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rubberdogs, 22 hours ago to random

My birthday cake 😁

mattblaze, 7 days ago to photography

Wind Turbines, Near Tracy, CA, 2010.

A histogram of pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4491948497/

#photography

mattblaze, 8 days ago to photography

Moynihan Train Hall, Pennsylvania Station, NYC, 2021.

A trainload of pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51205135362

#photography

pathfinder, 9 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

ashleyspencer, 9 days ago to actuallyautistic

Autistic burnout + untreated ADHD =

impulse control issues + inability to force yourself to do anything + drained by no ability to function

Lots of walking pass a mess unable to make yourself clean it, then blame yourself for it.

Distracted, can't focus enough to do fun things and/or take care of yourself.

Forgetting everything. So burned out you can't remember important things + made worse by ADHD.

1/3

@actuallyautistic
#AuDHD

adelinej, 9 days ago to ADHD

“AuDHD represents a blend of ADHD and autistic traits, leading to unique experiences and challenges. When the underlying needs of ADHD and autism interact, it can feel like a tug of war for the AuDHDer - Do I need routine or spontaneity? Newness or familiarity? Busyness or a steady pace? Though these examples are quite simplistic, they illustrate the internal confusion of the AuDHDer attempting to address their needs.”

https://www.relationalpsych.group/articles/understanding-audhd-the-co-occurence-of-autism-and-adhd

#AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD

mr_daemon, 15 days ago to retrocomputing

I'm afraid grandpa Sun Ultra 10 might have booted his last. He simply turned off and never turned back on over the period of however long my expire record in my DNS zones are (which is when I noticed).

It spent over 25 years computing quietly and never exhibiting any issues prior, it will be missed if I can't resurrect it.

#RetroComputing #sun #OldComputers

Susan60, 15 days ago to actuallyautistic

I nearly didn’t listen to this episode, because I’ve never had an eating disorder, but it’s almost more about identity & addiction & autonomy than eating disorders, and is fascinating as a result.
@actuallyautistic #actuallyautistic

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/divergent-conversations/id1662009631?i=1000655158496

racebannon, 15 days ago to random

My latest post.

"Nothing replaces actual experience using generative AI tools. Understand at a high level how AI works and how to create useful prompts, then do it. A lot. The more you use AI, the more comfortable you’ll get with the technology. It will lead to sparking your curiosity further so you can keep learning. AI technology is changing quickly. Be prepared for lifelong, ongoing learning if you want to keep your knowledge and skills current."

https://racebannon.substack.com/p/how-to-learn-to-use-ai

jbzfn, 15 days ago to retrocomputing

👩‍🏭 Supercon 2023: Building The Ultimate Apple IIe, Decades Later
— @hackaday

https://hackaday.com/2024/05/14/supercon-2023-building-the-ultimate-apple-iie-decades-later

#apple2e #appleiie #mega2e #retrocomputing #diy

beep, 16 days ago to random

you first, asshole

thomasfuchs, 16 days ago to random

It needs to be illegal yesterday for healthcare companies to use any 3rd-party cookies or trackers whatsoever.

If they want error tracking and analytics they can have on-prem stuff and pay an IT department for.
https://mastodon.world/@davidpwhelan/112435701549798680

ivory, 19 days ago to random

If you are on Ivory’s TestFlight, you should be able to try out our brand new share sheet on iOS and Mac. It's not perfect, but should be a huge improvement! Give it a try and let us know what you think.

You can access it by going to a page in your browser (or an image in your photo library), hitting the share icon, and then choosing Ivory's icon from the list.

Screenshot of Ivory’s upcoming share sheet on Mac, showing an image share.
Screenshot of Ivory’s upcoming share sheet on iOS, showing a URL share.
Screenshot of Ivory’s upcoming share sheet on iOS, showing an image share.

ytetic, 19 days ago to random

Aurora happiness.

pathfinder, 24 days ago to random

There is also problems with the diagnostic process itself, that make so many of us distrust it.
That it's still geared towards children and demands parental reports from adults who may not have them anymore, or who may not be in touch with them for good reason.
That it's still weighted towards male, white and cis. Sometimes to the point that it's almost impossible for anyone else to get fairly assessed.
With the need to get referred by a gp, who is probably even more out of date than the assessors.

1password, 28 days ago to random

Every year the Verizon Data Breach Incident Report (DBIR) says the same thing: compromised credentials are a top cause of data breaches.

In other words, most breaches last year could have been prevented.

Tools to prevent some of the breaches already exist, and an enterprise password manager should be an obvious choice.

For our summary of the Verizon report, and our advice on how to secure your data, read our blog here: https://bit.ly/4bioqgm

paulrickards, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to RaspberryPi

I’ve been rebuilding a #RaspberryPi installation that supports my classic Mac habit 😄

I used to use the awesome #MacIPGW image which includes a ton of pre-configured software like #netatalk. But it hasn’t been updated in a while so I used it as excuse to start from scratch.

I used this Pi Zero W as my starting point. HDMI video stopped working on it for unknown reasons. I added an Ethernet/USB hub hat and a #TashTalk 2 hat for #LocalTalk devices.

#RetroComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac

amy, 1 month ago to random

Boost if you still remember how to use these 😭

yourautisticlife, 1 month ago to fediverse

My Policy About Boosting Fediverse Posts

My boosting behavior mostly reflects my desire to have a tidy timeline.

https://www.yourautisticlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/kurt-cotoaga-0b5g9_pnMqc-unsplash1-1024x681.jpgPhoto by Kurt Cotoaga on UnsplashI like a tidy timeline devoid of tons of stuff that I won’t want to read. I also think that I cannot hold others to a high standard of discrimination in boosting, if I don’t hold myself to that very same standard. It won’t do for me to avoid boosting posts for some specific faults, if I don’t avoid those very same faults myself.

These are the guidelines that I follow about boosting or not boosting something. These guidelines make sense to me. I do not care if they make sense to you or not. I also reserve the right to make rare exceptions when I see it fit, but I have to warn you that I don’t need to be consistent with my exceptions, and that a post has to hit a specific note for me to ignore my rules.

Also, I’ll note here that your popularity elsewhere, or even in the fediverse, does not matter. I regularly don’t boost posts by celebrities who do not use hashtags.

Ultimately, you don’t get to decide how I apply my rules.

Understood?

I try to be a considerate booster. If you know me at all, you know that I don’t like people who have nothing to say but boost all the things. Ironically, I eventually catch on to their shenanigans and end up muting them, so I don’t see all the things that they boost, and they want me to see so badly. If I follow you, it is because I’d like to hear about you. Conversely, I’m selective in my boosting, for the reasons given above.

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By far, the most common case in which I see a post that I would like to boost, but don’t, is when it has no hashtags. This is not merely my own itch that I’m trying to scratch here. Some people do not want to see certain types of contents. Proper tagging helps them know what your content is about, and helps them filter out this content if they don’t want to see it.

For these people, this filtering is self-care. When you post a post without tags, then they cannot care for themselves.

I also don’t boost posts that are merely “boost this post if you [something banal.]” Things like “please boost if you like cats,” “please boost if you are above 50,” etc. Note that I do not include in this group well written posts that ask to boost for awareness. Boosting for awareness is generally worthwhile, whereas boosting for the platitudes I put above ain’t.

Furthermore, I no longer boost posts that are from objectionable sources. Fox News is the prime example here. If it is newsworthy, there is certainly another source you could have picked. If Fox News is the only source, it is most likely a lie. In fact, I don’t even see these posts anymore because I filter them out.

Finally, I don’t boost posts that are just a link. Oh, maybe the link itself gives an idea of what the page I’m going to find at the other end is all about. Maybe I even follow that link and think what a great article! I won’t boost. I hate naked links in posts. Tell us why you agreed or disagreed with the article you link to.

I probably have more rules, but they are not coming up to mind right this moment, and are likely not as important as the rules above.

#AutisticWriters #boosting #boosts #fediverse #hashtags #SelfCare #YourAutisticLife

https://www.yourautisticlife.com/2024/04/26/my-policy-about-boosting-fediverse-posts/

jgoguen, 1 month ago to random

When you’re #autistic and get told to interpret the social cues…

verge, 1 month ago to random

FCC votes to restore net neutrality https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/25/24140157/fcc-vote-restore-net-neutrality-rosenworcel-biden

thunderbird, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to rust

In case you're not following our blog (gasp!), our Rust developers have the technical details on how we're using the language to bring in native Exchange support in the latest post.

So if you're a fan of all things Rust and email protocols, and you want to know what we've done so far and what's coming next, give it a read - and come to our office hours all about Rust and Exchange tomorrow at 16:00 UTC!

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/04/adventures-in-rust-bringing-exchange-support-to-thunderbird/

#Thunderbird #Rust #Development

alexisbushnell, 1 month ago to Autism

I'm watching the Jubilee "middle ground" episode (https://youtu.be/9FCixSEjUJ8?si=DuChJz4SMpmWVCYn) about #Autism and something the mum of one of the Autistic folks said sent me off on a "maybe I'm not #ActuallyAutistic" imposter syndrome spiral, so I'm gonna vent my issues with it here.

Basically she was talking about Autism being "trendy" now and "the spectrum" including anybody whether they only have sensory issues and nothing else, etc.

1password, 1 month ago to random

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