iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 08/02/2025

Feels like a metaphor.

Broad green leaves, like those we might expect from a flower bulb, burst through the pliable tarmac next to a wall.

Jorn Bettin @jornbettin.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

We currently live in a social world of magical thinking shaped by the cult of technological progress. Co-creating ecologies of care beyond the human allows us to experience beauty in a world that is completely out of control autcollab.org/2025/01/24/t....

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The art of living in a world that is completely out of control

There is a co-evolved natural pace to the flow of life at each of the different scales within the kingdoms of life. We currently live in a social world of magical thinking shaped by the cult of tec…

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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 07/02/2025

General reminder to please post things that might cheer people up or at least raise a wry smile, or even hopes. Not just bleakness. And if your timeline is full of the latter, actively seek out the former. There's a lot of great stuff happening. People are still mostly good. As are cats and dogs.

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The art of living in a world that is completely out of control

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Jason Fried @jasonfried.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

A passage from the Tao that’s frequently worth revisiting.

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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 26/12/2024

These are good things to remember!

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 18/12/2024

Day #8 of setting a record daily low for Arctic sea-ice extent. Dec. 17, 2024: 405,000 km² below the previous daily record.

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

"I’m an Amazon worker myself but also a professor of anthropology at Duke University." Fantastic read from Orin Starn. www.sapiens.org/culture/amaz...

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Inside Amazon’s Union-Busting Tactics

An anthropologist, who worked in an Amazon warehouse, reports on the impediments to labor organizing—and why it’s still worth trying.

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 19/12/2024

It's not enough to let people know that vaccines don't cause autism. We also have to affirm that autism is not something to fear, that autistic lives are worth living and supporting, and that autistic people deserve to exist and be loved. Original exchange on Twitter: x.com/Sara_R_Rocha...

Twitter exchange on a black background, from a DrNeilStone, reading, "We do need to find out what causes autism. Because it isn't vaccines."

Response from Sara_R_Rocha, reading, "And then what? Will it fix the chronic institutionalization of autistic people? The violence we suffer as a community. Will it give us independent living and support? Or will only serve to try to find new ways to prevent us from existing? I bet on the last one."

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Jorn Bettin @jornbettin.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

A compassionate frame of love as vulnerable mutual knowing is compatible with a panpsychic relational philosophy. Everyone wants their experience to be taken seriously. We are embodied spirits, compelled to make sense of this world. We can only do so in good company. autcollab.org/2024/12/16/g...

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Gaia loves making senses

Core ideas within Buddhist and Daoist spiritual traditions are reflective of the commonalities found across many human scale indigenous cultures. A compassionate frame of love as vulnerable mutual …

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Rose Matthews (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈 @rosematthews.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Psychology has a place, but how it feels to be Autistic and what motivates us to do things in a particular way don’t always fit the clinical narratives. That’s why it’s so important for us to be active participants in any kind of assessment and to tell our own stories in our own way.

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Dr. Devin Guthrie @drdevinguthrie.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Thank you so much for sharing your story! The psychology community is way behind the autistic community at recognizing & understanding autism -- which only makes sense, groups & individuals always know themselves better than experts looking in from the outside!

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Rose Matthews (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈 @rosematthews.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

#Thread If you’re wondering if you might be Autistic but ruling it out because some of the diagnostic criteria don’t apply read on. Initially Autism wasn’t considered a likely explanation for my difficulties because I was married, employed, seemed to cope with change, and had social skills.

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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

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Tania Melnyczuk @alphabetania.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Then let's talk. Let's be realistic. Prepare for the worst whilst working to build the best we can. The best won't happen by itself, by just floating into the future, because the river ends in the desert, not in the sea.

A rusting ship in the dried up bed of the Aral Sea, with an overcast sky and a bit of blue in the distance.

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Tania Melnyczuk @alphabetania.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

We've entered the pandemicene, and devastating climate change is upon us, along with a cataclysmic tide of oligarchical authoritarianism. 🧵

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Tania Melnyczuk @alphabetania.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I'm nearly 60 now. I have decades of experience at this. You won't like what I see for the future of the world. 🧵

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Tania Melnyczuk @alphabetania.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I'm not a prophet. But I'm autistic, and many autistic people are naturally good at pattern recognition. The more information we gather over time, the more frequently our predictions can turn out to be correct. 🧵

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Tania Melnyczuk @alphabetania.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

It's like... they may be right on some points, but that doesn't make them decent, and it prevents them from reaching their full potential.

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Jorn Bettin @jornbettin.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

This says more about the "science" conducted by researchers who submit their work to the funding criteria of the Autism Industrial Complex than about the neurodiversity movement: "... there is no consensus in the scientific community on the validity of the neuro-diversity argument".

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 07/12/2024

ABA therapy advocates often claim that ABA is "evidence-based." Thing is, the term "evidence-based" is a bit arbitrary. And “we shouldn’t have a separate set of lower standards that we only apply to autism research.” Researcher @kbottemabeutel.bsky.social: thinkingautismguide.com/2020/05/conf...

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In the center is a white square outline with white splash graphics at the upper left and lower right corners.

Inside the square is text reading, “'We shouldn’t have a separate set of lower standards that we only apply to autism research.'” Dr. Kristen Bottema-Beutel."

Under the square in the lower left corner, smaller text reads, "@ThinkingAutism tinyurl.com/AutismResearchStandards".

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🌈🌻🌏☮️mαríєfrΑncЄ☀️🌱☃️🍁🇨🇦 @mariefrance.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

some days just seem to top the list as most overwhelmingly insurmountably dark and difficult - even the blue sky seems to have been shrouded today

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🌈🌻🌏☮️mαríєfrΑncЄ☀️🌱☃️🍁🇨🇦 @mariefrance.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I’m so tired of how heavy & destructive politics has become - I’m so tired of not being able to have productive conversations around that bc too many are not getting objective & factual information - I’m so tired of seeing this crazy nose dive into chais while feeling completely powerless to stop it

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Jorn Bettin @jornbettin.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The Autistic, Authentic, Autonomous Collaboration community grows organically, at human scale, at a human pace, one trusted relationship at a time autcollab.org/knowledge-re.... Join us! The most appropriate path for Autistic people depends on the surrounding social environment and stage of life.

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Ecologies of Care

The Autistic, Authentic, Autonomous Collaboration community grows organically, at human scale, at a human pace, one trusted relationship at a time, in the form of self-organising small groups that …

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Monotropism.org @monotropism.org · 03/12/2024

The Monotropism site houses an extensive archive of Dr Dinah Murray's writing about autism, neurodiversity and the nature of the mind. Here is her 1992 paper for the Durham autism conference, where she introduced the idea of monotropism. #autistic #history monotropism.org/dinah/attent...

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Attention Tunnelling and Autism

Dinah KC Murray, 1992. From Living with Autism: The Individual, the Family, and the Professional. Durham Conference Proceedings Editor’s note: this was Dinah’s first presentation on aut…

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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 02/12/2024

But the neurodiversity movement has done far more for very disabled people than the bloody Guardian ever has. For anyone who wants to understand the connection, I highly recommend studying the National Autistic Taskforce guide to care. nationalautistictaskforce.org.uk/nat-guide/

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The NAT Guide

An independent guide to quality care for autistic people The NAT Guide was produced in 2019 to create a comprehensive guide to care for autistic people. The guide was authored entirely by autistic …

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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 02/12/2024

I don't know a lot of autistic people who are happy with portrayals like The Good Doctor, and a big part of that is because they have learnt almost nothing from the neurodiversity movement! These are representations put together by people who *do not* listen to autistic folk about our experiences.

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Sarah Louise Curtiss @sarahlcurtiss.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

New public alert 🚨 Really proud of this work with Dr. Melissa Stoffers available open access rdcu.be/d0gLX

Theorizing the Role of Sex Educators in the Resistance and Reification of Epistemically Injustices Related to the Sexual Expression of People with Intellectual Disability

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Jorn Bettin @jornbettin.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Autistic culture is a world of infinite diversity beyond the neuronormative imagination. Every Autistic relationship is unique. Many of us are traumatised. Cultural metamorphosis requires radically reframing everything we understand about cultural adaptivity autcollab.org/2024/11/26/a....

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Autistic human animals – a factor in cultural metamorphosis

Autistic culture is a world of infinite diversity beyond the neuronormative imagination. Every Autistic relationship is unique, and many of us are traumatised. We need appropriate tools to invest i…

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Jorn Bettin @jornbettin.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Underneath the surface of internalised ableism, no one wants to be seen and heard by many. Everyone prefers to be understood and loved deeply by a few, and everyone wants to love and help. Continuous dialogues about commitments is what makes life sacred. autcollab.org/2024/11/22/t...

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The ability to relate is the inability to conduct transactional busyness

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Jorn Bettin @jornbettin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Many Autistic people have great difficulties to think of the world in hierarchical ways. This is a reflection of innate human collaborative cultural capabilities in combination with a much reduced capacity for maintaining cognitive dissonance on an ongoing basis. autcollab.org/2024/11/18/t...

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The inability to think hierarchically is the ability to think and live relationally

Many Autistic people have great difficulties to think of the world in hierarchical ways. From everything that we know about our evolutionary path as humans, this is simply a reflection of innate hu…

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Dr. Kara Dymond @drkaradymond.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

We can't talk about inclusion, equity, accessibility, or disability justice without also including chronically ill or medically vulnerable people.

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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Sensory processing sensitivities are more the norm than the exception among those with neurodivergence, severe mental illness, and complex trauma, so it’s unconscionable that staff aren’t trained to understand and help.

The image is an infographic titled “Signs of Sensory Overload” by Neurodivergent Insights. It has a circular layout with icons and text illustrating various symptoms of sensory overload, including:
1. Feeling a wave of fatigue come over you - illustrated by a person lying down.
2. Feeling wound up & stimming - depicted by a person holding their hands to their head with movement lines.
3. A sense of panic or desire to escape - represented by a figure appearing distressed and ready to flee.
4. Urge to block incoming sensory signals (cover eyes or ears) - shown by a person with hands over their ears.
5. Extreme irritability - illustrated by a person with clenched fists and tension lines.
6. Restlessness & discomfort - represented by a standing person with movement lines around their body.

The design uses a light blue background with dark blue text and icons, creating a calm, visually accessible look.

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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

It’s not okay to guilt young people who’ve realized they’re #actuallyautistic (after being told they had BPD) into feeling morally obligated to uphold the BPD construct in public space for others. Both the ICD + DSM acknowledge that BPD is so heterogeneous it lacks scientific validity. #AutismNotPD

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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

New from @rcpsych : “Autistic people are sometimes misdiagnosed with personality disorder. This is because these two diagnoses share some similarities. Healthcare professionals should consider this when making a diagnosis of #autism or #PD”. #AutismNotPD tinyurl.com/4kt6z6tm

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Autism and mental health

This resource looks at autism and mental health. It explains what autism is, how it’s diagnosed and what support is available for autistic people.

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

This is awesome

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

South America Is Drying Up In August and September, huge portions of South America were shrouded in intense smoke from wildfires raging in the Amazon and other parts of Brazil and Bolivia, as #GlobalWarming increases both drought and flooding problems. eos.org/articles/sou...

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South America Is Drying Up - Eos

A new study shows that dry, warm, and flammable conditions have skyrocketed across the continent, favoring the spread of uncontrolled fire.

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

1/2 When he taught high school history, Jim Nehring used to hand out several textbooks’ takes on the same historical event, each offering a different account in a tone of absolute certainty. Students learned more about the topic but they also came to question authoritative pronouncements.

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Jorn Bettin @jornbettin.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Humanity is primarily facing a crisis of institutions and collective imagination. Many of us would be unable to recognise a healthy human scale cultural organism if we encountered one. This should scare us all. jornbettin.com/2024/11/04/h...

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Healing from cultural cancer

Gaia is facing a metacrisis. But humanity is primarily facing a crisis of institutions and collective imagination. Many of us would be unable to recognise a healthy human scale cultural organism if…

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