You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.
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You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.
Many studies have shown that there is no relationship between MMR vaccine and the development of autism. Here are two of the best. This one followed every single child born in Denmark from 1991 through 1998 (n=537,303). There was no association.
in education, creative industries, caring professions, and LABOR ORGANIZING, people are doing things, there's a movement against-a-i.com www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...
Yep, that's it! We have two of these at home, one on my desk and one in the kitchen for cooking and laundry. They're great! (2x ADHD household over here, every hack helps, esp with the time blindness)
a group of people were like "i found a way to live my life as a truer version of myself" and instead of being like "that's beautiful, how can i help" people were like "i don't think schools should have books in them anymore"
i really don't think anybody else's endochrine systems are my business in general and that's because i am not an odious freak who is constantly trying to peek into public bathroom stalls
Presbyterian Pastor David Black in the trenches protesting ICE. Read liberation theologians like Gutierrez, Boff, and so many more. The time is already now. www.chicagofirstchurch.org/pastor-black/
In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich." A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."
Harry: OMW to steal (borrow?) yr gurl, BRT (JK Harry can't text, but he'll come through, with Sue, or Bob's yr uncle)
There’s only one man for the case: Harry Dresden
Your regular reminder that cities aren’t loud. Cars are loud.
Step 1: Cut funding for food stamps Step 2: Stop measuring hunger Step 3: There's no evidence cuts to food stamps led to a rise in hunger www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
The effect of car dependency: in 1940, Basil Rathbone was photographed wearing an overcoat outside his home. As more men relied on cars, overcoats became shorter to accommodate drivers. Today, the right is marketed as an "overcoat," even if it would've been considered more sport coat length in 1940.
companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box
I'm only 10 minutes into this 90s anime & they hit me with this.
BARKITECHTS
jokes about the confederacy are always funny, but you gotta think about it in terms of "Supernatural lasted 5x longer than the Confederacy", which is absolutely hysterical
(reposting to add alt text.) this is very important.
This brilliant photo by @staceywescott.bsky.social.
There are many Great Posters in the history of Christendom. I do not think any of them surpass Søren Kierkegaard
“Henceforth I will write in such wise as to *irritate* people into facing the issues. I can compel no man to agree with my opinions, but at least I can compel him to have an opinion." #PostersInHistory
Honestly, this tickled me more than it should. The pained and panicked look in his eyes, the repetition of the instructions, the awkward - no one is buying it - blaming of the WiFi. *chefs kiss*
ICE killed a Chicago area man last week. His name was Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez. He wasn't "the worst of the worst." He was a cook. ICE hopes we'll forget about him. We won't.
Gale Beer, an historic Yorkshire brew almost lost to the mists of time. Thomas Soden picks some bog myrtle and makes some, and speaks to those committed to keeping its tradition alive. www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/9/...
When ChatGPT first took off this was the use case that confused me the most. People said they “only” used it to write “first drafts.” That’s the most important draft! That’s the thinking part!
people who want other people to stay in sad little grey boxes forever and never be happy in their bodies or desires are villains and cowards and they may be winning right now but by god they will lose as water smooths stone and roots break it, because that fierce joy is roots and water and life
I've mentioned it before, but: no where in the US has the tradition of "jailing politicians for the social good" like the Midwest, and Illinois in particular
It's podcast turtles all the way down
“Frog, Frog,” cried Toad, “taste these cookies that I have made.” Frog ate one of the cookies, “These are the best cookies I have ever eaten!” said Frog.
I know Andor isn't the answer to fascism and too many people get their politics from mega corporations' media but this scene and dialogue is truly one of the most clear and effective communications of how The Machine works and what it relies on
recipe link here (you can also freeze it or make a smaller batch if you don't want to jar it): www.alewyfe.com/canning-spic...
Apple butter season is upon us, and I just posted my spiced apple butter recipe if you want to make a batch at home! 🍏Great way to use up bruised or ugly apples, and makes your house smell AMAZING. 🍽️
the right has spent decades claiming the mantle of free speech for themselves to great effect and it's time for the left to take a turn this is the united states of america and you should be free to express political opinions without being hounded out of society by a government-fueled hate mob
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🚨BREAKING: Missourians fighting the gerrymandered congressional map passed last week by Republican state lawmakers are laying the groundwork for a ballot referendum that could give voters the power to block the map from going into effect. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Literally the only reason this is a Historic Park. So if someone goes there now and asks a ranger why this place is historic… what happens? “I’m not allowed to tell you”?
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jesus christ
When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.
This is Finny. He doesn’t go chasing waterfalls. He carefully studies their timing and arrives in advance. 14/10 very impressive (TT: jordancain70)
I would also accept a big fluffy dog of indeterminate breed if the raven is not available.
Making America Healthy Again by taking away preventative low-cost healthcare, especially for women.
Seriously, when I noticed she was driving while mostly looking into her phone camera and not at the road... Mistakes? Lady you are gonna to run over someone's child. 🤬
oh noes (for those who don't know, white peaches are delicious but you can't can white peaches. So you have to freeze, dehydrate, ferment or eat them fresh, bc they're not acidic enough to safely can... so a whole tree worth is a lot to deal with or give away before they go bad!)
Me in August: Ok, I think I might finally have enough jars Me in Sept: Ope, gonna need some more jars🫙 (9 qts of peach juice & another qt of peach halves are canning now. Ginger peach butter simmering in the instant pot.) ok but where am I gonna PUT all this, gonna have to reorganize the pantry! 😆
the Chicago trees know us
weird that the fash are so obsessed with Valhalla. as if any of them would ever willingly walk across a rainbow bridge
There’s a chill in the air and a golden glow is starting to descend, time I think to revisit my embroidery, The Lady of Autumn, changing the season as she passes…🌿🌺🍁🍂🍄🟫 Completely freehand stitched back in Nov 2020.🪡 #stitchedart #thesewingsongbird
BOURDAIN: alright, seasoning. Im tasting.... salt. But there's something else MEDIEVAL SPIT-BOY: m'lord hath a fine palate. we have added notte megge, a spice moft deere
BOURDAIN: so ive had joints of mutton everywhere. exeter, wroexeter, berwick. Ive never seen a joint of mutton prepared like this MEDIEVAL SPIT-BOY: we roaste thee meat under a pafte which keeps the juices, and renders the meat moft tendere BOURDAIN: *chuckling* wow
fucking yes man, SOMEBODY SAID IT
Psst, don't tell the canning police; I canned peach pie filling in an antique jar!🫙 It's not terribly risky as long as you unlock the wire bail after the jars cool (if vacuum loss happens, it's apparent... don't try this with the zinc screw-top lids, but this is no different than using Weck jars) 🍽️
You can fascinate a girl by giving her a piece of cheese*(12kg) My partner brought homemade venison summer sausage (some of which had jalapeno and cheddar in it) to our first date. I made cranberry mustard. That was the better part of a decade ago; we're still together, so...
I've unfollowed soooooo many of these people over this (I also deleted insta from my phone bc the algo's a "feel bad" machine throwing this stuff at me bc my hobbies are a tight venn diagram with ick). I stan Hank Shaw, the rest of the pack gets very thin when you dig into the folks they platform.
I've unfollowed soooooo many of these people over this (I also deleted insta from my phone bc the algo's a "feel bad" machine throwing this stuff at me bc my hobbies are a tight venn diagram with ick). I stan Hank Shaw, the rest of the pack gets very thin when you dig into the folks they platform.
Political violence is bad because civil conflict is absolutely fucking terrible for everyone. It empowers the worst people within a society and feeds into endless cycles of escalating violence that get harder and harder to stop.
I still want swords to be turned to plowshares, even when the guy who loved swords gets killed by one
Fair warning to autumn: I am going to wring every last drop of serotonin out of your withered little husk of a carcass this year
"Oh the left is so violent bloo bloo bloo" Why is the Planned Parenthood next door the the supermarket I frequent built like a bunker again?
if i get killed, you can quote stuff i wrote. that's why i wrote it
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."
"why does restaurant food taste better than food cooked at home" The cook does not care if you live or die and uses salt and butter accordingly
oh no they yelled at him in a restaurant? that sort of vile attack has only happened to everyone who has ever worked in a restaurant
We condemn the Supreme Court’s decision to allow federal agents to profile people based on how we look, the language we speak, and the type of work we do. This is a dangerous attack on workers’ freedoms in Los Angeles and across the country, and our solidarity will not waver!
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
The Defense Department has an annual budget of one trillion dollars. It would cost ~$25 billion to solve food insecurity in the United States. DoD loses track of more than that amount annually. This is a choice.
There's actually a copy of this on one of our cookbook shelves (a gift to my partner from an aunt when he went off to college @ the time). It has glossy hardboard pages, like a toddler's picture-book, with photos of the cans (in case the Man can't read Good?). Real "man-babies first cook book" vibes
The Wolf Point settlement was the site of the first hotel (the Sauganash, which had Greek Revival trim, perhaps referenced by the wave pattern around the device as well as obviously, the river). The Point had 3 taverns, a small drug store, and the earliest theater performances (@ the Sauganash).
Tl;dr it represents Wolf Point, the junction where the Main Branch meets the North and South Branch of the Chicago River.
stand for the flag / kneel for the cross
The U.S. Forest Service posted notice of its intention to roll back significant protections on some 45 million acres of mid-elevation forestland, and will accept public comments through Sept. 19 to gauge Americans’ appetite for the change.
“Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It’s that you’re destroying the peg.” Oh, I like this explanation a lot
One of the most iconic videos I’ve ever filmed—stepping outside our cabin in Venetie, Alaska and seeing an auroral substorm occurring directly overhead. This was a legendary view.
🎶 peaches need to go in a can, put there by a wo-man but she so very tiiiirrrred living in the city gonna grow me a lot of peaches living in the city time to can so many peaches 🫙🌱🍑🥧 if I had my little way I'd eat peaches every day Nature's candy in my hand or can or a pie 🎶
(just posted it!)
whiskey peach jam recipe is up (I used rye for this year's batch but I think it's best with bourbon or blended whiskey)! www.alewyfe.com/bourbon-brow...
Let the record show that the first thing the new "Department of War" did was threaten to invade an American city.
Some of the signage I saw while running errands
There's no fighting in here. This is the war room? And we're just going to... show everyone the Big Board? Ok, as long as it's wrong... Everything is so stupid, it hurts.
Because FEMA isn't going to be there for you, and NOAA might not even be able to tell you what's coming. Good luck!
Peach harvest is coming in Not pictured: Already canned Three and a halfquarts of peach nectar Four+ pints of salted rye brown sugar peach jam To be canned At least seven quarts of peach pie filling Peach wine might also happen @alewyfe.bsky.social doing all of the bringing in and putting up
This just unlocked a core memory of my dad and I building something like this for an 80's science fair entry, but it involved a couple framing nails and wires mounted to a board with a penciled in circuit diagram? I think it was on a lantern battery, but I don't remember for sure... 🌭⚡
I'm working on it! Trying to write up notes & have like 5 different recipe post drafts open now (plus all the reference pages, it's ADHD-tab city over here right now). 😆That's the first one I finished (canned last night, trying to recreate one I made a few yrs ago but didn't take good notes on then)
It smells sooo good in here y'all, like the essence of fall. I'm making apple butter, peach pie filling, & whiskey peach brown sugar jam & ginger peach butter bc all the fruit on our trees is ripening at once. I'd say I wish I could bottle this smell but I guess that's literally what I'm doing? 🍽️🫙
Attn all ICE agents! Here’s an announcement from our front window: Chicago hates you, and you are not welcome here!
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”
They keep losing in court because everything they’re doing is illegal
Plus like, do they know what happens to their dog if they aren't vaccinated and bite someone, even if they DON'T have rabies? If you love your dog even a little why would you chance that? If you're LUCKY they will be confiscated & QT'ed for weeks and weeks but probably, just put down!
Texas loaded busses with desperate migrants and dropped them off in Chicago like trash in the middle of winter. We welcomed them into our communities. Now Texas is sending its National Guard to terrorize them on our streets. In our neighborhoods. What the fuck.
Laws are just vibes now bro, you can do whatever you want (apparently)
(also to clarify, this is not about my brother, who is none of those things; he just saw some jingoistic yellow journalism nonsense & said he should have known better & fact-checked it when I pointed out our per-capita crime rate compared to oh, 47 or so other major & minor cities... )
It's infrastructure week! Err, month? Gotta get er done before the snow hits, eh?
I guess if you're a racist who's terrified of public transit or being around people who don't all look exactly like you it's a total horror-show but if you're not, it isn't? What I'm actually scared about is the threatened illegal occupation of the city I love & harassment of my neighbors by feds!
Sarah Lyons 
Julia 🐝 🏳️🌈 