Thinking about all this stuff where people are trying to link #vaccines and other #medicines (like the mellinia old #tylenol) to the supposedly large increase in the rate of #autism, and it's reminding me of something...
When my mother was #pregnant with my older brother, there was some sort of gas leak, and she was exposed to fumes which gave her headaches over several months. My mother was otherwise not really exposed to many drugs: she remembered the #thalidomide scandal. When my brother was a baby, he began displaying #autistic behaviors before he had his first #vaccine.
What occurs to me as I think about it now is, there is a lot of talk about commonplace and relatively safe #medications and vaccines supposedly causing autism to climb significantly (of which I have doubts), but none of these people seem to be talking about the various and increasingly exotic #pollution that pregnant women are exposed to on a regular basis...
My inner #conspiracy theorist wonders if this is somehow by design, if maybe the #OilIndustry or other #corporations responsible for all this #pollution in the air and water from #coal, #lead, #fracking, and other #industry which cause exotic #chemicals to be dumped into the environment are actively encouraging people to pay attention to this, and not the pollution factor. Clearly, they have a vested interest in us not asking the question, "Could coal plants and fracking be causing autism?"
Of course, it's also #conservatives who are far more concerned about this, as, from what I can tell, most of people's issues with #autism aren't actually behaviors that are far outside what seems to be natural for human beings, but the fact that autistic people are more likely to behave in ways that are outside the conservative cultural norm.
We saw this with #masking during the first year of the ongoing #COVID epidemic, when people who supposedly didn't have autism went through autism like meltdowns over being asked to wear masks and make some minor lifestyle and schedule changes. Suddenly, it didn't seem like autism was a behavioral issue, just a typical response to sensory overload in a society that isn't geared to sensitive people: when everything is uncomfortable, you're going to act like someone who is being put through extreme discomfort... Like these non-autistic people jumping on tables while screaming and ripping off their clothes because they were asked to wear a mask.
So, If you need a zinger here, tldr, conservatives may be polluting themselves into having to deal with more people who do things they don't like, and blaming modern medicine to keep the corporations off the hook.
But seriously, we should probably be drawing more attention to the fact that pollution is causing in utero and early childhood brain damage, just at it was with leaded gasoline, and that, if autism rates actually are increasing (again, there is no conclusive evidence they are), there is actual scientific study linking pollution to it.
Exposure to fine particulate air pollution has been linked with significantly increased risk of autism spectrum disorder in children, particularly if exposure occurs during the third trimester of pregnancy or during early childhood, according to a me…
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Scanning all messages, photos and files, without consent or even suspicion is a major breach of our right to privacy and a huge security threat. Nevertheless, the European lawmakers are still pushing through with the so-called Chat Control legislation. Under the pretence that it would protect kids from online abuse, all checks and balances for the protection of our privacy are dismantled. And scientists already concluded that Chat Control will not work.
It undermines the democracy, in its peoples ability to do those checks. Coordinated in private communications have been around for longer than Democracy itself. Now the ability to do those remotely (Online) is in danger, and the technology to execute on ‘Chat Control’ exists.
We propose legislation of another approach. Limiting our Governments’ abilities is one of the methods to apply law, so legislature to forbid our governments from using this technology should be developed.
Tuesday 30 September 18.30h CEST – Hosted by Pirate MEP Markéta Gregorová (Greens/EFA)
Guest experts:
Carmela Troncoso – from the Security and Privacy Engineering (SPRING) Laboratory. It is a research group at EPFL – École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland
Joachim – Representative of the Fight Chat Control initiative; will bring the citizen’s perspective on how public pressure shapes the debate.
Udbhav Tiwari – VP, Strategy and Global Affairs, Signal
Asha Allen – Director of The Centre for Democracy & Technology (CDT) Europe
The government should not have access to all the messages or photos you send. Period.
Die Angriffe auf den Nato-Luftraum fühlen sich an, als würden wir nicht nur die warmen Sonnenstrahlen verabschieden. Provokationen werden Alltag. taz.de/!6112471
@ka_lessin Aus Sicht der Gläubigen Putins Propagandanarrativs, Russland verteidige sich gegen Angriffe der Nato die sie durch Manipulation die Ukraine vollziehen lässt:
"Die Nato hat nicht die Kapazitäten Russland mit Angriffen ernshaft zu schaden, sonst lägen schon längst mehrere russische Städte in Trümmern." 😎 @tazgetroete
#GuteNacht liebe Tröties und Toots! #dreigutedingedestages - viel Zeit für die Entdeckung der Leica Welt genommen und beeindruckende Fotos gesehen - herzhaft über gute jiddische Witze gelacht - ein köstliches Abendessen 🧆🍷verspeist. Schlaft bunt und träumt schön 🌈 ✨ 😴 💤 💫 🐈⬛
1992 fing Manfred Becker als Assessor beim RP Gießen an und bezog das freistehende Büro des Juristen der Abteilung Inneres neben meinem Büro als stellvertretende Personalratsvorsitzende. Ein Mensch, immer mit dem Blick für das Wesentliche, einer sehr schnellen Auffassungsgabe, Sinn für die Realität und viel Menschenkenntnis, so durfte ich ihn kennen und schätzen lernen.
Seit 2015 wurden über 320.000 Geflüchtete in Hessen aufgenommen. Eine enorme Belastung für die Mitarbeiter der Erstaufnahmeeinrichtung in Gießen – und für die Flüchtlinge umso mehr.
People who hope to become presidential candidates in 2028, including Sen. Van Hollen, Gov. JB Pritzker, Gov. Andy Beshear, Gov. Tim Walz, former Cabinet secretary Pete Buttigieg, former Ambassador Rahm Emanuel, and Sen. Ruben Gallego, were already recently speaking to voters in Iowa: nytimes.com/2025/09/27/us/poli… #politics #AmericasHope #Campaign2028
Der Journalist Georg Stefan Troller ist im Alter von 103 Jahren gestorben. Geboren in Wien, geflohen vor den Nazis, als US-Soldat im Weltkrieg. Sein Schritt ins Fernsehen machte ihn schließlich zum Vorbild einer Journalistengeneration.
In a post-Roe landscape where access to accurate reproductive health information is more crucial than ever, Meta's enforcement system is silencing the very voices communities need most. eff.org/pages/meta-removing-ab…
BY LISA FEMIA | September 24, 2025This is the fifth installment in a blog series documenting EFF's findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here.
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I have had a very accident-prone 8 days. Exciting week ahead: MRT to determine right knee ligament damage on tuesday. XRay to determine if left foot is broken on monday. Separate accidents.
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Current issues of Belarus-Singapore cooperation were discussed during a meeting between Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxim Ryzhenkov and Singaporean Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan in New York.
Hey, @dino - I’ve just found your app available in the Bazaar app store on Bazzite. It’s great! So glad to have a modern #XMPP client on at least one of my systems. Thank you!
It's been extremely warm (again) over global land areas so far this year. Here's a comparison against every other average January-August period since at least 1850...
The NOAA Merged Land Ocean Global Surface Temperature Analysis (NOAAGlobalTemp, formerly known as MLOST) combines long-term sea surface (water) temperature (SST) and land surface (air) temperature datasets to create a complete, accurate depiction of …
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in reply to Raccoon🏳️🌈 • • •My inner #conspiracy theorist wonders if this is somehow by design, if maybe the #OilIndustry or other #corporations responsible for all this #pollution in the air and water from #coal, #lead, #fracking, and other #industry which cause exotic #chemicals to be dumped into the environment are actively encouraging people to pay attention to this, and not the pollution factor. Clearly, they have a vested interest in us not asking the question, "Could coal plants and fracking be causing autism?"
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in reply to Raccoon🏳️🌈 • • •Of course, it's also #conservatives who are far more concerned about this, as, from what I can tell, most of people's issues with #autism aren't actually behaviors that are far outside what seems to be natural for human beings, but the fact that autistic people are more likely to behave in ways that are outside the conservative cultural norm.
We saw this with #masking during the first year of the ongoing #COVID epidemic, when people who supposedly didn't have autism went through autism like meltdowns over being asked to wear masks and make some minor lifestyle and schedule changes. Suddenly, it didn't seem like autism was a behavioral issue, just a typical response to sensory overload in a society that isn't geared to sensitive people: when everything is uncomfortable, you're going to act like someone who is being put through extreme discomfort... Like these non-autistic people jumping on tables while screaming and ripping off their clothes because they were asked to wear a mask.
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in reply to Raccoon🏳️🌈 • • •So, If you need a zinger here, tldr, conservatives may be polluting themselves into having to deal with more people who do things they don't like, and blaming modern medicine to keep the corporations off the hook.
But seriously, we should probably be drawing more attention to the fact that pollution is causing in utero and early childhood brain damage, just at it was with leaded gasoline, and that, if autism rates actually are increasing (again, there is no conclusive evidence they are), there is actual scientific study linking pollution to it.
hsph.harvard.edu/news/air-poll…
Air pollution linked with increased risk of autism in children | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Staff Writer (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)