an assignment doesn't take time off my life, so what's the problem

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Derek Sweetman @dsweet.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

So bascially, Iran is doing the wink-wink, nudge-nudge "you should really remove your leadership" move that we've been doing to them?

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Derek Sweetman @dsweet.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

No shade to the photographer, but this is clearly Kermit's decomposing corpse from the swamp.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Gender studies might be the most vindicated academic field of all time

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Derek Sweetman @dsweet.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Not sure how I feel about this, but "overcame autism and other disabilities that left him nonverbal until almost age 12 and unable to read or write until age 18, then earned a Ph.D." is grating. I did learn you can blame early problems on "autism and bad supervision" so I have that in my pocket.

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Star Scholar Jason Arday Resigns From Cambridge

Jason Arday was hired by the University of Cambridge in 2023 as the youngest Black professor in its history. Doubt has since been cast on his academic qualifications and claims about his life.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"The events of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” occur today: August 4, 2026. Like so many dates in science fiction, this one probably seemed far away when it was chosen, but once it was finally upon us, it passed like all days." www.rogerebert.com/mzs/silhouet...

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Silhouettes and Warnings: On Reading Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" On the Exact Day When It's Set

The events of Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" occur today: August 4, 2026.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

To O’Mara, the diet is not just a temporary means of losing weight but a way to eat for good. He has been doing it for 10 years, and credits it with turning his life around. At one point in our conversation he pulled up the Bristol Stool Chart, which ranges from Type 1 (“separate, hard pellets”) to Type 7 (“watery, no solid pieces”). O’Mara is consistently delivering Type 4 (“smooth, soft, like a snake”), with pointed ends, indicative of healthy rectal function, he told me. “When you start eating healthy, you don’t need toilet paper,” he claimed. “Animals in the wild have no residual stool on their anus.” He described a proper bowel movement to me this way: odorless, wipe-free, over in three to seven seconds and “nearly orgasmic.”

“I could have a bowel movement behind a sheet at a dinner party in the corner of the room,” he said, “and nobody would know.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

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Derek Sweetman @dsweet.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Someone making art from our childhood trauma

A painting of a boy trying to pull a horse from mud, inspired by The Neverending Story

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Derek Sweetman @dsweet.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

4am trains are the best trains...I hope.

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I always love telling folks that autistics eating buttered noodles are actually doing antifascism so leave them alone

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Derek Sweetman @dsweet.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I know I have had the problem where I get a permanent artifact on my screen (until reboot) for a very long time. I'd say "as long as I have had Windows," but I'm not going to claim it was there in 3.11 or wherever I started. How is this not fixed?

A black background. In the middle, a little off to the left is an off-white box that contains the word "Close." This is an artifact of something weird in Windows.

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Derek Sweetman @dsweet.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Yes, but I spent an inordinate amount of time as a child thinking about whether "somebody bet on the bay" was an observation or a request

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Derek Sweetman @dsweet.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

either this is off by quite a bit, or someone owes me a lot of money. I would adjunt for anyone for $8K a month. We might even call it a full-time job.

a search result saying "Total salary range for George Mason University Adjunct Professor" followed by "Adjunct Professor professionals typically earn between $8,166 and $14,514 monthly..."

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Derek Sweetman @dsweet.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This is the clearest representation of the war in Iran.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

when you see an anti-trump image you like, think to yourself, did an artist have time to draw this or photoshop it or whatever, or is it the result of a prompt given to a machine that drank half a city's water to produce it

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Derek Sweetman @dsweet.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I don't have a way through the paywall, but my understanding is one of these two is the conflict program. I've met a lot of scholars and practitioners from there. This is a loss.

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Derek Sweetman @dsweet.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

grumble grumble proquest ebook central grumble both universities why do things change always for the worse?

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Natania Barron ~ Fantasy Author @natania.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Some of you weren’t raised by PBS, and it shows.

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