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nicholas-mutante.bsky.social
Sociologist, ecologist, educator, writer, mutant (i.e. neurodiverse), plays capoeira. Unflinching progressive, British-American. I don’t like reductive talk about people we disagree with, and I think it’s very unbecoming when progressives regress like that
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Fake it till you make it? Nah, but I know the autistic fake it till you get chronic stress and anxiety that leads to CPTSD and autoimmune disease as you get older and keep dissociating because you’ve been trained and expected to act like a neurotypical despite it hurts your whole existence.

Ableist language is unfortunately very rife on the left. It will change but it must be called out. If the left wants to change it must take seriously neurodivergence. Neurodivergent people are not a football to be kicked about in a culture war.

Ukraine represents truth. Russia represents lies. Every time we speak the truth, we support the war effort. Every time we reject lies, we help defeat the enemy. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk We love you James ! 🤣 “The free stuff! Stop trying to make me say brown people!” Listening to you almost makes living through these times worth the trouble. Shining that light is a gift and a blessing.

A wonderful opportunity for two young people who don't have much by way of cash or connections to get started in (digital) media. I'm a trustee of the charity, founded to commemorate my great mate Andy, who wanted us to help kids like the one he used to be. andytaylorfoundation.org/our-work/?fb...

We can say, without any doubt, that social media conspiracism now rules the world. If that doesn't prompt some serious rethinking about social media and its regulation, I don't know what will.

@billbrowder.bsky.social talking sense as always. Sounds like European Foreign Ministers largely agree with him on Russia's frozen assets. Give them to Ukraine. All of them. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk youtu.be/Z_xV1nf44RA?...

All this preemptive capitulation to Putin and US Secretary of State Rubio has just said “"It may turn out that they don’t want to end the war. I don’t know; we’re going to find out." kyivindependent.com/the-only-way...

Lie after lie has been told this week about how the Ukraine war started, from the Kremlin and the White House. Here's our News Agents video essay which explains the truth, and spells out why Trump clings so close to Putin and lives in his warped reality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cufM...

Good man. Lammy says Russia could get peace in Ukraine in a day if they get their troops out. And we know they won’t, and therefore we know they don’t want peace. apnews.com/article/sout...

Neurodivergent people. Trans and other LGBT people. People of colour. Women. We are more than an issue in a culture war. We are living breathing human beings who need respect.

Just a forest in Ukraine. Maybe you need a moment of nature now.

I don’t want to laugh at MAGAs because they’re so stupid. I don’t want to understand them. I want them to have never existed. Like, go back in time and erase them. Travel to the 70s and get everyone an education, they’d never be any the wiser.

Three updates: 1. The Justice Department has deleted a database tracking federal police misconduct. The database was first proposed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.

so can no one just like pick up a mop handle and swat the doge boys out of the building like what's up

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

No non-voting purist Putin puppets. You PPPs can all literally F off to Russia.

Report: You Live In An Embarrassing Country

This clip cheers me up every time I watch it I hope it does the same for you youtu.be/A-RfHC91Ewc

A northern flicker. 📷 #birds

Triggers aren’t just ‘things that upset us.’ They’re signals of past harm, unresolved stress, and sensory or emotional overload. Managing triggers isn’t about avoiding everything that makes us uncomfortable.

I want This job 🐼😂

The time for action is now. Call Chuck Schumer’s office and demand he start mocking Donald Trump by repeating everything Trump says in a dumb guy voice

Crockett on Trump's relatively high approval: We've gotta do better at education. People don't understand. But you will understand when your Medicaid goes away. You will understand when planes continue to fall out of the sky... maybe Sleepy Joe is what we wanted, bc we could at least sleep at night.

My greatest disgust for my fellow Americans comes from the way they keep treating life and death, good and evil as a fucking joke

"It's time for us to turn our backs on them." "A United Europe could go toe-to-toe with a rogue United States." Caller Peter outlines his plan to 'chop America off by the knees.’