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Many of the journalists Elon suspended today on Twitter are here on #Mastodon. Please follow and boost:

Drew Harwell, Washington Post
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Micah Lee, Intercept
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Tony Webster
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Matt Binder, Mashable
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Went to Walmart as a last resort to buy something we couldn't find elsewhere. Saw boxes and boxes of free covid home test kit laying around on a table. Grabbed one just in case, and also because other people didn't seem to be interested in getting one. Now we have 3 or 4 of them at home. We've only ever used them once in the spring this year after my in-laws came to visit to celebrate my birthday and tested positive the next day. We both tested negative but self-isolated for a week anyway.

As an #ActuallyAutistic human you have been conditioned to not take up space. To not advocate for your needs. To apologize for asking for what you need. So you stopped. You deny yourself your essentials, the right to exist as an #autistic person. It’s time to take back your life

Some 700 digitised Post Office Directories for Scotland, from the 1770s-1911, can be found on the National Library of #Scotland website at https://digital.nls.uk/directories/. They stop at 1911 as when launched a decade ago the NLS wanted to respect the 100 year privacy rule observed by 1911 census. However, its digitisation partner the Internet Archive also hosts the directories, but here they continue up to the 1940s. 1040 volumes are available at https://archive.org/details/scottishdirectories?query=Edinburgh #genealogy #Geneadons

@Beefboots @Pathfinder @actuallyautistic [this conversation is so interesting to me in terms of the social model of disability ]

[part of my current situation involves all my colleagues saying i must be so happy to be moving back out of a village into a 'suburb'. 'it cuts down your commute! youre so much closer to things! arent you happier?' i have lost all of my quality alone time in nature and am now surrounded by Sounds. why on earth are you asking me if im happier ]

Any other tech news sites that are posting here? I've got @macrumors @PCMag @arstechnica and now @Techmeme

Hello I am here to provide reminders. Remember to:

- drink some water
- take your medication
- check if you need to eat something
- unclench your shoulders and jaw
- take some deep breaths and stretch a little

And as always be kind to yourself, and proud of how far you've come. Much love and happy Wednesday✌️ (or whatever day it is when you see this)

US folks looking for health insurance, TOMORROW is the Obamacare exchange deadline for 2023. The subsidies are pretty good this year, so you may be able to get a good rate.

Our system is impossibly awful, but at least this exists.

https://healthcare.gov

Mastodon News Sources

General News - US and World

BBC News (World) Bot - @BBCWorld
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CNN Bot - @CNN
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DW (Deutsche Welle) News Bot - @dwnews_bot
NPR US News Bot - @NPR_USNews
NYTimes Bot - @NYTimes
Reuters Bot - @reuters
Rolling Stone - @RollingStone
The Guardian US Bot - @TheGuardian_us
Wall Street Journal Bot - @wsj
Washington Post Bot - @WashingtonPost

Tech News

Ars Technica - @arstechnica
MacRumors.com - @macrumors

@malwareunicorn I assume you’ve seen it, but Google’s technical writing for developers courses are great.

My team goes through it as part of onboarding https://developers.google.com/tech-writing

Is sensory euphoria a thing? Like the opposite of overstimulation? Do we have a term for that?

I was under my weighted blanket and my cat curled up on my chest and started purring and the weight + purr sensation I swear made my soul elevate to a new level of consciousness

I would like to update my Podcasts for Genealogy category and I need your help! Let me know what podcasts you listen to and I will be sure to add them to the list. See what I already have here: https://www.cyndislist.com/podcasts
Share them here or use the Submit a New Link form on the site: https://www.cyndislist.com/submit/

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If you buy my books I hope they entertain you. Any music you're given, I hope it suffuses you. If there's a painting or really cool graffiti crossing your eyes, I hope it roots you to the spot. I hope, as we go into 2023, a better notion of the future possesses you. A good future. One that you're not fearful of or creating fear in. I hope you realize if there ain't no beauty you got to create some beauty. I hope whatever gods flit above and swim below have mercy. Here's to your bright smile.

When I'm stuck, I do "housekeeping" on my ancestry trees. I inherited my account from my mother, and in the beginning I was a little sloppy myself. So now that I've committed to particular standard formats for place names and dates, I traverse a branch of the tree and reformat those, and make sure the sources are properly cited, and check any new hints. I almost always end up finding some new #genealogy information.

@thedogspaw @DAR31337 @divergentiafaux @actuallyautistic I tried ritalin as an adult and it was erratic in how I responded, some days were great, other days not working as well, but the worst thing which was absolutely horrible was when it wore off at night. There was a classic rebound effect where my ADHD lack of focus came back with a vengeance, and my mind would slide all over the place and I didn't know what was happening at first.

@theautisticcoach
I'm struggling with the thought of telling my (young adult) children that I'm #ActuallyAutistic. I'm anticipating the two questions that fill me with utter dread: 'Since when?' and 'Says who?'. I just know that I'll get angry and kill the conversation then meltdown for days. I'm neither embarrassed nor ashamed just HATE answering questions. How do I do it whilst protecting myself mentally?

@thekimmy @LivaBattleangel
If I may suggest a couple more?
‘But You Don’t Look Autistic At All’ by Bianca Toeps goes through the DSM criteria for Autism from an #Autistic POV plus lots of relatable stories as well.
Also, ‘Ten Steps to Nanette’ by Hannah Gadsby & ‘A Kind Of Spark’ by Elle McNicoll
#AmIAutistic #ActuallyAutistic