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“We’re requiring all men to head to their doctors and have them undo these terrible, terrible procedures,” the president said in an address from the Oval Office theonion.com/trump-i...

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Trying to figure out how to clone some of the fruit trees in my yard, and every bit of terminology sounds ripped from a grimdark fantasy novel. ⚡️ PREPARE THE SCION. 🎸 THE GRAFTING METHOD. 🤘🏽 READY THE ROOTS. I just want another apple tree, not trying to write a heavy metal album.

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I once worked at an anti-death penalty nonprofit chaired by Mike Farrell. Having watched MAS*H as a kid, it was a thrill to interact with him and hear about the real bonds he still had with other cast members, including Loretta Swit. She attended one of our fundraisers, was so gracious and kind.

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“In the real world, the world of cause and effect, when we tear down the best among us and provide bogus reasons for why we did it, reality will eventually come for us,” writes the author George Saunders about the firing of Dr. Carla Hayden, who was the librarian of Congress.

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Hassan grills RFK Jr about HHS still employs David Geier and he IS NOT happy about her line of questioning, which he calls "defamatory"

submitted 29 days ago • 312 comments

The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"

submitted 33 days ago • 121 comments

My column: Canada’s Conservative Party remains silent on the removal of a #Saskatoon woman who was wearing a transgender rights T-shirt from a Pierre Poilievre election rally in the city. #sask #cdnpoli #conservatives #transrights thestarphoenix.com/opinion/colu...

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"You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That they’ll never pay taxes or write poems. That they are, in essence, collateral damage. I’d like to introduce you to my daughter."

submitted 35 days ago • 20 comments

Thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows

submitted 37 days ago • 8 comments

Mark Carney deployed unbelievable levels of blandness in defence of Canada. Blandness like you've never seen.

submitted 37 days ago • 212 comments

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

submitted 37 days ago • 660 comments

Good news! @glennf.com is now our Executive Editor. https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/a-new-version-of-glenn-has-shipped/ Sad news :-( Sharon Zardetto, who wrote several of our books, has died. https://tidbits.com/2025/05/05/a-farewell-to-sharon-zardetto-aker-doyenne-of-mac-writers/ (Edited 1:11 PM)

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

May the Firth be with you.

submitted 39 days ago • 12 comments

folks, autistic people feel empathy. they often don't display emotion in a neurotypical way, which means people often refuse to empathize with them.

submitted 51 days ago • 28 comments

CASHIER: did you find everything you were looking for today? BONO: deep breath

submitted 54 days ago • 13 comments

This image details the aesthetic requirements for achieving the “Ideal English Rabbit”, the benchmark of perfect (yet seemingly impossible) markings for a particular breed of rabbit first developed in the middle of the 19th century: publicdomainreview.org/collection/i...

submitted 54 days ago • 6 comments

"Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of hell." [Pope Francis, 18 April 2025]

submitted 55 days ago • 116 comments

RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one. Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

submitted 56 days ago • 1344 comments

I honestly can’t stop thinking about this RFK speech. A lot of the outrage around it is focused on pointing out that it’s not true. But so fucking what if it was? Do people whose bodies don’t work not deserve to exist in society? If all these things were true for a person are they less worthy?

submitted 56 days ago • 31 comments

McCormick was born in 1968. One reason he did not remember seeing people with autism at the time was autism did not have a diagnosis separate from schizophrenia in the DSM until 1980.

submitted 58 days ago • 72 comments

“How can I return an innocent man to the United States when I don’t have the ability to feel empathy or compassion?” said Nayib Bukele theonion.com/salvado...

submitted 59 days ago • 115 comments

Saskatoon knows. #CanadaStrong

submitted 63 days ago • 29 comments

🚨 YEATS: TURNING AND TURNING OF THE WIDENING GYRE EXPECTED TO COINCIDE WITH THE FALCON NOT BEING ABLE TO HEAR THE FALCONER, CENTRE NOT EXPECTED TO HOLD

submitted 66 days ago • 35 comments

🗓️ Today is Right to Read Day! Let's unite to protect our #freedom to read and access information in our libraries, where diverse viewpoints thrive. Stand against #censorship and show your support for library workers and #community freedom! ✊ Let's do this: uniteagainstbookbans.org/rig...

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MMR vaccine doesn’t just prevent measles, mumps, and rubella. It also prevents RFK Jr. from showing up at your child’s funeral to exploit your grief at your most vulnerable moment.

submitted 66 days ago • 327 comments

I’m Autistic, And Believe Me, It’s A Lot Better Than Measles. (Vaccines don’t cause autism. But even if they did, is being like me really a fate worse than death?) A thread drawn from @fodderfigure.bsky.social's recent TPGA article: thinkingautismguide.com/2025/03/im-a... #VaccinesSaveLives 1/

submitted 75 days ago • 6 comments

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 78 days ago • 2064 comments

This speaks volumes: Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada. leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03... munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...

submitted 79 days ago • 330 comments

In ancient Ireland, attaining the highest level of poet entitled you to wear a cloak of crimson feathers and carry a wand. ...just in case anyone is looking for a mid-career pivot.

submitted 79 days ago • 22 comments

Elbows up, Canada.

submitted 82 days ago • 1525 comments

These are #Canadian values. #2SLGBTQIA+ solidarity and support We stand together. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦❤️

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Unbelievably, Canada’s largest newspaper chain is owned by US hedge fund with ties to Trump. This was permitted by the Harper gov, but Carney should use Canadian laws to ensure Postmedia is owned by Canadians – even by employees of those newspapers. #cdnpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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Jessica: When I hear Republicans out there talking about their plan for education in America, I don't hear them talking about making sure disabled kids have access to a public education. Greg: Because we're against it.

submitted 84 days ago • 439 comments

You need to read this.

submitted 85 days ago • 8 comments

In case you, like me, are a high-anxiety human who missed this piece of moderately reassuring news: Despite many broken things, the FDA did make a flu shot recommendation for this fall. www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/h...

submitted 86 days ago • 69 comments

Second floor: Carpets, travel goods and bedding, material, soft furnishings, restaurant and Macrodata Refinement. Going down! #Severance

submitted 97 days ago • 29 comments

Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time.

submitted 161 days ago • 33 comments

Today I became a Canadian citizen! It was a proud and joyful moment for me. https://joekissell.com/2025/03/11/i-am-now-canadian/ /CC @darcywarrington.bsky.social

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew 🇨🇦 - "A wonderful, beautiful order pulling American booze off the shelves in Manitoba Liquor Marts." #cdnpoli

submitted 99 days ago • 106 comments

Make America Great Depression Again!

submitted 100 days ago • 29 comments

For those who observe: Happy Twin Peaks Day, you beautiful peeps.

submitted 108 days ago • 17 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnmK... THIS. THIS.

submitted 109 days ago • 43 comments

My daughter and her friends made this “Remy cake.” And having seen it, I must now walk into the sea.

submitted 111 days ago • 495 comments

Big #news from the Smithsonian’s National #Zoo – two pygmy slow loris babies made their debut! These tiny primates, each about the weight of three nickels, are now exploring their exhibit. Watch the two-month-old siblings curiously eyeing waxworms, with their dad, Pabu, swooping in for a snack. 👀🪱

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Today's mood: magnolia: a genus of tree that has survived more than 20 Million Years and continues to flourish.

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