yael 🔻😷

and neurotypical friends

a big part of why i am so fucked up is i have a lot of trauma around this and also had the idea that i could have trauma at all so delegitimized that it feels like i am untangling a snake nest of mental scars to go through it all

2. Emotionally Limited Parents Misread Neurodivergence as Defiance Neurocomplex traits often get pathologized in emotionally rigid households. Curiosity becomes backtalk. Sensory sensitivity is framed as overreacting. Executive dysfunction gets labeled as laziness. These misinterpretations aren't just invalidating— they're identity-shaping. Over time, kids absorb the belief that being different equals being difficult.

This is also about school.

Grave robbers and their beneficiaries forced to return stolen human remains and sacred burial possessions by law because they were so sure they were entitled they had to be forced to right their wrongs.

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News - Newly Deciphered Cuneiform Tablet Contains Unknown Sumerian Myth - Archaeology Magazine CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—A riveting lost Sumerian myth was recently rediscovered thanks to University of Chicago Sumerologist […]

New Sumerian myth just dropped

therapist: and how’s the anxiety?

me: well i’ve completed two 1000 piece puzzles in less than a week?

There is enough food in the world for everyone. Scarcity is a capitalist lie.

Young indigenous kayakers about to complete historic river journey, after ‘largest dam removal in US history’ | CNN Following the removal of four dams from the Klamath River, which flows through California and Oregon, a group of young indigenous people are paddling from source to sea.

After the largest dam removal in US history, Indigenous youth paddled 300 miles down the restored Klamath River. The journey reconnected Native communities to ancestral waters and honored decades of tribal activism. Salmon have already begun returning.
cnn.it/44YTqBr

omg the NASA footage of the recent sun probe is incredible

A lot of the resistance to mask wearing in the West is due to xenophobia and an inflated sense of cultural superiority. Masks have been a longstanding cultural norm in parts of Asia for decades - not just for viruses, but also air pollution

Have just realized that the silly “Bezos wants to buy Vogue as a lavish wedding gift for his bride” story that’s been circulating is inaccurate - Bezos wants to buy Condé Nast which owns The New Yorker,Teen Vogue, Wired & Arts Technica because he is an oligarch who wants to crush all dissent.

when you refuse to wear a respirator in your every day life—
only wearing one at protests, or when you're foced to, but never to the grocery store, pharmacy, on public transit—you contribute to a social climate able to criminalize protective tools. CHOOSE SOLIDARITY, prevent infection, mask up.

Headline 1, "Americans are losing spending power, say researchers: Most can no longer afford a 'minimal quality of life.'" Headline 2, "The 10 richest Americans got $365 billion richer in the past year. Now they're on the verge of a huge tax cut."

The United States summed up in two headlines.

Digital illustration of a red and blue macaw parrot flying from right to left. Overlaid is drawing of what the parrot looks like without feathers: a chubby pink creature with small limbs and a very large head.

Birds are such a strange kind of dinosaur, we would be astonished by them if they weren't around us all the time.

Goblin-like puppeteers behind a screen of feathers, as described by Gary W. Kaiser in his book The Inner Bird.

Every week someone tells me they had to put Covid aside to focus on bigger issues like fascism. The thing is, eugenics and fascism go hand in hand.

Historically pandemics have ignited fascism & normalized eugenics & indifference

Yes, and I’ve been noticing this pattern as a disability historian. When people got ‘fed up’ with taking precautions and blamed vulnerable people for their boredom, grief or trauma, the ableism just exploded. Openly eugenicist ideas espoused in mainstream outlets, the r-word becoming ‘acceptable’

It is frustrating to me that (a) the word "alpha" came out of studies on wolves in skewed situations, (b) the word was used to designate leaders, but (c) is now just being used to describe assholes who couldn't lead a group of lemmings out of a paper bag.

Toni Morrison taught us that the weapon formed against us is distraction. She framed it as distracting us from our purpose, but the enemy we face wants to distract us from all life, to command our attention away from caring for ourselves and experiencing anything other than fear. We cannot let them.

Have often heard Americans wondering how ordinary Germans could inform on Jewish neighbors to the Gestapo and well...

The anti-DEI moral panic, fed by the NYT and others, including people like Tyler Austin Harper, has never considered or cared that "DEI" programs included programs for disabled students, lower income families, first generation students, and veterans.
All they cared about was knocking it down.

Last week somebody on here pointed out that the reason so much good journalism is coming from places like Teen Vogue is they dgaf about access to the White House. Other legacy media is too concerned about their access to do anything but tell approved stories. Kind of like the Royal Rota in the UK.

Hey friends and comrades, I want to explain something about Gaza for my friend Alaa. If you could listen I'd appreciate it.

Help me save my family and escape from Gaza to Eygpt My name is Alaa, and I am a mother of three precious children: Musa, who is 12 years old, and my twin daughters, Ella and Ellen, who are 8 years old. Before October 7th, our lives were filled with hop...

Before I get to the details, I would love to see Alaa get some help. I sent $20, and I'd love to get matches. chuffed.org/project/help...

WaPo: purchased and gutted to pump propaganda by an oligarch.

LA Times: purchased and gutted to pump propaganda by an oligarch.

CNN: gutted and pushing propaganda

MSNBC: being actively gutted and spun off

CBS News: being purchased by an oligarch's failson and set up to push propaganda.

Teen Vogue has published some of the best articles about fascism, Covid, mask bans and ICE.

Their piece on ICE neighborhood watch programs has saved lives.

If Bezos gets his hands on it, you can expect it to become fascist propaganda.

Which is the whole point.

My first female PhD student in ancient history (in a field about 76% male) was supposed to come in the fall. She is from Iran. That is now no longer possible due to visa issues. Yes, the impact on STEM research is devastating & irreparable, but the next gen. of humanists is also being decimated.

𝗚𝗼𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗠𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝘂𝗻𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗹𝘆.
🟣 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀.
🟣 𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱, 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗿𝗲-𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲
🟣 𝗜𝗳 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘆𝗲𝘁, 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗚𝗙𝗠 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲.
🟣 𝗜 𝘄𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲.
𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲, 𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘇𝗲𝗿𝗼