Your Autistic Life

TIL that one of my students has ADHD.

I thought maybe it was the case... but I'm not in the business of diagnosing folks.

I revealed that I'm autistic.

#tutoring #ADHD #ActuallyAutistic

"Oh, no! This man's face. [recoils.]"

"Get a grip over yourself, Doctor Mussels. You're a doctor. Surely you've seen worse during your career."

"I'm a Doctor of Political Science."

"As I was saying, surely you've seen worse during your career."

#Space1999 #politics

"This book is very cessible."

"Cessible?"

"Like accessible, but without the added drama."

#acessible #drama #cessible

Another Friday, another dunce who most likely fat-fingered it on Feeld.

Straight guy sent me a like.

😩

#dating #OnlineDating

So, I checked a recipe, and it calls for "Granny Smith apples."

Why do I have to buy my apples from the Granny Smith company?

(Okay, I'll see myself out now...)

#recipe #apples #GrannySmith #nonsense

#moths #autism #AutismAcceptanceMonth #meme

"Vance warns the pope should 'be careful' when talking about theology"

So now Vance is going to school the head of the Catholic Church in theology?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/vance-warns-pope-careful-talking-theology-rcna331881

#USNews #USPol #JDVance #ThePope #theology

"Greeting fartling! We come in peace."

"Fartling? I'm offended. Why not call me an Earthling?"

"Do you fart?"

"Well... yes."

"We do not fart. We prefer to focus on something that distinguishes you from us, so fartling it is."

#farts #fartlings #microfiction

"Cocaine and caffeine detected in shark in The Bahamas, study shows"

Oh, good. Sharks amped up on caffeine and cocaine is just what we needed. They were way too docile before.

:holdthepain:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cocaine-caffeine-detected-shark-bahamas-rcna266789

#news #sharks #cocaine #caffeine

I had the opportunity to talk with Xfinity (Comcast) support this morning.

I was treated to an upsell. Sure, it costs nothing for the first year, but then what does it cost? It is an upsell pure and simple. She said "you can cancel any time." I replied "You can cancel it now."

I was also treated to technical nonsense. The problem (which I still cannot say has been fixed) has to do with bridging and port forwarding. She asked for the name of my Wi-Fi network, which has nothing to do with these issues.

She should have realized she was talking to someone who knows something about networking when I sent her a traceroute output.

Screenshot of the upsell below.

And they wonder why they are so hated... :holdthepain:

#Xfinity #Comcast #CSRs #upsell #networking #traceroute

The Indie Beat Television has an ad that says "be kind, please rewind."

Of course, I always rewind the streams that I watch.

Even better, I watch them in reverse once I'm done watching them forward. That way, I don't have to rewind. :meow_beret_coffee:

#BeKindRewind #TheIndieBeatTelevision #nonsense

I'm no car enthusiast. I have a car to get me from point A to point B. That's it.

So it is not like I'm following the car market with great excitement. I barely knew what BYD is about before I saw the following video.

Now, however, I can confidently say that Elon Musk is sucking his own dick while BYD is eating his lunch.

#cars #Tesla #BYD #EVs

"First name?"

"Cylon."

"Cylon? I take it your parents were Battlestar Galactica fans."

"No. They were great toaster collectors, however."

#Cylons #BattlestarGalactica #toasters

I wish the .clown TLD existed.

Then I could have an instance named

mastodon.clown

#TLD #clowns

Did I fart????

My primary care physician, who I saw a bunch of times, left Johns Hopkins.

I pick a new PCP. I was going to have an appointment with them, but it was cancelled. I made a new appointment with the same PCP, but I just got a message that they are leaving the practice.

I'm starting to feel self-conscious. 🥲

#doctors #JohnsHopkins

Wouf, câlisse!

I sent an email with three questions, and I explicitly said that I need three answers.

'cause the last time I sent multiple questions to that individual, one of my questions was ignored.

:holdthepain:

#autistic

I'd like to say that my upcoming move (two weeks from now) is going to be a poor individual's move.

But I can't.

Oh, I ain't rich, but I blew this notion when I bought boxes. 😱 I tried to get boxes for free, but those that I could find were in jurisdictions where I don't want to go, too far, too messy, etc. The clock was ticking, and so I bought boxes so that I could start packing.

Maybe we can call it a reasonable individual's move. After all, I'm not asking anyone to do packing for me... so I don't have to pay for this work.

Maybe we can also call it an ingenious individual's move. I've never done this before, but I'm now repurposing my empty granola bar boxes, and my breakfast cookie boxes to hold smaller stuff. Then I put these boxes into the bigger moving boxes.

Here's a picture of a granola bar box full of Raspberry Pis.

(Actually, for my previous moves I did repurpose plastic yogurt containers to hold loose change and things of the sort.)

"Pfft! Old news. I've done this forever."

I know. I'm slow. 😭

#moving #MovingWhileAutistic

Les foufounes éclectiques

#LesFoufounesÉlectriques #LesFouf

"Give away my fuckies, all of you!"

#MisheardDialog #PartiallyDeaf #fuck

English: cauliflower

Français: coulis de fleurs

#cauliflower

"Is he ready?"

"Baaaaaaaaaaaah."

#MisheardDialog #PartiallyDeaf

I find all the alternatives to Google Maps to be unsatisfactory.

Most of them don't have traffic information. That's a big deal for me.

And a good deal of them manage to shit the bed, irrespective of whether they have traffic information.

My latest try was with OsmAnd last weekend. It worked fine going to where I was going, but it borked completely on the way back. I mostly knew my way around so I did not end up being lost, but this would have been disastrous if I did not know my way.

#GoogleMaps #OsmAnd #shit #traffic

Does anyone know of a translation tool less liable to obliterate the author's voice than DeepL?

If I do an English to Spanish and then a Spanish to English translation, I start with:

"What are your reasons for learning Spanish?"

I end up with:

"Why do you want to learn Spanish?"

This is too much meddling with what I wrote. This is just an example I have ready. I can get much worse.

I don't have money to spend on this. Suggesting paying services is a waste of both our times.

I'm also trying to stay away from GAFAM solutions.

#DeepL #FediAsk #translation

"When you tickle home...."

#MisheardLyrics #PartiallyDeaf

Es un lindo manifiesto el que publicaste en el fediverso, pero no tengo tiempo para leerlo. 🥲

#manifiesto

And now, an interpretive talk as a fish...

blub... blublub.... blublublub.... blub.... blub....

#blub #fish

Albatros, cancer de l'espace

Le bel Atlantis est ton chapeau
Le pavillon noir est son crapaud
Bibop, Nausica sont avec toi

Albatros, Albatros
Ce cancer de l'espace
Albatros, Albatros
Même si tu parais être une farce
Ton coeur est bon
Ton coeur est grand
Pour tous les enfants

#Albator #CaptainHarlock #ParolesCorrompues #musique

Is there a way to ban a channel from an autogenerated playlist on YouTube?

Soundeo keeps coming up. It's not AI (too old), but it might as well be.

I know how to tell YT to not suggest a channel, but this is not quite the same, I think...

#YouTube #ban

Sneaky scammer is sneaky!

I got an email from my financial institution for a financial transaction. The subject line said "Pending charge" for almost $1000 dollars, but the transaction itself was a very small payment to me. So I went to the financial outfit's website to check the transaction.

I was expecting it *NOT* to be there, but it was.

I double-checked the email. All the links were to my financial institution and the phone number inside the mail was correct for the institution.

However, it had a different phone number in the subject line.

I reported the transaction.

Here is what I suppose the scenario went like in the scammer's mind:

"I'm going to give the smallest sum I can to my marks. Being the upstanding citizens that they are, or being scared by the 'pending charge' I'm putting in the subject line, they are going to call the number in the subject line to report that I erroneously gave them money. I answer, and scam them. Yay!"

#scammers #scams

RE: https://mastodon.social/@NoveltyBot/116579426391957008

I love how they put "wad" in quotes.

"Hey, do you want to see the size of my 'wad'?"

"..."

"My 'wad' is huge."

"..."

"Wanna s... Hey! Where are you going??!"

#wad #BigWad

A neuroqueer meeting is happening Sunday, May 17th at noon. It is followed at 2pm by a board game event. (Times are US Eastern.)

This is happening at the MoCo Pride Center.

https://www.mocopridefamily.org/events/neuroqueer-meeting-group-tpkcy

https://www.mocopridefamily.org/events/gfghled92vvbdlbvcp7xmwx62q3x9e-z3jfm-23mdl-lb8hz-r4jfy-x8nc6-t5r7m-ezm54-shkhb-7lazf-etnay-r46dm

#NeuroqueerMeetings #neuroqueer #BoardGames #queer #neurodivergent