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DanceMacob 🇵🇸 @dancemacob.bsky.social · 8h

is she dating or playing Pokémon go

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 16h

good morning

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 10h

it was SO HARD to move around. not to over-exaggerate but the last time I was that squashed by people at waterfront park it was to see Obama.

Taylor Griggs @taylorgriggs.bsky.social · 13h

The crowd at Portland’s No Kings protest may be the largest I’ve ever personally seen. The march is moving at a snail’s pace and it’s impossible to get a sense of the whole crowd from the ground. But I will say: the energy is high, there’s lots of music, and the blowup costume game is strong.

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 9h

Reposting with alt text.

I agree wholeheartedly with this part in particular: "But it does not help us at all to impose a hierarchy of lower and higher functioning" because no matter what you call us, we all have different abilities to deal with different things.

To the Editor:

I am one of these so-called profoundly autistic people this article describes. I cannot utter meaningful speech, and as a result, I was branded for years as someone with an intellectual disability and an I.Q. of 40. All this time, however, I understood everything that was going on around me. I just could not show it to others because of my deranged relationship with my own body.

I am concerned about the creation of a separate category, called profound autism, for those of us with the most severe disabilities. There are real differences between the sort of autism that I have and so-called Asperger's syndrome. But it does not help us at all to impose a hierarchy of lower and higher functioning. We need to figure out how to tap into the skills and insights of those of us who cannot talk, who make up anywhere from 25 percent to 40 percent of the autistic community, depending on the estimate.

For me, the way out of this dilemma was learning to communicate by typing. I suddenly went from being seen as intellectually impaired to taking college classes. I was never low-functioning, and neither are my autistic brothers and sisters without the ability to speak. I was just misjudged and ignored, and I fear that my fate will be the fate of many others termed low functioning in this new schema.

Jason Jacoby Lee

New York

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DanceMacob 🇵🇸 @dancemacob.bsky.social · 8h

♥️

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DanceMacob 🇵🇸 @dancemacob.bsky.social · 8h

if nothing else, it's a beautiful state

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11h

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🎃 Ichaborbs Crane 🎃 @ronninator.bsky.social · 19h

To all the weird debate perverts who keep saying bluesky will never be Twitter: exactly

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Vincenzo @vincenzodon.bsky.social · 1d

We have a president that hates the main principles that the United States was founded upon.

We have a president that hates the majority of the citizens of the U.S.

We have a president that is waging war against me and against you!

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DanceMacob 🇵🇸 @dancemacob.bsky.social · 10h

thank you for sharing your journey and still joking with us anyway somehow. i always look forward to seeing your posts ♥️

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DanceMacob 🇵🇸 @dancemacob.bsky.social · 18h

miss you too!, ♥️

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DanceMacob 🇵🇸 @dancemacob.bsky.social · 19h

probably both could mess with it! if you feel there's something going on, you're probably right. maybe staying plugged into the community and reading about others experiences will be more helpful than the test.

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DanceMacob 🇵🇸 @dancemacob.bsky.social · 20h

you are a hard worker with a unique creative vision. never feel down on yourself, you're amazing!

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20h

Do your thing and have fun, No Kings people. Just show a little civility to the rest of us who will be on our way to yoga, pilates, or brunch.

by Megan McArdle

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DanceMacob 🇵🇸 @dancemacob.bsky.social · 1d

:)

DanceMacob 🇵🇸 @dancemacob.bsky.social · 1d

like modern insulin or the really basic stuff though

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🎃Jesse Lu🦇 @aphoenixinflames.bsky.social · 1d

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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 2d

My parents named me Paddington because the movie had just come out. I was 25.

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DanceMacob 🇵🇸 @dancemacob.bsky.social · 1d

people never quote the full thing!

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DanceMacob 🇵🇸 @dancemacob.bsky.social · 1d

@thebopo.bsky.social

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DanceMacob 🇵🇸 @dancemacob.bsky.social · 1d

beautiful!

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leemanish.bsky.social @leemanish.bsky.social · 1d

unpopular opinion: i don’t think criss angel is really that much of a mindfreak

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DanceMacob 🇵🇸 @dancemacob.bsky.social · 1d

for who these posts are essentially work already!

DanceMacob 🇵🇸 @dancemacob.bsky.social · 1d

I actually have trouble visually processing stuff sometimes (I'm a good reader though, somehow), so alt text is really helpful to me.. but also I hate typing it for any posts I make myself so, very understandable! it is a nice thing to do and have, but it is extra work on people, especially those

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DanceMacob 🇵🇸 @dancemacob.bsky.social · 1d

pretty!