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Jesse Darland

@jessedarland.bsky.social

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ADHD. Writer of screenplays and otherwise. Advocate for an accessible & inclusive society. Pitching a holiday romcom & writing a fun time travel story! ✍ https://m.imdb.com/name/nm9675618/

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Jesse Darland @jessedarland.bsky.social · 12h

Go Set a Watchman is a much better book than To Kill a Mockingbird in every way that matters!

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1d

The notion that those who took part in slavery or conquest were merely abiding by the moral standards of their time necessary excludes those they targeted and kidnapped from those standards; *they* were never confused about this. But other white people were frequently disgusted by this stuff too!

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Grosdoriane @grosdoriane.bsky.social · 1d

I fear I may have finally cracked the case.

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Jesse Darland @jessedarland.bsky.social · 2d

Never thought about it like that but yes it makes complete sense. Now I can’t unsee it.

Jesse Darland @jessedarland.bsky.social · 3d

Pamela’s Shining twins costume is sending me 🤣 #hauloutthehalloween

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Jesse Darland @jessedarland.bsky.social · 3d

Ready for Ned-focused Haul Out spinoff #hauloutthehalloween

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Jesse Darland @jessedarland.bsky.social · 4d

Yikes what a great start!

Jesse Darland @jessedarland.bsky.social · 4d

"Here's Why That's Is a Good Thing" made me laugh with joy! Changing the narrative from 'autism=bad' to something so much better and more life-affirming.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 4d

Unfounded claims about an “autism epidemic” usually come from news or media outlets that are trying to sell stories, or from grievance parent-led orgs that focus more on eliminating autism than on supporting autistic people. At TPGA.

thinkingautismguide.com/2023/03/auti... #autism #neurodiversity

Autism Rates Are Now 1 in 36. Here's Why That Is a Good Thing.

The new 1 in 36 autism rate means the CDC is getting better at finding and diagnosing existing autism, not finding higher autism rates.

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Jesse Darland @jessedarland.bsky.social · 5d

Concerns of the Founding Generation going from being esoteric to shockingly relevant is…
Not great!

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Long Covid SOS @longcovidsos.bsky.social · 13d

October is #DysautonomiaAwarenessMonth

For many with #LongCovid, dysautonomia means daily struggles with dizziness, palpitations, fatigue & more

We need research, support & compassion
Let’s #MakeNoiseForTurquoise this October

#POTS #Dysautonomia #invisibleillness

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 6d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Grant @gdubbstl.bsky.social · 6d

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 7d

Salvador Dali could have watched Back to the Future

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 7d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 6d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Jesse Darland @jessedarland.bsky.social · 6d

Huger St. (YOU-gee)

Jesse Darland @jessedarland.bsky.social · 6d

Incredibly bleak

Jesse Darland @jessedarland.bsky.social · 6d

Complicit

Jesse Darland @jessedarland.bsky.social · 6d

Putting this into practice today. Thanks for the great idea!

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Aviva Peltin @avivapeltin.bsky.social · 19d

I don't know why this revelation only occurred to me yesterday after YEARS of querying, but I sent a script to a producer yesterday and ended it with: "When should I check in with you next?" And then I received an answer. So simple! Communication! Who knew! #ScriptSky