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It's July 1st! Four days until Basement day! The special day where we hide in the basement with our cats and curse the fireworks. Except this year I'm on call so most likely I will get stuck in horrible post fireworks traffic.

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Im male born, but i dont feel particularly "male" so to speak: currently im non-binary bc i dont feel i belong to gender categories. Its just like im mentally in a gender-limbo and i think ive been in it my whole life, but its not concrete, as in sometimes i wish i was a girl (this happened also when i was a kid) but at the same time i feel like the categories of binary gender arent fit for me. Im just confused as in what i am. From the outside i think im generally seen as male but inside it's kinda like i don't care but i don't like to be in the gender binary but i wish i was more "girly". Can anyone relate?

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/41245463

One of my cats had an accident outside the litter box, somehow cat food got on the bottom of one of the bowls and I touched it, and my 3D print failed. Happy Monday.

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I go on call this week.

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Dr. Frances is a psychiatrist. He led the American Psychiatric Association’s task force charged with creating the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Good morning. Please remember to drink water.

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Yes im fixating on Elden Ring atm and yes that helped

I took the day off from work so I can go to the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) to renew my car tags and driver's license.

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It's going to be ok. Well parts of it are going to be ok. Other parts it won't be ok. We're just not sure what it is.

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I will not be making a big announcement. This is merely a small announcement to let you know, I am not making a big announcement.

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Autistic guy here and sorry for the political rant. There is a lot of intense and horrific things happening all over the world like the recent war with Iran. But let me say this. If you voted for Trump and your friends and family cut you off because of it, then I do not feel any sympathy for you.

Especially if you have a loved one who is neurodivergent or is special needs. The amount of grief and hopelessness this administration is bringing to thousands, if not millions, of families in the USA is indefensible. Families have been torn apart because of his draconian policies towards immigration. Legal immigrants and regular tourists are being jailed because they committed a minor infraction. Education and social safety programs are being gutted, while the ultra-wealthy keep getting richer and richer.

Canada, Australia and Europe, which we have seen as friends for the previous couple decades, are moving away from the USA after Trump's annexation threats of Canada and withdrawing from several agreements. And I don't fault them for boycotting the USA as there are other friendlier countries to travel to and buy products from. Compared to Europe or Asia, the only good things we have going for us here are the universities and the national parks. Yet Trump and most of his cabinet want to dismantle the national park system and remove all federal funding from these universities. I'm not sad that Canadians and Europeans (and Australians) are boycotting the USA, and at this point, I would happily boycott the USA as well if I didn't live here. I'm sad because I really enjoy talking to international people. Plus many of these cultural ties between certain states and certain provinces (like BC and the NW USA, or Quebec and the Maritimes with New England) have been severely damaged and will be very difficult to repair. What makes traveling fun for me is having fun conversations with international people from all over the world.

All of this to make the USA safer?! Really?!

Now that Roe v. Wade has ben overturned and many states are implementing harsh laws preventing women from getting abortions, the USA will very likely its own Mahsa Amini. And when that happens and another wave of nationwide protests happen, Laken Riley will really be turning in her grave when she finds out her death was used for far-right authoritarian policies to dismantle healthcare for millions of women.

Safer from school shootings and gun violence since Republicans want to ease all gun restrictions? Safer from diseases since there is an anti-vax skeptic who is the secretary of the US health and human services and wants to remove all vaccine requirements? Out of fear that vaccines cause Autism which has been debunked countless times by countless scientists? Safer from pollution now that several environmental regulations have been eased? Safer for plane travel now that majority of the FAA has been fired? Safer traveling out of the country because American citizens (who even have Global Entry) are being put into waiting rooms for hours.

You voted for him to lower the cost of groceries and gas prices?! How is $2.80 per gallon of gas expensive, unless you casually drive a large pickup truck? Due to the tariffs and now the war in Iran, gas and gadgets are going to become A LOT more expensive. People in Oklahoma are going to be in for a very nasty shock when they are suddenly paying Massachusetts prices for utilities and food in a matter of time, unless the entire world can forgive the USA at this point.

If you voted for Trump in 2016, I would still think you have a good heart, even if our political opinions are different. If you voted for Trump in 2024 after Trump proved to the entire world that he has no respect for his political opponents, the constitution and law by putting members of the entire US cabinet in danger on 6 Jan 21, then I don't think you have a good heart and you deserve to be ostracized.

This is why I have such a heard time sympathizing with those who lost friends and family connections because they would rather die of heart failure or cancer than have a well-qualified woman be president, and instead sympathize with those that did cut off friends and family if they voted for Orange Man. I hope everyone who voted for Orange Man will financially suffer. Because we don't have a difference in political opinions. We have a difference in morality and ethics.

Took a picture under a cellphone tower.

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Originally posted by cally@pawb.social:
https://piefed.social/post/966714

I am wondering if results from this community would be different.

I saved a box turtle! By distracting one of the out door kitties so she could walk away slowly.

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Good morning. Please remember to stay hydrated.

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So, I'm heading camping tomarrow. I've done this before, but tenting is really... out in the open. Any recommendations for sensory management in the outdoors that people have? It's going to be hot, and I'm going to be around more people then normal, and my goal is to reduce the usual 1-2 meltdowns to maybe just 0-1. (I've been getting better, a few years ago we aveaged (3-4). It's a very verbal family. Someone will yell at someone by the end of the week, I'm just trying to make sure it's not me. Things I'm already bringing: Sound Canceling Headphones, Bone Conducting Headphones for my background soundtrack, and enough special interest to keep me occupied for the week. (I have a friend who wants a raspberry pi on his helmet, and I'm going to work out how to do the software will almost no cell coverage... sounds interesting to me.) Has anyone else done something like this before, and any recommendation. (Additional Context: Likely about 22 other family members will be there, it's not quite a reunion, but it sorta is.)

It's summer time!

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