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@megcastiel.bsky.social

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Late diagnosed AuDHD with multiple chronic illnesses. I will likely say something that's not quite right, so please be patient with me. My brain goes faster than my mouth does, and I don't get all the words right every time. Don't ask for my real name.

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AuDHD Chronically Ill @megcastiel.bsky.social · Jan 25

I'm doing it, a post/thread that will literally just be me pointing out things that annoy me. Why? Because I can't afford a "Grievance Journal" so I'm moaning here!

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 18h

Incredible scenes.

Thompson, 43, said federal agents had just exited the fortified facility and appeared to be chasing a protester when the protester and officer collided with band members, most of whom were wearing banana costumes.

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AuDHD Chronically Ill @megcastiel.bsky.social · 8h

We have lost access to mass transit via rail across much of the US and it is far more comfortable than air or car travel.

We've also lost access to commuter options, public transit options, and other personal vehicle alternatives that allowed us to reduce our emissions and costs.

My Zero Carbon #ClimateAction @myzerocarbon.org · 8h

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Train travel does already make an important contribution to #ClimateAction by reducing emissions from travel.

We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!

Find out more: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/ar...
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BBC Radio 4 - Rare Earth - Will train travel save the planet?

Is train travel going to save the planet, or did it help to break it in the first place?

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · Sep 13

Our performative approach to democracy is actually and actively killing it.

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The Absolutist Trap: How "Free Speech" Became Anti-Democratic

Charlie Kirk's assassination reveals how we've abandoned democratic thinking about discourse—and why that might be as dangerous as the violence itself

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AuDHD Chronically Ill @megcastiel.bsky.social · 1d

I don't want to get into the context of this post. I just want to ask, how do men not understand that if women aren't getting pleasure from sex, that's your problem too?

Why would we want partnered sex if you can't pleasure us but we can do it ourselves?

You're just making it worse.

Facebook post by Stephen Fleury: the majority of this is a rant about women refusing to understand what men experience because of testosterone and how DARE we ask men to be understanding of our hormones if we don't understand testosterone!

The important bit is the final part, "Do not ever give a Man (sic) a hard time for not getting you off."

AuDHD Chronically Ill @megcastiel.bsky.social · 2d

If you oppose the current administration and you don't follow @tadstoermer.bsky.social yet, you're missing out.

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Thomas Jefferson's Panic Button: The Insurrection Act of 1807

YouTube video by Tad Stoermer

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AuDHD Chronically Ill @megcastiel.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, there was a profit motive behind it. Why sell concessions once during a three hour epic when you could sell them twice?!?

But, really, who doesn't want an intermission after sitting through the first hour and a half of a 160 minute movie only to realize there's at least another hour to go?

AuDHD Chronically Ill @megcastiel.bsky.social · 2d

Did you know that movies used to have an intermission built in? Originally it was to accommodate changing of reels, but for longer films, like "The Godfather"(any part of the trilogy), it gave patrons an opportunity to get up, use the bathroom, and buy more concessions. ⬇️
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What Happened to the Movie Intermission?

Let’s All Go Back to the Lobby.

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AuDHD Chronically Ill @megcastiel.bsky.social · 3d

So true.

AuDHD Chronically Ill @megcastiel.bsky.social · 3d

This just blows me away!

Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 4d

This hurts. 😢

Sleep sweet, doll. 🤍🕊️

AuDHD Chronically Ill @megcastiel.bsky.social · 3d

If your response to a reel or post about a behavior common among men is to blame women for that behavior and you're a woman . . .

Yeah, I'm going to call you out as a "pick me." This attitude is indicative of women DESPERATE for approval from the patriarchy.

Screw the patriarchy.

Facebook by Janine Du Toit responding to a reel: "husbands react this way when they are starved of affection."

Response to her post:
"Women are not responsible for the poor social behaviors of men. Stop excusing it."

Janine Du Toit's reply:
"not all men but some yes, some women use it as a form of manipulation and punishment towards their husbands. Not all, but some"

AuDHD Chronically Ill @megcastiel.bsky.social · 4d

I finally tried to watch the 2022 horror movie "Men." I didn't make it very far.

Horror movies about assault, abuse, and gaslighting of women are just too much for me. They're just too real.

Meanwhile, I can watch "Evil Dead" with that tree scene no problem. Autistic brain is very logical.

AuDHD Chronically Ill @megcastiel.bsky.social · 4d

She used Kirk's own words and was fired for that!

AuDHD Chronically Ill @megcastiel.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely NO Autistic person is safe in ICE custody.

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 4d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 4d

“Our hospitals are ready.”

Was never a good plan.

Prevent COVID-19.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/sev...

Severe COVID may carry higher risk of long-term conditions requiring hospitalization through 6 months

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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AuDHD Chronically Ill @megcastiel.bsky.social · 4d

This is the behavior protestors are experiencing.

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Pastor shot by ICE during Chicago protests speaks

YouTube video by WFAA

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AuDHD Chronically Ill @megcastiel.bsky.social · 4d

I literally laughed when I read your response!!

The richest people in the world own those media outlets!! The reporting on Unions and labor action is appalling!!!

Yes, I have so many examples!

Fox is just the most blatant of the bunch!

AuDHD Chronically Ill @megcastiel.bsky.social · 4d

Really? Go back and have a look at how those outlets reported on the ICE protests in LA, then compare their reporting to videos that came out that were taken by people actually living in LA.

You can do the same with Palestinian Rights protests immediately following October 7th.

AuDHD Chronically Ill @megcastiel.bsky.social · 4d

The quality of a news organization isn't in their politics. It's in their willingness to present facts that don't always agree with their world view, their ability to correct themselves when mistakes occur, and their freedom to report ALL facts.

AuDHD Chronically Ill @megcastiel.bsky.social · 4d

And, just a heads up, that media bias chart uses a major logical fallacy called "Argument to Moderation." The creator is essentially asserting that any news organization with a centrist bias is somehow more fact based. She ignores that being centrist IS a bias.

ARGUMENT TO
MODERATION

Asserting that given any two positions, there exists a compromise between them that must be correct.

argumentum ad temperantiam, middle ground, false compromise, gray fallacy, golden mean fallacy, fallacy of the mean, splitting the difference

AuDHD Chronically Ill @megcastiel.bsky.social · 4d

Part of why this caught on is that Trump took the grain of truth we all know is there (selective reporting on stories and even details of stories) and exaggerated it.

If we don't acknowledge the problems with MSM across the board, we look like fools.

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aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · 6d

Just because the fabrications seem more ridiculous as time goes on, it doesn't mean they're becoming more benign as they become less believable

This all amounts to eugenics

it's ridiculous & inappropriate

Autistic people oppose a cure & that should be the end of this discussion except to also say

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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AuDHD Chronically Ill @megcastiel.bsky.social · 5d

Before you decide what resistance should look like, learn your resistance history.

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Gandhi and the Uncomfortable Truth About "Peaceful" Protest | Resistance History Dispatch

YouTube video by Tad Stoermer

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AuDHD Chronically Ill @megcastiel.bsky.social · 5d

Okay . . . But who defines who is or is not a peaceful protestor?

Historically it has been the very people engaging in the violence against us, which is why rulings like this tend to be performative at best.

Policing in the US was born out of a desire to put down rebellions and catch slaves.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 6d

Illinois judge blocks ICE from using force against peaceful protesters, clergy and journalists. Also requires visible ID. An overdue victory for the First Amendment.
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AuDHD Chronically Ill @megcastiel.bsky.social · 5d

. . . ever has been like, "Yeah,it would be totally fun to sell off my meds and just randomly fall asleep throughout the day for three months!!!"

I get the feeling the people setting these policies have absolutely no clue what Narcolepsy is . . .