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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 18h ago

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 18h ago

Attention urbanists:

Train harder, so each of us will equal one hundred of our enemies!

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 20h ago

"Political power comes out the mouth of an epidemiologist who doesn't know how to stay in their lane."

— Mao Zedong, probably

ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 21h ago

He literally did the thing!!

During the height of the cold war, a Soviet is given a diplomatic assignment in America and is travelling to the US.
On the flight over there, he is seated next to an American and they strike up a conversation.
"Gee, you guys in the Soviet Union really have some impressive propaganda over there!"
"Perhaps. But the propaganda that you have in the US is far better."
"...what propaganda?"
"Exactly."

ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 1d ago

I mean we all know about her Disney villain wolf arc already, right?

ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 2d ago

It's okay, I think my wording could have been better anyway.

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 2d ago

Oh come on.

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 2d ago

I'm with you on this, I just wanted to expand on the lore - that date being a day of mourning and of protests against colonization predates the national holiday itself and I was piggybacking on the info they were sharing.

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 2d ago

Just to add context:

Australia Day has only been a national holiday since 1994. The invention of the sim card is older than the history of Australia Day as a national holiday. If there was ever something more spiritually-Israeli than this, I'm not sure what it could be.

My brother in Christ, you are demonstrating in support of a day that is predated by your own existence. These are the people who wring their hands and clutch their pearls over "the erasure of history" in defense of a national holiday that doesn't even qualify as being middle-aged yet.

ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 2d ago

At the risk of sounding like a syndicalist (I kid, I kid): start a co-op.

ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 2d ago

That sleuthing that someone did on the dev, they mention finding the full name of the dev on their personal profile.

I can't seem to find their personal profile. Can anyone give me a tip on how to find it?

The networks hunger for information.

Edit: Okay, turns out he's well known.

ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 2d ago

I can relate to needing down time to recharge. Take as much time as you need, seriously.

I'm glad you don't feel called out. I am in a constant battle against tone and implication as I try to not come off like a complete asshole. Usually I do alright but sometimes people get really mad at me despite my best intentions.

One thing that really helped me understand my verbal shutdowns is thinking of it like a spectrum - generally I am able to at least squeeze out a few words and it's rare that I'm without any words at all, except when I'm completely overwhelmed and usually that only lasts for a couple of minutes or less and I'll vocalize "mmm-hmmm"s and stuff like that to scrape by until I can access some words again. But often I have a lot that I would say and that I know I can say, I just can't get that past my mouth because it feels like an insurmountable effort. So I abbreviate and say something like "sometimes it can be hard to get words out" instead, knowing that I want to say so much more but there's a roadblock there and the more overwhelmed or exhausted I am, the bigger that roadblock is.

So for me it goes all the way from vocalizing the uh-huh, uh-uh, and the humming version of idunno (even when someone asks me something that isn't a yes-or-no question) to being very restricted to a few simple words to being able to speak a bit but running out of steam for it very quickly.

Obviously right on the other end of the spectrum is when I am able to articulate everything I want to say, often to the detriment to my need to take breaths and to the people around me who get subjected to a barrage of words (/semi-ironic). (I'm sure you can tell by now that I have a lot to say.)

Idk, that might be useful to you for understanding how verbal shutdowns work. It's been really valuable for me to help understand how I'm going and whether my current conditions are conductive for my wellbeing and self regulation etc.

Also don't take my criticisms of the autistic self-advocacy community too seriously - there's a lot of work to be done and there are some pitfalls but all of those things can be dealt with. The most important part is that you feel connected and understood and that you have resources to understand your experience better so that you can live a good life. Problematic wording or the occasional shitty concept can be addressed but community always has a built-in level of mess because people are messy and that's just how it is. If you wait for the perfect autistic community to come along then you will be waiting all your life and, in the meantime, you will deny yourself connection and deepened understanding and opportunities to make change. I know it's trite to say it but don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 2d ago

All that I can do is lay down for the day

Hyperbole or actually a situation where you have to set up camp in your bed with snacks and a drink at your bedside because if you don't, you're probably not gonna be able to get up and meet your basic needs until your body is screaming out for you to get something into you?

There's a big difference between "I'm too tired to cook tonight, I'm gonna order pizza" and "I would not be able to cook food tonight unless someone was holding a gun to my head."

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 2d ago

I'm gotta get burned at the stake for this but...

ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 2d ago

What in the Napoleon-brained shit is this?

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 3d ago

Great stuff!

Same thing applies to garlic powder and onion powder - it's a great, cheap option that can be way more accessible than fresh onions and garlic, plus it works in most dishes like usual.

I tend to use granules because they don't clump but if you find a dish lacks depth then adding garlic powder, onion powder, sweet paprika (literally just dried powdered red bell pepper), and/or powdered mushroom elevates pretty much any dish and it adds a ton of nutrition. Nutritional yeast flakes do the same.

Never heard of aronia powder before, gonna research it. Thanks for introducing it to me.

Amla is really great. The only fruit that outperforms it in terms of antioxidant level is acerola to my knowledge, but acerola isn't suited to commercial production although you might find it beind sold by street vendors if you're in the right place. (It's a wonderful tree to grow if you live in a tropical or temperate region too.) Amla is very popular in South Asia and they seem to have the commercial production of it locked down, which is why we can get it in powdered form. Not that it matters - when it comes down to it, 99% good vs 100% really doesn't make any practical difference.