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A student at Autistry coined this the other day. I was showing off an OK design that I thought we could add to to turn into a great product. I said, “I want us to be standing on the shoulders of giants here… errr, well… ”

“Standing on the shoulders of average sized people,” chimed in my student in his typical down-tempo basso.

I like it!

December 3, 2022, Donald Trump wrote that he wants to suspend the US Constitution.

Text is Trump’s, highlighting is mine.

(Confirmation on Snopes, original post on TruthSocial, archive on Archive.org(

Mitch McConnell criticizized Trump’s statement , saying “Anyone seeking the presidency who thinks that the Constitution could somehow be suspended or not followed, it seems to me would have a very hard time being sworn in as president of the United States,”

Then on Dec 5th, Trump wrote on Truthsocial that he didn’t write what he wrote above.

I work in person and we all wear masks all day every day. When we finally stop wearing masks, it’s gonna take me a year to stop gesturing with only my eyebrows and hands, and yelling at people because I can’t frigging hear myself.

WTF?
(via Twitter directly)

Twitter now won’t warn, hide, or remove wackadoodle COVID conspiracy theories.

Thanks Elon?

I give you the most quintessential video of Abigail ever! She is just 2 1/2 years old in this video and she is ROCKIN’! I see how the other kids are just barely aware of what’s happening and she is completely full of life; she is flailing her arms and legs and still fully keeping her balance! And that smile is to die for! That’s my girl, Father’s Joy!

Want to follow my posts on Mastodon (a new social network)? Here I am! Find me as @gadlen@sfba.social or here https://sfba.social/@gadlen

I post my blog here and crosspost it to Twitter, Facebook, and Mastodon. Though I post a lot more family pix on Facebook.

Can you help me find a manufacturing and order tracking system for my organization? We’ve got several projects (including the cool art coasters below) that are being designed and manufactured in-house by our students. I expect we’ll have sales of something like 5-20 items per day. Any thoughts?

I’m the Production Lead at Autistry Studios, a day program for autistic adults working toward independence!
http://autistry.com/

Gallagher, the watermelon smashing comedian, passed away just a few days ago (via).

I was tremendously lucky to see him perform live in 2006. That performance was an invitation to enjoy and fall in love with chaos, an energy that I embodied for many years, having recently changed my life by moving to the Bay Area.

Here’s a 3D printed AA battery tray I made that I’m happy with. I couldn’t find it to buy, so I made it on my 3D printer.

Batteries are easy to drop into place and pick up, they don’t roll around at all in their trays or in the drawer, and I can stack batteries on top of them neatly. My friend Devon had printed several versions of battery holders for me a while back and they were pretty good, but what I really wanted was THIS. So I made it.

Designed in TinkerCAD. The 12 batteries each sit 0.5mm apart in cylindrical nests at a 1 degree angle which gives the bottom an attractive design on my FDM printer.

12 AA Battery Tray.stl (zipped)