This is how it went with my autistic toddler. He’s always known his brother as his brother, but he didn’t start transitioning until 2 months ago. We just told him big brother is a boy on the inside and soon he’ll match on the outside. Kid went “oh, ok” and went back to playing. It’s not complicated, it’s their hatred that makes it complicated for them.

How can I convince a bunch of brainwashed conservative anti-woke pro-trump blue collar rednecks who operate and maintain my combined cycle power plant that unions aren’t just bullshit where you’re not allowed to get anything done and you wind up making less money due to union dues and with no new benefits to show for it? We already make good money and have good benefits and mostly have it pretty easy, but we lack support in terms of training and managers and coverage personnel. I don’t think they’re aware that it could be a lot better. I for one am not a fan of frequently rotating 12 hour shift work in addition to the hour commute each way, and that commute length is par for the course because of the cost of living any closer to the plant. They don’t want a union because they “already know that a union is a scam” and will tune out if I try to explain that some unions are really great, some are meh, but there is a propaganda campaign run by companies that stand to lose a lot from unions winning good contracts for their labor force, and that propaganda exists to convince people like them to cede power to these companies.

I’ve tried to explain lots of progressive and innovative ideas, but they’re stuck in chasing how great shit was in the 80s and 90s. They don’t even want to learn how to use a computer, despite some of these guys literally sitting in front of computers for those entire aforementioned 12 hour shifts. I’ve even automated populating in a solid chunk of our shift reports, and they just whine that I changed it. But it takes two mouse clicks.

There so goddamn frustrating.

@Alice just one more walk bro ignore the holes bro those pieces of gravel will make your soles stronger bro people used to build up calluses by walking barefoot bro just use us as garden shoes bro it's like zero-gravity shoes bro

@ben hunhow is transmasc and was mpreg with lotus, lotus is cis she's just got an insanely complicated past

A point on the road.

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Biscuit's Halloween costume has arrived. #DogsOfMastodon

@VenusianMars exactly! 😁

its ok for disabled people to buy "fancy" things now and again, and fuck anyone who says otherwise

DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN 🏳️‍⚧️

#art #tdov #transart

@stefano I've noted a similar sluggishness in Firefox too due to the Bitwarden extension: https://mastodon.pub.solar/@bhoot/117196624943607872

@georgetakei there's a reason for that. People wouldn't vote for the bastards if they knew what they actually stood for. Because what they seem to stand for is cronyism, enriching themselves, and covering their own asses.

Older sibling was in someone's yard, so I didn't get photos, but I got to watch the younger one waddle across a fence until they were comfortable flying up to a spot they wanted to rest in. Dad was foraging and keeping an eye out. I heard him feed the older sibling while I was with the little one.
#photography #birds

When European cockles (Cerastoderma edule) are young, they attach with byssal threads to algae and other objects. Sometimes this carries them to new places (phoresis)! A new paper discusses that they sometimes also are observed attached to the whiskers of seals. No word on if they attach to the beards of clam men. #clamFacts

A funny exchange between me and my work interpreter today. She texts to say she's almost to my house, we were running late so I texted back to say i was waiting on the porch so she didn't go inside to search for me. So when I got in the car and noticed her laughing i asked her what was so funny and she says "You text to tell me that you're outside, Like you think i can't see you sitting on the porch?" And without missing a beat, I replied, "'Oh, thats right, you're sighted. You do so well I forget sometimes that you are afflicted with sight. I'm sorry I will try to be more sensitive. But never forget you are so brave and inspirational, navigating the world like you do." And then we laughed for a solid 5 minutes.

Apparently, my daughter was given an assignment to use generative #AI to create a poster / cover for A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court in her English class. She took offense to this and asked if she could just do the assignment by hand or digitally using one of her #art apps. She was told no. So, my daughter decided to take a stand and not do the assignment. We support her decision completely. Asking someone who lives for creating her own art to use AI and refusing to accept anything else is inexcusable.

@individual8 That's kind of you to say, thank you but I do feel I was a bit too gullible/naive. I'll be more careful next time.

@krst I've been harping on it, get them on a line together. Those vets they put them with are anchors.