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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 16h

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

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El Sargento García @elsargentogarcia.bsky.social · 17h

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To the Editor:
I am one of these so-called profoundly autistic people this article describes. I cannot utter meaningful speech, and as a result, I was branded for years as someone with an intellectual disability and an I.Q. of 40. All this time, however, I understood everything that was going on around me. I just could not show it to others because of my deranged relationship with my own body.
I am concerned about the creation of a separate category, called profound autism, for those of us with the most severe disabilities.
There are real differences between the sort of autism that I have and so-called Asperger's syndrome. But it does not help us at all to impose a hierarchy of lower and higher functioning. We need to figure out how to tap into the skills and insights of those of us who cannot talk, who make up anywhere from 25 percent to 40 percent of the autistic community, depending on the estimate.
For me, the way out of this dilemma was learning to communicate by typing. I suddenly went from being seen as intellectually impaired to taking college classes. I was never low-functioning, and neither are my autistic brothers and sisters without the ability to speak. I was just misjudged and ignored, and I fear that my fate will be the fate of many others termed low functioning in this new schema.
Jason Jacoby Lee
New York

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OhBraains🧟‍♂️ @ohnono.bsky.social · 16h

The driver videos are madness. A list of all people who entered a Grand Prix in a given decade, from least to most successful. The first hour of every decade before the 90s is just people who never qualified to race.

OhBraains🧟‍♂️ @ohnono.bsky.social · 16h

(I don’t know if the creator is actually autistic, but it would be weirder if they’re not.)

OhBraains🧟‍♂️ @ohnono.bsky.social · 16h

I find myself watching hours long videos about the history of Formula 1. The most recent one is a 1.5h list of all McLaren cars. That’s the power of autism.

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OhBraains🧟‍♂️ @ohnono.bsky.social · 17h

(The answer is that they just used costumes that were available without changing them to cater to a bunch of rightoids and very specific pedants like me.)

OhBraains🧟‍♂️ @ohnono.bsky.social · 17h

Wasloy is the new mayor of Legally-Distinctsville.

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OhBraains🧟‍♂️ @ohnono.bsky.social · 17h

(If it’s on parade it could be either, but in operational use navy and marines wear black stripes, if I remember correctly.)

a man in a military uniform with a blue beret and a badge that says ' a ' on it

ALT: a man in a military uniform with a blue beret and a badge that says ' a ' on it

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OhBraains🧟‍♂️ @ohnono.bsky.social · 17h

That’s much easier than playing tuba on a bike.

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OhBraains🧟‍♂️ @ohnono.bsky.social · 18h

Ey, don’t stick your nose in Gianni Gumballone’s pie.

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OhBraains🧟‍♂️ @ohnono.bsky.social · 18h

That’s a plot to make fourth rate Austrian art aspirants feel things.

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OhBraains🧟‍♂️ @ohnono.bsky.social · 18h

Perspective is a plot to deceive third rate Austrian post card painters.

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OhBraains🧟‍♂️ @ohnono.bsky.social · 18h

Was about to ask how a game that’s basically resisting temptations and trying to be a better person, but I forgot that evangelicals put the emphasis on warfare and get carried away.

OhBraains🧟‍♂️ @ohnono.bsky.social · 19h

Someone saw a coast line statistic and thinks it’s an actual line.

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OhBraains🧟‍♂️ @ohnono.bsky.social · 20h

Dog Master.

OhBraains🧟‍♂️ @ohnono.bsky.social · 20h

I heard he fell down some stairs. Why he kept going up again so often remains a mystery.

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OhBraains🧟‍♂️ @ohnono.bsky.social · 20h

He’s like the Eastern Bloc “bloc party” idiots, just there to add some flavor to the regime’s message.

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OhBraains🧟‍♂️ @ohnono.bsky.social · 20h

Better than Dr Oz turned out to be such a low bar, it’s a barely perceptible line on the ground.

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OhBraains🧟‍♂️ @ohnono.bsky.social · 20h

They can’t make me poast.

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OhBraains🧟‍♂️ @ohnono.bsky.social · 20h

a cartoon character with a glow in the dark skeleton behind bars says do you have any idea how little that narrows it

Alt: A glow in the dark skeleton says “do you have any idea how little that narrows it down”

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OhBraains🧟‍♂️ @ohnono.bsky.social · 20h

You don’t understand. They might not have invited them to the parties!

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OhBraains🧟‍♂️ @ohnono.bsky.social · 22h

The only way to make this more is a thin blue line one right next to it.

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OhBraains🧟‍♂️ @ohnono.bsky.social · 1d

Block. Never engage.

Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 1d

Peaky Blinders meme: No fighting with regime-run accounts. No fucking fighting with regime-run accounts!

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OhBraains🧟‍♂️ @ohnono.bsky.social · 1d

That’s why I use subtitles. I cannot deal with it.

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Fuss @fusspot.rip · 2d

A printed set of World Book encyclopedias is $1200 and only captures info up to the window in time in which it was printed.

A few bucks a month can make sure a vital resource that's constantly updated and rigorously scoured for inaccuracies by benevolent pedants remains available to everyone.

Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 2d

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

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