pick your breakdown type- triumvirate edition:
Bones: run away, become disco hippy
Spock: run away, pretend to feel nothing
Kirk: stay and do your job, be completely miserable
Do you ever just look at your follower count and suddenly realize that all these people actually see what you post.
Autistic Owned Stim Toy Stores!
Here are the stores I know of so far where stim toys and stim jewelry are made and/or sold by autistic people. I invite people to add any others they may know of and I’ll update the list.
Stimtastic - link
Details: Sells a wide variety of stimmy things. Donates 10% of profits to autistic orgs or to autistic individuals. They have a program for free or subsidized weighted blankets for autistic people who cannot otherwise afford them: link.A Sense of Self - link
Fuzzwumpet - link
WeirdFaeles - link
Details: Witchy chewable jewelry!Spacerobot Studio - link
Details: Visual stimmy necklaces. Donates 10% of proftis to ASAN. Also sells nice communication and neurodiversity necklaces.Oakflower Design - link
Ruth/doo/dle - link
Details: Sells chewable jewelry and monthly sensory boxes (and usually has one giveaway on tumblr too!). Also sells autistic pride jewelry and buttons.Fabulous Fidgets - link
AutisticRabbit - link
Details: Custom, affordable weighted blankets!GeckoHQ - link
Sister Cat Blankets - link
Pretty in Pi - link
Shop Ca5ey - link
Details: Very cute unique weighted stuffed animals, like hedgehugs and rattlesneks.Mow Liao Crafts - link
Details: Versions of Fidgetland’s fidget toys exclusively for people within the UK.Papercraft Hugs - link
(Bonus: Here are a few ADHDer-owned stores for fidget toys
Fidgetopia - link
Fidgetland - link
Details: Donates some of profits to an org supporting autistic/adhd-er kids. I don’t know how good this org is though.)
Coincidence Project
Over the past few years, photographer Denis Cherim has been steadily building up his ‘Coincidence Project’, a personal series that compiles an inventory of chance encounters in his everyday surroundings.
this is hella scary. the president of the U.S is literally retweeting anti-Muslim propaganda. this is the shit dictators do when they want to ostracize a certain demographic. don’t tell me there’s nothing wrong and horrifying about this.
This is disgusting and exactly what Carl Schmitt describes as the “Sovereign Exception”.
Basically, the sovereign (The president), decides on who is the “exception” in society and to whom the rights of citizenship apply or do not apply.
The acceptance of this is one of the quickest ways for democracy to degenerate into tyranny. Instead of upholding our values for everyone, we allow the government/regime to decide and it is all fun and games until you find out they are coming for you next. That’s how tyrants stay in power, there always has to be an enemy.
Top one was traced back - the attacker is White and Dutch.
Second one was also sourced - it’s violence surrounding the coup against Morsi in Egypt, it’s not clear if either the attackers or the target or both or neither were “Islamists”.
Third one hasn’t been sourced, but just so we’re clear, it’s coming from the same people who gave us outright inaccurate or deeply misleading “contextualization” like the above.
It’s worth pointing out - these were tweeted by the leader of Britain First, Jayda Fransen, who is currently being tried for inciting religious hatred in the UK. Britain First is, in the words of the BBC, a “British far-right group” which was linked very explicitly to the murder of Jo Cox, an MP, last year, as her murderer reportedly yelled “Britain first” as he attacked her clinic.
Trump retweeting Britain First has caused mass uproar in the UK, and there was an emergency Urgent Question session in Parliament this morning for MPs to quiz the government on how they plan to react to this, as Britain First is a racist, fascist group. Especially since Theresa May offered a state visit (carriages, trumpets, and all) to Donald Trump in January.
Which, if you’re wondering, is still on, although it has yet to be arranged - according to the Parliamentary session this morning. But MPs across the chamber were very adamant that Trump is racist, that his visit should be rescinded, and a few mentioned either that Trump should have all visit offers rescinded or otherwise that he should be banned from entering the UK - as past “hate preachers” (that’s a quote from the session) have been.
Unfortunately, Theresa May and the Tories have as much backbone as a amoeba, so none of that has happened. All she’s done is “strongly condemned” him, in the words of the Home Secretary.
