Maybe I need to get some bear stuff. Maybe that's what I'm missing. I've wanted a bearsuit for decades now and still haven't got that far, but maybe random small bear stuff would help.
Bear painting on wood for #anthrocon art show! I'm so happy with how it turned out. Our bear friend is using some nature magic to grow a new tree to heal the forest.
Edit to add: this wood was acquired second hand and reused!
@Kitt / Basil 🌻 I should! (I don't know what, though, or where from, or anything. I've never been one for trinkets and ornaments… Maybe I need to ask family for bear stuff for xmas. 🤷♂️)
Bear painting on wood for #anthrocon art show! I'm so happy with how it turned out. Our bear friend is using some nature magic to grow a new tree to heal the forest.
Edit to add: this wood was acquired second hand and reused!
Tomorrow, it's time return to work after the normal month off to be gay, start taking down the queer tree (or leave it up if you're tacky like that), and resume being straight and cis for the rest of the year.
I'm surveying modern day awareness/usage of optical media, mostly to confirm some demographic theories, so if you know what a CD/DVD is, please help me (and maybe others) out by answering some ~10 questions here:
I watch movies and tv shows on DVD/Blu Ray almost every week. Was an early adopter of DVD in 1999 and never stopped using the format. I still buy music CDs. As regards burning, haven’t done that for a while. I tend to back up all my discs to external HDs, though. I only stream if the movie or show I want to see isn’t available physically.
This. I’ve actually read a good chunk of it. More people should ‘cause Biden’s performance during that debate fucking pales in comparison to the ramifications if these assholes get more control #FucktRump #FuckMAGA #FuckTheGoddamnHeritageFoundation #VoteBlueGoddamit
Been seeing stuff about the BBC cutting out a massive chunk of this scene in Transformers Earthspark where Nightshade learns what non-binary means (and that it's a word that applies to them) and I'm just utterly fucked off by the sheer pointless cruelty of it https://youtu.be/Vd0F3EQ9PzQ?si=G9IVppKHddcfCeqQ
Me: "I'm not that gay, girls are just cool" Car Mechanic Witch: existsMe: akln;asdxcvjkl;n asdfvjl;nawesdvweasf ui;nas uoj;erasdfasefduo;bnfea;iohnasdsf;iohihnasd;fouhna 🥺 Source: fixupx.com/SimzArts/status/1768782605204213994
Finished installing the work I designed and made for the furry pride float for Seattles pride parade! Super happy with how it turned out and I will talk about it more in the future when I’m not tired from workin on stuff!
A military lab found distinctive damage from repeated blast exposure in every brain it tested, but Navy SEAL leaders were kept in the dark about the pattern.
I've lived in Pittsburgh 3 years. During that time, I've actively sought out folks doing good work in growing food, protecting the environment, & building community resilience. I am *constantly* discovering new people, new groups, new work that's amazing.
Whatever you think should be happening in your world, there's probably someone already working on it in your back yard.
You don't have to reinvent the wheel to change the world: just find the wheel makers & give them a hand.
bro all these youtube videos about "debloating" windows and you gotta run a ton of batch and powershell scripts and run sketchy software and type shit into the command line and disable a bunch of security stuff
and then these same people say "linux is too hard" cmon 😭
It took a while but the penny's dropped and I now think I understand Starmer's methodology. He's playing this election like a barrister plays a brief. It's not about belief in his client, pursuit of truth, a vision of the future, it's solely about pitching an argument to the audience he sees before him to get the result the client requires.
I'm not seeing a credible solution to Britain's housing crisis from any of the parties. It's all "Here, have more unsustainable debt", or "It's the immigrants' fault", as they pander to elderly NIMBYs.
When I see a party that will tax second homes and buy to lets into oblivion, control rents, come down hard on dodgy landlords, rebuild the social housing stock, and build build build like it's 1948, then I will sit up and take notice.
I think all the parties suffer a bit from being the kind of people who have rental properties and second homes, in their top echelons. They simply don't understand the scale of the problem.
This is bonkers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_polymorphs Some pharmaceutical crystals can no longer be synthesised because they now spontaneously change to a more stable (but less medically efficacious) form. The more stable form acts as a seed crystal for the less stable form, and once this happens it creates a cascading effect, in which people who have ever worked with the stable form can contaminate an entire factory/lab and make it unable to reproduce the earlier form.
Content warning: The Cass Report/transphobia in science (cis people in particular please read this, includes a link to a study showing all the ways the report is biased and pretty overtly shaped by bigotry)
The Cass Report and the 'results' it claims to show are in no way scientific, factual, good faith, or really anything but transphobic drivel.
Science has a long history of bad actors using "research" shaped by their own bigotry to perpetuate and legitimize systematic harm to disenfranchised groups, because a lot of people trust research to be unbiased and based on fact. Choices of methodology, what data is included or highlighted, how results are framed and shared, and so much more of are all *choices* that can lead to studies looking at the same people/data/concepts getting the exact opposite results. The choices made in creating The Cass Report are pointedly and purposefully transphobic.
Researchers are people, and some people are driven more by their horrific bigotry than anything else. The Cass Report was not made to advance our understanding of the world, it was made to advance the goals of transphobia.
The report is already being used to defend anti-trans ideas and influence legislation in the UK and US and transphobes will undoubtedly use it to further transphobia in every place and way they can.
Cis people- please take the time to educate yourselves on transphobia. I highly recommend reading this study looking at the choices made in creating the report and explaining how and why it’s results are biased and in no way good science: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26895269.2024.2328249. Share what you learn, correct EVERYONE you see talking about the Cass Report uncritically, and be better allies overall.
-a trans person with a professional background in research and degree focused on LGBTQIA+ research in particular who has personally designed and conducted studies relating to gender and sexuality
> you are touch starved > you go on the internet > you find other gay people > you make a lot of friends > they live on the other side of the world > you are touch starved > you start saving up money
Welp, as I warned, SCOTUS overturned Chevron. This was the holy grail for polluters, and all mega-wealthy conservative extremists. It will be used to gut almost every environmental, health and welfare regulation passed since the 1930s. It’s simply the biggest harm of the conservative age yet, but our complicit press fails to alert the public.
1. We either see the point of learning a thing, or we don’t. ‘Incentives’ and ‘consequences’ do little to change that.
When we don’t see the point, we might really try (especially e.g. if we like the teacher a lot) but honestly… it’s like catching smoke in your hand. It just ain’t happening. 😔
4. We’re 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.
5. Often, things we get punished for aren’t voluntary! Not only that, we may have literally no idea we’re doing them (foot-tapping? Hair-twiddling? Pacing? Zoning out?).
7. (If we notice) we may not be able to bear seeing the pain of others when we win at things. We’ll give the prize we won straight to that little girl who cried after she moved in Musical Statues – thereby ruining the whole point of the game.
We don’t 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 – like, a detention.
9. We don’t get why some people would be ‘more equal’ than others.
To us, everyone is *actually* equal. The only reason we’d revere and follow a certain person, in any scenario, is if they were clearly the most knowledgeable or skilled in the task at hand.
10. We have laser-beam awareness about unfairness. We spot injustice like a big red stain in the snow. That doesn’t mean we necessarily know whose body’s lying there… or why (or even if!). We just see the stain. Aarrggh.
This isn’t 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).
So I think it’s not so much to wonder at, really, that autistic people struggle so much in an education system that consistently uses ‘sticks’ and ‘carrots’ to get kids to conform to its competitive norms.
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.
@Matt Sqwrl I'm sorry, I don't really know what to say, I'm just depressed and lonely and kind of trapped looking after very elderly parents and almost everyone else seems to have a partner (the best kind of close friend, surely) and I've never had that, and I want that so much.
@Matt Sqwrl No, I haven't really used vr chat at all. I did try it once quite a few years ago, looked around a few worlds, but never actually talked to anyone.
@Matt Sqwrl Apart from social anxiety making it hard to talk to people anyway, it seems VR Chat now needs me to voluntarily rootkit my machine before I'm allowed to use it. (I last tried it 3 years ago, apparently.) Seems they're worried I might cheat at socialising. Do you know if many people use other "chat in VR" things (Neos and Resonite I think are similar?)
I think Neos imploded, the main dev moved to Resonite. Not sure how many users. VRC had a lot of problems with people modding clients so they could do obnoxious stuff, flashing images, noises, crash your game etc so yeah it got that anti cheat stuff.
