Impulse buy at Lidl, mostly because I wanted the Superman minifig. It bugs me that they put two characters in the box and gave the mech suit to 100% the wrong guy, but toy companies are like that sometimes
Happy Thanksgiving!
New short educational animation films about Autistic Experiences from our team of creative people at @thrivingautistic.bsky.social
We would love to hear your feedback!
Discovering You're Autistic
youtu.be/-eDv2omDMko?...
One of the new #StarTrek shows should have an openly autistic or otherwise neurodiverse human character, and not an autistic-coded alien or machine intelligence. OK, Barclay, but he was "just shy".
At The Bath in Beggars Bush
We're going to get a lot of verbiage about the new pope for the next while. Just a load of pontifficating.
Happy #Easter
My neighbor was complaining they were short on money. I went over there and found a TON of savings for them. First, I sold both of their cars for them, I fired the babysitter who watches their children after school, and I canceled the fire insurance on their home. I saved that family thousands of dollars! Despite all I've done for them, they're now complaining that they can't get to work and they need their babysitter or the kids will be left unsupervised. The solutions they need are so easy; I own a car service and they can pay me to drive them to work. I also own interest in a day care down the road. I just can't understand what they're so upset about.
We really need a consortium of economists and plumbers to devise a system that actually achieves something approaching fairness
“They avoided one another's faces, for fear of what they might see mirrored there. Each man thought: one of the others is bound to say something soon, some protest, and then I'll murmur agreement, not actually say anything, I'm not stupid as that, but definitely murmur very firmly, so that the others will be in no doubt that I thoroughly disapprove, because at a time like this it behooves all decent men to nearly stand up and be almost heard... No one said anything. The cowards, thought each man.” ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
Coincidentally read this part of Terry Pratchett's "Guards! Guards!" over lunch. (My first Pratchett book.) Here, the soon-to-be-former heads of the city are realizing there's a new monster in charge, each wishing one of the others would stand in protest. I heard Pratchett was incisive, but dang. 👀
This is an interesting thread. Thinking about it, the Federation is pretty much the only pop culture government that is represented as GOOD. There are a few in fantasy—Valdemar, maybe LOTR elves?—but it seems to crop up more in SF, and a lot more in an alien UN where the struggle is humans joining.
Some wonderful feedback from our Discovery Programme for Autistic adults.
Funded by Rethink Ireland and Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
What a perfect description of Kid Rock
Too bad he has a fetish for that.
WHOA! Hey. Calm down.
I'm sorry you had to see this come again. It should have taken more than one lifetime.
Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.
The final showing of Surface Beauty by Dalkey Players' own Simon Cunningham will be at the Bray One-act Drama Festival this coming Friday. If you missed it in Dun Laoghaire this is the last chance to see!
www.mermaidartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...
Capitalism is based on the ridiculous notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a closed, finite system. In biology such behaviour of cells is called "cancer".
A few more people have been added to our Neuro-Affirming Starter pack of Neurodivergent Practitioners. Everyone listed here is also in our Neurodivergent Practitioners Directory
hosted by Autistic-led nonprofit, Thriving Autistic
Find out more:
neurodivergentpractitioners.org
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So me...
I do wonder if the right to secede from the union is going to come up again in the next few years
Thriving Autistic Logo on pale cream background. Quote reads: One of the most powerful things for me is connecting with others who understand, who accept and who hear. I learn from other's shared experiences every week. Discovery Programme Feedback
We have been able to offer a fully funded 6 week Discovery Programme for Autistic Adults over the past few months thanks to @Rethink_Ireland and @dcediy
Delighted to share wonderful feedback from those who took part and to know how positive and transformative this is.
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