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"digital platforms can serve as arenas of epistemic resistance, where lived experience is claimed as collective expertise, challenging traditional medical authority"
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The Politics of Self-narration: Self-Diagnosis as Digital Counter-Narrative - Topoi
This article explores the epistemic, political, and affective dimensions of self-narration in relation to neurodivergence and self-diagnosis, focusing on how such practices can resist forms of epistem...
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December 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
"digital platforms can serve as arenas of epistemic resistance, where lived experience is claimed as collective expertise, challenging traditional medical authority"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Change in Headline
December 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Change in Headline
Did you know that the original Xbox comes with tasty treats inside?
December 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Did you know that the original Xbox comes with tasty treats inside?
Use smd tweezers to pluck your eyebrows 👍
December 10, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Use smd tweezers to pluck your eyebrows 👍
I am constantly having to navigate the NGO-ification of therapists and it's exhausting.
December 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I am constantly having to navigate the NGO-ification of therapists and it's exhausting.
Honestly reads like a guillotine meme
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Honestly reads like a guillotine meme
okay hear me out: Polo shirt but the sleeves are replaced with sleeves in the style of kimono but still out of polo shirt fabric.
December 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
okay hear me out: Polo shirt but the sleeves are replaced with sleeves in the style of kimono but still out of polo shirt fabric.
What does a girl need to do to get some barite around here?
December 8, 2025 at 7:04 AM
What does a girl need to do to get some barite around here?
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The action is being taken on behalf of the same mother of a transgender teenager who previously successfully fought the state's first ban.
Qld facing fresh legal challenge over controversial puberty blocker ban
The action is being taken on behalf of the same mother of a transgender teenager who previously successfully fought the state's first ban.
www.abc.net.au
December 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
The action is being taken on behalf of the same mother of a transgender teenager who previously successfully fought the state's first ban.
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Fascism is a pathology integral to liberalism
December 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Fascism is a pathology integral to liberalism
Managed to get Technitium up and running today on an old Raspberry Pi. Seems to be working so far?
December 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Managed to get Technitium up and running today on an old Raspberry Pi. Seems to be working so far?
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A talk I gave earlier this year has, unfortunately, become relevant again this week so I've published it here.
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
The Fascist Echo in Labour's "Over-diagnosis" Inquiry
Why Wes Steeting's new inquiry is about more than just renewed austerity
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
A talk I gave earlier this year has, unfortunately, become relevant again this week so I've published it here.
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
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Similarly, philosophy's transphobia has enabled the ongoing trans genocide (cultural, legislative, etc.) through the circulation of its false beliefs about the nature of gender, many of which have been taken up by journalists who have used the "academic" nature of the beliefs for political violence.
December 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Similarly, philosophy's transphobia has enabled the ongoing trans genocide (cultural, legislative, etc.) through the circulation of its false beliefs about the nature of gender, many of which have been taken up by journalists who have used the "academic" nature of the beliefs for political violence.
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So, I had a look at the draft of this piece and had a couple of thoughts.
I have a new paper coming out in Inquiry called ‘The Perils of Epistemic Idealism': philpapers.org/rec/SHITPO-40. I argue that especially in applied, political work, philosophers have a tendency to assume that political harms are primarily a product of false beliefs and misguided concepts.
Matthew Shields, The Perils of Epistemic Idealism - PhilPapers
I argue that philosophers are vulnerable to an occupational hazard that I call ‘epistemic idealism.’ This is the assumption that a practice in our epistemic lives with harmful political consequences i...
philpapers.org
December 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
So, I had a look at the draft of this piece and had a couple of thoughts.
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"Welsh advocate launches UK’s first organisation for rural trans communities.
A Welsh advocate has launched the UK’s first national organisation dedicated to improving the lives of transgender people in rural, remote, and semi-rural areas."
nation.cymru/news/welsh-a...
A Welsh advocate has launched the UK’s first national organisation dedicated to improving the lives of transgender people in rural, remote, and semi-rural areas."
nation.cymru/news/welsh-a...
Welsh advocate launches UK’s first organisation for rural trans communities
A Welsh advocate has launched the UK’s first national organisation dedicated to improving the lives of transgender people in rural, remote, and semi-rural areas. Rural Trans Alliance CIC, founded in 2...
nation.cymru
December 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"Welsh advocate launches UK’s first organisation for rural trans communities.
A Welsh advocate has launched the UK’s first national organisation dedicated to improving the lives of transgender people in rural, remote, and semi-rural areas."
nation.cymru/news/welsh-a...
A Welsh advocate has launched the UK’s first national organisation dedicated to improving the lives of transgender people in rural, remote, and semi-rural areas."
nation.cymru/news/welsh-a...
resurrect himself - project the self
see - see
clear - clarity
vision - vision
truth - truth
It's like the style is vibe repetition. It's like it wants to convey an emotion, but the emotion is a personal one tied to those words and it fails to convey that feeling to the reader.
see - see
clear - clarity
vision - vision
truth - truth
It's like the style is vibe repetition. It's like it wants to convey an emotion, but the emotion is a personal one tied to those words and it fails to convey that feeling to the reader.
Even her political commentary — the thing she is allegedly good at — is fucking gibberish. We're supposed to overlook her execrable ethics for this?!
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
December 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
resurrect himself - project the self
see - see
clear - clarity
vision - vision
truth - truth
It's like the style is vibe repetition. It's like it wants to convey an emotion, but the emotion is a personal one tied to those words and it fails to convey that feeling to the reader.
see - see
clear - clarity
vision - vision
truth - truth
It's like the style is vibe repetition. It's like it wants to convey an emotion, but the emotion is a personal one tied to those words and it fails to convey that feeling to the reader.
Ravenholdm was nothing like the countrysides
There was no birds singing
And the pants were dead
And teh dirt was messy and bloody from headcrabs
There was no birds singing
And the pants were dead
And teh dirt was messy and bloody from headcrabs
At least 40% of the book is just tortured descriptions of her surroundings.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Ravenholdm was nothing like the countrysides
There was no birds singing
And the pants were dead
And teh dirt was messy and bloody from headcrabs
There was no birds singing
And the pants were dead
And teh dirt was messy and bloody from headcrabs
The moonlight is for swords
December 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The moonlight is for swords
They're making a list,
Checking it twice,
Gonna find out who's bæddel or nice.
Gender Crits are coming to town.
Checking it twice,
Gonna find out who's bæddel or nice.
Gender Crits are coming to town.
December 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
They're making a list,
Checking it twice,
Gonna find out who's bæddel or nice.
Gender Crits are coming to town.
Checking it twice,
Gonna find out who's bæddel or nice.
Gender Crits are coming to town.
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When I talk to my students about law and resistance, I talk about how people tend to think in terms of whether they would’ve acted in 1942, but that they should instead ask themselves what they would’ve done in 1933.
“I think we have to be careful with the Nazi comparisons” people are always waiting until we are five minutes until the Holocaust and then they’re like well it’s only ethnic cleansing not a Holocaust
Is this clear enough or are we still doing that whole thing where we pretend it’s about “crime”?
December 3, 2025 at 1:59 AM
When I talk to my students about law and resistance, I talk about how people tend to think in terms of whether they would’ve acted in 1942, but that they should instead ask themselves what they would’ve done in 1933.
Why are nbn techs still trying to put internal NTDs in the garage?
December 3, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Why are nbn techs still trying to put internal NTDs in the garage?
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Chiitan Knight will continue to spread his message until there are no more transgender people who are subjected to unjustified criticism and slander♡
Let's create a world where we can all love freely🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Let's create a world where we can all love freely🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
December 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Chiitan Knight will continue to spread his message until there are no more transgender people who are subjected to unjustified criticism and slander♡
Let's create a world where we can all love freely🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Let's create a world where we can all love freely🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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Folks talking about the OU student essay need to understand that this is a continuation of a movement that started more than 15 years ago. In the early 2010s, grad mental health students (counseling, social work, MFT, psychology) began claiming they had a right not to engage with coursework that /1
December 2, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Folks talking about the OU student essay need to understand that this is a continuation of a movement that started more than 15 years ago. In the early 2010s, grad mental health students (counseling, social work, MFT, psychology) began claiming they had a right not to engage with coursework that /1