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Sally
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Middle aged autistic lady, watching a troubling amount of true crime and reality tv. A real condescending ribbon of brine. She/her.
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“The risk mitigation in my life is very high. When your health is taken away from you, you realize how important it is. There’s not much that feels worth the risk of another Covid infection.” www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...
‘I was in denial about it’: actor Matt McGorry on having long Covid
Orange Is the New Black and How to Get Away With Murder star speaks about the disease and another way of looking at health
www.theguardian.com
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So here’s the thing: I, a certified Disabled™️ Person, do not actually care if anyone fakes for an extra 20 minutes on the test. I care deeply about how the fear of that very thing puts up flaming hoops disabled people have to jump through.

Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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did paul dano refuse to show tarantino his feet
December 3, 2025 at 6:32 AM
“Me have nostrils, they just deep in fur.” #sesamestreet #knivesout

youtu.be/gJxzhUAGBDw?...
'Forks Out': A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery | Wake Up Dead Man | Netflix
YouTube video by Still Watching Netflix
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Someone stole the most underwhelming package of all time out of the mailroom of my building today. But I hope they enjoy their new middle-aged lady underpants, stretch pants and “Even Baddies Get Saddies” t-shirt.
December 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Oh really
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
December 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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You ever think the guy with the Tiny Desk just wants to get back to work?
December 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I, too, am missing value and runctitional features.
Rate your score on Factor Fexcectorn.

Well done, Scientific Reports. pubpeer.com/publications...
November 29, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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I treat boycotts as personal blood vendettas. This is about me physically harming a corporation, not about me telling any other human how to live their life.

I don’t have time to judge others while I’m digging two graves for me and Target.
As I always do with boycotts, I urge: be tough with corporations, gentle with individual buyers. For some people, Black Friday sales are the way they get their kids jackets that fit, shoes that hold up to the weather. Yelling at them doesn’t help the cause.
November 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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The greatest Thanksgiving special ever made by any TV show in history.

There is no debate. Don’t even bother.
WKRP Turkey Drop
YouTube video by Brian Henigin
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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This Sunday’s SPONTANEANATION LIVE is sold out! So we simply have to stream the sumbitch!

Sunday November 23rd @ 7:30pm Pacific

STREAM: bit.ly/spontstream25
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 AM
OMG how did I not know Laura Poitras was making a doc about Seymour Hersh?! 😍 youtu.be/2lTN6EMb4ss?...
COVER-UP Trailer
YouTube video by Film Forum
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Want to honor Alice Wong and her work? Wear a damn mask!
November 15, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Found my doctors appointments got less frustrating once I started going in like “I really want to play badminton again 😢 but I can’t even push a cart around the grocery store 😢 and I’ve hit a wall where no matter what I do I can’t seem to increase my exercise capacity 😢 and it makes it hard to work”
The rationale behind these studies, Seltzer contests, is [that] “it presumes that the patient had never heard of exercise until a doctor told them [it] exists.”

Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
“People who are performing these studies are extraordinarily ignorant, and their ignorance is dangerous,” said @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social. She and other experts agree these trials are a waste of $$ and will not advance our biological understanding of Long COVID. thesicktimes.org/2025/11/21/l...
November 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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AAC in animation! The children's series Carl the Collector recently introduced "Paulo, who loves outer space and is a collector like Carl. Paulo is also autistic, and is mostly non-speaking/preverbal, communicating with a special speech tablet AAC device."

www.animationmagazine.net/2025/09/carl...
'Carl the Collector' Introduces Non-Speaking Autistic Character with AAC Device | Animation Magazine
PBS KIDS animated series 'Carl the Collector' is adding to its neurodiversity representation with a non-verbal Autistic character.
www.animationmagazine.net
November 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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HEI Points are back.
heinetwork.tv/hei-points/
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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This how I find out I have a son??
November 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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succubus - female demon that seduces men

incubus - male demon that seduces women

vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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When asked by Stephen Colbert why he was wearing a mask in public, Tom Hanks said..

“I’ve had Covid enough in my life I don’t need to do that again. I’m wearing this for health reasons”

More celebrities need to speak out like this.
November 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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We need the NDP and all left leaning parties to be galvanized by this so that they can get organized.

We need them to be organized if we are going to defeat the conservatives, or the red conservatives currently in power.
New Yorkers just proved bold socialist ideas can win. Ottawa just proposed the most harmful climate and care budget since Harper.

Bold ideas win and we need to rebuild that kind of NDP.

www.youtube.com/live/NnM_RgL...
WATCH LIVE: Zohran Mamdani addresses supporters after winning 2025 NYC mayoral race
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Hey @ndp.ca, pls jot this down.
posted this four months ago but tonight as buckaroos like mamdani sweep elections i will post again. hope this is sign to all establishment goofs that trotting to the center is not the move. protect the buckaroos who are in perilous circumstances and do not give an inch
how about no
November 5, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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live view from cuomo hq
November 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM