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Broad green leaves, like those we might expect from a flower bulb, burst through the pliable tarmac next to a wall.
Feels like a metaphor.
We currently live in a social world of magical thinking shaped by the cult of technological progress. Co-creating ecologies of care beyond the human allows us to experience beauty in a world that is completely out of control autcollab.org/2025/01/24/t....
General reminder to please post things that might cheer people up or at least raise a wry smile, or even hopes. Not just bleakness.
And if your timeline is full of the latter, actively seek out the former.
There's a lot of great stuff happening. People are still mostly good.
As are cats and dogs.
This week more people are reading autcollab.org/2023/11/28/d.... The cultural compost heap is composting. The fertility of the compost is going up.
There is a co-evolved natural pace to the flow of life at each of the different scales within the kingdoms of life. We currently live in a social world of magical thinking shaped by the cult of technological progress.
autcollab.org/2025/01/24/t...
It is time to celebrate our interdependence!
—Jorn Bettin
Interdependence is the only way out of most of the most pressing issues we face today.
—Mia Mingus
#WeirdPride
A passage from the Tao that’s frequently worth revisiting.
These are good things to remember!
Day #8 of setting a record daily low for Arctic sea-ice extent.
Dec. 17, 2024: 405,000 km² below the previous daily record.
"I’m an Amazon worker myself but also a professor of anthropology at Duke University." Fantastic read from Orin Starn.
www.sapiens.org/culture/amaz...
Twitter exchange on a black background, from a DrNeilStone, reading, "We do need to find out what causes autism. Because it isn't vaccines." Response from Sara_R_Rocha, reading, "And then what? Will it fix the chronic institutionalization of autistic people? The violence we suffer as a community. Will it give us independent living and support? Or will only serve to try to find new ways to prevent us from existing? I bet on the last one."
It's not enough to let people know that vaccines don't cause autism. We also have to affirm that autism is not something to fear, that autistic lives are worth living and supporting, and that autistic people deserve to exist and be loved.
Original exchange on Twitter: x.com/Sara_R_Rocha...
A compassionate frame of love as vulnerable mutual knowing is compatible with a panpsychic relational philosophy. Everyone wants their experience to be taken seriously. We are embodied spirits, compelled to make sense of this world. We can only do so in good company.
autcollab.org/2024/12/16/g...
Psychology has a place, but how it feels to be Autistic and what motivates us to do things in a particular way don’t always fit the clinical narratives.
That’s why it’s so important for us to be active participants in any kind of assessment and to tell our own stories in our own way.
Thank you so much for sharing your story! The psychology community is way behind the autistic community at recognizing & understanding autism -- which only makes sense, groups & individuals always know themselves better than experts looking in from the outside!
#Thread
If you’re wondering if you might be Autistic but ruling it out because some of the diagnostic criteria don’t apply read on.
Initially Autism wasn’t considered a likely explanation for my difficulties because I was married, employed, seemed to cope with change, and had social skills.
Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky
1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research
Open Access
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
A rusting ship in the dried up bed of the Aral Sea, with an overcast sky and a bit of blue in the distance.
Then let's talk. Let's be realistic. Prepare for the worst whilst working to build the best we can. The best won't happen by itself, by just floating into the future, because the river ends in the desert, not in the sea.
We've entered the pandemicene, and devastating climate change is upon us, along with a cataclysmic tide of oligarchical authoritarianism.
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I'm nearly 60 now. I have decades of experience at this. You won't like what I see for the future of the world.
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I'm not a prophet.
But I'm autistic, and many autistic people are naturally good at pattern recognition. The more information we gather over time, the more frequently our predictions can turn out to be correct.
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It's like... they may be right on some points, but that doesn't make them decent, and it prevents them from reaching their full potential.
This says more about the "science" conducted by researchers who submit their work to the funding criteria of the Autism Industrial Complex than about the neurodiversity movement: "... there is no consensus in the scientific community on the validity of the neuro-diversity argument".