Hotdish
@viijennyxii.bsky.social
Textile artist, MST3K enthusiast, force of nature
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Everyone i know needs to know that an ambulatory wheelchair user has the best line in the entire new Knives Out movie 😂
December 17, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Everyone i know needs to know that an ambulatory wheelchair user has the best line in the entire new Knives Out movie 😂
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If you’re looking for a cookbook that meets autistic needs, check out autistic professional chef @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social's “Color, Taste, Texture!”
Broberg-Moffitt even includes a Food Preference Profile and Worksheet to support understanding and choice-making.
buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...
Broberg-Moffitt even includes a Food Preference Profile and Worksheet to support understanding and choice-making.
buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...
Autistic Holiday Gift Guide | Spectrum Santas | Elves We'd Shelve
Would you like to express a joyful spirit with intention in these trying times? Consider these autistic-curated gifts to show the autistic people in your life that yes, you see them, and that yes, the...
buttondown.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If you’re looking for a cookbook that meets autistic needs, check out autistic professional chef @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social's “Color, Taste, Texture!”
Broberg-Moffitt even includes a Food Preference Profile and Worksheet to support understanding and choice-making.
buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...
Broberg-Moffitt even includes a Food Preference Profile and Worksheet to support understanding and choice-making.
buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...
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It's that time of the year again, so once again I offer up my thanks and sympathies to everyone working in retail, this week and next. May you be blessed with kindly, smart, and above all, speedy customers, who get what they want and sod off.
December 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
It's that time of the year again, so once again I offer up my thanks and sympathies to everyone working in retail, this week and next. May you be blessed with kindly, smart, and above all, speedy customers, who get what they want and sod off.
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Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
December 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
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What's shocking to me is that many brands embracing AI are also ones who have brand bibles that are 100+ pages long detailing the legal requirements needed to use a logo, the color, the placement, etc. They want details to matter but they don't want artists to. It's so fucked up.
December 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
What's shocking to me is that many brands embracing AI are also ones who have brand bibles that are 100+ pages long detailing the legal requirements needed to use a logo, the color, the placement, etc. They want details to matter but they don't want artists to. It's so fucked up.
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Did you know that ABA therapy’s widespread adoption “was not driven by consensus among developmental pediatricians, but by insurance mandates, billing incentives, and a cultural push for normalization”?
kevinmd.com/2025/11/a-pe... #BetterWaysThanABA #autism #neurodiversity
kevinmd.com/2025/11/a-pe... #BetterWaysThanABA #autism #neurodiversity
A pediatrician's reckoning with behavior therapy
A developmental pediatrician explains their pivot to supporting a ban on applied behavior analysis, citing documented trauma and the need to listen to autistic voices. Learn why they now advocate for ...
kevinmd.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Did you know that ABA therapy’s widespread adoption “was not driven by consensus among developmental pediatricians, but by insurance mandates, billing incentives, and a cultural push for normalization”?
kevinmd.com/2025/11/a-pe... #BetterWaysThanABA #autism #neurodiversity
kevinmd.com/2025/11/a-pe... #BetterWaysThanABA #autism #neurodiversity
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A reminder: Please don't force autistic kids (or adults) to sit still or use “whole body listening” (what Carol Greenburg @autisticenough.bsky.social calls “Whole Body Oppression”) or shame them for stimming when they need to move to listen or self-regulate.
thinkingautismguide.com/2022/01/auti...
thinkingautismguide.com/2022/01/auti...
Autism Checklist of DOOM
Our autism checklist of doom is meant to help people the kinds of things that may upset an autistic person, ones that aren't always obvious.
thinkingautismguide.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
A reminder: Please don't force autistic kids (or adults) to sit still or use “whole body listening” (what Carol Greenburg @autisticenough.bsky.social calls “Whole Body Oppression”) or shame them for stimming when they need to move to listen or self-regulate.
thinkingautismguide.com/2022/01/auti...
thinkingautismguide.com/2022/01/auti...
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#ArtAdventCalendar
Dec. 14
They are one of the tiny little birds that stay with us year round. In the winter they are especially busy, constantly foraging and talking.
This red-breasted nuthatch has just plucked a small nut from a spruce cone and will either eat or stash it for later.
#birds 🪶
Dec. 14
They are one of the tiny little birds that stay with us year round. In the winter they are especially busy, constantly foraging and talking.
This red-breasted nuthatch has just plucked a small nut from a spruce cone and will either eat or stash it for later.
#birds 🪶
December 15, 2025 at 1:18 AM
#ArtAdventCalendar
Dec. 14
They are one of the tiny little birds that stay with us year round. In the winter they are especially busy, constantly foraging and talking.
This red-breasted nuthatch has just plucked a small nut from a spruce cone and will either eat or stash it for later.
#birds 🪶
Dec. 14
They are one of the tiny little birds that stay with us year round. In the winter they are especially busy, constantly foraging and talking.
This red-breasted nuthatch has just plucked a small nut from a spruce cone and will either eat or stash it for later.
#birds 🪶
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BEEP BOOP THIS IS NORA'S AUTOMATED MED CHECK. today is Saturday. everyone take your meds 🤖💊
December 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
BEEP BOOP THIS IS NORA'S AUTOMATED MED CHECK. today is Saturday. everyone take your meds 🤖💊
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This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.
December 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.
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Icelandic folklore tells of the Yule Cat that terrorizes children if they don't have new socks for Christmas.
folklore does not specify whether the Yule Cat is adorable or not, tho. ❤️🐈⬛
folklore does not specify whether the Yule Cat is adorable or not, tho. ❤️🐈⬛
December 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Icelandic folklore tells of the Yule Cat that terrorizes children if they don't have new socks for Christmas.
folklore does not specify whether the Yule Cat is adorable or not, tho. ❤️🐈⬛
folklore does not specify whether the Yule Cat is adorable or not, tho. ❤️🐈⬛
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Reminder that Adolph Hitler, the Ayatollah Khamenei and Vlad Putin were all Time's People of the Year, so you can decide for yourself on which side of the split this grouping fits
Time Magazine puts the "architects of AI" on its Person of the Year cover time.com/7339685/pers...
December 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Reminder that Adolph Hitler, the Ayatollah Khamenei and Vlad Putin were all Time's People of the Year, so you can decide for yourself on which side of the split this grouping fits
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Fun fact! You can just make a weird little guy out of scrap cardboard and the government can't stop you
December 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Fun fact! You can just make a weird little guy out of scrap cardboard and the government can't stop you
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I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.
A.I. and the Fetishization Of Ideas
In writing and in dispensing my (very dubious, probably shady) writing advice, I am often keen to note that ideas are bullshit. Most writers treat them like precious gems when really, ideas are lik…
terribleminds.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.
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“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”
The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library
Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
www.404media.co
December 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”
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And can we please remember that pathological demand avoidance is a common issue among the neurodiverse, and turning on the "don't post without alt text" setting could mean that they just wouldn't post
Not every solution will work for everyone.
Not every solution will work for everyone.
December 9, 2025 at 6:56 AM
And can we please remember that pathological demand avoidance is a common issue among the neurodiverse, and turning on the "don't post without alt text" setting could mean that they just wouldn't post
Not every solution will work for everyone.
Not every solution will work for everyone.
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Hand pains and cramps and the like can make it harder to write large descriptions, things like ADHD and autism can make it harder to focus on the creation of detailed descriptions, so on and so forth. Sometimes creating disability tools is rather difficult for those who have disabilities basically
December 9, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Hand pains and cramps and the like can make it harder to write large descriptions, things like ADHD and autism can make it harder to focus on the creation of detailed descriptions, so on and so forth. Sometimes creating disability tools is rather difficult for those who have disabilities basically
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As artists we often HAVE to post our work to engage our audience, but we don't always have the wherewithal to also provide a detailed explanation of the art.
It can prevent us from posting because while the art is finished, the Alt text can be another mountain to climb.
Don't be an ass, is all.
It can prevent us from posting because while the art is finished, the Alt text can be another mountain to climb.
Don't be an ass, is all.
December 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
As artists we often HAVE to post our work to engage our audience, but we don't always have the wherewithal to also provide a detailed explanation of the art.
It can prevent us from posting because while the art is finished, the Alt text can be another mountain to climb.
Don't be an ass, is all.
It can prevent us from posting because while the art is finished, the Alt text can be another mountain to climb.
Don't be an ass, is all.
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PSA: if anyone in your life is trying to dissuade you from getting the shingles shot, you should probably assume that person hates you, and wants you to suffer. There is literally no other explanation.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
I am baffled by this because I have had so many friends with shingles and NONE of them made it sound fun. Not one. A vaccine that made me absolutely miserable for 48 hours would still be a huge improvement over the mildest case of shingles I've heard of. (Also it made me tired for 1 day.)
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
PSA: if anyone in your life is trying to dissuade you from getting the shingles shot, you should probably assume that person hates you, and wants you to suffer. There is literally no other explanation.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
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I wonder if they’re ever going to do an episode with @johnmitchinson.bsky.social detailing how he helped spend the $15k his publishing company stole from me? I’d definitely tune in to that!
New episode up now. Last and First Men (1930) by Olaf Stapledon, with guest Matthew De Abaitua in conversation with Andy Miller and Una McCormack. @mdeabaitua.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/253...
253. Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon — Backlisted
Writer and critic Matthew De Abaitua joins Andy, Una and Nicky to discuss Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future (1930), the astounding first novel by Olaf Stapledon. The...
www.backlisted.fm
December 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I wonder if they’re ever going to do an episode with @johnmitchinson.bsky.social detailing how he helped spend the $15k his publishing company stole from me? I’d definitely tune in to that!
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Here's a better headline for Axios: "How Trump has normalized racism and racist slurs." Why can't some journalists just call a thing what it is? https://loom.ly/hiKWr58
How Trump flipped America's race conversation
Language that once was disqualifying is now a fixture of national political discourse.
www.axios.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Here's a better headline for Axios: "How Trump has normalized racism and racist slurs." Why can't some journalists just call a thing what it is? https://loom.ly/hiKWr58
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Oh yeah this sounds super trustworthy!
Some personal news‼️📢
@tigerteamcreative.bsky.social, our new book publishing agency for authors and publishers has launched!
Our mission is to align every part of the publishing process - strategically and creatively - to help authors and publishers thrive.🐅🐅🐅
www.thebookseller.com/news/rina-gi...
@tigerteamcreative.bsky.social, our new book publishing agency for authors and publishers has launched!
Our mission is to align every part of the publishing process - strategically and creatively - to help authors and publishers thrive.🐅🐅🐅
www.thebookseller.com/news/rina-gi...
Rina Gill and former Unbound colleagues launch Tiger Team Creative
Three former Unbound employees have launched a new publishing agency, Tiger Team Creative, signing up Sunday Times bestselling-author Melanie Blake as its first client.
www.thebookseller.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Oh yeah this sounds super trustworthy!
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Here is why Skyrim is weird.
You have a thousand locations that are mostly similar. Here's an orc village, here's a Nord village, here's a elf camp, etc.
Oh! And here's costume party that takes place in a demented clown's brain and all the goats can talk and you can win a wand that's a dildo.
You have a thousand locations that are mostly similar. Here's an orc village, here's a Nord village, here's a elf camp, etc.
Oh! And here's costume party that takes place in a demented clown's brain and all the goats can talk and you can win a wand that's a dildo.
December 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Here is why Skyrim is weird.
You have a thousand locations that are mostly similar. Here's an orc village, here's a Nord village, here's a elf camp, etc.
Oh! And here's costume party that takes place in a demented clown's brain and all the goats can talk and you can win a wand that's a dildo.
You have a thousand locations that are mostly similar. Here's an orc village, here's a Nord village, here's a elf camp, etc.
Oh! And here's costume party that takes place in a demented clown's brain and all the goats can talk and you can win a wand that's a dildo.