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RickiTarr, 17 days ago to random

How much alone time vs socializing do you need?

For me there are a few people who are usually equalizing, and I can just be around them, so I won't count that. But generally, I find about 3 times a week, I'm game for socializing. A day in between to rest is usually nice, but the larger the gathering or if we go somewhere particularly noisy or I'm meeting new people that involves more effort, and my social battery empties sooner. I'm very curious where everyone else falls on this!

RickiTarr, 21 days ago to random

Sometimes the way people phrase things is so telling. For instance, telling women they should be "taking care of" their husband and children. Another adult doesn't need taken care of like a child, what you want is for women to be a Sex Mom.

RickiTarr, 17 days ago to random

Sometimes when you learn how something works, you think, Thanks knowledge, that really helped, everything makes more sense, and other times you look up how wrists turn, and it's like WTF?!

chevalier26, 16 days ago to random

@actuallyautistic #actuallyautistic Anyone ever tell you that you were being "too negative" or a "Debby downer" when stating facts about something? Just happened to me earlier with my family. In this case it was reasons why I prefer not to travel often (routine change haha). The whole time I was thinking, "but I'm not trying to be negative..."

farah, 18 days ago to Autism

I’ve been reading about “stimming in autism”, which up until now was very confusing to me mostly because that’s the one point kept being repeated in the community being a must for an autistic individual. And I can’t relate to that at all.

Then I came across something that describes the purpose of ‘stimming’ is to deal with extra energy. Then it kinda hit me, I’ve never had the need to stim because I’m a low energy person in general.

I get overwhelmed with activities when they involve raising heart rates (yes, THAT too). I like quiet things, dead of night etc. Once at a time in my life, I was pretty sure I could hear flow of electricity.

So my question to the #ActuallyAutistic community: do you think stimming is a must for autistic people? Do you relate to it? Anyone know of any low energy stimming that gets overlooked?

Thanks! Much love!! 💕 #Autism #Neurodivergent #stimming @actuallyautistic

the_etrain, 21 days ago to random

Being a man of deep faith, when faced with a dilemma, I stop and ask myself "what would Jack LaLanne do?"

arisummerland, 21 days ago to random

Looking at the oils in the new bug spray base I got:

Hmmm. Contains patchouli. That'll be good for repelling both bugs AND people!

arisummerland, 1 month ago to Kansas

I just went out back and took a photo and I'm pretending that the sky is just a tiny bit purple there toward the bottom. 🤣☹️ #Aurora #Kansas #MissedItByThatMuch #iphone

arisummerland, 1 month ago to random

Being awoken at 5:39 AM to a tornado warning wasn't quite how I thought this Tuesday would begin... I am glad that my weather radio works!

I got the thunder shirts onto the dogs and got the chickens up early. Miles decided that he was going to bark at the thunder all morning, though. That's his thing now. Bark at it, and maybe it will go away.

I don't think anyone else in the path of the storm had damage. There was a twister on the ground in a county further south around 4AM-something, though.

My local NPR station now has a policy of being on the air constantly when there is an actual warning within their listening area. I think this policy changed after the 2019 tornado. It's a good policy change.

Being up and about that early allowed me to get my cat to the vet for surgery, run some errands, refill the big water jugs, and do all sorts of adult achieving things this morning. Now I'm back in bed for a bit to rest.

I do feel as though my storm PTSD is lessening a little bit. But I think part of that was having early warning, having lots of information, and having a good radar app. I could tell by looking at the radar that we were not going to be hit by the belly or a significant arm of the storm.

This time.

arisummerland, 1 month ago to random

Oh gosh. The feels.

My little mommy was up a half hour ago, driving out west in the city, trying to find a place to see the #Aurora. She said she saw a bunch of people sitting out in lawn chairs, hoping to see it.

We have been vacillating between a 10% chance and a 0% chance of seeing it here for a few hours now. She said, "If you find a place you can see it, let me know, and I'll drive up."

I just realized this: she's going to be 83 years old this year. Her mom died fairly early, I think mid-sixties (I was young) and her dad at 86. She's never seen an aurora, and though we had an 88% eclipse recently, and she had glasses, this is something neither of us has ever seen, pretty much being lifelong plains states folks.

Now I feel like I have to help her see this, somehow, and not just in pictures that I send her from the web.

It may not happen tonight. We have rain in the forecast over the next few days, so even with more CMEs hitting tomorrow, we both might have missed our one chance last night.

It makes me realize just how fragile both life and beauty really are.

My dad (who died in 2021), and I had a plan to drive to see the total eclipse on April 8. Clearly that didn't happen. Mom and I sort of saw the one in 2017, on a cloudy day at a state fishing lake a few dozen miles north of here.

Tomorrow is Mother's Day. I am going to keep watching the aurora forecast tonight and tomorrow and maybe, just maybe, we will both get to see it.

I really want this for her.

RickiTarr, 10 days ago to random

This picture of Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke actually exists in the world, and I don't know why we aren't talking about it constantly.

arisummerland, 20 days ago to H5N1

Y'all will find this... interesting.

I was helping a farmer friend today get her car up to her mechanic's place, which is about 10 miles out of town.

On the drive back, she took a call from someone who was looking for raw cow's milk.

She's only on Facebook as far as social media goes, so she hasn't seen any of the news stories about people seeking out raw milk in order to try to infect themselves with #H5N1 to "gain immunity" from it.

She was gobsmacked!

I was trying SO hard not to laugh while she took the call.

I told her that I've seen a number of news stories about people doing exactly this. I said what scares me the most is, the mortality rate is over 50%. One in two people! Why would anyone think this is an acceptable risk?

She appreciated the information I gave her and said that she would adjust her response when she received more calls.

Apparently she's received a lot of calls recently.

She's not even a dairy farmer!

I know 100+ years ago when we didn't have #vaccinations, #antibiotics, or #antivirals, exposing yourself to pathogens was one way to possibly gain immunity from whatever was going around.

But thousands upon thousands of people were sickened and died from things that we can now prevent or treat with drugs, #sanitation, #hygiene, #masks, and vaccines. It wasn't all bread and roses in pre-modern America. Our average life expectancy was almost half what if is today.

"Natural" is not inherently superior. Immunity debt is fucking bullshit. Exposing yourself willingly to a deadly pathogen does not increase your chances of living longer or being healthier afterwards. If someone did this to their kids? It would be flat out child abuse.

Yet, I always forget that most of the population doesn't read a book after they leave school, doesn't believe in science, and thinks if something is on the internet, it must be true.

Even and especially, people in my profession and allied professions believe the wackiest ideas about how the the human body works that are simply not true.

I'm pretty tired of the stupidity of other humans at this point. Go ahead. Drink the raw milk. Take yourself out of the gene pool. I know I can't do anything about it once you've made up your mind to do something so risky and stupid. SMH

arisummerland, 2 months ago to random

It's really me! Not a bot and not a copycat. I'll migrate followers to here a bit later. Glad to be Beige and NOT be federated with Zuck!

anathema_device, 14 days ago to random

Finally watched “Glass Onion” last night, and enjoyed it a lot. Probably not a rewatch, unlike “Knives Out”, but it was great fun, and Janelle Monae was so good. Amazing cast, but with Kate Hudson, Janelle, and Daniel Craig chewing up the scenery, the other just faded into background :)

I liked how mask use indicated character too. Sadly accurate.

Best of all, It was a huge troll of Elon Musk, and I am so here for that❤️ (and for Phillip. We need more Phillip in the next movie!)

arisummerland, 1 month ago to random

I held this snail mail item back a couple days to open a day I really needed it (which def was today).

Thank you, @Alice for the awesomeness! I am so glad the Fedi was able to help someone in need, too.

Scratch n sniff stickers to boot!

arisummerland, 1 month ago to random

WHERE did she get that dress? #Monsterdon

arisummerland, 24 days ago to random

Legit, harpsichords do have basically only one volume: LOUD. #Monsterdon

arisummerland, 17 days ago to herbalism

I am learning that procrastination when it comes to #wildcrafting does not pay. You have to be ready to do the work 100% when the plants are ready. They wait for no one.

I ended up missing #Monsterdon tonight so I could process this beautiful red clover, getting the bulk of it into the dehydrator with just enough left to start a pint of tincture.

It took hours to pick and process, but wow, I am so frikken happy right now!

Good red clover is almost impossible to find commercially. If it is handled correctly, meaning it's not brown and gross when you get it, you will pay premium prices for it.

So I've been intently staring at fields and verges lately when I get to go out into the wild, trying to find places I could forage red clover without someone pointing a shotgun at me. It's almost the end of the season; it will all be going to seed by next week.

Today I hit the jackpot. I went to work out at a clients farm, and it turns out they have a front pasture that is just full of the stuff. They say it's awful when the horses eat it, because they just drool and drool, so they invited me to take as much as I could.

I couldn't take as much as I wanted because it was quite late in the day by the time I was done seeing my clients, and I didn't have any of my usual foraging supplies with me (d'oh! Lesson learned!), but the amount I got was absolutely perfect for the two things I wanted to do this week -- dry some and tincture some fresh.

I need to go back out there within the next two days to see if I can gather another round. It's a precious herbal resource, even though it's just an ordinary field weed to most folks.

The more I have these synchronicities with finding the plants when I need them, the more I feel that this slow, years-long adjustment that I'm making in my career path is the right one. I still want to be able to help people when I'm 80-something, and I want to help others to get to know the plants around them and take better care of themselves.

Also, I had a frikken bald eagle soar over my car when I was driving down to work today, so yay, nature!

#herbalism

A black and clear plastic multi-layer food dehydrator sits on a white kitchen countertop with beautiful red clover blossoms drying in it.