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@melanie

I keep finding more parallels to coming out gay and coming out autistic. Including (especially?) not pathologizing myself. There's nothing wrong about either, they're just aspects of who I am. To change either one would be to change me, and I'm pretty comfortable with me as I am.

@holyramenempire @yourautisticlife @actuallyautistic

@CosmicTrigger@kolektiva.social

Who pushed through canceling student loan debt? Biden.
Who sued to stop canceling student debt? Republicans. That pattern is repeated over and over again. If you want to see progressive things, you can't enable regressive Republicans. Not voting blue enables Republicans.

@lednabwm @tzimmer_history

@actuallyautistic

So my mother died. Not unexpected, because she was in her 80s, but not expected because we haven't spoken for about 10 years. I feel like I'm balancing on a point, ready to fall off, but I don't know which way I'm going to fall. How do I feel about this? Truly, deeply, have absolutely no idea.
Alexithymia is real, right now.

@soc_i_ety@mstdn.ca

After the dove I now have an African Gray parrot. She's smart enough she's taken over the house, and turned us humans into her servants. She rings the bell for service. Parrots (and parrotlets) are scary smart.

@davidho

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@soc_i_ety@mstdn.ca

20+ years ago, a neighbor who knew I did dog rescue brought me a dove they'd rescued from a flock of crows. It made sense to them. No one wanted an injured dove, so she stayed. We trained each other. At night I'd open her cage, she'd fly to the kitchen island for her evening treat of chopped nuts, fly around the house for a while, then fly back to her cage and I'd close the door. She'd fly to my lap or shoulder Smarter than I ever expected, for 15 years.

@davidho

@squig@mastodon-uk.net

He weeded out the people who told him the truth, in favor of the people who told him what he wanted to hear. Decades of that gave us the tantrum-throwing man-baby we all know and loathe.

I'm probably the last person on the face of the planet to figure this out, but if you're cutting a recipe in half, all you have to do is double the denominator.

3/4 = 3/8
1/2 = 1/4

All this time I've been struggling, and it could have been so easy.

In 2015, I made some masks out of plastic bottles and utensils as well as a few other items gleaned here and there.

#mask #art #sculpture

@CuriousMagpie@mastodon.social

I can do that as long as the person on the other side is clear.
This morning was a long exchange of messages on a single topic, then another message on what appeared to be the same topic, but was actually an entirely different thing. It took several more exchanges and screen captures, with me saying what she was after didn't exist, before she said "Oh, yeah, no, this is this other thing, not that thing."

@dyani @actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

OK, in the vein of "weird things I wouldn't normally ask"...

There's been discussion about those of us who don't get accurate signals from our bodies. Does anyone else suppress the need to urinate? If I get the urge to go, but I'm in the middle of something, I just turn it off. Later it'll come back, sometimes critically, but for that time I just no longer feel it. Is this a weird thing that only I do?

Cat5 #Otis: Rapid intensification is becoming more common. GHG emissions from FF burning, deforestation & IDU AG are making the ocean much hotter & hotter oceans make rapid intensification more likely. Otis’s growth was so rapid & intense -some forecasters call it β€œexplosive intensification.” In 24 hrs, top-end windspeed increased by 115 miles/hr -expected symptom of CC, & thus humanity’s ever-increasing burning of fossil fuels. confirming what we expected. #ClimateCrisis heated.world/p/calling-this-cl

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@masukomi

"Bush II(?)"

More commonly referred to as "Bush The Lesser". By me, anyway.

@ginsterbusch @sahat@c.im @SarahDelahunty@mastodon.ie @CynAq @actuallyautistic

@timkmak

Fortunately, the GOP members are the minority in the Senate. They can propose anything they want, that doesn't mean they'll get it.

The road to the Handmaid’s Tale world is lined with smiling people telling you to stop overreacting.

I took this photo exactly 20 months ago, on the day russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Despite all pessimistic intel estimates, Ukraine has been fighting for its freedom for 608 days now. Please continue to #StandWithUkraine for as long as it takes for our victory!

@ScottSoCal That's a tough point. We've done it numerous times, and have 2 more that are getting up to that point.

Give them the best life you can, and they'll know it. It's all we can do. And we're still not worthy of dogs...

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