Nathan Summers
@rockwlrs.bsky.social
Software developer that grew up in Indiana, lived all over the continent, and then settled down in rural Kentucky.
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There’s one year’s membership to our Patreon Club for Terrible Autistics very generously being offered by one of our not-at-all terrible readers!
I can now make it 11 if anyone would like a gift link for a year's membership?
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
There’s one year’s membership to our Patreon Club for Terrible Autistics very generously being offered by one of our not-at-all terrible readers!
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Accessibility should be the default not a luxury option.
November 13, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Accessibility should be the default not a luxury option.
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The best part of this last (very difficult) year has been seeing so many people choose to stop giving into the divisive propaganda & instead develop community support systems, (that our government is no longer providing); while still holding boundaries w/ the people who continue to choose division 🫶🏻
November 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The best part of this last (very difficult) year has been seeing so many people choose to stop giving into the divisive propaganda & instead develop community support systems, (that our government is no longer providing); while still holding boundaries w/ the people who continue to choose division 🫶🏻
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🎗️Gentle Reminder
November 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
🎗️Gentle Reminder
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December 23, 2024 at 7:39 PM
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Wonderful to get the feedback from school that our kid is talking to their friends about the existence of things that their parents aren't equipped to talk to their kids about, and somehow that's a problem for my family to solve.
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Wonderful to get the feedback from school that our kid is talking to their friends about the existence of things that their parents aren't equipped to talk to their kids about, and somehow that's a problem for my family to solve.
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From babies to tweens, the New Orleans Public Library is offering programs to boost children's brain power.
www.nola.com/entertainmen...
www.nola.com/entertainmen...
From storytimes for babies to chess for tweens, programs help build brain power
Here's a look at what's happening at New Orleans libraries.
www.nola.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
From babies to tweens, the New Orleans Public Library is offering programs to boost children's brain power.
www.nola.com/entertainmen...
www.nola.com/entertainmen...
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If I was a phone manufacturer, I would put at least two spots on the outside of the phone where you can grasp it without activating something. This makes sense to me, as opposed to having every single point on the case be an active switch.
November 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
If I was a phone manufacturer, I would put at least two spots on the outside of the phone where you can grasp it without activating something. This makes sense to me, as opposed to having every single point on the case be an active switch.
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I know we kid but there’s a really ugly parenting culture playing out in response to not understanding the “autistic child being told to stop it” piece is satire - mainly saying things like “I should try this” or “if only it were that easy” and those people can get fucked
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I know we kid but there’s a really ugly parenting culture playing out in response to not understanding the “autistic child being told to stop it” piece is satire - mainly saying things like “I should try this” or “if only it were that easy” and those people can get fucked
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
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After my airport rant yesterday (too much sensory overload!) this is good news to see:
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/25/d...
They didn't mention airport design in this, but their choices in the new parts of the airport are way better than the older parts of the airport, too.
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/25/d...
They didn't mention airport design in this, but their choices in the new parts of the airport are way better than the older parts of the airport, too.
Calling all passengers: DIA seeks to lower noise levels across airport
A mandatory Quiet Airport Policy aims to contain the often-overwhelming cacophony of modern air travel and give people peace and tranquility.
www.denverpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
After my airport rant yesterday (too much sensory overload!) this is good news to see:
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/25/d...
They didn't mention airport design in this, but their choices in the new parts of the airport are way better than the older parts of the airport, too.
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/25/d...
They didn't mention airport design in this, but their choices in the new parts of the airport are way better than the older parts of the airport, too.
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Wow, I never knew that.
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Wow, I never knew that.
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I don’t want to brag but someone just tweeted at me that I’m getting weirder and weirder and I was kind of honored?
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I don’t want to brag but someone just tweeted at me that I’m getting weirder and weirder and I was kind of honored?
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Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!
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Being able bodied is always a temporary privilege. Whether by age, illness, accident, climate catastrophe, or class exploitation- we will all become disabled.
Disability justice is a struggle for liberation that frees and cares for all of us.
Disability justice is a struggle for liberation that frees and cares for all of us.
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Being able bodied is always a temporary privilege. Whether by age, illness, accident, climate catastrophe, or class exploitation- we will all become disabled.
Disability justice is a struggle for liberation that frees and cares for all of us.
Disability justice is a struggle for liberation that frees and cares for all of us.
#Lovember
My MC is still on his first crush, and whenever he's at a sufficiently recent point in any timeline he feels it.
My MC is still on his first crush, and whenever he's at a sufficiently recent point in any timeline he feels it.
Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:
Would your character(s) still fall for their first love(s)?
If it doesn't make sense to answer for romantic love, you can talk about some other sort of "first love".
Would your character(s) still fall for their first love(s)?
If it doesn't make sense to answer for romantic love, you can talk about some other sort of "first love".
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 AM
#Lovember
My MC is still on his first crush, and whenever he's at a sufficiently recent point in any timeline he feels it.
My MC is still on his first crush, and whenever he's at a sufficiently recent point in any timeline he feels it.
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You know it’s serious when Autism Speaks and the ASAN are in a “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” situationship
Vaccines don’t cause autism
Neither does Tylenol
Nor circumcision
Autistic people shagging, fellas!
That’s the leading cause
It’s that simple
Vaccines don’t cause autism
Neither does Tylenol
Nor circumcision
Autistic people shagging, fellas!
That’s the leading cause
It’s that simple
WOW! Autism Society of America, The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, the Autism Science Foundation, the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network and Autism Speaks put out a statement denouncing the CDC changing its website on vaccines
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
Leading Autism and Disability Organizations Statement on CDC's Vaccines and Autism Page
As national organizations dedicated to advancing the well-being of autistic individuals and partners across the disability and public health sectors, we are deeply disappointed by the latest update to...
autisticadvocacy.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM
You know it’s serious when Autism Speaks and the ASAN are in a “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” situationship
Vaccines don’t cause autism
Neither does Tylenol
Nor circumcision
Autistic people shagging, fellas!
That’s the leading cause
It’s that simple
Vaccines don’t cause autism
Neither does Tylenol
Nor circumcision
Autistic people shagging, fellas!
That’s the leading cause
It’s that simple
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It is hard to describe just how much RFK Jr. and Trump have poisoned the way we talk about autism. It’s gotten so bad that a few months after I published this piece, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, the Autism Society of America and Autism Speaks denounced the CDC
www.ms.now/opinion/rfk-...
www.ms.now/opinion/rfk-...
Opinion | RFK Jr.'s latest anti-vaccine move will cause untold harm to autistic Americans
The Trump administration is working toward treating autism as something to be prevented, rather than building a health care system that helps people.
www.ms.now
November 25, 2025 at 3:05 AM
It is hard to describe just how much RFK Jr. and Trump have poisoned the way we talk about autism. It’s gotten so bad that a few months after I published this piece, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, the Autism Society of America and Autism Speaks denounced the CDC
www.ms.now/opinion/rfk-...
www.ms.now/opinion/rfk-...
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alive and in a fish tank?
RAM prices are so out of control that stores are selling it like lobster.
(h/t @michaelcrider.bsky.social)
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RAM prices are so out of control that stores are selling it like lobster
Catch of the day.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
alive and in a fish tank?
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Here's the packaging, and the "Learn BASIC Now" 1989 book from Microsoft Press that is included with it.
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Here's the packaging, and the "Learn BASIC Now" 1989 book from Microsoft Press that is included with it.
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Microsoft Game Shop (MS-DOS, 1990)
A $50 retail product featuring QuickBASIC Interpreter Version (a QBasic precursor,) and source code for six games ready to play and modify.
A $50 retail product featuring QuickBASIC Interpreter Version (a QBasic precursor,) and source code for six games ready to play and modify.
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Microsoft Game Shop (MS-DOS, 1990)
A $50 retail product featuring QuickBASIC Interpreter Version (a QBasic precursor,) and source code for six games ready to play and modify.
A $50 retail product featuring QuickBASIC Interpreter Version (a QBasic precursor,) and source code for six games ready to play and modify.
My character is still a child, and he's not sure he wants to grow up. Since he has the ability to prevent that from happening, it's not an academic question for him. At any rate, he thinks it's horrifying that the other kids don't get that choice.
Writers and TTRPG Players, today's character question!
When they were a child what did your character think they would be when they grew up?
#ttrpg #authors #gamemasters #characterinsporation #characterdevelopment #characterquestion #writingcommunity #writersky #writingprompt
When they were a child what did your character think they would be when they grew up?
#ttrpg #authors #gamemasters #characterinsporation #characterdevelopment #characterquestion #writingcommunity #writersky #writingprompt
November 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
My character is still a child, and he's not sure he wants to grow up. Since he has the ability to prevent that from happening, it's not an academic question for him. At any rate, he thinks it's horrifying that the other kids don't get that choice.
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Congress must act to stop parts of the Department of Education from being moved to other agencies. Help us protect the rights of disabled students. Learn what you can do: autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/tell...
November 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Congress must act to stop parts of the Department of Education from being moved to other agencies. Help us protect the rights of disabled students. Learn what you can do: autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/tell...