Sonofabitch it didn’t used to be blocked for .world. I really need to switch, ugh.

Your friend refers to LGBTQIA as referring to “aspects of non-cisgendered life” and it makes me doubt their understanding of the community because there are plenty of cisgendered people within the community…less the obvious exceptions.

Also autism symptoms can overlap and it would be extremely hard to find a label for your specific combinations of symptoms.

LGBTQIA+ started as separate communities that came together. ASD is already one community, it didn’t start as disparate communities based on a single set of extremely varied symptoms.

The closer answer is “Neurodivergent” encompassing ASD, ADHD, and others. ASD is accurate whereas neurodivergent is the umbrella term.

Everything changed. You’re not crazy. If you watch movies made before the 2000s about office culture, including the movie 9 to 5, you can see that the hours included a lunch break. Which was paid.

Yes, those of the older generation had it easier in every way.

I don’t have a lot of information about this but in the Before Times I worked with a couple of people who operated a side business of getting groceries and running errands for housebound or elderly people. They didn’t advertise, it was word of mouth, but it is something you could consider.

You could put up flyers and put them in areas that your target demographic hangs out (VFW, senior center, the grocery store bulletin board). Use large, bold font.

The way they handled it required more personal interaction (going over receipts with someone vs. their shopping list) but once they had a few regulars it was a fine business. It didn’t make much but I think they wanted it to be closer to a service than a massive money maker.

Just something to consider if you feel the new apps (which can be a barrier to the elderly) aren’t meeting your needs.

Delicious delicious sugar water

I had a Cat Genie for years and loved it. Like others, they’re a bit of a pain to take apart and clean when you need to.

It also had a draw back of sometimes missing a small piece, washing it, then blowing hot air on it to stink up the whole place.

But overall I was happy with it. The only reason I don’t have one now is my living situation changed and I don’t have room for it (requires water hookup and a drain).

Yes what I mentioned may sound annoying but consider this: we had ours hooked up to a laundry drain and had to do no scooping. Ever. We didn’t even have to flush the toilet. Every once in a while we’d plug in a special cartridge to do a self clean cycle, and once a year we’d take it apart to clean the internal section (but honestly it didn’t need this except once due to hard water buildup).

You don’t have to do anything and it always had washed and clean litter. Every once in a while it got a little stinky but what litterbox doesn’t?!

Seriously, highly recommend.

Nah, not the cremains but the smoke contains all the volatiles and is not insignificantly toxic.

I work outdoors, often in remote locations. Phrases I have used:

• Make friends with a tree.
• Speak with a tree/have a conversation with a tree.
• Commune with the bushes.
• Wander over this way alone.

My field partner often speaks of watering or fertilizing the forest, which I find distasteful because it gives a sense of which act they’re performing and I really don’t need to know that about my boss.

Fuck it probably is.

Good god time is an illusion.

This is legit a movie starring Dudley Moore.

Depends on the food. For vegetable soup I just toss the cubes in with everything else but for cream soups I make the cubes into stock separately. I’ve never tried adding them to non-soup dishes directly because they’re very concentrated and I’m not certain their seasoning would distribute properly, depending on the dish.

Yes. We know. It comes up every time it’s mentioned.

And Bing Crosby was a POS who beat his kids.

The Grinch (2000). Jim Carrey’s tortured performance slays me.

Followed by White Christmas (1954) because I love Danny Kaye and Vera-Ellen.

One other person said it but I can provide a bit more context: web rings were the life blood of fan communities that weren’t on Usenet or irc. Many people would make their own website (yes, geocities and much later, angelfire … there were others but I don’t recall) and petition to link up to the webring.

Being on group email lists was a big thing too. Listserv was one but there were a bunch of others at the time. The group emails were like forums a little bit.

At least in the corners of the Internet I hung out there were a few sites that got “big” and they would often have pages that would maintain links to other sites as well as being part (or the originator) of the webring. Sometimes on the community site you could be kind of a member and get a blurb, or just your name, which would link to your email or person website (or both}.

The larger and more polished community sites really did kind of end up as these social hubs and an early form of social media.

You still used search engines to dick around but they really sucked pre-seo but they were sometimes their own community and link hubs in their own right (Yahoo).

You could also just browse larger sites manually. Exploration was part of the experience and stumbling on weird stuff randomly was one of the best things about late 90s, early 00"s internet.

Post pictures: eh, it’s a lame and tacky diy but alright I guess…whatever, it’s nothing a sawzall can’t fix.

First exterior shot I see: Oh this is some hillbilly shit right here.

What? I’m already blocking them? Oh, I’m using Connect on mobile. It’s nice because if someone comments on a post and you’ve blocked their home instance (like lemmynsfw for example) it will give you the option to view the comment or just breeze on by.

Posts are, obviously, still blocked.

No age limit! I will give ANYONE candy, I don’t even care if you’re wearing a costume- but I really need you to say trick or treat. Opening my door and everyone just standing there silently is painful.

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