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Nathan Summers
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Software developer that grew up in Indiana, lived all over the country, and then settled down in rural Kentucky.
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Nathan Summers @rockwlrs.bsky.social · 19d
What would it be like if you woke up autistic? It would be a lot like what happens to Sophia in JUST AS REAL. She discovers she is accidentally trapped in an alternate reality full of horrible noises & strange people she has a hard time understanding. How can she adapt?
#MG #SF #ND #OV #Q #QuestPit
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mikexnichols.bsky.social
the video game industry is a mess
“Make bad game? Fired. Make good game? Fired. Make incredibly successful game? Believe it or not, also fired.” Original source of meme is from Parks and Recreation.
February 20, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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benkuchera.bsky.social
The job search is horrible for just about everyone but a huge chunk of the entire gaming industry lost their jobs and no one is investing in studios.

There literally aren't jobs. They're not coming back for a long time. Gaming isn't a viable career at the moment, and we need to internalize that.
February 19, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy
Liked The Gift Horse's Mouth is Full of Terrible Braille? I run my blog entirely on donations so give me money if you liked it! It helps pay for offline and online bills. https://sightlessscribbles.com/support/ #donate #help
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February 20, 2026 at 6:23 AM
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oregonthedm.bsky.social
February 18, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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slop.guru
i got this air purifier for christmas 3 years ago and now suddenly there are hard boiled egg ads in the app
Screenshot from air purifier app with a big banner that says HARD BOILED EGGS VIEW RECIPE
February 20, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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peelautismresource.bsky.social
"Autistic children who elope are not proving that they have 'profound autism'; they are proving that their environments are not yet safe or tolerable for their nervous systems"

thisisnotautism.com/eloping-to-b...

#autism
Why Do Autistics Have a Greater Risk for Drowning?
Autistic children who elope are not proving that they have “profound autism”; they are proving that their environments are not yet safe or tolerable for their nervous systems, including sound, ligh…
thisisnotautism.com
February 20, 2026 at 1:22 AM
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dramypsyd.rmh-therapy.com
How many weirdly niche Amazon categories am I going to get the #1 new release spot in??
A Neurodiversity-Affirming Approach to ADHD: Over 100 Interventions for Assessment, Treatment, and Support Top New Release in Medical Counseling.
February 20, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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keezyyoung.bsky.social
I see a lot of people frustrated with lack of accommodation for low-medium needs autism, ADHD, anxiety, and depression and I want to caution us all to keep in mind that high/severe needs people with mental illness/neurodivergence are neither your rivals, nor are they receiving higher quality care
February 20, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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failnaut.bsky.social
Ettin is genuinely one of the funniest writers I know and has a TTRPG designer and DM's insight into the world of campaigns. I've been enjoying samples of this for a while. Can't wait to devour the entire thing. Check it out!
ettin.itch.io Ettin (latest fad) @ettin.itch.io · 11h
My first light novel is available now! CRINGE WIZARD is an isekai tale about a guy who gets reborn as a quest NPC in the terrible TTRPG campaign he ran as a teenager.

Get it here:
itch: ettin.itch.io/cringe-wizard
DriveThruFiction (print soon!): www.drivethrufiction.com/en/product/5...
The cover of Cringe Wizard (subtitle: Reborn in the TTRPG World I Wrote In High School and Boy, this is a Lot). A young wizard moves tokens representing adventurers around a D&D-style battlemap, where they're facing off against some skeletons and an undead man with stitched, greying skin and a mohawk.
February 20, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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barrows.itch.io
IT'S HAPPENING! Preorders for EVENT HORIZON, the first book in the First Light series, are officially OPEN!

Is this specific brand of sci-fi goodness right for you? Find out with this dandy guide.

Preorder: books2read.com/u/bPPwNA

Please share!

#FirstLight #EventHorizon
Event Horizon, First Light, Book 1 25.000 words New Adult Sci-fi Adventure, Space Opera Standalone but Serialized Inspired by Golden Age sci-fi and 90's Star Trek EVENT HORIZON: THE SYNOPSIS The year is 2568, and humanity has spread itself thin and wide across the galaxy. Less than half a century has passed since the Paradigm Shift, the cataclysmic event that caused the collapse of all large-scale galactic governments--and left thousands of worlds to their own devices. In the ashes of these Empires, the unexpected happened: Humanity rebuilt, and it rebuilt better. It is now 50 years into humanity's Golden Age. A refugee named Yana finds her new, post-scarcity home just as asphyxiating as the ruins of her homeworld. Though all her needs are met, a deep discontentment still brews, despite all attempts to keep it at bay by focusing on her work as an epidemiologist, her pet amoeba, and a quickly crumbling social life. The situation changes when Yana is accidentally recruited into the Galaxy's foremost peacekeeping organization, and realizes it might hold the answers she seeks. Now, with her last shot at happiness on the line, she must either prove her worth to her new employers, or lose all her prospects--for good. EVENT HORIZON: THE EXCERPTS "In the third deck of the Nomadic Exploration Volunteers’ scout ship Radiant, Yana sat in a waiting room and considered all the decisions that had led her to this point. The old vessel had been quick to work its strange magic on her. From the moment she stepped through the umbilical, a whole new world had welcomed her. A world of history—not the almost desperate remembrances of the Habitat’s Bellerophons and Devapalas and Anansis, not the things that were easy or empowering to remember, but real history, immediate history, written in dents and plasma burns and long sinuous scars in the fuselage. It reminded Yana of something she hadn’t seen in a long time—something she’d escaped, but had come to find herself missing, as if some part of her had craved the simplicity of hardship." "She was standing on a flat platform lined with street lights, floating, island-like, in the darkness; next to her were Rook, and Six, and no-one else. A pipe hung from the unseen ceiling and gently touched down, the now inert transport pod cradled by its curvature. All else was amorphous, suggested though air vibrations and distant, echoing screeches. Storage, the voice had said. Yana knew what the word truly meant. Every station, sooner or later, developed such places. They were the bowels of their artificial worlds, the layers between Layers, the unlit hollows where the extraneous and the unclaimed gathered out of sight and mind." EVENT HORIZON: THE CONTENT Found family Identity and expression Self-discovery Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism Trauma and Healing Strange New Worlds The Start of a Saga
February 19, 2026 at 6:58 PM
rockwlrs.bsky.social
This reminds me of when I had a mild crush on a Bangladeshi and had to peek at a map to make sure I remembered where Bangladesh was (I did).
bmceuen.bsky.social Branden McEuen @bmceuen.bsky.social · 11h
American understanding of geography and stuff:

Asia means East Asia
Pakistan is in the Middle East
India is neither but instead is its own thing, there’s a billion people there they get special status
Unclear what Bangladesh is, unsure if it’s even real
Indonesia is the Philippines
February 20, 2026 at 3:57 AM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Listen, when disabled/chronically ill people tell you about how they're going through stuff related to their illness/disability, please don't tell them to quit their jobs/lives and give up on life. You're telling them they're too weak or unable to be a part of this world, that really doesn't help
February 20, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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morpheus6610.bsky.social
Resist RFK Jr Shirt - Anti-Robert Kennedy Jr Protest Tee - Bold Political Statement - Retro Activist Style - Unisex Graphic Tee: Soft fabric for ultimate comfort! 👕 Discover more by tapping the link for this statement piece. #NeuroDIsMe #UniquelyWired #NeurodivergentStyle
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February 20, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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audhd-psychnp.com
i have joined the war on Autism on the side of Autism

this statement used to be a joke

FAFO 🔥
September 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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scottcsmith.bsky.social
It's such a weird and offensive thing to me, as an autistic person, to hear that someone would rather NOT give their child a vaccine than risk that child...come down with? Autism. And I have relatives who believe this shit! Who know that I AM AUTISTIC! I'm talking sisters! A niece! It's insulting.
February 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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brewergnome.bsky.social
It's weird as a biologist to say "ignore the science part" but here we are

Science: Vaccines don't cause autism.

BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER. If vaccines caused autism I would still recommend them. Dying of preventable disease is bad. Autism isn't a disease and most of the "bad" of autism is society.
February 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
rockwlrs.bsky.social
#TimeTravelAuthors 19. At first I was going to write that Joaquín is almost perfectly honest, but then I realized while Joaquín would never tell you a lie or cheat when playing a game, he's an expert at not telling people things, and that can sometimes mean lying by omission.
February 19, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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selfstyledsiren.bsky.social
You owe it to yourself to read the 2001 obituary (republished today) for Rose Freedman, the last survivor of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. An incredible woman. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/n...
Rose Freedman, Last Survivor of Triangle Fire, Dies at 107
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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midnightrose838.bsky.social
The simple choice to try, no matter where it takes you
The stubbornness to care, no matter how it breaks you

#Poetry
February 19, 2026 at 3:25 AM
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keepoffthegrass.bsky.social
Apparently red and purple and blue are the rarest of northern lights as they take place 214km in the sky!

Barrie, Ontario

#nature #eastcoastkin #landscape #photography #night #northernlights #auroraborealis
Red northern lights
February 18, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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a4xrbj1.bsky.social
Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That’s 4x Higher Than Humans

The incidents bring the robotaxi service to a total of 14 crashes since launching last summer.

The new data raises concerns about how safe Tesla’s systems really are compared to the average driver.
Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans
The incidents bring the robotaxi service to a total of 14 crashes since launching last summer.
gizmodo.com
February 18, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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mcnees.bsky.social
Hungarian mathematician Rózsa Péter was born #OTD in 1905.

She was one of the founders of Recursion Theory –– also known as Computability Theory –– along with Gödel, Church, Turing, and Post. 🧪 🧮
Portrait of Rózsa Péter as a young woman, probably in her twenties. She is wearing a blouse that appears to be either a floral or paisley print, with a sheen to it. Her dark hair is neck length, possibly gathered in a bun in the back, and she is looking to the left of the photographer.
February 18, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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pamelaelaela.bsky.social
Another day, another shenanigan! @jimthevampire.bsky.social & I are compiling a dictionary of pretentious words to quarantine. Send in your proposals, Judge Jimothy will swing his gavel.

Below, the dictionary as it stands (reasons for inclusion only, no silly definitions), and the original thread.
Joxford’s English Dictionary for Pretentious Tits deuteragonist: unnecessarily author-y; reserved for film students who exclusively wear black and their ilk (see figure 1.1, illustration of “pretentious tit”) denouement: French, thus stupid; you probably had to Google it, proving its irrelevant tittiness; deserves to leave obsequious: vowel overkill plus one highfalutin 10-point Q whom no one likes ontological: we can already bloody touch what exists; spiritually French, thus stupid loquacious: adjective befitting the trash heap given “gobby, spittle-chinned halfwit” does just fine as a descriptor
February 18, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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hugmonger.bsky.social
So you may not realize this if you dislike this card, but in its history Magic has been a bit of a morality play as well as a card game. That is to say it wants to show life lessons sometimes.

Sometimes unplayable cards get made to showcase positive things in life not just be good or cohesive
February 18, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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fergus.oolong.co.uk
In this interview, @kikutowne.bsky.social tells feels 'weird kid' @kbdphd.bsky.social that she made City of Ghosts for 'children that were just kind of curious, and sensitive, and maybe a little bit weird - and also just really interested when they find stuff out!'

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podcastaddict.com
February 18, 2026 at 7:55 PM