Masking and fawning are often two very overlooked traits when it comes to autism, especially in women/girls. Masking is something I still do today as an autistic woman, and my therapist has recognized it as a trauma response. Especially when I realized that "me" rehearses everything I say.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

One of the biggest usability issues that #MacOS still has remaining is the Dock. Specifically, it can't really tell you how many active windows of an application you have open at any given time. It also doesn't make a distinction between "Application is open" and "visible, but hidden."

Red Dead Redemption 2 is perpetually the game that will forever be on sale on my Steam Wishlist. Yet I will never actually get around to buying it and playing it because I'm hesitant to do so at any price. Even though I'd enjoy playing it and would have a lot of fun because I like the first.

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Android - "You have to download a measuring app. Every phone is different. Some Samsung phones have it built in. Others don't. Some have it in the camera app. Some don't. Some require third party apps." iOS - "There's a measure app on your device that uses your camera. It's built in. "

Fuck the US government.

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system." This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

I'm honestly shocked to see this Kickstarter struggling. Everyone I know that has tried the demo has been gushing about this one. I suggest you try that demo.

This thing is incredible if you need a cheap desktop computer. I’ve been using it as my primary machine for a while because it’s just THAT powerful.

This is patently absurd. It would seem any use of Kirk's photo is now grounds for a permanent ban.

I like how the Switch version of Minecraft, if ran on the Switch 2, can just raw power the visuals at the highest settings with no issues. The game has the option to crank up all the rendering and framerates to the max, the game just brute forces it due to how Switch 1 BC works. Neat.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

jay can post snarky comments all she wants but she's never actually built anything other than a new breakfast-based dogwhistle, *these* are the people who built bluesky.

people who built bsky: -trans women (bsky protects jesse singal) -Black users (bsky allows rampant antiBlack racism) -SWers (bsky to implement hostile age verification in UK) -organizers and activists (bsky autodeletes anyone in gaza with a pulse) -artists (bsky dev says AI has rights lmao)

The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.

​I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

Working the night shift now. So this is really unusual for me. I’m liking it, however. It’s a lot less stressful than the shift that I was on.

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

The top 1% in the US have now a record $52 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% have about $4 trillion.

Your 30s are a beginning, not an end. It's New Game Plus. You get to do everything you did in your 20s with the wisdom and experience you've accumulated. Don't fool yourself into thinking it's over by your 30s.... you're barely getting started

To me, there are few mustaches as iconic as Hercule Poirot's. #inktober #inktober25 #inktober2025 #inktober2025day1 #inktober2025mustache #mustache #poirot #herculepoirot

"There's something outside." "It's just a deer. Go back to sleep." #inktober #inktober25 #inktober2025 #inktober2025day5 #inktober2025deer #deer

If there's one thing about #FinalFantasyTactics The Ivalice Chronicles that is bothering the absolute SHIT out of me (in the best way possible I might add) it's the fact that there's absolutely no delay in transition from battles to cutscenes and back. I'm so used to the original having pauses.

Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Activison Blizzard Acquisition $68,700,000,000 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my console is dying

I’ll give Nintendo some credit - The Nintendo Music app has very high sound quality, there’s a decent amount of songs now, and the feature to extend songs to 30/60 minutes is really nice. I just wish the app had an iPadOS and MacOS version. Or if the iOS app could be used on MacOS

Obviously he should be banned by the platform, but since the platform doesn’t want to do that, we must use the tools we have to help keep ourselves safe.

Trans people are terrified of this creep, with good reason. He knows he has a crowd of followers who harass trans people he highlights, he just doesn’t care.

To any and all LGBTQ people, for your own safety, immediately block @jessesingal.com. He is a name-searching creep, and he is actively looking for any LGBTQ person who has said anything unkind about him to heap abuse on.

Jesse Singal is now actively on this platform again, trying to direct harassment mobs at trans users who criticize him and his known harassing behavior. This is what you get when Trust and Safety makes it clear that he can misbehave and harass people with impunity

IT’S LIKE MAYBE AGE VERIFICATION IS A REALLY BAD IDEA FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS. SECURITY BEING A REALLY HUGE ONE. (Censorship being the other big obvious one, but that’s a digression from this particular article.)

Democrats are holding strong on the shutdown, which means that this will likely go into next week. This is showing signs of being a very protracted shutdown. Nobody wants to vote for the “clean CR” without the ACA protections and protections against Trump’s rescissions.

I've been bedridden for the last 10 months, unable to work as I try to get a surgeon and insurance lined up for my operation to let me work again. If you could send a couple dollars, it'd really help. Time isn't on my side here, and waiting is very expensive. ko-fi.com/fooneturing

i feel like the bluesky team, or at least maybe jay in particular, has an attitude that everyone hates them forever irredeemably even though most people i've spoken to about this are disappointed, upset, and bewildered, with a strong sentiment that we'd just like them to stop fucking around already.

This is literally directly across the street from an elementary school.

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

Israeli forces attacked Doctors Without Borders workers—who were all wearing marked medical vests. They killed Omar, a 42-year-old occupational therapist and sole provider for his family. He was killed at a bus stop, on his way to take care of other people bombed by Israel.

If you have a VR headset, this is an absolute must buy if you haven't already played it.

FINAL FANTASY I-VI Bundle (Steam) is $39.97 on GMG XP Offer buff.ly/nuyjseC $48.64 Steam buff.ly/k5jfWeo $48.74 US eShop buff.ly/htJI7wE $48.74 US PSN buff.ly/nA0a7NT

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down. All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown. So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

MacOS version of #Hades2 is 💯 as expected. Started a new save instead of continuing an Early Access save, as I wanted to see the game from the very beginning again and see how it's all changed. One of those cases where the sequel is just perfect, and the original was already perfect.

You gotta love the subtle implication that "transgender" means not being American according to the White House here. Or that people who haven't been convicted of a crime yet are also not American. Among other things.

That statement is horrifying, haunting, and the acquisition should be immediately denied on the basis of that statement alone. Every regulator should say ”No” because there is a clear conflict of interest.