I have finally, after fucking years of leaving it too late and everything getting booked, managed to book myself onto a mushroom identification and foraging class so I can enjoy free food without poisoning myself
@38629c61 "Well done, you've moved up to Poor" is the most spectacular inadvertent description of social mobility right now. If it was in a Black Mirror episode we'd rinse it for being too heavy handed a satire.
Does anyone have any resources for managing neurodiverse people at work? I have an autistic+ADHD pal who needs support and adjustments made in how they work (e.g. better ways of tracking hours, trouble with being interrupted during a task, looming existential dread at unplanned meetings and most of all difficulty articulating needs) and it would be great to send them something they can show their manager.
Is there an app or something to figure out what a nearby helicopter is and what the fuck it's doing? Just had one fly by which did two little loops around then continued off on its merry way and I'm fascinated by what it was up to because I'm about 90% sure it wasn't a police helicopter (no ID on the bottom, which cop ones usually have ime)
There's a gene in fruit flies that makes the females *very* interested in having sex with other females, and the male deeply *uninterested* in sex with females. When it was discovered, they dubbed it "fruity".
Then they decided that was homophobic so renamed it "fruitless" which is much more homophobic, with a hefty dollop of patriarchal too, imo
@b870d4c8 I feel like it's close to that critical mass of absolutely collapsing for this purpose tbh, one of the underrated things dickface fucked up with the app was breaking muscle memory that ordinary people had for logging in, doomscrolling and doomposting, and it's only going to get worse from there.
I suspect journos are as distrustful of the paid subscribers as normal users are, and seeing more and more of that in use and less real people is full check-out material
@b870d4c8 To me, it always kind of was a journo echo chamber that the rest of us happened to live in and occasionally be embedded in some "twitter reacts to so-and-so" article
With twitter getting even more *fucked* I think I might do another assisted migration and bring some more stavlets over within the next couple of days. I'm going to tweak the protocol this time, by trimming the follow list a little, removing oomfies who it really pissed off (as well as anyone else who does NOT want to be on the list), and also getting stavlets to fill out their profiles before importing the follow csv.
I'll post A LOT on the day I'm doing it. https://masto.ai/@stavvers/110825117664171235
It's international left handers day so let me tell my fellow sinister types this: get a left handed bread knife. It turns out you don't suck at slicing bread and those magnificent bastards means you can cut straight slices rather than wedges.
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