benign vicinity hinkypunks @CheshireEmber@dragon.style

My first time outdoors in my new fangs and some dude on the street froze in place, staring at me.

"Isra Hirsi is grappling with harassment, safety threats, tokenization, and privilege on a national scale years before she's even allowed to vote."

welcome to being young, politically activated, and Black in America.......

Isra Hirsi Is 16, Unbothered, and Saving the Planet

As the co-founder of the U.S. Youth Climate Strike and the daughter of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, Isra Hirsi is grappling with harassment, safety threats, tokenization, and privilege on a national scale years before she's even allowed to vote.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a357wp/isra-hirsi-ilhan-omar-daughter-climate-strike-profile

Hi Fediverse

it seems to me that switching.social closed down it's services. All social media accounts are deleted and the site is currently offline.

Unfortunately, I have no clue what happened, I'm as surprised as you are. I already contacted the French, Italian and Turkish version of the site.

In case someone knows anything about what happened or has backups of one/multiple pages of the website, I would be very happy to get in touch with you.

#SwitchingSocial #offline

I just watched a video of a goat that attacked its own reflection in a black SUV, hitting the car with its horns.
the poster wrote "how do I explain THIS to my insurance company?"

I laughed so hard! 😂 #bancars

When messaging a stranger, DO NOT just greet them. ALWAYS include an indication of what you want to talk to them about!

Messages with an unclear intent can easily make for an awkward or anxious situation, especially if one/both of you can't reply right away. They make it hard for busy people to prioritise, since they don't know if your message is work or casual. For these reasons, some people just ignore greeting-only messages.

Everyone's better off if you state your intent :D

To Fediverse users who use screen readers: do you prefer people to integrate #hashtags inside the text, or....
do you prefer when they repeat the word by listing all the hashtags at the end, after the text?
Please boost.
#hashtag

Okay friendos, class is in session. You ready for Guerrilla's Guide to the Selfie?

I'm still in need of a replacement my dead motherboard, if anyone has a spare lying around. It doesn't need to be the latest & greatest. So long as it was made in the last decade, I should be good to go.

In fact, if it uses DDR2 SDRAM or socket AM2+/AM3, then I can recycle my RAM or CPU respectively. If the socket or RAM is different, though, then I'd need the respective parts to go with it.

From @queeranarchism
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https://anarchism.space/@queeranarchism/102825888122171947
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We should celebrate teenagers that take action against climate change & can't be harsh on them for seeking reformist solutions and not understanding capitalism yet

We should be VERY critical of the politicians/NGOs/media who celebrate some hand-picked teenage climate activists while ignoring organizations like Ende Gelande or Hambach occupation or the indigenous organizers that have been in this struggle for decades

They try to steer the conversation in a direction that protects the powerful.
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https://anarchism.space/@queeranarchism/102827001763730117
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A lot of people in positions of power are waking up to the fact that ‘the climate movement’ (in fact many movements) can not be simply repressed and ignored anymore.

So they are doing what they have done to every other movement for social change that reached a tipping point: push their own preferred spokespeople (who were not chosen by the movements to speak for us) with their own preferred methods (always non-violent) and their own preferred solutions (reform, green capitalism, etc).

😒 "nonbinary? okay, but what are you /really?/"

🤦🏽‍♀️ "oh, no, you see, there's male, and then there's female, and then nonbinary is right in the middle, androgyny"

🙂 👉🏽 "the gender binary is kind of like trying to sort all songs as either four-piece rock or choral-orchestral mass - you don't fix that by adding a third category for everything else, you fix that by accepting there are /lots/ of categories, they all overlap, and they all have fuzzy edges"

Sometimes I tell dad jokes, sometimes he laughs.

#DailyShitShot

#photography #Fotografie #art #MastoArt

I forgot that was a thing, but as is mentioned here http://unstrangemind.com/autistic-inertia-an-overview/ it can look a bit like executive dysfunction, and to be honest, while I definitely struggle with what is genuinely executive dysfunction, choice paralysis also plays a role.

Though, interestingly, while executive dysfunction, although varying in scope and impact, is a constant companion, choice paralysis is not. That one only rears it's ugly head when making decisions, almost invariably when there's a substantial cost involved, financial or otherwise. Especially when it's something that can't easily, or at all, be undone.

Being faced with choice paralysis can definitely exacerbate executive dysfunction though. (My personal theory is that it depletes whatever resource/energy is also used for regulating executive function, but I have nothing to back that up other than a personal hunch, so take that as you will.)

Big shake ·

When we say there is no such thing as misandry, what we mean is there is no systemic misandry. It is not a system of oppression, and while some people are misandrists, there is no systemic misandry through which they can exercise that to cause harm. They can exercise it through transphobia (aimed at trans men) or racism (aimed at men of colour) but there is no system that allows you to persecute men for no real reason. Unlike trans people or POC.

Hey, I am currently looking for work.

I am a software developer / web dev.

Experience:
I made my first code contributions to FOSS projects in 2011, and for 1.5 years worked for a company, implementing DDoS protection features.

Technologies:
• Python
• HTML5, CSS, JavaScript
• C

Currently very interested in accessible design.

If you know something, please send me a DM. 😊