Ecosaurian

@Ecosaurian@neurodifferent.me

Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. Problem Solver. EduTech Wizard. Learning Innovator. Autistic :ir:. Environmental & Social Justice Activist. Roleplaying Gamer. Anti-Capitalist.
Equip: Ring of Truth, Finger of Righteous Indignation, Shield of Sarcasm +3.
Formerly @LearnTribe

Profile picture: a blue dragonkin hurling magical bolts of lightning

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breadandcircuses, (edited ) to Canada

The annual wildfire season in Canada is coming to an end. Or, anyway, it should be by now.

But 2023 is unlike any other year. As of yesterday, there were more than 900 fires still burning, over half of them out of control.

Look at the area burned in the second graph below. The damage to wildlife is literally incalculable. Greenhouse gas emissions from all of these fires is off the charts.

Sure, some reply guy will tell you that forest fires are normal and natural and necessary. But not like this. What we’re seeing this year is an unnatural catastrophe caused by human industry — by the oil companies, their financiers, and the governments that support and subsidize them.

It’s a crime. It’s ecocide. And you know what? To them, it’s just Business As Usual.

Ecosaurian,

@Threadbane

@marenzers @TomSwirly @dynode @f4grx @HeatherH @trisweb @breadandcircuses

Our current education system is the success of capitalism.

Keep it underfunded, undermine respect for educators, and constantly change what teachers are expected (or allowed) to teach.

Result - a population that believes what you tell them and doesn't aspire to a better society.

catsalad, to random

All aboard! 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃

Ecosaurian,

@catsalad

People dividing into two camps
"That's insane and dangerous"
"That's genius"

Me.
"Shouldn't that be a BUS instead of a train?"
🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌

aral, to random
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

Everyday there are at least a half a dozen posts that I want to boost but won’t because the images on them don’t have descriptions (“alt-text”) so they exclude people who use screen readers to experience the fediverse.

If I have time, I’ll write/extract the text from an image and reply to the thread. But most times, I just have to favourite and move on.

So come on folks, make it easier for me to boost your stuff and do the right thing by enabling everyone to experience your images and videos.

Ecosaurian,

@aral

I get this a lot. I've even unfollowed a couple of people who post lots of politically provocative images but refuse to alt-tag.

It's especially disappointing when they claim to be socialists or anarchists, but refuse to engage in equality.

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Ecosaurian,

@Briarheart

Given this is advice for making meetups easier for autistic people, the sensory environment is a massive one.

Consider "is this venue likely to be so noisy/busy/smelly that they'll be uncomfortable"

If the answer is yes, pick another venue unless there's absolutely no alternative (in which case be prepared for someone not turning up or leaving very soon after they get there).

Also - how are they expected to get there (and back). Yes, we can work that out ourselves, but if the only way to get there is an exhausting journey, it's maybe not the best choice.

@AutisticAdam @actuallyautistic

Ecosaurian, to climate

An appalling but entirely expected decision as Sunak grants licences for new oil exploration in the seas around the UK. Or should I say Scotland.

If ever you wanted proof that government has no interest in stopping the then this is it.

The UK government has doomed us to further in direct opposition to the agreed international treaty of the Paris Accords, signalling a free-for-all to other nations that the Fossil Fuel industry is very much still in business.

As for the Carbon Capture announcement - it's just greenwashing and will have no positive impact on carbon emissions.

We're Fucked.

breadandcircuses, (edited ) to environment

A beautiful, sad, and justifiably angry essay from Jessica Wildfire (@jessicawildfire) about people continuing to ignore the climate crisis...

Today I watched a math professor and climate activist named Eliot Jacobson talk to CNN about global temperature records and arctic sea ice. He sums it up in the simplest terms. Climate scientists are shocked at what’s happening. None of their models predicted any of this. A mass extinction usually takes millions of years. As he said, “We’re going to do it in a hundred.”

For Jacobson, the collapse of global industrial civilization has become a certainty. A recent column in The Guardian says the same. We’re already breaking through the 1.5C limit set by the Paris Climate Agreement. Scientists are telling us to brace for 2C or even 3C of warming. All of the books I’ve read make it very clear: That kind of warming will turn the planet into something humans have never seen. Large parts of the earth will become uninhabitable for us.

Even the gloomiest climate scientists are left speechless by the disasters unfolding this summer. Climate activists who’ve been urging for an emergency declaration are saying: “I thought we had more time.”

The scenarios scientists were predicting for 2050 are happening now, and they don’t know how much worse it’s going to get. They’re starting to admit, they can’t predict anything anymore.

It’s hard to plan for a future when not even the climate scientists know what’s going to happen next.

Best not to think about it, right?

Nobody wants to talk about reality. They want to talk about Barbenheimer. They want to pretend we’ve still got time. If you face the truth of what’s happening, then suddenly the vast majority of what we’re forced to do makes no sense anymore.

Maybe that’s why people get so angry now when we talk about climate change. They know, but they want to spend however long they’ve got left chasing and consuming whatever pleasure they can. Part of them knows their time is growing short, and they don’t want to spend it angry or depressed, or even trying to stop it.

When you understand the full scope and gravity of what’s happening, most jobs don’t make any sense. It doesn’t make sense to plan a vacation when half the world is burning. It doesn’t make sense to save up money to send your kid to college in ten years.

But it’s easier to ignore it all.

It’s easier to keep working and going to movies while you wait for the wildfire, the flood, or the heat wave that kills you. It’s easier to delay the realization of your climate death as long as possible.

FULL ESSAY -- https://archive.li/hGjWt#selection-327.0-327.16

Ecosaurian,

@breadandcircuses

@jessicawildfire

Ecosaurian,

@breadandcircuses

@jessicawildfire

I'm in this phase - somewhere between fatalistic acceptance that it's too late to stop the collapse of human society, but wanting a bit of normality before I have to unsheath my sword.

I've taken steps to reduce my emissions and grow my own food, but unless I literally head for the hills and cut myself off from Capitalist society it's no more than a few sandbags against a tsunami.

I could get in on Malm's pipeline activism or go hunting oil execs and politicians, but I feel that would just be vengeance. We could be months from a series of cataclysmic tipping points. I don't think my actions will make a difference now.

Once the healthcare system collapses I've family whose lifespan will be measured in years at best. Once we've lost everything vengeance might be all that remains. The next couple of years are time to prepare and have a last few good memories.

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Ecosaurian,

@krafty

Ooh. I think I'm in the correct 1% club then. The ones who pay attention to what they're doing!

@autism101 @actuallyautistic

chjara, to random

australia, the US, canada, and new zealand are the only four UN members who voted against the declaration on the rights of indigenous people

Incredible

Ecosaurian,

@chjara
You mean the UK supported the declaration?

Didn't anyone tell them that the people who lived in Scotland, Wales, Ireland and basically the rest of the planet their empire invaded were indigenous?

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Ecosaurian,

@yourautisticlife

... Have a conversation at a party with someone you casually know through friends, or share classes with.

Realise you think they are attractive or interesting (which might be the same thing).

Talk about some random thing that's your current special interest.

Say goodnight and wander off.

...Wake up in the middle of the night 30 years later realising they had been flirting with you and you completely missed the social cues.
🤦

@Autistrain @actuallyautistic

Ecosaurian,

@Autistrain

Decades ago at a Uni evening Freshers Social event I went to (you couldn't drag me to something like that now) we all had the choice of red, amber or green stickers to put on our name tags to indicate if we were interested in "flirting" with others.

In today's fight between safeguarding and abusive opportunists that would probably be judged a very bad idea, but it just popped into my head that it's probably the only time I've been at an event where people flat out signaled "Yes, No, Maybe", though I'm not convinced they were being honest even then.

It was an interesting idea though, and probably fantastic for those wanting a night out but strictly no flirting.

@yourautisticlife @actuallyautistic

theautisticcoach, to actuallyautistic

Do my comrades have issues with going to the bathroom? Forget to go in the morning or in general?

You have nothing to be ashamed of. You’re not broken.

Many autistic peoples deal with interoception issues.

You’re not alone.

@actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics

Ecosaurian,

@sfwrtr

I'm suddenly diving down a rabbit hole of transposing Garde Loo (a corruption of the French for "Look out for the water" with Loup Garou (French for werewolf).

Either way, if someone shouts it from above, move fast!

@neuralex @dpnash @EverBeyondReach @gri @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics

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Ecosaurian,

@einalex

HSP is basically a reworded set of autistic traits, the overlap is like a Venn diagram that appears to be a single circle ⭕.

@Sci_Fi_FanGirl @actuallyautistic

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Ecosaurian,

@hastyunicorn

I had similar discussion but in reverse. I asked to be permanently home based as it makes me more productive and reduces stress. I've been home based since Covid outbreak but now company want people back in shared offices.

Manager was happy I only come in for essential events, HR said everyone must come in at least one day per week because some people don't like to meet online.

So my mental health reasonable adjustments (legally enforceable) get overruled by someone else's need to control social interactions.
HR ableist bullshit.

@actuallyautistic

Ecosaurian, to sustainability

Thought I'd repost an as there's a vast new wave of people from Hellbird.

I've been exploring the Fediverse for a couple of years, wandering in search of a home.

After decades of burnout and confusion finally realised I was neurodivergent. Self dx after traumatic experience of official hoops.

Passionate about , , and .

Scottish Nerd Geek, obsessive gamer (D&D, Pathfinder, etc), and / Sci-fi enthusiast.

Vaguely hoping to live to see the entire neoliberal establishment drowned.

squish, to random

FYI I know a lot of folks are uncomfortable with the Meta foray into the fediverse.

At this point in time, so am I. I've set a pre-emptive block at the domain level for it.

Ecosaurian,

@squish
Thank you, that's very reassuring.

LauraKT, to random
@LauraKT@mas.to avatar

Incredible update about Charles' second coronation👇

https://normalislandnews.substack.com/p/bloke-called-charles-having-second

Ecosaurian,

@LauraKT

On target with both barrels, I hope Hewitt jr enjoys his family time!

Loved the roleplaying references, especially apt given they live in a fantasy version of the UK.

I suspect the royal accoutrements are all intended to boost Chuck's zero charisma - but he lacks the wisdom to realise the bonuses don't stack!

taeluralexis, (edited ) to random

Saw some guy tweet "I dont hire ppl who dye their hair into weird colors" I almost responded but then I reminded myself that my new years resolution wasn't to argue with idiots so I just minded my business lol.

Some of the dopest people I ever met? Technical warriors with colorful hair, tattoos all over, open about their identity and interests, and some of the nicest people ever. They write the sickest Rust tools, doing devops or security or whatever, making OS contributions to the freaking tools he's probably using, could def code circles around that guy. People like that guy are missing out on some of the brightest ppl in tech because he chooses to be limited in his thinking.

Ecosaurian,

@taeluralexis

A couple of years ago in an online call somebody actually asked me "is your hair purple?"
(It isn't now, but was then).

They were completely phased that I wasn't a corporate clone, clearly didn't compute with the impression they'd formed of me running rings around their team's botched technical project implementation.

Same person was on interview panel for job hiring someone to come in and fix that project a year later. I didn't get it.

Stoat, to random

John Nicolson cleared of bullying Nadine Dorries by liking tweets calling her a "vacuous goon".

"It also said he had not taken into account Ms Dorries' own record of tweeting, which the panel said was relevant when considering whether it was reasonable for her view of Mr Nicolson's conduct as bullying."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-65960992

Ecosaurian,

@Stoat

@TheMorrigan

I'm sure impartial observers would agree mendacious, vacuous goon is a fair summary of Dottie's character.

Can we officially refer to the unknighted buffoon goon by this title?

oblomov, to Barcelona
@oblomov@sociale.network avatar

Discussing the threat posed by Meta ‌/‌ joining the with some tech enthusiasts feels more and more like debating with a denier.

«Look at all the data indicating that this will be a disaster. It has even happened twice already!»

Responses: «It won't happen this time» «It won't be that bad» «It's actually good if that happens» and «we can't do anything about it anyway»

Ecosaurian,

@oblomov

If they go the rest of us will have some peace.
Who wants to share cyber-reality with aholes who jump whenever the world's richest sociopaths click their fingers?

@aral

BathysphereHat, to random
@BathysphereHat@mastodon.online avatar

I feel like hobbits would absolutely lose their shit if you gave them pizza.

Ecosaurian,

@BathysphereHat

Frodo "I've got a slice of the cheese bread!"
Pippin arrives with a whole pizza.
Frodo "They sell it in WHEELS?"

@xyhhx

Ecosaurian, to random

Come on people, I'm seeing so many absolutely amazing memes and images, especially with an or -capitalist vibe, but I'm not boosting most because they aren't ALT-tagged with a description.

If you can spend 2 hours crafting an amazing image to make a political point you can spend 20 seconds to add a description to make it accessible to everyone.

If you're a forgetful person, just follow @alt_text and they'll remind you when you slip up.

theautisticcoach, to actuallyautistic

A new tactic of Far-Right autistic folks is to deny that any person who isn’t also Far-Right isn’t autistic. It’s just another version of aspie supremacy bs. They don’t care if you’re formally or self dx, if you don’t agree with them, you’re not autistic.

@actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics

Ecosaurian,

@vincent

I agree that's probably the default because of our inbuilt sense of justice, which makes us pre-disposed to a more egalitarian/ socialist viewpoint.

I've heard there's a sizeable online incel population of far right-wing indoctrinated autistic young men who've been groomed (recruited) in conspiracy & gaming communities.

I've never met any though.

@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics

breadandcircuses, to climate

It's getting very, very late. If we want to try for a soft landing, we need to get started NOW.

Ecosaurian,

@breadandcircuses

I feel the boat that leads to the soft landing sank around the same time as the Titanic.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't do everything possible now to retain some control over the transition, otherwise we're looking at the complete catastrophic collapse of every aspect of human civilisation, like a row of dominoes balancing on a tightrope in the path of a hurricane.

@greeneralia

moira, to random
@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net avatar

i swear to god if he gets to the end of the procession and carrie fisher gives him a medal i'm gonna scream

Ecosaurian,

@moira

I believe that technology was developed by the BBC to ensure the Bruce Forsythe animatronic could continue to host gameshows after his demise in 1983.

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