Larre Bildeston

Larre Bildeston

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Writer, artist, parent, carer. Autistic and acespec. Australia via Aotearoa, (soft) atheist. Agender. Pronouns: I want to say “any” since I’m collecting A words. (they/them actually) The Space Ace of Mangleby Flat (2023) is on Amaz*n

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This book is non-fiction hypothetical (is that a genre?) but reads like a thriller. If I had, say, a Murdoch Media enthusiast who will be voting in ~4 months, I might leave a copy casually lying around in the hopes they pick it up and reconsider who they want in charge of the nuclear codes.

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Once again paraphrasing Polanyi: "We experience more than we can say. We say more than we can write. We write more than we can read. We imagine more than we can enact."

Large Models of What? Mistaking Engineering Achievements for Human Linguistic Agency arxiv.org/abs/2407.08790 New paper with Marek McGann

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Anyone who is looking for free access to the scholarly work referenced in this article and more gender-affirming scholarly works should check out Internet Archive Scholar. There are almost 250K results for "gender affirming" and over 50K for "transgender" scholar.archive.org

since Pamela Paul has written *yet another* anti-trans NYTimes op-ed, time for me to re-up my uber-critique of this genre of articles – no paywall, please share widely! juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...

Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation…juliaserano.medium.com NOTE: this essay is a 15 minute read. If it’s listed as longer than that, it’s because it contains a list of over 100 references at the…

Cold snap is here. The wind outside is doing that thing where it sounds like the soundtrack to a scary movie. Meanwhile I hope everyone enduring a hot summer in the other hemisphere finds relief very soon.

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It's my job to buy books for my local library. One thing I wish more people knew is that we are very open to suggestions for new titles. I buy 90% of books that people suggest. Please, let your library know the kinds of things you want to read. It's helpful!

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Sent to me by a friend.

Once when I had 5 chickens, 1 died. I buried it. Next morning, not 4 chooks in the coop but 5 again, all Rhode Island Reds. Turns out someone else’s chook escaped and some neighbours assumed it was ours, locked it up in our coop. Anyway, that resurrected chook confused me for a while.

At 18 years old on a night out a stole a plant pot from a random house's front garden. It lived in my car boot for a year. I then decided to return it one night but dropped it, shattering it on their garden path. God knows what the people who lived there thought was happening

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how my brain works

An asexual, agender, Autistic Gen X Australian architect living in Aotearoa (AAAAAA) spends his whole life wondering what the hell's wrong with him, and only works himself out in his 40s after getting to ~very gradually~ know a trans femme friend from his local tennis club.

Explain your book/WIP in one sentence badly. Single dad spends 60,000 words going, “Pretty sure this dude just unkilled me, and oh shit he’s cute” 🌈📚

Well, in stark contrast to our experience with last week's nasty pathology nurse, I can't tell you how relieved I was to find that the nurse at the different place this morning is trans masc (and also neurodivergent, as it turns out). Way better experience. In every single way.

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A picture book! Come for the social pragmatics, stay for happy infodumping about 🦑 🐡 🦐 🦈 🪸 🌊 with the neighbors!

Borrowing from the art community... Nonbinary People's Day Book Share! 💛 Share your books if you're a nonbinary author ⚪ Share books you enjoyed with nonbinary characters if not. 💜 Boost nonbinary authors 🖤 Add our books to your TBR? My books (with a nonbinary MC)👇 #InternationalNonbinaryDay

Of relevance to ME/CFS www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07...

'It means the world to be believed': Australian researchers might have solved the mystery of Gulf War Illnesswww.abc.net.au The discovery by Griffith University scientists has given hope to Gulf War veterans that their often-debilitating symptoms will finally be recognised by the medical profession and the Australian gover...

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Rosy maple moths are the absolute cutest and it’s not even close

LOOK AT THIS BIRD Mollymawks of the Auckland Islands are so cute. Unfortunately they're easy to catch as they haven't evolved around humans. In better news, they're protected now, on these islands at least.

Months ago on my walk I came across a baby rabbit, who must have been sick, curled up in a tuft of grass. I wouldn't let my dog near it, though he was very interested. Every day since then, my dog gives that same tuft of grass a very long, very inquisitive sniff.

I don't know what the rest of the world is up to, I spent my Sunday morning going down a research rabbit hole (heh) and now I can tell you all about the world's most rare species of rabbit. (The Enderby Island rabbit, icyww.)

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If I do, then that's mine to deal with! There's a concept we talk about in disability justice called the "dignity of risk." One thing often denied to disabled people is the right to take risks, to fail, to have regrets. It is a RIGHT to TRY something.

"you might regret it later!" is another fun bullshit response

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There are ways it sucks to be autistic. Then there are the perks.

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ok earnest and very autistic question: why is it not the "ceiling of your mouth"

The “legendary sex therapist” is dead. Did she ever explain or retract this sentiment? No, I don’t forget. #asexual

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The ADHD experience of thinking you don't know how to study as the way you are taught which relies on rote rehearsal over and over of the same thing is inherently antithetical to engaging your brain.

During my walk I came to a decision. I would like to be a Joey traveling around in my warm wallaby mother’s pouch. I would look very cute peeping out and it would also be very fun.

I tend to avoid music videos because they change what I get in my own head from listening to the music alone, but I make an exception for The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band. This kid did a great job. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRWM...

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band - Devils Look Like Angels (Official Video)www.youtube.com The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band's official music video for "Devils Look Like Angels" from the album, Between The Ditches, released on SideOneDummy Record...

This is why I, also, don't lift slabs of concrete, or anything much heavier than a washing basket.

"Innovation" sounds about right www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Watch: Truck tips on its end in Upper Huttwww.rnz.co.nz A truck has ended up in an unusual position while trying to lift a concrete slab.

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Hey wow as someone with a stutter y’all are not kind At all Do you know what happens when you have the kind of stutter where you swap words? Your brain makes an association in a split second and you go “no, not that”, especially when nervous, and it just blorts out of your mouth.

Oh you're Autistic *and* asexual? This question must be rhetorical.

Oh you're autistic? Name four times you were being flirted with heavy and didn't have a clue

If you like Kraftwerk and/or Vulfmon, this is for you. (Pocket Calculator + I Can't Party?)

For some reason this just popped into my head so I’m making it everyone’s problem

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Whoopi Goldberg out with 4th infection; Violet Affleck all the things please; metrics skyrocket for US, UK, Canada, Taiwan, Italy, Greece, Scotland; great news about antihistamines; why window seats are safest on a plane, and more. Always free: www.patreon.com/posts/pandem...

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The US should switch to Celsius to make it cooler at night

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i call my iphone lois lane bc it doesn’t recognize me with my glasses on either.