Helen Rottier
@helenrottier.bsky.social
PhD in Disability Studies. Disabled Dis-Epistemologies and Knowledge Production. Opinions are my own. she/her
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This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
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February 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
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worried that if the rest of the new converge album slays as hard as the preview tracks it’ll tear a hole in space-time and destabilize reality
February 10, 2026 at 1:55 PM
worried that if the rest of the new converge album slays as hard as the preview tracks it’ll tear a hole in space-time and destabilize reality
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Second, research should not be performative. If NCI thinks there is a case for studying ivermectin, then do it and share the results once they are are available.
This is just playing to the crowd and will complicate the acceptance of any future results.
This is just playing to the crowd and will complicate the acceptance of any future results.
a man in a top hat is blowing a trumpet with the words the greatest show on earth written below him
ALT: a man in a top hat is blowing a trumpet with the words the greatest show on earth written below him
media.tenor.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Second, research should not be performative. If NCI thinks there is a case for studying ivermectin, then do it and share the results once they are are available.
This is just playing to the crowd and will complicate the acceptance of any future results.
This is just playing to the crowd and will complicate the acceptance of any future results.
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And the new NCI Director moves to piss away his scientific credibility.
First, killing cancer cells is a very low bar; many compounds kill cancer cells and are not the least bit useful for treating cancer.
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First, killing cancer cells is a very low bar; many compounds kill cancer cells and are not the least bit useful for treating cancer.
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The National Cancer Institute will begin studying ivermectin's ability to kill cancer cells, @rachanadpradhan.bsky.social reports
www.statnews.com/2026/02/10/i...
www.statnews.com/2026/02/10/i...
National Cancer Institute studying ivermectin’s ‘ability to kill cancer cells,’ alarming career scientists
The National Cancer Institute is studying ivermectin as a potential cancer treatment, according to its top official, alarming career scientists.
www.statnews.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:01 PM
And the new NCI Director moves to piss away his scientific credibility.
First, killing cancer cells is a very low bar; many compounds kill cancer cells and are not the least bit useful for treating cancer.
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First, killing cancer cells is a very low bar; many compounds kill cancer cells and are not the least bit useful for treating cancer.
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My genuine response to this would be to continue to do research, answering the same questions I try to answer now, but in a much more radical, liberated, and liberatory way. ✨👩🏻🔬 #AcademicSky #KnowledgePowerToThePeople
If you didn’t have to work. What would you do/study/pursue with all your free time?
February 10, 2026 at 4:50 AM
My genuine response to this would be to continue to do research, answering the same questions I try to answer now, but in a much more radical, liberated, and liberatory way. ✨👩🏻🔬 #AcademicSky #KnowledgePowerToThePeople
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Everything is infuriating me today! Is that good??
February 10, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Everything is infuriating me today! Is that good??
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For months, people have asked me about the popular Telepathy Tapes podcast, and its premise of non-speaking autistics reading minds. And I’m here to tell you: The Telepathy Tapes is a hot, complicated mess—but not for the reasons you may think. At TPGA:
thinkingautismguide.com/2026/02/the-...
thinkingautismguide.com/2026/02/the-...
The Telepathy Tapes Is Such A Hot Mess — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
For months, people have asked me what I think of the extremely popular Telepathy Tapes podcast, and its premise of non-speaking autistics not only reading minds but bringing the world messages of love...
thinkingautismguide.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:42 AM
For months, people have asked me about the popular Telepathy Tapes podcast, and its premise of non-speaking autistics reading minds. And I’m here to tell you: The Telepathy Tapes is a hot, complicated mess—but not for the reasons you may think. At TPGA:
thinkingautismguide.com/2026/02/the-...
thinkingautismguide.com/2026/02/the-...
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It wasn’t Liam Ramos with Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl halftime show
He hasn’t had a happy ending & sharing a false story could hurt his family
The DoJ is moving to expedite his deportation
They want to punish Liam for capturing the hearts of the nation
His happy ending is still a long way away:
He hasn’t had a happy ending & sharing a false story could hurt his family
The DoJ is moving to expedite his deportation
They want to punish Liam for capturing the hearts of the nation
His happy ending is still a long way away:
Trump lawyers aim to deport five-year-old boy after judge ordered his release
Liam Conejo Ramos and his father were seized by ICE in Minneapolis last month before a judge ordered their release
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:45 AM
It wasn’t Liam Ramos with Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl halftime show
He hasn’t had a happy ending & sharing a false story could hurt his family
The DoJ is moving to expedite his deportation
They want to punish Liam for capturing the hearts of the nation
His happy ending is still a long way away:
He hasn’t had a happy ending & sharing a false story could hurt his family
The DoJ is moving to expedite his deportation
They want to punish Liam for capturing the hearts of the nation
His happy ending is still a long way away:
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Write all the novels and screenplays I’ve had to table in order to “survive”
If you didn’t have to work. What would you do/study/pursue with all your free time?
February 10, 2026 at 4:28 AM
Write all the novels and screenplays I’ve had to table in order to “survive”
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We live in a moment of both continuity with the past, and rupture from it.
Insisting that it’s only one or the other does not make for clear analysis.
Insisting that it’s only one or the other does not make for clear analysis.
January 31, 2026 at 7:05 PM
We live in a moment of both continuity with the past, and rupture from it.
Insisting that it’s only one or the other does not make for clear analysis.
Insisting that it’s only one or the other does not make for clear analysis.
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Liam was only freed 9 days ago, and suffered horrific atrocities. He may still be in deep shock, & would be further traumatised by a stadium full of fans screaming, even with love.
The 2nd boy reminded us of how all children should be treated—there are still thousands in their concentration camps.
The 2nd boy reminded us of how all children should be treated—there are still thousands in their concentration camps.
February 10, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Liam was only freed 9 days ago, and suffered horrific atrocities. He may still be in deep shock, & would be further traumatised by a stadium full of fans screaming, even with love.
The 2nd boy reminded us of how all children should be treated—there are still thousands in their concentration camps.
The 2nd boy reminded us of how all children should be treated—there are still thousands in their concentration camps.
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Your drafts sucked so bad they broke the website
February 9, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Your drafts sucked so bad they broke the website
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In honor of Black History Month, we are highlighting Instagram accounts that enlighten and inform about the Black neurodivergent and disabled experience. From @ejwillingham.bsky.social, in the latest TPGA newsletter:
buttondown.com/TPGA/archive... #autistic #neurodiversity #BlackHistory
buttondown.com/TPGA/archive... #autistic #neurodiversity #BlackHistory
Black history is also neurodivergent history
Highlighting Instagram accounts that enlighten and inform about the Black neurodivergent and disabled experience.
buttondown.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:33 PM
In honor of Black History Month, we are highlighting Instagram accounts that enlighten and inform about the Black neurodivergent and disabled experience. From @ejwillingham.bsky.social, in the latest TPGA newsletter:
buttondown.com/TPGA/archive... #autistic #neurodiversity #BlackHistory
buttondown.com/TPGA/archive... #autistic #neurodiversity #BlackHistory
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as it turns out touchdowns are a way you can score points in American football
February 9, 2026 at 2:28 AM
as it turns out touchdowns are a way you can score points in American football
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i think people mad about bad bunny’s performance have never been forced to consider that not everything is for you
February 9, 2026 at 4:40 AM
i think people mad about bad bunny’s performance have never been forced to consider that not everything is for you
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The Revolution Will Not Be Subtitled
WOKE 2 IS HERE
February 9, 2026 at 1:54 AM
The Revolution Will Not Be Subtitled
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Even this font is giving postcolonial Spanish
February 9, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Even this font is giving postcolonial Spanish
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First shot: sugarcane
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
February 9, 2026 at 2:33 AM
First shot: sugarcane
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
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Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
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this is telenovela font
February 9, 2026 at 3:53 AM
this is telenovela font
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Sunny beat me to the very next statement I was going to make.
The whole performance wasn’t about the triumph of the individual, but the collective effort and joy that that elevates all of us out of oppression.
They literally danced their way through and out of the history of colonialism TOGETHER.
The whole performance wasn’t about the triumph of the individual, but the collective effort and joy that that elevates all of us out of oppression.
They literally danced their way through and out of the history of colonialism TOGETHER.
Okay so a thing I LOVED about that is how, whereas so many halftime shows kind of elevate the star above the other dancers/extras—often literally—that was like the exact opposite, he was *with and among* the people around him
February 9, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Sunny beat me to the very next statement I was going to make.
The whole performance wasn’t about the triumph of the individual, but the collective effort and joy that that elevates all of us out of oppression.
They literally danced their way through and out of the history of colonialism TOGETHER.
The whole performance wasn’t about the triumph of the individual, but the collective effort and joy that that elevates all of us out of oppression.
They literally danced their way through and out of the history of colonialism TOGETHER.
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Bro literally came out and said “it’s our labor and culture that has always made the Americas great: y’all are just the beneficiaries of slave owners from sea to shining sea,” and I am here for it.
It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.
Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?
Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?
February 9, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Bro literally came out and said “it’s our labor and culture that has always made the Americas great: y’all are just the beneficiaries of slave owners from sea to shining sea,” and I am here for it.
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I don't think people made of Pringles can drive legally
February 9, 2026 at 2:07 AM
I don't think people made of Pringles can drive legally
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If you were hoping for some sort of overt political statement: see the literal plantation Benito created to perform in.
February 9, 2026 at 1:40 AM
If you were hoping for some sort of overt political statement: see the literal plantation Benito created to perform in.
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"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules
February 9, 2026 at 1:32 AM
"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules