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

Let’s ban men from voting on what women can do with their bodies. I call this policy “Brohibition.”

So I had a mandatory safety training class today, in person of course, because... 🤷. Now, I have *no fucks* to give about everyone's precious "COVID's over" make-believe, so I show up in a full-face P100 (recommend, btw).

I'm the only one in any kind of mask.

Then the course opens with, I kid you not, a video trying to get the crowd into the ~safety~ mindset with "not that long ago, most of us didn't wear seatbelts, and if you were the only one to put yours on, it was an awkward situation..."

When I worked at a bookstore, I learned that when an author like Dean Koontz signs his books, their resale value goes up.
I also learned that when an author like Stephen King signs Dean Koontz's books, the price goes even higher and that Dean Koontz is not amused by this.

Do my #ActuallyAutistic comrades start their convos with the dog or their dog’s owner?

#AskingAutistics @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics

"Less gender rolls, more cinnamon rolls'
Sticker spotted in NYC

when there was only one set of footprints, Billy Idol was dancing with himself

SCUBA is an acronym for Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus. What you may not know is that Tuba is also an acronym for...

Terrible Underwater Breathing Apparatus

I've been on Masto for several years, but not very active. I recently changed instances, and never did an #introduction post before, so here we go!

I'm a photographer based on Halifax, NS, Canada, though my day job is as a software developer. My main interests are, in no particular order, #photography, home #baking & #cooking, #programming, #security, #equality, and #cats. Many others, but yeah.

My own posts will be mostly photography focused, and with that, here's a photo of my fluffy boy.

@autism101 @actuallyautistic

Myself, my wife, and two children (who are all also autistic) are all animal people. We often have multiple pets and form relationships with them.

Personally, I find animals more predictable than NT people! At least I can usually figure out animal motivations (food, attention, fear, etc). NT humans, not so much. #ActuallyAutistic

@Binder I had the same problem. But when I asked my doctor he rudely said to shove them up my ass.

@SrRochardBunson @SallyStrange @mike I’m retired now, and was not especially good with money. The thing that saved my bacon was two union jobs that gave me pensions. Unionization is not just a living wage and accountable management, it’s the entire end of your life.

Tina Turner was the Queen of Rock N' Roll.

She was literally more important than Elvis. If you don't believe me, look through the entirety of her career.

Not only did Tina witness the birth of Rock N' Roll, she pioneered it.

Mick Jagger admits to cribbing his stage moves from her.

David Bowie worshipped the ground she walked on.

Her run in the 80s was the single greatest comeback of all time -- regardless of genre -- demonstrating that "old" people belong on centre stage.

Tina: a woman so badass she was the villainous in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

And. you know what? She did all this while combatting so many obstacles and trauma. But she never gave up. Hers was not a story of tragedy but triumph.

Thanks to @Deglassco@mastodon.social for sharing this. The world just lost a true icon 😢

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/Deglassco/statuses/110436308375211796

LGBTQ: It's pride month, are you an ally?
Brands: Of course!
LGBTQ: They're literally killing us, are you an ally?
Brands: No

The most common gender affirming surgery is breast augmentation -- in cis (non-trans) women.

The regret rate is around 20%.

Gender affirming surgeries in trans people have around a 1% regret rate.

Guess which people need approval from a mental health provider...

@neuralex @cvwillegen @actuallyautistic I also shame myself into not thinking I have pain. But pain I HAVE and it's something that I find very difficult to explain because it sorts of makes me sound crazy, ie how can you be in denial of pain. But it's definitely a problem for me./4✋

@cvwillegen @neuralex @actuallyautistic @jeanoappleseed same. Masking and upbringing both taught me that putting up with pain is “strong”. We were taught to grin and bear it. It’s only now I realise that it’s at the scale of excruciating that I would ask for help.

How do my #ActuallyAutistic comrades explain meltdowns to others?

#AskingAutistics @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics

@ScottSoCal @actuallyautistic I have had lucid dreams my entire life but much more so when I was younger, probably late teens through late twenties. Once I realized it I knew if I woke up from a bad dream I could go back to sleep and change the outcome. Then after some of that I realized I could change a dream the first go round, as it was happening. I could also fly in dreams, very realistic feeling, which doesn't happen nearly as often now either.

Black folk and Black folk only:

The musician "Mariah the Scientist" *is* a scientist, even though she dropped out of her biology degree before graduating. A scientist is a person who studied science.

The word "scientist" was coined because men were gatekeeping Mary Somerville, a woman who was studying science. They said that she wasn't a "man of science," emphasis on man. So her friends coined the gender neutral term "scientist" to mean "a person who studies science" even outside a university.