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

I notice that the man who killed Jordan Neely is advancing the narrative that he had to protect the subway riders from a person with mental health problems.

He's saying he was justified in killing a man with mental health problems on the subway.

He's saying it's okay to kill people with mental health problems.

I notice that.

I also notice that one of the first exterminations in Germany took place in the psychiatric hospitals.

Let's not forget that, shall we?

#fascism #lynching #JordanNeely

The Republican Party is a criminal enterprise masquerading as a political party. They use mob tactics as effective tools to remove dissent. #RepublicanCorruption #GOPDirtyTricks
Heavy-handed attempts to punish dissent are producing unexpected & unwelcome outcomes for Republicans in power across the country: The GOP’s Failing Politics of Retribution: https://www.thebulwark.com/the-gops-failing-politics-of-retribution/

The proof that we can learn something new every day.
Volodymyr #Zelenskyy and not #zelenski
Sorry #Ukraine for being misspelling his name.

@gemelliz
I'm a senior with immuno compromised lungs. I always wear N-95 but somehow still, maybe due to a moment of lapse of judgement (???), I got infected June of last year when they said that the variant then is just "like" a flu. Well, almost a year later the said "flu" is still with me and I can't even complete a flight of stairs without having bouts of shortness of breath!

Yeah, the covid pandemic is over!

#CovidIsNotOver
#COVIDisAirborne

En route to a meeting in #edinburgh today and popped in here on the basis that any cafe that gives away free #coffee and #kittens must be pretty good 😻 #scotland #scottishhumour

Happy Saturday to all 🙋‍♂️💙😎☀️

@Free_Press

The world has a short attention span, and America has a potential president that is a Putin puppet alongside of the neoGOP christofascists who are willing to blow up our economy to get their coup leader elected.

We must squash Republicans for Ukraine and for America.

@dirtyoldtown @btaroli @ScottSoCal @wakame @fidalgo @actuallyautistic
We don't just plan ahead for things like vacation travel.

We plan ahead for walking out the front door.

@Threadbane @ScottSoCal @Bette @LetsRoc @DemocracySpot @1finekitty
No worries. Was asking because I thought I might have missed something.
Just read that President Biden is planning a state visit to UK, but no date has been set. Biden is a pretty humble guy. Doubt that he will make any outrageous demands, and I predict that he will not be an international embarrassment.
Volcano of BS! Perfect!

@terminalimpala @dirtyoldtown @btaroli @ScottSoCal @fidalgo @actuallyautistic

That... makes sense when you take other neurotypical people into account.

I experienced situations similar to the elevator thing were people started machinery where a sign clearly said they shouldn't.

Which is also why in many industrial settings, workers have a personal lock they can put on a switch when repairing something. Because just writing a sign means that someone else will try to start the machine anyway.

@wakame @btaroli @ScottSoCal @fidalgo @actuallyautistic

Gone but not forgotten: Institute for the Study of the Neurologically Typical

@dirtyoldtown That is a lesson I learned after I came out the first time. Most of them are so utterly clueless they have no idea how contorted we can be inside. They’ll notice when we misstep a cue but if we’re reeeeallly good at #masking they just have no clue, and are confused even more if we tell them what was really going on. @ScottSoCal @wakame @fidalgo @actuallyautistic

@ScottSoCal oh man yes. Or replaying and reconsidering every part of an interaction after to second guess everything I said in case I need to apologize or just feel awkward about it. 🤣 @dirtyoldtown @wakame @fidalgo @actuallyautistic

@btaroli @ScottSoCal @wakame @fidalgo @actuallyautistic I'm so tired being told I am "verbal for an autistic person." I mean, YEAH, I sound fine to you because I spend every waking hour practicing human interaction to the extent that I'm exhausted after a half day. But I sound like a weirdo to you the moment I am called upon to say something I have not practiced 37x.

@ScottSoCal @wakame @btaroli @fidalgo @actuallyautistic Oh god yes. My entire adult life is divided into situations I prepared for endlessly and am told I am very well-spoken and intelligent for based on my reaction and things I had not foreseen that make me react like an alien and everyone wonders what precisely my deal even is.

@wakame @btaroli @ScottSoCal @fidalgo @actuallyautistic

"Wow, this is an unforeseen situation. Let me react in the moment without apprehension or anxiety about misspeaking."

@btaroli @ScottSoCal @fidalgo @actuallyautistic
I would love to have a show called e.g. "Normal Person" that stereotypes neurotypical behaviors.
Maybe with some explanations why the NT behave like they do.

@ScottSoCal @VoxofGod @terminalimpala
@actuallyautistic
Who has trained who?

@ScottSoCal yeah, I totally get what you’re saying. I flip between liking it lost my and truly loathing the portrayal. It feels A LOT like how other #marginalized groups are portrayed in media: harmful #stereotypes that the #mainstream finds amusing or familiar. It’s for #ratings really. It’s not to educate or expand minds. #ActuallyAutistic #TheGoodDoctor @fidalgo @actuallyautistic

@ScottSoCal @ReimanSaara @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics

#SoRelatable. I have several times tried to explain this idea to ppl by saying "a group of people are talking about Game of Thrones...I chime in with "I like the color of the dragons' eyes." #Nonsequitor #OnlyPartiallyInContext
Anyone else think the character Luna Lovegood (from Harry Potter) is on scale???