"In the real world no one will accommodate you" is trauma talking. It's true that people aren't falling over themselves to help me but my adult life is way more accommodating than my childhood was, because adults get to make choices. I'm accommodating myself.

Pixie and Sabbipode at 18:01, making sure I don't work too much.

Let's buy this grain-free, monoprotein, low-calorie food for sensitive cats, to keep my babies healthy. They will be so happy! The babies: Why are you starving us? 🥺🥺

Bits and Arrows by Jonesy. A unique idea: using binary code to distinguish between even and odd digits. It's probably easier for progtammers and computer nerds; remember that bits are in big-endian order (MSB first)! sudokupad.app/wut7orsq8b

Do you cdr at least?

Colour Coordinated Differences by Marty Sears. This is amazing! A masterful combination of Renban, Kropki Dots, German Whispers, and indexing. It would probably be much harder (or time-consuming) to solve without any familiarity with the mentioned sudoku variants. sudokupad.app/mlt4l6zcak

@samwho.dev aren’t stalactites and stalagmites just geological kiki and bouba?..

Same Sum Entropic Loop by yttrio. A really good variant sudoku puzzle, challenging but approachable. After getting stuck and starting over a couple of times, I was proud of my solve path. I enjoy drawing paths, especially closed loops! sudokupad.app/yttrio/same-...

friends i did the thing that took less than 5m, but i put off doing for OVER EIGHT MONTHS

7:00, freezing cold, wet weather: «Please let us go outside! Our lives depend on it!» 9:00, sun is up; it's a warm and pleasant morning; the Ideal weather for a trip outside. Meanwhile:

If you ever need to verify my age, I present you with CANYON.MID. canyonmid.com

TIL: "unused" is treated as a valid Base64-encoded string.

Being the most normal-looking dude you’ve ever seen in your life and also not being a dude 100% sums up why I gave up trying to understand the gender binary. Conforming any which way would be work. I’d rather spend my energy fighting fascism.

Pretty important topic, I think there was a bunch of damage done by the "Theory of Mind" perspective from earlier autism researchers. The ideas persist even in the psychiatric community. The Double Empathy Problem shows that it's really not about inability, it's about being different.

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Cat's Eyes!

> Looks for Sabbipode > Can't find her > Decides to remake the bed > Still can't find her > The bed starts purring softly

Sleep well, my baby ^^ (I tuck her in almost every night)

Got my flu and COVID vaccinations! 💉💉 Side effects include: - My autism levels are back to 100% - Faster uploads and downloads thanks to better 5G signal - New magnetic power (Stasis and Recall when?) - Squeezing like an octopus due to liquid mercury running through my veins

Feeling impostor syndrome whenever I am among other cishet men.

These two are among the best threads I've ever seen! 🤣

I'm over 30! 😰 ... I should go back to 25, or as close as I can.

"Children living in areas with higher rates of inequality had a reduced cortex surface area and altered connections between different areas of the brain, regardless of individual circumstances such as family income and education."

- Providing one-sided arguments - Sounding extremely confident - Made-up information So far, AI tools are on their way to replace mansplaining. techxplore.com/news/2025-09...

- Providing one-sided arguments - Sounding extremely confident - Made-up information So far, AI tools are on their way to replace mansplaining. techxplore.com/news/2025-09...

It's a sunny mid-October day, and I'm comfortably going outside with shorts and flip flops.

When you and your Italian coworkers speak English at your workplace.

Work ethics dilemma: I'm helping an experienced coworker doing their job. Is it okay if I help them, stopping short of doing their job myself? The key aspect here is: they are more experienced than me, and (supposedly) more qualified for this specific task. I wouldn't do that to a junior.

there are only two types of PL, those processed by trans pilers and those processed by cis pilers

Cisgender, but not too strictly («ma non troppo», as a conductor would say)? www.idrlabs.com/7-identities...

“People-pleasing kids can become unhappy adults” www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/p... Well, thank you. I think I already realised this by now.

Me: It's a beautiful, sunny day! Go outside, enjoy warmth and sunlight! Them: How about no.

TFW you fully embrace your weirdness, but it's so specific that everyone else, even your weird friends, remain speechless. 😐

My favourite random numbers: 101 325 4 186 273.15 1 609.344 1 936.27

Look, there's a strand of hair in the shower drain. *Takes another look* *Discovers an eldritch horror made of hair, soap, and sand. An unspeakable abomination more terrifying than Cthulhu, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and Cousin Itt put together.*

It's spooky time!

Thank you Pixie for removing all the grains of salt from my snack, helping me reduce my sodium intake.

No. It’s most definitely not. This is ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous.

Fellow autistic people in a relationship, do you feel your partner's aliments or illness symptoms as if they were your own? Examples from 10+ years are: PMS (I'm a cis man), flu (even when I obviously haven't caught it), and a matching shoulder pain (which a message therapist found no evidence of).

Feeling a bit neurotypical today. Should I take 500 mg or 1000 mg of paracetamol?

Crying pointlessly on Monday morning (I spilled some milk all over the kitchen counter).

For a while, I focused on writing high quality tests while I was fresh, then the production code when I was tired Worked way better than the opposite

Is she an otter or a seal?

So *that's* what "kiki" and "bouba" are about! sudoku.coach/en/s/9YUe

Switching to my native language in the middle of a call, as I needed to speak to my cat (and she doesn't understand English).

YOU need things explained to you a certain way. YOU need your feelings managed. YOU need people to make eye contact with you when they talk, or you feel uncomfortable. YOU need people to read subtext so you don't have to say the quiet part. Those are YOUR needs and I try to meet them every day.

If I could get non-autistic people to understand one thing, it wouldn't be that I have support needs. It would be that YOU have support needs.

Pixie being a demon with some plastic scraps.

«Playing an open-world game, such as BotW, and nostalgia evoked by Studio Ghibli films significantly foster a sense of exploration and calm in life, as well as a feeling of mastery and skill, and purpose and meaning, hence ultimately contributing positively to one’s overall happiness in life.»

> men think that they're an "alpha" and have independent thought > constantly seek validation from male peers and echo everything they do men are fucking idiots