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Trump has the charisma of a mortician’: Donald Jr confuses dad with DeSantis

In online show, former president’s son also accidentally says father’s energy ‘makes Jeb Bush look like an Olympian’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/26/donald-trump-jr-mix-up-desantis

The kids are going to be alright. They're fighting like hell for their future. Will you join them?

Orange County valedictorian calls on school board members to resign at graduation

“Our teachers get paid virtually nothing, yet they protect their student body to the highest standard possible. What do they get in return? They’re called groomers by parents on Facebook. Instead of our school board backing these teachers, they buy into the narrative and concern themselves more with depriving students of their basic freedoms, releasing policies to take away Black history and forcibly outing students who are not heterosexual,” Mthethwa said, calling on the immediate resignation of three members of the Orange County School Board."

https://dailyprogress.com/community/orangenews/orange-county-valedictorian-calls-on-school-board-members-to-resign-at-graduation/article_a1cbcf70-f9af-11ed-9eff-ff57adb96e35.html

#Antifa #Education #News

Another question for @actuallyautistic #AskingAutistics from an #ActuallyAutistic writer/psychologist

I'm compiling a list for diagnosticians of frequently asked questions following a diagnosis. What did you want to know? What should we make sure we can answer when disclosing the diagnosis?

i just got into bed, which is the highlight of my day on most days ​

BUT NOT TODAY!

#today, the highlight of my day was listening to @viralvulpes's cover of "someone like you" by #adele ​ ​

https://cutie.city/@viralvulpes/110433222355572214

it's SO good. listen to it. you won't regret it ​ ​

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivers surprise commencement speech to Johns Hopkins https://apnews.com/article/fc3a8dbcad582cd050ba864914e764a5 This is striking. The aggressor can’t leave his own house for fear of arrest over war crimes. Meanwhile #Zelenskyy is enjoying Global Rock Star status.

My newest book on the shelf, alongside two far superior authors: David Foster Wallace and Irvine Welsh.

#books #bookstodon #writing #author #davidfosterwallace #irvinewelsh

Ok I am going to brag about my tattoo. The TRAPPIST-1 planetary system played a fundamental role in my PhD research, and I was PI on >40 hrs total observing time of the star with the VLA and ALMA radio telescopes.

Going across my arms are the star & all (known) TRAPPIST-1 planets, and when I hold my arms out their distances are to scale.

Sounds like a neat seminar topic.

Do you form deep connections with animals or do you find them unpredictable and anxiety producing?

image: @autism_sketches
https://ko-fi.com/autismsketches

#AskingAutistics #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD @actuallyautistic

#Hello! #Today we launch GayCity.LGBT. This is a public server is for the #lgbtqia community and the fabulous people that support our community as well. ❤️ 🏳️‍🌈 Accounts must be approved.

#Please #Boost

I’ve installed the Neuralink brain implant and can no longer tell a train from a long line of trucks.

@autism101 @actuallyautistic I love animals. So much more than humans, my least fave animal.

When my GP first said when giving me my psych referral, that "you need to figure out who Loops is",

I did feel like I don't know who I am. Which one of the many things I'm into is really 'it'? Why does everyone else have a focus? When I try and answer who I am, why can't I decide? I know it's not many personalities or that type of thing. I know I'm not in conflict over that *I* like those things.

Slowly, that's changing.

The conflict was picking. I'm many things. And it's ok to be many things. I don't have to match others expectations of being one thing. That's me. I don't need to decide.

I hope you know, it's ok to be who you already are, too ✌️

#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #ActuallyADHD #WhoAmI #PersonalReflection @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd

Reminder that we have literally zero idea what the actual covid case numbers are in Australia as most people aren't testing if they have symptoms, and most of those who do test positive aren't recording their results with official records.

So when you read about the increases and the new peak were entering in time for winter, that's only a tiny fraction of what's out there.

So please, please, put on a fucking mask.

#covid #Australia

Sat on the tram and this huge guy looked at me, wide-eyed, looked away, and then looked again -- like, he stared. It was intense. I started to get nervous: was he angry? Deranged? Hostile?

"Are you ok?" I asked

He jumped "Sorry," he said. "I was just trying to solve the equations on your jumper."

I laughed. We nodded, one nerd to another, and that was that.

💙 Sometimes people surprise you 💙

Thanks to the power of caffeine, I'm gonna do a little CAN bus sniffing on my car because I'm a dork that enjoys building weird unnecessary gadgets

Something new - a #Tortie portrait for the fans of #Cats out there. ❤️ Prints, etc. found here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/dilute-tortie-portrait-mark-tisdale.html
#catsofmastodon #DigitalArt #Painting #DiluteTortie #MastoArt #CreativeToots #ArtMatters #MarkOnArt

If a budget deal emerges from these talks, unbalanced extremists on the right and progressives on the left are going to be unhappy--the look atter of which includes myself.

I am feeling resigned to an inevitable compromise.

There's sadly almost no way around this.

Another fun mindfuck of the past 12 years is the self deluded, self loathing capacity for redpill / Gamergate/ incel types to simuktaneously perceive they are wicked edgy free thinkers all while being platformed to lick boots and pleasure the taints of Apartheidist Elon Musk, Neofascist Peter Thiel, and the like.

#fascism #misogyny #gamergate

This song always helps me relax. Maybe it will help you?

https://youtu.be/IW50IpMOeV4