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Vincarsi

@Vincarsi@mastodon.social

Migrant from bird app, same username on both.
An absurdist nerd who tweets about neurodivergence, wrestling, Solarpunk and politics. Pronouns Any/all
I like to get weird conceptually. 1312
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Uair, to actuallyautistic
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@actuallyautistic

1/2

I'll put out the call again. Maybe someday...

I need one person who isn't lying to me. I've never had that. Everyone I've been close to, all my family, were lying to me about who they were and who I was all my life. Now, my only source of information is the internet, and I don't trust it. I missed the memo where everyone on the internet became honest and honorable; I still see it as an unregulated wasteland of bullshit and scam artists.

Vincarsi,
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@Uair @actuallyautistic I'm not sure I can commit to being your one person. But I can confirm that I saw the aurora with my own eyes last week. The Sun goes through an 11 year cycle of where it's magnetic activity ebbs and flows. The next solar maximum is next year (2025) which means higher likelihood that particles from solar flares will hit earth's atmosphere, which causes the aurora. My engineer brother reassured me the risks to the grid are over hyped because it's not hard to protect from

RickiTarr, to random
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Y'all want to hear a fact that really changed the way I thought about homelessness?

Half of all homeless people were in the foster system at some point. Social Workers often call the foster system The Highway to Homelessness. If you ever had a point in your life where you had to live with friends or family to for a short time to get back on your feet, remember that is a privilege that not everyone had.

Vincarsi,
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@textualdeviance @Rayston @RickiTarr (ftr I have years of experience working with that population). The correlation with addiction is focused on far too much. As our understanding improves, the more obvious it becomes that the truism that addiction causes homelessness is false. The correlation is due to the fact that addiction is a maladaptive coping mechanism for stress, and poverty and homelessness are so stressful that it causes long-term psychological damage, which perpetuates the cycle

Vincarsi,
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@textualdeviance @Rayston @RickiTarr The fact that addiction is criminalised and stigmatized is far more of a factor in drug use preventing someone from finding shelter than any other factors. People who start using to cope with lack of basic needs (like shelter) become stuck in a catch-22 where they're refused help to solve the problem they're coping with unless they give up their only means to cope. This leads to being stuck for years instead of months and avoidable mental damage being done

Vincarsi,
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@not2b @textualdeviance @Rayston @RickiTarr That is the case far more commonly than the reverse. But decades of inaccurate media has led most people to believe that people who do drugs are just immoral people who would rather party all day than work and so it's their own fault when they're homeless. This attitude is probably the single biggest issue preventing the implementation of programs that are actually based on the evidence and have been successful elsewhere.

Vincarsi,
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@Thebratdragon @not2b @textualdeviance @Rayston @RickiTarr tbh it's allowed as long as you're stable enough to maintain housing period. There are millions of functional addicts who don't end up on the street. Wine moms, middle class professionals who use coke or meth to do overtime...ect. Hell, it was plastered all over the news in my city when a well reputed professor died from an opioid overdose. The only difference is the homeless have no way to hide their use.

Vincarsi, to KindActions
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This kind of education is so important. It's so disheartening to have known all of this for years, and yet every time I try to explain it, I get shouted down by people who would rather see people brutalized until they either magically solve the problems that made them homeless or die in a gutter.

The science is in boys. The "bleeding hearts" were right all along and your brutish "solution" is only making the problem worse.

https://youtu.be/LuDbktG9lD8
@mutualaid

taylorlorenz, to random
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“The media loves talking to PR people when it comes to corporations,” Piker said. “They have no problem talking to the media liaison when it comes to the NYPD or the LAPD and writing down everything they say without even asking remotely contentious questions. But when it comes to students, they don’t treat these students as an organized entity at all.” https://wapo.st/3y2WMp3

Vincarsi,
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@taylorlorenz This is really reminding me of the Occupy protests, which IIRC was the first time livestreaming saw widespread use at political events. For pretty much the same reason too. It was so frustrating being on site and seeing the media twist everything that happened there into a narrative about how dangerous and irresponsible we were. As if humans in any other context never had problems so the existence of conflict meant everything we were saying was invalid. Stay the course young ones!!

Vincarsi, to solarpunk
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@solarpunk
Question for all my peeps:
My library has recently opened recording booths, which I've been using for music (still learning production stuff tho). But I've had another idea: Would there be interest if I started a podcast reading Solarpunk short stories? Like unofficial audio versions of independent stuff that doesn't necessarily have the budget to hire professionals? I also want permission from authors cause I would be trying to make $$ doing it.
Suggestions? Thoughts?

TechConnectify, to random
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Real thought:

What depresses me most about the state of the world at present is that we've stopped caring to live up to the spirit of our ideals.

When we fail them and are pressed, we can rationalize our terrible actions based on technicalities - and large swaths of our culture have normalized doing this very thing.

It is my most sincere hope that we can walk our way back from this. I see some signs of this, but would prefer to see many more.

Vincarsi,
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@glyph @TechConnectify interesting that you bring up CBT, when one of the major criticisms of it as a therapy is that it is often used to invalidate rational concerns, which is effectively gaslighting, because the pervasiveness of toxic positivity so often leads to therapists assuming exaggeration. -for example, downplaying social rejection when the client is neurodivergent or racialized and is actually treated like a POS because they're different.
Problems don't go away when you ignore them.

ashleyspencer, to actuallyautistic
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I get the “you must be high functioning” often when people ask what I do for a living. I’m really not. I can’t survive in the real world. No amount of accommodations can fix that. I struggle so much socially that I’ve been bullied at almost every job I’ve had. I’ve crafted myself a perfect autistic self-employed bubble where I flourish, because in the real world I don’t.

@actuallyautistic

Vincarsi,
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@ashleyspencer @actuallyautistic the truth is that we have so much potential when allowed to grow at our own pace. But because the world decided that the value of a human life depends on being either born into wealth or able to grind most of your waking life without catastrophic health failures, the poor autistics are often SOL for ever reaching our potential

dorgaldir, to Autism Dutch
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I feel this so hard. Why can't people just be clear about what they want?
@actuallyautistic

Vincarsi,
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@gothodile @dorgaldir @actuallyautistic They were looking for an analogue clock.

Vincarsi,
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@gothodile @dorgaldir @actuallyautistic It's possible that the context of the test made it more clear. Hard to say when it's been clipped like that. But the point does stand

futurebird, to random
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"Chain migration" is the BEST kind of immigration. You want people who move to you country to have a local network and support. You want new immigrants to bring their family, and the economic activity they generate and the value they add to communities to be in YOUR country.

I can't believe we let them use it like a slur. It's good and do it more.

What? They brought their elderly parents? That's good for US and for them (the new American we want to be successful and happy.) RIGHT?

Vincarsi,
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@futurebird Now see, that only works if you see them as fellow human beings who have dreams and desires and who'll respond to generosity and acceptance with appreciation instead of the traditional view of them as parasites who come here and somehow FORCE our government to treat us all like shit because something something welfare something taxes something noisy and I don't like being reminded that different people exist and I have a right to live with my head in the sand! /s

heidilifeldman, to random
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Sometimes one is weirdly able to worry simultaneously about the most mundane personal matters and the most serious global and national ones. Today, worrying about the situation in the Middle East does not put into perspective the stress of packing up my household for a long-distance move. Instead, my psychic perspective is flattened, with concerns about both occupying the same plane. Know what I mean?

Vincarsi, (edited )
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@heidilifeldman Problems that are far away feel smaller than the ones we are facing, even if they are objectively much, much bigger. Kinda like an eclipse 🤓
I think this is normal and healthy, because we have more ability to act on our own problems. We wouldn't be much help to people overseas if we were paralyzed in our own lives because the larger problem that demands priority is largely inaccessible to us.

ScruffyDux, to actuallyautistic
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@actuallyautistic I just learned that stimulation of the body's proprioception systems in turn down regulates some aspects of the nervous system that are typically overactive for us.

I also learned proprioception stimulation is something Occupational Therapists prescribe for autistic clients.

Wondering if anyone can share any such exercises or methods an OT has prescribed for them?

Deep muscle & tissue stimulation is the general notion I've gathered so far.

Vincarsi,
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@ScruffyDux @actuallyautistic I can't afford an OT, but I've had luck with following some calisthenics YouTubers, though YMMV cause I'm pretty physically literate to begin with since I've been athletic all my life and have pretty intense proprioception (something I figured out late in life.. 'waddya mean other people don't automatically project observed movement onto their own muscles?')

This video was a key perspective shift for me though, helped me target exercises.
https://youtu.be/JFW8E2Df1Wk

Vincarsi,
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@ScruffyDux @actuallyautistic The biggest one by far is that I don't have the coordination issues that seem very common among Autistic people, on the contrary, balancing and/or climbing on random things has always been a major stim for me. In typical monotropisim though, my enhanced coordination only seems to happen when I'm focused on my body, when I'm thinking about something else, I will walk into doorways and trip over nothing to great amusement of the ppl who just saw me balancing

Vincarsi,
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@ScruffyDux @actuallyautistic yeah, when I was a kid, if I could reach the lowest branch of the tree, I was up in it at some point. Never fell, cause I could tell if a branch wouldn't hold my weight. Between the physical stimulation of climbing itself, and the emotional release of seeing the familiar from a different vantage point, it was how I liked to cope with stress whenever I had the option.

Vincarsi,
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@foolishowl @ScruffyDux @actuallyautistic so did I, and then I joined Cadets where I was trained to heel walk, and it was around that time that my lumbar arch became extremely exaggerated. I stumbled on this video while looking for exercises to correct this, cause right around 30yrs old, the pain started to become constant and unbearable. It used to only hurt when I stood still for long periods of time. Working on releasing my neck has finally started to help my lower back, and the burnout too.

heartleaf, to random
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don't wanna get into it but me & my family are struggling pretty horribly, so much even ''the law'' got involved. don't have fresh food. anything helps. thank you.

https://cash.app/$pavlichenko

:anartrans_symbol_black: :anarchoheart2: :nihil_boost: :anfem_heart: :rainblob:

Vincarsi,
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@heartleaf Try tagging in @mutualaid and
It should help you get more reach, and people with extra cash who want to help may be using those tags to find ppl ❤️‍🩹
Good luck!

Vincarsi, to music
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I finally pushed myself to get out and go yesterday!!
I went out a couple of times in the fall, didn't make it out for Christmas season, but I've been procrastinating starting this spring because my anxiety and @actuallyautistic difficultly with transition.
I've wanted to be a professional singer my whole adult life, but my Christian upbringing makes me feel guilty for getting the things I want. But the ice is broken!! Just gotta build on this momentum now!

RickiTarr, to random
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What is a little white lie you were told as a child, that you believed for too long?

I was way too old when I figured out a human couldn't actually get sucked down a drain or flushed down a toliet. I used to cling to my little brothers, and pull them out of the bath any time my Mum would pull to plug.

Vincarsi,
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@RickiTarr The old chestnut "If you keep making that face, it might get stuck that way!"
Tbf, I was always skeptical, cause I figured if it WAS true there would be a lot more people walking around with stuck faces, but I still worried about it.
It was actually the scene from Liar Liar where Jim Carrey is trying to prove to his kid that he can't lie that finally confirmed for me this was, in fact, a deliberate falsehood. As that was one of the questions the kid used to test dad's magic honesty.

mcc, to random
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The process of keeping trans people suppressed is a process of continually forgetting, so that trans people are continually new, and five years later are again new, and five years after that are again a new thing, and five years after that are again a new thing that just came out of nowhere all of a sudden

Vincarsi,
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@mcc imo, this is a function of hiding their existence from children. People rationalize that this must be a new thing because "why haven't I ever heard of it before then?"
I'll never understand how people can simultaneously treat childhood as a black box that you can never allow external problems to penetrate, while also believing that there's no chance that they have an underdeveloped understanding of the problems they didn't know existed until they moved out.

RickiTarr, to random
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Before the Big Bang

there was no up

there was no down

there was no side to side

there was no light

there was no dark

nor shape of any kind

there were no stars or planet Mars

or protons to collide

there was no up

there was no down

there was no side to side

and furthermore to underscore this total lacking state

there was no here

there was no there

because there was no space

and in this endless void which can’t be thought of as a place

there was no time

and so no passing minutes, hours, days

of all the paradoxes

that belabour common sense

I think this one’s the greatest

this time before events

because how did we go from nothing

to infinitely dense?

from immeasurably small

to inconceivably immense?

but before we get unmoored from the question at the start

let’s take a breath and marvel

at when math becomes an art

because we don’t have to understand it

to know there was a time

when there was no up

there was no down

there was no side to side

~ Reina del Cid

Vincarsi,
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@RickiTarr I love that one! Didn't she wrote that in response to a Hank Green tiktok?
I adore the whole concept of science poetry, really beautiful stuff. Proves that exploration and greater understanding doesn't mean the end of wonder.

Vincarsi, to random
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Don't let your fully justified rage at the murder of POC overseas, that will not be stemmed regardless of your election results, distract you from the needs of marginalized people in your own country, who will be very affected by the results of your election.

Not voting based on a single issue that is not being campaigned on either way is about as effective as pouting.
You have limited power in this system, it sucks, but cancelling the process you do have will not do anything helpful.

mekkaokereke, to random
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Honest question for white people that don't consider themselves racist:

White nationalists have been vocal about their attacks on DEI. These are literally the same people that talk about Charlottesville, Jan 6th, and ethnic cleansing.

They've laid out exactly how they plan to destroy DEI.

  1. Make false claims that DEI is about giving unqualified Black people an unfair advantage

  2. Work with racist politicians to use this as a pretext to make all DEI programs illegal.

1/n

Vincarsi,
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@mekkaokereke there's different motives imo. Some will be anti-DEI, others might loftily think that "we've moved past that" (privilege is blinding) I think there's also likely a large contingent that are too insecure to speak up. Like a millennial who's still dependant on their racist parents for a financial safety net might keep their opinions to themselves because if they catch heat for it they might not just lose their job, but get cut off from family support as well

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