A great story from Oregon this morning where a burned puppy was rescued after a trailer fire and has found a home with the local volunteer fire chief. The chief has named him Smoky and plans to one day use him as a fire prevention dog.
'Election denialism' could cost these 10 GOP reps their seats β and end Johnsonβs majority https://www.rawstory.com/election-denialism/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
The USS Discovery completes her final mission. S5 and the show draw to a close...
VWOORP!!
The TARDIS materialises on the bridge, the Doctor pops his head out and says "you need to come with me"...
[insert crewmember here] takes his hand and flies away
THE END
A different perspective for those folks who are having trouble seeing women's point of view.
I'm resurrecting an old special interest and making it new. As a child I wanted to put together models, but I'd get impatient and want to skip to the end. That doesn't work. In my adult life I've developed a love of process - creating a list and checking things off one at a time. I've checked off nearly all the things to prep, and in my time off during the holidays I'm going to begin putting together a model. My first as an adult.
@ScottSoCal @alexisbushnell @haui @hellomiakoda @actuallyautistic hoo boy covid mask and autistic masking in the same convo got my gears spinning. π
@FrightenedRat @alexisbushnell @hellomiakoda @HaelusNovak @ScottSoCal @haui @actuallyautistic For me, the big struggle was figuring out how to make the mask not fog up my glasses. I had a couple of incidents where I was in public, and my glasses fogged, and put down my items in a weird place and left so I could take my mask off as soon as possible.
For him, it was the communication anxiety and poor audio decoding. He also had a lot of anxiety around not being able to see people's facial expressions fully because he was struggling more to pick up on how other people might be feeling.
@ScottSoCal after going done the rabbit hole ok this, it appears life on earth will end long before this occurs. Some .5 to 1.5 billion years from now.
Have you run out of things to worry about? Let me help:
People at the equator are spinning around the planet at 1,037 mph.
The planet is spinning around the sun at 67,000 mph.
The solar system is spinning around the galaxy at 514,000 mph.
The whole galaxy is careening toward a collision with Andromeda at 300,000 mph.
I don't see this ending well.
Wondering if this is an autism thing, or a me thing:
When they cast an actor in a movie, in a speaking part, but then have someone else sing and the actor just lipsyncs it. It's jarring, it throws me out of the movie and all I can think is "that's not his/her voice, how am I supposed to go along with this?"
We're watching a musical. And an actor is lipsyncing to someone else singing.
New milestone today:
"Hi Samantha
Thanks for ordering with us at Virginmedia"
First utility (it's the internet connection) ordered in new name :-)
Due to the Irish system of utility bills being proof of address etc. this was another milestone - and required a bit of planning to set up utilities appropriately so both my partner and I had proof of address in the needed names.
@Dr_Obvious @Susan60 @independentpen @homelessjun @actuallyautistic I can smell rain coming - it's not petrichor, it's something to do with the change in the air pressure or humidity. I can sometimes smell rain coming about a day before it actually rains.
I only recently found out that this is not just a normal thing, when I mention it, people say "It SMELLS like rain what do you mean?" as if I'm making it up.
suicide mentioned
in the light of recent events, i want to ask any furry artists that are here for a favor
my friend CK, who i have lost to suicide, was a furry. he had a manul sona. i have an artwork of his that he used for a profile picture. he always wanted to have more, but due to his poverty he couldn't afford them.
and...i thought, what if someone could like, draw something in memory of him. as a tribute. it's what he would've wanted.
please boost. my dms are open.
@skykiss Amazing analysis in WaPo today that suggested the Democrats had three options for 2024 1. Run Biden. 2. Run a challenger 3. Run a challenger and reassure America it couldnβt be Harris !!!
Harris is exactly what America needs an a**kicking Jamaican American woman. A raciscst/ misogynist worst nightmare. What has happened to journalism!
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.