EVDHmn

aral, 6 days ago to DuckDuckGo

“Choice.”

#alternatives #choice #DuckDuckGo #DDG #Qwant #ecosia #bing

Qwant search for foo at 09:18: Qwant is temporarily unavailable.
Ecosia search for foo @ 09:17: There was a problem loading search results for “foo”
Two astronauts staring at Earth from space. Front astronaut: “you mean it’s all just Bing?” Rear astronaut, aiming gun at front astronaut: “Always has been.”

RickiTarr, 2 days ago to random

How much alone time vs socializing do you need?

For me there are a few people who are usually equalizing, and I can just be around them, so I won't count that. But generally, I find about 3 times a week, I'm game for socializing. A day in between to rest is usually nice, but the larger the gathering or if we go somewhere particularly noisy or I'm meeting new people that involves more effort, and my social battery empties sooner. I'm very curious where everyone else falls on this!

RickiTarr, 3 days ago to random

Sometimes when you learn how something works, you think, Thanks knowledge, that really helped, everything makes more sense, and other times you look up how wrists turn, and it's like WTF?!

kdnyhan, 3 days ago to random

Wow. A microbiology lab at Texas A&M accepted purchased raw milk samples from NPR for H5N1 testing, then contacted the milk producers to seek permission. When the producers said, "don't test our milk," the lab not only declined to carry out the tests but also refused to send the samples on to another lab.

futurebird, 3 days ago to random

This timelapse of a fungus kept by leafcutter ants is remarkable. Thousands of ants monitoring humidity, the nutrition needs of the fungus, removing unwanted growths, keeping their brood and harvesting food. Inside: the queen. Totally inclosed in a living home. The walls are food, a place for her eggs, they slowly renew, tended by her daughters.

As every living organism maintains itself, but on a strange macro-scale. These are your cells shedding and being replaced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3AZffDtOlw

ashleyspencer, 3 days ago to actuallyautistic

Why do they do this.

#ActuallyAutistic
@actuallyautistic

WilliamRobert, 3 days ago to random

A deep dive into Ursula K. LeGuin's classic novels through the lens of her 'dangerous' philosophy.

#UrsulaKLeGuin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRC0cK_MSA0

EVDHmn, 3 days ago to random

@futurebird

Hello, hope you’re having a great day/weekend. I was wondering do you happen to have #worm friends. I was wanting to start breeding red wrigglers for my community #compost bins.
I know I can search and read which I have done but I like to talk to people who do this method. My friend gave me a couple aquariums. :) just thought I would check.

EVDHmn, 3 days ago to actuallyautistic

#actuallyautistic
@actuallyautistic
I had this very odd conjecture thought to my self.

In a sense could there be no such thing as Neurotypical?

As everyone is Neurodiverse.🙄

People are just trying to pretend to do social norms as kids.

People get to adult age, they forget they are pretending.
Get to living
As they get older they don’t care about pretending as much.

Unless they are fundamental pretenders, which are advocates for social norms and traditions.

Perhaps?

futurebird, 19 days ago to random

Has anyone read any good math and science history nonfiction books recently? (pop nonfiction please) Are there any really good ones out?

drcaberry, 6 days ago to random

So when #MuskyTwitter was purchased I joined Mastodon, Post, Spill, Spoutible and BlueSky. Post is going belly up on 5/31. I left Spill because of members policing the way I engage on social media. If I wanted to be critiqued and criticized in my downtime I could go read my course evaluations. Now spam complaints on Mastodon?? I may need to just delete everything except the dark place. #BlackSTEM #BlackFedi #BlackTwitter #BlackMastodon #BlackFediverse #NoireSTEMinist

JimsPhotos, 9 days ago (edited 6 days ago) to random

Current letters E or F

JOIN IN friends of the birds:

THREAD: A to Z of birds.

The idea is to create a thread of birds starting with A and ending with Z (if we get that far).

Rules:

1. Common names not Latin names
2. Flexibility with common names (i.e.. American Robin (A) or (R)
3. IMPORTANT: You can post the same letter bird or the next letter forward but not backward.

(Only photographs please of any quality)

use tag #AtoZofBIRDS

#BirdPhotography

9to5Mac, 6 days ago to random

Bing down for many; Copilot, DuckDuckGo, and ChatGPT search too https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/23/bing-down/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

RickiTarr, 7 days ago to random

Sometimes the way people phrase things is so telling. For instance, telling women they should be "taking care of" their husband and children. Another adult doesn't need taken care of like a child, what you want is for women to be a Sex Mom.

Tim_McTuffty, 9 days ago to actuallyautistic

Diary of an ASD Squirrel. Day 205 , Monday 20/05/2024

Was up till the early hours of this morning with stomach cramps after last nights daring attempt to eat scrambled eggs & beans for tea.

Spent the day getting lots of exercise up & down the stairs to take a pew, if you get my drift.

Attempted to interact on here a couple of times but my brain is apparently on sick leave so it didn’t go exactly to plan 🙄🤦‍♂️

Hopefully tomorrow will be better !

Final Thoughts.

Is the babel fish truly a fish if it spends most of its life out of water ?
This & other great questions of our age will have to wait until I can think straight!

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@actuallyautistic
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves

RickiTarr, 8 days ago to random

I'd like to think our genetics don't define us, and then I'll meet a herding dog, and start thinking, "Well, maybe..."

RickiTarr, 8 days ago to random

The most ridiculous thing about cop procedural shows is when they ask where a person was, and what they were doing at a specific time the person always has perfect and immediate recall. I'd be desperately trying to remember what day of the week that was, and trying to open my phone calendar. If I was the cop, I'd immediately be suspicious of the person who remembered exactly where they were and what they were doing.

EVDHmn, 8 days ago to nature

#nature #AcademicPublishing
@academicchatter
@academicsunite
#Bounty

Question so what’s everyone’s take on this nature article?

Just curious?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01465-y

EVDHmn, 8 days ago to nature

#nature

Friendly reminder to your neighborhood troll or hate group.

Please don’t harass people in general, life is hard enough for all of us. 😉

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01468-9

haui, 8 days ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic controversial thought:

calling an autistic person naive is an ableist slur as it is negatively connotated and targets a persons unchangeable traits.

Feel free to disagree and explain if you think another definition would make mote sense.

As always please refrain from ad hominem attacks.

pathfinder, 8 days ago to Autism

@actuallyautistic

Burnout is a bitch. I think all of us who have experienced it, or are experiencing it, will agree with that. But, how it presents and how long it maintains its hold over us, seems to be as variable as so much else about us.

I can now recognise the many times I have experienced burnout in my life. Each one marked by my constant refrain of, "I'm just tired" and with me doggedly plodding on with my life as best I could. Even now, in the deepest and longest burnout of my life, I am still doing the same.

Of course, I at least know to try and pace myself now. To let the unimportant things slide until their time comes and to spread out what has to be done, to the best of my ability. I know to dedicate time to self-care, to rest and recreation and to acknowledging my needs as an autistic person. This much, realising you are autistic can teach you. It can also help you to spot the signs of burning out sooner and hopefully mitigate its effects that way.

When that's possible, of course. For what caused my current burnout was unfortunately a series of overlapping events that I could not avoid, or do anything about. It was almost as if life chose to keep throwing things at me, each more intense and impossible to avoid, until I broke. But then life can be like that sometimes.

Autistic burnout is, of course, different from normal burnout, in what causes it and how it presents. It is, more often than not, a breakdown of our ability to cope with the demands being placed on us and not with how much we can carry. We are used to carrying insane loads and with having to work so much harder than most other people, just to keep putting one foot in front of the other through life. In fact, I know that I never really rest, not even now. My life is one long and continuous assessment and checking on whether the routines I have in place are being maintained. Whether I have done everything, on what needs to be done and finding new ways to blames myself for why it hasn't been done yet. There is no such thing as not working as far as my brain is concerned. And because I never stop, I don't know how to stop. How to heed the signals of tiredness and exhaustion and how to not knuckle down and continue anyway. It has been the story of my life. In work and everywhere else, always push, push, push.

And perhaps this is why autistic burnout is so common and possibly even inevitable. The sheer effort that life already is. The constant raggedy edge we walk just to get through a day and how in doing this day after day, all we end up doing is teaching ourselves to ignore the warning signs and that our needs are even important. And end up learning instead, that all that really matters is the next plodding step, no matter the load we are already carrying.

#Autism
#ActuallyAutistic