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Bea Lieber
@ez2believe.bsky.social
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Born 1989 • Autistic • ADHD • She/Her • Mostly here to follow others, but I post occasionally
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Bea Lieber @ez2believe.bsky.social · 2d
I sure DO buy chocolate
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Bea Lieber @ez2believe.bsky.social · 2d
It is unfortunate that telling the story of AI generated media, even as a cautionary tale, might necessarily involve preserving some AI slop.
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Bea Lieber @ez2believe.bsky.social · 2d
I feel like some AI generated media I see online is historically and culturally significant, even if it says nothing positive about our time.
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Bea Lieber @ez2believe.bsky.social · 8d
RFK Jr. was wrong when he said a child diagnosed with autism will never write a poem, play baseball, go on a date, or pay taxes. So the facts must be changed to make him right. That begins by asking just how far off the mark is he?
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Bea Lieber @ez2believe.bsky.social · 8d
This makes a lot of sense as a next step in the eugenicist project targeting autistic people: Cast doubt on whether “useful” autistic people are truly autistic.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10d
Azeen Ghorayshi at the NYT has moved on from going after trans people and is now pushing the leasing question that autism diagnoses are too common because of its expansion of it to a spectrum.

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Alt text: A screenshot of a New York Times article titled “Should the Autism Spectrum Be Split Apart?” The image shows a woman with dark hair tied back with an orange patterned ribbon, smiling and leaning forward near a window with sunlight coming in. She is wearing a light orange top with thin straps.
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Bea Lieber @ez2believe.bsky.social · 11d
MrBeast is provoking discourse that was once reserved only for Batman. How much did it cost to design, build and operate this “safe” burning building? What made this baffling contraption essential to MrBeast’s supposedly noble philanthropy?
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12d
Content creators tend to think any spectacle is defensible if they can say health and safety concerns have been attended to behind the scenes, but that’s not really it imho. Mr. Beast’s whole thing is that his subjects’ desperation for cash allows him—a wealthier person—to indulge his sadism.
@KillaKreww MrBeast had a contestant TRAPPED inside a BURNING house to win $500,000 in his new video [link] @MrBeast This blew up, if you're curious obviously we had ventilation for the smoke and a kill switch to cut off the fires. We had professionals test this extensively and the guy in the video as stated is a professional stunt man. I take safety more serious than you could ever imagine.
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Bea Lieber @ez2believe.bsky.social · 14d
This has nothing to do with Pritchard’s resumé as an individual. The message here is that as a woman, Pritchard is ideologically opposed to the interests of men, as well as all common sense and reason (to the extent those things are separate from the interests of men). He’s saying
Donald Sutherland in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. A white man in a tan raincoat pointing. He leans his head back in an eerie posture, his mouth agape and eyes bulging in a expression of mindless anger and shock.
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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 15d
Some transgender people see only darkness in front and behind them.

The current climate is especially accelerating this.

Transgender people just want to love the people they love and live their lives as themselves.
Let's all join hands and change the world🫶🌏🫶
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Bea Lieber @ez2believe.bsky.social · 15d
The idea that mothers cause their children to become autistic is older than the claim that vaccines or Tylenol cause autism. It was once believed that autism was caused by emotional neglectful “refrigerator mothers.” en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrige...
Refrigerator mother theory - Wikipedia
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Bea Lieber @ez2believe.bsky.social · 15d
Reminder that the first person to be diagnosed with autism was born in 1933. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_...
Donald Triplett - Wikipedia
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Bea Lieber @ez2believe.bsky.social · 15d
Reminder that autism is understood to have existed before it was identified as a diagnosable condition and there is historical evidence of people with autism-like traits existing prior to the emergence of autism as a diagnosis.
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Bea Lieber @ez2believe.bsky.social · 15d
Reminder not to rely on TV shows and movies about autistic people to teach you everything you need to know about how to support autistic people in real life.
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Bea Lieber @ez2believe.bsky.social · 15d
Reminder that an autistic person’s ability to do “simple things” like tie shoelaces is not a reliable indicator of their ability to perform complex tasks or develop specialized skills
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Bea Lieber @ez2believe.bsky.social · 15d
Reminder that an autistic person’s perceived “level of functioning” can vary based on context and change over the short and long term.
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Bea Lieber @ez2believe.bsky.social · 15d
Reminder that many autistic people worry that they are only valued to the extent that they are useful to society and are not told often enough that they have an intrinsic right to exist.
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Bea Lieber @ez2believe.bsky.social · 15d
Reminder that taking Tylenol does not cause autism and joking about taking Tylenol to make yourself or your unborn child autistic (positive) contributes to the legitimacy of that dangerous lie
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Bea Lieber @ez2believe.bsky.social · 17d
Poster of the 1982 Disney film Tron. The poster is mostly black, with bluish-white silhouettes of a man and woman, Tron and Yora, standing at the center of the image. Tron stands with his legs apart, arms reaching upward. Yora looks on in surprise. Tron and Yora stand on three red rings. A round burst of light is behind them. Above Tron is a white ring and a beam of light that is white at its center, darkening to a dark blue on either side. Text above Tron and Yora reads, ‘A world inside the computer where man has never been. Never before now.’ A screenshot from Knights of Guinevere featuring a dark scene with two streams of blue-white near the center of the image, visually similar to the poster for Tron
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Bea Lieber @ez2believe.bsky.social · 17d
Worth noting that Andi takes Frankie and the Gwen android to “the lower labs,” so they literally go *down* to the lab
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Bea Lieber @ez2believe.bsky.social · 17d
Frankie from Knights of Guinevere. Frankie is a husky woman with missing teeth. She has long, brown hair that she wears a purple backwards baseball cap over. Some of her hair pokes out of the baseball cap in a crescent shape. Timmy Turner, a character from the animated series The Fairly Oddparents. Timmy is a boy wearing a pink t-shirt and a pink baseball cap. He has two rabbit-like front teeth visible in his mouth. Timmy’s short brown hair hangs off of his head in two crescent shapes
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Bea Lieber @ez2believe.bsky.social · 17d
Frankie being “defanged” and Guinevere’s hair point being described as “violent” are probably references to Disney staff objecting to fanged characters and describing pointy character designs as “violent.”
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Bea Lieber @ez2believe.bsky.social · 17d
Not only does the Owl House character Eda Clawthorne have fangs, her hair features several points.
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Bea Lieber @ez2believe.bsky.social · 17d
Further, a sketch Guinevere’s design shows a note saying, “This point feels too violent.” Many of the KoG team previously worked on The Owl House, a show featuring multiple fanged characters.
A screenshot from Knights of Guinevere featuring a pencil sketch of Guinevere. An eraser and eraser crumbs lay on top of the drawing. A point in Guinevere’s hair is circled in red pencil. A red line connects the circle to a note in red pencil reading, “THIS POINT FEELS TOO VIOLENT. LET’S BRAINSTORM. — O” A screenshot from the animated series The Owl House that features King, a dog-like creature with horns and fangs, and Eda, a woman with a visible fang at the edge of her mouth
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Bea Lieber @ez2believe.bsky.social · 17d
This is also a clever character design choice, since the position of Frankie’s missing teeth is symmetrical.
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Bea Lieber @ez2believe.bsky.social · 17d
Frankie appears to be missing both of her top canine teeth. It’s implied that Sparky pulls Frankie’s teeth out as punishment. Canine teeth are also called “fangs,” which means you could say Frankie has been defanged.
Frankie from Knights of Guinevere. Frankie is a pale-skinned, husky, androgynous woman. She has long brown hair and wears a backwards baseball cap over it. Frankie’s mouth is open in a smile showing that both of her top canine teeth are missing. A diagram of human teeth labeling the canine teeth
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Bea Lieber @ez2believe.bsky.social · 17d
A screenshot from Knights of Guinevere of the inside of a claw or crane game. A golden claw descends into a pile of plush toys inside the machine to surround a plush Princess Guinevere, a humanoid character with bluish-grey skin, blue hair styled into symmetrical bangs and buns, an ornate princess dress and a yellow crown on her head. A screenshot from Knights of Guinevere. A large, rusted metal claw pulls a Princess Guinevere android from a pile of garbage against a dark grey sky. The android’s head is bald on one side, one eye is sewn shut. The android’s skin is darkened on the shut eyelid and the forehead above it. The android’s bluish-grey artificial skin is torn on one side, exposing a ribcage-like structure underneath. The android’s mouth hangs open in a vacant expression.
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