Felix Bunke
@schplorpyplorp.bsky.social
Secretary, AFSCME Local 1, Madison, Wisconsin, #ActuallyAutistic, trying to organize #neurodivergent workers
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Today is July 4th, Independence Day. In Canada it means something different - a day to celebrate our independence from the US. 🇨🇦
July 4, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Today is July 4th, Independence Day. In Canada it means something different - a day to celebrate our independence from the US. 🇨🇦
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EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
June 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
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“RFK is a disgrace to the Kennedy name” Joseph Kennedy lobotomized Rosemary for being “difficult”, developmentally delayed, and clearly neurodivergent
He’s just embracing his granddaddy’s love for eugenics and cruelty
He’s just embracing his granddaddy’s love for eugenics and cruelty
April 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM
“RFK is a disgrace to the Kennedy name” Joseph Kennedy lobotomized Rosemary for being “difficult”, developmentally delayed, and clearly neurodivergent
He’s just embracing his granddaddy’s love for eugenics and cruelty
He’s just embracing his granddaddy’s love for eugenics and cruelty
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Autism grievance parents keep topping themselves in cynical awfulness, including cozying up to fellow autism disinformation-spewer RFK Jr. So we’ve updated our explainer on how these parents harm autistics, meaning their own kids as well as ours. Thread.
thinkingautismguide.com/2022/11/grie... 1/
thinkingautismguide.com/2022/11/grie... 1/
Grievance-Based Parent Organizations Are Autism's MAGA Movement — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
Horrified by the misinformation peddled by MAGA truthers? You should be just as concerned about grievance-based autism parent orgs.
thinkingautismguide.com
April 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Autism grievance parents keep topping themselves in cynical awfulness, including cozying up to fellow autism disinformation-spewer RFK Jr. So we’ve updated our explainer on how these parents harm autistics, meaning their own kids as well as ours. Thread.
thinkingautismguide.com/2022/11/grie... 1/
thinkingautismguide.com/2022/11/grie... 1/
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NEW: FUN is hosting an emergency organizing call this SUNDAY, to coordinate a response to the biggest attack on union rights in a generation.
March 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
NEW: FUN is hosting an emergency organizing call this SUNDAY, to coordinate a response to the biggest attack on union rights in a generation.
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This is why we march. This is why we organize. Every worker deserves protection, respect, and a union to back them up. #UnionsForAll
Today we marched on the boss after our coworker became unhoused with her daughter due to Taco Bell retaliating against her for filing CalOSHA complaints. #UnionsForAll
March 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This is why we march. This is why we organize. Every worker deserves protection, respect, and a union to back them up. #UnionsForAll
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He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.
March 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.
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“It is nothing short of stunning to learn just how widely and intensely ABA is loathed by autistic adults who are able to describe their experience with it.” From @alfiekohn.bsky.social:
nepc.colorado.edu/blog/autism-... #BetterWaysThanABA #neurodiversity #autism
nepc.colorado.edu/blog/autism-... #BetterWaysThanABA #neurodiversity #autism
Alfie Kohn: Autism and Behaviorism: New Research Adds to an Already Compelling Case Against ABA
When a common practice isn’t necessary or useful even under presumably optimal conditions, it’s time to question whether that practice makes sense at all. For example, if teachers don’t need to give g...
nepc.colorado.edu
March 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“It is nothing short of stunning to learn just how widely and intensely ABA is loathed by autistic adults who are able to describe their experience with it.” From @alfiekohn.bsky.social:
nepc.colorado.edu/blog/autism-... #BetterWaysThanABA #neurodiversity #autism
nepc.colorado.edu/blog/autism-... #BetterWaysThanABA #neurodiversity #autism
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Ffs.
Vaccines DO NOT cause autism.
Vaccines DO NOT cause autism.
March 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Ffs.
Vaccines DO NOT cause autism.
Vaccines DO NOT cause autism.
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I present to you the high intelligence of President Musk.
February 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I present to you the high intelligence of President Musk.
This is my page. It's mine.
Bluesky Mine.
...OK, you might need to be a Midnight Oil fan to get that...
Bluesky Mine.
...OK, you might need to be a Midnight Oil fan to get that...
February 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This is my page. It's mine.
Bluesky Mine.
...OK, you might need to be a Midnight Oil fan to get that...
Bluesky Mine.
...OK, you might need to be a Midnight Oil fan to get that...
Here's a tip: Now that RFK, Jr. has been confirmed (on top of everything else), this is probably not a good time to do anything that might upset an autistic person. There's a very good chance you'd quickly regret having done that.
February 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Here's a tip: Now that RFK, Jr. has been confirmed (on top of everything else), this is probably not a good time to do anything that might upset an autistic person. There's a very good chance you'd quickly regret having done that.
The Senate just gave us autistic people the middle finger:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-senate-just-confirmed-rfk-jr-to-lead-hhs-heres-what-he-said-he-will-and-wont-do-at-the-agency/ar-AA1yZKPY
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-senate-just-confirmed-rfk-jr-to-lead-hhs-heres-what-he-said-he-will-and-wont-do-at-the-agency/ar-AA1yZKPY
February 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The Senate just gave us autistic people the middle finger:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-senate-just-confirmed-rfk-jr-to-lead-hhs-heres-what-he-said-he-will-and-wont-do-at-the-agency/ar-AA1yZKPY
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-senate-just-confirmed-rfk-jr-to-lead-hhs-heres-what-he-said-he-will-and-wont-do-at-the-agency/ar-AA1yZKPY
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They don't know what "confirmation bias" means, huh
2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted.
This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
February 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
They don't know what "confirmation bias" means, huh
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what we’re seeing is that the courts are willing to rule against the government on certain things but there’s no one to actually enforce it.
February 9, 2025 at 5:03 AM
what we’re seeing is that the courts are willing to rule against the government on certain things but there’s no one to actually enforce it.
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When they tell you 'Oh no we don't hate LGBTQ people, we love them and wish for their repentance," remember how they fussed when Bishop Budde asked simply for mercy on LGBTQ people. Which is something we're all supposed to want.
January 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
When they tell you 'Oh no we don't hate LGBTQ people, we love them and wish for their repentance," remember how they fussed when Bishop Budde asked simply for mercy on LGBTQ people. Which is something we're all supposed to want.
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I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.
January 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.
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This is a good way to provoke a recession: withdraw federal infrastructure spending and do it at the same time as imposing a massive price hike throughout the economy due to tariffs.
I’m going to re-up the fact that yesterday Trump appears to have just shut down virtually all federal transportation, water, energy, & broadband spending… has there been any coverage of this?
One of Trump’s executive orders, on energy (www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...) includes this element, which appears to be asserting the admin will pause all funding from both the IRA & the infrastructure law, which funds highways, transit, water, broadband, etc.
January 22, 2025 at 4:44 AM
This is a good way to provoke a recession: withdraw federal infrastructure spending and do it at the same time as imposing a massive price hike throughout the economy due to tariffs.
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Community involvement in PhD students’ autism research projects: Challenges and opportunities
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December 11, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Community involvement in PhD students’ autism research projects: Challenges and opportunities
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journals.sagepub.com...
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There is NO evidence that vaccines cause autism. The doc who said they did lost his license, and got sued, and lost. Now he's some sort of ignorant anti-science folk hero...?
It's bizarre. It's frightening. It's irresponsible.
People will die if this man's plans begin to come to fruition.
It's bizarre. It's frightening. It's irresponsible.
People will die if this man's plans begin to come to fruition.
Trump says that RFK Jr. is going to look into whether childhood vaccines cause autism. This has already been “looked into”, extensively, rigorously, and repeatedly, by people with knowledge and training in medicine and public health. There is no evidence that vaccines cause autism.
December 10, 2024 at 2:32 AM
There is NO evidence that vaccines cause autism. The doc who said they did lost his license, and got sued, and lost. Now he's some sort of ignorant anti-science folk hero...?
It's bizarre. It's frightening. It's irresponsible.
People will die if this man's plans begin to come to fruition.
It's bizarre. It's frightening. It's irresponsible.
People will die if this man's plans begin to come to fruition.
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Fourteen books have already been banned in Utah’s K-12 schools.
Another 25 are on the shortlist.
The bulk of the reports to the Utah State Board of Education come from just two school districts.
www.kuer.org/education/20...
Another 25 are on the shortlist.
The bulk of the reports to the Utah State Board of Education come from just two school districts.
www.kuer.org/education/20...
With Utah’s statewide book bans, 2 school districts have steered the conversation
According to a KUER analysis of public records, 25 books are teetering on the edge of being banned statewide.
www.kuer.org
December 9, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Fourteen books have already been banned in Utah’s K-12 schools.
Another 25 are on the shortlist.
The bulk of the reports to the Utah State Board of Education come from just two school districts.
www.kuer.org/education/20...
Another 25 are on the shortlist.
The bulk of the reports to the Utah State Board of Education come from just two school districts.
www.kuer.org/education/20...
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In the coming years, things are going to get particularly bad for autistics, given RFK's autism demonization. This means it's going to be open season on autistics in school yards (more than usual), and a lot more ableism in general. Here is a thread of some ways to meaningfully support autistics.
November 30, 2024 at 5:06 PM
In the coming years, things are going to get particularly bad for autistics, given RFK's autism demonization. This means it's going to be open season on autistics in school yards (more than usual), and a lot more ableism in general. Here is a thread of some ways to meaningfully support autistics.
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There are many fights still to come, but this decision stands to make a huge difference for educators. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
Law Restricting Teachers' Unions Falls After More Than a Decade
The Wisconsin law, a poster child for efforts to curb collective bargaining over the past decade, was deemed unconstitutional.
www.edweek.org
December 5, 2024 at 2:56 PM
There are many fights still to come, but this decision stands to make a huge difference for educators. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
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“Stimming had a SIGNIFICANT POSITIVE impact on autistic adults’ self-rated self-efficacy”
“Results CONTRADICT the negative view often expressed suggesting that stimming should be eradicated”
“Stimming has a POSITIVE effect and SUPPORTS autistic individuals’ ability to COPE with difficulties”
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“Results CONTRADICT the negative view often expressed suggesting that stimming should be eradicated”
“Stimming has a POSITIVE effect and SUPPORTS autistic individuals’ ability to COPE with difficulties”
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Repetitive Behaviours in Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults: Associations with Sensory Sensitivity and Impact on Self-Efficacy - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Purpose: Restricted and repetitive behaviours are a core feature of autism diagnoses but have not been widely studied in adulthood. This study examined the rates of and associations between repetitive...
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December 3, 2024 at 2:30 AM
“Stimming had a SIGNIFICANT POSITIVE impact on autistic adults’ self-rated self-efficacy”
“Results CONTRADICT the negative view often expressed suggesting that stimming should be eradicated”
“Stimming has a POSITIVE effect and SUPPORTS autistic individuals’ ability to COPE with difficulties”
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“Results CONTRADICT the negative view often expressed suggesting that stimming should be eradicated”
“Stimming has a POSITIVE effect and SUPPORTS autistic individuals’ ability to COPE with difficulties”
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