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Nov 15 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
#twitterIsOverParty friends there won’t be a countdown it’s just going to stop working soon. These last few hours/days are our last time together. I’m heartbroken. I wish I could take you all with me but I have no idea how to replace this.

#greatLibraryOfAlexandria #thatFucker
I just. It’s just hitting me. This is the closest to an authentic home that’s mine that I had for 15 years.

I redecorated, I redid the whole yard, and I set it up as a sort of clinic for undiagnosed autistic people.

My greatest joy has been sharing this home w you.

#thatFucker
I’m literally sitting in a gas station parking lot sobbing over this.

My digital home - which is my REAL home - is being pillaged by an ignorant, violent colonizer who wants to turn it into a mall/casino for deplorables.
Two predominantly white European countries have been subject to colonization by their neighbors: Ireland and the land of my ancestors, Ukraine.

Ukraine is a colonized culture. A need to defend my home is in my soul, I can feel my ancestors calling me to go to battle. But how?
My ancestors were serfs, toiling the land for the profit of distant landowners.

Musk acts like a feudal landowner, like his position means he can’t be wrong and any harm he causes is meaningless.

It’s the story I have heard my whole life.
It’s one thing when a colonizer comes to take your land. Land is valuable whether or not the people currently living there work it for you or die defending it.

When they come to take your culture, your means of expression, your very language?

That’s because the PEOPLE matter.
Did musk take twitter down on purpose? I honestly don’t know anymore. I think a ton of very bad people have benefited from his actions and I only see the character he plays on tv.

What I can say is that this is a victory for the global right.
We need democratized, non-corporate social spaces on the internet that cannot be taken down by a billionaire’s whims.

It is a matter of freedom of thought or not moving forward.
This is a good point. Colonizer IS the word. And a lot of us white folks have very little experience with being on this side of that blade.

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Nov 17
Really excited about John Wick 4 but honestly just ready for 5.

(Have you realized yet that the John Wick movies are about the five stages of grief?

These aren’t action movies. They’re ballet with weapons, exploring Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance.
You: John Wick is an action franchise about a guy who is really good at killing people, the action scenes are so good!

Me: John Wick is an art house franchise about a grieving man coming to terms, slowly, with the death of his wife. There is violence.
When you watch those fights, though?

It’s not western choreography, it’s Hong Kong style. Which emerged from the fusion of martial arts and opera into a unique kinetic art form capable of expressing both physical and emotional realities.

That’s why you feel it so much.
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Nov 16
“Autism” is a valid and naturally-occurring way of thinking, feeling, and moving through reality.

“Autism Spectrum Disorder” is what the Allistics recognize as Autism but they’re wrong. They’re conflating Autism+CPTSD as Autism, and then calling it disordered.

These are choices
Most autistic people I know have serious cPTSD.

You can get that through active abuse or you can get it through passive neglect.

Most of us, diagnosed or not, grow up minimizing our own neglected, unmet needs.

Hence the cPTSD.
But if you’ve ever met an autistic person raised by aware and loving autistic people? Something happens. They aren’t “like that”. They’re just a bit eccentric, like the rest of their family.

*that’s autism*
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Nov 16
I love how AVU doesn't even bother debating whether or not Jesus was Autistic.

We know our own. It's just obvious, like hair color. Y'all don't think or talk like us.

The New Testament is a story of an Autistic radical framing universal love in accessible terms.
His friends misunderstand him _so constantly_ that he starts speaking in parables.

His cultural leaders despise him for rooting out their hypocrisy.

He fearlessly speaks truth to power and embraces the serenity of his own understanding of reality.
The West likes to paint Jesus as a White Man with a Menacing Aura marching to War.

Jesus was a disabled black man who managed to make enough people stop and realize that maybe it's possible to divest from toxic social values.
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Nov 16
Les Miserables? Les Miserables is *sacred* in a way few texts are. M

Reading it changed my life in high school, and watching a high school performance of it 20 years later let me drop all of my shame.

It is sacred, and this is profane. But of course that’s the point.
Les Miserables taught this autistic kid that other people were real. That they had rich, complex inner lives that were just as valid as his.

You see, at 16 he was starting to suspect otherwise. Everyone around him seemed to just be emulating everyone else. Following a script.
It wasn’t until my privileged ass read a book whose WHOLE POINT is that every single life contains infinite value and complexity that I really understood.

From the old priest at the start to gavroche the urchin, everyone matters.
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Nov 16
125 QTs and growing.

This question asks you to share your anger, but that presupposes you’re feeling anger. Many respondents are well past anger into quiet despair.

Do you know what happened to people with Long Flu after the 1920s?

They were called “useless eaters”.
In Germany they were the first into the concentration camps. Before the Jews, before the queers, before the resistors, it was disabled people that were the easiest to dehumanize and therefore the first to go.

And we are WATCHING YOU DO IT AGAIN. Anger fades to despair indeed.
My family is half antivaxxer/Covid deniers. I honestly don’t know if I will ever see them again because I do not feel safe around them, let alone my immunocompromised partner.

I have other family that wouldn’t isolate for three days before Christmas so we could join them.

Why?
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I'm using AWS serverless to add some backing functions for a GraphQL interface. I have a question.

Let's say my processing looks like data => lambda1 => lambda2 => lambda3.

Do I have the GQL server invoke those and handle the composition, do I have a 4th lambda that does it?
It feels weird for my hubspot lookup lambda to then invoke my GPT-3 completions lambda.

But a workflow lambda that receives the initial trigger and then invokes lambda 1, passes its output to lambda 2, passes that output to lambda 3 and then returns? Is that the way?
Or is there some sort of lamda composition tool where I can define these flows using powerful abstractions? What's best practice?
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