Autistic Codex

I’m aromantic, acespec, autistic, an apostate, and a nerd who loves history, science, fiction, and fanfiction. Pronouns are he/him/his and age is 21+

[socialistexan]

Not getting a ton of reporting in US news, but the Trump administration is going after donors to Palestine, including going as far as international extradition under the guide of "counterterrorism"

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bitorrent or utorrent.

[theconcealedweapon]

Some women are conditioned to be fragile and weak, and to believe that it's a sin to outperform a man. Her feminism would involve allowing women to be strong.

Some women are expected to be strong at times when they can't. Her feminism would involve reassuring her that it's okay to not be strong.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're too stupid to ever amount to anything. Their disability activism would involve reassuring them that they're capable.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're smart and gifted, and are expected to live up to impossible standards. Their disability activism would involve allowing them to fail, make mistakes, be stupid, etc.

Some children are constantly reminded "you're the child, I'm the adult" in order to deny their autonomy. Their youth rights activism would involve treating them like an adult at times when they feel ready for it.

Some children are treated like adults in order to justify increased expectations or to downplay abuse against them. Their youth rights activism would involve allowing them to be a child.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to oppression. Each individual person's experience is different. Whatever trauma is caused by their oppression, the activism should focus on undoing it.

[richardburbagehateblog]

"All drugs are drugs" = a surprisingly radical position that will upset people right across the political spectrum

This means:

If you draw a hard line between "drug" and "medicine" based on current legality where you live (or any other criteria) you've gone wrong somewhere,

If you think legality and/or prescription status tells you all you need about a substance's capacity to do massive harm to someone's body, mind or well-being you've gone wrong somewhere,

If you think legality and/or prescription status tells you all you need about a substance's capacity to contribute meaningfully to someone's healing, function or happiness you've gone wrong somewhere,

If you think certain substances should be excluded from informed consent (either withheld or forcibly administered) you've gone wrong somewhere.

[captain-price-returns]

Go for it. I don't even care any more.

[ledsastray]

not to be dreadfully pragmatic or anything but I guess now we plan for revolution while tied up dealing with the personhood rights of sentient non verbal neandercrab while our overlords deplete our resolve with non sentient lie machines masquerading as bestiefobs, which are best friends you wear on a keychain that encourage you to take mindfulness beaks during which they tell you you are fat

okok more seriously - the future shock of disenfranchised Neanderoids is ACTUALLY A BRANCH OF AUTISM RESEARCH. Yknow the kind where the researchers get the highest level grants to try and prove why we are broken and maladapted and not really human?

The cell cultures with Neanderthal DNA were created as gene edited AUTISM SIMULATORS where the lead guy Allyson Muotri claimed he had removed the bits of DNA that make sapiens sapien so (drummroll) they could do their pay us most of your charitable fundraising so we can study autistic mice/ petri dishes and so on instead instead of say actual autistic people who would probably tell them, at length, what they should do that wasn't so stupid.

The anti-social mini-brains of Neanderthals

Neanderthals colonised Europe and Middle East long before modern humans and went extinct less than 30,000 years ago, when our species has sp

SFARI | Alysson Muotri

Alysson Muotri is a SFARI Investigator and professor at the University of California, San Diego.

Science | AAAS

ps - the crab robot bit was done in 2021 and the original human stem cell edited to contain (more) Neanderthal DNA in 2018 - the team making them called then Neanderoids which imo was a bit of a red flag right there. People sure do want to make new enslaved subhumans huh?

That CRISPR woman is going to end up on the wish I didn't say Alpha Male wolf post really soon.

pps if you do like me a cursory search on duck duck go it has that alarming 2020s thing where all the copy, in all the reputable reportage, IS EXACTLY THE SAME COS ALL THEY DID FOR FACT CHECK OVERSIGHT WAS SLAP IN THE PRESS RELEASE.

Exclusive: Neanderthal ‘minibrains’ grown in dish

Until now, researchers wanting to und

[gaymolegaming]

Reblog if you stand against order, civilization, and goodness itself

[athena-cat-wizard-official]

goes hard ngl

[the-knightswind-case]

Consider:

[liberalsarecool]

Freedom FROM religion is mandatory.

[isuggestrevolution]

i have a suggestion

[schizoenjoyer]

I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to say for Intersex Awareness Week, and I want to challenge a few myths.

Myth 1: “Intersex people are super rare.”

They’re not. Even the often-cited 1.7% estimate is outdated, it came from limited data in the 90s. Historically, before intersex genital mutilation (IGM) became common, the number of intersex people was closer to 6%.

So why the drop? Because intersex people have been erased, literally and systemically.

• Many of us are sterilized as children without consent.

• Parents are pressured to agree to “normalizing” surgeries on infants, and can even face CPS reports if they don’t.

• Intersex fetuses are often aborted, and infanticide of intersex babies still happens.

That’s not nature making us rare, that’s eugenics.

Myth 2: “There are only a handful of people with each intersex variation.”

Take mine, for example: CAH due to 3β-HSD deficiency. Online sources say it’s so rare only ~60 people have it. That’s not true. I see people diagnosed with this every week in intersex and CAH support groups. The data just hasn’t been updated in decades.

Myth 3: “Everyone is biologically male or female.”

I don’t buy that. The idea of “biological sex” as two neat categories is a social construct, and honestly, it functions like an insurance scam.

My assigned sex at birth wasn’t male or female, it was indeterminate. But insurance and medicine demand boxes, so they make one up.

Doctors don’t even treat “sex” as meaningful when it matters, I’m constantly forced to take pregnancy tests even though it’s biologically impossible for me to get pregnant, all because my legal sex is female. Also, assigned sex at birth, legal sex, and gender identity are three separate things and not everyone has them line up.

What does “biological sex” even mean when:

• Some people have both XX and XY chromosomes,

• Some have ovotestes and produce both sperm and eggs,

• Some women with XY chromosomes can carry pregnancies,

• And some people are born with both a penis and vagina?

Nature is messy, and that’s normal. Being intersex isn’t tragic or broken. I’m proud to be intersex. I’m glad I’m intersex. I’m glad I’m alive.

I want a world where being intersex isn’t medicalized or erased: where sex diversity is celebrated as a natural part of being human.

[this-is-trans-misogyny]

> Some have ovotestes and produce both sperm and eggs,

please does anyone have a source on ts💔 - i need it for something

[normal-with-adhd-is-a-joke]

Conservative beauty standards are back with a vengeance which means it's especially important to go out this summer with bellies out and bodies unshaved. Also be unapologetically disabled with mobility aids and wearable medical devices and stim toys and ear defenders and all that stuff. You need it. People need to see it. Everyone needs to be reminded that life is unquestioningly more enjoyable when you're not living inside an arbitrary set of rules created by people who are offended by all the wrong things.

[perfect-puppy]

[capitaobarba79]

[milkinyourtoaster]

@isuggesteatingtherich

[isuggesteatingtherich]

i have a hamburger app to suggest

[swhftt]

LONG BOI SWHFTT‼️Khvostov Ghost lore

[k01ku]

hey check out how hard i can cry'

[feedyourdeadnametothevoidfish]

‘capitalism works’ factoid actually untrue. the 62 people who own half the world’s wealth are outliers and should be eaten.

[anarchistmemedistro]

62 8

[technofeudalism]

[g00burr]

Absolutely nuts how they made up a number for this satire post and the correction is that reality is *more absurd* than the number they chose

[anarchistmemedistro]

no it’s worse. 62 was correct in 2016 when the original post was made.

[garmbreak1]

The Richest 1% Own Almost Half the World’s Wealth & 9 Other Mind-Blowing Facts on Wealth Inequality

Millions are being pushed further into poverty while the wealthiest profit from a cost-of-living crisis.

81 now, apparently.

[andmaybegayer]

The 8 number is measuring a different thing, 8 is if you take the total wealth of the poorest 50% of people, 80-ish is if you take half the wealth of all people

The poorest half of the world has much, much less than half the world’s wealth. Still bad! Enormous wealth inequality tends to make for a shitty place to live.

[anarchistmemedistro]

this

[anarchistmemedistro]

this.

i was wrong.

stop reblogging the incorrect version.

[isuggesteatingtherich]

i have a way to correct those stats

[animentality]

[thememedaddy]

[jimmy-carmine]

I don’t always pick up on things in writing, sometimes I miss the little things.

In this case, it’s just popped into my head that Cayde-6 naming his chicken companion The Colonel wasn’t just the writers making a KFC joke, with a colonel outranking a commander, it makes it sound like the chicken is the highest ranked member of the Vanguard.

Visions of Guardians rocking up to the Tower and saluting the chicken before speaking to Zavala normally. Cayde-6’s last little joke still paying off.

[taxus-fraud]

Hey guys, my opponent just fused their entire side of the board into a gestalt entity, which is currently dissecting and calcifying my pieces such that they fit into its twisted vision of an eternal, perfect state of the universe. What's the best counter in this situation?

[willowwhirll]

Just watched supergirl and oh my god i am so obssed with the fact that we have a female main character and shes sloppy and snippy and rude and an alcoholic and messy and flawed. And yet shes still able to be kind and good and be an inspiration to people. All while not having a romance and while not trying to appeal to anyone. This is what everything should be.

[nqs00]

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Again, GO WATCH IT Y'ALL.