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#ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #Anxiety #MentalHealth Cats and Dogs; owned by a Dachshund England and Essex cricket fan #Cricket #EssexCricket East Lancashire #EastLancashire Sci Fi and Fantasy #WheelOfTime Green Party member Fuck the fascists #NoPasarán Profile picture: Luigi Banner picture: An exhausted silver dapple dachshund

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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to random

Recalling that the 2008 global financial crisis was rooted in a crisis in mortgage lending, partly due to fraud caused by manipulating sub-prime lending in the USA, we should be concerned that the US Federal Reserve is set to loosen regulations that govern US banks mortgage lending....

While a technical move around capital requirements for bank lending, intended to return mortgage lending to the banking system, the unanticipated results may be less welcome?


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@ChrisMayLA6 guillotines for the predator class will certainly be unwelcomed by the predator class

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , (edited ) to random

Battle Royale. Hypothetically kidnapped and dropped on a remote hostile island with nothing but a blade and some sellotape. Last one standing gets rescued.

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@TheBreadmonkey Vorderman has mad knife skills

@Alice@beige.party avatar Alice , to random

Does anyone else say "big minus little over big" in their head whenever trying to calculate how much something has been discounted?

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@Alice don't try to put this in my head eyes closed, fingers in ears

@georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

The White House knows it tried to steal an election and stage a coup in Jan. 2021 with their help. Now it wants to bury the evidence beneath pardons. State AGs, you know what you need to do.

A tweet from Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) reads: “BREAKING: President Trump has pardoned Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Christina Bobb, Boris Epshteyn and dozens of false GOP electors and other key figures involved in his effort to overturn the 2020 election results, per pardon attorney Ed Martin.”
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@georgetakei Is Boris Epshteyn just Jeffery Epstein in a false moustache?

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@georgetakei next he'll pardon Gillian Markswill

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

Following me is a subscription model, but instead of money I take little bits of your soul as payment

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@TheBreadmonkey unlucky for you, I sold mine back in the 90's for three creme eggs and a packet of smoky bacon crisps

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to random

The next sign of the impending financial crisis is the imminent loosening of regulatory constraints on US banks being proposed by the Trump administration... rules that were a response to the 2008 global financial crisis are already being loosened & will be formalised in coming months as Washington moves to expand banks' lending capacity...

What can possibly go wrong?

A 'this time its different' narrative again is driving actions that we know will have severe consequences!


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@ChrisMayLA6 when the next crash happens, with the government still enforcing austerity due to the previous one, how will the public react?
Will people finally wake up and start building guillotines? Or will they double down on austerity, hatred, division and fascism?

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to random

The nationalisation (temporary or otherwise) of Thames Water makes ever more sense.

Now the controlling creditors are demanding relief from sewage & pollution regulations for up to 15 years to help them 'rescue' TW... given part of the problem with TW's it is past lack of care for & pollution of water courses, this surely must be the final nail in the coffin of continued private ownership & the draining of funds from TW's customer base.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/02/thames-water-lenders-submit-new-rescue-plan-to-stave-off-collapse

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@ChrisMayLA6 creditors who enabled TW by lending to fund dividends and bonuses whilst basic maintenance and repairs were being ignored shouldn't get back more than 5p in the pound.

@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

No seriously you may think it sounds absurd that if you said "umm, are we sure it's a good idea to let the government spy on every form of communication in America" you would be met with accusations of supporting terrorism and being paranoid by "Very Serious PeopleTM."

It literally WAS absurd. But it didn't change anything about public opinion and the political project that was the War on Terror.

We let them. And because we let them, the sky is the limit re: what the machine is capable of.

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@AnarchoNinaWrites "if you've got nothing to hide you've got nothing to fear" is/was the biggest lie ever sold

@theautisticcoach@neurodifferent.me avatar theautisticcoach , to ActuallyAutistic group

good morning autistic comrades!

what is the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning?

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@theautisticcoach actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group

  1. Go downstairs, make a cup of tea and smoke the bong
  2. Deal with gestures around wildly at dystopian hellscape .. life
@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

Anyway, 0 for 2 on "Trump-Iran" but I really do think I should get partial credit because both times the guy certainly tried. Like, if I told you "Trump is gonna put a missile on Soleimani's car/Bomb Fordow" you'd have said "okay so he's going for a MENA regime change war."

I definitely don't WANT a US regime change war in the MENA, but I keep predicting it because Trump does all the things a guy who wants one would do - and then... declares peace. I... don't get it.

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@AnarchoNinaWrites isn’t he just pumping and dumping oil futures like he was manipulating the stock market with the tariffs?

@w7voa@journa.host avatar w7voa , to random

"Happy May the 4th to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting so hard to to bring Sith Lords, Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, & well known MS-13 Gang Members, back into our Galaxy." - Official White House social media post

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@w7voa he knows the bad guys have red lightsabers right?

@dave@autisticnomad.social avatar dave , to ActuallyAutistic group

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I've been in deep work hyperfixation lately. I've come to realize that this is probably seasonal for me.

Ever since I put a label to the behaviour, I've realized that it happens every Feb-April.

Despite my best efforts of self care, I'm here again.

I'm struggling so hard to take care of myself right now. It feels like an addiction that's seasonal.

Maybe it is some form of addiction. For years, I wrote in my journal "ugh it's like I have ADHD or something" but never actually took that seriously, then wound up being diagnosed with inattentive type ADHD.

Similarly, I keep saying "this is like an addiction". Maybe it's time to start treating it like one.

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@dave actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group I feel for you, you’ve expressed it beautifully, I’ve been there recently myself, I hope you find a way through it soon

@untilted@social.lol avatar untilted , to actuallyadhd group

actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe icon actuallyadhd group I'm curious about experiences with chemical nootropics among the autism and ADHD community. Have you found them helpful for attention, memory, or overall cognitive function? What benefits and drawbacks have you encountered?

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@untilted actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe icon actuallyadhd group I am only recently diagnosed in my 50th year. My life up to now has largely revolved around self-medication / substance abuse as I’ve searched for something I can eat, smoke or snort that will make me “normal” or fit in. My diagnosis has changed everything from that perspective as I’m learning to accept myself. I’ve tried the racetams, I honestly don’t think they did anything although I kidded myself otherwise for a while 1/2

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@untilted actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe icon actuallyadhd group In my multiple decade history of self medication the only things I’ve found that “helps” my autism are cannabis and benzodiazepines. They don’t make me fit-in any better, they just make me not care so much that I don’t. They also help me to mask for 10 hours a day with a much lower stress level and allow me longer periods between burnouts

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@foolishowl @untilted actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe icon actuallyadhd group I can understand that, it can set your mind racing.
IMHO there is too much focus on THC and CBD within medical circles, there are multiple different canniboids in good bud. Some of the newer strains IMHO have been bred to maximize THC/CBD at the expense of those. That’s why I prefer the more classic strains that give a more rounded stone.

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@untilted actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe icon actuallyadhd group yeah, doesn’t it potentially have interactions with other antidepressant medications though? Similar to St John’s Wort? Potential serotonin syndrome?

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@untilted actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe icon actuallyadhd group I was on SSRIs for two decades and I think they’re not great alongside most of those herbal options. Might look in to how they would fit alongside my current medication regime

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@Sci_Fi_FanGirl@hessen.social avatar Sci_Fi_FanGirl , to ActuallyAutistic group

Dear fellow actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group ,

how about we collect some of our "quirky" sensory sensibilities? I think it's so interesting how different this is among us.

Like, I can't tolerate if my hands smell of soap or lotion.

And it drives me crazy when a tone is held for too long (person singing, person playing the keyboard, trumpet etc). It makes me wanna skin myself.

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@Sci_Fi_FanGirl @DL1JPH actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group I also have a major problem with strong perfume, particularly floral ones. I find them so cloying, they totally overwhelm me and I lose all ability to think until I’m away from the smell. It’s weird that some other non-floral perfumes don’t effect me the same way, I can even find them pleasant

@georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

Meta's Mark Zuckerberg has joined Elon Musk in allowing disinformation to flourish on his platforms in order to gain Donald Trump's favor. It’s about to get very ugly on Facebook. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/mark-zuckerberg-meta-factcheckers-billionaires

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@SaySimonSay@eldritch.cafe avatar SaySimonSay , to ActuallyAutistic group

Just curious if this is an or neurodiverse thing:

Do you like it when people visit you at home?

I have added a poll with two options: 'My home is my castle' (dislike guests) and 'Keep the guests coming' (because you like that). There are separate options for neurodiverse and neurotypical folks. Choose whichever feels best for you.

Personally I HATE having guests. My home is a private place, a retreat where I can be myself, arrange things the way I like, and have random stuff in random places. When I have guests, I always feel judged even if they don't say anything. I never seem to have the correct food and drink available. (Everybody seems to expect coffee, but I don't drink any coffee, and I refuse to have a coffeemaker in my house.) If possible, I will always avoid having guests and rather meet people at their place (if they don't mind) or at a café/restaurant.

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@punishmenthurts @bardmoss @Adventurer @SolenedeM @xgebi @SaySimonSay actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group I think you can call one group divergent from the typical, or possibly “diverged”?

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@punishmenthurts @bardmoss @Adventurer @SolenedeM @xgebi @SaySimonSay actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group is the neurodivergent population more diverse than the neurotypical one?

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@punishmenthurts @SolenedeM @bardmoss @Adventurer @xgebi @SaySimonSay actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group honestly, even though I think it may have been a typo originally, I kind of like neuroatypical. Neurotypical and Neuroatypical, NT and NAT. I feel like divergent has an inherent negative undertone whereas atypical just means unusual

@HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social avatar HeavenlyPossum , to random

When someone advocates for reducing poverty and increasing education as non-genocidal options for lowering birth rates, out of concern for overpopulation, they’re tattling on themselves.

People living in poverty, lacking education, are disproportionately likely to be brown and live in the global south. People living with wealth and enjoying education are disproportionately likely to be white and live in the global north.

The former also tend to have much smaller environmental impacts than the latter:

“The richest 1% of the world’s population produced as much carbon pollution in 2019 as the five billion people who made up the poorest two-thirds of humanity, reveals a new report from Oxfam.”

If we identify the problem as “too many people,” we are equally indicting all people, most of whom contribute marginally to the destruction of the environment and have no say over the systems and institutions that coerce us into overconsumption. But not all people are equally responsible.

https://www.oxfamamerica.org/press/press-releases/richest-1-emit-as-much-planet-heating-pollution-as-two-thirds-of-humanity/

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@PenguinJunk @Shivviness @HeavenlyPossum plenty of cultures destroyed their own natural environment leading to total collapse without any western influence. The original builders of Teotihuacan, the Khmer around Angkor Wat and the Polynesians on Rapa Nui for example.

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@HeavenlyPossum @Shivviness @PenguinJunk read about it ffs. Massive deforestation led to a complete change of the natural environment and subsequent total societal collapse

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@HeavenlyPossum @PenguinJunk @Shivviness if you’ll pardon my Klingon that’s total horseshit. The entire island went from forest to grassland in a few hundred years due to human activity and this has been proven via pollen archaeology. There was not a tree on the island by the time of first contact with Europeans

@theautisticcoach@neurodifferent.me avatar theautisticcoach , to ActuallyAutistic group

How did my comrades understand that they're autistic?

How old were you?

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@theautisticcoach actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group I’ve struggled with anxiety and depression for over 15 years and have been “self-medicating” with alcohol, illegal and prescription drugs for longer than that. I’ve had a vague sense that I might be autistic for a few years but it was only after my most recent breakdown/burnout that I looked into it seriously. With a bit of reading it became obvious to me and I began a journey of understanding myself better. 1/2

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@theautisticcoach actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group In the process I’ve managed to break my self-destructive relationship with alcohol and (most) other substances. I’m still on the waiting list for a formal diagnosis but have found forums like this where self-diagnosis is accepted incredibly helpful. I’ll be 50 later this year.