It's strange the sort of changes I'm seeing in myself as an #ActuallyAutistic person as I work thru my trauma, grow in confidence, and generally heal.
Some things I once found hard to tolerate, are easier. I'm able to make and hold eye contact, and social situations are easier. I'm more physically coordinated, and feel less frustrated when I do do something clumsy.
For others, the story is the opposite. Loud noises feel louder, and bright lights brighter. Increasingly I'm very aware of and distracted by the people around me. So it's not a simple matter of getting "less autistic". Just... different.
Has anyone else noticed shifts in themself, and are there any patterns?
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♲ @katherinebond@diasporasocial.net:This Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday – let’s make our dollars count. We’re asking Americans to hit pause on shopping from major corporations.
Skip the companies undermining democracy. Shop small, local, or with businesses affirming our humanity.
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✨ Buy Nothing groups
✨ Clothing banks
✨ Thrift stores (look for their sale days)
✨ Facebook marketplace (set max price to 0 or a few bucks)
✨ Clothing swaps
✨ Yard sales / Estate sales
✨ Ask your community for what you need
You do NOT need to buy new clothes or holiday decor this week. You do NOT need to buy new, period!
What if you challenged yourself not to buy anything new for the rest of the year—and nothing at ALL during the national economic blackout from today thru December 2?
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I agree 💯 . i just wish that when we do need to buy something new, we could know which businesses are 'blue' owned or supporting, and which are fascist or fascist appeasers
i want to 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 shop blue & deprive the fascists of what the care about most - $
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Seems kinda' quiet here tonight.Ngl, am starting to wonder if the turkeys learned how to fight back. 🦃🔪
OpenAI Loses Discovery Battle, Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
OpenAI Loses Discovery Battle, Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.Winston Cho (The Hollywood Reporter)
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I wish to continue my research. I wish to interview any otherkin who would be interested In helping.
should the reader have interest in providing aid. please reply and state what type of creature or non creature the reader is. we will reply once we are avalible
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Strangest problem at work today. We always get these SSL certificates with a validity of one year and our last one just expired so I renewed it. I also updated our website, restarted Apache and it's been running fine with the new certificate ever since.
However, one of our tools that has to send a curl request to that website was not working and after a long while of figuring out why, it turned out that it was an SSL problem and I had to end up adding the CA to the `/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt` file of the server that was doing the curl request.
But I am not quite sure why that would happen? The URL that curl was accessing could be opened without any problems in all of my browsers, it just didn't work through curl.
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Q: Why did Donald Trump bury Ivanka on one of his golf courses?
A: So he could still cheat on her.
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@pettter It's a joke!
(Ivanka Trump is indeed buried on one of Donald Trump's golf courses. And he did indeed cheat on her.)
It's funny because Trump also cheats at golf, so when he plays where she's buried, he's still cheating on her. But it's not funny when you have to explain it. So thanks for that.
hello!! a lil #introduction would be good I suppose :)
I love to sew, knit, read and chat about books, and I write about those things on my blog, incoporealbard.online.
used to work in tech but have escaped and am going back to school! I'm studying gender, sexuality, and queer theory in Portland, OR.
you may also find me playing a tabletop game or hyperfixating on a game or show.
covid conscious and happily masking 😷
glad to be here!
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Current ethnic cleansing in US is making some a lot of money, while destroying others.
“When ICE takes…person…system around them…built to swallow everything they ever touched.”
“Towing companies profit. State agencies profit. &…people who once lived in…homes & drove…cars & held…IDs are left w/nothing but…clothes on their backs. This is not a broken system.”
“…system functioning exactly as…designed.”
dissentinbloom.substack.com/p/…
#USpol #HumanRights #EthnicCleansing #immigration #law #ice
When ICE Takes a Person, Why Do Their Possessions Vanish Too?
An investigative expose. Forty-one percent of migrants say their belongings never returned from ICE custody, and the items left behind at the moment of arrest disappear just as quietly.Dissent in Bloom (Dissent in Bloom 🌺)
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ICE, Profits and Immigrant DetentionDonald Trump's immigrant detention and deportation policies have poured billions of dollars to ICE and have increased the profits of for-profit private companies who are creating private prison and immigration detention centers.
According to the American Immigration Council, in July, the Senate passed a budget reconciliation bill that included $170 billion for immigration- and border enforcement-related funding (https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/press-release/congress-appro…)
This includes $45 billion for building new immigration detention centers, $29.9 billion toward ICE’s enforcement and deportation operations, and limiting the number of immigration judges to 800 despite record backlogs in the immigration court system.
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Bit of a longshot here, but I was just recalling a site I used to love flipping through years ago for its (digital?) artwork, that was called something like... Paintbrush? Or something equally everyday like that? Brushstroke? No, that's not it...
It's some posted art of one artist who does some pretty spectacular paintings that go from fantasy to sci-fi. It's a distinct style that has some detail while also omitting others, like a lot of faces were blurred out and/or abstract.
They all struck me as looking like some were part of longer storylines, but I didn't see or read of any arcs that explained any.
I just tried seaching for "paintbrush", and of course came across everything connected to that term but not this guy's site.
Again, a long shot, but any chance anyone knows what the site is called, or who the artist is?
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Digital Blasphemy comes to mind, but I suspect that's not what you're looking for.
Digital Blasphemy | 3D Wallpaper
Explore Digital Blasphemy’s collection of immersive, high-quality 3D art designed to transform your desktop with breathtaking visuals.Digital Blasphemy
I felt a bit dumb this morning in realizing that I may just have the guy's website bookmarked, which is way more likely to have survived newer laptop transitions than occasional images.
No such luck, unfortunately. Or at least, if it's there, it's not searchable by anything I can recall from the domain name.
Nature is not having any of that "AI" image and video crap. Good for them.
Why Nature will not allow the use of generative AI in images and videoWhy Nature will not allow the use of generative AI in images and video
Saying ‘no’ to this kind of visual content is a question of research integrity, consent, privacy and intellectual-property protection.www.nature.com
OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide - Ars Technica
OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide
OpenAI’s response to teen suicide case is “disturbing,” lawyer says.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
Still the best indicator of linkedin spam: make your first name an emoji, and your last name your full name.
If you actually read my profile, you wouldn't have called me "coffee cup emoji".
![A linkedin spam email with the text "Hi ☕, I saw you're using Playwright. Many teams love it, but still [...]", showing that it was written by a bot rather than someone who actual read my profile, saw that my name was "☕ Pomax" and went "obviously, their name is not ☕".](https://blog.taursnd.haus/photo/preview/640/6788140 "A linkedin spam email with the text \"Hi ☕, I saw you're using Playwright. Many teams love it, but still [...]\", showing that it was written by a bot rather than someone who actual read my profile, saw that my name was \"☕ Pomax\" and went \"obviously, their name is not ☕\".")
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USPTO Wants To Make Bad Patents Unchallengeable. You Have Until December 2nd To Tell Them No.
The US Patent Office is about to gut the only effective tool we have for killing bad patents—and they’re doing it by administrative fiat, without Congress, in a way that would make patent tro…Techdirt
OK, I just rediscovered the Shortcuts app on my iPhone and how you can use it to make automations.
If you use this, what do you use it for? What do you automate that you find useful?
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and not get pinged all day long
and not tell every tower in range that you need coverage 24/7 when you are in fact not using it
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in reply to Tattie • • •I have found some things are harder now that I allow myself to experience the true effect of them instead of masking/ignoring/"sucking it up". Like eye contact. I can still do it and I frequently do, as I was trained to do, but it's really overwhelming in certain settings or if I'm feeling drained and I have allowed myself to not do it more frequently and it's been liberating.
Socializing has gotten easier as I get older but that was true even before I knew that I'm autistic. It's getting even easier, again, now that I know myself better. There are some things about it that are harder, like I get drained more easily by it, but I can do the thing in general much more easily, to the point that doctors in patient on the psych ward didn't believe me when I said I'm diagnosed autistic.
Some things changed around the time I was diagnosed/started suspecting, but also I had major life changes in other ways at the time so it might all be connected and not only the autism confirmation.
Melissa
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