Marco Kaufman-Watson
@margalitkaufman.bsky.social
Graphic designer/scientific illustrator.
Father of geckos.
Bane of neurotypicals.
Father of geckos.
Bane of neurotypicals.
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Unable to speak on a phone call due to a disability? Our Proxy Calling system is open for today’s call-in! Want to help someone else make a call? Consider signing up to be a proxy caller.
Proxy Caller Project
Many disabled people in the U.S. can’t make phone calls because of disability. Our Congress members unfairly prioritize phone calls over emails or letters—but all of us deserve to be heard. The…
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March 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Unable to speak on a phone call due to a disability? Our Proxy Calling system is open for today’s call-in! Want to help someone else make a call? Consider signing up to be a proxy caller.
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Fire / Rehire / Expire
February 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Fire / Rehire / Expire
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Here's what I wrote in 2017 about this difficult day. I haven't been able (mentally) to go to a vigil since, but I carry the weight with me. Please read, come if you can, remember, and do what you can to stop this from happening again.
psmag.com/news/disable...
psmag.com/news/disable...
February 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Here's what I wrote in 2017 about this difficult day. I haven't been able (mentally) to go to a vigil since, but I carry the weight with me. Please read, come if you can, remember, and do what you can to stop this from happening again.
psmag.com/news/disable...
psmag.com/news/disable...
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This is from 2022 but is only going to get more and more true as the world burns from here on out isn't it
February 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This is from 2022 but is only going to get more and more true as the world burns from here on out isn't it
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Pregnant USAID official files affidavit in lawsuit describing disruption of medical care as a result of agency's dismantling. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Pregnant USAID official files affidavit in lawsuit describing disruption of medical care as a result of agency's dismantling. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
February 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
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Listen to my friend, Emmett. He's a good dude.
If you cannot understand the benefits of diversity, equity and inclusion, you have never understood a single frame of ‘Star Trek.’
February 3, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Listen to my friend, Emmett. He's a good dude.
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imagine if Warner-Disco got tired of not getting their money's worth and just Boeing whistleblowered JKR and handed the entire franchise over to the potter puppet pals guy
January 27, 2025 at 4:15 AM
imagine if Warner-Disco got tired of not getting their money's worth and just Boeing whistleblowered JKR and handed the entire franchise over to the potter puppet pals guy
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January 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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"THAT's not the problem, the REAL problem is THIS--"
there can be a lot of problems, bud, can't emphasize enough how many problems there can me
*slaps roof of society* this bad boy can fit so many problems in it
there can be a lot of problems, bud, can't emphasize enough how many problems there can me
*slaps roof of society* this bad boy can fit so many problems in it
January 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"THAT's not the problem, the REAL problem is THIS--"
there can be a lot of problems, bud, can't emphasize enough how many problems there can me
*slaps roof of society* this bad boy can fit so many problems in it
there can be a lot of problems, bud, can't emphasize enough how many problems there can me
*slaps roof of society* this bad boy can fit so many problems in it
something something "gay pride"
December 28, 2024 at 1:34 AM
something something "gay pride"
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Want to get through to your elected officials, but not sure how? Check out our toolkit all about civic engagement!
Civic Engagement Toolbox For Self-Advocates - Autistic Self Advocacy Network
Right now, many people are getting involved in political advocacy for the first time. People are going to town hall meetings and making phone calls to their members of Congress. They're writing…
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December 16, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Want to get through to your elected officials, but not sure how? Check out our toolkit all about civic engagement!
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All of my books center the experiences of disabled people. Most of them have gotten comments from nondisabled people- often *in publishing*-wondering why.
Like there has to be a narrative reason for someone to be disabled? Like we don’t comprise 26% of the population?
Like there has to be a narrative reason for someone to be disabled? Like we don’t comprise 26% of the population?
December 5, 2024 at 12:22 AM
All of my books center the experiences of disabled people. Most of them have gotten comments from nondisabled people- often *in publishing*-wondering why.
Like there has to be a narrative reason for someone to be disabled? Like we don’t comprise 26% of the population?
Like there has to be a narrative reason for someone to be disabled? Like we don’t comprise 26% of the population?
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Health insurance companies in their current form epitomize the banality of evil.
They’re bureaucracies that deny people the care they need to live, profit from doing so, and spend countless millions bribing (aka “lobbying”) elected officials to look the other way.
It’s a grotesque system.
They’re bureaucracies that deny people the care they need to live, profit from doing so, and spend countless millions bribing (aka “lobbying”) elected officials to look the other way.
It’s a grotesque system.
December 5, 2024 at 1:50 AM
Health insurance companies in their current form epitomize the banality of evil.
They’re bureaucracies that deny people the care they need to live, profit from doing so, and spend countless millions bribing (aka “lobbying”) elected officials to look the other way.
It’s a grotesque system.
They’re bureaucracies that deny people the care they need to live, profit from doing so, and spend countless millions bribing (aka “lobbying”) elected officials to look the other way.
It’s a grotesque system.
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We need your help to push TCIEA, a bill that would end subminimum wage for disabled workers, over the finish line. Please read and share this action alert, and call/email key elected officials:
ACT NOW to support fair pay and integrated employment for disabled people! - Autistic Self Advocacy Network
This year, we’ve worked together to push for the Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act (TCIEA) to pass. TCIEA (bill number H.R.1263) gives states and employers help to move disabled…
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December 2, 2024 at 8:00 PM
We need your help to push TCIEA, a bill that would end subminimum wage for disabled workers, over the finish line. Please read and share this action alert, and call/email key elected officials:
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"I've never seen a happy feminist" - man that puts all women on edge
December 2, 2024 at 3:38 PM
"I've never seen a happy feminist" - man that puts all women on edge
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Jane Eyre
Jane Fyre
Jane Water
Jane Earthe
Long ago, the four Janes lived togethir yn harmonye...
Until the Fyre Janes attackid.
Jane Fyre
Jane Water
Jane Earthe
Long ago, the four Janes lived togethir yn harmonye...
Until the Fyre Janes attackid.
November 30, 2024 at 5:58 AM
Jane Eyre
Jane Fyre
Jane Water
Jane Earthe
Long ago, the four Janes lived togethir yn harmonye...
Until the Fyre Janes attackid.
Jane Fyre
Jane Water
Jane Earthe
Long ago, the four Janes lived togethir yn harmonye...
Until the Fyre Janes attackid.
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“I might not know how to offer to make the tea, but I do know not to throw in a casual comment about the size of Tricia’s breasts.”
thedailytism.com/wow-autistic...
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Wow! Autistic woman who struggles to read a room manages not to sexually harass people
Despite having an autism diagnosis, a woman has survived a whole lifetime without sexually harassing anybody in the workplace, it has been reported. Emma Bernard, 33, from Ancoats, finds it difficult ...
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December 1, 2024 at 8:54 AM
“I might not know how to offer to make the tea, but I do know not to throw in a casual comment about the size of Tricia’s breasts.”
thedailytism.com/wow-autistic...
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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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Random Fictional Fact …
Sarlaccs start as a tick like creature (which can result in them being carried to other planets) and then become ambulatory predators roughly the size of a person and then find a place to be a ginormous stationary predator.
Sarlaccs start as a tick like creature (which can result in them being carried to other planets) and then become ambulatory predators roughly the size of a person and then find a place to be a ginormous stationary predator.
November 28, 2024 at 5:44 AM
Random Fictional Fact …
Sarlaccs start as a tick like creature (which can result in them being carried to other planets) and then become ambulatory predators roughly the size of a person and then find a place to be a ginormous stationary predator.
Sarlaccs start as a tick like creature (which can result in them being carried to other planets) and then become ambulatory predators roughly the size of a person and then find a place to be a ginormous stationary predator.
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Atoms are binary. They are either intended to be hydrogen or helium. We can't just scrap this worldview just because of a handful of exceptions
November 28, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Atoms are binary. They are either intended to be hydrogen or helium. We can't just scrap this worldview just because of a handful of exceptions
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DO NOT SUPPORT AUTISM SPEAKS.
THEY DO NOT SPEAK FOR US
THEY SPEW INFACTUAL INFORMATION ABOUT AUTISM
THEY SEE AUTISM AS A "BOOGEYMAN" CONDITION
BLOCK & REPORT THE UNHOLY HELL OUT OF THAT ACCOUNT!
If I catch ANY OF YOU following this account. I will lose all my respect for you
#ActuallyAutistic
THEY DO NOT SPEAK FOR US
THEY SPEW INFACTUAL INFORMATION ABOUT AUTISM
THEY SEE AUTISM AS A "BOOGEYMAN" CONDITION
BLOCK & REPORT THE UNHOLY HELL OUT OF THAT ACCOUNT!
If I catch ANY OF YOU following this account. I will lose all my respect for you
#ActuallyAutistic
November 24, 2024 at 7:14 PM
DO NOT SUPPORT AUTISM SPEAKS.
THEY DO NOT SPEAK FOR US
THEY SPEW INFACTUAL INFORMATION ABOUT AUTISM
THEY SEE AUTISM AS A "BOOGEYMAN" CONDITION
BLOCK & REPORT THE UNHOLY HELL OUT OF THAT ACCOUNT!
If I catch ANY OF YOU following this account. I will lose all my respect for you
#ActuallyAutistic
THEY DO NOT SPEAK FOR US
THEY SPEW INFACTUAL INFORMATION ABOUT AUTISM
THEY SEE AUTISM AS A "BOOGEYMAN" CONDITION
BLOCK & REPORT THE UNHOLY HELL OUT OF THAT ACCOUNT!
If I catch ANY OF YOU following this account. I will lose all my respect for you
#ActuallyAutistic