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This is one of my favorite weird mice: a Bluetooth combo mouse and number pad with built in calculator, made by Canon. There’s a button you can use to send the result of your calculations to the computer.

using "???" CWs to make you pay attention to what nonsense I'm saying

hey artists who sell stuff at booths

HOW.

How do you find places to set up a booth?

Indy has fuck all when it comes to art fairs, i found only one that is explicitly queer friendly and thats not til june

what terms do i need to be searching

“In 2023 alone, Canoo had to fork over 1.7 million dollars for the aircraft. The revenue generated last year amounts to 886,000 – which is a lot more than the zero dollars Canoo earned in 2022, but not enough to cover the CEO’s use of his aircraft. Let alone any other investments on top of that.

The private jet is owned by Aquila Family Ventures, an entity owned by Canoo’s CEO. And the 1.7 million dollars just cover ‘aircraft reimbursements’. Aquila Family Ventures apparently also received $1.7 million in 2023 for shared services support in its corporate office facilities in Justin, Texas.”

electrive.com/2024/04/08/canoo

If you're a psychologist and you work for insurance companies reviewing claims for "medical necessity," I'm going to ask you for two favors:

1. Re-think your life choices.
2. Make sure you're actually qualified to speak to the population you're assessing. If you deny autism testing as unnecessary, I'm going to google you, and if you have no training in autistic adults I am going to tell my client how they can contact your licensing board and report you for practicing outside your scope.

Mede-autisten:

Wat vinden jullie van de afkorting 'auti-', zoals bijvoorbeeld gebruikt in een woord als auti-café?

Het komt mij nogal infantiliserend over, maar ik aarzel om daar een sterk standpunt over in te nemen, omdat ik mijn diagnose nog maar kort heb... Niet dat ik dan minder recht op een mening heb, maar toch...

I feel like an important realisation for a lot of autistic people is "I'm not actually antisocial, I just want the right company".

Artikel over de kraak in Den Bosch:

"Een gesprek tussen de twee partijen zal niet plaatsvinden: “We willen met iedereen in gesprek, maar niet op deze manier. Je kan niet ergens inbreken en dan een gesprek eisen”, aldus Touw [woordvoerder van woningcorporatie]."

Uhu, ja hoor, natuurlijk. 🙄 Jullie "willen met iedereen in gesprek" maar heel toevallig niet met de mensen die je beleid (al heel lang) bekritiseren...

Time for another round of "is it phishing or is it not?" - guess!

Software usually has extraordinarily high margins. Tech’s nonsense management tactics are contingent on being able to float shit away on a tide of money. You only get away with bullshit software dev, shipping abysmal apps, and constant security lapses if you are making an obscene amount of money

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I assume that people who need to know this would already know it, but I am not such a person and did not know it, so I will pass this on from a correspondent who wishes to remain nameless: There's a FOSS menstrual cycle and fertility tracking app named "drip." created by feminist female developers with privacy at its foundation. I'm not qualified to opine about its safety or security but developers say everything stays on your device: f-droid.org/packages/com.drip/

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The biggest lie in tech?

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unsolicited advice, paper shredders 

@helle If it needs to be shredded unrecoverably, beware of hardware store shredders - they just cut it into strips that are trivial to put back together. A crosscut shredder is needed to shred 'properly'. Cheapest non-crap one I know of is the one that Lidl sells online.

Wir haben das Wochenende genutzt, um im Alaunpark ein paar Flyer zu verteilen. Mit dem guten Wetter geht auch die Kontrollsaison der #Polizei wieder los. Mit unseren Flyern seid ihr auf einen Blick informiert: Was sind eure Rechte in einer Kontrollsituation? Was sind eure Pflichten? Was könnt ihr tun, um anderen zu helfen?

#Polizeikontrollen sind für die Mehrheitsgesellschaft überhaupt kein Thema. Wer hingegen nicht dazu gehört / gehören soll und als "anders" wahrgenommen wird, erlebt sie ständig. Das kostet Nerven & Zeit und nicht selten auch Geld. Viele Strafanzeigen entstehen erst als Folge solcher Kontrollen. Nicht weil vorher etwas vorgefallen wäre, sondern weil Beamt*innen im Nachgang Anzeigen stellen, weil Betroffene sich nicht "angemessen" verhalten.

#Kriminalstatistik #Repression #racialprofiling #Rassismus #Dresden

suicidality 

Context: I am not actively suicidal, but do have suicidal thoughts that I’m talking to a therapist about.

Are there any suicide hotlines available in Germany that are actually safe for neurodivergent trans people? I have heard trans people having bad experiences with the German hotlines and would very much like to have an emergency plan in place.

Time for another round of "is it phishing or is it not?" - guess!

Quick reminder to upload your SpotPass data right now! This has to be done before tomorrow and only takes a few minutes. ​:retootPlz:

Follow the guide on SpotPass Archival Project or if you have a modded 3DS, follow these quick instructions below:

Using FBI, scan the attached QR code (it's a link to the 3dsx of SpotPassDumper11) to download the required utility. Your 3DS will have to be connected to the Internet.
Open the Homebrew Launcher.
Scroll down to SpotPassDumper11 and then click on it.
Your BOSS data will be automatically extracted and uploaded! You are done!!

#3DS #WiiU #Nintendo #Homebrew

starting a cleaning service for people with ADHD. I won’t be doing any of the actual cleaning, I’ll just be calling you at random times to tell you I’m on my way to your house and I’ll be there in about 45 minutes

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