When I first received my autism confirmation, I thought it was a good thing to be “high functioning”. Until my therapist explained that it was measured by how convenient (or inconvenient) you were to the rest of the world - a measure that doesn’t matter 🫠

resolved: people who insist that all social media sites must be places where users are constantly encountering and arguing with people over fundamental disagreement do so because their actual, real lives are echo chambers where they do not encounter any meaningful difference from day-to-day.

In my most classic informercial…but wait there’s more! Fantasy, fiction, non-Western fiction, Classics, Afrikaans, Historical Fiction, Art and Sport. @karien.bsky.social and I started our romance dreaming of the library we would live in one day!

The library continues! African history, political history, biographies, intersectional history, lanuages and dictionaries, children’s literature and philosophy. Some of @karien.bsky.social’s university textbooks feature here too!

it’s possible to believe both that NYT’s coverage of trump’s fascism has been grossly understated and that it’s bad for freedom of the press that he’s suing them

45,000 Gazans dead. 90% of the living displaced. No one's been deceived. They've looked away.

"A senior IDF officer quietly admitted what the intl community has long been reluctant to acknowledge: that Israel is carrying out ethnic cleansing in N Gaza & deceiving the world abt its true objectives."

Introduce yourself as a TV character

An extraordinary moment. Guardian to stop publishing on Twitter www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” - Audre Lorde