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artemis

@artemis@dice.camp

#horror and #ttrpg enthusiast.

I'm a bisexual anti-capitalist, and I strongly believe in (at bare minimum) punching Nazis. Reproductive rights and civil liberties for all! Trans rights are human rights. The Palestinian people have a right to self-determination, life, and freedom—just block me if you think otherwise.

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artemis, to random
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Oh dear me. I just visited the Mandela Effect subreddit to read a post and comments about how "the sun used to be yellow, and now it's white," and I think a lot of these folks are not doing well.

If someone describes feeling like everyone, including their family and friends, is avoiding a topic and trying to deceive them, well... "scientists replaced the sun, and it's a conspiracy" is not the most obvious conclusion.

artemis, to random
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Inspiring.

artemis,
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The Fediverse has altered my brain, because as soon as I see an image I want to share, I start mentally formulating alt text (I did have to search to find out who the bottom middle is supposed to be because that did not read as Buffy at all).

artemis,
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I have discovered that I really like image descriptions.

I like reading other people's image descriptions because they can help me contextualize or interpret the image, and I actually like writing them too. Often I'll notice things that I didn't before or it will help me understand what I find interesting or significant about something I'm sharing.

I also feel a sense of accomplishment when I write a description for a complex image because that takes work, and I feel proud of it. 😁

DrTCombs, to random
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I love it when you sit in the rain for 3 minutes, obediently waiting for a walk signal, only to have some jerk who just showed up plow through the crosswalk right when the light changes like it's his god given right.

The fight to may literally be the hill I die on. When drivers are sometimes allowed to turn right on red, then they will always assume they can turn right on red, regardless of any other cues in their environment.

artemis,
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@DrTCombs
I'm glad I don't have to drive much anymore because there's so much pressure from other drivers to drive in ways that are unsafe for cyclists and pedestrians. If RTOR were eliminated it would reduce so much stress for me.

Like, I really don't want to pull up and block the crosswalk while waiting to turn! What's the point of a crosswalk if you don't keep it clear? But it is expected that you WILL turn right on red if you possibly can.

artemis,
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@DrTCombs
Like I said, I'm much happier not to deal with it at all: drivers in my city are very aggressive in general and pissing them off on the road can definitely get you caught in road rage situations surprisingly easily. I know people who have been shot at for pissing off the driver behind them. 😬

artemis,
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@DrTCombs
Honestly I feel like I'm not communicating properly here, and I don't have the brainpower to fix it.

I do my best to drive safely and consciously of others, but the more conscious I have become, the more driving has become an awful experience because driving safely literally angers people.

artemis,
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@DrTCombs
That's not a complaint at pedestrians or cyclists: that's car culture run absolutely out of control.

artemis, to random
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Just saw a post about someone who thought it was inappropriate to teach grade school girls how to use a tampon (many girls get their first period during that time), and it just makes me so mad, because I literally did not understand my vulva or vagina growing up, did not even have a word for either of them. Frankly I didn't know my vagina existed until I got my first period at 11.

artemis,
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I used to mentally refer to inserting a tampon as "shoving something up my butt". I knew it wasn't my butt, but I had no language for it.

artemis,
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It is simply horrifying the way AFAB children's bodies are kept mysteries even to themselves.

Look, a child with a penis learns about their genitals: they learn a name for it & understand at least some of the things it does, because you can't exactly hide it from them, since it is external. Don't people with vaginas deserve to have information too?

appassionato, to palestine
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People in Gaza are drained, frustrated and exhausted. They have been displaced more than five or six times. There's a family that literally had to evacuate nine times.

People are tired of being constantly displaced. They’re also feeling hopeless because they know even being evacuated from one place to another does not guarantee they’re going to escape the Israeli air raids.

@palestine

artemis,
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@kitten_tech @appassionato @palestine
Well put. Even the literal best case scenario for Gazans right now is still a cruel nightmare.

artemis, to random
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Make no mistake, if it's a choice between losing the election or upsetting the status quo, Biden is willing to lose the election.

He's not interested in winning if the cost is actual change that would affect rich people's bottom line.

artemis,
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Biden is a fucking stick-in-the-mud centrist on his best days.

I haven't seen any signs at all that he's interested in actually courting the youth vote. The election ads he is running are wildly out of touch with the experiences of young Americans (or heck, Americans under 60, honestly). He's running campaign ads about how great things are right now. How tf does he plan to win votes?

artemis, to random
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We're traveling this weekend, and I just feel so terrible about leaving the pets. We have folks stopping in to care for them and give the dog exercise a couple times a day, and it's only two nights, but I still hate it.

This is going to be Kiwi's first ever experience with being left alone without humans for more than, like, 10 hours. Hopefully she & Bean will keep each other from getting too lonely. And poor Ripley will have a very boring time of it...much too much box time for my liking.

ATLpaul, to cycling
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Paint is not protection.
#BikeTooter

artemis,
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@ATLpaul
This is needed for everybody's protection. I live in a city where people driving cars invariably pull into bike lanes to pass cars that are waiting to turn left. As a driver it can cause serious issues if you do something different than what other drivers expect you to do, such as... respect the bike lane.

Protected bike lanes reduce the pressure on drivers to drive in a way that's unsafe for bikers. If you can't pull into the bike lane, then... problem solved.

artemis,
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@ATLpaul
Getting individual drivers to be careful of and respect the bike lane is great and all, but as long as there are people out there driving as if all space belongs to cars, it's gonna be unsafe no matter what.

ashleyspencer, (edited ) to actuallyautistic
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For AuDHD:

Which terms do you prefer to use?

Do you use ‘have’ or ‘I am’ to describe your autism and ADHD?

Personally, I’m the first one and use ‘I am’ to describe both.

Just curious to see how common each one is. 🙂

@actuallyautistic
@audhd

artemis,
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@hauchvonstaub @ashleyspencer @actuallyautistic @audhd
I really wish we had a better term for ADHD for this purpose. I say "I have ADHD" for the same reasons you do, but I don't really like identifying ADHD as something I "have" when it's literally part of who I am, not an optional add-on.

artemis, to random
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I'm part of a playtest for @AdamMakesTTRPG's new game , and I'm having a great time with it.

My group is doing a play-by-post playthrough, and I have to say I think the game lends itself well to that style of play, so if you struggle to get a whole group in-person/playing synchronously, this could be a fun one to keep some roleplay in your life.

It's a good game for ppl who enjoy imaginative collaboration & well adapted for (or GM-lite) roleplay.

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/gnome-made-games/playing-god-a-ttrpg-of-gods-creation-titans-and-deicide?ref=bk-social-project

artemis,
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Personally is a game I would be backing even if I weren't lucky enough to help roadtest it.

It can be hard to come up with games that are good for play but also not too intimidating roleplay-wise (if you want to just take your turns without much roleplay or fanfare you can or if—like me—you live to create roleplay characters, you can have fun making choices on how to become the kind of god you want to be).

NotImpressed, to Palestine
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@palestine

If you want to know which actor, singer, performer you follow and like is actually a Zionist or at the very least an Israel supporter, here's the website that has done some research into the biggest names:
https://www.reversecanarymission.org/

You can either type the name or click on "Browse all people"

I found some of the names quite shocking...

artemis,
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@voxofgod @NotImpressed @palestine
Jerry Seinfeld shows up for me.

I found you can't just type a name and hit enter: you have to start typing a name and if it appears in the drop-down, you can select it and see the details. (At least this is how it worked for me on Android)

artemis, to random
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I'm told this is largely a Midwestern thing (correct me if I'm wrong, I suppose), so I want to share the Gospel of "oh, it's going" as a response to "how's it going" (these are pronounced with the "in" sound not "ing" but "goin'" looks weird).

Some days things are not great and someone asks you "How's it going?" and you just can't bring yourself to say "good".

So just say "oh...it's going" in a kind of tired tone that sounds a bit like a sigh.

davidtoddmccarty, to random
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I think I understand the idol worship from the deplorables and I understand the Useful Idiot theory from those who simply want power, but I have a hard time reconciling otherwise intelligent and informed people who appear to genuinely like Trump. It’s all got to be an act, right?

I mean everyone can see that he’s a morally depraved, addled tyrant who is a perpetual failure, right?

Just look at the things Tucker Carlson said off the record. He’s just a meal ticket.

artemis,
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@davidtoddmccarty @mastodonmigration
Yeah, a lot of things people believe depend more on how motivated they are to believe them than on any evidence. So the issue tends to be figuring out how to get through the mental defenses they've created to allow themselves to keep believing the thing.

And I think the longer they believe it when all evidence points to the contrary, the more intense the defense becomes. Especially if it's something where realizing they were wrong would have consequences.

StillIRise1963, to random
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We don’t all need to buy the exact same things that we use occasionally. We should have organized borrowing.

artemis,
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@StillIRise1963 I
literally believe this how our species evolved and is supposed to operate.

It's believed now that the earliest societies didn't barter as economists will claim (barter being a very inefficient system). It was more cooperative: "I'll give you something I have now that you need, and later you'll give me something you have and I need."

artemis,
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@YakyuNightOwl @StillIRise1963
Yeah, European colonialism makes it so hard for people to understand that communities can operate that way, because colonizers went around stomping on and stealing from the communities that did/still do operate cooperatively.

A lot of people look at indigenous cultures that are highly cooperative and think "well, that sounds great, but it's just not practical" But if it's not practical, how come it functioned fairly well until the people with guns showed up?

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