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He/him 50+ male, recently learned I'm autistic & even more recently learned I'm also adhd. Work as an athletic trainer (sports medicine = sort of a cross between an EMT & PT) with 30yrs experience working with youth athletes. Husband, father, runner

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US Representative Ted Lieu (L), Democrat from California, speaks to a reporter as he departs a news conference at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP via Getty Images)

US Representative Ted Lieu (L), Democrat from California, speaks to a reporter as he departs a news conference at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP via Getty Images)

Ted Lieu: “A foreign hacker likely has the Epstein Files — the best way to prevent blackmail of government officials, such as Trump & Howard Lutnick, would be for AG Pam Bondi to stop the cover up & release all the Epstein Files as required by law”

11.03.2026 19:42 👍 7552 🔁 2028 💬 236 📌 114
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#TheWriteWomen In March, post book by a female author everyday
• must be something you've read
• must be something you've enjoyed or learned something from

💙📚 #books #authors #bookchallenge #womenshistorymonth #booksky

Day 8

12.03.2026 17:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ADHD may be autism-lite in a sense. And I don't think it is really about attention deficits in the way autism causes deficits with interacting with people in the sense that we can turn it off when we need to, so we should call it something else.

I say so as someone diagnosed with both.

12.03.2026 15:24 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

And you can't figure why everyone else is shifting gears so easily and you struggle like crazy

12.03.2026 15:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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MAGA don't care. You can show them a video of Trump raping children in Technicolor and they won't fucking care. Racism is a powerful drug. Vote in record numbers. Get someone to vote. There's no staying home. Make sure any senior you know has checked for their mail-in ballot. We've got this.

12.03.2026 15:21 👍 134 🔁 44 💬 17 📌 2
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What happened to the Iranian girls school was tragic and horrific, and it’s become clear it was an American strike. The President's claim it could've been Iran was always a lie. There needs to be a full and transparent investigation so that it doesn't happen again.

12.03.2026 00:09 👍 2908 🔁 845 💬 215 📌 52

There is never any money for food, for housing, for healthcare or anything good.

But they can all of a sudden spend billions per day on wars.

PER DAY!!!

12.03.2026 15:31 👍 274 🔁 73 💬 17 📌 5
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“when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money”

And by “we,” Donald means ExxonMobil, and by “make a lot of money,” he means off of you.

12.03.2026 15:27 👍 1461 🔁 515 💬 127 📌 24
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DISTRACTIONS DON’T WORK.

COVERUPS WON’T WORK.

NOT EVEN WAR.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

11.03.2026 23:03 👍 6835 🔁 4555 💬 1 📌 0
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#TheWriteWomen In March, post book by a female author everyday
• must be something you've read
• must be something you've enjoyed or learned something from

💙📚 #books #authors #bookchallenge #womenshistorymonth #booksky

Day 7

12.03.2026 15:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Queen of All Mayhem: The Blood-Soaked Life and Mysterio… A riveting, deeply researched, blood-on-the-spurs biogr…

And also book #41 for the year. Interesting story but so so delivery

Check out this book on Goodreads: Queen of All Mayhem: The Blood-Soaked Life and Mysterious Death of Belle Starr, the Most Dangerous Woman in the West www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

#booksky

12.03.2026 03:31 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Prodigy of the Wanderlust: A Tri-Galactic Trek Novel (S… Created by mistake, Ensign Mike is a cyborg mushroom wh…

Book #40 for the year and a great conclusion to a wonderful trilogy.

Check out this book on Goodreads: Prodigy of the Wanderlust: A Tri-Galactic Trek Novel www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

#booksky

12.03.2026 03:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#TheWriteWomen In March, post book by a female author everyday
• must be something you've read
• must be something you've enjoyed or learned something from

💙📚 #books #authors #bookchallenge #womenshistorymonth #booksky

Day 6

12.03.2026 01:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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#TheWriteWomen In March, post book by a female author everyday
• must be something you've read
• must be something you've enjoyed or learned something from

💙📚 #books #authors #bookchallenge #womenshistorymonth #booksky

Day 5

11.03.2026 22:12 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Share of election spending by billionaires before Citizens United: 0.3%

Share of election spending by billionaires in 2024: 19%

It is not a coincidence that we're about to get our first trillionaire while working people struggle to afford rent, groceries, and healthcare.

10.03.2026 16:50 👍 567 🔁 186 💬 6 📌 5
Proving an autistic boy has meltdowns by prodding him into one | Kate Belgrave

Hackney council wants proof that a disabled & autistic child melts down on public transport - so they're going to force him onto public transport and watch. And they're STILL trying to evict this boy & his family from their council home. Is this abuse...? www.katebelgrave.com/2026/03/prov...

11.03.2026 19:48 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A tumblr post by silverSarcasm that reads "it's so (not) funny when abled people complain about how ~hard~ it is to accommodate disabled people considering the fact that most disabled people will not only go to great lengths to try and create accommodations for ourselves but are also much more likely to try and accommodate other disabled people. Like we are faced with so much shit and we still try and make things easier for each other and then abled people are just like ':/ disabled people just aren't worth the bare minimum of effort tbh'" and a response from onewordTest "disabled people always end up accommodating abled people. when we try to pass, that's us accommodating them. We do it constantly, everyday, we are coerced into it even if we don't want to do it consciously because we live in a world that hammers that message into us. And when they get asked to accommodate us eve a little bit, suddenly it's just too much for them."

A tumblr post by silverSarcasm that reads "it's so (not) funny when abled people complain about how ~hard~ it is to accommodate disabled people considering the fact that most disabled people will not only go to great lengths to try and create accommodations for ourselves but are also much more likely to try and accommodate other disabled people. Like we are faced with so much shit and we still try and make things easier for each other and then abled people are just like ':/ disabled people just aren't worth the bare minimum of effort tbh'" and a response from onewordTest "disabled people always end up accommodating abled people. when we try to pass, that's us accommodating them. We do it constantly, everyday, we are coerced into it even if we don't want to do it consciously because we live in a world that hammers that message into us. And when they get asked to accommodate us eve a little bit, suddenly it's just too much for them."

autistic people being forced to mask is an example of accommodations abled people demand using the constant threat of violence

#meme #anarchism #anarchyMeme #disabled #disability #accommodations #accessibility

11.03.2026 20:05 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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The word #Parasites might be defined as #Many #Blood #Sucking #Leeches and #Politicians such as named below #Collapse #Aware #Autistic #Savant #Autodidact #Polymath #Anarchist #Political #Social #Critique #Free 😎 I love the American version of the English language. It's evolution is still ongoing 😁

11.03.2026 20:37 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

i don't wanna TMI here but like

i'm autistic and have kinky sex and if anything being autistic has made things safer for all involved

the idea that you can autism your way into his situation requires that the person be decidedly not high-functioning, which would show up in the rest of their life

11.03.2026 19:38 👍 26 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Incidentally the “Gaiman is autistic” defense these people use is not only very insulting to autistic people, who understand consent, but is … a little implausible given that he’s an incredibly emotionally skilled person! That - and talent - made his career: LBJ level social skills.

11.03.2026 18:00 👍 675 🔁 78 💬 29 📌 10
Purple-toned promotional graphic from Autistic Girls Network featuring a quote that reads: “Being autistic is a different way of being human. It comes with challenges, but it also brings depth, insight, creativity, and a unique perspective on the world, and these qualities are worthy of understanding, respect, and celebration in their own right.” The background shows a young woman wearing headphones. Text at the bottom reads: “What is awesome about being an autistic female – New blog post.”

Purple-toned promotional graphic from Autistic Girls Network featuring a quote that reads: “Being autistic is a different way of being human. It comes with challenges, but it also brings depth, insight, creativity, and a unique perspective on the world, and these qualities are worthy of understanding, respect, and celebration in their own right.” The background shows a young woman wearing headphones. Text at the bottom reads: “What is awesome about being an autistic female – New blog post.”

Public conversation often focuses on barriers. But autistic girls & women also bring insight, creativity, deep thinking, & powerful perspectives that enrich our communities & workplaces. This blog post explores why these strengths deserve recognition, respect, & celebration. https://bit.ly/AGNSWblog

11.03.2026 20:01 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Women get shamed for sleeping with too many men. Men get shamed for sleeping with men. So clearly society decided that sleeping with men is the embarrassing part.

Women get shamed for sleeping with too many men. Men get shamed for sleeping with men. So clearly society decided that sleeping with men is the embarrassing part.

11.03.2026 20:03 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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#TheWriteWomen In March, post book by a female author everyday
• must be something you've read
• must be something you've enjoyed or learned something from

💙📚 #books #authors #bookchallenge #womenshistorymonth #booksky

Day 4

11.03.2026 20:21 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Alphabet #bookchallenge - one book per day that you’ve read, based on the letter of the day!

Today’s letter is ‘R'.
#booksky

11.03.2026 20:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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129 Years Later, The First-Ever Sci-Fi Film Has Finally Been Found Considered lost for over a century, Georges Méliès' 'Gugusse and the Automaton' features cinema’s earliest robot.

On Georges Méliès’s re-discovered 1897 sci-fi short, and the enduring anxiety of technological replacement:
www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

09.03.2026 22:47 👍 152 🔁 61 💬 4 📌 2

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11.03.2026 05:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Unfortunately since neither cover or title failed to grab me, probably would never have read that. Have you tried getting free ARC (booksirens or other) our there in return for reviews and ratings?

11.03.2026 01:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just checked out your book. And yeah title didn't interest me and cover was ok. There are a ton of book covers with someone standing in front of a planet, and it doesn't really stand out. After having read the synopsis on Amazon though, it does sound interesting.

11.03.2026 01:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Usually the cover, but sometimes the title 60/40??? Takes the description/synopsis to seal the deal. I only take recs from people I know their reading tastes well. Opening sentence means little. Seen great ones that go no where and mediocre ones that become fantastic.

11.03.2026 00:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I liked Moby Dick, but LMAO. Fairly accurate.

10.03.2026 23:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0