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Listening to the music of the spheres, enchanted.

Interrupted by a Fairy Liquid ad.

I actually use Fairy Liquid, the product is good and reliable. I genuinely like it. Others are cheaper but dissipate quickly. A bottle of Fairy lasts forever. (Yes I am doing the dishes in our family. Yes, FL is great.) I recommend Fairy to others if they ask.

Please, Fairy marketing team, please let me listen to Max Richter without interruption. I love his music. He's a good man. He understands things. I want to listen to him.

I will buy another bottle of Fairy when the current one has run out. Despite your ad. Despite it, not because of it. Give your product a chance.

Alright, let me explain the whole thing again. Basically what's going on is that I'm getting more comfortable actually being myself. Okay, simple example, it was easy to order for everyone at the restaurant today. Why? Because I'm just used to talking to people because I've done it so much the last few days that I'm starting to get desensitized. This lets me say and do more of what I actually want to do (#authenticity) and that keeps turning out fine and so I get more comfortable. Feedback loop.

Hey #leathercommunity, #kinkcommunity , #rubbercommunity. As I've been thinking about what's going on. We can no longer afford to "not rock the boat" and we must stand together with #authenticity in #solidarity for #intersectionality and show up for #socialjustice. Our existence is inherently political. Remember the poem, "first they came for".

Thinking about signs related to our identities saying that we stand with/for relevant causes under attack by fascism.

Another thing I've noticed recently is that my natural noises for effort or exasperation or upset are really quite feminine, which I was mocked for endlessly ... I would say as a child but the offender continued to do it long after.... Anyway, I've noticed that I can finally make those natural sounds, authentically, and not cringe (conditioned trauma) internally. Because now, to me, they make sense. And I'm not trying to fit who I am sexually or gender-wise into some dumb paper model.
#trans
#revelations
#authenticity

This week, I have discovered something important about myself: I am AuDhd — autistic and ADHD.

A few years ago, close family suggested that I might be autistic. I started to wonder too, but life kept moving and I pushed it aside. Recently, my psychologist recommended a full assessment. I decided it was time to find out.

Now it’s confirmed. I’m officially diagnosed.

It’s life-changing.
It’s a revelation.
It explains so much about who I am and how my brain works.

I finally have answers to the questions I’ve carried for years. Why I think the way I do. Why I experience the world so intensely. Why things that seem “easy” for others cost me so much energy.

I’ve already spent time grieving the parts of my life shaped by misunderstanding — both from others and from myself. This diagnosis doesn’t change who I am. It simply gives me language for it. It makes sense of a lifetime of being “too much,” “too sensitive,” “too intense.”

I’m not broken.
I’m not a failed version of normal.
I’m neurodivergent — and there is strength in that.

I'm still learning what Unmasking for me means, but here are a few things i plan to start doing:

• Asking for clarity instead of masking confusion
• Setting up my life around my brain’s natural rhythms
• Refusing to apologise for my sensory needs
• Speaking plainly about how I experience the world

Getting this diagnosis is not an end. It’s a beginning.

If you’re walking this path too — late-diagnosed, learning who you really are underneath the masks — you are not alone.

We are allowed to exist as we are.

I’m AuDHD.
I’m proud.
I’m building a life that finally makes sense.

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The last part of the book Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves discusses conversations between people who may not agree. Other books have tackled this subject at length, so I won’t rehash the ideas here.

While some of the ideas in the book aren’t new (to me), I think they could be applied to collective benefit, both in person and on social media. Less one-upmanship, fewer “gotcha” questions, less correction, less ego. More question asking, more connection, and more kindness, most of all.

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My 12yo daughter is into the Young Sheldon series right now. Sometimes she invites me in for a shared viewing. (I treasure it while it lasts.) So it came to pass that I saw young Sheldon's too-good-to-be-true grandma quoting Sissy Spacek to Sheldon, as a role model of Texan resilience.

That made me remember and cherish how much I love the work of Sissy Spacek.

Sissy Spacek is right, whatever she does. A real actor, flawless, giving life and depth to every character she plays. I know next to nothing about her, but I do know that she has the magic touch.

Thank you, Young Sheldon, and thank you, my daughter, for this reconnection.

"I do not want a computer to summarise texts sent by my friends into shorter sentences, as though the work of being updated on the lives of those I love is somehow strenuous or not what being alive is all about."

Writer and painter Joseph Earp nails it in this Guardian essay.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · AI promises to free up time. But what if it spares us from learning, writing, painting and exploring the world?By Joseph Earp

"Franse overheid voert phishingtest uit op 2,5 miljoen leerlingen"
security.nl/posting/881630/Fra

KRANKZINNIG!

Het is meestal onmogelijk om nepberichten (e-mail, SMS, ChatApp, social media en papieren post - zie plaatje) betrouwbaar van echte te kunnen onderscheiden.

Tegen phishing en vooral nepwebsites is echter prima iets te doen, zoals ik vandaag nogmaals beschreef in security.nl/posting/881655.

(Big Tech en luie websitebeheerders willen dat niet, dus is en blijft het een enorm gevecht).

So much of my life is performative, it's annoying. Like even my studying. I just want to get to the end of the flashcard stack and am not focused on actually being honest with myself and learning anything. What a waste of time. This shit is going to take a while to overcome.

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@fsinn @human3500 @gemelliz

Since COVID, it seems we've lost our minimum bar: there are no parameters to define acceptable behavior anymore.

A lot / enough of society thinks whack-a-doos like this are some form of "normal". They're not! 🤪

In the movie Ryan's Daughter, Michael, a man from the village and played superbly by John Mills, was an honest genuine soul that understood respect, in spite of all his challenges. A novel concept for many these days ...

Canadian politics isn't about who gets to play banker and real estate agent and he/she who bankrupts all the other players is the winner. It's about making a level playing field for all as we help those in need.

Biggest phishing-test in history

So some weirdo, possibly Elon Musk, instructs you to reply by mail informing him what you did last week.

😱 You will be fired if you do - for failing the phishing test. You should have known that it's a hoax because Elon Musk just fired all the people who could read all of those mails.

And you should have known that you should not share confidential information via email because you don't know for sure who the recipient is. Neither do you know who reads the mail "on its way" and neither does the recipient know that you are who you say that you are.

Finaly, some mail ends up in spam boxes or gets dropped for frivolous reasons (Postel@RFC5321.whatever.tld)
(edited 17:23 UTC - corrected the RFC nr. 825 is not SMTP - sorry!)

😱 You will be fired if you don't.

It's a witch hunt. The Trump govt throws you in the water. You are not a witch if you drown.

blogs.loc.gov/law/2022/02/swim

“But although the cliché says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals.

“When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary.

“But as a man obtains more power, camouflage becomes less necessary.”

- Robert Caro (2012)