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the true meaning of Easter is a Snuffleupagus causing chaos

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

When someone uses the phrase, “no muss, no fuss,” I’m instantly suspicious because in my experience, the sheer fact of life involves a lot of both of these things.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

If JFK is interested in the “cause” of autism, he should look at a pesky phenomenon called “being a human.” Don’t be taken in by the bullshit-peddling. Autism isn’t caused by “exposures.” It is within the standard range of human neurotypes.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Friends, if you are inviting an artist for a "gig" but can't pay, please make that transparent in your opening email. Don't don't waste my time and yours by making me email you back, only to find out that you want to pay me in networking or some such.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Just fielded an email from someone organizing an event at a state university, inviting me to teach and perform at a festival they are organizing. Turned out they had exactly zero money for guest artists.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

submitted 7 days ago • 565 comments

one other way to think of this is that it is a massive program of upwards redistribution to wealthy business owners who can skimp on worker, consumer and environmental safety to juice profits for themselves www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...

submitted 7 days ago • 95 comments

A major theme of Trump's actions is pretending that things are other things. Lawful residents are undocumented immigrants. Living people are dead people. Bullshit websites are media outlets. Trade imbalances are tariffs. And so on.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina Supreme Court rejects Republican effort to disqualify more than 60,000 votes in close judicial election. However, GOP dominated court rules 4-2 that several thousand other ballots must be "cured" to be counted. Democratic candidate will continue legal fight in Fed court.

submitted 11 days ago • 151 comments

Anyone here a fan of Martha Wells’ SF series The Murderbot Diaries? Trailer for the TV adaptation just dropped & holy crap, I am excited. If you have not read any of the books, highly recommend read or listen to first book (audiobook is great & only just over 3 hours). youtu.be/vEioDeOiqEs?...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

AUTISM IS NOT AN EPIDEMIC, PEOPLE WITH AUTISM ARE NOT BROKEN

submitted 12 days ago • 204 comments

There is an epidemic here but it’s not autism, it’s these pathetic clueless little weasels spreading lies and pretending like they understand science.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I still struggle with the concept of getting my tires rotated because I have a hard time turning off the part of my brain that says, “but surely, they are rotating all the time, right?“

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Republicans love to harp on about states rights when it suits them, but watch them cheer while this abuse of the power of the federal government goes unchecked.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

submitted 13 days ago • 380 comments

I love this so much.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Just called and left a message. Call Ferguson’s office at 410-841-3600 before NOON on Monday April 7 (today)

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Hats off to the very strong #HandsOff signage yesterday! Thanks for making your voices heard. 🙏

submitted 16 days ago • 939 comments

Happy to see people taking the time to stand up to our would-be despots!

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

If you count the time that my laundry is likely to sit there before I actually fold it, I bet the robot wins handily.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

This particular story about a snowballing protest against closing a Social Security office is in a VT paper but datelined from across the river in Littleton, NH, which went 51-49 for Trump in 2024. Not a flamingly liberal place

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely incredible turn out at MN State Capitol! #HandsOff

submitted 17 days ago • 542 comments

So Trump thinks "groceries" is some sort of old timey thing from the past, like salt water taffy. This is a man who has never gone grocery shopping once in his life.

submitted 17 days ago • 12 comments

I have operated under this assumption for a while now, but it’s important for a member of Congress to say it out loud.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks. The website to check linked in the reply. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

submitted 18 days ago • 341 comments

Get it out of your head that we are having free and fair elections in 2026. Texas is the model. This right here is tyranny. That's not an exaggeration. They won't do this everywhere, but they'll do it in enough places to ensure they win a majority.

submitted 17 days ago • 37 comments

Today’s weapons-grade stupid: citing a “staggering increase from the 1980s,” & a desire to “address the root causes of our escalating health crisis, with a focus on childhood disorders like autism,” Trump released a presidential proclamation, declaring 4/2 to be World Autism Awareness Day. 1/

submitted 18 days ago • 12 comments

I've got nothing novel or insightful to add to the tariff news. But I want to state for the record that this is one of the most profoundly stupid things that a U.S. president has ever done. He has shot both the country and himself in the foot for no reason whatsoever.

submitted 19 days ago • 20 comments

Great thread about ASD-phobic vaccine panic (current and former). Well worth the read to the end!

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Mr. @hankgreen.bsky.social, making a compelling & thought-provoking case for seat belts, low-temp jet fuel, and other public safety measures, and why we shouldn’t have to have efficacy proven to us personally at every turn.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

It’s comforting to know that we have such sober, thoughtful, common-sense leadership.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.

submitted 20 days ago • 1114 comments

"We will not follow illegal orders" is a thing far too few people, especially governors, are saying.

submitted 28 days ago • 6 comments

I do often find sandwiches relatable

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

I don’t have the background to put this in any kind of perspective, but the public health implications seem very exciting.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments