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Beckyferris
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AuDHD nb artist
Kids spend all day with their friends. Come home and immediately call their friends.
September 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Family portrait sculptures
April 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Starting on a whale shark with a rider. Whimsical!
April 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Hi all,

Two lives lost to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) in Oregon a rare, fatal brain disorder. A third case has now been reported.

Experts are investigating a possible cluster in Hood River County.

This is a serious public health concern. 1/
April 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.
April 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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It's time to start reminding people: LILIES ARE DEADLY FOR CATS. The leaves, the petals, the stem, even drinking a bit of vase water or licking a few grains of pollen from their fur can cause fatal kidney failure. ⚠️ www.fda.gov/animal-veter...
April 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Happy Autism Acceptance Month from one of the many autistic Data fans
April 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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hear hear
March 29, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Yall real silent about disability injustices because most of you don’t see disability as a thing that can happen to you.

We are “aww those poor people”. Meanwhile disability can happen to anyone at any moment and those injustices you ignored? They become your experiences too
March 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Dropped off my bears at the library tiny art show!
March 25, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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If I say…what I want to say… I will end up in jail.
Meta's strategy of "anything goes" on Instagram is simply not going to work. We've found dozens of accounts where people are stealing videos of women, face swapping AI images of women with Down Syndrome onto them, and creating OnlyFans to sell AI nudes of them

www.404media.co/people-are-u...
People Are Using AI to Create Influencers With Down Syndrome Who Sell Nudes
Instagram’s unwillingness to moderate AI-generated content finds a new low.
www.404media.co
March 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
March 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Really important piece in @thenation.com today from Palestine Legal director Dima Khalidi about how universities like Columbia laid the groundwork for the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil and all the other persecutions that are coming www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Mahmoud Khalil’s Abduction Is a Red Alert for Universities
Schools across America have a choice: Defend their students against Trump or be complicit in his crimes.
www.thenation.com
March 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"
March 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Mahmoud Khalil should be at home with his pregnant wife.

Instead, he's been illegally abducted & had his constitutional right to free speech & due process stripped.

We're demanding his immediate release and we cannot allow this abuse of power to go unchecked. #FreeMahmoudKhalil
March 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Happy International Women’s Day to the most international woman of all: the woman trapped on the International Space Station
March 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Vaccines do not cause autism. If you need a quick reference to studies that disprove this relationship:

Commentary, how we got here: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Meta-analysis synthesizing the results from studies on almost 1.3 million children: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Vaccination as a cause of autism—myths and controversies
Despite significant progress in the study of the epidemiology and genetics of autism, the etiology and patho-physiology of this condition is far from being elucidated and no curative treatment current...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
March 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The closet light is out and we’re all sick, so every time I go in there, I turn it on eleventy billion times and angrily turn it back off again. Come on!!!!! 💡
March 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Hey everyone!

I’m on NPR’s “It’s been a minute” talking about the R word.

www.npr.org/2025/03/05/1...
The R-word is back. But why? : It's Been a Minute
Over the past few years, Brittany has noticed the resurgence the R-word - a word that otherwise left the cultural lexicon. And while that's troubling in and of itself, its return may also have larger ...
www.npr.org
March 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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"I RESPECT THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT!" yell the Democrats as they're being thrown into volcano. "DIGNIFIED DEMOCRATIC PRESENSE-E-E-E" a fading echo is heard as the last of them hit the magma below.
March 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Hundreds of NOAA employees are being fired by Trump and DOGE.

The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US.

A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans.

Again, this isn't about efficiency.
March 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies.

There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.
March 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM