It's been five long years of blogging the Trump years. We've laughed, we've cried, we've pulled some of our remaining hair out, but we've made it. It is almost done and our democracy, nation, and souls are still largely intact. Unfortunately, we're not through.There is much more to come as we stitch ourselves back together like some kind of common Frankenstein monster as we recover from the PTSD that Trump gave us and the needless deaths and suffering from #COVID19. We also have to keep #BidenHarris honest & progressive, oppose Republican obstructionism anti-democratic tendencies, and whatever other black swans await us. All of which will be addressed using good old-fashioned snarcky, sarcasticky, profaney fun and psychological insights.
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It’s the hip and cool thing to be taking all of the anxiolytics. It’s what all the hip and cool cats are doing now. It’s the new Prozac. But, maybe anxiety can be used for good instead of addiction! What if…
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We live in evil times. I’m not talking about the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Putin’s War in Ukraine, the naked authoritarian threat to our democracy, I’m talking about the use of persuasive design to keep us binge-watching TV rather than doing our chores!
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It’s been the most exciting week in the history of Ye Olde Blogge! Some lucky reader has watched one of our videos! On the blog! I’m sitting down. I feel a little dizzy.
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The number of deaths from #COVID19, the unaccounted for excess deaths during the pandemic, and only the unvaxxed dying of #COVID19 haven’t convinced MAGA Nation to vaxx and mask because of the power of the biases of conservative media coverage and the effects of mass psychosis.
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There is a truism in neurological functioning: use it or lose it! Hubel and Wiesel demonstrated this when they sewed the eyes of kittens shut; autistic people when they don’t learn social perceptions.
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It is worse than we had imagined! We knew that the RWNJ and their crazy anti-mask, vax, and outrage du jour rhetoric was causing real harm, we just didn’t know how real or how much harm. Now we do. Now we know that it is A LOT. And Judge Mizelle just added to the misery!
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There’s lots of news to report from our week off for Khmer New Year. Maybe the biggest is that we’re training up for the Phnom Penh Half Marathon! Otherwise, read about vegan dogs, gangs of Nairobi, assholes, and hypervigilance!
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Luck as it turns out exists and is not randomly distributed. Since it is #AutismAwarenessMonth, we ask the question, how lucky are people with autism?
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Gilbert Gottfried would’ve wanted it this way. He wanted us to laugh. Laughter is the best medicine, and what ails us now is prolonged chronic stress. We need all the laughs we can get to help relieve it. It’s all explained right here and links to some of Gottfried’s best work.
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This was an exciting week! We have love darts, barking birds, new years holiday vacations, dog stories, the Bem Sex Role Inventory, and some great reads from around the Interwebs!
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#ScienceFact: Fox News shapes the beliefs, attitudes, behaviors, and interests of its viewers by cherry-picking the stories and information that it presents to them. An utterly convincing study confirms what we already knew.
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One of the fundamental differences between a person with autism and a neurotypical person is that the autie has a rich inner world that is much preferred to the drab and dreary outer one. It makes the world of the neurotypical barely tolerable.
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The massacre in Bucha has left me feeling oddly numb and withdrawn. What’s wrong with me? Is there anything we can do about it? #PsychicNumbing is one way we take care of ourselves when feeling overwhelmed by horrific events.
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Okay, so we’re Trekkies at Ye Olde Blogge. First Contact Day celebrates the date that humankind first achieved warp speed and made contact with Vulcans! It’s the preniversary! 5 April 2063.
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On 4 April 1968, MLK was assassinated. We need his commitment to nonviolence and equality before the law now more than ever to fight for our democracy. Help spread the word by sharing this post and meme far and wide!
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We’ve got a Caturday from hell, visits from hornbills, a lemon juice fueled April Fools Day spectacular, and training for the Phnom Penh Marathon… and then there’s everything we read that you don’t want to miss!
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Ye Olde Blogge has big plans for celebrating #AutismAcceptanceMonth! Join us for our weekly autism blog post exploring people with autism and accommodations that we can all understand and embrace. #Autism #AutismApril
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Celebrate Rachel Maddow’s birthday on April Fool’s Day — no kidding! Use this handy meme to express your well wishes to her on your favorite social media platforms!
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Take a moment to remember the horror that was the Vietnam War. Treat all who were involved with that conflict with kindness and respect.
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We’ve put the kidney stones to rest a couple of days early and have closed the book on this chapter. Until the next one, my friends. We’ve also got all the blogs, news, and friends’ blogs that I’ve been reading from the week!
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