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Late-realised AuDHD—always a bit queer.

Product Design | Team Development | Neuroinclusive Leadership
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Jonathan Stephens @jonathanstephens.us · Nov 13
Hello! I'm Jonathan.

I've been working on the internet for 15+ years now.

I built my first website, one weekend, sick, with a tax refund check, CSS for Dummies, and a text editor. Signed my first client a few months later—National Geographic photographer.

Been working on internet things since.
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seachanger.bsky.social
we have the coolest opportunity to address cataclysmic climate change, microplastics, oil imperialism, social isolation, traffic violence, urban heat island effects, storm water and flooding ALL AT ONCE…
January 5, 2026 at 3:28 AM
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kendrawrites.com
Mass transit, pedestrian focused communities, and bicycles...
seachanger.bsky.social malena @seachanger.bsky.social · 43m
we have the coolest opportunity to address cataclysmic climate change, microplastics, oil imperialism, social isolation, traffic violence, urban heat island effects, storm water and flooding ALL AT ONCE…
January 5, 2026 at 3:31 AM
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catkimbriel.bsky.social
Maybe start the day with a delighted cat chasing snowflakes. . . .
January 4, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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drstevenkapp.bsky.social
Congratulations to @kmunday.bsky.social and all you accomplished last year! Well done navigating "side quests" (you accepted nearly all the ones you brought to my attention). This is one perhaps most relevant to the PhD.
Your plainer language summary is again here: autisticltd.co.uk/2025/12/22/u...
January 2, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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emergentdivergence.com
Our growing NeuroHub community has really helped me continue to develop this concept and I am really pleased to share with you my thoughts in this topic as they are so far.

dghndconsultancy.co.uk/2026/01/02/a...

#ActuallyAutistic #EcosystemicModel #autism #Autistic #MentalHealth #AuDHD
Understanding Autism: The Ecosystemic Model Of Distress - DGH Neurodivergent Consultancy
Building on Luke Beardon's golden equation of 'autism + environment = outcome' this article proposes that distress and mental health problems are generated by the human ecosystem, highlighting that to...
dghndconsultancy.co.uk
January 2, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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mychal3ts.bsky.social
Thank you for watching Reading Rainbow 🥹📚🌈

Video Description:
“WHAT?!” Mychal’s goal as host of the Reading Rainbow revival was for an episode to reach 1 million views. An episode has already achieved this! 🤯 He thanks you for supporting the show. We’re doing our best to make LeVar Burton proud 🦋🌌
January 3, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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jensimmons.bsky.social
Have you been wishing masonry layouts would just hurry up and arrive in CSS?? Well, happy holidays!

webkit.org/blog/17660/i...
Introducing CSS Grid Lanes
It’s here!
webkit.org
December 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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shengokai.blacksky.app
What people who claim sentience/creativity are saying is that these things can make meaning. A sophisticated climate model doesn’t make meaning, I make the output meaningful through culture. A analysis of my throttle control by ML doesn’t make meaning, I make it meaningful through culture.
January 4, 2026 at 1:31 AM
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shengokai.blacksky.app
Listen, if you want the thing to spit out a pattern based on data input, fine. Have at it. This is the stuff of analysis and it can be useful.

Just don’t call it intelligence or creative. It is a tool and we need to call it what it is: sophisticated pattern recognition technology.
dylanschenker.com GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 1d
I admit this is a bit of an intentional provocation but what if you categorically don't *want* to make meaning in the human sense?

My entire approach to generative AI has been specifically the purposeful elision of it
January 4, 2026 at 1:31 AM
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nslayton.bsky.social
For those keeping track at home: Since Christmas Eve the United States has bombed or carried out raids in Syria, Somalia, Nigeria and now Venezuela. And Congress' response has ranged from nothing to support.
January 3, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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borderless.bsky.social
"A woman dressed as a pink Power Ranger hacked a dating site for far-right extremists. She deleted the entire site, but first she made users fall in love with AI bots she ran, thus obtaining information about them. Over 8,000 far-right profiles have now been mapped."
zolfagary.se Kawa Zolfagary @zolfagary.se · 1d
En kvinna, utklädd till rosa Power Ranger, hackade datingsida för högerextrema. Hon raderade hela sidan, men först fick hon användarna att bli kära i AI-botar som hon drev och fick på så sätt ut information om dem. Över 8000 högerextrema profiler har nu kartlagts.

cybernews.com/security/inv...
Investigator breaches white supremacist dating sites, exposes 8,000 users
An investigative journalist infiltrated three white supremacist platforms, including the dating site WhiteDate, exfiltrating over 8,000 user profiles and 100GB of sensitive data.
cybernews.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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stephaniewalter.bsky.social
New followers/ year so reminder: hi, I'm a queer feminist woman with invisible disabilities who works in tech and posts about UX, accessibility, food and her craft.
If you have an issue with any of feel free to unfollow or block me 👋
And I make stickers shop.stephaniewalter.design/get-some-sti...
Get cute stickers
Cute home made waterproof stickers, with different effects (holographic, glitter stars, dots, broken glass).
shop.stephaniewalter.design
January 3, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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stefsull.bsky.social
We now let AI apologize for what “it did” & diagnose why it happened.

That’s like letting your toaster explain why it burned the toast when it’s your setting.

IT’S NOT THE FAULT OF AI THAT IT PRODUCES CSAM. IT’S THE FAULT OF ITS CREATORS.

And the GOP doesn’t think AI needs guardrails & oversight.
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d
This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)

#1: Reuters
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X By Reuters January 2, 20267:40 PM GMT+1Updated 1 hour ago Illustration shows xAI and Grok logos xAI and Grok logos are seen in this illustration taken, February 16, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab Jan 2 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements were being made to prevent this. Screenshots shared by users on X showed Grok's public media tab filled with images that users said had been altered when they uploaded photos and prompted the bot to alter them. "There are isolated cases where users prompted for and received AI images depicting minors in minimal clothing," Grok said in a post on X. "xAI has safeguards, but improvements are ongoing to block such requests entirely." "As noted, we've identified lapses in safeguards and are urgently fixing them — CSAM is illegal and prohibited," Grok said, referring to Child Sexual Abuse Material. Grok gave no further details. When contacted by Reuters for comment by email, xAI replied with the message "Legacy Media Lies". In a separate reply to a user on X on Thursday, Grok said most cases could be prevented through advanced filters and monitoring although it said "no system is 100% foolproof," adding that xAI was prioritising improvements and reviewing details shared by users.
January 2, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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adhd-alien.bsky.social
Wanting to fit into society by *checks notes* having a clean desk

Prints / Comic Archive adhd-alien.com
Patreon patreon.com/adhd_alien/
A split-panel comic. On the left, under the heading “People’s opinions,” a stern-looking person points a finger and says, “Don’t take meds just to fit in and be more productive!” The background is blue. On the right, under the heading “My reality,” a cheerful character with cat-like features happily wipes a desk, with sparkles around them, saying, “Hehe, I can finally clean my desk!” The background is warm and glowing. The comic contrasts public judgment about ADHD medication with the personal relief it can bring.
January 2, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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kyleshevl.in
I hate this part of our industry. I've been fortunate to not have to write code I'm morally opposed to, but there's a lot of this out there.
January 2, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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strange.website
a few months ago i had the immense privilege to speak about Websites at @webdevconf.com in Bristol — i've taken some time to improve on these ideas and build a permanent online home for the essay, which i intend to grow and improve over time 🤍
A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online
How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
henry.codes
January 1, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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lukealexdavis.co.uk
and for the love of God FIND SOME JOY! i think doomscrolling is grossly misinterpreted but it can be mitigated by removing people who post nothing but dark shit and replacing it with stuff you actually like. mute, block, turn off repost and quotes. it'll keep your mind a little more relaxed.
January 1, 2026 at 9:53 AM
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louiestowell.bsky.social
My contribution to said national year of reading will involve waving this at people if they get funny about kids reading comics/audiobooks/books that are "too young" for them/funny books/books that aren't 500 pages long etc. lokibooks.com/lokifesto/ #GoAllIn #Lokifesto #UkKidlit
January 1, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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nsousanis.bsky.social
After 3+ years, I have FINISHED this chapter on the origin of the universe!! A circuitous journey that has led to our home, in which that history of the universe is carried (and in all of us). This page recaps key moments & points forward to the next chapter - Life. Onward... #Nostos #Unflattening 2
A comics page featuring a question mark dominating the image over a background of space - it is formed by four strips that come and curve from the top of the page and then wind together to loop around each other at top of question mark and wind down to a point. The dot is formed by a drawing of nearly earth. within the braids, at first we see squiggles of the virtual particles that pop in and out of existence, then quarks, then protons becoming atoms, then clouds of gas, which clump and swirl into the first stars. The stars give way to new elements (all of the facets of the braiding are different panels) then die and disperse, new clouds, new stars, and with them new elements, eventually, we get to showing a few molecules necessary for life, planets, and if you have a microscope - water on a rocky planet. Words shown (some are hidden) arriving here has been a long circuitous journey. This vessel carries the history of the universe. Amongst all the lights across the universe, how did it happen that this one became the place we'll call home?"
December 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
jonathanstephens.us
This year on Bluesky I wrote 179 posts and 519 replies. I received 779 likes—64 from my most popular post.

www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...
jonathanstephens.us's Bluesky Wrapped 2025
Check out jonathanstephens.us's year on Bluesky!
www.madebyolof.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:41 AM
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adampknave.com
Gonna start referring to anything from 1970-1999 as “The late 1900s” and see what happens.
January 1, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
In the coming year, I wish you all a thriving community
December 31, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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pilsencommbooks.bsky.social
Rounding out 2025 with our 20 bestsellers this year! Some aren't pictured because we're waiting on new shipments, but here's the list:

20.) THE FAGGOTS AND THEIR FRIENDS BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS by Larry Mitchell

19.) THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH by Frantz Fanon
A stack of books sitting on a wooden ladder in a bookstore.
December 31, 2025 at 8:05 PM
jonathanstephens.us
Finished a year review newsletter post and published out!

buttondown.com/jonathanstep...

Now, some Pokemon ZA time!
Craft & Practice #8
Closing 2025 with a 2k-word recap: New project, holiday celebrations, career coaching, digital gardening, community engagements and an upcoming conference!
buttondown.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM