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Neurodivergent library ghost 👻
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PFP: Pies Are Awesome 🥧
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Apparently, at the Telegraph, it's easy to dunk on high-risk minority communities and breeze through fact checking without even basic reasoning about the articles, or following the citation trial to see where it leads.

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December 20, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Here's an example where problems in citations led to real world harms:

There was a typo in an old CDC pamphlet about how viruses spread

The typo was about how big particles needed to be to spread via the air vs touching contaminated surfaces
The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill
All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences.
www.wired.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Ouroboros of Shit
December 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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You can access Samuels' article, and every other open access article (a special issue on Mad Studies just came out last week!) at: dsq-sds.org/article/id/1... 4/4
Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time
In this creative nonfiction essay, the author reflects on how 'crip time' has operated in their life, not only as a form of liberation, but also as a site of loss and alienation.
dsq-sds.org
December 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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look sometimes humans need specific tools for specific tasks

this applies to using wheelchairs for longer distances, instead of walking

just like how you might take a plane to travel a long distance, instead of driving
December 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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With MAiD laws, they're just finally saying the quiet part out loud.

When I was a kid I used to think the barbarism of the Middle Ages was a long time ago--thank goodness we're no longer living in those times!--but the older I get, the more I realize: we're still in the Middle Ages.
December 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM