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i know people say autism can't be cured because it's not a disease but i think we should try curing it by giving every autistic person five million dollars in cash

submitted 8 hours ago • 17 comments

Working with the windows open & the amount of people who use their daily walk to call people & have intense conversations is truly astonishing. This morning alone I've heard: 'I'm at my limit - at my absolute limit!' & 'I can't answer these questions for you, man. You gotta think for yourself.'

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

This is high art

submitted 4 days ago • 522 comments

Nothing that's vital to society should be a for-profit business. Capitalism can be trusted with niceties, but never with necessities.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

It's that magical time of year, booklovers. Better Reading's Top 100 is now open for voting (and you can go into the draw to win the top 100 books!) Please consider supporting my bookarinos... www.betterreading.com.au/news/vote-no...

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Very sorry to hear of Kerry Greenwood’s passing. I wrote about her Adelaide connections and her fearless class consciousness a while back: sydneyreviewofbooks.com/reviews/tale...

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My subconscious decided to invent TEMUAir during last night's dreams. Unsurprisingly basic but actually efficient in getting passengers around the world with a door-to-door service.

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Please stop saying "During COVID." People are still dying from this virus. People are still becoming disabled from it and contracting Long COVID. People are still not able to access the world and healthcare safely because of this virus. During COVID is right now.

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

ChatGPT consumes so much water and energy each week that it could power entire countries for YEARS and folk act like you told them to kill their selves cause you want them to write their own emails and not to steal art. 😂

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

Unexpected fight-or-flight response to a cafe's online menu, which looked like it hadn't been updated (except for the prices) since 2004.

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They've rebooted superman again. ABC iview currently has the four 80s Superman movies to stream if July feels too far away for you.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I'll take any excuse to post the Pokemons dancing to Orinoco Flow again.

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

Having just had this conversation with my kid's school, I'm glad there's actual research so I can tell them 'told you so' next time they try to pull that bullshit.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Kid reports that the only activity they did today for AAD was to write a letter about the ways they'd be more inclusive of Autistic people. ie, they wrote a letter to themself. They missed out on other activities because they weren't explained in an inclusive way & my kid didn't know what to do.

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This review! "...a touch of original genius. In this novel, Prak hits all the right buttons. This story will keep you enthralled from the first word to the last" www.artshub.com.au/news/reviews... #BarrenCape

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The kid's school is selling sensory toys, cupcakes and jellies to raise money for a good charity on Autism Acceptance Day. Awesome! The only people who donated goods are the (probably Autistic) parents of the Autistic students, and the teachers who work with those students. Woo! Acceptance!

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The 7yo told me they think they're lucky because they get Christmas and their birthday and Autism Acceptance Day. I suppose Autism Acceptance Day is a bit like Christmas in that kids get to believe in something nice happening (Santa visiting/Autism acceptance) but grownups know neither exist.

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chef's kiss

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#AutismAcceptanceMonth starts tomorrow. Please don't give to Autism Speaks; their $$ rarely supports autistic people/families, and their 'awareness' work portrays autistic people as burdens, not humans. From @autisticadvocacy.org, a good org to support instead. autisticadvocacy.org/considerthef...

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

The 7yo has developed an interest in The Amazing World of Gumball. I have developed an interest in the parents' choice of names for their children: Gumball, Darwin and Anaïs. Namely, how do you go from Gumball to Anaïs?

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Me: stands on one leg My flamenco teacher: No.

submitted 12 days ago • 49 comments

Wish every single one of the Autism Parents who sent me feral messages about The Imperfects’ open letter had read Sinclair’s work

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Wonder how many people I'd offend at the kid's school if I asked if 'multiculturalism' included Autistic culture.

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Can you even have a book that's ghost written twice?

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

For the longest time, I thought I'd seen Blade Runner. Then I decided to 'rewatch' it. That's when I realised I'd seen Total Recall and just decided it was Blade Runner.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Important lemon pig update: the penny has dropped and my dude is pretty horrified about it

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

I swear. Writing is the only discipline where we make people feel like failures for practising. How many songs does a violinist learn that never wind up in recital? How many studies do painters do? Acting exercises. Tennis for fun. You're allowed to write without the intention of publishing.

submitted 15 days ago • 20 comments

Today I was prohibited from entering a building at my own place of work despite clearly identifying myself as staff with my staff ID — just because I was wearing a kuffiyeh, as I regularly do, as is my entitlement as a Palestinian person. If it was a kippah it would be front page news.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Look, self care is not reading this beyond the headline, but I'm gonna comment on it anyway. [ahem] Fuck off. Fun and cozy are Important™️ too, even without Joykill Brand TraumaPain®️

submitted 16 days ago • 10 comments

Update: I quit.

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Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid

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This has me cackling out loud in my office

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

I now have a meeting with the principal to discuss updating the letter and resending it.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

@clembastow.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

The note regarding this event has come home from school. There's a puzzle piece on it.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

ICYMI this week's reviews: Ann Skea on Maja Lunde's latest novel The Dream of a Tree Catherine Pardey on Alan Hollinghurst's Our Evenings Find them both at newtownreviewofbooks.com.au #MajaLunde #AlanHollinghurst #BookReviews #BookSky 💙 📚

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Someone pointed out that influencers use serotonin/dopamine/cortisol/oxytocin like they’re the four humors and now I can’t stop seeing it

submitted 22 days ago • 24 comments

Wow. Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum officially recognizes Palestine as a state. Here she welcomes Palestinian ambassador Nadya Rasheed. Sheinbaum is Jewish, supports Palestinian self-determination, & unapologetically condemns Netanyahu's attacks on Gaza. Historic & inspiring leadership. ❤️✊🏽

submitted 21 days ago • 115 comments

Artists feel pressured to make new art too quickly at the moment. Normalise artists fucking disappearing for months. Just walk off into the woods for a year and come back with a single sketch. It’s good for you

submitted 22 days ago • 165 comments

Confirmation this morning that my kid's school is doing a Light it up Blue fundraiser for Autism Acceptance Day. Gonna be an interesting P&C meeting on Monday night.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Love to see winners in the #vplas. Hate to think of them paying tax on their prizes while foreign-owned salmon and fossil fuel companies get off tax-free.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Imagine if the argument were 'We should spend $11 billion a year on dental health because people deserve to have healthy teeth' rather than 'because it'll save us money and make people more productive'. People aren't people any more - we're resources to be mined until we die.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Only a few weeks left to run on my PhD reader survey of fiction about Jews. All responses, all opinions, hugely valued. And it's completely anonymous, so you can say what you really feel. Thank you! limesurvey.mq.edu.au/index.php/48...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Finally got a new gate installed after our old one was destroyed by Sydney's January storms. Yay! Now I have to find a way to pay for it. Boo! Do you need your manuscript read or edited? I love to help authors fine-tune their manuscripts and I'm available from April. Get in touch: kyliemmason.com

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