ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

@Aerliss

I had someone at work opine for about 15 minutes about the horrors of one wall in a room being painted a different color.

Not your taste, got it. So don't do it in your house. No need to carry on about it.

@actuallyautistic

Thanks for the input, everyone who did. My brain already decided I'm going to write a letter. It's partially composed, now, but I'll wait till I get home to type it in.
I always re-write 400 times, anyway, till it says exactly what I want it to say.

@cmdrmoto

I did, once upon a time. And this may sound like snark, but I promise it isn't: it's dark and scary in there, and I don't want to visit again.

@actuallyautistic

@Kellyshenanigans

I do that with my parrot and dogs. They get the love and understanding I wish I'd gotten.

@lexx3000 @tine_schreibt @arisummerland @actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

Looking for recommendations: what do you do when you get stuck figuring out what emotion(s) you're feeling?

My mother died a few days ago. Our relationship was toxic, and we haven't spoken for years. I know I'm feeling something, from the tense crackling inside, but I don't know what it is.

@Binder

If he's single, maybe that's why he's hard?

@Adventurer

If you ever find a bathroom exhaust fan that's quiet, that doesn't make a horrible rattling/whirring/vacuum cleaner noise, post it far and wide. I'll buy 3.

@autism101 @actuallyautistic

@ratcatcher

Yeah. There are many things I'd like to say, but none of them would change anything, and that would just lead to more anger, disappointment, and resentment - on both sides. Nothing good would come of it, so why do it?

@ndvirons@neurodifferent.me

That feeling in the air, just before a storm? Kind of a stillness, but with an energy that crackles, like lightning? That's what I'm feeling. And that's all I'm feeling right now.

@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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSTdjMQ23jw

@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

@BlueWaveSurfer@universeodon.com

From your lips to FSM's orecchiette.

@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.

#Baking #Cooking