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Religious Studies & Hebrew Bible PhD student📚/Jewish✡️/ADHD & Autistic🎧/Myth & Religion Nerd🏺/Recovering Attorney ⚖️/Perpetually Sleepy💤 (she/her)

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · Oct 18

A little about me:

I’m an #Autistic #PhD student in #ReligiousStudies, researching myth & ritual in the Hebrew Bible. I was an attorney for 10yrs, until I hit autistic burnout & decided to build a new career around my special interests in myth & religion. Nice to meet you all!

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 23h

They're cutting religious studies programs so everyone can study tech, just when the tech world increasingly demands religious studies education to understand it.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 19h

Like an experimental alt-rock band's third album, RFK's baseless conspiratorial assertion that circumcision is associated with autism takes his prior antisemitic work and extends it in an exciting new direction.

First They Came For Tylenol, Now Circumcisions

The latest stop in the RFK/Trump team's conspiracy-addled rampage against science was an assertion that "circumcisions" may be a cause of au...

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 9h

It’s Jewish coded, & it threatens their dicks. They hate & fear it.

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 10h

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ICE abducted a 15-year-old autistic boy during a bathroom break and kept him hidden for nearly a week.
His mother thought he was missing. Even local police couldn’t find him because ICE never told anyone they had him.

He was selling fruit with his mom when he asked to use the restroom.

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 10h

God is autistic

Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 10h

Why do you want to eliminate autism? Leave autistics out of this, we didn’t ask to become boogiemen & butts of jokes.

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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 12h

It's amazing that it needs to be said, but we should listen to autistic people about autism. (And autistic people, like any other group of people, also have a range of perspectives and experiences -- this is just one!) www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Contributor: Autism is not your enemy

It isn’t the misinformation that troubles autistic people the most. It’s the subtext that the world would be better off without us.

www.latimes.com

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 10h

You’re going to wipe us out, & you think it’s a kindness. No matter what we say.

Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 10h

See, you think you know better. You won’t even listen. You have no clue.

Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 10h

Wanting autistic people not to exist anymore is hate.

Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 10h

Yes, it’s hate. You’ve decided to “cure” & “prevent” us (abort us before birth) rather than learning to live with us as human beings. We really didn’t ask for your “concern,” but you don’t care what actual autistic people want or need. You think you know better.

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RNS @rns.org · 12h

A new ISPU poll to be released later this month, said researcher Dalia Mogahed, shows that American Muslim and American Jewish attitudes toward the war and the rights of Palestinians are indistinguishable when it comes to the war in Gaza.
religionnews.com/2025/10/09/a...

American Jews and Muslims celebrate ceasefire deal, but cautiously

(RNS) — Many expressed relief at the prospect of an end to the two-year war but pointed out that ceasefires have been broken before.

religionnews.com

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V is for very, very spooky @alana-m-vincent.net · 11h

...now I'm wondering if it's really ontological change if archaeology can't detect it in a 1300-year-old sample.

Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 11h

I'm delighted by the news of the discovery of 1300-year-old Christian bread, possibly communion bread, but do wonder about the liturgical implications. Does this belong in a museum or a tabernacle? Is it still Jesus from a religious perspective? www.anatolianarchaeology.net/1300-year-ol...

1,300-Year-Old Communion Bread Unearthed in Karaman: Inscribed “With Gratitude to Blessed Jesus” - Anatolian Archaeology

Archaeologists in Karaman, Türkiye, uncovered 1,300-year-old Communion bread featuring a Greek inscription “With Gratitude to Blessed Jesus”

www.anatolianarchaeology.net

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 11h

Why do you hate autistic people so much? It’s truly weird how obsessed you people are with us.

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 11h

Word Facts

Idiolect

The collective of atypical speech habits of an individual notably distinct from a typical speaker of a given language.

Yoda is one of the most recognizable idiolects in English media.

(Many Autistic people have idiolects for various reasons)

Nash @radiodeadair.com · 15h

Wayward son my carry on
Peace there'll be done you are when
Weary lay your rest to head
More you don't no cry

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 1d

artwork of some guy hunched over looking at like a bird thing, orange high-relief terrain with starry sky and gigantic skull in background. caption over skull reads actual deadly diseases, caption near guy reads RFK Jr looking for penis autism

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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 1d

This week Vivek Ramaswamy spoke at a Turning Point USA event originally scheduled to headlined by the late Charlie Kirk. But during the Q&A things took a turn as Ramaswamy fielded questions about his Hindu faith…🐆💀

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 1d

Getting pretty sick of people asking what caused me. My parents had sex, I was born, no different to the vast majority of people on earth.
They chase a cure because being more accepting requires a level of decency that doesn't exist for so many people it seems. Especially non-autistic researchers.

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who loved the direction autism research was starting to head with more autistic researchersand autistic people included. Having a second fucking version of the Wakefield bullshit diverting millions of research dollars to chasing an absolute myth makes me livid to be honest.

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Antijen @antijen.bsky.social · 1d

Unsolicited dik-dik pic

Very small dik-dik deer with large ears and pointy horns

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 1d

“I didn’t notice THOSE PEOPLE when I was a child, so clearly they’re new & scary.” Do you not realize that every time an asshole like you posts their wrong opinion about autism, it shows up on all the “autism” feeds & gets shoved in autistic peoples’ faces? We’re tired of seeing you. Go away.

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 1d

Aggggh I know, they’re so cute ☺️

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 1d

1/6 There’s so much talk about getting disabled people with mental health conditions or neurodiversity into work, but not enough about making sure jobs that are suitable for them and don’t make them more unwell

Take me, for example

At 18 I tried to work in Morrisons on the checkouts

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