@shiri@LALegault@fishidwardrobe no one is speaking for all autistic people. That includes both you and I. If you somehow manage to deduce the intention by the original post, congratulations. I didn't. Looking for clues, I saw her posts with jokes and sarcasm about a topic, which was later directed at autistic 'experts' to explain. Then I tried to explain the relevant hashtags. If that's insulting and needing to screw off, I don't need to engage further. More context: https://hachyderm.io/@gaveen/112507224443372355
@gaveen honestly the bulk of your responses were fine, you're biggest case of stepping in it was the phrase "asking for basic decency" as @LALegault put it implied they were not being decent.
Then @fishidwardrobe and hard escalated and you got roped in with that.
I apologize, I wouldn't have been as harsh if it had just been your responses especially as you ended on "use your own judgement" (honestly, probably wouldn't have said anything at all at that point), so it was unfair of me to position you as a problem there.
@bookstadon@bookhistodons
Although @wikihow (How To Do Anything) is an automated, humorous account, pairing random images with random how-to instructions, there are some serendipitous results on an occasion. Truth in this example for the book lovers.
The /c/cybersecurity community on Infosec.pub has new icon and banner artwork courtesy of @bolo ! It already makes the space look nicer if you ask me 🎨 😄
I keep dusting off a story I originally started as a short when I was in high school. I’ve rewritten the easiest completed parts a couple of times, and continue to add to it over time. I was fully planning on diving in to finally finish it this summer. Now I’m thinking once again about putting it on the back burner. I’ve got 2 competing ideas floating in my heads. One I know I can wait on. The other is what’s intriguing me. /thread #writingcommunity#authorsofmastodon
Ultimately, after the third book is out I’d like to go back to edit all of the stories together chronologically. Above the chapter numbers I’ll put the names - Tyler, Lauren, or April. Right now the world is building faster in my head than I can write. I have a major concern about the third book, and ultimately the compilation of all 3 into 1. /thread #writingcommunity#authorsofmastodon
My New Roommate is a #NewAdult book, and has some heavy and graphic sex scenes, including with April. The Challenges of Being Me is #youngadult and Lauren is very wholesome, which she also was in the first book. April’s story will have to be sex-heavy too, as that was a plot point of the first book. In your opinion, is it ok to have 1 #YA story sandwiched between 2 more explicit stories? #writingcommunity#authorsofmastodon@bookstodon@mastodonbooks
The State Archives of North Carolina have a "Research Guide" available for download (last updated 16 May 2024) called "General Assembly Session Records, 1777-1789: A Guide to the Records of Marginalized Communities" which they defined as "women, enslaved and free people of color, American Indians, and religious minorities."
Many of the records mentioned are available online in the NC Digital Collections.
The recording of the State Archives of North Carolina's presentation "Assembling History : Research in the General Assembly Session Records" is now available on their YouTube. Includes handout!
Covers what to expect from these records & how best to navigate them using available resources in the NC Digital Collections; focuses on records from the late 18th to early 20th century.
@being There's a chapter on Burkina Faso cinema in this book.
Often referred to as Africa’s Hollywood–Burkina Faso, ranked by the UN as the third poorest country in the world (2005), is considered a kind of role model for sub-Saharan African cinema.
Learned something fascinating from the Återskapat #podcast. Amica Sundström and Maria Neijman have activated a major #Medieval source material that nobody seems to have touched before. There is no mention of it in the bibliographical databases. The huge KLNM encyclopedia has a single sentence about it: "Seals were often protected by fabric or leather bags and, towards the end of the Middle Ages, by metal cases" (15:194).
The National Archives in Stockholm hold hundreds of these seal bags. They're made from Medieval fabric that has been kept indoors, in the dark, since they were made. They pretty much retain their original colours! It's a fabric sample archive! With calendar dates!