42. A bit of an ass, but mostly harmless. AuDHD. Love animals, plants, and nature in general. I am a delicate flower who loves to complain. A bit of a nutter. Don't take me too seriously. Gave up Google Search and switched to Ecosia. My digital life has improved greatly as a result. Pronouns: He/They
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Last Notes npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen You have my sympathies. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen I was excited about my new bedside fan which arrived today. Now, I'm struggling to sleep because if it. It doesn't smell the same as the old one. This probably only makes sense if you're autistic. #ActuallyAutistic npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen Every time I type "I'm sorry," it is fine, but if I type "I'm so sorry," autocorrect changes it to "I'm so dirty." I've caught it every time before submitting the post, but one of these days I'm not going to catch it, and my response to someone's bad situation is going to be "I'm so dirty." I'm sure that won't offend anyone or make things worse for them in that moment. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen Yup... That was definitely January. I am impressed. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen I think beige had a hiccup. I know there was some brief maintenance planned for tonight. Probably what we were experiencing. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen Since my timeline is full of people complaining about search engines again, I think it's time for to me to remind everyone... Ecosia works like Google did a decade ago. What little AI it does have is sandboxed and does not impact the traditional web search. Every time I search for what I need, the correct result is on page 1, just like Google used to be. Don't like the AI that Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and others have been infected by? Try Ecosia! Worst case, you lose five minutes of your life. #Ecosia #WebSearch npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen I shouldn't have to ask people to wear masks in the cancer wing of the hospital when I go there for IV treatments. Yet, I have to, and they treat me as if I'm a menace for this. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen I just reached out to the four people on Facebook who I do not have alternate contact info for. I told them I will be closing my account in a few days and gave them my contact information. Within five minutes they all replied with their contact information. I'll be informing my D&D group tomorrow during our game. Friday, I'll deactivate. It really is that easy. If you want to delete yours, do not let the fear of losing people stop you. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen Ah, so you've felt the RetroArch pain as well. I'm surprised I didn't see the scars. 😁 npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen RetroArch is a pain to get configured just the way you want it, so be ready for some frustration. Once you get it how you want it, it's fun to work your way up the leaderboard. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen Everyone should be a part of RetroAchievements! #RetroAchievements npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen Also, I use the command line as little as possible, intentionally. I hate command lines of all types. I don't personally have the memory for it. If I can't click on it, I'll change to a system that lets me. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen Mint Cinnamon is my jam in major part because of the GUI. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen They're trying so hard to make us hate him, and all they're doing is make us love him more. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen I love when people use euphemisms and name alterations to prevent people's muted words from working properly. Y'all are doing God's work. /s npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen My mother used my credit line fraudulently. Somehow it was permitted to put things like phone bills on a minor's credit. This destroyed my credit before I was an adult. At 19 I had a vehicle breakdown and only had $1,000, not enough to fix or replace it. I tried to get a loan, but was denied. I went to six or seven banks before someone was kind enough to tell me they couldn't give out a loan to someone with such a bad credit history. When I asked how people my age normally get credit, she said people my age usually have a blank slate, not dozens of delinquencies over the course of many years. At that moment, I became aware of the underlying problem. The credit bureau resolved the issue when I reported mom's fraud, but at that point all the inquiries from me trying to get a loan counted against me just enough that I still couldn't get one even after correcting my credit issues. So yes, we are tainted financially. I started my adult life with bad credit. It has cost me in higher interest rates. It set me back in a highly competitive society. It probably cost me jobs as well. Starting life with horrible credit in a society that runs on credit is one of the worst things a mother can do to a child. Did anything happen to her? Nope. She got to live the rest of her life like normal. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen All of the above. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen I've had people upset with me for not cycling. Ignoring my disabilities making that hard, the roads are so worn that there are no shoulders. There are no protected bike lanes and very few unprotected ones. Too many drivers actively try to buzz cyclists putting their lives at risk because the drivers think they own the road and see anyone outside of a motorized vehicle as inferior and less than human. Cycling in this area is actively unsafe. Without infrastructure, I am not taking the risk, even if I could get healthy enough to cycle the 20 miles round trip to run errands. I can barely make that drive at this point. I am very pro-cycling, but I'm not about to berate people who can't do it safely because of infrastructure issues. Fedi has a subsection of toxic optimist activists who have no idea they are doing more harm than good, and nothing I say is going to change their feelings on that. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen When peaceful revolution becomes impossible, violent revolution becomes inevitable. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen Shrek 2 or I'm not going on the sub. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen One of the many reasons she is heralded as the Mother of Science Fiction. Such a brilliant mind. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen Volcano bombs? I'm shocked I've not already seen a shitty low budget film based on this. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen No Mr. Plow? It is the children who are wrong. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen Of that specific list, Delain is my favorite, though the bulk are in my daily rotation. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen 😂🤣 npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen My dog lied to me. He told me something was wrong with my son and needed me to check immediately. After opening the door, he stole leftover pizza crust the boy neglected to take care of. I got played by a dog. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen Not be to a know it all reply guy here, but I'm sure that's due to behavioral algorithms. They know aggravating people increases engagement, so that activity gets promoted. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen Dear America, if human rights violations and fascism do not alarm you then just know this: Your vote will determine whether or not you still have cheap, easy, and legal access to porn. If you won't vote for human rights, at least vote for the porn! #USpol #Vote #Giggity npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen He's not wrong. Little feels worse than finding out you've been fooled. It's a knife to the gut every time. Even so, I'll take that knife every time if it means I get to the truth. For me, truth matters, even when my emotions try to drag me away from it. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen They also believe it is physically possible for a person to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Intellect isn't their strong suit. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen How is it? I'm mostly a Kraft Dinner person, but this looks like my kind of easy meal. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen "What I'm doing isn't wrong because others are doing it too" is an awful nazi-esque take to have. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen I'm sorry to say, I don't know of any offhand. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen Not to my knowledge. The biggest issues were things in frame which shouldn't have been because of the switch to widescreen. Visual filters and colors were changed a great deal as well. Some of the darker scenes are much lighter, which would be fine if the reason for the darkness was production related, but it's a story about vampires. It was meant to be dark! npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen Buffy the Vampire Slayer comes to mind. The 16:9 release with altered visual filters was a massive downgrade. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen A friendly reminder that younger disabled people rely on social security as well. This would be eugenics in action on many fronts. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen I can't cook small meals for precisely this reason. Unless I'm 100% certain I'm only cooking for myself, I make enough where there's leftovers for days. Given the mental effort and focus cooking requires, I'm thrilled to both have enough if unexpected guests arrive and have enough to last me for days if I don't want to cook. Plus, chili is one of those foods that loses no quality from being reheated. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen I was able to take this less than a meter from the bird. I'm going to become a princess! #Birds #Chickadees #Nature https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/113/296/582/268/896/231/original/6c5522249314427c.jpg npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen I am not in any way suggesting you give up on Windows, but that bullshit is why I personally moved to Linux. I was perfectly happy on Windows 7 Pro. It was rock solid, did everything I needed, and had none of this overreach. Windows 8 made me lose faith in Windows. Windows 10 made me lose more. I tried 11, and I hate it even more. I wish corporations actually cared about making products the way users want them to be. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen Why does my cleaning robot have to have a gender? Can't it just be a robot? npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen I stand corrected. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen Windows phone was objectively a good phone. Unfortunately, they entered that market too late. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen And why can't my nutritional needs be met by a slice of a butter-like substance? My ADHD brain doesn't always remember to eat. I need that! npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen I just want a robot maid. Cleaning is so mind-numbingly dull! npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen Body cams should have worked, but giving them the ability to turn them off was the first mistake. The second was not making every minute of police footage freely available to the public at all times. This was meant to provide accountability. Unfortunately, those meant to enforce this failed miserably in holding officers accountable for their actions. #DefundThePolice npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen Here is an exhaustive list of races of people who have caused me direct harm in my lifetime. 1. White people, mostly men. That's it. A black person has never harmed me. A hispanic person has never harmed me. An asian person has never harmed me. A pacific islander has never harmed me. The list goes on and on. 99% of the people in my life who have harmed me looked similar to me. The other 1% were the rare abusive women my father was attracted to. Guess which people helped me the most in life? Women, queer people, and BIPOC. Somehow, despite spending most of my life in mostly cishet white "Christian' environments, the kindest people did not look like me. I'm so thankful the internet and social media proliferated. I don't dare think of the person I could have become were it not for the diverse collective of people I'm connected to. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen I know I'm technically incorrect. I pronounce gif incorrectly as well. I will not change. These are the smallest hills I am willing to die on, metaphorically speaking, of course. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen Assuming the cat was not neglected, you can take comfort in knowing a house-cat on average has faster reflexes than the average snake. It's most likely okay. But I do understand the concern. Poor kitty deserved better regardless. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen My landlord just threatened me, and of course I don't have it on film because he caught me unaware. "You'd better vote for me this November or life around here is going to get a lot harder." This is why landlords are scum. #Election2024 #Ethics npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen Gesture? I just use the back button. I'm too lazy to be treating this like Minority Report. 😂 npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen In a capitalist society, all behavior is financially incentivized. Since ethically dubious behavior creates profit more quickly than more ethical behavior, people will continue to lean that way. In a world where a bigger company can put you out of business quickly, new business owners can't risk playing the long game, even the small businesses which often try to be ethical. As an example, my behaviors are more maliciously capitalist in recent years despite my disdain for the system. It needs to change, but I need to survive within the system if I am to have any hope to help change it. So, I use tax loopholes and any other Lawful Evil behavior which keeps a roof over my children's heads and helps me meet my medical needs (albeit poorly). The most damning part of capitalism is how most people have to compromise their morals to survive in it. It would be one thing if we could bow out and live with like minded individuals, but capitalism is a plague which follows us everywhere. Capitalism will continue to be the de facto economic structure of the world so long as the biggest world powers benefit from it. I hate it here. 😔 npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen You don't have Disney+, do you? npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen If you wait until it's socially acceptable in the entire hemisphere, they will no longer exist in your area. Take the photos! 🙂 npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen Birch and apple started about a week ago in Maine. The maples have lost their vibrance. The days are comfortable and the nights cool. I love late summer. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen I was pleased to see one of my survivors blooming beautifully today. I'm glad others are getting to enjoy similar experiences. https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/113/002/853/850/656/200/original/dfe6885b20d8cb6f.jpg npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen Why not just plant clover? It rarely gets more than six inches tall, and it'll stay shorter in high traffic areas. It'll also do far more than that mulch in terms of preventing erosion. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen Like cutting open a new pair of scissors with the old ones. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen I hope you heal quickly. I've been through this many times. It's awful. You have my sympathy. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen It's just for this one term. In 2-3 years, they'll go back to their old ways. (Please be wrong. Please be wrong.) npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen I wonder if the extra plants are truly a greater risk compared to shorter grasses becoming overheated because there's little to protect them or the soil they grow in. @npub1tpt…kvpg npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen It appears to be time for me to start reconnecting with people. With my memory issues, remembering people's handles is nearly impossible, even people I've known for many years. But first, it's becoming clear I owe some apologies for disappearing the way I did. I was in a very bad place emotionally and psychologically. There was an exceptional amount of confusion on my end. I was at a complete loss, and much like every other period in my life, I was unable to get the professional help I needed. I truly believed my absence would go unnoticed. That's on me. In meatspace, I struggle to interpret how others feel about me. In cyberspace, I struggle with this even further. I am almost never correct about how I am valued by someone else. Because of this, I genuinely believed my absence would have no effect on anyone else. It was made clear I was completely incorrect. For that enormous mistake, I genuinely apologize. With that matter behind me, if you know anyone who is trying to reconnect with me, by all means, send them my way, or if you feel so inclined, you may boost this. Thank you. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen My poor eyes. I thought you had put ice cream on overcooked hamburger patties. 😂🤣 Now that I am seeing reality, I'm a bit jealous, NGL. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen I want both. My sanctuary (if I ever have the energy and funds to build it) will very much be like this. It'll be a community, but everyone will have their private living spaces. With luck, I can begin the legal research this fall/winter to get the ball rolling. May just be a pipe dream, but I'm not letting this one go. npub1frxelhr4wjpk89dj0kld636lhdne5j0quep7vhd5v3am7g42w3gs24vhgv Allen Where is this photo from? I swear I've seen it before and have had similar thoughts.