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Susanne Allen @evensong.bsky.social · 6h

Person who set up my new work computer made me Sussann and it was a physical wound every time I saw it in the file structure and you can’t change that without wiping the computer.

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Susanne Allen @evensong.bsky.social · 9h

@cnn.com @cnn-news.bsky.social How can we trust you in anything?

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22h

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Susanne Allen @evensong.bsky.social · 9h

Lol

Susanne Allen @evensong.bsky.social · 9h

I enjoy seeing your recommendations.

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Susanne Allen @evensong.bsky.social · 9h

You might like this.

bsky.app/profile/amyb...

amy brown @amybrown.xyz · Aug 22

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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Susanne Allen @evensong.bsky.social · 23h

It was all performance. I remember Clinton and her giant binder that she could flip through and get facts.

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Susanne Allen @evensong.bsky.social · 23h

I want my fellow Americans in uniform know that if they risk their careers and even their freedom to protect the Constitution, I will stand with them.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 1d

If you think I'm not alarmed, read this.

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

www.theatlantic.com

Susanne Allen @evensong.bsky.social · 23h

There's a film-maker that did a video on this that I've found helpful to share with people that are hurting themselves with this, but I'm blanking on his name.

Wear's a hat? I'll think of it at 3am some night hence and try to find this again.

I send this to people a lot.

i.imgur.com/Jh8dgHk.jpeg

Cartoon by Martin Rosner https://www.instagram.com/p/CFSwcnGjP2T/

First panel: Person on couch says "I suck"
Second panel: Person standing behind them opens the hinged top of first person's skull.
Third panel: Person standing behind friend takes brain out of skull.
Four panel: Person holding disembodied brain threatens the brain with a knife and says "Stop Lying to My Friend"

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Susanne Allen @evensong.bsky.social · 1d

Note: I deal with my mental health challenges with wry humor. So keep that in mind when you read the following response:

At least people would believe you when you say you have it.

When you say you have cPTSD people often ask from what like they get to judge whether or not your trauma was enough.

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Susanne Allen @evensong.bsky.social · 1d

But then… how do I get my gold medal?

My controversial opinion is that if you’re brain decided it was enough trauma that it permanently changed your Amygdala then you have cPTSD whether the trauma was from the world forcing you to wear uncomfortable socks with a smile or a rapist sibling.

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Susanne Allen @evensong.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe the chart needs a Venn diagram circle for the ‘tism.

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Susanne Allen @evensong.bsky.social · 1d

I am diagnosed with cPTSD.

I always thought I was weird because of the relentless sexual abuse as a child, then one day I realized I was autistic and I was relentless sexually abused as a child because the autism made me an easier target.

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Susanne Allen @evensong.bsky.social · 1d

Often autism makes you an easier target for the things in the chart and less likely to be believed if you asked for help or to be able to communicate effectively that you need help.

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Susanne Allen @evensong.bsky.social · 1d

Autism

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Susanne Allen @evensong.bsky.social · 1d

It's September to October here, but you are not here so... :)

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Susanne Allen @evensong.bsky.social · 1d

Baked potato with all the fixins.

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Susanne Allen @evensong.bsky.social · 1d

::cough cough:: Greetings! ::cough cough::

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Susanne Allen @evensong.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder that this is the person who invented "gay conversion therapy." He went on to invent torture for autistics (autistic conversion therapy or ABA). People should be able to look at this and know in their heart that it's wrong.

Image is from an article in Life Magazine.

From Life Magazine.
Page from Life Magazine

Screams, Slaps and Love

A surprising, shocking treatment helps far-gone mental cripples

Photographs by ALLAN GRANT

Enraged bellows at the boy, then a sharp slap in the face. This deliberate, calculated harshness is part of an extraordinary new treatment for mentally crippled children. It is based on the old-fashioned idea that the way to bring up children is to reward them when they're good, punish them when they're bad. At the University of California in Los Angeles, a team of researchers is applying this precept to extreme cases. They have taken on three boys and a girl with a special form of schizophrenia called autism—utterly withdrawn children whose minds are sealed against all human contact and whose uncontrolled madness had turned their homes into hells (p. 96). And, by alternating methods of shocking roughness with persistent and loving attention, the researchers have broken through the first barriers.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Susanne Allen @evensong.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder that this is the person who invented conversion therapy. He went on to invent torture for autistics. People should be able to look at this and know in their heart that it's wrong.

From Life Magazine.

Page from Life Magazine

Screams, Slaps and Love

A surprising, shocking treatment helps far-gone mental cripples

Photographs by ALLAN GRANT

Enraged bellows at the boy, then a sharp slap in the face. This deliberate, calculated harshness is part of an extraordinary new treatment for mentally crippled children. It is based on the old-fashioned idea that the way to bring up children is to reward them when they're good, punish them when they're bad. At the University of California in Los Angeles, a team of researchers is applying this precept to extreme cases. They have taken on three boys and a girl with a special form of schizophrenia called autism—utterly withdrawn children whose minds are sealed against all human contact and whose uncontrolled madness had turned their homes into hells (p. 96). And, by alternating methods of shocking roughness with persistent and loving attention, the researchers have broken through the first barriers.

Susanne Allen @evensong.bsky.social · 1d

Propaganda

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Susanne Allen @evensong.bsky.social · 2d

This will suffocate 30% of autistics.

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Susanne Allen @evensong.bsky.social · 2d

He’s going to nuke an American city.

Susanne Allen @evensong.bsky.social · 2d

You can suffocate an autistic (30% of autistics have weak trunk muscles) by restraining them this way.

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Susanne Allen @evensong.bsky.social · 3d

South Carolina Judge has her house burn to the ground after death threats and apparently it’s barely news.

www.foxcarolina.com/2025/10/05/3...

3 hospitalized following reported Edisto Beach fire, SLED investigating

The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is investigating a house fire that hospitalized three people Saturday afternoon.

www.foxcarolina.com

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