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Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 6h

Explain to me why “conversion therapy” is banned in 28 countries and ABA is not, when they have the same creator (O. Ivar Lovaas) and utilize similar if not identical principles, techniques, and goals (forced assimilation).

Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 7h

Autism $peaks is the largest and most popular Autism organization (among allistics), who continues to be 100% in support of ABA. They have lobbyists who push ABA as the “gold standard Autism treatment.” It utilizes same practices as “conversion therapy,” which is currently banned in 28 countries.

Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 7h

ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis) is the “gold standard” of “treatment” for Autism, and was created by the person as “Conversion therapy” (see Lovaas) with similar techniques and goals. It’s torture that continues to have widespread support and acceptance.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 5h

I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me

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Toni @adventuresoftoni.bsky.social · 4h

And now I need #cloudwardho as all cats 🐾

Daisuke Buclawsby
Mewrya Junková
Meowxwell Gotch
Montgomery LaMontgommery - this is just a really good cat name on it's own
Olethclaw MacLawed
Vanellopurrrr Bapman
Pawfessor Comfrey MacLawed

Lord Kensington Catsgrove Meowdecestershire

Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 12h

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 15h

But when you realize that most violence is not by strangers (hence police violence being large %), you see why it's vital for cops to obscure it: no one believes more $$ for punishment bureaucracy is a solution to the reasons people **in some kind of relationship with each other** hurt each other.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 15h

THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 16d

Big takeaway here is a mass erosion of barriers between governmental and corporate data collection/surveillance--and the idea that the one-off surveillance of walking past a single CCTV camera is over, the consolidation of ALL data means true mass surveillance from 100 redundant pieces of data.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 8h

Your reminder—or maybe no one ever told you—that complications from a measles infection include immune amnesia (where you lose immunity to everything), vision and hearing loss, brain damage, and a fatal brain disease called Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis that can show up years later.

Miranda 🖤🤍💜 @doomscroling.bsky.social · 1d

Hundreds of children in multiple states are in quarantine and on remote learning due to measles outbreaks.

The decline in MMR vaccinations has resulted in the US experiencing an increase of measles cases with 1563 total cases & 3 deaths since January.

#Pinks

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 10h

"Paradoxically, even as nature delivers new blows, a troubling share of America’s retirement wealth remains locked in the same climate-exposed assets that are driving the instability."

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 11h

As climate change increasingly becomes a threat not just to homes, but to the very foundations of retirement, even the most careful savers are finding personal effort can’t outpace the risks woven deeply into the financial system.

@adamlmahoney.bsky.social reports

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Climate Change Puts A Generation’s Retirement On The Line

Early retirement withdrawals for hardship have tripled since 2020, as disasters strike and insurance fails–leaving workers on their own in old age.

inthesetimes.com

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18h

The WHO has verified the elimination of both measles & rubella in all Pacific Island countries, alongside rubella elimination in Japan. The achievement follows 2 decades of coordinated immunisation campaigns, regional surveillance, and high routine vaccine coverage. buff.ly/EpFb7HK
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Rubella elimination verified in Japan, and measles and rubella elimination verified in Pacific island countries and areas

The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that the 21 Pacific island countries and areas that are part of the WHO Western Pacific Region have collectively been verified as having eliminated…

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j-salvo.bsky.social @j-salvo.bsky.social · 7h

Word to the wise: do not fly internationally into Logan. All of the major public detainments of Legal Residents and Citizens at airports have been out of Logan.

Kat Stuart @luckykatstuart.bsky.social · 7h

Anyone in Boston an immigration lawyer or know one who can help this woman? Her husband is detained at Logan over a dismissed misdemeanor from 2017. He’s a legal resident of the US. She just asked for help an hour ago.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 10h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Jeanne (she/they) @handle.invalid · 8h

I’d really love to support your cause, but using AI-Gen art for the poster makes me question your practices and whether you’re actually community oriented or just one well intentioned white person on the internet.

It’s giving safety pin and blue bracelet.

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Toni @adventuresoftoni.bsky.social · 8h

Please add alt text.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 8h

Since there's not alt text: UPS is just starting to "dispose" of some shipments from overseas.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 8h

tell me more about republicans being the pro-business party.

www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

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Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · 9h

This is not isolated. I'm going to start a thread of other desecrations of Black and non white history and civil rights here:

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Katakateri @katakateri.bsky.social · 3d

For people with neuromuscular & other issues like me, type alt4me anywhere in the body of your post & volunteers will try to add the alt text for you.
When I'm having trouble typing, people give me shit & ignore my posts.
I want to be part of the conversation. No one looks at my bio before judging.

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · Aug 6

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 16h

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

The RIFs that began Friday will reportedly cut 65% of CISA’s 2,540 employees, one of the dumbest and most dangerous moves imaginable. CISA defends the nation’s cyber and critical infrastructure. Destroying it now only makes sense if you’re afraid of election integrity.

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Youngles🇰🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 🔜 PAX Unplugged @youngles.bsky.social · 18h

A 15 year old AUTISTIC CHILD WAS KIDNAPPED and detained by ICE FOR FOUR DAYS.

HIS PARENTS THOUGHT HE WAS MISSING. THEY WERE NOT INFORMED.

The cops found him in a detention center.

THE COPS FOUND A MISSING 15 YEAR OLD AUTISTIC CHILD IN A DETENTION CENTER.

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 18h

Why won’t they let anyone inside that building?

Keep asking the question: why won’t they let anyone inside that building?

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19h

Which they are doing their best to accelerate.

Numerous Billionaires Preparing for End of Society

Billionaires are (still) doomsday prepping. AI — the tech many of them are building — has them more paranoid than ever.

futurism.com

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Toni @adventuresoftoni.bsky.social · 22h

Step one...

Davoyager @davoyager.bsky.social · 1d

‘Grid in a box’ combines storage and solar PV modules for a microgrid in a 20 ft. container – pv magazine International share.google/CRgRaOqC4siD...

‘Grid in a box’ combines storage and solar PV modules for a microgrid in a 20 ft. container – pv magazine International

Paired Power’s modular microgrid targets is assembly-free remote industrial and agricultural applications and rural electrification for Indigenous communities.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

Psst: Stop burning stuff on Earth for energy. Let the burning fireball in the sky be your energy source.

T&E @transportenvironment.org · 4d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
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