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

PSA copypasted from tumblr, pls boost :

FEMA is doing an emergency alert test on all TVs, radios, and cell phones on October 4, 2023, at approximately 2:20pm ET.

If you live in the US and you have a phone you need to keep secret for any reason, make sure that it is turned off at this time.

Yes, I'm doing this months in advance, and yes, my blog has very little reach, but I figure better to post about it more than less.

Please reblog and add better tags than mine, I'm bad at tags.

He's going to get people killed with this.

You know what Nazis used to do in my Twitter replies before I started mass blocking?

They'd give my home address out to OTHER Nazis in my replies who had expressed an interest in murdering my family and me.

Grindr's Return to Office plan would have me uprooting my family and moving 1000 miles back to Chicago. I'm taking the generous severance they're offering and I'll be parting ways with them at the end of August.

If you know anyone who might be interested in a remote Director of Engineering or Sr. Engineering Manager with ten years experience leading global remote software teams, send me a message here and feel free to share my LinkedIn with them: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dana-rose-ross

Judge Tanya Chutkan is not one to play with, a fact that Trump and his counsel are learning fast. Since the announcement of her assignment last Friday, Judge Chutkan has put her foot down in more ways than one. And I'm here for it. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/chutkan-trump-protective-order-threat

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https://newsie.social/@WIExaminer

The next time I’m invited to a party, I’m going to respond with this animated gif because it’s virtually the same as if I’d actually attended.

@hosford42 @littlescraps @servelan @Adventurer @ScottSoCal @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity @Tooden @markusl

Don't know why but boffins have a term for it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cute_aggression

Heard the story of the girl throwing starfish into the ocean? A man watching her says "don't you know there are miles of beach and you can't make a difference?"

The girl bends down and scoops up another starfish and gently throws it into the ocean, turns to the man and says "it made a difference to that one".

I often think of this story when world events make me feel powerless. I can't help everyone, but I can help *someone*.

So... if anyone needs me to throw them into the sea, I'm here.

This news has caused some people to ask why "women's chess" even exists -- women can compete in the open tournament. The women's competitions were a recognition of just how far behind chess is when it comes to cultivating and welcoming female players.

Not that shocking they are even more far behind when it comes to even knowing what that would mean. (eg not excluding trans women.)

But all this misses the bigger point. They don't want any trans people at all in their games.

Saw this on Facebook.

@actuallyautistic

Our landlord's realtor had to enter our apartment to make pictures for an online listing to find new renters.

When we opened the door he was surprised by our masks, like everyone, and nervously asked us if we were sick. We explained no, but underlying condition, blabla, just deal with it. I really have no energy to talk to anyone about my mask anymore.

Then he asked if he should wear a mask as well! I immediately seized the opportunity and said yes! Here you go! Handed him a fresh FFP2 in plastic wrap!

He put it on without complaining and then entered our apartment and did his work. My partner and I were so surprised, exchanging looks. This is a new experience for us. Someone willing to mask for us? No crybaby acts?!

When he was done my partner walked him outside and offered to throw away his mask inside and the realtor said no thanks, he'd rather keep it.

Look, this isn't a big win but it's the biggest mask-win I've ever experienced so I'm taking it.

#WearAMask

That is fair.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

@Zumbador @TheGreatLlama @actuallyautistic

The concern trolls run more regular than some time Swiss time pieces.

I tried to alleviate people’s issues w my pinned post. The old critique was always that I’m “‘it part of the community and no one knows you”.

Now it’s my qualifications, which is it course ridiculous because the only qualification one needs to speak with other autistic people is BE AUTISTIC.

Unlike what various trolls claim, I’m actually qualified by the standards of NTs (which is what they really want to know) and that’s posted clearly on my site. For the trolls reading this, I live and work in the European Union, where people cannot just do whatever they want without proper bureaucratic oversight in 99% of fields, including autism education. I am a fully registered and regulated autism educator in the French Republic. That being said, the trolls always claim to have reviewed my site, but always conveniently leave out that part which is clearly stated, along with that I am NOT a medical or psychological clinician, as required by Law.

First it was control that I wasn’t autistic, then it was that I didn’t share my stories, now it’s my qualifications. Posting them here wouldn’t change anything as nothing has ever changed this group of people.

The reality is that all of these people fall into one or all of the following:

1. They don’t support autistic self advocacy, the Neurodiversity Paradigm, or the Neurodiversity Movement.

2. They don’t think autistic people should work with the autistic community either for free or for pay. The latter is a direct connection to the idea that autistic people’s labor is worthless.

3. They are antisemitic and it bothers them to see a loud Jewish autistic person with a platform. This has happened a number of times with the terms “evil”, “Shylock”, “shifty”, “vermin”, “extracting souls” being used a number of times. All antisemitic tropes.

4. They’re bullies.

@Zumbador @TheGreatLlama @actuallyautistic

I’m the only person on this platform in the autistic community who is attacked and insulted with such regularity. It’s caused me much dysregulation and harm. This isn’t really about qualifications, all autistic people are qualified. No one else is asked.

It’s about autistics who internalize NT norms that everyone is lying. They don’t know much about autism or the autistic brain, which is no fault of their own. They don’t like what I have to say. It’s uncomfortable. I know. So they try to use every other excuse in the book to malign me and literally harm me.

The ban on #trans women in #chess is hitting me particularly hard.

I'm a chess enthusiast (in keeping with my careful curated rep as an expert strategist).

It's just this wtf moment that pulls the wind right out of my sails.

I know really well that lots of folks don't like us. But ... how are we ever gonna overcome a level of pure unhinged bigotry that says we can't be trusted play chess?

Obviously ALL women should be insulted by this move.

Cat break!

1. It gladdens my heart that a couple of shitheads who sought to avoid the wrong kind of press actually put their names into national headlines by trying to silence this paper

2. I’m quite ignorant of the process required to obtain warrants, but it seems the prosecutor not being informed of this one demonstrates how very, very shady the whole thing was.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/kansas-prosecutor-says-material-seized-in-police-raid-of-marion-county-newspaper-should-be-returned