Would Fediverse admins like a presentation by Babka folks on antisemitism on the Fediverse, specifically what mainstream Jews/Jewish organizations consider hate speech and why?
If you're an instance admin or a moderator and you'd be interested, I'd like to hear from you. If there's enough interest, I'll put together a signup, but this is just a feeler for now.
If you're interested, please reply or DM me, thanks!
If you're not an admin, please boost or let your admin know about this! Thanks!
re: phrasing
If he's single, maybe that's why he's hard?
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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.
@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.
In 2015, I made some masks out of plastic bottles and utensils as well as a few other items gleaned here and there.
@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."
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. Otisβs growth was so rapid & intense -some forecasters call it βexplosive intensification.β In 24 hrs, top-end windspeed increased by 115 miles/hr -expected symptom of CC, & thus humanityβs ever-increasing burning of fossil fuels. confirming what we expected. #ClimateCrisis https://heated.world/p/calling-this-climate-change-is-not
"Bush II(?)"
More commonly referred to as "Bush The Lesser". By me, anyway.
@ginsterbusch @sahat@c.im @SarahDelahunty@mastodon.ie @CynAq @actuallyautistic
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.