floof.org
THIS. This is why 'I don't want to put a label on my child' is harmful. If you don't know you're not neurotypical, you end up thinking it's a personal failing that you don't fit in/keep up, and that you're not trying hard enough even though you've been trying hard all your life.
Neurodivergent Kids Flourish When They're Taught How Their Brains Work - Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/neurodivergent-kids-flourish-when-theyre-taught-how-their-brains-work/
When teachers and parents talk to kids about having ADHD, autism or learning disabilities, they set them up for successJerome Schultz (Scientific American)
Random fursuit photos from the archive.
Hopper the plush kangaroo at Midwest FurFest 2015.
Hopper was worn by Skuffcoyote at the time, not sure where the suit is now.
Fluff the plush bunny features in pic 2.
#run #sillywalksHow to Identify that Light in the Sky
Illustration Credit & Copyright: HK (The League of Lost Causes)
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240609.html #APOD
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Happy 90th Donald! We all need some rest...
I always end up drawing these last minute... #donaldduck90
The Santander e-bikes are a game-changer in London. I use them all the time (even as someone whose default travelling mode is my own bike) - they're fun, you still get a bit of exercise, you don't arrive sweaty, and you get to see what's going on in the city.
And for June, Santander bikes are free and e-bikes are only ยฃ1 per journey (cheaper than any other transport method) on SUNDAYS. See here for details and give them a go:
https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/cycling/santander-cycles/discounts
City cycling is the future!
We offer discounts on Santander Cycles memberships for younger and older riders as well as other groupsTransport for London
This is a reanimated project of the Bluey episode SleepytimeNewgrounds.com
A colleague asked to see the code he's going to write the next version of. I plastered it with apologies and statements that it's awful before showing him and *still* got a response of "are you serious?!" This is why I don't show people my code very often. It's a disaster and I know it. :p
(Yes, it's been in production for 5 years, and yes, it does use a sed program full of complicated regular expressions to transform XML messages into SQL procedure calls to update a database. Yes there have been some bugs, but only in my Python code, where the STOMP library I'm using to stream the XML from an activeMQ server does weird *weird* undocumented things regarding threading and error handling I've had to try to code around. I think since it went live I have not found *any* bugs in my sed/mysql code - or the shell script that generates the sed code. The one big problem it's had is simply performance - unsurprising given how regexp-heavy it is.)
back in the 90s, stacey lindburg taught me that when deleting from the prod db to always write the statement as a select first then edit it to be a delete after auditing it.
this advice has saved my ass at least once a year since.
ya cute, don't try to deny it
#ef27 #fursuit #caturday #kemonofursuit #fursuiteveryday #kemono #furry #furryfandom #fursuiter #fursuiting #kemonosuit #fursuitphotography
We need more investment in STEM* for our children's future!
*Shenanigans, Tomfoolery, Exploits & Monkey business
"I increasingly think it's not helpful to say of someone, "They have been canceled." The passive phrasing of "has been canceled" feels very Orwellian. Pro tip: when people insist on using a passive phrase, it usually means that somebody is trying to evade responsibility for their actions. The phrasing I prefer is, "They have disgraced themself." This clarifies what has occurred, and has a nice active verb."
https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/a-few-ways-of-thinking-about-cancel-culture/
1) I increasingly think it's not helpful to say of someone, "They have been canceled." The passive phrasing of "has been canceled" feels very Orwellian. Pro...Happy Dancing
Badge for Nic, the red panda.
Why red pandas are so cute!? Argh!
Digital. Procreate. For @NIC
You can see the quick time-lapse process video on my first comment of my Telegram channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
Or the full time-lapse process on the Panda Level Membership on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pandapaco
Official Art Channel ๐ฒ๐ฝ Clean cute artist. Full-Time Panda. Here to paint some smiles. https://linktr.ee/panda_paco Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pandapaco Ko-Fi Shop: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco/shop Stickers channel: @pacostickersTelegram
I am still surfing the wave of โomg #emfcamp was simply an amazing experienceโ
A friendโs response after hearing a fraction of what we got up to: โthatโs incredible. How can you go back to your day to day life now? Isnโt it really boring in comparison?โ
This is an excellent question, if a little terrifying to think about. I donโt have an answer. So I must concludeโฆ the status quo is not enough: we need to make it our mission to make the real world more like EMF.
Battery-electric buses overtake diesel in EU cities
1๏ธโฃ Share of new EU city buses: Battery-electric buses reached 36% in 2023
๐ฉ Leading countries: Slovenia, Denmark, Netherlands, Ireland, Finland
โก๏ธ Key to successful transition: Set 2027 deadline for 100% zero-emission bus fleets
https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/battery-electric-is-now-the-top-powertrain-type-for-new-city-buses-in-the-eu #electricvehicles #climatechange
But until regulation catches up with the momentum for zero-emission buses, European busmakers risk being blindsided by soaring demand and emerging foreignโฆTransport & Environment
Once again, I have successfully Bread.
(The temptation to just eat it is really strong.)
The state of search in 2024:
Google: "We threw away decades of search knowledge and Internet indexing and just made an answer up 
"
Bing: "Here's 100 tangentially related pages from 2010 that I only included because your query appears in a tag cloud in the website's footer"
DuckDuckGo: "Here are the Bing results, only with โจprivacyโจ"
Reddit: (this user has deleted their entire post history using PowerDeleteMyShit. Fuck /u/Spez)
Yahoo: "Oh thank god, someone's actually using our search engine! No, we're not just Bing!" *frantically trying to cover up the giant Bing sticker* "NO DON'T GO TO GOOGLE!!!!"
Yandex: "Here are all of the Russian-owned resources on this topic. Only Russian sources are trustworthy. Everything else is fake neโI MEAN, misinformation"
Kagi: "We'll give you what Google used to give you for free, for the low low price of $10/month!"
Ask.com: [hoarse screaming and clawing noises can be heard from the ground beneath a headstone that says "Here lies Jeeves: 1996-2006"]
@KayOhtie I guess it is their right, and I don't want to see these attempts to make the internet worse go unpunished, but yeah, it sucks mostly because we don't have any other place to go right now, and search engine~~s~~ (let's not fool ourselves) are continuing their decline
We need better search engines, but we're not getting them, or at least without a paywall and a creepy owner behind it...
I often say on here there is no way to #NetZero by 2050 unless we #retrofit and #decarbonise our homesโฆbecause over 20% of our carbon emissions come from domestic properties in the UK.
Am I naive to expect political parties to acknowledge this and put a real plan in place?
I donโt want the subject ignored (Tory style) or a vague sum of money promised (Labour).
I want a concrete 5 to 10 year plan with milestones covering skills training, funding and procedural rollout. Moon on a stick?
I was doing a talk with a friend today about retrofit and he said just that. He was very comfortable voting with his conscience for the Green Party because he was confident Labour would win enough votes to keep out the Tories.
I remember @dansup@mastodon.social mentioning this last month (original post was deleted), but Threads by Instagram continues to mute the entire Pixelfed community as well as other Fediverse instances (also known as servers) over one simple rule.
Server guidelinesA server may be added to our server blocklist if it doesn't comply with our guidelines for communicating with Threads. [...]
We'll also block a server if it doesn't have a:
- Sufficient privacy policy; or
- Publicly available policy to restrict access to users under the age of 13; or
- Publicly accessible feed (Emphasis mine, via Instagram Help Center)
For those unaware, a publicly accessible feed is merely a stream on a local instance where anyone can view all of the public chatter on the server. Mastodon sums it best with this description:
To allow you to discover potentially interesting content, Mastodon provides a way to browse all public posts. Well, there is no global shared state between all servers, so there is no way to browse all public posts. When you browse the federated timeline, you see all public posts that the server you are on knows about. There are various ways your server may discover posts, but the bulk of them will be from people that other users on your server follow.There is a way to filter the federated timeline to view only public posts created on your server: The local timeline. Mind that โlocalโ here refers to the server, not to a geographical location. (Mastodon Documentation)
Pixelfed has a local timeline, but it is not publicly accessible to Threads, which explains why the site is muting the entire Pixelfed ecosystem and any other Fediverse instances that decline to allow Threads to access the public timeline without permission.
The Pixelfed creator Dan may resolve this issue by allowing instance admins to create a publicly accessible feed to allow their respective users to communicate with the greater Threads community.
However, in hindsight, it might be wise to leave it off by default, especially with numerous tech companies scouring the web to train the synthetic brains of artificial intelligence programs (Meta included, props to @r_alb@mastodon.social for alerting me about this).
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