Whitney sur l'astéroïde B-612 (she/her/elle/ella/sie)

Someone please make a meme of these super talented women (who are also world-class at aiming) whipping that thing back and smacking him flat in his big, ugly face. I’m not good at that but I will totally repost and boost.

It’s like a sick person being strangled but they still try to talk and talk and talk. Gross how our lives hang on the words of a clown for whom words mean nothing.

Omg yes I switch off the radio when his voice goes on and on and try to time when the sandpaper-swirled-through-mucous torture is over but sometimes I forget to turn it back on LOOKING AT YOU NPR.

Heat risk paradoxes, disease trends, and food alerts The Dose (June 23)

Heat waves can be dangerous to health. They send more people to the ER with heat stroke, asthma attacks, dehydration, and heart problems.
https://open.substack.com/pub/yourlocalepidemiologist/p/heat-risk-paradoxes-disease-trends

Omg yesss. The 1st psych I went to, I brought a thesis and bibliography. I had known for months but needed an official dx for accommodations. He did. Not. Get. It. Even at that point I was like, uhhh how did you skip the aha now this one is easy part? Glad I found someone who got it.

Wow, Cuomo’s rant is so petty, pathetic and desperate! He sounds like tRump but less word salady. Which isn’t something to be proud of.

This US citizen fully supports you! 🇨🇦

Yes! What can the general public do to support them and increase their collective power?

Perhaps because inclusion matters immensely to us and perhaps because some people also use chatbots differently than you do. Those may be two ideas you haven’t considered and are well worth exploring. There are many wonderful books and articles on the subject. Best of luck to you!

Of course chatbots aren’t P2P. But they are trained on the output of actual people & are only as good as the data they’re trained on. If that data is prejudiced or flawed, the interactions between individuals & chatbots will reflect the same flaws as P2P. That’s the thing a lot of folks don’t get.

Sadly in many ways it is truly PhD level. Most PhDs have no idea how to talk to us much less include us in any domain. If it’s trained on that, it’s badly trained.

When a certain way of being in the world is so unquestionably accepted that it becomes the hegemonic value then giving answers that are always tailored to that value is highly problematic. Consider a doctor treating everyone as if they were female, and only answering them accordingly.

So if you have your ovaries removed then…you’re a woman until the day of the surgery and then you’re not? And also by that logic a 5 year old girl is a woman? This is worse than one of the plots of her craptastic books.

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How is it that the author of some of the crappiest books ever is getting…even dumber? 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

BlueSky is not a place for hatred or bigotry. Try to keep up with the times. And learn some facts. DQSH has zero to do with grooming. Good for you reading to kids for 40 years here’s a cookie but seriously drag queen story hour > some bigoted frump with a double digit audience. 😆

Maybe it would’ve threatened the illusion of control and the firmly entrenched hierarchy as well as breaking with tradition and requiring creativity and flexibility to implement…oh, yeah. All that.

Having stuff in writing so we could have clear guidelines to follow. Organizing stuff for repeated projects so we weren’t thrown into preventable chaos. Flex time or hybrid work on days we all didn’t need to be physically present. Apparently that was too weird for them. Beats me!

Exactly! Universal design is where it’s at. I am continually baffled why it’s not adopted. Like, my “special treatment” was stuff that benefits all human bodies and minds. A real 30 minutes for lunch. Shutting my door to focus. Taking walks on sanctioned breaks. Communicating clearly.

It’s so true. That look of “oh now you think you can get special treatment while the rest of us have to actually work hard, huh?” The wielding of hegemonic neurotypicality is an ignorant yet powerful thing to behold.

Yeah! Same! 💪🌈 I’ve found my greatest strength and support comes from our community. Not institutions…maybe one day. But we are the real cavalry.

I hear ya! I’ve definitely had to have things break and reform into radical acceptance. It’s never a linear process either!

Thanks for providing a platform where I feel safe and supported doing so! That is everything. ❤️

I am so glad you have this and see your strength in getting to this point!

I hear you 100%. Before I disclosed I was treated as the quirky eccentric who got results. After I disclosed…wow…the cruelty seemed to be the point. It was like they were waiting for someone to pick apart and my disclosure provided them with the perfect opportunity.

Hence why I’m self employed. It’s no picnic, but it doesn’t make me want to unalive myself either. I’ve never shared this publicly before, and even though I’m a strong self-advocate and know they were 100% wrong I’ve felt a ton of shame over it all. That was 6 years ago and tbh it still hurts.

I was a very high performing employee before that cruelty storm picked up. Not only could I not focus, it broke my mental health and affected my whole family. They basically forced me to quit (so, no unemployment).

I disclosed my dx when I started working FT at a major R-1 university (same one where I completed my PhD). My accommodations weren’t just ignored, they were weaponized against me. They constantly changed my schedule, made me open my office door—all unnecessary and designed to destabilize me.

Same here!

Same here!