Helene
@helene333.bsky.social
Nature-loving Pagan cleric and sorcerix, reader of books, crafter of things, walker of dogs. Sociology PhD student and martial artist. Queer, genderqueer and autistic. She/they. www.woodlandspirituality.com
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the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists
September 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists
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If you’d like to unpack all the lies being told to the public right now, here’s your fact valet —
Acetaminophen doesn’t cause autism&pregnant people w/fever or pain need it.
Leucovorin isn’t an autism treatment& the reason they’re trying to sell you that is explained in the attached thread& posts
Acetaminophen doesn’t cause autism&pregnant people w/fever or pain need it.
Leucovorin isn’t an autism treatment& the reason they’re trying to sell you that is explained in the attached thread& posts
Hellloooooo, journalists! Covering the Mon announcement abt #autism? CHECK OUT the last 3 @thinkingautism.com newsletters for background on the loooong trail of grift in mitochondria-autism industry, starting w/a man who co-authored entire study abt his own daughter w/o disclosing the relationship.🧵
September 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
If you’d like to unpack all the lies being told to the public right now, here’s your fact valet —
Acetaminophen doesn’t cause autism&pregnant people w/fever or pain need it.
Leucovorin isn’t an autism treatment& the reason they’re trying to sell you that is explained in the attached thread& posts
Acetaminophen doesn’t cause autism&pregnant people w/fever or pain need it.
Leucovorin isn’t an autism treatment& the reason they’re trying to sell you that is explained in the attached thread& posts
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Ask yourself, if this lie or unsubstantiated claim was true, would it justify their conclusion? If the answer is no, than this should not be the primary basis of the pushback
September 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Ask yourself, if this lie or unsubstantiated claim was true, would it justify their conclusion? If the answer is no, than this should not be the primary basis of the pushback
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With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:
Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia
A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:
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The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
September 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
So cool!
I'm thrilled to share that my poem lanterns will be part of the University of Massachusetts Hampden Gallery Triennial exhibition, "Reflecting on the Past/Dreaming the Future"
On view: September 12 – December 3; Amherst, MA
On view: September 12 – December 3; Amherst, MA
September 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
So cool!
Having to get out early means catching some morning mist in the hills before it burns off.
September 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Having to get out early means catching some morning mist in the hills before it burns off.
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Hey folks, please spread the word. I know it is hard in this hyper-connected digital age, but learn how to organize and communicate in ways beyond social media and apps.
Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps
Trump administration contract with Paragon Solutions gives immigration agency access to one of the most powerful stealth cyberweapons
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Hey folks, please spread the word. I know it is hard in this hyper-connected digital age, but learn how to organize and communicate in ways beyond social media and apps.
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If empathy is a sin, then let me be guilty of it daily. ❤️🌼
September 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
If empathy is a sin, then let me be guilty of it daily. ❤️🌼
Some days I, too, would like to just climb a tree and threaten to jab anyone who comes too close...
September 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Some days I, too, would like to just climb a tree and threaten to jab anyone who comes too close...
This newsletter has been off to an impressive start, and this week's issue is especially important to read before whatever BS statement RFK Jr comes out with about autism.
"[RFK Jr.] is not a 'vaccine skeptic.' He is virulently anti-vaccine because he took that stand many years ago, made bank and reputation on it, and resists all updates to his stance." @ejwillingham.bsky.social on that public health pox, in the latest TPGA newsletter:
buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...
buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...
RFK Jr prepping more lies | Ineffective alt-med | Autistic Bowie
The ever-exhausting (we are so tired) US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr wants to erase autistic people from existence and has told lies about them for years.
buttondown.com
September 2, 2025 at 11:39 AM
This newsletter has been off to an impressive start, and this week's issue is especially important to read before whatever BS statement RFK Jr comes out with about autism.
Sometimes owls look majestic and wise. Other times, they look like lumpy muppets.
September 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Sometimes owls look majestic and wise. Other times, they look like lumpy muppets.
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Respect the locals! 🦊🤎
September 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Respect the locals! 🦊🤎
If only!!!
Phone calls should come through with
a little subject line like emails do, like I’m sorry but I need to know before I pick that thing up
a little subject line like emails do, like I’m sorry but I need to know before I pick that thing up
August 31, 2025 at 5:09 PM
If only!!!
Honey is here to sweeten up your scroll.
August 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Honey is here to sweeten up your scroll.
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Important thread:
With O'Neill (apparently) taking over CDC (if they ever get around to firing Monarez), I think it's worth looking back to Project 2025 and asking what they actually intend to *do* to CDC. So, I went to remind myself today. Here's what's in store:
August 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Important thread:
I don't even know what proper supports would look like in my life.
A review found that 90% of autistic people aged over 50 in Britain are either undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, and the same is likely true in other countries. Our middle-aged & older autistic people deserve proper supports NOW after a lifetime without accommodations.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Older autistic people need more help after years of misdiagnosis, review finds
Research estimates 90% of Britons over 50 with autism aren’t getting right treatment and face added difficulties
www.theguardian.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I don't even know what proper supports would look like in my life.
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There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with:
“What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”
“What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”
August 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with:
“What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”
“What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”
This whole thread of highlights from this book is worth reading (as is the rest of the book, I suspect).
I finally read computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1976 classic “Computer Power and Human Reason.”
This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:
This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:
August 29, 2025 at 10:38 AM
This whole thread of highlights from this book is worth reading (as is the rest of the book, I suspect).
Main message in Ron’s post is that it isn’t either-or. We affect the large scale through our work on whatever scale we work on. Rather than “forget the world, focus on you and yours,” it’s more like "this is *how* we save the world."
We and our direct connections *are* the world, together.
We and our direct connections *are* the world, together.
“Stop trying to save the world, and start trying to save your community.”
New blog post! This was a very difficult and confusing message to receive this month, and it took me a bit to piece it together with some of the other things in the dream.
New blog post! This was a very difficult and confusing message to receive this month, and it took me a bit to piece it together with some of the other things in the dream.
New Moon Ritual: August 2025 — White Rose Witching
“Stop trying to save the world, and start trying to save your community.” That was the message a very stern Queer Ancestor shared during this month’s new moon ritual. And it is a message I’m honestly...
www.whiterosewitching.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Main message in Ron’s post is that it isn’t either-or. We affect the large scale through our work on whatever scale we work on. Rather than “forget the world, focus on you and yours,” it’s more like "this is *how* we save the world."
We and our direct connections *are* the world, together.
We and our direct connections *are* the world, together.
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it feels like such a simple ask.
August 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
it feels like such a simple ask.
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OK nerds, I have a challenge for you.
@tangledwilderness.bsky.social has just published my Letter to the Trans Teens Thinking About Giving Up as a zine. I want to see how many copies of it we can get into the hands of the people who need to read it, and I need YOUR help.
@tangledwilderness.bsky.social has just published my Letter to the Trans Teens Thinking About Giving Up as a zine. I want to see how many copies of it we can get into the hands of the people who need to read it, and I need YOUR help.
August 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
OK nerds, I have a challenge for you.
@tangledwilderness.bsky.social has just published my Letter to the Trans Teens Thinking About Giving Up as a zine. I want to see how many copies of it we can get into the hands of the people who need to read it, and I need YOUR help.
@tangledwilderness.bsky.social has just published my Letter to the Trans Teens Thinking About Giving Up as a zine. I want to see how many copies of it we can get into the hands of the people who need to read it, and I need YOUR help.
Loved this retelling of Circe's story!
August 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Loved this retelling of Circe's story!
"If you are struggling to fathom or reckon with what’s happening, begin here: who can you help protect, and how?"
If you're trying to make sense of what's happening in D.C., orient yourself in this moment, and figure out what to do next, you may want to read my latest piece.
You Must Protect Anyone Chased by the Fascists
"We have to define the politics of opposition."
organizingmythoughts.org
August 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM
"If you are struggling to fathom or reckon with what’s happening, begin here: who can you help protect, and how?"