Molly, Consuelo, and Emelie have been finished! I'll be taking them to an art show and sale this evening! #dolls #artdolls #wool #womensrights #embroidery #beads #fisherpricelittlepeople #workingartist #smallartbusiness
#USA time to end #Scotus #Republican majority.
They turned a judiciary role into a political one and they dont represent the majority of the voters, so if it is political, Biden needs to add at least 5 more democratic judges.
This is NOT a Christian nation. Itβs a nation in which you are free to be Christian.
Judy Singer, TERF, neurodiversity, "neurorealism"
So, neurodiversity "godmother" and recently self-identified TERF #JudySinger has now called the #neurodiversity movement "cultish" and wants to introduce "#neurorealism" β basically a new label for the same old anti-autistic ableist nonsense.
In that light, here's a little history lesson I posted to Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/neurodiversity/comments/14l8bce/todays_autism_movement_is_deemed_cultish_singer/jpuv5f0/
I'm not on mstdn.social, but I will say there's a reason I deleted all my content and my account from Facebook, all those years ago. Meta is the same people, making the same choices, for the same reasons that Facebook did.
It still takes a while before Meta(P92) joins the Fediverse and the recent times we have read a lot of things from both sides
Polls are not super reliable nut maybe it will give a better overal picture of what you, the people using these platforms want
The result will not be the definite outcome for us but I do take it into heavy consider because I love you all very much!
"Would YOU want to federate with Meta's new platform?"
Happy first birthday to my beautiful borky boy, Rico. And thank you for bringing so much joy into our house. #dogsofmastadon #birthdayboy #sprocker #spaniel
I'm reasonably confident it's a pigeon, from feather coloring and beak. My house and the neighbors on both sides have solar panels, and pigeons have colonized the area under the panels, for nesting. The crows like to hang out and steal eggs and babies to eat. This one was just too big, and got away.
I have a bird - a pigeon-ish bird - obviously young, too young to be outside the nest, that has been hiding out in my backyard for two+ days. It can't fly yet. I've put food and water out, because I know how birds have to eat and drink. It's surviving. Today it came into my house, I'm guessing for protection. We have hawks in our neighborhood. I want to bring it inside, feed it, protect it, teach it to fly, and then release it. How horrible is that idea?
For many of us knowing we were different was just something we grew up with. As we aged and progressed through school it was only ever amplified as those around us grew in ways that we didn't, as the ways in which we were trying to grow were highlighted and more often than not vilified. When they were known. Because many, perhaps most, of us grew adapt at hiding those differences, masking our confusion, our difference in justified fear and from our perspective then, shame. For those of us who are older the shame came from having no explanation for ourselves, no means of explaining or learning what it could mean. Pre-internet all we had was tv and films, books and magazines and no where in them did we see ourselves, or at least not in any away that was positive or could even be considered a role mode or a guide for what we could become. Our difference became only the evidence of how broken and wrong we were and something to be hidden at all cost. A dark and terrible secret that must never come out.
So when we finally began to learn what we could be, what our difference could mean, there is a history of hiding and of shame, to overcome. A lifetime of feeling wrong and broken and unjustified. Is it any wonder then that we fear to do this, to accept the truth of who we are. So common is there the need to seek external verification for this, in official diagnosis, in the confirmation of others who we think might be like us. A fear of taking a place that we are not qualified for. Because in the past this has never gone well for us and we fear now for a repeat. We fear also being wrong. Of finally finding an answer, but for it only to be a mirage. Perhaps our final hope extinguished. To have to go back into the darkness of hiding, feeling even more broken and hopeless than before.
And so everything has to be proved over and over again. Each step forward tentative and fearful, fulling expecting it to be the last upon this journey. Each doubt, point of difference between us and others and example of individuality amplified and proof only that we are wrong. That we do not belong here anymore than we have belonged anywhere and that we are truly the imposter we secretly fear ourselves to be and people wonder why imposter syndrome is so common amongst us and so hard to defeat.
@Zumbador @ScottSoCal 2) Stop using subtext in conversations and say what you mean!
3) And stop assuming there's some hidden subtext in what I'm saying, because there isn't!
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.