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• Post #4164799

  A disabled boat being towed into a marina we were in ourselves 2 months ago makes the orca situation very real. They attacked a second boat in the same place. It sank. Everyone is alive.

• Post #3942360

  Just hanging around

• Post #3570611

  Have you SEEN what nature just leaves lying around the place? Jeez

• Post #3499754

  Looks at packet of pseudoephedrine "Non drowsy" Has ADHD "You sure about that?"

• Post #2429393

  I am a fan of British sci fi author, Peter Hamilton. One trope he consistently returns to in his universes is the group of humans who buggered off somewhere to try to build a post scarcity society of some kind. And each new iteration, it feels like the seed group gets closer and closer to a transsexual polycule. And I’m utterly here for it.

• Post #2248484

  So an internet phenomenon I've encountered is the person who thinks that ADHD is being diagnosed willy-nilly, and that everyone is "seeking labels these days", and that "doctors hand out meds if you go in and say that you can't concentrate" Let's just examine this for a moment. I've said it often enough but I didn't realise before I got diagnosed and medicated what ADHD meds actually are. We all love to joke that they're speed, and when I first saw...

• Post #2039147

  Having one of those “oh god, the meds don’t work any more. I’m still time blind and distractible and have executive dysfunction. Everything is fucked” drops. And then I go into my room to get ready for bed past the washing machine that’s running and the dishwasher that has run twice today, been emptied twice, and refilled, under the clean and clutter-free work surface. The sink does not have a three week old pile of teabags in it. The bedroom floor when I get there has no clothes on it. My ch...

• Post #2019446

  I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. For the state to recognise this I had to submit to standards of "care" which were humiliating, degrading and which placed me at risk of violence. But I did it "by the book" As I did it "by the book", the NHS agreed to reregister me as female, which makes sense because my anatomy now is. In 2007 I had...

• Post #1642186

  ASRS is a screening test for adults to see if it's worth pursuing an ADHD diagnosis. It is 18 questions, written by neurotypical people who assume their external observations of ADHD are accurate representations of what it's like to have it, so needs to be translated into "actual person with ADHD" before you fill it in. That's why it includes stupid shit like, "do you feel driven by a motor?" No, I do not. Things driven by a motor spin round and round and I do no...

• Post #1181302

  Techbros: self driving cars are inevitable! Also techbros: prove you are human by performing a task that computers can’t do, like identifying traffic lights.

• Post #1180400

  A little story. In 2014, the UK charity, Stonewall, had a new CEO: Ruth Hunt. Ruth wanted to make Stonewall trans inclusive. Up until that point it hadn’t been. Part of that effort was to recruit an advisory group from the UK trans community. I was on that group. I ended up as its vice chair. We spent the next year and a bit creating a document called “A Vision For Change”, which detailed what we thought the areas that trans equality campaigning should focus on in Britain. Then the Brexit r...

• Post #819588

  Phone call out of the blue from car dealer about organising a service. Changed location, date, various sundry questions, all in Portuguese, all with no more stress than had it been in English (which given I hadn't taken my Elvanse yet is a very low bar). Even a year ago that would have been unthinkable. Something has "clicked".

• Post #819587

  Let's be entirely clear here. The Mayor of Casterbridge is totally not "The English Les Mis". Look down! Look down! You can't handle the grog! Look down! Look down! The kid is not your sprog!

• Post #819586

  Appreciate I don’t STFU about this but it will never not be funny that this is the result of an amphetamine and coffee cocktail.

• Post #819585

  Felt cute. Won’t delete later.

• Post #819584

  Not just you, Jarvis. Not just you. Sorted

• Post #819583

  I just got IPv6 with multiple upstream and downstream interfaces, one of which is Wireguard, working via prefix delegation on my OpenWRT box and I feel like a networking goddess right now. THERE IS NOTHING I CANNOT ACCOMPLISH!

• Post #819582

  Well SOMEBODY just got their DNS redirected to a PiHole

• Post #819581

  A thing they don’t tell you when you start amphetamine for ADHD, but they SHOULD, is that what they do is NOT make you function like a neurotypical. What they actually do is turn you into a person with ADHD with greater capacity. Sometimes MUCH greater capacity. And there can be a honeymoon phase when you’re all like, “OMG! I’m saved! I can do all the things now!” And the risk is that you will use the extra capacity to mask harder and engage in more of the same stuff that was causing burnout...

• Post #819580

  Another country falls to the billionaire paedophile religion. RE: masto.ai/users/transworld/stat…

• Post #734630

  So this happened earlier.

• Post #715093

  Just seen someone saying they support bans on trans healthcare for under 18s because “let kids be kids”. By the time I hit puberty, I had KNOWN for a decade. I also knew that telling anyone would be profoundly dangerous. So I hid who I was and, am almost grateful that the neurodivergence gave the other kids something else to latch on to. They were so busy calling me a “mong” that they didn’t notice I was trans. Because that might have got me murdered. Or pushed me into a position where I fe...

• Post #384342

  Imagine being one of those academics who realised in the 80s, or even earlier, that software development needed to be an engineering discipline. And then you watch as the tail end of Gen X and the early Millennials teach themselves to code and some of them you can convince of your worldview. But they end up working not as engineers or scientists, but as artisans in an industry that comes to depend on them working as artisans. And then gets greedy. And then decided it needed a million or more...