Impulse buy at Lidl, mostly because I wanted the Superman minifig. It bugs me that they put two characters in the box and gave the mech suit to 100% the wrong guy, but toy companies are like that sometimes
December 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Impulse buy at Lidl, mostly because I wanted the Superman minifig. It bugs me that they put two characters in the box and gave the mech suit to 100% the wrong guy, but toy companies are like that sometimes
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New short educational animation films about Autistic Experiences from our team of creative people at @thrivingautistic.bsky.social
We would love to hear your feedback!
Discovering You're Autistic
youtu.be/-eDv2omDMko?...
We would love to hear your feedback!
Discovering You're Autistic
youtu.be/-eDv2omDMko?...
Discovering You're Autistic
YouTube video by Thriving Autistic
youtu.be
September 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
New short educational animation films about Autistic Experiences from our team of creative people at @thrivingautistic.bsky.social
We would love to hear your feedback!
Discovering You're Autistic
youtu.be/-eDv2omDMko?...
We would love to hear your feedback!
Discovering You're Autistic
youtu.be/-eDv2omDMko?...
One of the new #StarTrek shows should have an openly autistic or otherwise neurodiverse human character, and not an autistic-coded alien or machine intelligence. OK, Barclay, but he was "just shy".
August 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
One of the new #StarTrek shows should have an openly autistic or otherwise neurodiverse human character, and not an autistic-coded alien or machine intelligence. OK, Barclay, but he was "just shy".
At The Bath in Beggars Bush
May 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
At The Bath in Beggars Bush
We're going to get a lot of verbiage about the new pope for the next while. Just a load of pontifficating.
May 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
We're going to get a lot of verbiage about the new pope for the next while. Just a load of pontifficating.
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Happy International Women's Day
four older women are sitting around a table in a kitchen .
ALT: four older women are sitting around a table in a kitchen .
media.tenor.com
March 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Happy International Women's Day
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Coincidentally read this part of Terry Pratchett's "Guards! Guards!" over lunch. (My first Pratchett book.) Here, the soon-to-be-former heads of the city are realizing there's a new monster in charge, each wishing one of the others would stand in protest. I heard Pratchett was incisive, but dang. 👀
February 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Coincidentally read this part of Terry Pratchett's "Guards! Guards!" over lunch. (My first Pratchett book.) Here, the soon-to-be-former heads of the city are realizing there's a new monster in charge, each wishing one of the others would stand in protest. I heard Pratchett was incisive, but dang. 👀
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This is an interesting thread. Thinking about it, the Federation is pretty much the only pop culture government that is represented as GOOD. There are a few in fantasy—Valdemar, maybe LOTR elves?—but it seems to crop up more in SF, and a lot more in an alien UN where the struggle is humans joining.
I'd point to something deeper I think this thread is touching on: the (US) popular imagination has lost the concept that a system or society can be good, worth representing or defending, the underdog narrative that individuals are good and systems are bad or corrupt runs very deep in US storytelling
First: if it's "easier" to write relatable villains than relatable 'good guys,' that means something and should be considered as an independent question. *Why* have villains become so popular in recent decades? Because they reflect people's lived experiences within a broken system.
February 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
This is an interesting thread. Thinking about it, the Federation is pretty much the only pop culture government that is represented as GOOD. There are a few in fantasy—Valdemar, maybe LOTR elves?—but it seems to crop up more in SF, and a lot more in an alien UN where the struggle is humans joining.
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Some wonderful feedback from our Discovery Programme for Autistic adults.
Funded by Rethink Ireland and Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Funded by Rethink Ireland and Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
February 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Some wonderful feedback from our Discovery Programme for Autistic adults.
Funded by Rethink Ireland and Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Funded by Rethink Ireland and Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
The final showing of Surface Beauty by Dalkey Players' own Simon Cunningham will be at the Bray One-act Drama Festival this coming Friday. If you missed it in Dun Laoghaire this is the last chance to see!
www.mermaidartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...
www.mermaidartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...
Bray One Act Drama Festival - Mermaid Arts Centre
www.mermaidartscentre.ie
January 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The final showing of Surface Beauty by Dalkey Players' own Simon Cunningham will be at the Bray One-act Drama Festival this coming Friday. If you missed it in Dun Laoghaire this is the last chance to see!
www.mermaidartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...
www.mermaidartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...
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A few more people have been added to our Neuro-Affirming Starter pack of Neurodivergent Practitioners. Everyone listed here is also in our Neurodivergent Practitioners Directory
hosted by Autistic-led nonprofit, Thriving Autistic
Find out more:
neurodivergentpractitioners.org
go.bsky.app/43B2ikh
hosted by Autistic-led nonprofit, Thriving Autistic
Find out more:
neurodivergentpractitioners.org
go.bsky.app/43B2ikh
January 17, 2025 at 8:32 AM
A few more people have been added to our Neuro-Affirming Starter pack of Neurodivergent Practitioners. Everyone listed here is also in our Neurodivergent Practitioners Directory
hosted by Autistic-led nonprofit, Thriving Autistic
Find out more:
neurodivergentpractitioners.org
go.bsky.app/43B2ikh
hosted by Autistic-led nonprofit, Thriving Autistic
Find out more:
neurodivergentpractitioners.org
go.bsky.app/43B2ikh
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We have been able to offer a fully funded 6 week Discovery Programme for Autistic Adults over the past few months thanks to @Rethink_Ireland and @dcediy
Delighted to share wonderful feedback from those who took part and to know how positive and transformative this is.
www.thrivingautistic.org
Delighted to share wonderful feedback from those who took part and to know how positive and transformative this is.
www.thrivingautistic.org
January 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
We have been able to offer a fully funded 6 week Discovery Programme for Autistic Adults over the past few months thanks to @Rethink_Ireland and @dcediy
Delighted to share wonderful feedback from those who took part and to know how positive and transformative this is.
www.thrivingautistic.org
Delighted to share wonderful feedback from those who took part and to know how positive and transformative this is.
www.thrivingautistic.org
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This policy change makes sense when you remember that Project 2025 architect, Dustin Carmack, is in charge of policy at Meta. When I uncovered this, he deactivated his LinkedIn.
Project 2025 wants to classify trans people as pornographic and ban us from public.
Project 2025 wants to classify trans people as pornographic and ban us from public.
January 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This policy change makes sense when you remember that Project 2025 architect, Dustin Carmack, is in charge of policy at Meta. When I uncovered this, he deactivated his LinkedIn.
Project 2025 wants to classify trans people as pornographic and ban us from public.
Project 2025 wants to classify trans people as pornographic and ban us from public.
Costumes for 'Surface Beauty' by Simon Cunningham, an original one-act play Dalkey Players will be putting on in the Lexicon in Dun Laoghaire next week (16-18 Jan). I don't have my shoes, Mikio as Prince Aleon doesn't have his socks, but sure we all look fabulous anyways.
January 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Costumes for 'Surface Beauty' by Simon Cunningham, an original one-act play Dalkey Players will be putting on in the Lexicon in Dun Laoghaire next week (16-18 Jan). I don't have my shoes, Mikio as Prince Aleon doesn't have his socks, but sure we all look fabulous anyways.
OK, joined Facebook back in college. Haven't actually *liked* it in quite a while, but it's where a lot of my friends were. Anyway, now that they've announced that they actually *intend* to go down the xitter I think it's time to start migrating. Memes etc. to follow
January 8, 2025 at 10:48 AM
OK, joined Facebook back in college. Haven't actually *liked* it in quite a while, but it's where a lot of my friends were. Anyway, now that they've announced that they actually *intend* to go down the xitter I think it's time to start migrating. Memes etc. to follow