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Who running Mastodon dot social could possibly imagine that having unrestricted sign-ups and far too few volunteer or paid admins could possibly lead to waves of spam? This whole "internet" thing certainly does not contain any precedents for this sort of behavior or problems of scale. Gotta re-learn everything, every time.

I had a thing yesterday where a mutual made a joke that was likely supposed to be lewd. Someone replied with a follow up joke. I had another joke to that reply and I was typing it up and then I was like “wait, just because this person is telling a sexual joke does not actually mean they want one in response. Being mutuals does not mean I have carte blanche. Don’t be a weirdo” Thought it might be useful to read. Just because someone does something doesn’t mean you can also do it. And being mutuals doesn’t mean there aren’t boundaries. And at the end of the day, is the joke you’re thinking of saying even that funny? Probably not.

Attached: 1 image An environmental message we can all get behind

The best way to learn something is to teach it to someone. I practice this in small ways by recapping people’s explanations of how something works in meetings and document reviews.

Attached: 1 image Genius, minimizing public disruption while hitting the leeches where it hurts the most. Maximum impact, minimum inconvenience.

there’s something really weird in tech about the number of people who will in complete sincerely say, the answer came to me in a dream or in the shower, when they should also visibly be getting more sleep and showering more often

Trump: I will 100-fucking percent be a dictator. GOP: Trump is not a dictator 🙄 Trump: No seriously I'm already planning on killing my enemies and I will kill you too. New York Times: Can Trump really be as nice and friendly as he seems.

Dark colorscheme for gvim and vim. Contribute to srcery-colors/srcery-vim development by creating an account on GitHub.

The sentence “professionally successful but not socially” will be going round in my head for a long time. Like, drag me 😂

you don't let your enemy claim territory in your autonomous zone without being contested every step of the way, read sun tzu

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Okay I said I wasn’t bothered at all by the outcome but, I am starting to feel quite I don’t know, strange? My weak ability to notice my own emotions due to autism is complicating my ability to know how I feel about that lol

I want to do a dramatic reading of my Autism report when it’s done and sent to me next weekish

✋ Apple Software Update 👉 iPatch

Attached: 2 images I'm confused. I know it's a common acronym, but there seems to be conflicting definitions? #bdsm

"Can you arrange that?"

I live every day like it's my last: stricken with the paralysing terror of my own impending mortality

2004: Panic At The Disco 2024: Dissociation At The Gangbang

hear me out, a social platform for kinky people with anxiety, called Fretlife

the irony of Global Orgasm Day only coming once a year

As a "clean as you go" person, I'm firmly of the opinion that tech debt tickets are a good way to ensure tech debt never gets cleaned up.

Been thinking about autism a lot lately, and how my autism explains so much about my life and my relationships in retrospect. It's like I kept looking at things as this chaotic explosions of interactions and suddenly shifted my perspective and everything lines up in a way that makes sense.

Being trans really *isn't* about feeling trapped in the wrong body, it's about feeling trapped in the wrong society.

who has two thumbs a fat arse “limited social interaction” “overly formal speech” “professional success” “social unsuccess” “lack of reciprocity” “poor theory of mind” “a solution focus” and “difficulty expressing and understanding his own needs” Me, the officially diagnosed Autistic fucker

Content warning: Autistic realization

Extra special ❤️ to my fellow high functioners. There’s nothing easy about grinding to a halt, but there’s also a special kind of hell for people who continue to function and seem normal. It feels like drowning in plain sight. And on that note, the phrase “it’s OK not to be OK” can pop itself right in the sea as far as I’m concerned. Tolerance of poor mental health is bare minimum. Being not OK isn’t OK. People don’t need “permission” to be in that place, they need to be helped out of it.

TW: Suicide 2 nights ago I was in the worst place I’ve been mentally for years. I didn’t want to be alive anymore and I didn’t plan to act on it but I know it’s a short step from there. I sent a mayday text to 3 of my closest people and within 20 mins had someone with me. After a big chat, and 2 days of proper sleep, eating well, seeing friends and healthy distraction, I’m feeling much calmer and I can see the woods from the trees. Cont…

You say: I’ve a weird brain what my brain hears: another new potential friend, squeeeeeeee

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When you’re estranged from your bio family and you have a compact with your partner to never buy holiday gifts, you realise how absolutely fucking mental every else becomes in December.

After more than 11 years, HashiCorp Co-Founder Mitchell Hashimoto pens a heartfelt goodbye letter to the company he helped create.

I need to read about this "Torment Nexus". I'm getting big "I wasn't old enough to know this book existed nor did I know anyone who did" energy whenever I see it

Attached: 2 images Hi so I literally got this in the mail

There's a decent chance Republicans start a civil war if Trump loses. But there's also a decent chance they'll start a civil war if they read the wrong Facebook post about Etsy.

Ask an autistic woman if she is currently masking and there's a good chance the answer will be "Hrm… I don't know…"

With thanks to Tidelift, who let me use my remote office budget on a full size whiteboard while I worked there. Some problems just really need a giant whiteboard to solve :blobcatmaths:

I love this website that gives me warm feelings of materiality and haven't shared it in a long time, so here goes: https://ohhelloana.blog/ by @ohhelloana@mastodon.social 💜

"Dear DEADNAME, We are contacting you about a new survey about the effect of COVID-19 on you and your family…" Okay, so the most interesting effect is that my name is now Terra and I have big tits…

I guess I'm back here specifically only for the use case of people tagging me to talk about research I love :)