If you join the BC NDP you have to join the NDP. If you live in BC and you join the NDP, you have to join the BC NDP. If you want to join, or even just actively support, any other party, provincially or federally, you must leave both the BC NDP & NDP.

Is everyone joining Mastedon or what’s happening? I just need my #NEISvoid people, COVID scientists, the anarchists, and some poets. Feeling frozen and unsure. Discord is so overwhelming and I’m afraid Mastedon will be too.

And this is the difference between 'autism' and 'rich entitled dickhead'. Having a strong sensory aversion to a colour? That's autistic. Consequently banning yellow warning labels with no thought to the harm this does to your employees? That's being a rich entitled dickhead.

And in my experience, the majority of the time, if you respond to a small-talk-prompt like that with a "no, BUT," most people will roll with it, because it gives the conversation *some* kind of hook to work with. As opposed to: Q: Doing anything fun this weekend? A: Hm... nope.

the number of "mastodon 101" posts on the internet is interfering with my ability to google for specific answers. 🤦 but I eventually figured out that the link to my new profile is neurodifferent.me/web/@chani

We're aware Twitter is blocking access to the article on this platform. Here's our story about that. mediaite.com/tech/twitter-b…

Fochti I never understood why life was so hard for me and seemed so easy for others. So I blamed myself and tried harder. I tried so hard. Until I couldn’t anymore, and my body and mind gave way.

Esteemed non-techie regulars, if you're wondering what makes so many techies on here go "welp time to get our affairs in order": let me try to get through this in a handful of tweets.

I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?" As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.

So I finally decided to try out fancy noise cancelling earbuds and I think tonight I have finally learned what an "unpleasant" sound is like that is also not overwhelming, painful, agitating, or distracting. 1/

People I follow: "mastodon hurts my brain, I'll just use tumblr" Me: "tumblr hurts my brain, I'm sticking with mastodon" Tumblr: "we'll interconnect. don't stress" 🎉 neurodifferent.me/web/@jdp23@ind…

The Vancouver Police Department is asking for a 11.2% increase to its 2023 budget, to $383 million. That's would be a $38.5 million increase from last year. Here's a basic chart showing how that breaks down.

it's like demonstrably, ridiculously untrue that folks unhappy with themselves can't be kind to others, and the dumb quote about "you can't love others until you love yourself" is just weaponized shit advice for jerky assholes

I can absolutely say "I celebrate being autistic and do not want to be 'cured'"' and "omfg this is all really hard and sometimes I just want it to be easier" in the same breath.

One chronic illness thing we don't talk about enough is how difficult it makes it to express your emotions. You could be feeling the deepest hurt, anger, grief or frustration but if you release it, if you cry or yell, it makes your symptoms worse. Feeling your feelings costs you.