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

I keep meaning to do some more of these. This Teddy Bear ballet dancer is a favorite I did last year.
Prints and other products here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/teddy-bear-ballerina-mark-tisdale.html

#TeddyBear #FediGiftShop #MastoArt #MarkOnArt

She cannot stop her rampage once the bloodlust takes hold, only run out of things to kill

Can a loud sudden noise jar my #ActuallyAutistic comrades into an instant meltdown?

If so, you are not alone.

#AskingAutistics @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics

@clouddweller @actuallyautistic @disabilityjustice @Shadedlady @homelessjun @disability that’s always fun. Another hack that I just discovered I use on social media. It never pays to argue with trolls because they do not care about facts. But all you have to do is demand receipts. Demand proof that what they say is true and watch EVERYONE ELSE pile on the troll. Saves so much sealioning arguments. Most of them can’t provide proof. Or (and this is fun) they post links that disprove their point. And if they manage to post something, I’m usually able to discredit the source because of the nature of my work.

@evan Qualified no, I don't trust a computer to update properly unless I'm staring at it. In my experience, whenever a computer updates and I'm not looking at it, it gets into a strange state I can't recover from because I don't know how it happened.

That said, if other people want their computers to update while they aren't paying attention, it's fine if that's an option for them, as long as I still have the option to watch mine.

Has anyone tried turning the U.S. off and then back on again?

@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