Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

current IETF status: "one way to get people to actually engage with a document is to go to last call, so lets do that"

@Vitchu@corteximplant.com

Oh this is upsetting. Who designed this

Random thought/question - Is it possible for those of us who are #actuallyautistic to bring a class action #lawsuit against legal firms that try to claim #Autism is caused by things like taking Tylenol during pregnancy since we've known for a fact that Autism is genetic since the 1970s & claims like this make life harder for us Autistic folks?

made a palette for the lospec palette contest, based on pictures taken with disposable cameras

#lospec #palettes #PixelArt

But how can I hear “diverse opinion” if X opinions are banned/blocked/moderated in the first place?

There is no space where all opinions are welcome. It simply does not exist. Some opinions are going to force out others.

If you run a space where Nazi opinions are okay to speak, you can't really expect to hear Jewish opinions. Or opinions of PoC or queer people or disabled people and so on and so on.

So most places do the calculations. You can ban this one view. And in return an entire spectrum of views becomes more welcome.

Bigotry is a painfully simple, painfully shallow, and painfully boring viewpoint. It is almost completely one-dimensional, simplifiable to the idea that the "other" is inferior or dangerous and is to be shunned or feared. It is a viewpoint that we all already know, one we have all already heard. Banning it loses us almost nothing, and in return we gain so, so many more valuable insights.

Utrecht Centraal by night.

fun fact: if you design a product that takes a barrel-jack plug, and don't specify anywhere if it's center-positive or center-negative, you go to hell when you die

OH “This train will be diverted to the classic line. Our delay will be 20 minutes”

Train then takes the fly-over to the high speed line 🙃

🇬🇧 The failed cover-up of the EU Commission's anti-encryption group shows: #Chatcontrol is the product of the lobby of an international intelligence-industrial complex. Netzpolitik.org reports (in German): https://netzpolitik.org/2023/geheime-liste-wie-der-sicherheitsapparat-die-chatkontrolle-praegt/

instead of just telling them to "use linux" maybe we should work on legislating more rights for software users across the board legally instead of making them reinstall their OS

"If you ever see a black light but the bulb itself glows blue: that's not a black light but an unshielded UV lamp" is not something I thought would have to be survival knowledge but here we hecking are I guess.

@actuallyautistic @neurodivergents

In case this helps anyone, here's one of my best Autistic hacks for dealing with intrusive thoughts and anxiety spirals. ( This works for me because I'm by myself a lot.)

When the thought spiralling starts, I choose a mildly complex subject that interests me, and explain it out loud. Over and over again, trying to get the explanation as clear as possible.

I do this when I go for a walk, when I'm driving, or just pacing at home.

Topics that work for me: how binary numbers work in comparison to decimal numbers, the rules of a board game, the various ebook formats and how they compare, the motivations of characters in a book I'm enjoying, the best way to introduce a new rat to an established group of rats, how to set up an aquarium, and so on.

Apart from soothing my brain, it also helps me to assert this behavior as normal for me, where previously I was hyper aware how others might judge it as weird.

#ActuallyAutistic

I click the little box, but honestly I’m not sure that I’m not a robot.

A new acronym that just muscled its way into my head: MOLaR

Megaproject
Of
Last
Resort

Action films are chock full of MOLaRs:
- Shuttles in Armageddon
- Jaegers in Pacific Rim
- Nuclear Sun Rebooter Spacecraft in Sunshine
- Magma Doom Trains in The Core
- etc.

A lot of #geoengineering proposals also have a MOLaR vibe to them.