viv ⭐️ @viv@cybre.space

can't stop punching the shit out of rocks in no mans sky beyond. vr is good actually.

Sesame Street has given up working with ASAN to work with Autism Speaks instead. https://autisticadvocacy.org/2019/08/asan-has-ended-partnership-with-sesame-street/

Excerpt from the linked open letter:
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For several years, ASAN consulted with Sesame Street on their See Amazing project and the development of their autistic character, Julia. Until this summer, the content Sesame Street produced showed parents that their autistic children could live great lives, and taught autistic and neurotypical children ways to become friends. Through this approach, See Amazing successfully encouraged the inclusion of autistic children in their communities, and had a widespread positive impact.

Sesame Street has now decided to undo that progress. Its latest PSAs featuring Julia promote Autism Speaks’ “Screen for Autism” initiative and their resource for parents of newly-diagnosed autistic children, the 100 Day Kit. Like much of Autism Speaks’ recent advertising, these PSAs use the language of acceptance and understanding to push resources that further stigma and treat autistic people as burdens on our families. The 100 Day Kit encourages parents to blame family difficulties on their autistic child (“When you find yourself arguing with your spouse… be careful not to get mad at each other when it really is the autism that has you so upset and angry”) and to view autism as a terrible disease from which their child can “get better.” It recommends compliance-based “therapies” and pseudoscientific “autism diets,” but fails to educate families about communication supports. It even instructs parents to go through the five stages of grief after learning that their child is autistic, as they would if the child had died.
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i made a bingo card but there's a typo sorry

pleeeeease stop referring to hypothetical software developers as "he" by default. if you quickly add "or she" afterwards you're still on my shitlist. we have a perfectly serviceable generic singular pronoun, "they" - use it

body once told me
the world was gonna roll me
society's not trans people's friend
I've known the band since college
but didn't have the knowledge
that Smash Mouth would have my back in the end

NBA Elite 11
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_Elite_11

if you breed vaporeon and flareon together do you get cloudflareon

@Skirmisher

@darius has been doing some quality work in lowering the bar of entry for folks to enter the fedi on their own terms, so this is a must read. Great piece.

https://runyourown.social

i don't Google Play Games, kid... you're going to Google Pay for what you've done. they'll have to Google Search every Google Pixel of the Google Images they take to find your remains anywhere on this godforsaken Google Earth

I was inspired by @darius 's essay about small social networks and wrote a few words on my own experiences over the year building online communities.

Build them small and they will stay

https://asininetech.com/2019/07/08/build-them-small-and-they-will-stay/

How to Use User Mode Linux

https://christine.website/blog/howto-usermode-linux-2019-07-07

#blogpost @cadey

hey video games, i'm a person, not a camera. stop making water run down my eyes

@unascribed I lost a Milk moneymatch to @viv once

i know too many men name Mike. if ur a guy named mike this is a callout post. change ur name and make my life easier or ur cancelled

Since ppl are asking who, heres the birdsite thread: https://twitter.com/Hi_Cial/status/1143889288133861382?s=20

Plus her site saying she does work for gdq 2019: https://twitter.com/Hi_Cial/status/1143894961475203072?s=20

Plus others weigh in: https://twitter.com/Hi_Cial/status/1143907102248853507?s=20

And by all means spread this shit & complain to gdq cuz im Sick of them giving her a free pass for free art

BTW, Secret Little Haven is half off in the Steam Summer Sale! Have at it, folks! (The same discount will come to Itch as well shortly)

If you want a game about a trans girl online in the 90s, give it a shot!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/827290/Secret_Little_Haven/

Welcome to Windows 98