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Rory

@roryreckons.bsky.social

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ADHD | Autistic Self-Advocate | ICF ADHD/Autism Coach. Nonbinary. They/he. 🏳️‍🌈Bi/pan. Married. Header is art by @kayas-kosmos.bsky.social

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · Nov 14

I see why people were doing reintroductions now.

I am an ADHD/Autism self-advocate and researcher. I skeet these things sporadically ADHD/Autism/AuDHD science, local Aotearoa (NZ) politics, my own personal experiences with AuDHD.
I also skeet a lot of shitposts, and reskeet cool art I love.

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 53m

Trying to decide if this is the weekend I dedicate my life to Factorio's DLC.

Only thing holding me back is my utter hatred of the early game.

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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 5h

Now this is going to come as a shock but it seems that the Cones Hotline is a complete waste of time and money.

A graph from Newsroom showing Van Veldens Cones Hotline is a waste of money.

Data shows Wellington City Council's cone report outcomes -
Sites found to be in order 54
Closed with no action 35
Out of scope 22
Contractor advised to move cones 5
Council moved cones

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 2h

love your work mrs theranos but how do you walk into this

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 1h

Here is the MIT report that statistic comes from:
mlq.ai/media/quarte...

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 1h

The absolutely wild thing here to remember is that these companies are haemorrhaging money on AI, the only way they have been surviving is through hyping the possibilities of what this tech can do in the future. It's estimated that 95% of the companies that use AI are losing money doing it.

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 1h

Glad to see BLeeM supporting causes that align with his values and DM'ing style. The enemy is always capitalism ❤️

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 2h

Not to mention the complete rort that the trifecta of NVIDIA, OpenAI and Oracle have done by artificially inflating their own worth through circular deals...

The AI boom's reliance on circular deals is raising fears of a bubble

A spate of recent deals among AI's biggest players has tightened the circle of companies and investments underpinning the technology’s explosive growth.

www.nbcnews.com

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 2h

Ya don't say? Surely not?

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 2h

This is obvious to anyone who understands the tech and the promises being made.

But it also speaks to how anti-intellectualism allows so many more people to be blatantly scammed by companies selling tech branded snake oil due to platforming sales people over those with specific expertise.

Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 2h

Ya don't say? Surely not?

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 12h

My dearest Gertrude,

I fear I shall not make it home. This war has ravaged our supplies and broken our will.

We arrived with weapons, purpose, and a directive. Yet at every turn, we are mocked. Belittled.

I have never experienced an insult so great in a war zone

Send my best to the children

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 2h

There's an ebb and flow in my marriage where it feels like we are able to stay on top of things due to having alternating levels of capacity to do things like cleaning etc when the other person is struggling to help.

Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 2h

AuDHD + AuDHD couple where you constantly phase between dominant autistic and dominant ADHD on opposite cycles and therefore are able to manage things pretty well is a sweet dynamic.

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 2h

My favourite is the paradox of needing immigrants due to low birthrates due to deteriorating conditions, and then also blaming all our problems on the immigrants that we have created the need for...

No part of this is coherent.

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 2h

How it feels every day watching climate destabilisation and a huge economic crash bearing down on us all while desperate status quo industry money is convincing the world for just a bit longer that all we need to do is stop some immigration and it'll all be fine 🫠

a man and a woman are sitting in a vehicle with the man holding a steering wheel

Alt: Austin Powers scene where a roller slowly moves towards a man shouting no; he could get out of the way but doesn't

media.tenor.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social · 5h

Just got sent this from an article by Bryce Edwards. This is completely false, and he never once fact-checked it with me. My campaign was run by me and my small volunteer team. Comments like this reflect a tired mindset that assumes women can’t succeed in politics without a man pulling the strings.

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concerns about transparency and public trust.
The Anatomy of influence - A Wellington case study
Many of the powerful vested interests behind local politicians are barely acknowledged. For example, how many Wellington voters knew that the current Mayor of Wellington, Tory Whanau, had her successful 2022 campaign essentially run by corporate lobbyist Neale Jones?
Jones co-owns and operates the Capital Government Relations firm with fellow political commentator Ben Thomas. The firm is the epitome of the "revolving door"

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 4h

First day taking Vyvanse (switching from Dex).

Will be interesting to see how different it is.

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Sage Anastasi @sageanastasi.bsky.social · 16h

Really showing the flaw in the idea that if we can just make people read the right books it will brainwash them into being good

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 22h

Wish more doctors would upskill on ADHD so that many people (like myself) didn't have to spend years on anti-depressants or anti-anxiety meds that didn't actually improve things that much, and instead delayed the correct treatment of the issue.

A decade of my life on bad meds was wasted time.

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Dani Donovan 👩🏻‍🎨 ADHD Comics @danidonovan.com · 23h

So many thoughts... so little time!

#ADHDAwarenessMonth

Title: “Sharing Thoughts.”

Top panel labeled “Non-ADHD”: One person carefully holds a single green butterfly taken from labeled jars of “Experiences,” “Ideas,” and “Opinions,” calmly sharing it with another person who listens with interest.

Bottom panel labeled “ADHD”: The ADHD character joyfully releases a colorful swarm of butterflies—orange, blue, purple, pink, yellow, and green—representing many thoughts and ideas all at once, while the other person looks startled and overwhelmed.

Copyright 2020 Dani Donovan (@danidonovan), adhddd.com.

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 1d

Big "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" vibes in the western world lately.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 1d

Really struggling today with the fact that Autistic kids are 'encouraged' to get various kinds of therapy to help with social skills yet non-Autistic kids can be vicious little arseholes to anyone who's different and that's just 'normal'.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 2d

The entire industry is built on non-peer reviewed infographics with misleading axis labels. It is entirely hype and no substance.