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How the X-Men Movie Caused the Housing Crisis (No Really)
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In my experience, people don’t typically hit the streets protesting en masse in defense of people they need to be “liberated” from.

He’s fucking terrible. He markets himself as an alternative to the Andrew Tate’s of the world, but he literally pushes the same problematic talking points. He inserted himself as a thought leader in this space without ever actually doing the work necessary to be that voice.

Today is superhero day at my kid’s school and my daughter decided to dress up as the school’s social worker 🥹

Not a Burden, Not a Superpower The Nuanced Reality of Autism RFK Jr. Refuses to See

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Our humanity is not up for debate—and the value of our lives should never be measured by how well we conform to neurotypical standards.The future we build must have room for all neurotypes to flourish—not as broken versions of “normal,” but as essential variations in the infinite expressions of being human.

In response to me making a video making fun of the word Alpha male, a guy responded that based on my body shape, I look like more of an “eating too much Pi male.”

And I know it was meant to be a burn, but I love that so much.

For those of you in a longterm relationship, how did you meet your signficant other?

I took my son on opening night and he had an absolute blast (and so did I). It’s hard not to enjoy a movie when you can see the literal joy emanating from the target audience in attendance with you.

Note: it almost never works and so my most common phrase overall is “I’m sorry.”

Words I am just now realizing I use CONSTANTLY as an autistic adult to try and avoid people from thinking I have some sort of hidden meaning behind what I’m saying: genuinely, literally, absolutely, absurdly, truly, and legitimately.

Can you imagine the narcissism involved to continually think you are the arbiter of what identities are valid? This is what happens when you empower bigots. They slowly but surely start confidently expanding their hate and spreading misinformation.

Genuinely wondering if this just another example of his overreach that we are ignoring because we like TikTok or if I'm off base and this is within his actual power to implement.

I know "legal" has taken on a new meaning in the era of Trump, but is it legal for him to use an executive order to alter the bill for the TikTok ban? Wasn't there only a single extension written into it?

After hearing all the chatter online about Morgan Wallen storming off the set at SNL for it being “godless,” I immediately ran to Google and typed, “Who is Morgan Wallen?”

5 years ago today and one week into Covid lockdown, my wife and I headed to the hospital unsure if I’d even be let into the delivery room with her.

Bringing home a newborn during the pandemic was…unique.

Part of my morning routine now is opening up my Signal app to see if Pete Hegseth messaged me any war plans.

He hasn’t yet, but I’m cautiously optimistic that it is only a matter of time.

I’m a tenured full professor of Communication Studies here in Los Angeles and former director of one of the top speech and debate teams in the country.

I feel like Substack is just LiveJournal, but we’re all grownups now so we have to make it feel professional…at least that’s how I’m going to be treating mine.

For those of you that enjoy my work, I just posted my first "essay" on Substack. Similar to my video content, these are going to be unedited, free flowing, and probably a bit more unhinged. Think of it as a longform version of my posts on here.

I had to turn that mess off 5-minutes in.

I did think it was funny seeing Melania sitting while everyone around her stood up though. 😆

But this is why I don’t believe anything will change. Voters didn’t learn last time or the time before that or the time before that or the two times before that and they won’t learn this time.

And so begins another likely recession under a Republican president. Literally every Republican president in my lifetime has inherited a strong economy and overseen a recession.

How anybody could watch Trump’s bumbling tyrade at Zelenskyy and not be embarrassed to be an American is beyond me. We are so cooked.

The short answer, without disclosing too much, is no.

ABA is the only therapy that my insurance DOES cover

Our insurance doesn’t cover the type of therapy my daughter needs and the only place we can find that does charges $800 per hour for a parent consultation.

What in the actual fuck?

Phones can’t get any bigger than they are now.

I have dropped my phone onto my face more times than I’d like to admit and if they get any heavier, I’m going to be walking around with black eyes and will need to make up some sort of narrative other than my hands are bad at holding things.

I’ve been driving a car for 26 years, how am I still so bad at judging that. 🤣

Does anyone else have a terrible ability at judging how close the front of your car is to hitting something?

In my mind, I’ll think I must be inches away from the car in front of my and then I’ll get out and I’m like three feet away.