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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 9h

We die in committees
Apologize before you say please
Pride cuts you at the knees
—Dead Pioneers

Changelog: Added “Dead Pioneers - My Spirit Animal Ate Your Spirit Animal (Official Music Video) - YouTube” to our “Respectability Politics” glossary page.

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Respectability Politics

Our movement needs nothing of respectability politics.

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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 11h

“Fractals—a way to speak of the patterns we see—move from the micro to macro level. The same spirals on sea shells can be found in the shape of galaxies. We must create patterns that cycle upwards. We are microsystems.”
—adrienne maree brown

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Behold the Spectrum

Queer and neurodivergent people are biological facts.We are stable parts of the human genome.If you believe in a Maker, Maker built us in.Look to Maker and behold the Spectrum!If you don’t subscribe…

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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 11h

But the world tells us (01 01 01 01 01)
No we are not (01 01 01 01 01)
Body or head not (01 01 01 01 01)
Capacity for love not (01 01 01 01 01)
—The Spook School

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Behold the Spectrum

Queer and neurodivergent people are biological facts.We are stable parts of the human genome.If you believe in a Maker, Maker built us in.Look to Maker and behold the Spectrum!If you don’t subscribe…

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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 12h

If we may, we quoted you on our “Behold the Spectrum” page.

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Behold the Spectrum

Queer and neurodivergent people are biological facts.We are stable parts of the human genome.If you believe in a Maker, Maker built us in.Look to Maker and behold the Spectrum!If you don’t subscribe t...

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 22h

It's extremely obvious to me that neurodivergence is why we are able to function as societies at all. And I mean that beyond things like exceptional thinking or hyper fixations leading to breakthroughs. I mean just in the fact that when we care for one another we thrive.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 22h

Other than the obvious eugenics, I think one of the reasons acknowledging that neurodivergence is actually a normal part of humanity is that it has led to people questioning everything from ableism to child rearing practices to education and even how society functions as a whole.

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Sarah Boon - Author @saraheboon.bsky.social · 13h

They are truly making up falsehoods out of thin air because they hate autistic people existing.

Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 1d

I still can't believe a person who is responsible for healthcare in this country said out loud and meant it that a cause of autism is children getting circumcised. I still cannot believe that this is the country, the world, that I fucking live in

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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 13h

We’re here for a revival of Living Colour’s “Cult of Personality”. Install this in your soul.

Vernon still shreds. Corey still bellows. The band is tight.

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Living Colour – Cult of Personality

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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 14h

“...the vast majority of philanthropical resources continue to go to the same well-resourced, established organizations that are largely not accountable to ... communities.”
—Lydia X.Z. Brown

We're not the typical. We’re tearing down walls in philanthropy. Donate to us.

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Support Our Mission

By Stimpunks Foundation

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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 15h

Changelog: Added quotes from “The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow - YouTube” to our “Enshittification” glossary page.

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Enshittification

Enshittification describes a pattern of platform decay. It proposes a reason for ubiquitous platform decay and simultaneous platform decay where all the platforms we rely on are going bad. And it…

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a great day for @moderation.bsky.app to reconsider and unban Link. He is actually a well known figure in disability advocacy and Black In Astro circles. He’s not just some guy who posts.

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🇨🇦 🇫🇯 @docautie.bsky.social · 2d

We just published "Decolonizing autism research: Integrating indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 3d

I'm team "books Covid vaccine the minute they're available" due to facts like this.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

Homeless people are not the enemy.

They can’t “just try harder” their way into housing.

It’s the system that’s failing.

Most of us are one emergency away from being homeless ourselves.

We need affordable housing, universal basic income, healthcare & social supports.

We need a safety net

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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 3d

I know there are lots of neurodivergent creative people here... this may interest some of you if you're in UK...

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Call for participants: Join the Neurodivergent Creative Research Community — Neurodiverse Connection

In this blog, Kay Louise Aldred , is calling for Neurodivergent adults to take part in a unique, paid research opportunity that values your lived experience and creative passions. 

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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 3d

E-Book: Monotropism: Supporting Young Autistic People With Transitions At Home & School

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Monotropism: Supporting Young Autistic People With Transitions

“Embracing Monotropism & Supporting Young Autistic People With Transitions at Home and School” by Helen Edgar (Autistic Realms). This is a neurodiversity-affirming guide for familie…

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 4d

Are rising prices and inflation eating into your or a loved one’s Social Security payments? Want to talk about it with a reporter for a news article? DM or email sluterman at 19thnews dot org.

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 4d

I think more people should be aware of how much cool stuff Link does in real life. He’s not just a poster.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 5d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

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Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 3d

Our "Autism Learning Pathway" signposts to lots of community resources. Feel free to lift from it.

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Autism Pathway

When you or your kid is diagnosed as autistic, almost all of the professional advice you get from education and healthcare is steeped in deficit ideology and the pathology paradigm. There is a better ...

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Louise Ting @neuro-observant.bsky.social · 5d

I wish I didn’t have to say this but…

If someone tells you they’re autistic and you find that hard to believe, it might be because:

- They don’t feel safe enough to unmask around you
- Your knowledge of autism is limited

Arguing won’t help. Kindness, curiosity, and listening to understand, will ❤️

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 5d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 6d

Disabled people have been warning of forced institutionalization for years.

They want to lock away anyone they see as “less than”.

Homeless people are just the first targets.

We need affordable housing, healthcare & a basic income.

Help people meet their basic needs & homelessness goes down

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 6d

The solution to homelessness is not forced institutionalizations.

It’s social supports. Healthcare. Housing. Education. Harm reduction. A universal basic income.

Anyone can become homeless at any time. It’s not a personal failing.

We must fix it together.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 5d

I am overwhelmed and angry and sad, and trying to focus instead on @prisonculture.bsky.social's (paraphrased) mantra: Find your lane. Do the work.

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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 5d

I (Ryan) got good care from my doctor and my dispensary today. Felt good to have my needs met and feel that sense of access intimacy. Props.

Care work makes all other work possible.

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Care

The activities that constitute care are crucial for human life. We defined care in this way: Care is “a species activity that includes everything that we do to maintain, continue, and repair our…

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