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I'm not good at nature photography, but here's two little butterflies bonking on my windowsill

The family Coleman used to design the 6-Person Family Tent.

The thing about bowing to pressure from hateful groups is that it’s not like they ever say β€œcool, we’re satisfied, we’ll back down now.”

They become emboldened, feel justified, and just find new and broader ways to amplify the hate.

I’m looking at you, Target.

I’m autistic. Not an alien. Not a baby.

I’m a human who is worth as much as you because, I am a human.

My value isn’t dependent on what I produce or even what I do.

My value exists because I live and breathe.

And that’s the case for every other #ActuallyAutistic human too.

@actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics

@actuallyautistic

Speaking of autistic traits - does anyone else shred the upholstery if you're in a car that squeaks or rattles? I can't buy a car if it has anything like that, and if one develops I'll track it down and refasten it, lubricate it, or replace it.
Patterns of noise I can handle, but random noise just tap dances on my last nerve.

@actuallyautistic

The hyperfocus thing can be a real benefit. I restored a 1978 Mercedes 450SL - a car I knew nothing about, except it was cute, and I wanted it. By the time I was done I was the forum subject matter expert for the Bosch D-Jetronic mechanical fuel injection system, the suspension, and the vacuum system (door locks, HVAC, a bunch of stuff).

@doggle @actuallyautistic
Mine started when I was about 23. Like you I just get the light show, which is over normally quite quickly. Never have worked out what triggers them, beyond sometimes a bright flash of light.

It's okay to resist capitalism on an iPhone. The feudal lord who owned the pitchforks the peasants killed him with probably observed the irony too.

Remember Christian Cooper? Bird watching while black in Central Park had 911 called on him because his blackness threatening someone. Must have been those dangerous binoculars!

Christian will be the host for National Geographic's new show "Extraordinary Birder", a six-episode series to premiere June 17, on Nat Geo.

I was asked by a woman "why would you give up your womanhood, such a great thing to be?" about me being non-binary. I never gave up womanhood. I have never been a woman. I used to wish I could be, tried forcing myself to be, because I agree, womanhood is a wonderful thing to experience and it's so amazing and powerful. But I never related to it, never satisfied *any* gender expectations, never looked in the mirror and felt like I'm a woman. So I'm non-binary, and it's just as wonderful.

πŸ’› Florida Is Openly Hostile to African Americans

As a registered Black voter who has had his Black-held Congressional district gerrymandered out of existence, rest assured when I tell you things aren’t as bad as you’ve heard. They’re WORSE. 

–@clayrivers @ourhumanfam

#Allyship #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #Florida #Inclusion #Justice #RacialEquity #Racism

@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe
@BlackMastodon@chirp.social

ohfweekly.org/vol-5-no-19/

#OnThisDay, 28 May 1944, Sonia Butt parachutes into occupied France as an explosives expert for the British Special Operations Executive. She had turned 20 two weeks earlier.

She trained the maquis and coordinated sabotage operations. She was never captured.

#WomenInHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons #WomensHistory

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