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Deke 📚still in the book fort📚 @weregeek.bsky.social · 1h

Italian blasphemy and German ingenuity: how swear words differ around the world

Once dismissed as a sign of low intelligence, researchers now argue the ‘power’ of taboo words has been overlooked

www.theguardian.com

Deke 📚still in the book fort📚 @weregeek.bsky.social · 1h

US tells airlines to disregard ‘X’ sex markers on passports and input ‘M’ or ‘F’

Customs and Border Protection implemented rule this week, sending Americans with ‘X’ marker into panic

www.theguardian.com

Deke 📚still in the book fort📚 @weregeek.bsky.social · 1h

Mental Health Is Real Wealth: how Black men prioritize healing in a Los Angeles community

The bi-monthly group gives Black men a safe space to share, reflect and support each other

www.theguardian.com

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Deke 📚still in the book fort📚 @weregeek.bsky.social · 3h

When you're willing to climb two flights of stairs to sleep on a daybed, you know that either:
1. Your bed is a real effort to make
or
2. You are extremely lazy.

Considering how my bum knee makes stairs painful, I'm taking option 1.

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Deke 📚still in the book fort📚 @weregeek.bsky.social · 3h

Looking at the protest signs in the #NoKings hashtag and they are wonderful. Days like this remind me how much I love my country and my fellow Americans.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 5h

Scenes from No Kings Palo Alto

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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · 6h

I have been introduced to Lee Marvin Yaoi

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Deke 📚still in the book fort📚 @weregeek.bsky.social · 5h

Friends, I'm tired. I hear you say, "But Deke, you're ALWAYS tired." Yes, that is true. But other times, I can take to my bed. Tonight I can't do that because I washed my sheets today and my bed is not yet made. And the only way to have a bed to fall into is to make it but, as I said: I'M TIRED.😫

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Blue Hawaii @swbkrn2003.bsky.social · 10h

Says it All! No Kings Waimea Hawaii

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 6h

What did you do for a Klondike bar?
WHAT DID YOU DO?!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 8h

One of my fave photos from today.

Loved that the folks leading the chants were regularly including trans rights.

WHEN TRANS RIGHTS ARE UNDER ATTACK, WHAT DO WE DO?

STAND UP FIGHT BACK!

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10h

LET US LIVE 🏳️‍⚧️ ❤️

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Deke 📚still in the book fort📚 @weregeek.bsky.social · 6h

I washed my sheets today (because Hamish barfed on 'em last night) but I am in no way prepared to either make my bed or shower tonight. The very definition of First World Problems.

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Deke 📚still in the book fort📚 @weregeek.bsky.social · 7h

I appreciate the notification!

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Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️‍🌈 @anuncivilphd.bsky.social · 7h

Got my hair done today, courtesy of Spud, one of my grandcats. He's quite the stylist.

A black and white cat sits on the couch behind Carol and cleans her hair with gusto.

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bmcarthur17 @bmcarthur17.bsky.social · 8h

No Kings protesters in Denver, Colorado chant "Say it loud, say it clear, immigrants are welcome here!"

WATCH:

#NoKings

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 8h

A No Kings reminder that Tylenol doesn’t cause autism.

That Trump and RFK Jr are “making the proof” that it does.

That their villainizing of autistics is a prime example of their eugenics agenda.

That the “big autism announcement” was yet another big ol distraction.

A protester holds a sign designed to look like a Tylenol ad. It has a photo of Epstein and Trump and says Extra 'Tism
TYLENOL
FOR ADULTS
ASEDA...ASCENEM...
ASCENEM-MINOPHEN(?)
RAPID RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
Fever Reducer
Truth Revealer
Autism Scapegoat

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Deke 📚still in the book fort📚 @weregeek.bsky.social · 9h

You folks look fantastic! (Totally missed opportunity for you to dress as Toad, though.)

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Deke 📚still in the book fort📚 @weregeek.bsky.social · 14h

All you lovely folks who are going to or at #NoKings rallies: I love you. I wish I could join you. You are doing Good Work. Please say hi to the frogs for me.

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BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 15h

Shohei Ohtani is good at baseball, but can he make a cassoulet? Compose a symphony? Pen a sonnet? Lift a truck using only his mind?

Yes.

Shohei Ohtani can do all these things.

Effortlessly, cheerfully, and simultaneously.

Shohei Ohtani is superior to us in every possible way.

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royaltivity.bsky.social @royaltivity.bsky.social · 1d

Block block block

Do not dunk

Do not respond

Do not quote

Do not @ them

Do not screenshot

Do not even type their name

Do not type anything adjacent to it

Do not feed the trolls

Do not give the algorithm reason to feature the post

Do not grant them the pleasure of wasting your time and ours

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Asquealia Clark - Lover of Flagons @gingertotty.bsky.social · 22h

I FUCKING LOVE THEM

Wangle-BOO-ry @wangleberry.bsky.social · 23h

Mitakeumi and Tobizaru my precious precious boys

two sumo rikishi, dressed in yukata, pose with stonehenge

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Deke 📚still in the book fort📚 @weregeek.bsky.social · 14h

The one with TEEFS is so cute!

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Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 20h

I wrote my food aversion cookbook and guide COLOR TASTE TEXTURE after my late Autism diagnosis at 37. Even being published by Avery/Penguin Random House wasn’t enough to get the media or other experts to care, though it was created with lived, practical experience.

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23h

More I read of this piece the more I feel how few "experts" on neurodivergent individuals ever speak to us. It's hard enough to get reasonable accommodations as it is. Rather than reducing those available we should be working to increase them, including for adults.

www.thetimes.com/article/acda...

Extra time in exams ‘unhealthy' for children with ADHD and autism

Suzanne O'Sullivan, a neurologist, tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that 'accommodating' pupils could do more harm than good

Peter Chappell

Friday October 17 2025, 8.15pm, The Times

Extra time in exams is "not healthy" for children with disorders, a neurologist has said.

Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan warned that it was the wrong approach to “accommodate” children at schools by giving them 25 per cent additional time to complete their answers.

She said it was “really concerning" that an emphasis had been placed on “accommodating" pupils with disorders, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism, rather than addressing the root cause of a condition, or questioning whether a pupil has it at all.

“Your child gets a diagnosis and they get extra time in exams, for example. I feel that isn't a very healthy way forward. I think that we should be looking at interventions rather than accommodations,” O'Sullivan, the author of Age of Diagnosis: How the Overdiagnosis Epidemic is Making Us Sick, told the Cheltenham Literature Festival.

"What accommodation does, it says, well, we'll give you extra time in exams so you can manage better, but there's going to be a point in the future when extra time will not exist, and by giving it to young people in school I feel like you're creating first of all the impression that they need the extra time, that they perhaps cannot learn any other way.

"You're also setting up an idea that the world will accommodate them. Let's face it, the world is not going to continue to accommodate people.

"We really need to look at what we're doing when we identify children with problems. We should be helping them to work within a messy, difficult world, not setting them up to believe that the world will change to accommodate them."

Surge in ADHD diagnoses attributed to TikTok

O'Sullivan said that the adult world was at risk of telling young people that the "difficulty as you face your A-levels is to do with a neurodevelopmental brain abnormality when there's no scientific evidence for a neurodevelopmental brain abnormality in people

with mild autism or ADHD".

She added: "Imagine how difficult that is if you are defining a person according to a brain abnormality in teenagers, how difficult that will be to overcome in the future."

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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 21h

The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point

Jess Gill
@jessgillO3

I've never had curry or a kabab and don't intend to.
British food is the best. English breakfasts, Sunday roasts, fish and chips, pies, pasties, scones.
Also, our national dish isn't a chicken tikka masala we only think that because a Labour MP said it decades ago to push multiculturalism.
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