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Practicing self + community care 😷
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My friends and I have gone five straight years of never serving turkey at Canadian Thanksgiving, American Thanksgiving, or Christmas. We served char siu, prime rib, lobster, lamb, roast duck, and even a grocery store rotisserie chicken. Lots of options. It is fine to start your own traditions.
I’ve been saying this for years: Traditions are made up. As a grown-up you can make your own.
Things are hard. There is no need to make your life more difficult by continuing traditions that don’t genuinely feel good, whether that be what you eat, what you do or who you spend time with.
Things are hard. There is no need to make your life more difficult by continuing traditions that don’t genuinely feel good, whether that be what you eat, what you do or who you spend time with.
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Getting vaccinated is the real punk rock.
Getting vaccinated is the real counter cultural move.
Getting vaccinated is the real counter cultural move.
CDC’s new top deputy had ordered his state health department to stop promoting mass vaccinations amid a flu surge www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Louisiana health official who halted state vaccine campaign tapped as CDC’s No. 2
Ralph Abraham, a Louisiana health official who stopped promoting mass vaccination vaccines, has been appointed as the CDC's principal deputy director
www.washingtonpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Getting vaccinated is the real punk rock.
Getting vaccinated is the real counter cultural move.
Getting vaccinated is the real counter cultural move.
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Important thread about what's happening in the UK regarding autism.
Today, @hlautismactcom.parliament.uk published their report, 'Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy'.
Access the full report and recommendations (including easy read report, video from the Chair, and shorthand story) here: committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... [1/4]
Access the full report and recommendations (including easy read report, video from the Chair, and shorthand story) here: committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... [1/4]
New autism strategy must deliver change for autistic people - Committees - UK Parliament
This is the key conclusion reached by the House of Lords special inquiry committee on the Autism Act 2009 in its report ‘Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy’.&...
committees.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Important thread about what's happening in the UK regarding autism.
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In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
I’ve been saying this for years: Traditions are made up. As a grown-up you can make your own.
Things are hard. There is no need to make your life more difficult by continuing traditions that don’t genuinely feel good, whether that be what you eat, what you do or who you spend time with.
Things are hard. There is no need to make your life more difficult by continuing traditions that don’t genuinely feel good, whether that be what you eat, what you do or who you spend time with.
My friends and I have gone five straight years of never serving turkey at Canadian Thanksgiving, American Thanksgiving, or Christmas. We served char siu, prime rib, lobster, lamb, roast duck, and even a grocery store rotisserie chicken. Lots of options. It is fine to start your own traditions.
November 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I’ve been saying this for years: Traditions are made up. As a grown-up you can make your own.
Things are hard. There is no need to make your life more difficult by continuing traditions that don’t genuinely feel good, whether that be what you eat, what you do or who you spend time with.
Things are hard. There is no need to make your life more difficult by continuing traditions that don’t genuinely feel good, whether that be what you eat, what you do or who you spend time with.
”Any big changes (to allow Oregon medical providers to defer to the West Coast Health Alliance’s recommendations rather than the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel) would have to take place in 2027 or during a (2026) special session.”
November 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
”Any big changes (to allow Oregon medical providers to defer to the West Coast Health Alliance’s recommendations rather than the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel) would have to take place in 2027 or during a (2026) special session.”
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Secure platforms are only as secure as the people you let into your chats! Always keep in mind that messages on end-to-end encrypted platforms can still be screenshotted, and take care in groups that are open
Just logging on here every day to share more enraging news articles www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Secure platforms are only as secure as the people you let into your chats! Always keep in mind that messages on end-to-end encrypted platforms can still be screenshotted, and take care in groups that are open
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Doomscroll break, please check out the alt text 🤭
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent horses and ponies I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Doomscroll break, please check out the alt text 🤭
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Teddy Ruxpin went DARK 🥺
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business
Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.
www.cnn.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Teddy Ruxpin went DARK 🥺
Partner stopped at the grocery store around opening. It was not busy, but most folks they saw masked.
Got to the dr office for bloodwork. They were the only person masked.
Glad to see others mask in public, but continually maddening that masking in healthcare settings isn’t a thing in 2025.
Got to the dr office for bloodwork. They were the only person masked.
Glad to see others mask in public, but continually maddening that masking in healthcare settings isn’t a thing in 2025.
November 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Partner stopped at the grocery store around opening. It was not busy, but most folks they saw masked.
Got to the dr office for bloodwork. They were the only person masked.
Glad to see others mask in public, but continually maddening that masking in healthcare settings isn’t a thing in 2025.
Got to the dr office for bloodwork. They were the only person masked.
Glad to see others mask in public, but continually maddening that masking in healthcare settings isn’t a thing in 2025.
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Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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It is my birthday today and as a gift to myself I have deactivated my Meta accounts.
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
It is my birthday today and as a gift to myself I have deactivated my Meta accounts.
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When he inevitably says he didn’t mean this the way he wrote it, we must continue to push back that not knowing what “national socialist” means in the year of our lord 2025 means you’re too goddamn ignorant to make decisions for other people.
Disagreement on policy is welcome and reasonable, but calling me a Nazi for cosponsoring an ordinance to ban price-fixing is completely unacceptable. Councilor Ryan edited his post, but did not disclose the edit and explain the nature of the substantive change, so it’s here for posterity.
November 19, 2025 at 8:44 AM
When he inevitably says he didn’t mean this the way he wrote it, we must continue to push back that not knowing what “national socialist” means in the year of our lord 2025 means you’re too goddamn ignorant to make decisions for other people.
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Today, the White House said it would get rid of most of the Department of Education (ED). Everyone has the right to a good education — and we need to protect that right. Tell your Congresspeople we will not let this attack on disability rights continue! autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/what...
November 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Today, the White House said it would get rid of most of the Department of Education (ED). Everyone has the right to a good education — and we need to protect that right. Tell your Congresspeople we will not let this attack on disability rights continue! autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/what...
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Imani Barbarin is one of the coolest and sharpest souls on earth
If you want to read my Cost of being disabled article, you can find it here: www.patreon.com/posts/143361...
And you can find the video where I discussed how COVID and the cost of being disabled led to alt-right gains here: youtu.be/x9laJCEgw_s?...
And you can find the video where I discussed how COVID and the cost of being disabled led to alt-right gains here: youtu.be/x9laJCEgw_s?...
Flashback Friday: The Cost of Being Disabled | Imani Barbarin
Get more from Imani Barbarin on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Imani Barbarin is one of the coolest and sharpest souls on earth
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My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Saudification of America is under way | Karen Attiah
Jamal Khashoggi’s plight and murder was a warning sign for the US, of the impending loss of freedom and censorship that would sweep the country
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
If only because I have never seen it all the way through because I’ve always fallen asleep within the first hour: The Matrix.
if you had to choose one movie to fall asleep to for the rest of your life what are you choosing
November 18, 2025 at 4:42 AM
If only because I have never seen it all the way through because I’ve always fallen asleep within the first hour: The Matrix.
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When Vancouver got the Olympics, it spent USD $1.5 billion on a train line from the airport to downtown — a piece of infrastructure that saves commuters and visitors time and money while cutting pollution.
LA did... this
LA did... this
Los Angeles Green-Lights $1.5 Billion Road Improvements Ahead Of 2028 Olympic Games
The project will see 4.4 miles of reconfigurations on the roads around the airport, to make traffic flow easy for everyone.
simpleflying.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
When Vancouver got the Olympics, it spent USD $1.5 billion on a train line from the airport to downtown — a piece of infrastructure that saves commuters and visitors time and money while cutting pollution.
LA did... this
LA did... this
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ADDING THIS TO THE LIST
HELL YES HELL YES
HELL YES HELL YES
🚨SAPPHIC LIFETIME CHRISTMAS MOVIE THIS YEAR🚨
November 17, 2025 at 4:18 AM
ADDING THIS TO THE LIST
HELL YES HELL YES
HELL YES HELL YES
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
November 17, 2025 at 5:30 AM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
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Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.
My social media is wall-to-wall love for the incomparable Alice Wong, and I need more words. What captures sadness and/also affection for a community that knows what's been lost?
Alice could not eat food for years.
And yet at Christmas she would bake cookies and mail them to me—such was her desire to provide care for the people she loved.
And yet at Christmas she would bake cookies and mail them to me—such was her desire to provide care for the people she loved.
November 16, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.
My cat has taken up residence on my left arm, so binged ”The Change” because it wasn’t paywalled, only to find out that I have to upgrade my Amazon account to watch series 2.
Instead I’ve decided to fully embrace my middle-ageness & watch Fleetwood Mac videos until my limb is no longer required.
Instead I’ve decided to fully embrace my middle-ageness & watch Fleetwood Mac videos until my limb is no longer required.
The Change | BBC Studios | Season 1 Trailer
YouTube video by Matt Huard
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 2:52 AM
My cat has taken up residence on my left arm, so binged ”The Change” because it wasn’t paywalled, only to find out that I have to upgrade my Amazon account to watch series 2.
Instead I’ve decided to fully embrace my middle-ageness & watch Fleetwood Mac videos until my limb is no longer required.
Instead I’ve decided to fully embrace my middle-ageness & watch Fleetwood Mac videos until my limb is no longer required.