Stumbled across some dead man's fingers this weekend! (well, not literally)
about dead man's fingers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylaria_polymorpha
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Annette C. Boehm
@ferngirl@det.social
mastodon 4.5.19Poet. Book lover. Decidedly queer. Neurospicy. Autistic. (she / they / Dr.) The Apidictor Tapes, The Knowledge Weapon. Location: Ruhrpott.
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Fact-checking is good.
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Came across Planet Moss in my neighborhood. Moss and lichen have completely taken over this concrete pillar, and it's a thing of beauty.
#mosstodon #moosMontag #lichen #naturephotography #lookclosely
During this morning's Wikipedia dive, I came across this cool picture of Czechoslovakian children learning how to ride bikes in the 80s, so I'm sharing.
source of the photo: Josef Henja https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning#/media/File:Children_competition_on_side_wheels_in_the_eighties_in_Czechoslovakia.jpg#80s #cycling #czechoslovakia #children #photography
Moss and lichen on a twig. Love the colors here.
flowers can look all sorts of ways. here's a ribwort plantain.
If you're looking for articles to read for Pride Month or about queerness in general, in its many forms, JSTOR Daily has put together a bunch of interesting pieces (with accessible research sources).
Three Good Things:
- sunshine!
- was able to write a draft today
- noodles with tofu, bamboo, and sweet chili sauce
Three Good Things:
- Sunshine
- was able to write a draft this morning
- mini chocolate bar :)
I still think that Dylan Thomas' "Fern Hill" is a perfect poem... So I'm sharing it here, if you need a poem today. Maybe read it out loud, it's got such a lovely music to it.
RE: @thelatestkate@mastodon.art
reminder.
...science to the people! :) in this case, bat-science.
The Internet is ... not what it was like when I started using it, nearly 30 years ago. But the 'old Internet' isn't dead. It's right where we left it.
This was a good read - interesting and hopeful. Thank you, @tg@indieweb.social !
https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet
thinking, again, that it's time to go back to blogging.
Another fun film from the Internet Archive: The Land Unknown, 1957.
Good special effects for the time. A pretty (of course) reporter heads to the South Pole with 800 men, then gets stranded with 3 of them.
See if you can spot the scene they shot for the beginning and then ended up using towards the end of the movie! (Magic sleeves: now you see them, now you don't)
Ps: In case of danger: faint. The men will fix it.
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@weirdofhermiston those are so cool! there's even a song all about them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiyZmQhuM4w
I just watched "The Monolith Monsters" from 1957, courtesy of the Internet Archive. It was good, clean fun, and I wouldn't mind watching it again sometime. If you're looking for something to watch (for free!), give this one a try.
There's not a lot of #research (yet) about older Autistic folks, so I thought this project was interesting:
If you're diagnosed or self-diagnosed AND in the UK, Luxemburg or Germany, and you want to add to the data, you can fill out a
"Questionnaire about Quality of life for Autistics aged 40+"
https://www.soscisurvey.de/aqol/
#autismResearch #actuallyAutistic #AutismusForschung #Aging #Research
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@bit101 @MxAlba yep, I remember reading this years ago while I was researching something for a poem. My favorite part is, still, this:
"break up a showing of an enemy propaganda film by putting two or three dozen large moths in a paper bag. Take the bag to the movies with you, put it on the floor in an empty section of the theater as you go in and leave it open. The moths will ... climb into the projector beam, so that the film will be obscured by fluttering shadows."
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@unicore@uneasy.social i'm afraid i'm the wrong person to ask - though i can understand the impulse to leave the US / places hostile to autistic people. maybe post the question in @actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe ?
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ok here's a P. S. - that purr is so soothing I went into hyperfocus and just spent 3 hours working on a manuscript. nice.
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@starhawk@dice.camp lol metal batman is just what i needed this morning. thanks for sharing!
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@filmfreak75 yeah, that's going to take a bit longer to unlearn the response, but it's not impossible. If you haven't already, maybe reading up on coping strategies for "complex ptsd" might give you some starting points. good luck!
Three Good Things today:
1) feeling better
2) fresh salad
3) encouraging feedback from a journal I really like
#writinglife #ThreeGoodThings #3GoodThings
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@MxAlba well, actually seeing the crickets I feel bad for them because they probably didn't survive the event.
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Three good things:
- picking blackberries, popping them right into my mouth :)
- a little walk before it gets hot outside
- a new book waiting for me to start reading
Three Good Things:
1) singing along to favorite music
2) muesli with cocoa powder and chopped pear
3) no appointments today or tomorrow, instead: time to read & knit.
#3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #AutisticJoy
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@filmfreak75 that's a tough one. Obviously, some people you cannot avoid. Prepare yourself beforehand - talking to a trusted (!) person about the original incident & what seeing that person again does may be helpful. A therapist might be able to offer helpful ways to reframe the incident in your mind. Yes it happened. Your response is not unreasonable: you're trying to protect yourself. Find strategies that give you a sense of safety when you do have to interact.
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@SFFMagazineCovers@zirk.us it's all nice and undramatic to look at until you see the shadow of the yeti in the lower left corner... So the yeti is an alien? Was he sent to negotiate, to explore, or to take a skiing vacation? So many questions.
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