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Trans rights are human rights.
She/Her

I migrated from Twitter and like it here. Mastodon is now home. I follow people who seem helpful. I read all the things and am sometimes better for it. #actuallyautistic #auDHD #ADHD
Living on Kanien'keha'ka (Mohawk) and Ho-de-no-sau-nee-ga (Haudenosaunee) land in New York State, USA

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stavvers, to random
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not all heroes wear capes

flowerpot,
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@stavvers I guffawed at "for the rest of the conversation he spoke slower to my dad".
Excellent social maneuvering with dickhead dad. If dad persists in being block headed, then we shall treat him as such. 10/10

heidilifeldman, to random
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Here’s an excellent article about important lawsuits just filed on behalf of Uvalde families who lost loved ones to a mass shooting there. The families, represented by the same attorney who represented the Sandy Hook families, are suing Daniel Defense, the maker of the AR-15 used by the shooter, as well as the publisher of Call of Duty video games and Meta. (I am quoted in the story.) https://wapo.st/3R1Y9LA

flowerpot,
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@heidilifeldman 😮 I did not think the details of this event could get worse.

_L1vY_, to random
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I've said it before but I'll say it again.
It's not that everyone I know who had #Covid has developed terrible new medical issues.
It's that everyone I know who has developed terrible new medical issues recently had Covid.
And in every case I'm thinking of, it's become a health crisis within about three months of their most Covid bout. (Usually not a bad bout, either.)

flowerpot,
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@_L1vY_ 😢 This is so horribly sad.

mathowie, to random
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“Hey—you don’t know me but here’s a quick trauma dump you didn’t ask for to help start your morning” — unsolicited Democratic Party donation texts

flowerpot,
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@thomasfuchs @mathowie That's a great response. I'm going to use that.

RickiTarr, to random
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Have y'all ever had someone act like you were hurting them somehow by just liking a food?

Any time I buy or make kimchi, my Mom says it's so gross and she doesn't want any and just on and on. I never offer it to her, or make group food with it, but for some reason she seems offended by it, and I don't know why.

flowerpot,
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@RickiTarr Last fall, I made my own kimchi for the first time. I thought I'd messed up the first batch, was frustrated but didn't want to deal with throwing it out. So, I left it alone in a corner of the fridge & ignored it for 3 months. I got covid in December & had no energy to cook or eat. I made instant boiled noodles or rice with Better Than Bouillon chicken base, to which I added my then very delicious homemade kimchi.
It was life sustaining, literally.
Now I'm fermenting my 2nd batch.

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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So Bandcamp and SoundCloud for music.
IHeart Radio for podcasts.

Probably asked this before but what's a good, reliable, and expansive alternative to Audible? Is there one?

flowerpot,
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@BigAngBlack @Adam_Cadmon1 I second LIbro.fm
Also, if you are in NY state, you can get a library card to the NYPL (NYC public library) which has a HUGE AUDIO BOOK COLLECTION. I always have 3 audiobooks on reserve at any given time with my NYPL account, & I usually have 1 to 3 audiobooks checked out. The checkout time is 3 weeks.
(I also have a Kobo account which I still use because my subscription in only $10 a month, and sometimes they have what the library and Libro do not have. )

RustyBertrand, to random
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I always start off angry when I get on Mastodon, then soften up when I see it isn't everyone piling on. Just a few comments.

I probably shouldn't check replies first.

There are so many people helping me with too, so that's nice. They just comment with the whole shebang, so I can add it easily.

Thanks helpers!

flowerpot,
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@RustyBertrand (high five) Right back at ya, Rusty! 😊

flowerpot, to random
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I just jumped in and fast forwarded the movie to catch up!

18+ flowerpot, to random
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I feel like there are a lot of people saying & doing intentionally horrible things right now. Today has been the closest to how I felt under a trump presidency. It's almost as if there is a collective coordination by horrible actors to try to mimic the moral injury trump caused, to weaken, to exasperate, to demoralize, to silence, to hurt all kind & good people who care about one another.
_
Relatedly, Netanyahu, Karp, Thiel, Altman, & billionaires can fuck all the way off, & keep fucking off.

flowerpot,
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@moira Perhaps I was exposed to too many baddies today and got overwhelmed.
-MTG repeatedly saying horrible things in a House committee.
-Alex Karp (CEO of Palantir) relishing doing war crimes. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/17/ai-weapons-palantir-war-technology
-Sen. Fetterman is such a disappointment now.
-OpenAI seems even more morally rudderless after Ilya Sutskever's departure.

GrimmReality, to random
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This is just one person's solution but maybe you shouldn't have aggressively stupid bigot assholes give vile dehumanizing speeches to your college graduates.

flowerpot,
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@GrimmReality Is there one specific aggressively stupid bigot asshole you are thinking of because you could be referring to more than one aggressively stupid bigot asshole.

mekkaokereke, to random
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The most ridiculous thing about US notions of decorum, is that people are expected to be silent when Black women are attacked.🤷🏿‍♂️

If a Black woman is attacked and no one says anything, it's allowed to slide. But if a Black woman is attacked and people say anything in response, either calmly and politely like AOC did, or with an in-kind response like Crockett did, then all the "neutral" parties come pouring out of the woodwork, worried about "decorum."

Deeply unserious.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/greene-called-bleach-blonde-bad-174434071.html

flowerpot,
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@mekkaokereke Here's the video that shows what happened. Crockett did NOT directly call Greene these things. What she was doing was asking for clarity if it's ok for Greene to strike her comment about fake eyelashes (a dig directed at Crockett, speaking to her) from the record, would the same chair do the same if she were to say, "bleach blonde bad built butch body"? Because the D's wanted that in the record for all posterity & the chair was allowing it to be stricken. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqW03WGzVAI

sundogplanets, to random
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Here comes a thread on light pollution from satellites, with a concrete action that you all can take to help push for regulation of satellites in orbit!

Astronomers have been worried about light pollution from satellites (if you've been following me for more than 24 hours, you've perhaps heard a bit about this). Astronomers spent SO much time and effort begging and pleading with Starlink to make their satellites fainter, with mixed results.

flowerpot,
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@sundogplanets Thank you for making the submission easy. I just submitted a comment using an uploaded letter in .pdf form requesting regulation of the light pollution for the direct-to-cell satellites.
🙏🏽

eclectech, to photography
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Took the 360 camera out for the first time this year. Love a tiny planet sphere.

flowerpot,
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@eclectech It looks magical. Thanks for sharing!

pathfinder, to Autism
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@actuallyautistic

I've just finished watching the first series of "A kind of spark" on BBC iPlayer. Although, this is not about this excellent show. Rather, it's about the struggle I had with watching it and why it took me two attempts to get through it.

The fact is, that found it quite triggering. Now I know it's about, and probably made for, teenagers and the struggles they go through at school and especially being autistic and at school. And even though school was a very long time ago for me and in another age of man. I still couldn't help comparing it to my own experiences and not just in school, but throughout my life, and how much similarity I could see. Not, in the details, obviously, but in the way I would constantly run afoul of people, or somehow be on their wrong side of someone, even before we'd properly met. The sheer pettiness of some of it and the hurt it so often caused me, as much by my not understanding it, as by the unfairness of it. Of how many toes I'd stood on, without meaning to, or even knowing I'd done it and how much of my life I'd actually spent bewildered and upset by the situations I would find myself in and the actions I couldn't understand of the people around me.

Of course, no-one, least of all myself, knew that I was autistic back then, because that would probably have made it much worse. But knowing I am autistic now, at least gives me an understanding of why some people might have reacted this way. How, in some ways, at least, I've never really behaved in the ways that others might find appropriate, to their position, or status, or sense of worth. How socially blundering my way through life, of necessity, includes many toes I could step on and people who could be offended.

But, of course, understanding this now, doesn't really ease the memories. Neither of the pain I did cause, without meaning to, or the pain I received. It doesn't make the life I've had easier, only easier to understand.

And that, in a sense, is what this show made me have to face. That no matter how privileged my life has been. How much easier I've had it, compared to so, so, many others. It's never been easy. There have only been moments, brief and sometimes, admittedly, not so brief periods where my life seemed to make sense and I felt, if not entirely in control, at least in somewhat of a comfort zone. That I was OK and that I could just get on with doing things my way and just being myself. Not without cost, of course, normally in hard, unremitting, work and effort. In often struggling with feelings of guilt and shame about how selfish I was having to be. Because, that was what carving out my own world felt like. Not necessary, or even justified, but selfish and almost petty of me.

And then, of course, there would always be something that would intrude from the outside world. As often, as not, something petty and officious that would dump me back into the turmoil and uncertainty. Because, you can never really isolate yourself from the world, as much as some of us would love to. And so much of this world really isn't made for us. It will always be hard and there will always be those who delight in making it harder. Those who are truly petty and selfish, in the ways that we aren't, and others who will try to use that hate to benefit themselves. It's why carving out our safe spaces will always be difficult, but also, so very necessary.


flowerpot,
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@pathfinder @actuallyautistic I think I should watch this show. 🙏🏽

jgamble, to random
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Comparing the Wells adaption to the Verne adaption, I have to give the edge to Wells.

But my sample space is 2, so more research is necessary.

flowerpot,
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@jgamble Is the one we watched tonight the Wells adaptation? Because I think I need to watch it again. There was a lot going on in tonight's movie that I think I shall watch it again.

RickiTarr, to random
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Well dang Love Boat, this is not what I expected:

https://youtu.be/mgkWQpgZ1JQ?si=CUqyxC0mfsiuaVlF

flowerpot,
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@RickiTarr I watched every episode as a kid. I remember this one, and it never seemed like a controversial episode to me at the time. No one made a big deal out of it, I recall. Also, no one ever thought Love Boat to be radicalizing. That the writers put this in as a plot device and the director and producers, aired it, is wonderful.
Damn.
I love that you found this and shared it. I'm grinning ear to ear. Thank you.

RickiTarr, to random
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Why would people not want to be comfortable? I do most of these things just for comfort. Also they look cute, so...

flowerpot,
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@RickiTarr "I think I'm so subtle" Nope.
We aren't trying to be subtle.
We are comfortable.
And I cannot fathom why anyone would care or dismiss someone for making themselves comfortable. And yet...

kissane, (edited ) to random
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US folks, we have an e. coli recall on organic walnuts sold in bulk bins or repackaged in-store (plastic clamshells, etc.)—recs are to throw them out and wash containers and contacted surfaces:

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/s0430-ecoli-walnuts.html

(Hat tip to the manager of our local co-op.)

flowerpot,
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@kissane Thank you for sharing the info!

fkamiah17, to random
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BTW, any of you Pod Save America fans, Jon Favreau has been calling out the protesters, saying they're enabling RFK Jr.

flowerpot,
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@fkamiah17 🤦🏽‍♀️

eclectech, to random
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Having a scribble before bed, and all I've managed to do is give myself a earworm. The only decent thing to do is share it, obviously.

🎶 I'm so dizzy, my head is spinning
Like a whirlpool, it never ends 🎶

G'night! 💤

flowerpot,
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@eclectech I love this.

RickiTarr, to random
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So, I was on a long drive yesterday, and put on some pump me up music, so I didn't get sleepy. I just put something on YouTube, and I ended up in the group of music that I would call Peak Mid to Late Millenial. For perspective, I'm one of the Gappers, not quite old enough to be Gen X, but also feel too old to be a Millenial, although I suppose I technically am, just an Ancient one. ANYWAY, this music, on the surface, sounds like bubble gum pop dance music, the kind you dance in "da club" to, but as I was listening, I realized most of the lyrics had a trend that broke down basically to this:

Get your friends together, drink heavily, have sex, party, DANCE, GO LIVE IN THE PRESENT, because we will all probably die young anyway.

Most of these songs are probably between 10-15 years old, and honestly probably really caught onto the zeitgeist of the time. Hope didn't work, we are still caught in a shit conflict none of us want to be in. The world is actively burning, and no one in power wants to save it. We make less money than our parents and their parents, we'll probably never get to own a home, we'll probably have college debt forever, if we could even afford to go. Might as well party your life away. I do wonder if Trump was a pretty big slap in the face about how bad it could really go, because this Apocalypse attitude seems to be changing a bit, or maybe Gen Z is just rebelling against their sad grunge Gen X parents. LOL

Either way, that was some kind of a ramble, share your thoughts on this, and listen to a peak representation of this musical phenomenon. It's kind of a banger.

https://youtu.be/NOubzHCUt48?si=e9ZwpiRj9A5Q9hfT

flowerpot,
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@RickiTarr I think Gen Z is fierce because of how they were raised and the environment in which they were raised. It is no small thing for children and teens to see a parent or guardian stare down impending doom to make dinner, ensure homework is tended to, and that laughter and being tough as nails is par for the course.

eclectech, to random
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I mentioned yesterday how I was tempted to put Myfanwy & Friend into Bosch's Garden Of Earthly Delights, and now there's this.

Detailed version coming up in reply shortly, just in case you can't find her 😆

flowerpot,
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@eclectech This is delightful. 🤩

Natouille, to animals French
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Bouate

flowerpot,
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@Natouille That's a sweet baby.

urda, to animals
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the cat says to hydrate during those gaming sessions!

flowerpot,
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@urda Biscuit is very cute. Also, please tell Biscuit thank you for the reminder to hydrate.

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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The FTC just banned non-compete clauses.

A video via "More Perfect Union" which explains how non-compete clauses were banned by the FTC and how it will help people.

flowerpot,
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@BlackAzizAnansi I saw the news about this awhile ago, but until I watched the video, I had no idea non-competes are so prevalent and devastating.
Hell.yes.
Thanks for sharing that video.🙏🏽

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