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EmilyPhD 🎓
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I’ve angered famous men. Scribe @thinkingautism.com‬: https://tinyurl.com/TPGA-NL. Books: PHALLACY+TAILORED BRAIN+. Journalist, words@ SciAm++. Biologist: embryos/gonads+. Human-crafted work. Pro-woke/antifascist. Very Texan 🤠 https://tinyurl.com/526jrcuv
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EmilyPhD 🎓 @ejwillingham.bsky.social · Oct 7
“Just like being tall, all autistic people, regardless of how their status arises, could benefit from the same kinds of considerations and accommodations for shared autism-associated traits”

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There are many roads to what we humans view as "being tall," but in the end, the outcome is, well, being tall. We don't spend a lot of time discussing tall people as being "profoundly tall" or subdividing them in some way based on their tallness. We don't have pages of handwringing in the news media and scientific literature about how to prevent tall people from existing or indirectly implying that aim by going on and on about causes. We don't perseverate in op-eds and 24-hour news channel commentary on how tall people discompose us at movies and public events because we can't see over them. We don't talk about how distracting tall people are, how much space they require just to exist, or what a burden their clinical needs are on society, and we don't ask why we have to have tall people around at all when they are just so much trouble for not-tall people (te he clear. Llive with and them. We don't talk about how distracting tall people are, how much space they require just to exist, or what a burden their clinical needs are on society, and we don't ask why we have to have tall people around at all when they are just so much trouble for not-tall people (to be clear, I live with and love several tall people). And one other thing: You can't take the tallness out of someone, not in any ethical way. "Tall" is just what they are.
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prisonculture.bsky.social
95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
ejwillingham.bsky.social
“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion….”

OK, but have you seen a northern shoveler reflected in the gently rippling water backdropped by a wash of orange-gold autumn cattails
A water fowl with stark white, russet, and black markings and a coal black head with a long shovel-like bill sits in a wash of orange gold cattails behind it and reflected in the water around it
November 25, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.

For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
Article excerpt: Shortly after 8 a.m., Carreto’s phone rang. It was Carlos, telling her an officer with the Florida Highway Patrol had pulled over the truck on Interstate 4 near Tampa. The stated reason: cracks in their windshield. But Carreto was worried. She knew Florida police were collaborating with federal immigration authorities. Her fiancé was undocumented. She says she rushed to the scene and made it there just before the immigration officers. As she feared, Matias had been detained. But to her surprise, so had Carlos. He was just a kid. (ProPublica is only identifying Carlos by his first name because he is a minor.) Carlos was in high school. He’d been living in the United States for over two years and was working toward applying for legal status to stay long term. The government had given her, a legal resident, custody of him. Now he was in handcuffs. Why would they take him too?
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
ejwillingham.bsky.social
This is officially the End Times I guess
November 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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If we are gonna be flying like it’s the 1950s, can we get seats on flights like the 1950s?

Maybe people act like assholes on planes now because they’re uncomfortable as fuck
jmochicago.bsky.social Big Data Energy @jmochicago.bsky.social · 19h
Man, they are taking this “let’s push the country all the way back to the 1950’s” thing to peak cos-play.
Inside of a passenger cabin in the 1950s where all of the passengers are dressed formally compared to the pajamas and slippers of the 2020’s, I guess.
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
ejwillingham.bsky.social
Thanks. OP didn’t feel that way and made that churlishly clear. Incredible how much people can just suck. Anyway, I thought it was a fun distraction from my current state, so there’s that
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
ejwillingham.bsky.social
Ah, well so much for how fun that was for just a second
November 24, 2025 at 10:55 PM
ejwillingham.bsky.social
Sith you asked: it began in medias res w/gov of IL and/or a journalist, raising the phantom of menace from clone fans who attacked&took revenge, striking back against the awakening of a returning rogue opinion, while 1 solo man raised a new hope that ESB remains #1. Jedi daresay, all agree RoS sucks
November 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Sapariah “Arie” Saturi grew up in West Kalimantan amid recurring forest and peatland fires, experiences that shaped her understanding of Indonesia’s environmental crises.

She joined Mongabay Indonesia at its inception and helped build it into a national environmental newsroom.
Bearing witness to Indonesia’s environmental challenges: Sapariah Saturi
Indonesia’s environmental issues often feel too vast to take in at once. A nation said to have more than 17,000 islands, it contains the world’s third-largest tropical rainforest and one of its…
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November 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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littlelobbyists.com
Today, Little Lobbyists honors #AliceWong, a ferocious advocate for disability justice and disability culture-maker who died on November 14 at the age of 51. Alice was a larger-than-life figure in the disability community and a friend to Little Lobbyists

1/🧵
A collage of photos of medically complex and disabled children holding up hand-decorated letters that spell out “THANK YOU ALICE!” Each child holds one letter, and many appear to have disabilities or use mobility devices. The background fades from blue to white, with the “Little Lobbyists” logo and the tagline “Advocating for Kids with Complex Medical Needs & Disabilities” at the bottom.
November 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
I watched him take a victory lap in Austin this month at an anti-vaccine conference for the Kennedy-founded Children's Health Defense.
My piece on how Wakefield’s comeback is taking shape: www.ms.now/news/the-ret...
The doctor who falsely tied vaccines to autism is enjoying a comeback
Andrew Wakefield, who was once cast out for his retracted study tying autism to the MMR vaccine, is making a comeback in the second term of President Donald Trump as an ally of Health and Human Servic...
www.ms.now
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
Remember Andrew Wakefield?
Here he is with his friend RFK Jr. in 2020.

Wakefield is the guy behind the fraudulent, retracted MMR–autism study. He lost his medical license for subjecting autistic children to unnecessary invasive procedures.

Now, with Kennedy in power, he’s getting a second act.
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
ejwillingham.bsky.social
tbh, any list that puts RoS last is a list I can support
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
ejwillingham.bsky.social
@astrokatie.com another kind of sphere!
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
ejwillingham.bsky.social
Also @ the @thinkingautism.com newsletter, you can follow the thread through $$ &wellness grifters who have his ear, incl the Means sibs. Gain clarity from someone (me) w/15+ y of following this shit (&this shithead). Avoid the muddle of whataboutisms& apologia!

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RFK Jr is obsessed with mitochondria, probably thanks to the wellness whisperers around him.
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
ejwillingham.bsky.social
You could skip The Atlantic&read @thinkingautism.com newsletter abt RFK the Lesser's motivation&the wellness-grifter whisperers who fuel it.

He has 1 "encompassing motivation&that is Being Right About This whether he has to lie, cheat, or let children die to do it."
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November 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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thinkingautism.com
Andrew Wakefield is a con artist, and our autism community members are his victims. Avoid his dangerous pseudoscience messages at all cost. From @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social:

www.ms.now/news/the-ret... #VaccinesWork #autism #neurodiversity
The doctor who falsely tied vaccines to autism is enjoying a comeback
Andrew Wakefield, who was once cast out for his retracted study tying autism to the MMR vaccine, is making a comeback in the second term of President Donald Trump as an ally of Health and Human Servic...
www.ms.now
November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
ejwillingham.bsky.social
I have found them to have v eclectic tastes
November 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
ejwillingham.bsky.social
It’s so mobile and responsive
November 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
ejwillingham.bsky.social
These aren’t the droids you’re looking for, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 4:37 AM
ejwillingham.bsky.social
The words on the bags and boxes tho
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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ourobororoboruo.bsky.social
I just bookmarked the Cheetah Cub Cam, this is the fucking cutest
Cheetah Cub Cam
The Cheetah Cub Cam streams live from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia.
nationalzoo.si.edu
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
ejwillingham.bsky.social
As I wrote in September: “This is a man with one encompassing motivation, and that is Being Right About This whether he has to lie, cheat, or let children die to do it.”

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November 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
ejwillingham.bsky.social
Dunno. One of ours does it a lot, the other two not as much. Probably just a v individual thing
November 24, 2025 at 3:48 AM
ejwillingham.bsky.social
Yes
November 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM