Dr. Alyssa (they/them)
@yesthattoo.bsky.social
Autistic researcher with too many interests and no real intention of narrowing it down. Mostly AAC research at the moment. Sometimes a math teacher.
Not speaking on behalf of any companies/organizations here.
Not speaking on behalf of any companies/organizations here.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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I swam competitively from 4-18. (Mom put me on the swim team when I became disruptively bored at the 4yo swim lessons.)
There's an annual rhythm to life when you swim. The meet weekend I missed bc of chicken pox was the longest weekend of my childhood. I can't imagine losing access to it like this.
There's an annual rhythm to life when you swim. The meet weekend I missed bc of chicken pox was the longest weekend of my childhood. I can't imagine losing access to it like this.
For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.
"Let her passing be an inflection point for how you think about trans rights and trans people more generally."
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I swam competitively from 4-18. (Mom put me on the swim team when I became disruptively bored at the 4yo swim lessons.)
There's an annual rhythm to life when you swim. The meet weekend I missed bc of chicken pox was the longest weekend of my childhood. I can't imagine losing access to it like this.
There's an annual rhythm to life when you swim. The meet weekend I missed bc of chicken pox was the longest weekend of my childhood. I can't imagine losing access to it like this.
My brain has decided that instead of successfully sleeping what I should do is try to figure out how to explain part time AAC use / intermittent, unreliable, insufficient, and expensive speech IN CHINESE
Not a direct translation, but doing it near-fresh for a Chinese audience
#AutRes
Not a direct translation, but doing it near-fresh for a Chinese audience
#AutRes
November 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
My brain has decided that instead of successfully sleeping what I should do is try to figure out how to explain part time AAC use / intermittent, unreliable, insufficient, and expensive speech IN CHINESE
Not a direct translation, but doing it near-fresh for a Chinese audience
#AutRes
Not a direct translation, but doing it near-fresh for a Chinese audience
#AutRes
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Jon, a cyber security analyst who also does autism research for fun - @christianityon.bsky.social - joins me for this months episode, talking about autism, disclosure, and his nerd job.
www.disabledscientists.com/2437552/epis...
www.disabledscientists.com/2437552/epis...
4. Jonathan Machnee - Disabled Scientists
What do autism and cyber security have in common?In this month's episode, Jon, a cyber security researcher, speaks with Sofie about his career, disclosing his neurodevelopmental condition to his whole...
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November 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Jon, a cyber security analyst who also does autism research for fun - @christianityon.bsky.social - joins me for this months episode, talking about autism, disclosure, and his nerd job.
www.disabledscientists.com/2437552/epis...
www.disabledscientists.com/2437552/epis...
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*whispers* It is a faithful adaptation of an early 1800s novel by a woman about an arrogant self centered man
Why are people
Why are people
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
*whispers* It is a faithful adaptation of an early 1800s novel by a woman about an arrogant self centered man
Why are people
Why are people
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I have to confess "your browser's AI can be made to steal your banking info via prompt injection because it runs with full privileges and treats all text as equally authoritative sources of instructions, including the text of pages it's summarising" is more surprising to me than it should have been.
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I have to confess "your browser's AI can be made to steal your banking info via prompt injection because it runs with full privileges and treats all text as equally authoritative sources of instructions, including the text of pages it's summarising" is more surprising to me than it should have been.
I am learning Dutch and would like to alert my fellow #Autistic people that there is a popular song composed substantially of making train sounds.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSxh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSxh...
Guus Meeuwis & Vagant - Per Spoor (Kedeng Kedeng) (Official Video)
YouTube video by Guus Meeuwis
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November 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I am learning Dutch and would like to alert my fellow #Autistic people that there is a popular song composed substantially of making train sounds.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSxh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSxh...
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I explained the client's civil remedies, but most people don't have 2-5 years to pursue them.
"So why are you congratulating me? I still lost. All you're saying is they took almost everything from me instead of everything."
The purpose of a system is what it does.
"So why are you congratulating me? I still lost. All you're saying is they took almost everything from me instead of everything."
The purpose of a system is what it does.
November 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I explained the client's civil remedies, but most people don't have 2-5 years to pursue them.
"So why are you congratulating me? I still lost. All you're saying is they took almost everything from me instead of everything."
The purpose of a system is what it does.
"So why are you congratulating me? I still lost. All you're saying is they took almost everything from me instead of everything."
The purpose of a system is what it does.
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I explained that unfortunately it doesn't work that way.
"Okay when do I get my stuff back [from civil asset forfeiture]? When does the [prosecutor and judge] apologize to me and tell the world I did nothing wrong?"
"Okay when do I get my stuff back [from civil asset forfeiture]? When does the [prosecutor and judge] apologize to me and tell the world I did nothing wrong?"
November 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I explained that unfortunately it doesn't work that way.
"Okay when do I get my stuff back [from civil asset forfeiture]? When does the [prosecutor and judge] apologize to me and tell the world I did nothing wrong?"
"Okay when do I get my stuff back [from civil asset forfeiture]? When does the [prosecutor and judge] apologize to me and tell the world I did nothing wrong?"
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This story is infinitely more important than GTA getting delayed. Don't let me catch you moaning about waiting longer for a video game if you're not mad about why it happened.
"Rockstar, Rockstar, you're disgusting, we charge you with union busting," the protesters declared.
'All you had to do was follow the damn law, Rockstar!': Workers are protesting outside Take-Two after GTA 6 dev's alleged 'brazen' union-busting
"They can get used to seeing us on their doorstep."
www.pcgamer.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:06 AM
This story is infinitely more important than GTA getting delayed. Don't let me catch you moaning about waiting longer for a video game if you're not mad about why it happened.
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This is physiognomy with a computer added.
It's racism dressed up as science. I can't say this enough. It's as reliable as the trend of "face reading" on TikTok a while ago.
But if you won't listen to me, here's a white lady saying the same things: youtu.be/NyUT2DxBiDM?...
It's racism dressed up as science. I can't say this enough. It's as reliable as the trend of "face reading" on TikTok a while ago.
But if you won't listen to me, here's a white lady saying the same things: youtu.be/NyUT2DxBiDM?...
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This is physiognomy with a computer added.
It's racism dressed up as science. I can't say this enough. It's as reliable as the trend of "face reading" on TikTok a while ago.
But if you won't listen to me, here's a white lady saying the same things: youtu.be/NyUT2DxBiDM?...
It's racism dressed up as science. I can't say this enough. It's as reliable as the trend of "face reading" on TikTok a while ago.
But if you won't listen to me, here's a white lady saying the same things: youtu.be/NyUT2DxBiDM?...
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Good thread, and I will add that men DO NOT LIKE IT when women say "hey, you fucked up," and to the extent that women tend to soften the blow with indirectness, it's because men feel like their honor is insulted if they have to take feedback from women.
I'm not linking to that NYT piece today, but of all the horrible parts of it, this was the worst. This was an explanation of "female vices" in the workplace and LET ME JUST TELL YOU...
November 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Good thread, and I will add that men DO NOT LIKE IT when women say "hey, you fucked up," and to the extent that women tend to soften the blow with indirectness, it's because men feel like their honor is insulted if they have to take feedback from women.
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The Reddit community r/Democrats has a conspicuous absence of any news about Zohran Mamdani today. But that's by design.
The moderators have rules that ban people from talking about democratic socialists.
www.reddit.com/r/democrats/
The moderators have rules that ban people from talking about democratic socialists.
www.reddit.com/r/democrats/
November 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The Reddit community r/Democrats has a conspicuous absence of any news about Zohran Mamdani today. But that's by design.
The moderators have rules that ban people from talking about democratic socialists.
www.reddit.com/r/democrats/
The moderators have rules that ban people from talking about democratic socialists.
www.reddit.com/r/democrats/
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That whole thing about how The Art of War mostly just says stuff like "be sure to feed your soldiers"
Army closes only dining facility on Kansas base due to government shutdown trib.al/5WGvUOq
Army closes only dining facility on Kansas base due to government shutdown
The only dining facility for junior troops at the Army’s Fort Leavenworth in Kansas has been closed due to funding issues.
trib.al
November 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
That whole thing about how The Art of War mostly just says stuff like "be sure to feed your soldiers"
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My takeaway from the elections yesterday is that it’s one thing to be unpopular and have a large portion of the media apparatus desperate to pretend that’s not the case but it’s another thing to be unpopular and have that be an undeniable fact
November 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
My takeaway from the elections yesterday is that it’s one thing to be unpopular and have a large portion of the media apparatus desperate to pretend that’s not the case but it’s another thing to be unpopular and have that be an undeniable fact
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Big tech continues to demonstrate its’ alignment with fascists. BAN FACIAL RECOGNITION
We've found DHS is giving local cops a new facial recognition app to find immigrants. Point camera at face, tells the cop to detain person or not. The app is available on Google's Play Store. Google took down apps that report ICE sightings but now hosts this app
www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...
www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...
DHS Gives Local Cops a Facial Recognition App To Find Immigrants
The app, called Mobile Identify and available on the Google Play Store, is specifically for local and regional law enforcement agencies working with ICE on immigration enforcement.
www.404media.co
November 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Big tech continues to demonstrate its’ alignment with fascists. BAN FACIAL RECOGNITION
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New sign outside the Oval Office..
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
New sign outside the Oval Office..
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not disagree with Steve. I think this is deliberate. They are trying to make the law they want by acting as if it already exists. pretty consistent across the admin.
It's impossible to overstate how much of what ICE is doing on the ground reflects this completely preposterous conflation of hostile *speech* and hostile *conduct.*
The First Amendment protects—or, at least, is supposed to protect—the former up and until it's a "true threat," which none of this is.
The First Amendment protects—or, at least, is supposed to protect—the former up and until it's a "true threat," which none of this is.
From Bovino's deposition: (1) he calls protestors "violent" if they articulate views hostile to ICE, even if no violence is manifested; (2) he instructs his forces to attack and arrest protestors who express "hyperbolic comments," which is to say, criticism of ICE and Bovino.
November 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
not disagree with Steve. I think this is deliberate. They are trying to make the law they want by acting as if it already exists. pretty consistent across the admin.
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Which in turn implies that one could do suppressing fire with subway sandwiches.
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
November 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Which in turn implies that one could do suppressing fire with subway sandwiches.
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the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates
November 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates
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Ways being a high-masking autistic person is similar to being a fluent speaker of English as a second language, a thread:
November 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Ways being a high-masking autistic person is similar to being a fluent speaker of English as a second language, a thread:
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The #1 NYT Bestseller: A DAY WITH NO WORDS by Tiffany Hammond, illustrated by me, pub by Bloomsbury IS BACK ON THE SHELVES!!! 💜
#kidlit #kidlitart #childrensbooks #BlackBoyJoy #autism #nonspeaker #actuallyautistic #bookposse #diversebooks #disability #inclusion
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#kidlit #kidlitart #childrensbooks #BlackBoyJoy #autism #nonspeaker #actuallyautistic #bookposse #diversebooks #disability #inclusion
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November 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The #1 NYT Bestseller: A DAY WITH NO WORDS by Tiffany Hammond, illustrated by me, pub by Bloomsbury IS BACK ON THE SHELVES!!! 💜
#kidlit #kidlitart #childrensbooks #BlackBoyJoy #autism #nonspeaker #actuallyautistic #bookposse #diversebooks #disability #inclusion
@eastwestlit.bsky.social
#kidlit #kidlitart #childrensbooks #BlackBoyJoy #autism #nonspeaker #actuallyautistic #bookposse #diversebooks #disability #inclusion
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Everytime some company or agency or my university asks for "further information" I always want to yell because "further information" is never specified for my autistic understanding
November 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Everytime some company or agency or my university asks for "further information" I always want to yell because "further information" is never specified for my autistic understanding
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View past chats here: Aug 30, 2016, and Jun 17, 2018. “Formal diagnosis” can refer to a diagnosis of autism or of another neurodivergence (e.g., ADHD). Some people with formal diagnoses may have known...
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November 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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