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

@theautisticcoach Like a lot of autistic people, my differences in childhood development compared to my peers made me equally a target for ridicule and praise. Being described as "special", even a "genius" by the adults around me did nothing to mitigate the growing sense of dehumanisation I felt during my childhood. And I fell off that pedestal in a big way when I grew up. @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics @autisticadvocacy

Have my #ActuallyAutistic comrades ever been told or conditioned not to stim? I don’t mean dangerous stims like self harm, but the more common day to day ones like fidgeting, singing, etc.

#AskingAutistics @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics

@Phoenixrisen82 @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics My mother would very sharply tell me to "stop making that noise" that I hadn't even been aware I was making.

My dad was better, much more calmly stopping only stims that has harm potential. But it was the 50s & 60s. We were both undiagnosed autistics, & understood each other, but not why other people were so different.

Ingenious librarians
A group of 1970s campus librarians foresaw our world of distributed knowledge and research, and designed search tools for it
by Monica Westin via @aeon+psyche magazine

https://aeon.co/essays/the-1970s-librarians-who-revolutionised-the-challenge-of-search?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=38dd9ec67a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_06_05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-38dd9ec67a-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

#books #librarians

Mike Pence officially enters 2024 US presidential race, pitting himself against former boss Donald Trump – live https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2023/jun/05/trump-nikki-haley-2024-washington-sonic-boom-biden-politics-live-updates?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Being an elder of the internet is actually kinda fascinating in some ways.

I watched so many of the bigger sites start out and find their footing.

I knew eBay when it was a tiny marketplace. And Amazon when it only sold books.

I knew sites like teeturtle before it was just another art factory.

I knew woot! when it actually had real discounts and wasn't just another Amazon affiliate.

The Space Jam website wasn't some kind of Internet artifact. It was cutting edge!

And I remember using a 33.6k modem (that's right - not even 56k yet!) to try and load a website. I'd walk away for dinner and when I came back, there was a 50/50 chance the site had failed to load. And you didn't just try again because now mom has to use the phone - maybe tomorrow?

I watched AOL rise and fall. Myspace rise and fall and do a dead cat bounce. And Facebook was only for college kids.

Oh, and there were more than just 3 websites and Google didn't exist.

The internet really doesn't look like it once did.

Jack promoting RFK Jr. on Bluesky demonstrates that Bluesky intends to best Twitter in key time-to-enshitification metric.

Ben is back from getting his haircut.

#DogsOfMastodon

Surveying the realm.

Northern Mockingbirds (Mimus polyglottos) are very protective of their territory. Here is one at op a small pine tree looking over land, probably hunting.

"Look for Northern Mockingbirds sitting high on tall shrubs, poles, or utility lines. Around your yard, you can also look for them running or hopping along your mowed lawn. You may be able to first identify the presence of a Northern Mockingbird by listening for its song which usually mimics numerous other birds at once." - allaboutbirds.org

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #birds #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #NorthernMockingbird

@1finekitty

Misread that story....
I thought it said he lost a cracker,
Instead of backer.

@ScottSoCal @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics I recently moved. This has meant not just picking my current zip code vs the prior one, but more importantly, remembering it's not the next zip over, where I lived for 20yrs, but not in the last six.

Up side: The really good bakery is close by again.

Do any of my #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD comrades relate to being in the middle of an action (writing a tweet or SMS, getting off the couch to go to a different room, etc) only to have NO F**** CLUE what you were doing or why you're doing this?

#AskingAutistics @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics

Income tax isn’t just about paying for roads & defence forces etc. It’s also about wealth redistribution. Not to the point of deterring people from following lucrative careers, or to relieve people capable of at least partially supporting themselves from doing so, but to ensure that no one suffers from unacceptable levels of poverty & all of the disadvantage that entails, while a small percentage of people accrue wealth many times in excess of what anyone could ever spend on even a luxurious lifestyle. #Tax #WealthInequality #Equity

I may need to learn that Klingon drinking song.

I'm think my terrible singing could be excused if it's in Klingon. Besides, if anyone complains then they have insulted my honour and only blood would settle the offence!

Thank you @stevesilberman for sharing this.