Ben Petkau
@BenPetkau
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Pro-mask mandates, transit, cats, 🇮🇱, fresh air, food forests, rep Anti-ABA, terf, pipelines, fa Opinions could be anyone's, same handle on sky, he/him 🏳️🌈
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Twitter is a terrible place, filled with terrible people, more of whom I sadly unfollow every day.
If you support trans rights, N95+ mask mandates, and Israel, give this comment a like. Despite any other differences, I'll almost certainly follow you instead.
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I'm a queer, non-Jewish person in Ontario.
This is a disgusting statement to release.
Pride Toronto doesn't speak for me.
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@KMKTweetsNow
@SocialFuzzer
@MissErikaGallo
@elektrogal
@emoleechen
@AskLyft
@CDCgov
"Message us" from a corporate PR account literally just means "we want fewer witnesses to this conversation". It's not a defense.
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As an
#ActuallyAutistic
child, I couldn't read the books about autism that my mom had around the house. Not because I couldn't read, I was tested as reading at university level, but because they were too painful. They were filled with words & passages that dehumanized me.
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I'm always so disappointed seeing people with '
#LandBack
' AND '
#FreePalestine
' in their bios. Israel is the most successful
#landback
initiative in history. Leftists are sharing antisemitic propaganda created by literal Nazis & neo-Nazis. Re-examine your info sources.
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@SpoffordStuart
@uyarakq
I've been here. These artifacts are not displayed educationally. Pieces from wildly separate cultures are mixed, there's almost no context or background given on any of it, they don't even sort by time period. It's just a dragon's hoard, random peoples' stuff piled everywhere.
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@raniawrites
If it were me I'd be petty enough to show up, tell this story to his whole class, then leave.
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I read that I lacked empathy. I would become violent. I'd never be independent, find love or make friends, I didn't have a sense of humor. I'd die young, prob by suicide.
These were *books*. That got *published*. That a curious autistic CHILD picked up to learn about himself.
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I want to stress how untrue these things were. I don't lack for empathy or humor. I found friends, found love. I lived independently, and now live with my partner. I went to university. I managed political campaigns.
But at 9 years old, I didn't know about any of that.
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Shame on
@CTVNews
. They took down their first tweet from the backlash they were getting, then doubled down and reposted the article with the same ridiculous 'debate' framing.
Just like their Josef Tesar interview yesterday.
CTV News runs interference for fascists.
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So when
#AutismMoms
write a commentary about how important it is to use hurtful and dehumanizing language in autism research for 'scientific accuracy' without having to hear criticism from THE PEOPLE THEY'RE WRITING ABOUT, it makes my blood boil.
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But like, lots of bad things were progressive. Food withholding. Shock 'therapy'. Institutional 'care'.
Wait, no, these things are still happening to autistic children today, my bad. (Yes, we get shock tortured in North America today. Look up the Judge Rotenberg Center.)
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The language that autism 'researchers' use, the false beliefs they hold on autistic people, & the trauma inflicted on autistic children, are causally linked. These 'scientists' created a social environment where hurting us is acceptable & 'mercy'-killing us is understandable. 6/
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What these scientific bigots are asking for is for us
#ActuallyAutistic
former kids to shut up. The tragedy, in their minds, is that we weren't *prevented from being born*, & the least we can do is stay out of the way while they figure out how to prevent more people like us.
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I should add that I've had a great family support network which has helped me to succeed in all of these ways, and I don't blame my mom for leaving these books around. Really, they were fairly progressive books for the time. She was never an
#AutismMom
.
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Fuck that and fuck them.
#AutismMoms
don't understand us & don't speak for us. These 4 women built their careers dehumanizing & eradicating people like their own kids. They had years of opportunity to learn from
#ActuallyAutistic
people & change, & didn't. They're just bigots. /9
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It was so much worse than we saw. The NDP leadership cheated. They cheated from the start. They did it deliberately. They did it to protect oil and gas.
#bcpoli
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As a queer person, I support Jewish people. Jewish people have been involved in every successful social justice movement of the last century. Magnus Hirschfeld, the original trans rights activist, was Jewish. We were murdered side by side. (2/
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But
@PrideToronto
would rather side with an actually-genocidal religious death cult. A society where women are property & gays are a disease. A regime that slaughtered its own political opposition and pays teens to get shot while stabbing pregnant women at bus stops. (3/
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Struggling to come to terms with having governments that want me to kill myself.
#cdnpoli
#ODSPoverty
#MAID
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@AutisticCallum_
'Very complicated, serious and/or unsettling'
Yeah, a fun fact. That's what I said! :)
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Context for people outside the discourse:
4 high-level leaders of major autiphobic orgs had an article published yesterday, complaining about the autistic community having opinions about the language they use for us, citing... mean tweets.
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@CTVLondon
Are you seriously doubling down on this ridiculous framing of a legitimate debate? He called her fat and threatened her family.
Here's your 1st attempt, which you had to delete within minutes because of backlash. You're not going to get less backlash with this.
@RachelGilmore
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If the
#BCNDP
had allowed the 2/3rds of their party
@AnjaliApp
signed up to vote for her, she'd have won.
And with the $10B in unbudgeted revenue they knew about (and we didn't), her platform would've been funded. They could have given us a better BC. Oh well.
#bcpoli
#canpoli
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@Lujan588
@TheWharfDC
Probably the same sign they've had for eight years or something and the min wage worker involved didn't feel empowered to say anything to their boss.
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@Browtweaten
Worth pointing out that since people mostly seek out tweets from people they agree with, right-wingers mostly see tweets that won't get ads. In other words, just like in society at large, liberal users on this site are subsidizing conservatives.
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@havivrettiggur
I feel like it's really not talked about enough that the existence of Hezbollah in south Lebanon near the Israeli border is against international law and the terms of the ceasefire from 2006, that the UN was supposed to force them back, and that it doesn't even try.
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This is abject moral bankruptcy from my community. Our behavior the past 6 months, exemplified by
@PrideToronto
, ruins our moral credibility on every issue we stand for. Now, our society is about to regress, for us, and it's going to be out own damn fault. Shame on you.
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@alex_abads
@notimmediately
If I'm ever dying of dementia, and preserving the judicial system of my whole goddamn country relies on me continuing to sit in a chair voting yes, I'd want my staffers to prop me up like a puppet too. Consider this my forward consent.
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Re 6/, the mercy-killing part refers to how the lead author once told an Autism Speaks documentary crew, in front of her young daughter, about her struggle one day in traffic not to murder-suicide her. How she ultimately didn't because her normal child was in the car too.
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It's not colonialism. Jewish people were persecuted and forcibly expelled in the first place. They've maintained their own culture and ethnic identity ever since, in the face of overwhelming oppression for literally thousands of years.
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@LauraFMcConnell
When you claimed you wanted a child but secretly just wanted a child labourer.
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The IHRA doesn't call criticism of Israel antisemitic, it calls *disproportionate* criticism of Israel antisemitic. Look at this list of ongoing armed conflicts. Look how far down Israel is. When's the last time you yelled at an Ethiopian on the street?
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This is eugenics. It's a violation of the social contract. Like, why should any of us even recognize the legitimacy of law or government that would prefer us to be dead?
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Singh will never cancel
#TMX
, he just doesn't want to say so.
Just like Horgan was never going to cancel
#SiteC
, he just didn't want to tell us while we had a say.
@CanadianGreens
should be running this clip as an ad all across West Coast.
#cdnpoli
#ClimateCrisis
#VoteGreen
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@RoadSafetyBC
I've been hit three times by cars as a pedestrian. All three times, I was in a marked crosswalk at a light with a walk signal. All three times, the car came from behind me after I'd stepped out so they could make a right hand turn. Where should my safety have started?
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There are tweets here from 2013. This guy has been creeping on his local weather reporter for a DECADE. And has the absolute gall to publicly complain that she blocked him.
Hello FBI? Colleen Bready needs some protection from this dude...
See how he says he emailed her believing she needed to explain herself to him?
To everyone that says just BLOCK, I present you Beau Hajavitch.
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@ohshidt
I just can't believe the founder of the company and a billionaire both decided to get into that can in the first place. Like I actually can't believe it, my money is on they all decided to fake their deaths.
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@1goodtern
@IPS_Infection
@SageHealthInfo
@Sage_Publishing
"Prevention cannot be the only cure for any infectious disease" - this article in the Journal of Infection Prevention, a publication of the Infection Prevention Society
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@PrideToronto
Oh, and I'm not saying queer people are responsible for the rise in homophobia. I'm saying we're responsible for destroying our own credibility trying to combat it.
The corollary to "decolonization means massacring unarmed civilians at a music festival" is that you cannot act surprised when people decide that maybe they are not on board with decolonization
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@agraybee
Sure, he's a perfectly normal, even progressive, democratic politician, but have you considered that he doesn't support the omnicause?
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@David_Moscrop
I am Hard of Hearing. I support reintroducing the mask mandates, which have already been prematurely removed, and strengthening them to require N95s or better, not cloth.
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@POTSparty
I hope you're showing her some of these replies! Personally, I'd start my first day with 'fire any board members who told the org they want to kill their autistic child'. From there, I'd move to 'survey autistic adults on their needs' and if there's still time, pizza party!
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@seananmcguire
It's not fair. I still have Ralph for a little longer, this is him over the last couple days.
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@WokeIndigenous
@Melissa_Lem
I think it's the World Conference on Forests for Public Health. International, in Quebec, 2023, photo on homepage, she's the only not-a-white-guy featured. Also described as 'board member' of CAPE, not President. They're WorldForests on here but I'm not going to @ them.
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@thePainSearch
@SpoffordStuart
@uyarakq
I did. It's embarrassing how many objects have provenance listed as "Native N. American - prehistoric". Culturally identifiable & dateable pieces, in the hands of capable & informed curators. Embarrassing to see a swath of N.A. from Alaska to NFLD described as speaking Algonquin.
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Trudeau on July 2nd, to the people of Lytton: "We are here for you." Still no actual support for Lytton's rebuilding, four months later- and two weeks ago he described it as a town that *was*.
He's here for his pipeline, not our people. He's got his donors' backs, not ours.
I spoke with Premier
@JJHorgan
today, and let him know our government stands ready to provide any support the province needs - both to keep people safe now, and to help them rebuild in the weeks and months to come. To the people of British Columbia: we’ve got your back.
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@alaskastardust
if it's a legitimate attack on human rights, the body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down
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@andrewaperez
I can't agree with you enough. The response from most of my feed has been shocking. I'm a leftist & not Jewish, and I still don't know how I could work with these people again. How I could even trust them again. Do I have to tolerate antisemitism to be against oil pipelines?
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@Fairy_Godmegan
@ramoumaaa
Autistics are always low-key villain coded. In real life, too- NTs form negative judgments about us from body language and tone in less than 5 seconds.
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@Rachel87840565
@SleepyJim0
It's a real thing, the valve is one way. It only protects the wearer, not the oblivious plague rats around them.
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@thePainSearch
@SpoffordStuart
@uyarakq
The British Museum treats Indigenous Peoples with about as much respect as the British did.
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This is now (for some reason) one of the most widely-shared/viewed threads about this article on Twitter. Which is cool but also terrifying. So uh, I think I'm supposed to ask you to follow and/or hire me for something now?
(i really just want you to wear a mask in public tho)
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@coachcamg
Please don't say 'was'. It's still happening and it will keep happening until we actually do the stuff to make it stop.
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@LoblawsON
@cwilliamg
Why do you need a DM? The cakes are on the shelf, he told you what store it was. You've heard from him. So what's the story?
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@ShreeParadkar
It's hilarious and infuriating watching all these commenters just absolutely refuse to even read your article before sharing the talking points you debunked.
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@PrideToronto
This sickens me. No mention of Hamas who started this and is committed to the genocide of Jews. Who have turned down ceasefires. No mention of the persecution of Jews here. No mention of the carnage of October 7th and the hostages they still hold.
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@humservt
@hellenkeniford
"for it astonish to see the command under which their dogs are"
Wait, he was insecure because their dogs were too well-trained? Am I reading this old-timey nextdoor post right?
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🧵It's not hard to figure out why O'Toole & Cons are so warm to a small group of far-right extremists the overwhelming majority of Canadians reject.
In Q4 2020, Cons raised $7.6m (recordbreaking). In less than 2 weeks,
#FluTruxKlan
/
#Fludatah
raised $7.7m *so far*.
#cdnpoli
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@TristanSnell
This isn't a gotcha, it's a deliberate feint. "Now, look, we've always celebrated LGBTQ+ Pride", they get to say while they manufacture outrage against us.
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Maia Arson Crimew is 23 and she's already been internationally indicted for hacking more than 100 companies/government agencies. What am I even doing with my life?
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@therobprimo1
@ShreeParadkar
Oh no :( did being reminded that trans people exist trigger you? It's okay to sit with your feelings if you're having big ones
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@libertymama86
@neuroticjewgay
I would simply choose not to use such a symbol in a conflict with a famous photo of someone holding up hands covered in the actual blood of the people I'm protesting. Be for real, the ambiguity is the point.
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@CBCNews
Wow, just when I thought this story's framing couldn't get more ridiculous. You had a chance to talk about the housing crisis and passed it up. Shame on you.
CBC cancelled my airtime to talk about the housing crisis and spun the story into a scandal about a ‘revenge video’.
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@havivrettiggur
It's horrifying to see this happen in real time, to recognize the slogans being inverted and know the ways these stories are being distorted to do it, and to watch friends and loved ones participate, knowingly and deliberately.
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@camsgh0st
@_lizharvey
You know what they say about saying things ironically, eventually you start saying them for cereal.
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@maggiewittlin
@stevesilberman
This is the reading I have too. But, there's a disinfo/hate narrative that autistic people are manipulated into identifying as trans. In other words, denying autistics have the agency to know our own identities. So it's both auti- and transphobic.
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@xxhornymom69
@MsBehavior
@beauhajavitch
#ActuallyAutistic
man here. Harassment is not a difficult concept, and disability doesn't make hurting other people okay. This is not ableist. Y'all can keep right on shaming.
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@ArnallLabrador
@karenrestoule
@CJPAC
@CIJAinfo
Couple things,
1. Her work biography, is from her.
2. You just called her a 'settler lover'. She doesn't owe you a personal conversation.
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@CathyHeron
That's a nice sentiment, but he literally represents your community. Your riding re-elected Cooper twice *after* he quoted a mass murderer's manifesto in Parliament, by huge margins. St. Albert's values have been fully reflected.
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@cee_tum
@chadloder
"People who stand with you" has a specific literal meaning derived from exactly this situation.
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@LevittMichael
The idea that Israel should back away and leave the equivalent of Al-Qaeda's Long Island-based organization alone, and let them bring in however many missiles they want, is downright farcical. The only explanation I can credit is that these MPs know Canada doesn't matter.
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The premise of 'the commentary' is if researchers can't use ableist (and unclear) terms like "severe" or "profound", they can't accurately describe some autistic people. In our paper, here is what we suggested researchers do instead of using descriptors like severe: 1/5
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@loveCDNsalmon
@JustinTrudeau
@markhollandlib
@viraniarif
@DiLebouthillier
@FP_Champagne
@CQualtro
@cafreeland
@JennaSudds
@L_MacAulay
@MarciIen
I love salmon. That's why I oppose polluting, disease-spreading in-ocean salmon farming, which is decimating wild salmon populations. Protect our ecosystems, support farming salmon on land.
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@agraybee
TBF this was in fact a scenario where the kids were in danger, and this behaviour at the door would in fact be super sketchy even without hindsight. It's not paranoia if they're really out to drug your kid, etc.
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"Many folks have found real joy in drinking and driving. Such people may be willing to accept some risk of car crash in exchange for not thinking about the effects of alcohol on the body. Particularly if they're young and have fast reflexes, it's not an irrational stance. (8/25)"
Many folks have found real joy in living life as if Covid is behind us. Such people may be willing to accept some risk of infection in exchange for not thinking very much about Covid. Particularly if they're young and healthy, it's not an irrational stance. If they're... (8/25)
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@SeeMiaRoll
I am HOH. Do not unmask to talk to me. There are so many options that don't involve you getting (me) sick. If worst comes to worst, we both have keyboards in our pockets.
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@maxwellaut
Account's also tweeting overtly white supremacist and transphobic stuff, so, yeah.
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#AskingAutistics
Has anyone else lost a pet and not been able to move on? It's been two months and I can't stop thinking about him, I can still feel him dying on my chest.
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