ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

My previous actually autistic posts gave me some excellent answers and furthered my processing a lot. Thanks to everyone involved! 💜

I self-diagnosed very late. Some big reasons have been a) not having certain stereotypical qualities such as aversion of eye contact, and b) scoring between NT and autistic in many online tests. Interestingly, the realization that I'm autistic wasn't that big identity-wise. I've understood I have certain qualities ages ago. Instead of a change in my identity, it's been a big relief to understand why I'm this and that.

There's still lots to process though. I'm only now coming to grips with how my memory works, for instance.

Ordered two books on autism, Neurotribes and the Devon Price book. Really looking forward to reading those.

#ActuallyAutistic @actuallyautistic

Thanks to everyone who came out to my set!

‼️🇺🇸President Biden to immediately sign Ukraine aid bill into law, he assures President Zelensky (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3855528-biden-to-immediately-sign-ukraine-aid-bill-into-law-he-assures-zelensky.html #Ukraine #USA #UnitedStates #Press #News #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#BanRussianAgricultureFromEU
#BanRussianGrainFromPoland
#NoUSRepublicans2024
#BetterOldThanSeditious

@actuallyautistic Seriously, though, I'd be willing to pay money for quality children's shows that feature autistic major characters for my little ones to watch.

I love watching righties lose their shit over stuff like this. I mean, it’s absolutely fucking glorious.
#RubyBridges

The other Ukraine bill also passed in the House:
The bill to expand Russian sanctions and start confiscating Russian assets for Ukraine!

The US far-right is made up of some of the stupidest people you'll ever encounter -- folks who claim to be proud of a country they've never bothered to study.
To anyone who doesn't get what's funny, this statue was designed and built in France. Jesse slept through third grade.

@joekoffee Good Morning Joe☕️☕️☕️ and #HappySundayFunday to you✌️

#Shenanigans

Elon Musk expressed concern about the lack of an exit strategy from the war in Ukraine

"What worries me the most is that there is no exit strategy, just an eternal war in which children die in the trenches from artillery or machine guns and snipers, in minefields," Musk said on the social network X.

- Exit strategy? That is easy: Russia is free to leave Ukraine at any time! Who else could possibly exit??

Mykhailo Podolyak, Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, emphasized the strategy: The withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukrainian territory.

Podolyak, further commenting on Musk's post, said that after such posts by global influencers, "one has to wonder once again about the lack of basic logic in the modern world."

The total price tag of the measures is about $95.3 billion. About $50 billion of it will be used here in the U.S. to replenish the supplies that will go abroad.

Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says the Senate will take up the measure on Tuesday. Senators had gone home for recess but will come back to vote. The Department of Defense says it is ready to rush crucial supplies as soon as it gets the go-ahead. - Heather Cox Richardson

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-20-2024

PHARAOH'S TOMB

why can't trump just fucking die

In Odesa, Russia attacked and destroyed two terminals filled with agricultural products intended to be exported to both Asian and African countries.

Russia is an enemy to the world, not only to Ukraine.

The existential danger of living in America under Republican presidents🚨(and under some R governors/legislatures):

Arguing that “violence isn't random but a problem in public health & preventive medicine,” the researchers were blunt:

“Suicide, homicide, & combined suicide/homicide rates from 1900 to 2010 were found to be associated with an increase under Republican presidents & a decrease under Democratic ones with statistical significance.”

#VoteBlue2024 #GOPDeathCult https://hartmannreport.com/p/want-to-die-young-bathe-yourself-b99

@ashleyspencer @actuallyautistic I am soon (hopefully) to be on my own, truly, for the first time in my life.

It is equal parts exciting and equal parts terrifying.

Trump’s team claimed that their tax law would boost household income by $4,000.

Well, the numbers are in.

New research shows that workers who earned less than $114,000 saw “no change in earnings.”

Meanwhile, top executive salaries increased sharply.

It was always a scam.