Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

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".

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

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: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.drip/

The biggest lie in tech?

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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

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.

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

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

the thing that always cracks me up about some romantic dramas is how there is a trope of forbidden love and the couple is. white allocishet abled neurotypical man and woman with barely any age gap.

It's only proton if it comes from the valve region of Linux, otherwise it's just sparkling wine

seriously: a lot of “multilingual programming” stuff seems to focus around esoteric languages where all the keywords are replaced with a different language’s keywords.

But what if we didn’t have to go that far? What if the focus was to let folks write in their natural, preferred input method without having to switch to “special” ascii range characters that just won’t look right?

What if we just use the stuff that Unicode is already providing us, like character tags and equivalence rules, to make things easier for folks outside the tech-privileged sphere?

For all you nonbelievers, I’m genuinely trying to make this happen now, because kdl 2.0 is hella scope creeped already so why not

Anyway come join the discussion if you have some thoughts. The most compelling thing anyone said was when @janl said this would bring the language out of the 70s. Let’s explore the space!!

https://toot.cat/@zkat/112222977514263294

Yes. This is a callout to people thinking that they aren’t doing all they can, or those thinking that they should be doing more for whatever ails you.