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GinevraCat

@GinevraCat@toot.community

#Neurodiverse family person. #Education, coding, play, science. Face the #ClimateEmergency.
Born at ~330ppm CO2
Good in a crisis, as long as it's someone else's.
#CovidIsNotOver

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GinevraCat, to random
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I am experiencing a distinct lack of chocolate.

GinevraCat, to random
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I am an exhausted wreck after about 2 weeks of 15+ hour days to get some crucial grading done before the hand in deadline.

So I am watching a bad action movie as compensation.

RickiTarr, to random
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What kind of high-school experience did you have? Were you in a clique? Were you popular, unpopular, the coolest kid in your Homeschool? Did you have a sweet jean jacket with patches, or maybe a leather vest? Were you an evil villain or a Mary Sue?

GinevraCat,
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@RickiTarr Private girls only South African high school in the late 80s. Deeply conservative - uniform regulations included underwear. Hated every second. Ended up finishing at a different school because the headmaster was a bullying prick who decided that I was "silently rebellious."
In retrospect, asking if they would prefer me to be loudly rebellious was probably a mistake.

dgar, (edited ) to random
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David: Hey God, check this out! plays secret chord

God: Dude! Sick!

GinevraCat,
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@dgar Well played, sir.

RickiTarr, to random
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Hello! I want to do a Spooky Picture Prompt! So, find a picture in your camera roll that would represent the phrase:

Last Picture on the Camera Roll

This should be spooky, but completely up to your own interpretation. Here's one from me, with weird eclipse light.

GinevraCat,
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@RickiTarr Murder pit in the garden shed. The estate agent said it was to store potatoes in Winter, but that was clearly just an excuse.

grrrr_shark, to random
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I think I need a trip to Munich soon.

I miss my in-person friends so much.

GinevraCat,
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@grrrr_shark Oooooooooh, you can come past meeeeeeee!

GinevraCat, to random
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Good news and something to think on - we (as humans) usually drastically underestimate how much our fellow humans care about climate change!

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/willingness-climate-action

IzabelaKaramia, to random
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Slowly getting moving this morning. Down to the last 2 days here. Feelings tend to veer back and forth all over the place regarding it.

I've got stuff to get done today so I'll be ready to do the final things tomorrow and have myself ready for when my ride to the airport shows up to take Ginza and me there.

This week when I've been waking up and that gets Ginza moving, she gets up from where she sleeps between my legs and comes up to sniff my face. That's different.

GinevraCat,
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@IzabelaKaramia Are you able to plan time for a mini-collapse on the other side of this? Allow yourself a couple of days where you only have to drink tea, pet Ginza, and rest?

cstross, to random
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TFW you want to go to the pub for a regular social but you're so dizzy, tired, and low on energy you go to bed at 8pm instead, damnit. (No this is not COVID, just exhaustion: slept badly last night then had an early morning start.)

GinevraCat,
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@cstross Glad it's not COVID.

CindyWeinstein, to HashtagGames
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forgotten my favorite book from 2nd grade: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

GinevraCat,
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@CindyWeinstein That's such a good book!

jwildeboer, to RedHat
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The first six cookie cutters are printed. Many more to come :) Now to get some ingredients and food Color to actually make and bake the cookies :)

GinevraCat,
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@rfc2549 @jwildeboer Ok I was totally about to ask that 🤦. But only because I love printing cookie cutters and am on the lookout for food safe filaments - not as a criticism! (My current cookie cutters are food safe-ish).

GinevraCat,
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@jwildeboer @rfc2549 Yes, it’s not a simple issue. For home cooking though, I have not worried too much about it.

IzabelaKaramia, to random
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So much for the hope and idea of sleeping in until 6. Just too much stuff up in my head. I really hope that after the big hoohah of today, I'll feel more at ease and I'll be able to do some extra sleep.

GinevraCat,
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@IzabelaKaramia Definitely worth it!

GinevraCat,
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@IzabelaKaramia I have made several moves cross country moves with cats. Happy to share advice if you would like. Also aware that you may already know all the stuff and don’t need extra noise in your head.

cstross, (edited ) to random
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WHAT—

https://www.adafruit.com/product/4373#tutorials

(Edited to replace kickstarter link because KS owner is a evangelical self-defense missionary person and creeped me out: this version goes to the infinitely less-dodgy Adafruit.)

GinevraCat,
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@cstross Excellent! Backed!

hazelweakly, to random
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Probably one of the hardest things about growing up autistic + ADHD for me was waiting my entire childhood to grow up to adulthood so that I could have the things that really bothered me and upset me handled in a way that wasn't invalidating and be allowed to be myself. Only to discover, once I got to adulthood, that other people felt the same way as me and that empathy and understanding had been options the entire time, it's just that I didn't get to have them

GinevraCat,
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@hazelweakly I hope you get to have them now.
My parents certainly didn't understand why I was so "difficult" - and there was very little information available about neurodivergence around at that time.

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    GinevraCat,
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    @rooster Honestly, just fill any holes you drill when you leave!

    GinevraCat,
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    @rooster Drying rack? Like a radiator drying rack - or one of those garden arch supports that you get for ivy etc?

    seachanger, to random
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    what’s a headline from a better timeline you’d love to read?

    GinevraCat,
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    @seachanger Teacher shortages a thing of the past as salaries and working conditions improve.

    JeremyMallin, to actuallyautistic
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    Apparently, rewatching television shows and movies a million times is an autism thing.

    That's me. 🙋‍♂️

    @actuallyautistic

    GinevraCat,
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    @JeremyMallin @actuallyautistic I think it could also be a comfort thing for other neurotypes. But then, I only figured out I was autistic after raising two autistic children!

    dgar, (edited ) to random
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    Long night so far.

    A call from my sister just after midnight that she’d taken mum to the hospital.

    Been holding bedside vigil while sister goes home and gets some sleep. Doctors running tests and whatnot. Morphine for the pain. Machines that go “bing”.

    It’s about 4:30am and mum’s snoring with a plethora of tubes and wires.

    Eyes are heavy. Chair is uncomfortable. The nurses showed me where I could make a cup of coffee for myself.

    GinevraCat,
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    @dgar Sending love.

    GinevraCat, to random
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    Grading. I hate it. Big, summative assessments. I don't hate the process of grading - I hate the deep sense of failure that comes as I look at ALL THESE KIDS WHO HAVE FORGOTTEN THE BASICS OF MATHEMATICS.

    It's that time of year when I question whether I would do more good to society cutting verges or packing shelves in the local Aldi.

    GinevraCat,
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    @grrrr_shark :(. I hate timed tests. So much pressure and so completely unrelated to skills or real world tasks. :( :(.

    pvonhellermannn, to random
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    Half thinking of starting an hashtag here, about the dire, dire state of UK (global?) higher education. Sharing nuggets of senior management decisions, neoliberal language, and overall slow collapse.

    Won’t work of course because most of us can’t risk honesty, but honestly: the everyday reality of what is happening deserves recording in all its depressing and damning detail.

    GinevraCat,
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    @pvonhellermannn But, but…..it’s such an important and rich area of study. So much indigenous knowledge is lost because many younger ppl see it as old and boring. (Context here would be South Africa)

    Impossible_PhD, to trans
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    The first series on my Substack, Opening the Black Box, is a detailed dive into what it was like to live through the questioning process. We have a lot of accounts of what it's like to and to grow up but it seems like almost all of our accounts of people like me, people who hatched but had no idea before they did, are (ironically) comics.

    This is an attempt to change that with my .

    https://t.co/6ZhDu7HkMk

    GinevraCat,
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    @Impossible_PhD Wow! I just read your blog about questioning. It’s really well written and I am really really pleased you got there. About B’s reaction, the sense of getting an answer to a sense of wrongness or difference- that’s exactly how I felt when my eldest came out to me as ace. A whole bunch of things about their childhood and social interactions suddenly slotted into focus and made sense. And I was so pleased to get this piece of them …. 1/2

    GinevraCat,
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    @Impossible_PhD fitted into my head, to realise that I could more clearly see and understand this person who is so precious to me. It didn’t even occur to me until later that it had been really scary and a big deal for them to come out to me!

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