@joyce there's a stealth category of Supposed Kids' Books That You Should Absolutely Read As An Adult and that's my number two all time book on that list, the first being The Thirteen Clocks by Thurber - I know @neilhimself is a fan as well - an absolutely masterful book on every level. Everyone should get to know the Golux and the Todal. Anyone who loves The Last Unicorn is likely to love this book too
@KShortill@joyce I would certainly list the younger-audience works by @neilhimself to start with. He writes with respect for the minds of younger people, which is the key quality of a work like this. Calvin & Hobbes is a canonical text of this type, as are the first few Earthsea books by LeGuin. The Princess Bride novel is not, which surprises many who see the movie first. I've never written out an actual list so I'll have to think about it to recover a few more examples.
Starting to get that fluttering feeling now reached only 162 raffle tickets left for the @neilhimself exclusive and ultra rare copy of 🌟STARDUST🌟 with signed illustrations by both Neil and Charles Vess & bound by those artisans at Lyra’s Books you’ll not find another like it!
@medievalists Interesting article, & use of DNA analysis! Chess pieces made of horse, cow & deer bones - and "fashioned by groups (of pawns, of rooks, of bishops and knights and of queens and kings), which testifies to planned, routine activity, probably in a specialized workshop."
The devastating combination of ADHD, insurance fuckery, doctors being booked out five months in advance, and that providers simply Do Not Answer Their Email Or Phones means that I've been trying to see a doctor about daily pain for... over a year
"You should see a doctor about getting on ADHD medication. You have an actual diagnosis." ahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha you are totally right but somehow it has slid down my priority list every time for the last decade
@aphyr I have to admit some amusement at a practitioner saying to someone with #ADHD, “you should prioritize this.” Srsly? “You didn’t just seriously suggest prioritizing to someone with ADHD did you? Are you even remotely aware….?” Hahaha
“To pick up a pen is to place oneself outside the community in the act of being self-conscious about it. As Burns discovered, it is not really possible to write about community and remain uncompromised within it.”
—read Dorothy McMillan’s essay “Rural Realism”, on George Douglas Brown’s THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN SHUTTERS
@WanderingPoltergeist I know it's far-fetched, but I would love to see a company like SEGA make a surprise comeback into the hardware space. And the nostalgia aspect alone would definitely help them!
@inspirationgrid Nostalgia is one hell of a drug that we've all fallen victim to at some point. However, if they made awesome hardware...I wouldn't mind at all!
@mikey By being spineless, profit chasing dirtbags...They laid those people off due to wanting to make their profit margins look better. Even though they could easily cut the salaries of overpaid higher management the mad amounts of cash for their work instead to achieve the same effect. But no, instead like all lay off addicted companies, Microsoft chose the worse option and affecting the lives of so many people just to look good for some damn investors. Capitalism without firm regulations is a huge mistake!
https://www.alfiekohn.org/blogs/autism - Alfie Kohn, 2020, on ABA, Applied behavior analysis, basically Skinner's operant conditioning, that STILL is in use for/with #autistic people, especially children:
"Suppose you participated in implementing a widely used strategy for dealing with homelessness, only to learn that the most outspoken critics of that intervention were homeless people. Would that not stop you in your tracks?"
@samid@actuallyautistic I believe the thing is, the mere act of smiling when you dont feel like it means the same in masking [M] and emotional labor [EL], youre right. But ALL scientific research that is referring to the concept of or containing the term EL has the proposition of an NT person that due to its NT wiring WOULD smile in this interaction with a friend, and just dont feel like to do it job-related [if not in the mood/sympathy]; and that just isnt the case for #autistic folk.
@samid@actuallyautistic By drawing that line I just would like everyone to have in mind that the knowledge concerning EL + the precautions that one might be able to do to NOT feel the burden of EL - doesnt apply to autistics, because masking is a different psychological concept. While writing I just had the thought that masking for ND people maybe could be compared to an NT that always forces themselves to make a "disgusted" face when greeting a friend, instead of a smile.
As a Google user it feels like terrible timing to be cutting costs by getting rid of the people who give feedback on whether search results are good or not.
One of the primary causes is "Rigging the game".
On a playing field with unequal rules, you can't win. No matter how hard you work. Change the rules to be more fair. At least then you do have a chance.
Rigged - Dean Baker
How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer https://deanbaker.net/books/rigged.htm
Interesting reflection by two older musicians (Beato and Tim Pierce) about how the music industry used to have a "middle class" that's been pushed out now by an industry that focuses more and more on profits.
They don't really go into the details of how the changes happened, with big-corp #capitalism being the elephant in the room ... but their observations, which include tech, paint a pretty clear picture.
I remember a piece Harlan Ellison wrote back in the 1970s. He was working on television shows, and said that if he could save $1,000.00 he could live for six months and just write the stuff he really wanted to do.