Let's begin with a useful guide by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
bladespark, The Hopless Autist's Guide To Aproaching People In Public, which focuses less on the conversation topics and how to talk to others, and more on the more potentially terrifying part of how to find someone who might be interested in making small talk or conversation. Handy, of course, for more than just autists trying to find people to talk to.
A game about trust and variations on the Prisoner's Dilemma, to show us how the environment and the rules of the situation we are in influence what kind of behavior will be optimal, as a way of explaining why truces break out among people who are nominally completely at war with each other, and why people who are supposedly at peace sometimes break out in vicious fighting.
A site looking to collect and recommend alternatives to those companies and persons that have aligned themselves with retrograde forces.
Mr. James Harrison, who made a habit of donating plasma every two weeks from age 18 to age 81, and whose plasma was used to create treatments to prevent a mother's immune system from attacking their developing fetus, saving the lives of more than 2.4 million babies.
The Moms for Liberty-affiliated entity called BookLooks is shutting down, for reasons that are not yet unclear, so it is possible that the cherry-picking, proof-texting site whose purpose was to get as many books banned as possible will reappear in some new or more horrible context, but for the moment, it's worth celebrating that those who were dedicated to hateful ends will no longer be doing that particular piece of work. Now is also a good time to save the receipts of what the site did and what it was responsible for.
Eric Carle drew a book that had simplified drawings of naked people in it, and therefore several people have, over time, tried to get the book banned because it contained nudity. Much like other books that also do the same, even though the nudity is very clearly nonsexual.
( An awful lot of the usual U.S. politics inside )
Last for tonight, the fish doorbell is in season again. There's a camera at a particular point in time where spawning fish will be stopped on their journey. If you spot a fish, click the doorbell, and the keeper will open a channel for the fish to get through.
Additionally, take the shoulds out of your reading. And quite possibly also your listening, watching, playing, and other things. That which is supposed to be enjoyable often gets plagued by these shoulds, and that an make the enjoyable un-enjoyed.
(Materials viaadrian_turtle, azurelunatic, boxofdelights, cmcmck, conuly, cosmolinguist, elf, finch, firecat, jadelennox, jenett, jjhunter, kaberett, lilysea, oursin, rydra_wong, snowynight, sonia, the_future_modernes, thewayne, umadoshi, vass, the ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
meta_warehouse community, little_details, and anyone else I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)
bladespark, The Hopless Autist's Guide To Aproaching People In Public, which focuses less on the conversation topics and how to talk to others, and more on the more potentially terrifying part of how to find someone who might be interested in making small talk or conversation. Handy, of course, for more than just autists trying to find people to talk to.A game about trust and variations on the Prisoner's Dilemma, to show us how the environment and the rules of the situation we are in influence what kind of behavior will be optimal, as a way of explaining why truces break out among people who are nominally completely at war with each other, and why people who are supposedly at peace sometimes break out in vicious fighting.
A site looking to collect and recommend alternatives to those companies and persons that have aligned themselves with retrograde forces.
Mr. James Harrison, who made a habit of donating plasma every two weeks from age 18 to age 81, and whose plasma was used to create treatments to prevent a mother's immune system from attacking their developing fetus, saving the lives of more than 2.4 million babies.
The Moms for Liberty-affiliated entity called BookLooks is shutting down, for reasons that are not yet unclear, so it is possible that the cherry-picking, proof-texting site whose purpose was to get as many books banned as possible will reappear in some new or more horrible context, but for the moment, it's worth celebrating that those who were dedicated to hateful ends will no longer be doing that particular piece of work. Now is also a good time to save the receipts of what the site did and what it was responsible for.
Eric Carle drew a book that had simplified drawings of naked people in it, and therefore several people have, over time, tried to get the book banned because it contained nudity. Much like other books that also do the same, even though the nudity is very clearly nonsexual.
( An awful lot of the usual U.S. politics inside )
Last for tonight, the fish doorbell is in season again. There's a camera at a particular point in time where spawning fish will be stopped on their journey. If you spot a fish, click the doorbell, and the keeper will open a channel for the fish to get through.
Additionally, take the shoulds out of your reading. And quite possibly also your listening, watching, playing, and other things. That which is supposed to be enjoyable often gets plagued by these shoulds, and that an make the enjoyable un-enjoyed.
(Materials via
adrian_turtle, azurelunatic, boxofdelights, cmcmck, conuly, cosmolinguist, elf, finch, firecat, jadelennox, jenett, jjhunter, kaberett, lilysea, oursin, rydra_wong, snowynight, sonia, the_future_modernes, thewayne, umadoshi, vass, the meta_warehouse community, little_details, and anyone else I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)
