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It's scary to be transgender in the world right now but if you're transgender I love you and we have to stick together and keep fighting and keep living and keep loving

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LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Alolan Pokemon Fit plushies have been announced, all 116 types! These also come to the Japanese Pokemon Center starting May10!

Here's a video showing them all off!

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Let's talk about that autism registry thing...

I've seen a few posts now where people are talking about this RFK autism registry thing in very all-or-nothing ways, to the point of wondering if their life is over.

I'm not going to pull punches, it's probably going to be harmful, but your fight; our fight isn't over.

Let's talk about it

The context:

RFK has made a promise to find out the cause of increasing autism rates by September. To do this, he isn't asking experts, he wants to compile a database of autistic people and our private health records to study the issue.

RFK would like to make this database available to researchers (including researchers he hand selects) to study increasing autism rates.

I'm not going to lie. This is bad. This is bad science. This is probably going to be harmful to autistic people and community… but it's also complicated.

The complications:

Having a disease database isn't a new thing, even in the US. There are databases like this for more threatening conditions to public health, such as cancers, infectious diseases, and bio-threats already. They are used in science and public health monitoring and can be good.

In a number of countries (especially Scandinavia), public health databases like these exist, including of autistic, ADHD, trans, and other vulnerable groups. These databases can do a lot to further research with vulnerable communities…

but they can also be a massive liability.

The Difference:

The current US administration.

The current US administration has clearly and repeatedly shown they don't mind (or actively wish to) harming vulnerable communities. RFK has stated numerous times his dangerous and dangerously misinformed opinions about autistic people.

So, while public health databases can be used for good things, I don't think this one is going to be. However, it probably isn't the end times either.

The Probable Future:

More than likely this database is going to be used (first) to further disinformation about autism, including vaccine myths. Spreading disinformation about autism, especially from a government, is going to be immeasurably harmful, no doubt.

But we've been here before. We've fought mis/disinformation and we have the tools and community to do it again.

What worries people:

What worries people is what happens after. The current US administration has been shown repeatedly that they are willing to use private data that they have on citizens to harm people.

They have used data like this for ICE raids and targeted doxing already. No one can promise that this database will not be used the same way.

That said, the path between where we are now and using this proposed database for targeted harm is windy and uncertain. We are not there yet, and there are still things that we can do.

What we can do:

1) Take care of yourself.

Make sure that you are meeting your physical, mental, and sensory needs, at least to a bare minimum level, before giving too many spoons to others.

2) Build community.

You probably have autistic family members. Talk to them.

Is there an autistic-led organization in your area? Autistic-led peer support? Reach out to them. Talk to other autistic people and share resources

If there isn't autistic-led organizations in your area, can you start something? It doesn't have to be big or perfect or consistent.

Heck, even an autistic-run D&D campaign, or social group, or bowling night would build community, just so long as it gets people meeting!

Just don't leave anyone behind. Include the most vulnerable (those in group/care homes, non-speaking, etc.) among us in these communities.

3) Communicate with your physical or mental health care team.

They may not be able to amend past health records, but they can certainly change the notes they take in future.

Be careful though, as these notes are an important part of disability programs and may be necessary for those purposes.

4) Continue making noise.

Get the media involved. Be loud at people who could be involved with the database (researchers, government officials, committee members). Talk to your representatives.

5) What'd I forget?

What are other things we can do the push back in this moment?

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The world is a horrible and unforgiving place— OMG CATAQUACK AND CONKDOR ON THE MARIO KART ROSTER HIIIII

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banging out some of my own tunes to celebrate neil banging out the tunes

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FNaF 2 movie trailer Silksong and Deltarune this day has been a big one for autism

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“Boop boop be-doop” must have been crazy with autistic people in the 30s

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The threat was loud and clear: Report your so-called “DEI” employees or else. What exactly “DEIA or similar ideologies” means is up in the air, but the message was out there. And so was the email address of the DEIA snitching hotline. Fake emails quickly started to roll in. ‘I don’t care, fuck these McCarthyite bastards,” one BlueSky user said, with an screenshot attached of an email to the hotline where he ironically reported Donald Trump and JD Vance for being “put in their positions solely because of their race and/or gender despite the fact that they are wholly unqualified for their jobs and, in some cases, have criminal records.” “Anyone have a script to fire off a billion e-mails an hour??” another user asked in the replies. “Anyone can email anything of any size even if it crashes the site,” one X user noted. The scope and effectiveness of this latest phase of Trump’s anti-DEI crusade remains to be seen.

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Food for thought

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Quietly losing my mind over the fact that Elon Musk has straight up orchestrated a coup of our executive branch and like....I don't even know what, if any, system we have in place to fix this. Like... He's just taken control of the money and locked out the actual appointed officials. What the fuck.

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future archaeologists will know you were (not) a boy

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Anyway, daily reminder from a culturally isolated Romani person.

Gypsy does not mean wanderer.

It literally means ‘people from egypt’ or similar, as europeans believed Romani people were from Egypt. It has become known similar to nomad due to how our ancestors have been forced to be nomadic due to racism and ostracization, but it is a SLUR.

Romani people are STILL being forcibly sterilized.

Romani people are STILL being forced into ghettos.

Romani people are still facing violence and danger in countless European countries- and recently, I’ve seen the beginnings of the extremes in the United States.

Have a little fucking respect and DON’T USE A SLUR THAT’S BEEN USED FOR CENTURIES AGAINST US.

And for the love of whatever’s up there, ESPECIALLY do not use it to describe your witchcraft. It is playing on the ‘magic gypsy’ trope, and is EXTREMELY insulting.

non romani people, please reblog this.

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official elon musk hate post reblog to hate like to hate reply to hate

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rip Tchaikovsky you would have loved fursuit dance competitions

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does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver