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Pic is of me excavating at the Ness of Brodgar in Scotland. Tends to find stuff around thing more interesting than thing itself. Role model: J.S. Bach; try everything and try to do it a bit better each time. Personal website: www.weeksauthor.com.
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Bunch people accused me of misinformation saying they’re targeting the disease not the people with the disease. I’d like to ask: you think autism and ADHD and neurodivergence is a disease? And why exactly (and how exactly) do you think it’s ok to reduce the number of people with these conditions?

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

Really hate that 'this movie has dialogue' has become synonymous with 'it's stagey & thus a total failure of the art of cinema, which requires you to move the camera a lot & ideally be silent' 🙄

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Today's extract from Serving the Reich. What makes it worse is that I don't even need to add any explanatory comment, do I?

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

"Something is rotten in America"

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Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

submitted 2 days ago • 101 comments

But please. Continue telling us how “there’s no evidence” and we need longitudinal studies to prove what is plainly evident to anyone working with students.

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🧪😡😲https://www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/autism-program-chief-among-national-institutes-of-health-layoffs/

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

This was not about streaming. It was about what is happening right now. Hold on tight to what you know, and don't mistake performance for reality. Ask questions. www.pastemagazine.com/tv/streaming...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is a stunning betrayal by Whitman Walker in DC. You CANNOT jettison the trans community to protect yourself. It’s shameful. I got my name changed at WWH. I have promoted their research. Now they are capitulating to save gay people at trans people’s expense by trying to erase us.

submitted 2 days ago • 124 comments

Still have not found the serenity to write in the current political climate. Papa's word count is sufferin'.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I LOVE MY NEW MUG SO MUCH! IT HOLDS ALL THE CANS AND DICES!

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Look, God, I'm sorry for whinging about renewing my Canadian passport....

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Read your Tacitus, kids. Dude was right more often than he was wrong, and he's becoming highly relevant viz. the USA.

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Survivorship bias much? Maybe they didn't pull through, skipper. Maybe "their" ancestors were the people unaffected by said change. God, BGG is a lavatory.

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Reposting with alt text: I did this just now and it worked.

submitted 4 days ago • 71 comments

Again, either Americans are *that* cowardly, joblessness in America is so horrible that they won't risk it, or a bit of both. People *died* in Syria to protest Assad. They risked their lives. We won't risk our rent.

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"What [leadership] we have instead is blades of grass, bending in the wind, however it blows. People without a shred of empathy.... People who do not discuss anything.... People who do not show up. People who break the rules...over...and over again, without a shred of responsibility...."

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The fact that many Americans won't risk their jobs to save their republic—a circumstance wherein many people in the past would risk their lives—presents two possible conclusions: A) Americans are just that cowardly or B) to be jobless in America is just that horrible. Maybe a bit of both.

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This is a concentration camp. They are describing a concentration camp.

submitted 4 days ago • 503 comments

Finished a big project, which will be passed like a champion's belt between winners at our game nights. Holds cans and rolls dice!

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

"Your opponent’s the maze. These floor plans, these warrens, are devious: secret doors; teleportation traps; passageways that double back and wrap around each other." - Sean Weeks for GamingTrend Score: 90 out of 100 gamingtrend.com/feature/revi... #Wizardry

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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

submitted 6 days ago • 840 comments

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An important point to keep in mind.

submitted 6 days ago • 634 comments

Look, his answers weren't great, but it takes a lot of concentration to babysit two kids.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Similar to commentators who thought Putin would be discouraged from the Ukraine War by a failing free-trade economy. If a state becomes autocratic, all its principles and externalities change. Raw stockpiles matter more to them than the GDP.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This is why I don't use Substack. longmemo.substack.com/p/who-owns-s...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

These sentiments were always under the surface. People would just have to lie about them in public, and now they don't.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I just…have my suspicions about the revolutionary capacity of a left-wing population who abandoned disabled and high-risk people at the drop of a hat for an assurance of their own normality. But it’s not to late to fix that particular choice (except for all the dead and disabled people who can’t)

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments