haven4books @haven4books@weirder.earth

A 2023 study concluded CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service' that made us spend 819 million hours clicking on traffic lights to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/a-2023-study-concluded-captchas-are-a-tracking-cookie-farm-for-profit-masquerading-as-a-security-service-that-made-us-spend-819-billion-hours-clicking-on-traffic-lights-to-generate-nearly-usd1-trillion-for-google/

I'm big fan of RSS-feeds but some news, i just don't want to see.
Is there a client that can apply filters for specific words or topics?

#rss

A colleague is reading and ARC of Against Techoableism & has great things to say about it!

But I'm most excited abt Alice Wong's new anthology (Feb 2024): Disability Intimacy. Contribs include Marieke Nijkamp, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, s.e. smith, and Ingrid Tischer, as well as poetry by Ashna Ali, John Lee Clark, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, and Ellen Samuels, etc. 📚

🔗: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/adult-announcements/article/92833-10-new-books-with-disability-representation-for-adults.html

@bookstodon #ableism #disability #AliceWong #DisabilityVisibility #LibrarianAtWork #ComingSoon

When you're a #pwME, it far too often feels like the opinions offered by docs were written by AI, sourced from none of the literature about #MECFS, full of errors and prejudices, and containing danger in some circumstances.

Those wonderful docs who listen and research and check their biases, and know the history, are like veteran writers who rigorously check sources, read works that challenge and upend their thinking, and care about the quality they produce.

#NEISvoid @mecfs

We now have a #CripLib group on mastodon!

Send messages to @criplib to get them to appear on a shared feed.

#CripLib and @criplib are used when discussing the intersection of disability and libraries, predominantly by #library and #archives workers with disabilities. https://criplib.wordpress.com/

Everything you always wanted to ask me about living in England. Basically.

"The Navajo farmer taking a traditional approach to making baby food: Zachariah and Mary Ben were struck by the lack of of fresh and local foods near them, so they began growing their own crops"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/15/baby-food-alternative-native-american-farm-navajo-new-mexico

Elite protects themselves from plague, exposes as many of general population as possible
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Shrinks the world population through illness leading to death (also cover for genociding marginalized)
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Believes that will solve the #climate crisis & dwindling resources
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Replaces most commercial arts with AI & many jobs with bots
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Rules in fiefs over remaining survivors doing the work tech can't.
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"Reality" reboot complete

#covid

This may be asking a lot, but does anyone know and can recommend someone

who does couples coaching

+ specifically for #AuDHD and #ADHD clients

+ (and is ND themselves)

+ has real world knowledge of life with disabling #ChronicIllness?

Spouse and I need some support and tools to help us with a crushing load right now.

#ActuallyAutistic
@actuallyautistic @adhd

@actuallyautistic
I once described my life as "it's not that I didn't know I was different, I did, it's that I thought I shouldn't be."
And in trying to be, I learnt to mask, to pretend, to hide my differences deep and more or less function in the allistic world in a way that, in a dim light and with possibly fading eyesight, passed as normal. But what I could never grasp or understand was the way allistics would often be prompted into expressing empathy/sympathy. I knew many times it was about group support, with making sure someone didn't feel alone. Yet the application of this principle never seemed consistent. There were times when someone clearly emotionally struggling was left alone and other times when someone barely, or not even really, struggling was surrounded by love and attention and it never seemed to be based on any pattern I could perceive, of status or even aspiration. It was as if there was some code in their manner or speech that prompted this flocking around and of course it was a code that I could never break and so I was constantly guilty of getting it wrong, not to mention doing it in the wrong way. And so in the end I just gave up and that led me to being seen in a certain light, as cold and harsh and eventually even to me doubting my own emotional health.
But now I know my ability to feel empathy and to be sympathetic is as real as anyone's, just expressed differently. This is classic "double empathy". But what it means in practice is that it is always a one-way street. Whilst we can sometimes struggle to understand theirs, we can still see it. But because we don't do it their way, they will never see ours at all.

#Autism
#ActuallyAutistic

The FCC is accepting applications for new, low-power, community radio stations the first week of November.

This is huge, you guys, this window rarely opens (the last time was 2013), and as you know, KUZU shows one way LPFM can be a foundation to build valuable community information resources.

The Grassroots Radio folks are holding a conference in West Virginia to help folks out with this.

Please boost and share.

#radio
#community
#local
#journalism

https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/lpfm

Hey there,

Someone kept bringing up Mastodon so I decided to join. Y'all can just call me Collard Green Dreams, or CGD for short. Here are some relevant things about me:

I'm African-American
I'm Bi and Non-Binary
I'm pretty sure I have ADHD, Autism, or both
I have a ton of interests that vary, such as VNs, books, film, vampires, ATR, history, science, and food.

Nice to meet y'all 🙂

#introduction

I'm not sure how long it's been there, but #NeoVibe finally made it onto the official Mastodon server list. #mastodon #mastoadmin