We learned to do this as self defence, we call it autistic masking, but like most emergency measures, it comes at a cost and it's not a way you want to live. And I think we recognize the harm of masking behaviours better than the harm of the self talk that comes first.

Having breakfast with Sabbipode.

Gatekeeping is wrong, it should never be condoned... EXCEPT FOR *THIS*! (This is a joke post. Or maybe it isn't. In this essay, I will...)

It's International Non-Binary People's Day! Celebrated here, on my Pentium with VGAPride.

White cishet people who see themselves as allies: You can tell trans people "You be yourself and tell everyone else to fuck off," but as you say that, do you consider that if we tell people to fuck off, it could put our lives in danger? If not, then you speak from privilege and that's not much help.

Sabbipode learned how to reach high places!

The last few work days have been exhausting: lots of meetings and 1-to-1 calls. Now I just wish to enjoy my weekend, without thinking of Teams even for an instant! Meanwhile, my fortune cookie:

It's a relatively warm morning. Let's keep both garden doors open, to let my cats roam in and out freely! Meanwhile: both Pixie and Sabbipode spent the entire morning sleeping inside, in a dark room.

i have been restoring victorian floorboards; @weeble.bsky.social has been drawing googly eyes on them

"So, if I use ChatGPT you think less of me?" Yep. Hope this helps.

Early morning. Over 30 °C. High humidity. A wellness paradise for Sabbipode!

Cryptic crosswords 🤝 Neurotypicals The surface of a clue is usually misleading, but there is always a straight definition of the answer. Each clue also contains a recipe, which a solver familiar with the rules can follow to work out the answer.

Are we in year twenty twenty-six, or two thousand twenty-six?

Nobody wants to know what you and your chatbot talked about

Real Men™ take a week of sick leave with 37.1 °C.

A small rant and a spoiler for today's www.minutecryptic.com (Not actually graphic media; just abusing the rules to prevent spoilers.)

Heartbreaking! Her buddy, the solstice beetle, didn't show up for three nights in a row! Sabbipode spent countless, blue hours staring at the grass, hoping to find him...

Thinky Dailies 3-21 SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS (Not a spoiler of today's daily puzzle; just a remark on its surface.)

> Open a website > Reject all cookies > The website remenbers my choice 🤦

The other design I did for Artiss’ Pride collection 🏳️‍🌈

New summer, new solstice beetles to hunt! Sabbipode is looking for her (hiding?escaped?) prey in the grass.

I made a little toy out of the "Zebra puzzle": lynn.github.io/zebra/

Got this from an electrician who came to my house to diagnose a problem recently. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. (My “this is my day job” reply was in response to this guy saying to me “this is my day job” after I’d asked a bunch of questions about his diagnosis.)

Meowing in pain as the stupid human is (once again) putting sun cream on my nose!

"Potentially impacting all AI search engines and chatbots known to poorly paraphrase source links, a German court has ruled that Google is liable for false statements in AI Overviews."

TIL that the maximum length of an email address is 254 characters: errata.rfc-editor.org/eid1690/

Not surprising at all.

I've taken a segway in my book to frame a concept I'm thinking of naming singularnormativity. This mirrors similar concepts like neuronormativity and heteronormativity. It's the assumption that being of one consciousness is normal and natural in humans and in nature.

AuDHD

Job personality tests are just a way of filtering out autistic people and to test how much exploitation you are willing to take

Winter is over! (Pixie used to sleep under that warm blanket. Yes, even in the heat wave from a couple of weeks ago.)

«A small amount»?!? I'd call it a small *flood*. It required several rags to soak it up, and my floor is going to be wet until tomorrow.

For the AuDHDers out there … Set a reminder that it’s on June 16th so that you notice the reminder on the 17th and after processing the frustration of missing it through your Alexithemia … then you realize it’s actually on the 18th and have a day to prepare for it.

First fight with the neighbours' cat, who trespassed on our balcony. They already know each other but, for a couple of years, they appeared to agree on how to divide their territory. Besides, this cat appears to be rather relaxed, and not prone to picking fights. Here's how it went...

Word: *exists* Me: "I can make a pun out of this."

Wake up babe, a new Thinky Dailies season just dropped!

Mlem mlem mlem mlem.

Pixie's Delivery Service has been ongoing for several days now. There is no turning back.

It's the cute version of Mucktorok from Tears of the Kingdom (The Legend of Zelda)!

A visiting grasshopper flew away, and those blackbirds never stay long enough. What a disappointing day for Sabbipode!

I read a tweet once that you can sing "public static void main" to Everybody Dance Now, and I can't stop doing it. (cc @hanno.codes)

Learning modern Java the playful way www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqKr...

New ways to spoil my cats. Pixie couldn't be bothered to come downstairs to eat her breakfast, so I delivered it to "her" room.

My wardrobe is meowing. Is my house haunted?

Windows 11 will introduce a new screen tint accessibility setting: «If bright, saturated screens leave you with tired or sensitive eyes by the end of a long session, screen tint can help.» Currently, it's available only in experimental builds: blogs.windows.com/windows-insi...

Another episode of "Turns out I'm not dumb. I'm just autistic"

Nice &mut clue from yesterday's www.minutecryptic.com

> "You should be totally using Claude Code!" > "No thanks, I prefer my dogshit to be hand-crafted"

I guess it's time for my lunch break.