#SOCIETY

I get concerned about just how little we as a community at large understand autism and how it presents. More often than not you won’t ever notice that someone is
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So, fellow pākehā here in New Zealand, let's have a word.If you're watching the violence, rage, & protest in the US atm, and rightly support #BlackLivesMatter (tho I really
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1/9For several days, I wrote about Phil Connors and his 10k repeating day, about 3,650,000 days. There are 4 important points to Phil's story.1. How many times he needed to
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A Thread: what is Sitr and it’s benefits.Our generation has confused lack of Sitr(concealing your sins) with being “honest”, Sitr is SO IMPORTANT please please read this thread. Sitr is
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The problem here behind “court packing” is the Dems don’t challenge “originalism” anymore, which is a kind of fundamentalism, the idea that a society’s constitution or institutions can never evolve.
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this pandemic sharpens a divide that already existed, between those of us whose labor is "inessential" but who have the privilege of, basically, hibernating indefinitely, and those whose labor is
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Body positivity has roots in the fat liberation/acceptance movement. It was initially meant for fat people. It's just totally ahistorical to say "but it's meant for everyone" when that's literally
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Ok, I retweeted this as a feel good thing but now strap in for a rant re: how everyone seems to be reacting to it.https://twitter.com/wrathofgnon/status/1318034279385899008 Ok, sure, maybe it is
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Those who marginalize zoos are trying to ostracize us from society. Stripping us of community support, our friends and sometimes our livelihood. Regardless of what we’ve done.Leaving only dark paths
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1. There is this, frankly, deranged view in the Labour Party harking back to the early 80s, convinced that, despite the whole of history turning on its head since then,
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We should have probably recognised the Radicalisation of Indian Society as a humanitarian crisis long ago.(thread) The progressive sections of the society—with all noble intentions—can keep beating drums of truth
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When will someone in the political world start talking about creating real wellness in Americans. We are among the world leaders for chronic disease and among the lowest when it
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This observation makes me want to zoom back out to reality and think of the vocabulary and grammar society provides us to express the story of our lives, and in
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I keep praying that a day will come when society will shape itself to fully support people on the spectrum. I've never wished my child to be other than who
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When someone has built their entire sense of self ONLY off of the fact that they are what society accepts, they get pissed when ppl who are “unacceptable” value themselves.
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Happy birthday to this genius album about the creeping depression and anxiety caused by overexposure in a tech-bubble, media-saturated world.https://twitter.com/stereogum/status/1312015378097278978 Thom Yorke is easily the most insightful r
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