ScottinSoCal πΊπ¦ π π³βπ @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es
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So... me. Work in aerospace, more space, not as much aero. Can fix my own car, choose not to. Can fix the random appliance of your choice. Hardcore introvert in person, which is why I love online. Lifelong science fiction fan. Read constantly. Scalzi is my favorite author, because he mixes exactly the right amount of snark into his writing. Together with a guy 30+ years, married since it was legal. Own a home in CA and don't plan to leave unless I immigrate to another country.
Joined Nov 2022
@Zumbador @PatternChaser @thecatwasnot @Pathfinder @actuallyautistic
"realising that you're judging yourself so hard because you judge *other people* so hard"
One of the most difficult things for me to do is give myself the same benefit of the doubt that I give to other people. I've always judged myself more harshly than I do anyone else. But I'm trying.
@PatternChaser @thecatwasnot @Pathfinder @actuallyautistic I'm not the person you asked - but I have this problem too.
What's to process?
Sometimes, it's questioning the premise whether or not you made a mistake at all. Sometimes it's looking at the situation and checking if you are trying to claim control of a situation that was out of your control to begin with. Sometimes, it's finding the funny side of it even though there was pain. Sometimes it's realising that you're judging yourself so hard because you judge *other people* so hard, and now your own judegment has come to bite you in the butt so maybe you need to be kinder to others as well as to yourself? Accept that people, including you, are fallible, and that it's ok to make mistakes?
What usually works for me is to just tell myself "you know what, that thing I did was not so bad, I've done MUCH worse things than that," and then move on to distracting myself immediately. For some reason that takes the sting out of it for me.
"The fact of the matter is that this bill was totally unnecessary. The President has the authority and the ability to eliminate the debt ceiling today by invoking the 14th Amendment."
*May* be unnecessary, depending on the interpretation by a court stacked with fascists, who are willing to bend legal logic into a pretzel, and ignore legal precedent to impose their agenda. Biden did the thing that guaranteed a less-bad outcome.
Another #car from the archives. I'll admit being a fan of the #Transformers was part of my reason for doing this one. π
Prints can be found here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/classic-red-lamborghini-on-a-rainy-night-mark-tisdale.html
#DigitalArt #lamborghini #sportscar #MastoArt #ArtMatters #lgbtqartist #CreativeToots #MarkOnArt
The reason we have LGBTQ Pride Month is not to celebrate our pride but to insist on our right to exist without persecution.
I stand in solidarity with my trans brothers and sisters and their right to exist without persecution.
#LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #LGBT #PrideMonth #PrideMonth2023
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
Ok! Hello! I am allowed to be a person again! Good morning everyone, happy pride! Have a dog photo!
It's #Newstodon Friday again, the day where #news organizations who are active here on #Mastodon show you their best work!
#JOURNALISM SUPER FRIENDS ASSEMBLE!
@damemagazine @TexasObserver @kcts9 @themarkup @thexylom @mongabay @TucsonSentinel @Chron @ProPublica
Montana's drag ban was applied to a transgender person doing public speaking. No music, no dance, just a trans person and a podium. This is what they want. They want us to be removed from public life. This is identical to what Hitler did with the Nuremberg Laws. Eventually the punishment for us simply existing in public spaces will be jail time. If that makes you uncomfortable, please speak up to whomever will listen. Fixing this requires cis support.
I have a sticker for the sad GQP rep:
The #Bible has been removed from libraries in Utah after a parent used a new law that permits the removal of "pornographic".
The parent argued that the Bible contained topics such as incest, bestiality, genital mutilation, and infanticide, making it pornographic under the new definition set forth in Utah Code Ann. Β§ 76-10-1227.
A GOP lawmaker expressed "sadness" regarding the situation.
Jupiter has something like 90+ moons. I'm not going to count.
When I started astronomy they told me 60.
We just keep learning more and more.
Anyway, the big 4 can be remembered
"I Eat Green Cows" (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto)
A lot of the others also have names.
I'm just telling you all this so I can show you this gif of some moons orbiting Jupiter.
Good morning Mastodon! Iβm a reporter and editor for @gbhnews focusing much of my time on social justice investigations. I read government documents and spreadsheets for fun! Also: typewriters. Itβs Friday; hereβs an Underwood.
re: Autistic Parenting While Autistic
@ScottSoCal Indeed! I think what I was thinking but didnβt have room to type, was that schools completely disregard the second and third order schedule impacts of their decisions, and act surprised when one raises concerns. So I like to turn it around and suggest they offer me their free times and Iβll fit them in instead. I just had to do this with NPS therapist. Ridiculous. @actuallyautistic
The whole capitalist/socialist/communist thing has been bugging me for a couple of decades now.
They're economic systems - that's all. People have started expanding them to include whatever they love or hate about social and governance issues, and since there's no objective criteria to go back to, the words are basically meaningless in most common contexts.
I am valiantly resisting starting a Well Actually with a stranger on the internet over one of my pet peeves: defining every possible action with some resource-based motive as "capitalism", including those in eras before the concept of capitalism was even invented.
I swear, it's the leftist version of calling the government doing anything good "socialismβ. WORDS HAVE MEANINGS*, people! Augh!
(* Subject to usage, so when misused, their meaning broadens--and we lose clarity/precision. Sigh.)
@actuallyautistic
I'm fairly sure I'm not alone in this, as a late realised autistic person:
Now that I know I'm autistic, even some pretty painful experiences have a sort of positive undertow.
For example, when I, once again, blurt out something totally oblivious to the social situation I'm in and then do the usual OMG why do I do that cringe dance, there's also a part of me going * yay more proof that I really am autistic!!!!! *
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- He/Him
- Orientation
- So gay. So, so gay.
- JoeMyGod
- Ε ΔΕΕ§Ε§ Δ - πΊπ¦ π
So... me. Work in aerospace, more space, not as much aero. Can fix my own car, choose not to. Can fix the random appliance of your choice. Hardcore introvert in person, which is why I love online. Lifelong science fiction fan. Read constantly. Scalzi is my favorite author, because he mixes exactly the right amount of snark into his writing. Together with a guy 30+ years, married since it was legal. Own a home in CA and don't plan to leave unless I immigrate to another country.
Joined Nov 2022
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