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Moriel 🏳️⚧️
@moriel@chaosfem.tw
mastodon 4.7.2+glitchNeurodiversity and gender diversity are both normal aspects of human variation and should not be stigmatized any more!
Transgender
Autism Spectrum
ADHD
Bipolar 2
CPTSD
DID
504 Followers
200 Following
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Joined August 15, 2025
Moriel's Musings:
Because of the existence of pregnant people, the average number of skeletons in a human body is more than one.
Well here's something that doesn't surprise me in the least.
People with similar levels of autistic traits show greater social attraction to one another, and their brains synchronize in unique ways during active conversation. A recent experiment published in Biological Psychiatry suggests that social difficulties related to autism might be a problem of mismatched communication styles rather than an inherent social deficit.
This matches with our own life experience very well. It is much easier for us to be social with other autistics than to do so with neurotypical people.
https://www.psypost.org/brain-scans-reveal-how-people-with-autistic-traits-connect-differently/
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Redoing this joke in the style of @MicroSFF@mastodon.art
The woman stood crying over the body of her recently deceased husband. She looked up pleadingly at the necromancer and said "Please help! You are my last hope."
The necromancer, black robes fluttering in the wind, stepped up to the corpse, and looked at it somberly. Slowly he held out his hand over the body, and in an ominous, deep voice he said "abracadaver!"
Color returned to the cheeks of the dead man and his eyes fluttered back to life. His wife's tears became tears of joy as she kissed him and helped him to his feet again. But then she turned to the necromancer and said "Abracadaver? Really? That's the spell?"
The necromancer merely shrugged and replied "Magic is in your Will, not your words. You can say whatever you want really. I just like puns"
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic
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@levork@graphics.social Thank you for this. Reading about all of those people and the interesting marks they left on the code really started my day with a smile. Code is, indeed, art. i have said this ever since i got into it in the early 90s and i still say it today!
How to read a web page in 2026:
Load page.Start to read but then have to start over when the page completely redraws itself after it finishes loading.Pause the autoplay video.Read a little and scroll down.Close the autoplay video which suddenly got added again to the top of the page over the text you were reading.Read some more and scroll down again.Close the pop over ad asking you to subscribe before leaving the site.Read some more until you get to the part that says you have log in before you can read the rest of the page.Give up and go check your favorite comic instead.
Solar power stations are restoring ecosystems in England.
So there's another reason conservatives will oppose solar power.
https://www.ecoportal.net/en/solar-panels-attract-birds-in-england/20562/
#SolarPower #Solar #Ecology #Environment #Birds
This comic has absolutely no right to be so accurate. RIP goatse.cx
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/old-2
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@faithisleaping@anarres.family
The timing of this is appropriate for me.
Just this past Thursday i blocked my remaining family members on my phone because i finally realized that i was never going to get the kind of relationships with them that i need, and that healing from the way they hurt me growing up means i need them out of my life entirely. Mostly this is too little, too late - my parents are both dead, and they are the ones who did the most harm. But it's still a needed step for me. For too long i let myself exist under the spell of "i need to forgive them". i have finally learned better.
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@ldottxt@kind.social
So for those who don't know, like me, what exactly is the disability tax? When i search for it i just see lots of things about income taxes for people with disability payments from the government.
The Butlerian Jihad is coming whether people like it or not, and we just need to accept that.
#AI
Those who think Count Binface has no chance of winning are ignoring the elephant in the room.
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@YouShallNotPass@chaosfem.tw
Oh yeah. When i as growing up trans people were only ever trotted out on daytime talk shows as freaks to be laughed at. i remember the information desert that kept me from knowing what i was until i was 19
Why is it called a "threesome" and not a "fucktangle"?
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@danluu@mastodon.social
This makes me want to dump VS Code, even though it doesn't affect me since I do all my git stuff from the command line anyway. Microsoft really does seem to want to drive away their customers. I gave up Visual Studio for Rider already, and probably will switch my desktop at home to some Linux distro once Windows 10 stops being viable for games. But the company I work for is an MS shop, and VS Code is the only viable editor I'm allowed to have on my laptop, so crap like this really get's my dander up
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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
i don't know enough details about this yet to reach a firm conclusion, but i do know that if the Rust maintainers end up accepting LLM generated code then i won't be willing to learn or use the language. i'm old enough that my career is in a maintennance phase now, and i feel less pressure to constantly be learning new things. i'm getting back to where i started from in college where programming is something i do for fun, so i really have no need to learn or use tools that i find personally distasteful.
i expect i will still learn something of Rust - might even start today since i've got nothing else planned - but i will have to keep half an eye on this situation to see how it develops.
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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
Just the other day i installed Rust on my laptop so i could start learning it and now this happens. This does not encourage me.
I swear, sometimes dissociation seems like a superpower. Sarah was trying to help our roommate move some of his stuff into our storage unit since we have so much unused space in it, and she got really overwhelmed. Partly by noise just from being out of the house, partly from the stress (we are in the process of moving), and partly because she banged the back of our truck into a wall while at the storage place. She had a full on screaming meltdown and just couldn't take it any more.
So I stepped in to take over. She went inside to rest and I came out feeling pretty happy and upbeat and looking forward to the rest of the work. We ended up moving more stuff than originally planned. And now here I am at home playing games. I feel like the day has gone really well, but I know that before I came out the day was turning out to be horrible for Sarah.
But, yeah, that's dissociation, I guess. Those bad things from earlier? They didn't happen to me.
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@introvertcatto@lgbtqia.space
I like to say that I wasn't "socialized" male, I was "traumatized" male.
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@QasimRashid@mastodon.social
i should like to point out that "it's unrealized gains" assumes the tax is an income tax. It is, indeed, not income until they sell it and get paid for it.
But taxes on property are also a thing, and stocks are a form of property.
Hmmmm.
What a terrible week! Working, moving, stress, stress, stress, dissociation, mental and emotional breakdown, physical exhaustion, throwing things away, but now it's done. We have moved into a smaller apartment. Now it's time to sort through the remaining boxes containing the accumulated dreck of more than 3 decades and decide what to keep, what to sell, what to give away, and what to throw in the trash. The Great Reckoning of the Stuff has come. Here's what the new living room currently looks like.
Aww, i'm watching a bit of the movie The Fellowship of the Ring trying to find a scene that I want a screenshot of and i just came to the scene where Arwen and Aragon are talking on a bridge in Rivendell and she pledges her love to him. She gives him her pendant and he says "You cannot give me this" to which she replies "It is mine to give to whom I wish".
i only just now realized the significance of this scene. Elves do not wear wedding rings. They wear pendants as a sign of their marriages. By giving him that pendant she was proposing to him!
#Tolkien #LOTR
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@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt @gnuplusknoppers@troet.cafe @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
It does? Hmm. Didn't know that. What is GCC's policy, i wonder?
[EDIT] Ah. Ask, and ye shall receive. Polciy working group created a few weeks ago, so no decision yet but still time to influence them.
https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/working-group-ai-policy
Visit Ottawa for the lovely pubic places!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/unfortunate-typo-prompts-removal-of-french-language-posters-from-downtown-ottawa-9.7252013
#Canada #Ottawa #humor
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@lina@vt.social @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt @gnuplusknoppers@troet.cafe @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
Oh no! It isn't possible to be 100% pure, therefore we must give in entirely!
OK, i see where you are coming from now, and i'm afraid it's a position that I can have no respect for. I've heard this argument used my whole life to oppose everything from environmentalism, to anti-racism, and now AI. Same old broken record.
i'm so odd i can't even.
i was going to do something pleasant. Something i haven't done in literally years. i was going to draw a picture! I cleared off my desk. I got out a drawing pad and my pencils and pens. I was all ready to start. Then my computer decided it wanted to crash. i just spent the past 4 hours trying to fix it. Seems to be fixed now, but at this point i'm depressed and exhausted
i hate computers. i have to use them. But i hate them. They used to be fun. Now they are a nightmare
United States of America
1776-2026
Rest In Peace
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@lina@vt.social @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt @gnuplusknoppers@troet.cafe @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
You don't read what people post, either. You just make things up. Blocked
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
This was neat, but i was amused that the very first thing it did was complain to me that i didn't have Javascript enabled. Of course i didn't have it enabled! THAT'S HOW THE TRACKING IS DONE!!!!!!
The EFF Cover Your Tracks website does a better job because it will actually tell you what it can find out even with Javascript disabled, which isn't much!
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@skeletor
This is part of what my life as a trans woman is like. As a child my parents loved the boy I pretended to be and hated the girl I really was. But once I was able to get out from under their control I gave them a choice: either love the real me or just get out of my life entirely.
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@oldladyplays@wargamers.social
How about some joy that is coming up soon? June 12 will be the 30th anniversary of getting my name changed and I'm really looking forward to celebrating that day. It feels really good to know that I've made it this far!
#TransJoy
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@ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social
Very nice! In a similar vein here is my ex brother-in-law's old Camaro. i asked him why he kept it around. He said it was "a chick magnet".
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@jeffowski@mastodon.world
As a high functioning autistic with bipolar disorder and DID, I feel called out
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@AoifeGreenhamIllustrations@mastodon.ie
We use those seven day pill boxes tthat have a box for each day of the week, and we keep that box on the desk with our computer, which is where we sit for meals, and really for anything we are doing while at home. That way the pill box is literally visible right in front of us every time we sit down, so we get reminded of it several times a day and it's right there and convenient and easy to open and access. When we sit down and find the box is empty, we refill it.
RFK Threatens to cut off Medicaid/Medicare funding to hospitals that provide transgender healthcare!
puts finger to ear
Yes?
I see.
Correction, that should be "hospitals that provide Jello to patients".
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@MicroSFF
i have to admit that i don't understand this one. It reads to me like the man (a knight? a warrior?) is having a mental breakdown because he killed the dragon thinking he was saving the princess only to realize that the dragon and the princess were actually just friends, and the princess wanted him to leave them alone, and the dragon was actually not violent.
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@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org
As i understand it, mostly this is a byproduct of sites trying to block AI scrapers. Would it be possible for the archive to publish a list of the IP addresses used by it's crawlers so that they can be explicitly whitelisted by sites that don't want to knock you out as collateral damage? Or is this already done, even? (If it is i'd appreciate a link to the list so i can whitelist you on my sites, unimportant though they be.)
Once again, if you are feeling suicidal, DO NOT CALL THE POLICE! They will not help you and they may actually try to kill you!
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@gnuplusknoppers@troet.cafe
Good! Honestly, i haven't been able to find more information so far. An internet serach for rust and llm just turns up lots of sites talking about how to implement llm's in rust! :D
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@lina@vt.social @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt @gnuplusknoppers@troet.cafe @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
If the goal is "no AI generated code in my dependency tree", then that was a battle lost before it even began.
That is not the goal, or at least not my goal. i know that battle is already lost. The goal is to educate people about the problems with AI and discourage it's use so that we can minimize it's impact and hopefully wean people off of it over time. The goal is to make it socially unacceptable.
I would not object to it being made illegal, though that is something that can only come after widespread rejection of it.