Sam Trajan Saunders

Claiming audiobooks "don't count" is ableist and stupid. Consume your content in the fashion most enjoyable and convenient. #booksky

My favourite line on the repirt:

[Kid] doesn't like being condescended to.

My kid had an IQ test done as part of an educational psychologist assessment.

His highest and lowest scores:
Verbal reasoning 99.9th centile
Processing speed 9th centile.

Translation: he understands exactly what you're asking him to do; he just needs to think about whether he's going to do it.

The word "bolus" isn't used often enough in social discourse.

And it all begins to make sense.

Middle aged woman nurturing a punk anarchist.

An illustration of the inside of my head.

Possibly the best clap back against ignorant antivaxxers.

A page from the New York Times. The headline reads, "When I’m Mistakenly Put on an Email Chain, Should I Hit ‘Reply All’ Asking to Be Removed?" The text of the article is, "No." Several inches of blank space follows, and the the very bottom, an italicized line of text reads, "The New York Times’s internal email system contributed to this report."

It was even better in print. Best part is the credit line at the very bottom: "The New York Times's internal email system contributed to this report.:

Remember the outrage when Israel first targeted hospitals in Gaza?

Now, the last hospital in northern Gaza is destroyed, babies are freezing to death & the WHO Director-General narrowly survived an attack in Yemen.

This genocide is fuelled by UK arms sales & Western support.

I'm ready for it.

When Families Need Housing, Georgia Will Pay for Foster Care Rather Than Provide Assistance In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a WABE and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be chea...

In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing."

The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care.

One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:

I have a similar, but thankfully sporadic, problem. I once chatted with my brother in law for about 15 minutes before his panicky expression clued me in that I was, in fact, accosting a total stranger.

This is without question the most beautiful dinosaur I have ever seen.

I'm not interesting enough to be neurospicy. My son suggests that I describe myself as a neurospud. #ActuallyAutistic #ContentedlyBoring

A large earthworm crawling out of a crack and over the sidewalk

Happiness is finding a big worm

It isn't just me, right?

If you've never heard foxes laughing before, here's some foxes laughing.🔊🆙

📹: www.saveafox.org

28 Years Later trailer. How have I never known about *that* poem recorded by *that* actor? #AutisticObsessed

Many, many thoughts.

Why are the pretty ones so often batshit insane?

Here are my book recommendations for the new year:

Read the books you already bought.

Hey writers! Please try to be less fascinating in your stories and your characters. How am I supposed to dream up my own fables if you leave all these absorbing gems lying around for me to trip into.

Please and thank you.

Just heard my first Christmas song of the year. 6th December -- not bad.

Teacher: What is the first rule of thermodynamics?

Me: We don't talk about thermodynamics

When signage designers watch Sinister before work... @crobertcargill.bsky.social