A fascinating behind-the-scenes video of how a ropeway really works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhI_1Yi5CtQ
When asking your #autistic friend how they figured out that they are, in fact, autistic, keep this in mind:
Autism is defined as a collection of traits. Each trait, when viewed in isolation, can seem perfectly innocuous.
So when your friend gives an example of something they struggle with, you might be tempted to say, "but I do that too, and I'm not autistic" or "but everyone does that".
Your friend is only sharing a small fraction of the long list of ways in which they're different. That list is always very long, and kind of personal too. It's also difficult (and sometimes embarrassing) to convey the intensity of each item on that list.
Autistic people who weren't diagnosed in childhood frequently struggle with autistic imposter syndrome, and your kindly meant "well, everyone's a bit on the spectrum" or "you don't seem autistic!" can be painful and invalidating.
What. The. Fuck.
Een meerderheid van de Tweede Kamer heeft ingestemd met een motie van de fascistische partij JA21 om asielzoekers naar Rwanda te sturen. Kritiekpunten waren vooral dat het praktisch niet uitvoerbaar is... Dat het in strijd met de mensenrechten en meerdere Europese en andere internationale verdragen is heeft de Tweede kamer kennelijk niet tegengehouden.
Naast verbazing ben ik gewoon bang. Een dergelijk plan is al eens eerder geopperd. Toen was het Madagascar waar de Nazi's alle Joden heen wilden sturen. Dat bleek alleen praktisch niet haalbaar, zoals er nu ook vooral praktische bezwaren zijn geuit tegen het Rwandaplan. De volgende stap waren concentratiekampen...
Laat dat even tot je doordringen. De Tweede Kamer is één stap verwijderd van het creëren van concentratiekampen.
https://www.platformstopracisme.nl/stop-het-extreemrechtse-rwanda-plan/
“i just think it’s weird that it hasn’t happened yet. all those in tact windows for so long. it’s unnatural. i have serious questions” says children’s music performer, the blue wiggle
Gal Bardot, president of the Percussive Buillding Ventillation Institute says bricks through windows can have many positive mental health outcomes
If you wanted to spend just one minute talking to every person on the planet, it would take you more than 200 lifetimes to do so*.
So don’t waste even a minute on some cynical troll or sea lion.
Block and move on.
Life’s too short and there are countless people out there more worthy of your time.
💕
* 8,000,000,000 people * 1 minute / 60 minutes / 24 hours / 30 days / 12 months / 73.4 years average life expectancy in 2019 according to WHO data.
NL politics
So one of the election policy points here is "giving firearms to not-quite-cops [who haven't had deescalation training]" (think kinda like mall cops, but typically city-employed).
*How the fuck* are many of the supposedly leftist parties open to this idea, and moreso, *how the fuck* is it the fascist parties pointing out that "this is a terrible idea"???
I know it upsets a lot of people when I point out hypocrisy in the way liberal policy conversations seem to ignore a still grave threat for millions of people in #COVID , but I do it for the same reason you want less guns.
All ages are being hurt. Hundreds of thousands will die every year from acute infection or complications from that infection.
If you want less guns, you should want less COVID transmission. But you can't just hope for it.
#WearAMask N95+ push for more, not less, protections
Great news for trans Apple developers: In Xcode 14.3 beta, the Authors view and other git features now support mailmap files. That means you can make old commits show your chosen name instead of your deadname without the disruption of rewriting the repo’s history.
I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of seeing my name next to code I wrote before I was out!
Over the past year or so something I've been really unpacking is how badly brainwashed I am by this particular nasty phase of capitalism where you have to have a ~thing~ and market yourself as the ~thing~ to the detriment of your wholeness. There are so many things I am interested in, I have a variety of skills and perspectives that in some ways converge and in other ways do not.
the collapse of google search results as a useful source of accurate information is a boon to screenwriters everywhere. "why didn't they just google the house to see if it was haunted" they did and the top ten entries were identical automatically generated real estate ads on different seo-scumming websites
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
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Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.