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âĄď¸Incredible footage of a lightning bolt hitting and decimating a large tree in AugĂŠ, western France earlier today. CreditďźBenjamin Estrade
#Lightening #LighteningStrike #Thunderbolt
"You better⌠or else!"
Ten reasons why rewards & punishments go a bit wrong with autistics
#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticLearning #Education
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Ugh. I posted a small thread using Tusky, earlier, and for some reason it decided to post it private. Not friends-only or even mutuals-only, I mean *completely* private. Me only. (I can only guess I set it like that for a post in the past, and it's remembered it forever.) No wonder no one responded. I wonder how many times it's done that before now. Oh well, here it is again:
Watching Ron's Gone Wrong again. Again again. I realised, with this film being about friends, it's about how⌠depth is more important than surface area. I guess I just like stories about making friends. Something I want to have done but find so difficult to actually do. At least, when it comes to depth rather than just surface area.
[Ron]: A bird has commented on your face.
I watch and read these stories about friendships and they make me feel I've never had an actual real close friend in my life, never really had more than moderate acquaintances, but I don't know whether that's true or if what's being shown in the stories is actually unrealistically good friendships or not. I always assumed many people did have friends as close as that.
I *thought* there was a reason I like watching this stuffâŚ!
(The hermits I subscribe to are Impulse, Skizzleman and Etho.)
Hermitcraft is a YouTube show with people like Mumbo Jumbo, Grian, XisumaVoid, GoodtimeswithScar, and 23 others. Right now they are on Hermitcraft Season 10....YouTube
Right-wing politicians often talk about "generating wealth" and market efficiencies, but what they REALLY want to do is EXTRACT wealth and CONCENTRATE capital.
Take, for instance, their treatment of homelessness. Study after study PROVES that it's just more efficient to provide housing for people, but they instead want to force them into for-profit prisons. This costs the government tons of money to fund, but keeps housing expensive and lets their friends get paid to run slave labor camps.
Their goal isn't to grow the economy, but rather to make their friends richer at the people's expense.
All those oil wars? NOT PROFITABLE to the country as a whole. However, government contractors & connected oligarchs (eg: Haliburton executives in the white house AKA Dick Cheney) get to syphon off funds and use those ill-gotten gains to further corrupt the system and cement their positions.
It's a scam, enabled by oligarch-controlled media and just enough trickle down to stop the pitchforks
This #FursuitFriday I'm sharing photos AND determining local interest with the help of @ashke.bsky.social!
Do any of the following interest you?
đ´ Riding horses in and/or out of fursuit
đď¸ Beach party with furry friends
đ¸ Photo opportunities galore and incredible views
#FursuitFriday and a warm weekend is ahead of us. Remember to stay hydrated. So drink plenty or take a refreshing bath.
𪥠@Areksim (Vino Studios)
đ¸ @/CiferJackal
Well, it's finally happened.
In the wake of the antitrans legislation and social intolerance, plus double-curb stomps of overturning of Roe v Wade and the Chevron decision, my Dad's longtime girlfriend's ENTIRE FAMILY is leaving the USA. These are moneyed people. Their contributions to our economy are going away and we are all heartbroken to boot.
What a fucking nightmare. This is how the political is personal. These Justices and their cohorts now have *personal* beef with my family.
It's personal.
MasterCard, Tumblr, and now Etsy force their narrow, puritan views of decency on others. Announcing a ban on adult toys, Etsy gives existing retailers just one month to comply.
https://www.etsy.com/legal/policy/listing-mature-content-correctly/242665462117
https://mashable.com/article/etsy-to-ban-sale-of-most-sex-toys-explicit-content
Policy changes go into effect next month.Anna Iovine (Mashable)
This week I've been preparing for the first release of #OpenCrystalCaves! Most of the time was spent on fixing build scripts; between CMake, Github Actions, itch.io/butler and fixing multiplatform compile errors, I'm ready to shovel my eyeballs out with a rusty spoon. đď¸ đĽ đŠ¸
Fortunately I do have progress to show: the in-game quit menu works now, so you don't get stuck in a broken level! That's something, I guess...
#DOS #OpenSource #RetroGaming #CrystalCaves #GameDev #ScreenshotSaturday
Normalize cis people loving their gender.
I don't mean that toxic, competitive "I can gender better than you" crap. I mean taking joy in who you are. I think this is one place where cis folks could stand to learn a lot from the trans community. Y'all take your gender and who you are for granted.
Nearly every day, often several times a day, I stop, think, look down at myself, and go "I love being a girl!" I love everything about it from the new shape my body is taking to the long hair to the fuchsia dress I was wearing yesterday. I love being a girl! I don't need to compete with other girls and I know that I'd probably lose anyway, if I even tried. Y'all have a 30-year head start and less baggage. But I love it none the less. Nothing in my life brings me more joy right now than just getting to be me.
If you're a big guy who loves going to the gym, then love going to the gym. You can do that without putting anyone else down. If you're a woman who loves makeup, love that about yourself. If you're a woman who hates makeup or a guy who hates the gym, love that about yourself. You're a beautiful, amazing person regardless of what you do or enjoy and how that stacks up against anyone else. đ
U.K. Communist Party Backs Away Slowly After J.K. Rowling Expresses Support
âFor avoidance of doubt, the Communist Party supports the right of trans people to medically transition, to have access to healthcare and live equal, full and meaningful lives, socially, economically and politicallyâ
"can anyone help me test some development builds before we release"
*complete silence*
"ok I will just ship the release then, works fine when I tested it"
*makes a release*
one hour later: "I installed the latest version on android and my FPS is 43000 and my battery is now dead"
dude popping out of a well: "gee, open source really is buggy, they just ship new releases without caring to test it first"
I will never understand the British flag waving royal loving small boat hating thing
The royal family arrived uninvited in a flotilla of small boats in 1066 and they've been housed at the taxpayers expense ever since...
Sodapop got herself stuck upside down in the sofa cushion gap and couldn't roll herself out.
Needed rescuing.
Tiny idiot.
btw if anyone is hiring do drop me a line
my current cv/work history is at http://tef.computer/
(remote, uk based, database & backend dist-sys)
This is an absolutely metal business decision made by OpenDNS (Cisco).
Court orders in France and Portugal are requiring the big open DNS resolvers (Google, OpenDNS, CloudFlare, etc.) to block resolution of a small list of domains for anyone in those countries.
OpenDNS seems to have decided to not implement the blocklist, and instead will just not answer any DNS queries from inside those countries.
Change implemented on a Friday evening, for maximum surprise.
#DNS #DNSBlocking #MyHero
well that is complying with the order.
I am not surprised. Iâm almost surprised Google did not do the same, to be honest.
despite Cisco, I think the better option even if fucked up.
What's extra stupid is anyone who wants to get around it very easily can. Fucked how govs try to use law to enforce things like this that don't even have good technical means of tracking. Guh.
The New York Times says Trump has learned his lesson and has been chastened by his 34-count felony conviction.
financial crimes have exploded in the last 20 years to the tune of trillions; with #wageTheft being the single biggest crime committed in the United States every single day.
cops kill more innocent Americans than ever before; while stealing from & enriching themselves with impounded property & assets of extra-judicial suspects.
but #media really want you to believe that working class folks too sick to jump a turnstile means âcrimeâ is down.
don't let them lie to us like that.
IntriguingâŚI wanted to see if the same held true for UK. Sadly itâs not clear it does.
With result appearing to be sure thing, voters may decide to stay home or wavering Tories could drive changes in turnoutPaula Surridge (The Guardian)
There is no positive legacy of the #Sunak government.
Would a stronger, more politically savvy PM have taken on the tobacco lobbyists and called their lawfare out for what it wasâŚbasically ensuring another generation gets ensnared into a filthy, expensive, health destroying habit, so they always have a fresh group to sell vaping to?
Investigation details industry campaign including legal threats and charm offensive aimed at Tory MPsRob Davies (The Guardian)
There is a strong chance you are rightâŚI just have a feeling there will be some outlets, maybe the Times say, who will be itching to call out Labour hypocrisy. Iâm thinking along the lines of the criticism of Brownâs PFI experiments for hospitals.
John Mastodon, Kagari Atsuko, and Miss Key walk into a bar
the bartender says: there sure is a lot of activity in this pub tonight
1. We either see the point of learning a thing, or we donât. âIncentivesâ and âconsequencesâ do little to change that.
When we donât see the point, we might really try (especially e.g. if we like the teacher a lot) but honestly⌠itâs like catching smoke in your hand. It just ainât happening. đ
#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticLearning #Education
2. Weâre usually not very good at lying, or even exaggerating (in fact, for most of us it rarely occurs to us to do so).
Thatâs a real problem in an environment where everyoneâs striving for the prize.
#ActuallyAutistic
#AutisticLearning
#Education
3. Weâre not striving for the prize.
We may not have noticed there *is* a prize, as we were too busy learning. Often about something other than whatâs on the whiteboard.
#ActuallyAutistic
#AutisticLearning
#Education
4. Weâre totally puzzled when we get punished for doing what to us looked (obviously) by far the most important and interesting thing to do in the moment.
#ActuallyAutistic
#AutisticLearning
#Education
5. Often, things we get punished for arenât voluntary! Not only that, we may have literally no idea weâre doing them (foot-tapping? Hair-twiddling? Pacing? Zoning out?).
#ActuallyAutistic
#AutisticLearning
#Education
6. Our brain is liable to do a 'blue screen' on us when weâre under pressure or feel judged⌠or even just feel observed.
And the more anxious we are, the less we remember. We might forget even the basics, if it gets really bad! (Do I know how to hold a pen? UhâŚ)
#ActuallyAutistic
#AutisticLearning
#Education
7. (If we notice) we may not be able to bear seeing the pain of others when we win at things. Weâll give the prize we won straight to that little girl who cried after she moved in Musical Statues â thereby ruining the whole point of the game.
#ActuallyAutistic
#AutisticLearning
#Education
8. We question things the teacher says.
We donât mind being questioned about our special interests (not at all! It makes for an interesting conversation), so we have no idea why the teacher gets really angry and talks about something totally off-topic â like, a detention.
#ActuallyAutistic
#AutisticLearning
#Education
9. We donât get why some people would be âmore equalâ than others.
To us, everyone is *actually* equal. The only reason weâd revere and follow a certain person, in any scenario, is if they were clearly the most knowledgeable or skilled in the task at hand.
#ActuallyAutistic
#AutisticLearning
#Education
10. We have laser-beam awareness about unfairness. We spot injustice like a big red stain in the snow. That doesnât mean we necessarily know whose bodyâs lying there⌠or why (or even if!). We just see the stain. Aarrggh.
This isnât limited to unfairness towards ourselves. We can easily disintegrate if we witness it towards others, as well. Especially if those people have no voice (e.g. they might be furry and four-footed).
#ActuallyAutistic
#AutisticLearning
#Education
So I think itâs not so much to wonder at, really, that autistic people struggle so much in an education system that consistently uses âsticksâ and âcarrotsâ to get kids to conform to its competitive norms.
#ActuallyAutistic
#AutisticLearning
#Education #Competition #School
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I hope I've managed to bring across fully (between the lines, so to speak) how messed up all of this shows our system to be!
(I saw myself in your thread)