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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Context: A decade ago, Border Patrol agents had to be ordered not to put themselves in front of moving vehicles as a pretext to use deadly force www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/new-dir...

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 13/10/2025

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 24/09/2025

i am curing autism (preserving autism by use of salt)

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

A grainy screenshot of the sidebar of the desktop version of Goodreads. It says:

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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible...

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

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Jackie Kashian @jackiekashian.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

still pro gun control. but if you expect me to mourn a forced birth slaver you’ll be waiting a long time.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

OH HEY ITS THE EUGENICS OF DISABLED PEOPLE WE ALL TOLD YOU WAS COMING

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

If you’re feeling uneasy, it’s probably because we now know we live in a country built on the blackmail of a dead pedophile who is Too Big to Fail, so Congress has to go home for a couple of months to figure out how talk about it without defenestrating the president and collapsing the economy.

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Neurodivergent screening tests will be like "do you struggle with wearing socks" and ND people will be like "nope does not describe me, for you see I have a System" and folks that is what the question is getting at (Bringing my biggest post over here from Twitter)

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Melanie Davidson @melliesue.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Saving this thread for later. Expecting to have to participate in an empathy exercise in the near future and this framing makes a ton of sense.

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 14/05/2025

Fitzgerald’s father, Noah Michaels, 38, said: “Lottie’s likes to kick up a fuss whenever we go out, screams with rage whenever we give her baked beans and knows everything there is to know about Louis XVI. Other than that, she’s a typical happy little girl.”

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Autistic toddler hitting all developmental milestones realises she’s inadvertently fucked it

An autistic toddler who has hit all of her developmental milestones on time has realised she may have unintentionally shot herself in the foot. Lottie Fitzgerald, three, displays a number of typical a...

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New Haven Indivisible @nhindivisible.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

"It's a little bit frustrating to me that people aren't more outraged by this denial-of-due-process issue, and realizing that if we can do it to any of these folks that have been caught up, it can happen to you." Former FBI Deputy Director Andy McCabe 1:01:00

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

This is about all of us. Never forget that.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Chat GPT is a lot like your Uncle Bill. If you ask him something everyone knows about, he’ll probably give you the correct answer. If you ask him something obscure, he’ll just make stuff up. Also, he’s subtly racist.

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Esther @mahoniaaquifolium.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

In response to RFK Jr., I keep seeing people affirm his bigotry. They should try reading the poetry of nonspeaking, high support needs autistic people instead! Start here: autonomous-press.myshopify.com/products/typ...

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Typed Words, Loud Voices: A Collection

This collection brings together dozens of messages, essays, poems, and stories from authors who type to speak. Part time, full time, with facilitated communication, AAC technology, and other accommoda...

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Dr. Amy, PsyD 🎃 @dramypsyd.rmh-therapy.com · 23/04/2025

Apparently RFK is trying to walk back his bullshit comments by saying he doesn't mean autistics like *me* are bad and awful and need to be irradicated; no, he just wants to get rid of the "low functioning" autistics and let me just say FUCK THAT I'm not more worthy of existing than autistics who 1/

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Satan @thedevil.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

is this true

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Matthew Broberg-Moffitt (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

We’ve got an orange banner, y’all! 🥳

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Color Taste Texture: Recipes for Picky Eaters, Those with Food Aversion, and Anyone Who's Ever Cringed at Food
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G-HUA「季華」🧷 (he/they) @g-hua.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

"We'll know the cause of autism by September" You don't need a study, I can tell you right now that it's because autistic people are very cute and that increases the chances of them getting together with someone and having kids.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/04/2025

Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.

RFK Jr. says HHS will determine the cause of autism by September

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Autism didn’t make them do it. Mental illness didn’t, either. This personal piece from The Big Picture cuts through the excuses and names the real issue: some people are just hateful, and we need to stop giving them cover.

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Neither Neurodivergence Nor Mental Illness Made Them Bigots—They're Just Awful People

It's hard to admit your heroes are jerks, but the mentally ill and neurodivergent shouldn't be collateral damage.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

If you're in congress and you aren't publicly in favor of banning the trading of individual stocks by people in congress, get your head out of your fucking ass.

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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 06/04/2025

You know, all they really need to do is start listing the tariff on products and making people pay it separately like sales tax, and they'd be gone in a day. Ideally they'd wait until you got the register to tack it on too, just to really rub it in.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Today's stock market crash was the worst since the Spring of 2020. Can you guess who was president during *both* crashes? I bet you can!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion in the 2024 election. 70% of these donations went to Republicans. Now, Republicans in Congress are gearing up to slash essential programs to pay for another round of tax cuts for the rich. This is what oligarchy looks like.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

To Recap: You can commit a crime by negligently divulging military secrets, in violation of the Espionage Act, and you will *not* be arrested. But if you have an autism awareness tattoo to support your autistic brother, you *will* be kidnapped and sent to a concentration camp in another country.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Game Changer @gamechanger.dropout.tv · 24/03/2025

🎉 GAME CHANGER SEASON 7🎉 📅 Premieres April 7th on @dropout.tv 🎶 Some things never change...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/03/2025

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

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Melanie Davidson @melliesue.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Watch and read. Share with folks who don't get it.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 24/01/2025

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/03/2025

Walz: "I think we have to assume the very worst in everything this administration does, and we need to prepare for it."

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

It feels as though he’s poured an acid solvent over the country and it’s eating through everything

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I really can't deal anymore with the people who think we're not in a constitutional crisis/living under authoritarianism. Perhaps you've watched too many movies, but people actually still go to work, raise kids, go to birthday parties and all the other life shit when they're under dictatorship.

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Eddy Conroy @econroy.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Paging @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Hoping you aren’t the end of the video just yet.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I understand why people are joking like “please deport me”, but in seriousness deportation is not relocation, it’s death. -descendant of a survivor of occupied Poland

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 16/03/2025

“It’s on my list. The problem is I now can’t find my list. It’s probably in one of these 47 notebooks. I’ll have a look for it – right after I finish this level of Farm Heroes Saga.”

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Autistic woman will definitely book ADHD assessment at some point

An autistic woman unsure if she also has ADHD has announced plans to try to get assessed at some vague, indeterminate point in the future. Emma Bernard, 34, who exhibits a lot of ADHD traits, is abso...

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

The autistic urge to copy the facial expressions and speech patterns of who you're speaking to often is a way of signaling a desire for acceptance. I can't count the amount of times my laugh has altered based on who I’m talking to. Doing this can result in exhaustion from masking your true self.

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Gift link!

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 01/03/2025

It's Women's History Month! All March, we're highlighting women who've taken valuable steps for technology, privacy, security, and free expression for us all. We encourage you to learn more, get inspired by their accomplishments, and tell us about women in tech that you admire.

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