you’ve got to be jeff the kidding me

the autistic view of the world has insight and beauty in it, and we’re taught that there’s something wrong with it.

What’s fascinating is that the parents who didn’t know it was the work of an autistic kid praised it as well.

Technically, we don't know that it's an autistic kid's work, either. 5e infographic doesn't say Cadence is autistic.

"appropriate play skills" is such a horrid phrase, goddamn

people demonize autism so much that parents think their children aren’t playing “correctly”. it’s play, how could it ever be wrong?

I was reading something about Whitestown, Indiana and my eyes nearly popped out of my head thinking it was one of THOSE comically racist towns. Nice to know, at least the name, wasn’t that.

Racisttown, named after the abolitionist Stopbeing Racist,

That's nothing. Check THIS shit out

WHAT THE HELL

George Washington Hitler and his son Dr. Gay Hitler,

able bodied allies of disabled people when your disability genuinely has no secret upside and makes you useless to a late stage capitalist society

“They’re not disabled, they’re ✨SPECIAL✨”

As of changing the way you call it would help

People who had to teach themselves how to be decent people, how to interact with the world, because their parents didn't set an example, deserve so much recognition.

If your parents' example was reacting to everything with anger or passive aggression, seeing the worst in others, being self-centered, driving people away because they refused to compromise, if they taught you to feel like you weren't a person and you had to fight to be whole again and feel love and not be ugly -

You deserve the world.

Important to note that ALL trans people are targeted by this ruling. Trans men will be stripped of all chess titles won, which can only be returned to them by “changing the gender back to a woman” (a direct quote from the ICF’s ruling). ALL transgender chess players will be marked as trans in their files.

Not trying to deflect from the blatant and virulent transmisogyny present here. Just giving a bit more info.

Erin Reed did a good breakdown of the ruling here:

The fact that chess competitions are gender-divided in the first place proves they think one [presumed binary] sex needs to be protected from the other.

And yet, with many competitions, for all the claim is that women need protecting from men, it's not until the men are threatened by the women that they actually enforce that divide.

It's still misogyny, which still leads to transphobia as well.

But I'm not actually sure it's grounded in a belief that women are inferior to men. Rather, I suspect it's grounded in a fear that men are inferior and thus can only hold their positions of power if they don't let women compete fairly.

this is a common misconception that gets brought up with a lot of gender divides - chess is not separated into men and women, but rather open and women - women can and do participate in open tournaments and some (notably: Judit Polgar, who was rank 6 in the world at her peak) actually refused to participate in women's tournaments

But I'm not actually sure it's grounded in a belief that women are inferior to men. Rather, I suspect it's grounded in a fear that men are inferior and thus can only hold their positions of power if they don't let women compete fairly.

this kind of nonsense just muddies the waters about the actual things that hold women back in games like chess, namely lack of a pipeline and lack of institutional support

@cryptotheism

@stvksn on ig

i hope your god has asked you for mercy and i hope you've refused to forgive him

is so insanely powerful. that's gonna be seared in my brain for a long time. fuck.

Trying

I love this video so much. This cat, trying so hard to sip like a people. Desperate to sip like a people. Objectively incapable of sipping like a people.

Zhu Xi advocated 格物致知 gewu zhizhi, the investigation of things. How to investigate and what these things are is the source of much debate.