I have long covid and it’s like a lesson in applied anatomy. Like, oh there’s my vagus nerve firing, or oh so that’s what it feels like when your fibula hurts.

not pity or dismissal.

To every autistic person who heard those words and felt erased: you matter. You are not a burden. You are a vital part of our communities, our movements, and our future.

We see you. We stand with you. And we will not let this kind of rhetoric go unchallenged.

And people still voluntarily came to the US for this conference despite this country’s new, exciting random threats of extraordinary rendition. Because this matters. K9s save human lives and that matters.

How does thousands of embryos fit with the right wing ideology?

Interesting story: when I took ornithology ages ago, some of my classmates couldn’t distinguish purple finch from house finch—they both looked purple to them. To me the house finch almost looks orange. Different ways different people see colors, I guess.

vance exists to be eventually fed to a rancor, basically

The same day, Utah also banned pride flags. This state is stupid.