I have rediscovered naps (with my one year old child napping on me). Still working on mentally allowing myself the indulgence of sleeping away hours of my free time when my to-do list feels like the weight of the earth on my shoulders.

I also like making or fixing things, usually just little things in my apartment me or my family can use.

Alles gute zum Geburtstag!

If our society hadn’t trained the ability to cry out of me, I would cry due to the lack of time I feel I have.

I’ve also found myself looking forward to a complete economic collapse. Even though it’ll end up being more work, in my fantasy it at least seems more fulfilling and less alienating.

The EU institutions would do nothing, the appointed-by-unilateral-decree leaders would issue lamely worded tweets.

I’d still like to see all the never-released documents but those are long gone by now.

Fascism doesn’t just spring up out of nothing. It’s a reaction to a threat. Fascism is capitalism / liberalism in crisis. The enemy is the working classes and the internal contradictions of capitalism. It creates enemies insofar as it divides the working classes and pits one faction against another, but this is only a tool used to disempower and more extremely exploit all workers.

Yes I think the western left is co-responsible, but not primarily because of their defense of “free speech.” Rather it’s their absolute unwillingless and inability to respond to the people’s concerns and frustrations about their material conditions, opening pathways for fascists to talk about those concerns.

Does anyone remember when the US was caught spying on German Chancellor Merkel and she pretended to be super angry about it for a whole news cycle?

Does anyone remember Crypto AG?

Or the whole made-up “Huawei is spying on you” thing in an attempt to maintain the imperial monopoly on spyware infused networking tech?

Yes. They tried a coup in another country and are lying through their teeth about it, while reporting from the nation in question is much more accurate about what is going on.

That’s close to the original distinction between Aspergers and Autism. Aspergers were highly exploitable high performing workers, Autistic people were too disabled to be useful and thus fed to the gas chambers.

The downside of neurodivergent awareness in liberal societies will inevitably be that subsets of neurodivergents will be hyperexploited while the rest will be further marginalized.

It’s also cool that countries like the US and Germany want records of autistic people. Where have we seen this before?

It still cracks me up that Crack Smoking Toronto Mayor Rob Ford became a Daily Show meme.

I think it’s racism.

I recently read Metal From Heaven which is very queer and very left.

Probably trying to manufacture consent for German kids to be conscripted.

to 700 kilometers per hour within just two seconds

That’s only a comfy 10G acceleration. What an incredible achievement.

Kinda similar for me. Had a burnout, paid more attention to my patterns, did lots of therapy, got into the neurodivergent social media bubble, and figured it out with the help of other patients.

Just a friendly note on the term Aspergers: it’s been merged back into Autism Spectrum Disorder, because 1 it’s just a different manifestation of the same thing, 2 Asperger was a Nazi who experimented on his patients and let them be murdered, and 3 the differentiation between “Aspergers” and Autism at that time was that the Aspergers patients were economically productive and Autistics were not.

Yes I see that now. Thank you.

Whoops, thanks.

This is a complaint about Epstein though. I wouldn’t put it past Trump either but he’s not named or alluded to in the document.

Edit: I stand corrected, I wasn’t paying attention.