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@rachelneedsanap.bsky.social

Religious Studies & Hebrew Bible PhD student๐Ÿ“š/Jewishโœก๏ธ/ADHD & Autistic๐ŸŽง/Mythology Nerd๐Ÿบ/Recovering Attorney โš–๏ธ/Perpetually Sleepy๐Ÿ’ค (she/her)

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"I gather that everyone here is 100% certain JD Vance is a racist who hates immigrants.

So, who here actually knew JD Vance's wife is a non-white woman born to immigrants?

And how does that influence your certainty?"

05.03.2026 18:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 49    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

oh ffs who told Tucker about Chabad

he is not to be trusted with the knowledge of specific Jewish group names so he can sound to his audience like he knows things

05.03.2026 20:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 125    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

Trump has assumed for years that American Jews are Israelis, not Americans.

05.03.2026 23:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 120    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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RFK Jr. Gives Bonkers โ€˜Anti-Demonsโ€™ Health Advice The health and human services head is offering a new fix to fight off demons.

Wait, so... the guy who had a worm die while it was eating his brain, eats nothing but meat, and has a voice that sounds like gravel being raked across a chalkboard... is saying OTHER people have demons in them? ๐Ÿ˜†

06.03.2026 00:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Yes. It is. I want it so badly itโ€™s killing me. But I canโ€™t afford a Switch 2 ๐Ÿ˜ซ๐Ÿ˜ซ๐Ÿ˜ซ

06.03.2026 01:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Please donโ€™t lecture Jews. Weโ€™re not stupid. Weโ€™re well aware of this dynamic. Almost 80% of Jews voted for Harris. You are scolding an imaginary conservative Jewish villain constructed mainly from your own stereotypes.

06.03.2026 01:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This hip L.A. neighborhood is installing emergency sirens to warn of ICE raids Community activists are installing sirens across Highland Park in hopes of providing warnings on mobile devices to residents about possible ICE raids.

I love LA. ๐Ÿ’™

06.03.2026 00:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

not today, yeytser hora

05.03.2026 23:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Some AI goons in my replies say they pity me. Donโ€™t pity me, guys! I know how to write! Iโ€™ll be able to produce quality work no matter what the prevailing technologies are!

Save your pity for your fellow AI goons who misunderstood my post entirely because AI has stunted their reading comprehension!

06.03.2026 00:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ugh I may need to mute Pokopia. I canโ€™t afford a Switch 2 & the FOMO is intense. No one tell me how much fun youโ€™re having!

05.03.2026 19:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes! Home is inside, right? In our heads. But people keep trying to drag me out, itโ€™s exhausting.

05.03.2026 16:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Being #autistic feels like the culture shock of visiting a foreign country where you donโ€™t speak the language fluentlyโ€ฆexcept it lasts our entire lives & we canโ€™t escape it by returning home.

05.03.2026 16:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

(1) It is not particularly uncommon for bigots to have individual friends or even spouses from groups about whom they hold incredibly bigoted beliefs.

(2) The only โ€œsourceโ€ anyone can find for the claim that Platnerโ€™s wife is Jewish is the Substack of notorious white supremacist Peter Brimelow.

05.03.2026 15:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 96    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I've been called a self-hating Jew by Zionists and called a Zionist for loving my Jewishness too much by some non-Jewish antizionists so to make my stance incredibly clear:

- Free Palestine
- I love being Jewish
- I do not have to compromise love for myself to love other people

05.03.2026 00:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 55    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

I have resolved to be even more autistic

05.03.2026 16:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Autistic Burnout, I begrudgingly choose you!

04.03.2026 23:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I canโ€™t with this lady.

Thereโ€™s a part in here where she suggests reclassifying โ€œlateโ€-dx kids (a heavily female group) separately as โ€œhypersensitiveโ€ instead of autistic. This would be treated as an issue of anxiety & โ€œresilience.โ€ 1/3

04.03.2026 23:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 42    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

An illustrative piece in that it says the quiet part out loud: When you ask *who* is "wrongly" included in the autism spectrum, the response is almost always "women".

In other fields, this phenomenon of women being immediately dismissed, overlooked and underdiagnosed is called medical misogyny.

05.03.2026 08:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 80    ๐Ÿ” 32    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Reminder to myself as well as everyone else to check sources, especially when something matches your priors. The AI slop flowing into the sewer of misinformation is making everything so much worse.

05.03.2026 15:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

The vast majority of the time when I suggest to a client they might be autistic, the reaction is something along the lines of a relieved "Oh so THAT'S why people are so irrational!" Very few are hesitant, and if so it's usually because they have something like impostor syndrome about it.

05.03.2026 14:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Hereโ€™s an actual news article on the topic. It supports the idea that the issue was outdated data, but not that the target was selected by gen AI. www.npr.org/2026/03/04/n...

05.03.2026 15:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 66    ๐Ÿ” 33    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Iโ€™m loving your Jewish genealogist shade-throwing

05.03.2026 15:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you.

05.03.2026 15:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Then you arenโ€™t actually replying to my comment? Please leave, this has been a huge waste of time.

05.03.2026 15:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeahโ€ฆI donโ€™t take career advice from some guyโ€™s substack. If he wants to use chatGPT for his research, best of luck to him.

05.03.2026 15:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What does that have to do with MY choice not to use AI? My CV is fine. I wish theyโ€™d look at it themselves, but I canโ€™t control that. My writing is far better than what I see my peers producing with AI, & I feel lucky that I learned to write before it became a thing.

05.03.2026 15:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Frith doesnโ€™t give any weight to what we autistics say about our own experiences. Sensory accommodations โ€œmay feel good to [autistics], but not actually be good.โ€ Masking is fake because SHE canโ€™t understand how it would be tiring. Utterly appalling levels of ego & disdain for autistic people. 3/3

04.03.2026 23:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 38    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Frith doesnโ€™t give any weight to what we autistics say about our own experiences. Sensory accommodations โ€œmay feel good to [autistics], but not actually be good.โ€ Masking is fake because SHE canโ€™t understand how it would be tiring. Utterly appalling levels of ego & disdain for autistic people. 3/3

04.03.2026 23:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 38    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The word โ€œresilienceโ€ made me groan out loud. I canโ€™t be the only late-dx autistic woman traumatized by constant, unmeetable demands for โ€œresilience.โ€ Just gotta toughen up, ladies! Stop being so hysterical & demanding! 2/3

04.03.2026 23:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 39    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I canโ€™t with this lady.

Thereโ€™s a part in here where she suggests reclassifying โ€œlateโ€-dx kids (a heavily female group) separately as โ€œhypersensitiveโ€ instead of autistic. This would be treated as an issue of anxiety & โ€œresilience.โ€ 1/3

04.03.2026 23:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 42    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0