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i said good girl. as a sarcasm joke

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This is a pretty neat site. I remember having vague ideas about something somewhat close to this but doing nothing with them.

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it's so simple and lovable!!

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if it was the first of its kind I would like it but its not and I already have a main one so this is kinda nobolty to me

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What's your main one? I use Substack Notes a bit these days. I was a big Twitter user (and used to work there) years ago, but stopped using it in 2023.

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turns out the power of exclamation mark thing in bash is bigger than !$ and !!. i learned a few tricks from , worth reading!

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was feeling a little fancy, bought a bag of gesha coffee beans :))

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Hi ! First post : What do we win in the AI race ?

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To understand the latest trends or related software or products, if you are interested or it is related to your own industry, you can learn about and study them.Whether you use it for work or just as a hobby, you can give it a try. I guess.just study.

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What even is enough?

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in what sense?

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In general, when is something enough. I have a tendency to never be satisfied with anything hence the post.

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A lot and very little

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why do I love characters who are evil? is this just my coping mechanism? or am I a bad person? oh, why am I this way..!?

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Looks like you-know-who has finally come for nitter. :-( nitter.net

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Using the internet these days is like pulling off an elaborate heist operation. Every time I successfully load a page I feel like I've "gotten away with something".

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It is sometimes tempting to mutter, "I'm in!" in your movie hacker voice when you finally get past all the cookie/subscription/notification pop-ups.

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'wade in the water.' isn't this the challenge of being 'ahead'? so many of us are waist deep in the same sea, it's hard to see what's in front of us vs. what's behind us. then we see the yacht boys sail by with their new masters, splashing us in their wake. then we grumble amongs

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then we grumble amongst ourselves about 'that was my idea,' then carry on.

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my today’s list:

wake up

make coffee

work

and possibly later:

contemplate existence

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sometimes I can feel the nerve endings on the ends of my fingers and it hurts really bad! my fault though, I am a serial nailbiter..

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Did this work? I would like to say hello to you!

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Hello to you, my dear friend! Sending all my love to you both for a Shana Tova!

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If you need to hear this, I love you

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Thanks

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Anyone in the room recently diagnosed as being in the spectrum and older than 40?

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I'm 55 and recently self-diagnosed as "fairly ASD with some ADHD" after watching a lot of youtube videos. It's been immensely helpful (to the point of bringing me to tears sometimes) in understanding the struggles I had when I was younger. It's also been very helpful in understanding what I can do currently to support myself and work with my brain instead of against it.

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I'm glad it was useful to you. This process of becoming aware of our autism is not easy. It is liberating, but it is also difficult, at the same time. I watched a lot of videos too, but then I visited a couple psiquiatrists and a psycologist (I had other problems too), just to be sure. What is your opinion about the ASD youtube landscape? I think that there are a few very good channels, but there is lot of noise too. I see some danger there.

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Those "10 signs you may be [or not be] autistic" seem quite dangerous to me. Neurodivergence can be tricky.

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Yeah. I do like them sometimes, but the good authors are careful to start the video with looots of caveats (e.g. "this is not how to diagnose, just something that's maybe helpful").

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Yeah I agree that there are many ASD channels on YT of varying qualities. I only follow a few. Some of my favorites (very roughly in order):

@MomontheSpectrum
@imautisticnowwhat
@elenacarr0ll -- kinda more emotive, but I find that helpful sometimes
@autismfromtheInside -- no longer posts (burned out)

I think for now being self diagnosed is enough for me. Just knowing that I'm neurodivergent has been helpful for me to be kind to my own mind.

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Yes. It’s helped me understand more about how things affect me and why I respond to things in certain ways, which helps me manage situations and myself better. It’s given me a vocabulary to articulate experiences that I struggled to make sense of.

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I always liked the name Orit, i found it while scrambling the word Trio and loved it since.

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Never actually met someone with that name, sounds cool though.

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My 3yr old woke up at 5am this morning crying - not terribly uncommon - and when I went in there to check on her she just said "daddy's here" without looking at me and went back to sleep

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My 3yo woke up at midnight fully believing that I was about to walk out the door and go to work.

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