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Spiky Skill Sets

Many autistic people talk about "spiky skill sets," so I thought I would share what that means and give my go-to analogy for this phenomenon....

https://resiliencymentalhealth.com/2026/07/02/spiky-skill-sets/

@jhaue Kudos to Schwartz and the JCA, they are doing really good work to counter the Zionist narrative to protect EVERYONE'S human rights.

That shouldn’t even have been a yellow card. And Belgium’s penalty shouldn’t have been one either. VAR slow motion makes everything look worse.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jul/01/folarin-balogun-red-card-world-cup-appeal-usmnt

From Carole King:

On July 3rd, 2016 Carole King and her band performed the album Tapestry in its entirety, live for the first time to an audience of 65,000 in London's Hyde Park. To celebrate the 10th anniversary we are re-releasing the full concert film on Carole King's Youtube Channel starting July 3rd.

#Music

- Afternoon
- Mmmmppphhhh
- Well, aye. Indeed.

#sillyScribbles #googlyEyes

Thou scandalous, crook-pated skainsmate!

Last weekend, I went looking for this structure. It's a replica of a section of the 'Sweet Track' - a Neolithic walkway in the Avalon Marshes. The original was 2 km long, and built in the spring of 3806 BCE. It's named after the peat cutter who first discovered it, in 1970.

#History #Photography #Archaeology #Somerset

I would really like to know if my mum could have got this apology if she was still alive. I am feeling quite distressed that I don't know how to find out.

I was not adopted, but my sibling was. I have almost no information about what actually happened at the time. My sibling may have been told something that would help. They traced our family decades later. I don't wish to ask them because they have not discussed with me any thoughts of this being a forced adoption and I don't want to upset them.

I believe it was forced because of how distressed my mum had been and knowing she was most likely autistic so there were many other ways this could have been even more cruel than anyone knew then.

I did try emailing a charity to ask but I've been waiting a long time for a reply. I don't know what I can do.

Does anyone have any ideas?

DeSantis announces CAIR Florida as a domestic terrorist group under new law

The #criminalization of advocacy and constitutionally-protected #redress is near-complete.

https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/desantis-announces-cair-florida-domestic-terrorist-group-under-new-law

With Europe and the US in the grip of atmospheric blocking events / “heat domes”, I’ve seen renewed interest in geoengineering/SRM.

A quick reminder that despite a lot of enthusiasm among laypeople, climate scientists are generally sour on the idea.

A very important detail people don’t seem to grasp is that while geoengineering/SRM could help lower the *mean* temperature, it could actually make extreme heatwaves / “heat domes” worse by disrupting the global circulation of air

https://news.mit.edu/2020/reflecting-sunlight-cool-planet-storm-0602

#ClimateCrisis #geoengineering

@feather1952

We’ve seen overseas that it’s possible to house most homeless people. Of course, addressing mental health care properly would also help.

Rice paddy pic No. 66.

We’ve had lots of rain and the plants are at that transitory stage when their leaves are strong and supple but the rice grains have yet to form and start to weigh on their lithe growth.

Should there be a breeze then they will sway gracefully. I look forward to warm evenings when the pastel colours dominate the scene.

#Nature #Photography #Japan

#HereComesTheRain! This week’s #ThursdayFiveList, once more courtesy of @neurothing, is all about the wet stuff that falls from the sky and brings life again to the parched earth:

1. Corey Glover—“April Rain”
2. Lovett—“Eye of the Storm”
3. The Weather Girls—“It’s Raining Men”
4. Boom Crash Opera—“Dancing in the Storm”
5. Ildjarn & Nidhogg—“After the Rain”

YouTube playlist: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLftDy_6mSM-I

[Image via MakeaGIF.]

#music

Scotland is facing a wave of hyper-scale AI data centre planning applications.

If all the data centres are built, they will consume more than 1.5 times Scotland’s total peak energy use.

✍️Write to the First Minister and demand a pause of mega data centre applications https://greens.scot/datacentres

grotesque formations
flaring up in the darkness
surreal lightning

#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #poetry

Today's #Muppets GIF of the Day is...

I think we should cease calling Peter Thiel's corporate digital surveillance company "Palantir".

Yes, I know that it's what it's actually called. And I also know that it's hilariously on the nose. But I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of people forgot that the Palantirs were basically a corrupting tool of Sauron and not really Middle Earth cell phones. (Well... actually when you consider the fact that tapping phone lines is something that the feds have done forever...)

I DIGRESS!

I think we should refer to the company by a more on the nose name.

Sauron's Eye.

"Woman, 26, has to carry salt everywhere she goes"

"The now 26-year-old, who had spent her life swimming, running and competing in athletics, was later diagnosed with vasovagal syncope and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS)."

Source: https://archive.md/tL9LP