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ketmorco

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I'm here for the Python, tech, politics, and friends. He/him/they.

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@randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , (edited ) to random

Blast from the past!

Picture 1: An old photo from 1908 showing the street Torvegade in the city of Vejle, where I live.

Picture 2: A photo I took this week — 117 years later.

This wonderful building is from 1803 and still standing!

ketmorco ,
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@randahl okay but hear me out, what if we demolished it in favor of some bland, overpriced apartments 🫠

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social avatar NanoRaptor , to random

Your occasional reminders:

  1. Do you have backups, do they work, have you tested them with a restore?

  2. Is your body being weird? chase that up if you haven't.

  3. Remove the batteries from your old stored devices. They all leak except the ones that don't and you won't know which until they do.

  4. Check your Quad-G5 liquid cooling systems in storage for leaks.

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@NanoRaptor drink some water

@malwaretech@infosec.exchange avatar malwaretech , to random

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    @malwaretech what a great idea!

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    The first rule of NDA club is [ REDACTED ]

    ketmorco ,
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    @Daojoan the second rule of NDA club is a massive lawsuit

    @AnAutieAtUni@beige.party avatar AnAutieAtUni , to random

    A personal share about some realisations I’ve had: I am taking stock of something that I’ve been told many times, but never actually believed…

    I am apparently great at researching topics, I go very deep and even digest a lot of up-to-date scientific and technical information rather well.

    I do this much more than the average person, and it is likely because I’m autistic, with a healthy dose of ADHD hyperfixation thrown into the mix!

    What does being neurodivergent have to do with this? Well, I hate unexpected things because I cannot cope well with them so I research heavily in advance of something new to empower me. I also don’t fully understand superficial explanations of things like NT folk seem to. If anything, superficial explanations leave me much more confused than no explanations at all, so I go deep to learn about them instead. Oh, and I also find enjoyment in learning, generally, about science and technology, and it plays to my strengths.

    However… there is a specific aspect to being like this that I hadn’t considered until now.

    I think I intimidate some medical professionals. 😶 I do not mean to AT ALL. I actually assume they have at least the same knowledge if not much better because they’re the experts, not me. This assumption is part of the problem. I seem to get disappointed in conversations with them because I can’t understand why they would talk about out-of-date ideas or they wouldn’t know about and understand a major recent break through in something relevant. I think this is causing tension in my conversations with them.

    What to do? I think I need to broach conversations like these with an open mind about the level of knowledge of the experts I speak with. I am holding them to a standard that they may not be able to achieve - e.g. why would a generalist like a GP spend their time researching one, single complex medical condition and know the latest published science about it? Some may know about it, sure, most would not. Also, when speaking with a non-medical member of staff who specialises in my medical condition, I need to remember they might not be able to read and digest the medical research like I seem to be able to.

    I am not an expert like either of these people - but I seem to come with my own knowledge or skills that they do not, and that is REALLY surprising to me.

    But I must remember this - for better conversations AND to give myself credit for all I do to seek a better quality of life for myself. I always assume that what I know will be out-of-date or incorrect in some way because these medical-related skills are only very recent skills for me, a forty-something-year-old person!

    I hope I can keep sharing the benefits of these skills so that others with similar health challenges can benefit too. Without a doubt a lot of this came from doing my recent undergraduate degree that included many human biology topics. But I am still not an expert and not medically trained. So it is rather like all this is a special interest, except it’s driven more by necessity than joy… even if I do find enjoyment along the way, especially in the form of hope for my future. I’d much rather be doing other things with my time, but hope keeps me going while I have a chronic illness that holds me back.

    Also: I HIGHLY suspect I’m not the only chronically ill person who has developed some great knowledge / skills in this way and experienced these challenges, neurodivergent or not. I’d be really interested to hear of others’ experiences and tips about how to navigate the disappointments and keep conversations tension-free! 😅

    @autistics @mecfs

    ketmorco ,
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    @hosford42 @burnitdown @sassitina @libramoon @hatysa @arisummerland @britt @autistics @AnAutieAtUni IQ is one of those things that you learn about as a child but when you know it makes exactly the same amount of sense as claiming two genders is "basic biology"

    It's just more bigotry, and should be yeeted into the sun

    @mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

    At the start of this train ride I pulled out my laptop and started writing Rust and the lady next to me started knitting* a hat. Some hours later I wrote very little Rust because my laptop ran out of batteries and anyway the wifi on this train has been out the whole time, and the lady next to me has most of a cute-looking hat.

    • Darning? I'm always confused about the terminology here
    ketmorco ,
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    @mcc knitting with two needles, crocheting with a hook, and darning if you're mending it. Though I've only heard that for socks 🤷

    @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green avatar gerrymcgovern , to random

    AI is driving up all our electricity bills

    Rising natural gas prices expected to drive up electricity costs: IEEFA

    Price volatility and sticker shock could trigger public backlash against utilities, an Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis expert says.

    https://www.utilitydive.com/news/-electric-prices-natural-gas-lng-ieefa/759085/

    ketmorco ,
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    @yugthebug @antinomian @gerrymcgovern when we did it with taxes it worked amazing 🫠

    @dangillmor@mastodon.social avatar dangillmor , (edited ) to random

    This is the kind of headline that makes me so disgusted with journalism right now: "After six months in ICE custody, Charlotte woman chooses voluntary removal to Honduras" --

    ICE kidnapped and imprisoned her. ICE subjects its prisoners to all kinds of indignities and abuses. She "agreed" to leave due to vile conditions inside, as story notes.

    There is NOTHING voluntary about this. It's like a "confession" after torture.

    At the very least, the headline should have put "voluntary" in quotes.

    Headline from public radio station about so-called "voluntary" deportation of a woman who was kidnapped and imprisoned by ICE, and who agreed to leave the country because of the conditions inside the jail.
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    @dangillmor "To end torture at the hands of the US government, Charlotte woman choses removal to Honduras"

    FTFY (Them)

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

    My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.

    A screenshot of an X post by NBC Asian America (@NB ...) posted 4 days ago, with a verified blue checkmark and an NBC News logo. The post reads: "Japanese American groups slammed the construction of a new immigrant detention center in Texas at a military base that was used during World War II to imprison people of Japanese descent." The post includes an aerial image of a construction site with multiple white-roofed buildings and equipment at Fort Bliss, with a caption overlay reading: "Japanese American groups blast use of Fort Bliss, for..."
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    @georgetakei once again "the cruelty is the point" is spot on 😞

    @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar lowqualityfacts , to random

    Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Punching Nazis Since The 30's shirt.
    Look, violence is never the answer. Unless you encounter a Nazi whose face has inexplicably gone unpunched. Then it's the answer.
    https://collabs.shop/ox5xzn

    A tshirt with Indiana Jones punching a Nazi that says "Punching Nazis since the 30's".
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    ketmorco ,
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    @lowqualityfacts hey hey hey!

    This is a high quality fact right here 😡

    ABP(N) - Always Be Punching Nazis

    @w7voa@journa.host avatar w7voa , to random

    The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

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    @w7voa I see America is continuing its trend towards greatness

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    @vkc my GitHub readme is a manpage. One man's manage, if you will

    @aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar aral , (edited ) to random

    That’s amazing, I’ve got the same combination on my luggage!

    https://cybersecuritynews.com/mcdonalds-ai-hiring-bot-leaks/

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    @aral my first thought 🤣

    @TechConnectify@mas.to avatar TechConnectify , to random

    i like weird bulbs and i cannot lie

    new video time

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaKKzZRrPIg

    ketmorco ,
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    @TechConnectify well well well, now I can follow you over here too

    @Tim_McTuffty@beige.party avatar Tim_McTuffty , to ActuallyAutistic group

    Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 602 , Saturday 21/06/2025

    Saturday started much earlier than I anticipated - I had a very late night last night & expected to sleep until at least 07:30. However my body clock seems to be set at 06:30 ish at the moment for some reason.

    It’s been a stonkingly hot day today - so I’ve hidden away inside & tried not to melt!

    I did think of something deep & meaningful to write about earlier but the heat haze has driven it out of my mind!

    Had a fried chicken takeaway for tea accompanying ‘The Sum of All Fears’ a movie that I still enjoy - but then I like most movies that have Morgan Freeman in them!

    Mrs S has bought strawberries which she has strongly hinted that she wants me to prepare with some ice-cream for dessert tomorrow night. I also have to prepare a salad it seems.

    Final Thoughts.

    My brain is currently melting in the heat & any deep & philosophical thoughts have drained away like so much melted ice-cream!

    Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

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    ketmorco ,
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    @Tarrenvane @Tim_McTuffty @PatternChaser actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group I learned from Technology Connections that window units are actually great

    @w7voa@journa.host avatar w7voa , to random

    Less than 45 minutes after President Donald Trump thanked the National Guard “for a job well done!” Mayor Karen Bass clarified on social media “the National Guard has not been deployed in the City of Los Angeles.”

    image/jpeg

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    @w7voa It's wild to have a President of the USA who either:

    A) is too ignorant or incompetent to understand the reality of any situation.
    B) is so evil that they have no compunction about lying right to everyone's face.

    @briankrebs@infosec.exchange avatar briankrebs , to random

    Of course they used A-One to write it.

    "Some of the citations that underpin the science in the White House’s sweeping “MAHA Report” appear to have been generated using artificial intelligence, resulting in numerous garbled scientific references and invented studies, AI experts said Thursday."

    "Of the 522 footnotes to scientific research in an initial version of the report sent to The Washington Post, at least 37 appear multiple times, according to a review of the report by The Post. Other citations include the wrong author, and several studies cited by the extensive health report do not exist at all, a fact first reported by the online news outlet NOTUS on Thursday morning.

    "Some references include “oaicite” attached to URLs — a definitive sign that the research was collected using artificial intelligence. The presence of “oaicite” is a marker indicating use of OpenAI, a U.S. artificial intelligence company."

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05/29/maha-rfk-jr-ai-garble/

    https://www.notus.org/health-science/make-america-healthy-again-report-citation-errors

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    @briankrebs wat. Doge bros using AI to destroy America who could have predicted it. 🫠

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

    Trusting LLM? Think twice. I hope you learned lessons and deleted openai from your device 😉

    Screenshot of a Reddit post on r/ableton where a user lost a year's worth of Ableton projects. They ran a terminal script provided by ChatGPT to organize files, which included the command rm -rf "$ROOT/Projects" "$ROOT/Sessions" "$ROOT/Audio Files", accidentally deleting everything without a backup.
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    @Gargron@mastodon.social avatar Gargron , to random

    The web feels so broken. Subscription and login gates at every corner. Using Google on a phone now means being periodically quizzed on which of the buttons to press to not be redirected to the app store. Opening an Instagram link casually throws up a browser alert dialog because it tries to automatically open an unsupported URL scheme, presumably their own app, and apparently everyone is fine with it. I'm proud that Mastodon never locks public content behind login walls.

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    @Gargron I've said before that Google is killing the web. I should finish writing that article

    @hosford42@techhub.social avatar hosford42 , to ActuallyAutistic group

    "Studies have shown that children begin to identify and punish autistic traits from a young age. Human beings reinforce social norms by hurting people who break them."

    If you want to understand why autism is a disability and not just a quirk or a difference, reread this quote until the words find a permanent home in your brain.

    "Human beings reinforce social norms by hurting people who break them."

    "Human beings reinforce social norms by hurting people who break them."

    "Human beings reinforce social norms by hurting people who break them."

    This happens every. Single. Day.

    https://observer.co.uk/news/first-person/article/laurie-penny-autism




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    @Zumbador @hosford42 @williampietri actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group I think a great way to think about it:

    I am 6'2"

    I can reach things on tall shelves. Or on higher branches. Or further away.

    My partner is not. She can walk through openings that are 5' 11" tall without stooping or ducking. In fact, if ceilings were that height, she would be able to stand all day with absolutely no change.

    Depending on the scenario and context, either of us are disabled.

    Now extend this to things like curbs.

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    @Zumbador @hosford42 @williampietri actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group I can easily step over obstructions that my partner may be too short for.

    Or, friends in a wheelchair have difficulty rolling over.

    Alternatively, I can see a pile of clothing at the end of the bed for approximately 7,428,912 days and not realize that it contains my favorite shirt.

    Or not realize that I've spent 12 hours playing games with nothing to eat and only handfuls of water out of the faucet to drink.

    Or go over 24h without food.

    ketmorco ,
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    @Zumbador @hosford42 @williampietri actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group disabilites are disabilities.

    Not that they should be denigrated or looked down upon (and definitely not hurt or ostracized, or even "fixed").

    But we can build curb cuts, stairs, ladders, ramps, and physically accomodate those disabilities.

    And we can build mental accomodations as well! And we should! But accomodations should be treated the same way we treat people wearing clothing or shoes. I was going to say glasses but...

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    @malwaretech Google on steroids - rage fueled, incapable of higher thought, and dig in deeper when confronted with alternate information 😂

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    When they say “depoliticize the classroom” what they mean is “stop teaching things I don’t believe.”

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    @Daojoan no politics, only "Christianity"

    @Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io avatar Impossible_PhD , to random

    Uhh, friendly heads up:

    If you get your meds from Walgreens, it's time to move to a new pharmacy. Private equity is gonna ravage an already-brutalized ability for Walgreens to service prescriptions, and then be driven into bankruptcy.

    Think "what happened to Red Lobster, but with your meds."

    https://www.npr.org/2025/03/07/nx-s1-5320798/walgreens-private-equity-acquisition

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    @Impossible_PhD This is extra evil, because Walgreens yoinked the VA contracts.

    @DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social avatar DoomsdaysCW , to ActuallyAutistic group

    So, I know there's a lot of sexism and other problematic stuff in and , but I do enjoy watching those shows -- since I can really identify with . However, I'm also digging for similar reasons. Does anyone else in the actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group enjoy these shows? Or am I in the minority?

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    @DoomsdaysCW actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group I love High Potential -- have you watched the French version? (Which apparently is the OG)

    @catswhocode@mastodon.art avatar catswhocode , to actuallyadhd group

    actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group I had joked about having a lot of tabs open in my browser a week or two ago - do you all do that?

    I tend to close them when I'm done with them, but instead I have thousands of bookmarks, categorized into folders, and txt files with links and descriptions, kind of like the meme was joking about.

    There doesn't seem to be any perfect system to remember all the stuff I want to get back to. The life of AuDHD :abunhdsadpat: actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe icon actuallyadhd group

    ketmorco ,
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    @catswhocode actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe icon actuallyadhd group who among us has not had so many tabs the favicons also disappear?

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    There can be no higher illustration of vanity than the gentleman who styles himself a "thought leader" while leading precisely no one to any particular thought.

    ketmorco ,
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    @Daojoan excuse me, I only lead thoughts places. Often down trails in the woods, after rabbits and/or squirrels.

    I'm not a people leader! 🙃

    @catswhocode@mastodon.art avatar catswhocode , to actuallyadhd group

    actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group Is it an autism/ADHD trait to use parentheses a lot? (I do this all the time.🤣) It's usually because I think of something else mid-thought while I'm typing. actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe icon actuallyadhd group

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    @enoch_exe_inc @catswhocode actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe icon actuallyadhd group I find hyphens, emdashes, semicolons (and parenthesis [and other punctuation]) to be highly useful (except when I forget (and nest parens but then have to go back and change them because I wrote too much or something -- I hate that))

    @pathfinder@beige.party avatar pathfinder , to ActuallyAutistic group

    actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group

    I have posted this before, but with the new input of people, it seems time to post it again. Although, edited somewhat from the previous post.

    Autism is a neurological difference. We think and process differently. We just don't work in the same ways as others. Most of us, growing up, are more than aware of this, that we are different. But not necessarily why, or to what degree. We just recognise that we are. But, this isn't exactly something that can be discussed. Often the feeling is nebulous at best, other times it can feel embarrassing and far too personal. But in any case, for most of us trying to talk about things like this, especially as children, never ended up being a particularly safe or wise choice.

    So instead, we buried the feelings deeply and tried to get on with life as best we could. This was normally done through learning to mask and in avoiding as much as possible those situations where our difference was made painfully noticeable. In fact, many of us get so good at this that we wandered for years, or even decades, through life without ever reaching the understanding that we could be autistic.

    But when we do reach this stage, it involves a process of coming to terms with it and understanding what it means. It requires months, often years, of research to come to terms with and to overcome the false stereotypes and ableism that many of us carry. This is what is called self-diagnosis and sometimes it is as far as we go. For many of us it is enough, or we have reached a point in our lives where getting an official diagnosis is not worth it, or even possible. Not all countries support it. Also, many systems, whether on purpose or not, make it all but impossible for people over a certain age, or people of colour, or female presenting, to be able to get officially diagnosed. Or, in many places, it is simply too prohibitively expensive to even try.

    This is why most autistic spaces actively welcome the self-diagnosed. Or those exploring the possibility of it, or who are maybe already on the path to becoming self-diagnosed. Because we know that this is a path that many of us have had to travel. That other options are not always available, or even possible. It's also why, not being autistic enough, or not wanting to take up space until officially diagnosed, or even just being curious and wondering, but not wanting to intrude, are not barriers to joining our spaces. The spaces are here for all of you, it is, in part at least, the reason why they are here.

    The ActuallyAutistic hashtag and group are clear examples of this. They were created only to separate those who are autistic, either because of official or self-diagnosis and those who may be just thinking, or even wondering whether they are, from the voices of the parents and caregivers of autistics and the so-called experts, who are themselves not autistic and who might otherwise speak over us. They are not there to separate us, but simply to allow us a safe space within which to explore and talk, whether that turns out to mean that you are autistic, or not.


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    @pathfinder actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group Great reminder and is exactly why I'm comfortable with my self-dx.

    I was never one of the regular kids. Unless there was a very specific scenario that I was taken to by my parents/siblings...

    Interestingly enough, it wasn't until I got into theatre that I sort of had more than one friend.

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    @pathfinder actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group I definitely had a weird upbringing because my home life had no concerns -- I was who I was and my siblings and parents weren't particularly concerned or stressed.

    But I never "fit-in" anywhere. But I also never saw fitting in as worth the price 🤷

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , (edited ) to random

    Poll: How many stickers do you have on your laptop?

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    @nixCraft I got sad each laptop I "lost"

    Now I put stickers on my keyboard and/or journals.

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    the best (???) thing about American politics is you get shit like the “Give Free School Lunches to Kids Act” and that sounds awesome but when it passes you find out it raised the cost of school lunches and somehow made it easier to buy an AR-15

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    @Daojoan CANSPAM has entered the chat

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

    Every time someone claims they've written a "bulletproof" app, I roll my eyes so hard I can practically see my brain. History's not on their side, and in this endless cat-and-mouse game between developers and hackers, it never will be. 😜

    This is for you, my friend. I know you follow me here, so consider this a friendly reminder from, well, nobody. 😉

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    @nixCraft here's the entire source code for my bulletproof app:

    can't hack what isn't there! Checkmate!

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    jeff bezos personally called me, begging me to stop you all from unsubscribing. i told him “shut up nerd” & crushed 600 of his little prime boy packages with my immense ass

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    @xyhhx @Daojoan Joan of Shitposting Arc was right there 🥲

    @catswhocode@mastodon.art avatar catswhocode , to ActuallyAutistic group

    actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group Is it common for autistic people to minimize their own traumas? My wife said that this, in and of itself, is a trauma response. actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe icon actuallyadhd group

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    @catswhocode @Zumbador actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe icon actuallyadhd group bad, also, is relative. And humans are shockingly resilient - at least as a whole.

    In the UK when they were being bombed by the Germans in WWII the kids would be out later that day playing games in the bombed out streets.

    Meanwhile, folks with stable two-parent households can end out with severe trauma 🤷

    @olena@mementomori.social avatar olena , to ActuallyAutistic group

    (Elevated from the previous comment)

    For years, I ironically call myself ‘Monolith of Doubt’. I’m never sure in anything. There’s nothing I’ve never questioned, from my own existence to what I like, what I’ve done, what I want, what a world around is.
    I love sometimes having that ‘Well, actually…’ followup to some ‘obvious’ statement, and people that are totally sure in their rightness scary me.

    I don’t know if it has anything to do with being neurodivergent or other life experiences, or just my personal trait, so I am interested to hear from you all, especially AuDHD people full of internal contradictions: are you also prone to excessive doubt? How often do you feel 100% sure? How often do you doubt yourself and world around?

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    @melindrea @olena actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group from my philosophy professor:

    none, least/few, some, many, most, and all

    • rarely none or all
    • sometimes few or most
    • mostly some or many

    precision in language is important when talking about important things

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    as a former youth leader I need you to understand that “I’ll pray for you” is Christian for “go fuck yourself”

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    @Daojoan bless your heart, I'll pray for you

    @axnxcamr@mstdn.ca avatar axnxcamr , to ActuallyAutistic group

    actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group

    I'm in what could rapidly become a rabbit hole in linguistics, theory of mind and whatnot...

    Here's what prompted this search. Wikipedia page on implicature:

    Take for example the following exchange:

    "A (to passerby): I am out of gas.
    B: There is a gas station 'round the corner.

    Here, B does not say, but conversationally implicates, that the gas station is open..."

    They are totally oblivious to the fact that A conversationally implicated he was looking for a gas starion!

    ketmorco ,
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    @axnxcamr @fishidwardrobe actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group English: great for describing a blue, ladder-back chair, 40cm in height.

    English: uses the same word for

    • I love my parents
    • I love cheese
    • I love my partner
    • I love my children

    and there better be vastly different meanings here!

    @catswhocode@mastodon.art avatar catswhocode , to ActuallyAutistic group

    actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe icon actuallyadhd group I guess my "spin" of the moment is Jamiroquai (the band), but that will probably change in a week or two. Oddly enough, I danced to one of their songs at my wedding. Does anyone else have spins/hyperfocuses that come and go like that? (I don't know the best term for this but I like how spin sounds.)

    ketmorco ,
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    @catswhocode actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe icon actuallyadhd group once a year I would reorganize my entire room - it took a full Saturday - to Joshua Kadison's "Painted Desert Serenade" on repeat.

    Also I either listen to everything in my music collection (Limp Bizket right after some Raffi, heading into Barenaked Ladies followed by Lifa, into 4 Non-Blondes, into some Elvis or maybe the Supremes or Temptations, with some chiptunes after that)

    Or a single track or album on repeat for a few days 😅

    @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar lowqualityfacts , to random

    Trump's Closing Statement: Our once great nation is in serious trouble. The economy is crashing. Woke schools are corrupting your children. Immigrants are stealing your jobs. That is why I am here tonight, to save you all by offering official Trump belt buckles at the low, low price of only $49.99.

    ketmorco ,
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    @lowqualityfacts and giving our pets transgender surgery!

    @ScribblingOn@octodon.social avatar ScribblingOn , to ActuallyAutistic group

    I’m sorry but I just do not understand this obsession people collectively seem to have with “positivity”.

    I really don’t.

    The way people seem to talk about it increasingly feels puritanical, like it’s a morally superior position to hold.

    When it’s not????

    Emotions are morally neutral last time I checked.

    So I just feel confused why there is so much focus on it when it’s just one out of a bajillion emotions??

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    ketmorco ,
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    @Zumbador @marytzu @tsukkitsune @ScribblingOn actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group

    I think you've hit the nail on the head here.

    Criticism is morally neutral. Emotions are morally neutral.

    What choices and actions we make after the emotions are where morals enter into it! (And also why people fall into the toxic versions of positivity and negativity)

    Makes me think about the parable of the optimist and the pessimist who both wanted to inherit the throne from their father...

    ketmorco ,
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    @Zumbador @marytzu @tsukkitsune @ScribblingOn actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group they toured the kingdom and the optimist saw only the good and ignored the bad, but the pessimist pointed to all the problems.

    At the end the pessimist asked the optimist to close his eyes and when he did the pessimist ran him through with a sword, because the optimist wasn't looking for anything bad.

    The irony here of course is that one can look at the bad, be critical and aware of them and still have hope for a brighter future

    @pathfinder@beige.party avatar pathfinder , to ActuallyAutistic group

    actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group

    Since three things are a thing and since I'm weird and have my own take on this. Three things I have noticed since joining Mastodon.

    That half the posts I see are clearly an incantation of some sort in some strange techno-speech, that I can't even begin to understand, but can only hope aren't being aimed at me.

    The incredible care and kindness that a community of seriously disturbed weirdos and degenerates are capable of spreading, without any agenda or desire for personal gain, that I have never experienced anywhere else.

    The sheer wonder and joy and no small amount of horror, of being welcomed into the community here and finding the acceptance and respect and sheer fact that I am finally being seen, that I have never experienced, ever.

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

    How do my comrades feel about crunchy foods?

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

    Asking my fellow actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group friends:

    Several months ago, I bought some headphones for about 70€. Sound quality is good, they're comfortable on/around the ears. I used to wear them in noisy surroundings.

    Reading about ANC headphones here, I got curious if this could help me improve the conditions. So, I searched for suitable headphones and found out that mine actually are ANC 😆

    Today, I tried the ANC at church and it was so.much.better.! But it feels a bit strange inside my ears.

    1/2

    ketmorco ,
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    @Sci_Fi_FanGirl @bhawthorne @notears actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group I've got the link aware https://isotunes.com/products/isotunes-link-aware and the xtra 2.0 (they had a discount on, which made me get them 😅)

    Weirdly the xtra small ear tips (white core) feel larger than the small (green) ones did.

    The aware are more comfortable for my head size - I've worn them for hours just fine. The xtra I use when I've got a welding helmet on or just need to jam some quiet in my ears 😅

    @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar lowqualityfacts , to random

    Not to brag, but I was spewing out hilariously incorrect information before huge tech companies decided to create AI chatbots and ruin the internet.

    ketmorco ,
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    @lowqualityfacts seems like this might be another low-quality fact 🤔🙃🤣