Wow, Frisco ISD is just swingin that ban hammer like a drunken monkey, and they appear to hate fantasy with a special kind of hate. Gotta admire young Cameron Samuels. This is what courage looks like. #books#BookBurning#texas#censorship
More Than 430 Books Banned in Texas Schools. | Dallas Observer
> Texas led the nation, followed by Florida, in banned titles in a list created by PEN America, a literary nonprofit. Many surprising titles are included in this list.
@aralqprf thanks for posting that link. Possible, certainly plausible but debated. I wish the Smithsonian had actually included or linked to the dissenting views. @RustyBertrand
"Nah, I don't stim!"
"Is THIS stimming?"
"I stim, therefore I am"
-from "Initiation Rites for the Late-Identified #ActuallyAutistic "-
I really thought I don't stim. I don't rock or flap my hands or jump or chew things or make stimmy sounds.
Of course, I do softly grind my teeth (sometimes I may wear night guard during daytime too), wiggle my toes or legs, enjoy knitting simple patterns (= the same repetitive motion), fidget like there's no tomorrow with any small object I can get my hands on and may start picking my nails if I can't find anything else, doodle, I might undo my hair and braid it while watching TV, or braid tassels of my throw blanket...
Stimming is healthy and good for you. Do it.
If -as is the case with many late-identified autists- you have suppressed your stims or been pressured to stop and feel like you have forgotten how to stim, then try to start again. Learn about different stims and just try different ones until you find something that does the trick for you.
@ReimanSaara@btaroli@actuallyautistic it can also be in allistic society’s interests to minimise or dismiss the effects or visibility of autistic being. There is emotional, mental, cultural and literal cost to them in accepting us and adapting to us.
It's not great, but my favorite part is how it's all these cartoons like Mickey and Donald Duck and then Jack Sparrow's there like "Wait, I'm in this too!?"
#gameIdea: #stardewValley but hyper realistic and difficult; crops have disease, pests and thieves, dating options are bad, you get lower back pain, and addicted to fentanyl; a real farming simulator. #videoGames#gaming@gaming
Another day, another product joining the Google graveyard. On the upside, this time it's not a messaging app.
From The Verge:
"You might remember Google had a $5,000 Jamboard whiteboarding meeting room display — well, that’s also discontinued. The Jamboard hardware will no longer receive software updates on September 30th, 2024, and its license subscriptions will expire the same day.
"Then users will have until December 31st, 2024, to back up Jam their files, and on that date, Google will cut off access and begin permanently deleting files."
Pity the schools, universities, and businesses that paid Google $5000 for a "smart" whiteboard, only to now be told their files will be deleted.
I'm new here so I hope I linked to the group right lol.
Anyone play State of Decay 2? Been playing for a while and the game has been broke for quite a while. So they fix some old broke, add new features, break some more stuff, than we back to square 1 again with new and old problems. Curious if the game should just RIP?
#AllStarTrek I can't believe this show inadvertently swapped #Kess for #Seven. I know Jennifer Lien had issues, but it was such a odd turn of fate to drop the innocent, empathic character for cold, aloof, and sexy.
@joewynne Morn's master plan in action. Fake your own death to get your loose cannon theft partners out of the way, and then make off with the latinum yourself.