Katie C. Alexander
@katiecalexander.bsky.social
Neurodivergent occupational therapist doing neurosparkly things, likely while caffeinated.
Working with an incredible team to develop and research unstuckandontarget.com
Working with an incredible team to develop and research unstuckandontarget.com
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If you're a non-Autistic person
& an Autistic person is telling you about something they experience, or struggle with,
and it resonates with you...
PLEASE,
🚫 Don't say: "Well, we're all a little Autistic."
✅ Do say: "I find that relatable!"
we are asking you nicely, plz plz stop saying that.
& an Autistic person is telling you about something they experience, or struggle with,
and it resonates with you...
PLEASE,
🚫 Don't say: "Well, we're all a little Autistic."
✅ Do say: "I find that relatable!"
we are asking you nicely, plz plz stop saying that.
December 15, 2024 at 1:00 AM
If you're a non-Autistic person
& an Autistic person is telling you about something they experience, or struggle with,
and it resonates with you...
PLEASE,
🚫 Don't say: "Well, we're all a little Autistic."
✅ Do say: "I find that relatable!"
we are asking you nicely, plz plz stop saying that.
& an Autistic person is telling you about something they experience, or struggle with,
and it resonates with you...
PLEASE,
🚫 Don't say: "Well, we're all a little Autistic."
✅ Do say: "I find that relatable!"
we are asking you nicely, plz plz stop saying that.
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Gift link to the WSJ blockbuster about Trump trying to pressure Ukraine to settle on extremely Putin-friendly terms in part so that Trump can clear a huge profit on the deal www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Gift link to the WSJ blockbuster about Trump trying to pressure Ukraine to settle on extremely Putin-friendly terms in part so that Trump can clear a huge profit on the deal www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Her parents owe their lives to the United States accepting them as asylum seekers fleeing religious persecution in Iraq in the 1980s. She wouldn't be here if we had not offered her family safe haven.
The hypocrisy is stunning.
The hypocrisy is stunning.
Habba: There were individuals that were saying that this should be a safe harbor, a safe haven. Why? America is America because we protect our own.
November 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Her parents owe their lives to the United States accepting them as asylum seekers fleeing religious persecution in Iraq in the 1980s. She wouldn't be here if we had not offered her family safe haven.
The hypocrisy is stunning.
The hypocrisy is stunning.
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
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People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
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If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A Tribute to an Oracle, Alice Wong
Alice had the ability to look to the future and a world where laws and attitudes did not keep disabled people poor, pitied, and isolated.
www.thenation.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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An MIT report concluded that producing 5 seconds of AI video is like running a microwave for an hour.
This video is 53 seconds long; the appropriate energy of an 11 hour long microwave session if that study is accurate.
So...maybe we should stick to old fashioned before and after photos.
This video is 53 seconds long; the appropriate energy of an 11 hour long microwave session if that study is accurate.
So...maybe we should stick to old fashioned before and after photos.
Striking animation showing the magnitude of glacier collapse since ca 1900 in the Alps! 🧊🔥
All the retreat you see here is caused by human activity, and it will only stop when the last cubic metre of ice has melted! 📈💧
📷 Photos: @glacionaut
🎥 AI Animation: @flashologo
All the retreat you see here is caused by human activity, and it will only stop when the last cubic metre of ice has melted! 📈💧
📷 Photos: @glacionaut
🎥 AI Animation: @flashologo
November 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
An MIT report concluded that producing 5 seconds of AI video is like running a microwave for an hour.
This video is 53 seconds long; the appropriate energy of an 11 hour long microwave session if that study is accurate.
So...maybe we should stick to old fashioned before and after photos.
This video is 53 seconds long; the appropriate energy of an 11 hour long microwave session if that study is accurate.
So...maybe we should stick to old fashioned before and after photos.
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Every year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly.
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
www.americanscientist.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Every year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly.
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
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"A new study shows that cutting social media use for just one week can reduce mental health symptoms, like anxiety and depression, in young adults."
Just one week off social media can improve young adults' mental health, study finds
A new study shows that cutting social media use for just one week can reduce mental health symptoms, like anxiety and depression, in young adults.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
"A new study shows that cutting social media use for just one week can reduce mental health symptoms, like anxiety and depression, in young adults."
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The story told here--one where anecdata suggests agency and autonomy have run amok and nameless activists are to blame--certainly rhymes with the NYT's disastrous panic about trans kids. Then you realize it's literally being written by the same author.
Autism rates have increased in recent decades, but the reasons are more complicated than what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has presented. Hear more on today's episode of "The Daily." nyti.ms/480eqtm
The Autism Diagnosis Problem
Autism rates have increased in recent decades, but the reasons are more complicated than what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has presented.
nyti.ms
November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The story told here--one where anecdata suggests agency and autonomy have run amok and nameless activists are to blame--certainly rhymes with the NYT's disastrous panic about trans kids. Then you realize it's literally being written by the same author.
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Once you remember that these manosphere blokes actively benefit from their audience staying lonely and angry their "advice" makes sense.
They call him Aubrey Huff because my man is on a diet of nothing but turpentine and paint stripper
November 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Once you remember that these manosphere blokes actively benefit from their audience staying lonely and angry their "advice" makes sense.
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
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AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
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[for context] www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/m... [gift link]
November 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
[for context] www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/m... [gift link]
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damn -- Jason Crow demolished Martha MacCallum to the point where she had to get extremely defensive before wrapping up the interview
November 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
damn -- Jason Crow demolished Martha MacCallum to the point where she had to get extremely defensive before wrapping up the interview
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ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
November 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
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Condé Nast emptied out every single trans and Black journalist from Teen Vogue while clearing a six figure salary for a woman who slept with people she was covering while she mocked real concerns about their fitness
Lord knows I need money but this is SYSTEMIC
Lord knows I need money but this is SYSTEMIC
And they're taking up space that could be better used by other people, people who have fucking integrity.
People like Sydette.
People like Sydette.
Nuzzi may be a joke or punchline , but she got into position by being constantly excused for being an abusive manipulative ass.
And falling back to the same schtick of being “seduced “ by men and”jealous es” by women
And you know someone like her right the fuck now
Who you’re NOT stopping
And falling back to the same schtick of being “seduced “ by men and”jealous es” by women
And you know someone like her right the fuck now
Who you’re NOT stopping
November 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Condé Nast emptied out every single trans and Black journalist from Teen Vogue while clearing a six figure salary for a woman who slept with people she was covering while she mocked real concerns about their fitness
Lord knows I need money but this is SYSTEMIC
Lord knows I need money but this is SYSTEMIC
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...
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“One of the attorneys said part of the operational plan involves undercover ICE and FBI agents attending and documenting church security plans.”
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
“One of the attorneys said part of the operational plan involves undercover ICE and FBI agents attending and documenting church security plans.”
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i know “quiet, piggy” is just one raindrop in the flood of vile, shocking statements from trump, but it’s SO cruel, so threatening, such a violation of our most basic interpersonal norms. i would really like to see it get some actual coverage.
"When an off-camera female reporter... began to ask if there was anything 'incriminating' in the Epstein emails, Trump pointed a finger in her face. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy,' he said menacingly."
Tell me again how it's women who are ruining the workplace?
people.com/donald-trump...
Tell me again how it's women who are ruining the workplace?
people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
i know “quiet, piggy” is just one raindrop in the flood of vile, shocking statements from trump, but it’s SO cruel, so threatening, such a violation of our most basic interpersonal norms. i would really like to see it get some actual coverage.
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NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...