Yeah that particular script is one that I was told to use pre-chatGPT by my social skills classes even!

people punish autistics for being too blunt > autistic people learn and incorporate scripts to avoid punishment > large language models use the same scripts > people get suspicious of the script > people accuse autistics of being AI > people say “Don’t do this,” without offering solutions 🙃

I filled in the survey and so can you! tomorrow is the deadline, so get on that. headlight glare is bad for other drivers of course, but also for pedestrians and cyclists and other non-car travellers. tell them to regulate that shit!

its not even one which really changes the meaning off of just having 🇮🇪 much at all haha, just oh you're probably gonna be loud about your opinions.

which is why its such an entertaining example to repeatedly run into

lol there's someone I regularly interact with who's flags list in their name is 🇮🇪 ❌🇬🇧and I was like that's the only time I can think of someone using 🇬🇧

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight

my to do list over the next few days:
things for getting ready for service dog - 5 items
things for dealing with MCAS being a nightmare - 4 items
things for dealing with trying to navigate support services - 3 items
other disability things - 3 items
other Adulting - 2 items

Disability is Exhausting

Bluesky should get with the times and have options besides email for two factor but until they do you should deal with the annoyance that is email for two factor because it's always worth turning on

It’s a good day for everyone to turn on two factor verification on Bluesky.

Also on all your other online accounts.

This should not be a controversial opinion. We know this direct aid appeal is exactly the situation human traffickers exploit. It’s well documented. Wanting to help is great. Ignoring the signs that you’re supporting different human suffering helps no one in Gaza. It hurts even more people.

Don't you know genAI can replace the inability to see a computer screen! Also can be used instead of helping improving lighting! Who needs to see. You can just ask the computer what it sees.

It's ALIVE!!!

dsq-sds.org/article/id/6...

Very unimpressed by pop neurodiversity influencers and their AI apologia.

More bullshit claiming that anti-AI stances are classist and ableist and racist.

Meanwhile, AI is built on exploited black labor, kills disabled people every day, disposesses the working class, and drinks all our water.

Where as a society are we investing our resources if the labor of caring for and accommodating disabled bodies is labour worth automating?

This is the insidious ableism in the rhetoric of pro-AI apologists who hide behind positive disability principles.

For that example about blindness.

I've actively not been able to get any of the assistive tech I need funded through any of the funding sources that I'm supposed to get it from in the last 8 months because of the assumption that I can just use AI to do everything if I can't see it.

AI will do good for disabled people sometimes but the AI apologia will actively make it harder to get either that help or other help in a lot of ways. It's not simply "AI can't help" but it sure is AI is not only harming, the apologia and obsession with AI being able to do everything is even worse

I'd like to have a working sleep schedule made of something besides pain and anxiety please

The operators of any site have access to a lot of metadata that the average user can't see, and it's anywhere from "pretty easy" to "trivially easy" to identify around 90% of batch account creation once you get the metadata patterns of a particular network mapped out well enough.

omg

those astronauts who are parents?

THEY CAN LITERALLY TELL THEIR CHILDREN “I LOVE YOU TO THE MOON AND BACK”

a spacecraft landing is literally like ALL THE SCIENCES AT ONCE

textile strength is important and wind and water are important and what kind of metal they used on the outside and the trajectory of re-entry and the distribution of weight and mass inside the thing and atmospheric conditions and

[Food intolerances]

I will say, I do have a very small sample size of people besides myself who tolerate homemade ferments WAY better than store bought

Who are also diagnosed with MCAS, or have the related HATS mutation + a bunch of digestive issues

Again: it's hard to know why without a lab!

I'm also in this list! Homemade yogurt? Definitely can have. Store bought. Questionable and brand dependent if it's at all.

Turn your lights off for the migratory birds!

Could have a follow up about medical ableism and dealing with life threatening chronic illness and being able to better advocate for care because of being treated as more human than someone with a different disability presentation lol

My high school keeps emailing being like we want impressive alumni stories! What great things have you done so we can tell the current students!

And I'm like lol it'd be funny to propose writing an article for them about quitting and going on SSI in order to survive

Choosing what to get my dog for her birthday is the hardest challenge. 2 years old is such a milestone for a dog!

The fact that my cat loves ASL is the most important thing for people to know about me obviously.

I really enjoy that introducing myself in ASL class is actually introducing my cat and feel like this is appropriately autistic

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

Also of course it's an office that's incredibly difficult to call and get a person so I probably just have to wait until my next appt to make a portal account