Di Eats Toast
@dieatstoast.bsky.social
Interested in art, nature, economics and neurodiversity. She.
Great post. And actually for all of us thinking a bit harder, a bit earlier, about what life is for and what gives us value would help all of us lead happier lives. And by "earlier" I mean before we ourselves become disabled, which most of us will if we are lucky enough to live long enough.
Autistic and other disabled people have always been and likely will always be part of our societies, and are valuable human beings who deserve unqualified love, acceptance, and access to supports. Truth from an older article, since I don't write so much anymore:
www.buzzfeed.com/shannonrosa/...
www.buzzfeed.com/shannonrosa/...
My Autistic Son Needs 24/7 Support. And That's OK.
We have a good life, because we stopped buying into mainstream notions about what happy families look like.
www.buzzfeed.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Great post. And actually for all of us thinking a bit harder, a bit earlier, about what life is for and what gives us value would help all of us lead happier lives. And by "earlier" I mean before we ourselves become disabled, which most of us will if we are lucky enough to live long enough.
I always think this when I pass through Tring Station - really not very close to Tring - but why not build houses here so it's close to something? There is so much space and many trains....
November 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I always think this when I pass through Tring Station - really not very close to Tring - but why not build houses here so it's close to something? There is so much space and many trains....
Interesting thread with lots of pretty charts to make my heart happy...
On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n
British Politics' Midlife Crisis
Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters
benansell.substack.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Interesting thread with lots of pretty charts to make my heart happy...
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I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again.
Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
September 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again.
Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
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"You can’t eradicate autism without eradicating autistic people. It’s genocidal rhetoric against us that’s justified by 'autism destroys families. It destroys children.' No, it doesn’t. It’s bias against autistic people."
From an interview at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
From an interview at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet.
"I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."
www.motherjones.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"You can’t eradicate autism without eradicating autistic people. It’s genocidal rhetoric against us that’s justified by 'autism destroys families. It destroys children.' No, it doesn’t. It’s bias against autistic people."
From an interview at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
From an interview at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Anti-autism campaigner, Karen Hoyland, 40, commented: “I love my child but I hate his autism. The other day I came home to find him lining up his guns, instead of playing with them like a normal kid.”
Country with bullet vending machines makes preventing autism a priority
Headline by Sarah Amero A country that distributes bullets like they’re chocolate bars has decided that eradicating autism is one of its top priorities, it has been reported. The USA, where you can p...
thedailytism.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Anti-autism campaigner, Karen Hoyland, 40, commented: “I love my child but I hate his autism. The other day I came home to find him lining up his guns, instead of playing with them like a normal kid.”
"Let’s just say Bronze’s story will probably resonate a lot more than Wallace’s with the many, many autistic people quietly exhausting themselves trying to decipher and comply with all the unspoken etiquette of office life."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Yes, the problem is men like Gregg Wallace – but it’s also those who should stop them and don’t | Gaby Hinsliff
Agents, employers, board members all have a moral and legal duty to make people behave decently. If not now, when, asks Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
"Let’s just say Bronze’s story will probably resonate a lot more than Wallace’s with the many, many autistic people quietly exhausting themselves trying to decipher and comply with all the unspoken etiquette of office life."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Caring for stationery in hot weather, a brief guide:
- pop pencils in a jar of cool water to prevent wilting
- lie erasers somewhere dark, under a damp cloth
- vintage stamps will curl, pop into an envelope & under a book
- paperclips warping? Refrigerate.
- bury wax crayons, note location
- pop pencils in a jar of cool water to prevent wilting
- lie erasers somewhere dark, under a damp cloth
- vintage stamps will curl, pop into an envelope & under a book
- paperclips warping? Refrigerate.
- bury wax crayons, note location
July 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Caring for stationery in hot weather, a brief guide:
- pop pencils in a jar of cool water to prevent wilting
- lie erasers somewhere dark, under a damp cloth
- vintage stamps will curl, pop into an envelope & under a book
- paperclips warping? Refrigerate.
- bury wax crayons, note location
- pop pencils in a jar of cool water to prevent wilting
- lie erasers somewhere dark, under a damp cloth
- vintage stamps will curl, pop into an envelope & under a book
- paperclips warping? Refrigerate.
- bury wax crayons, note location
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BBC muzzling one of its best presenters from making an excellent, wholly factual programme because heat pumps are “controversial”. An organisation badly in need of new leadership.
April 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
BBC muzzling one of its best presenters from making an excellent, wholly factual programme because heat pumps are “controversial”. An organisation badly in need of new leadership.
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Ask yourself: If you wanted to bring manufacturing to the US, would you reduce tariffs on smartphones and computers that are fully made abroad, or cut tariffs on the intermediate inputs used by American manufacturers?
April 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Ask yourself: If you wanted to bring manufacturing to the US, would you reduce tariffs on smartphones and computers that are fully made abroad, or cut tariffs on the intermediate inputs used by American manufacturers?
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The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.
April 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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Nobody could have predicted this:
March 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Nobody could have predicted this:
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I know I keep banging on about my designs but it’s not easy being a small business at the moment.
Take a look at my wares and please retweet.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thanks!
Take a look at my wares and please retweet.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thanks!
March 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I know I keep banging on about my designs but it’s not easy being a small business at the moment.
Take a look at my wares and please retweet.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thanks!
Take a look at my wares and please retweet.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thanks!
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Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times.
“In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”
“In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”
February 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times.
“In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”
“In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”
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Everyone excusing Elon Musk’s behavior due to his alleged autism should be chased into the sea with pitchforks
it’s both profoundly insulting to autistic people and also obviously not true
it’s both profoundly insulting to autistic people and also obviously not true
January 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Everyone excusing Elon Musk’s behavior due to his alleged autism should be chased into the sea with pitchforks
it’s both profoundly insulting to autistic people and also obviously not true
it’s both profoundly insulting to autistic people and also obviously not true
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Thank God Starmer is prime minister. Imagine if we had someone in that position desperately doing whatever Musk wanted, as Badenoch evidently would. This moment would amount the complete subordination of Britain to a foreign tech billionaire.
January 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Thank God Starmer is prime minister. Imagine if we had someone in that position desperately doing whatever Musk wanted, as Badenoch evidently would. This moment would amount the complete subordination of Britain to a foreign tech billionaire.
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Cartoonist @anntelnaes.bsky.social quits the Washington Post after a cartoon mocking Post-owner Jeff Bezos is refused. Cartoon for @trouw.nl: www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tje...
#JeffBezos #WashingtonPost #StandWithAnn #pressfreedom
#JeffBezos #WashingtonPost #StandWithAnn #pressfreedom
January 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Cartoonist @anntelnaes.bsky.social quits the Washington Post after a cartoon mocking Post-owner Jeff Bezos is refused. Cartoon for @trouw.nl: www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tje...
#JeffBezos #WashingtonPost #StandWithAnn #pressfreedom
#JeffBezos #WashingtonPost #StandWithAnn #pressfreedom
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Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
December 17, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
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I see that some of the Press today are having great difficulty telling the difference between powerful, rich men being sexual predators in the workplace for year after year, and our lovely autistic people.
Good grief.
Good grief.
December 7, 2024 at 9:38 AM
I see that some of the Press today are having great difficulty telling the difference between powerful, rich men being sexual predators in the workplace for year after year, and our lovely autistic people.
Good grief.
Good grief.