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Sydney son and Perth dad say, "Yes from WA!" ❤️ #family#VoiceToParliament#VoteYesAustralia

Ok, that was a fraction bit confronting for my liking ... but it's shit I have to do with a smile and compassion

Just had a 6 or 7 year old on a push bike stop right next to me ... she said her liked my hair ... then asked me if I was a girl or boy ... well I told her the truth, "I was born a boy and have always felt like a girl" ... "you look like a girl" was her response ... then we chatted about what she is doing and when school goes back ... that's when her dad finally caught up ... all went well ... it's always gives me anxiety in these situations

All good

Hugz & xXx

The UN has tabled its first-ever report on the experiences of people of African descent in Australia.
https://theconversation.com/no-safe-space-in-society-new-un-report-reveals-the-extent-of-systemic-racism-faced-by-people-of-african-descent-in-australia-213365?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1696553000

Trump is not in jail now because he has Republican billionaire donors, foreign and domestic, shielding him.

Millions has been spent on lawyers advising witnesses to say "just say you can't recall."

Millions has been given to foundations like the Claremont Institute to harbor the seditious like John Eastman.

Millions has been spent to buy corrupt politicians and Supreme Court Justices.

Millions has been spent on disinformation about covid, climate,and coups.

I've been focussing lately on Autistic Culture and what could constitute it. I know many of us still know autism through the medical lense/culture, but we are much more! And we must learn about it, because if we don't, others will appropriate what's ours and use it against us, as many ABA and EMDR therapists are already doing.

There are many examples I can think of from the top of my head as to what could be autistic culture, like stimming, comfortable clothes, noise-canceling phones, taking your time to answer to instant messages (and knowing that this time is ok), alternative ways of communication, fidget or stim toys, dinosaur hands (and the corresponding dinosaur emoji🦖), the golden infinity symbol , safe foods and safe spaces, etc... But I want to know more from everyone here! Can you help me?

What do you personally consider to be Autistic Culture? Is there anything you personally do related to that? And how is it?

Also, what do you see other autistic people do that you could consider to be Autistic Culture? And why is that?

Also, if you could use the hashtag #ThisIsAutisticCulture it could help me to find your ideas and perhaps we can start understanding that autism is not a disease or a disorder, but a valid social identity with our own shared culture and values! I'll try to add to this toot-line/thread all the other ideas and toots I can find about it!

Thanks!!

@actuallyautistic#AutisticCulture#ActuallyAutistic

Yeah really. And for those who are upset with EFF, Fight for the Future also makes it easy to contact your lawmakers about #KOSA – either sending a letter or calling. https://www.stopkosa.com/

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange

#Impfgegner, #Querdenker, #Querdeppen, #Schwurbler und falsch abgebogene #Grüne (die Aufzählung ist in diesem Falle ein und das selbe 🤷‍♂️ ).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjKmbh28VRs&t=285s

Je suis loin d'avoir fini le dernier ctoutcomme de @michidar mais la version voix féminine de manu à une vibe toute particulière.

4/4 Finally, in "Advancing Automated Content Analysis for a New Era of Media Effects Research: The Key Role of Transfer Learning", @annekroon Kasper Welbers, @vanatteveldt and I summarize how Large Language Models and Transfer learning can profoundly change media effects research, and how we need to update our toolbox to incorporate these developments: https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2023.2261372@communicationscholars@commodon

3/4 In "URLs can facilitate machine learning classification of news stories across languages and contexts", @ernestodeleon@susanvermeer and I show how one can leverage the URLs of news stories to learn whether they are political or not - even if not all URLs are containing information about the 'politicalness' of the story. The approach does not require very little resources and limited technical expertise only: https://www.aup-online.com/content/journals/10.5117/CCR2023.2.4.DELE@communicationscholars@commodon

I burned my toast.
That's bad management.
I have no staff, who can I blame?

2/4 In "Drivers of News Sharing", @erikknudsen and I use a conjoint experiment to show what drives news sharing on Facebook (spoiler alert: it's not mainly political agreement/selective exposure). Read the full study here: https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2255224
@communicationscholars@commodon

2/4 In "Drivers of News Sharing", @erikknudsen and I use a conjoint experiment to show what drives news sharing on Facebook (spoiler alert: it's not mainly political agreement/selective exposure). Read the full study here: https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2255224
@communicationscholars@commodon

«Décines-Charpieu: 31e édition de Décines à vélo, ce dimanche 8 octobre.
Cet événement annuel qui se veut familial et ludique, destiné à toutes les générations, est fixé à ce dimanche 8 octobre, avec un départ à 10 heures, des halles décinoises, rue Marat»
https://www.leprogres.fr/sport/2023/10/03/31e-edition-de-decines-a-velo-ce-dimanche-8-octobre