Lizzy
@philosophicalshrew.bsky.social
Thinker. Listener. Talker. Constantly annoyed by modern life. AuDHD. Would-be PhDer on experiences of neurodivergent AFAB humans, hoping to change diagnostic criteria in underrepresented groups. 🏳️🌈
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Periodic reminder that there is nothing you can give the far right that will satisfy them.
Remove a right, they’ll go after another. Attack a minority, they’ll want worse attacks and find new groups to attack.
There’s no end to the authoritarianism. Just more, and worse, until everyone’s crushed.
Remove a right, they’ll go after another. Attack a minority, they’ll want worse attacks and find new groups to attack.
There’s no end to the authoritarianism. Just more, and worse, until everyone’s crushed.
April 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Periodic reminder that there is nothing you can give the far right that will satisfy them.
Remove a right, they’ll go after another. Attack a minority, they’ll want worse attacks and find new groups to attack.
There’s no end to the authoritarianism. Just more, and worse, until everyone’s crushed.
Remove a right, they’ll go after another. Attack a minority, they’ll want worse attacks and find new groups to attack.
There’s no end to the authoritarianism. Just more, and worse, until everyone’s crushed.
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sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and sometimes two malignant narcissists get sick of working together and decide to potato each other for real fam.
if you live in constant fear that you’re gonna get worked you end up working yourself into a shoot brother
if you live in constant fear that you’re gonna get worked you end up working yourself into a shoot brother
June 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and sometimes two malignant narcissists get sick of working together and decide to potato each other for real fam.
if you live in constant fear that you’re gonna get worked you end up working yourself into a shoot brother
if you live in constant fear that you’re gonna get worked you end up working yourself into a shoot brother
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the enemy of my enemy is not my friend but watching them smack each other in the nuts is still very funny
June 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
the enemy of my enemy is not my friend but watching them smack each other in the nuts is still very funny
A few days ago, I read a post from someone who has a linktree link in their profile to a Googledrive full of excellent AuDHD related scholarly papers. Someone interrupted me as I was looking at it and I lost it forever! Please help, good peeple of Bluesky!! #audhdresearch #audhdthreads #audhdcontent
June 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A few days ago, I read a post from someone who has a linktree link in their profile to a Googledrive full of excellent AuDHD related scholarly papers. Someone interrupted me as I was looking at it and I lost it forever! Please help, good peeple of Bluesky!! #audhdresearch #audhdthreads #audhdcontent
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To the people who keep commenting on my posts saying "everyone is autistic now"... no, everyone is definitely not autistic now. But if that's what you think, it's probably because you're either autistic yourself and the way you're consuming content is telling the algorithm that...
April 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
To the people who keep commenting on my posts saying "everyone is autistic now"... no, everyone is definitely not autistic now. But if that's what you think, it's probably because you're either autistic yourself and the way you're consuming content is telling the algorithm that...
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This beautiful piece by Caroline Bird seems apt today.
April 21, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This beautiful piece by Caroline Bird seems apt today.
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Ravens have 17 primary wing feathers, called pinions. Crows have 16 primary wing feathers.
So the difference between ravens and crows is a matter of a pinion.
So the difference between ravens and crows is a matter of a pinion.
April 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Ravens have 17 primary wing feathers, called pinions. Crows have 16 primary wing feathers.
So the difference between ravens and crows is a matter of a pinion.
So the difference between ravens and crows is a matter of a pinion.
Kathy Burke sits in my own personal "Goddess" hall of fame. ❤️
SIGNED BOOK NEWS!!
Kathy Burke @kathyburke.bsky.social has written a memoir!
"A Mind of My Own".
It's gonna be published in October.
If you'd like to pre-order a SIGNED copy, you can do so RIGHT HERE.
biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
Kathy Burke @kathyburke.bsky.social has written a memoir!
"A Mind of My Own".
It's gonna be published in October.
If you'd like to pre-order a SIGNED copy, you can do so RIGHT HERE.
biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
April 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Kathy Burke sits in my own personal "Goddess" hall of fame. ❤️
Please consider buying ALL your #books for your #booklife needs, wants and desires, from Simon. @biggreenbooks.bsky.social He's a total gem of a human and when you (aka me) totally fuck up a payment and don't actually pay for 3 WHOLE WEEKS he sends the package anyway because books matter most. ❤️
April 6, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Please consider buying ALL your #books for your #booklife needs, wants and desires, from Simon. @biggreenbooks.bsky.social He's a total gem of a human and when you (aka me) totally fuck up a payment and don't actually pay for 3 WHOLE WEEKS he sends the package anyway because books matter most. ❤️
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Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like.
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like.
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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This is genius and I always want to hear the funk version played instead now.
I have this weird thing where I like the song Watermelon Sugar but I want to hear it sung by anyone but Harry Styles and in any style other than the one Harry is known for. Not because I have anything against him or pop but because I know that song was meant to be in a different genre. For instance:
Watermelon Sugar | Harry Styles | funk cover ft. David Ryan Harris
YouTube video by Scary Pockets
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April 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
This is genius and I always want to hear the funk version played instead now.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Congratulations me!! 🎉👏🏼💐 I scored a PERFECT 10 in autism and a near across the board top line score for ADHD! Woohoo....oohh...hang on a second......😲 No WAAAAYYY!!! And on World Autism Day too?? What are the chances??!! #actuallyautistic #quellesurprise #whothefuckknew #meiknew
April 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
ANNOUNCEMENT: Congratulations me!! 🎉👏🏼💐 I scored a PERFECT 10 in autism and a near across the board top line score for ADHD! Woohoo....oohh...hang on a second......😲 No WAAAAYYY!!! And on World Autism Day too?? What are the chances??!! #actuallyautistic #quellesurprise #whothefuckknew #meiknew
Ah yes. Welcome to my world.
Them: autistic people are loners and have difficulty making friends
Me: enjoys the quiet/calm, can enjoy being with people if the environment isn’t overwhelming, has difficulty finding people who understand/appreciate me, but when I do, they are my people forever
Me: enjoys the quiet/calm, can enjoy being with people if the environment isn’t overwhelming, has difficulty finding people who understand/appreciate me, but when I do, they are my people forever
April 2, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Ah yes. Welcome to my world.
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Courage attracts courage
April 1, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Courage attracts courage
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Somehow it always seems to come down to "blame people for being neurodivergent", rather than "fund a system which provides decent diagnosis and support". Btw, a lot of that money goes into helping neurodivergent individuals function in this world, and therefore able to work. Without it more can't.
March 20, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Somehow it always seems to come down to "blame people for being neurodivergent", rather than "fund a system which provides decent diagnosis and support". Btw, a lot of that money goes into helping neurodivergent individuals function in this world, and therefore able to work. Without it more can't.
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"Being poor, being in poverty doesn't make you better."
@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social reacts to the Government's indefensible disability welfare cuts on BBC Politics Live.
@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social reacts to the Government's indefensible disability welfare cuts on BBC Politics Live.
March 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"Being poor, being in poverty doesn't make you better."
@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social reacts to the Government's indefensible disability welfare cuts on BBC Politics Live.
@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social reacts to the Government's indefensible disability welfare cuts on BBC Politics Live.
Yesterday I finally got around to planting a hugelkultur bed for the over 100 bulbs I bought in the autumn. It's taken so long because first I had to move a wooden crate which took two people to shift, then I had to move the gravel away from the area, replace all the branches and leaves I'd...🧵 1/2
March 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Yesterday I finally got around to planting a hugelkultur bed for the over 100 bulbs I bought in the autumn. It's taken so long because first I had to move a wooden crate which took two people to shift, then I had to move the gravel away from the area, replace all the branches and leaves I'd...🧵 1/2
I love a spring day where I truly feel like cleaning and creating! The sap is rising in my veins!! 😁
March 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I love a spring day where I truly feel like cleaning and creating! The sap is rising in my veins!! 😁
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Maybe corny but it was helpful for me to hear Henry Rollins saying "this is not time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer trained you for... You can be thunderous in your own life, to the eight people around you. That rubs off... Goodness is viral"
February 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Maybe corny but it was helpful for me to hear Henry Rollins saying "this is not time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer trained you for... You can be thunderous in your own life, to the eight people around you. That rubs off... Goodness is viral"
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Word of the Day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.
February 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Word of the Day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.
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A British-Egyptian team has made one of the most significant Egyptian archeological finds in recent history: the tomb of pharaoh King Thutmose II, who ruled sometime between 2000 and 1001 BCE. This is the first tomb of a pharaoh unearthed since Tutankhamun’s in 1922.
Royal Tomb Of Egyptian King Thutmose II Unearthed
Finding the original tomb of the royal is one of the most significant developments in Egyptian archeology in recent history.
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February 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
A British-Egyptian team has made one of the most significant Egyptian archeological finds in recent history: the tomb of pharaoh King Thutmose II, who ruled sometime between 2000 and 1001 BCE. This is the first tomb of a pharaoh unearthed since Tutankhamun’s in 1922.
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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
![[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihuubdwcftfkvvlnepoaf6pfxqulryfp7ydrydi5fe2pflwz63wgm@jpeg)
February 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality