I am again asking you to stop referring to transgender rights as a "distraction" from the real issues. Civil rights issues are not less important than the price of eggs

https://notes.djnavarro.net/posts/2026-11-01-distraction/

To anyone still wondering about climate change then come to the Arctic. Its late October and it's +6C, its raining and we have had only one or two frosts and one brief snow flurry.

By now we should be generally below zero, having hard frosts and snow instead of rain.

The Arctic climate is changing rapidly, there is soon no way back...

Ha ha! Illustration for an article where either the editor, or an LLM, probably has no exposure to actual Canadian experience/content. Ha 😆

#Canada

Now this is more like Halloween !

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmzxj5kgxx10o?at_campaign=ps_whatsapp&at_medium=social&at_format=channel_update

#ProperCelebrationOfWinter

Electrocutions, ‘mental terror’ and withheld wages: The exploited workers building Europe’s data centres

"The investigation found a recurring pattern where tech companies and their many Irish construction partners embed US-style working practices, often in defiance of national working norms."

https://www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/electrocutions-mental-terror-and-withheld-wages-the-exploited-workers-building-europes-data-centres

It cannot breathe

It cannot yearn

It cannot love.

#AI generated music has nothing on this

This is humanity. 🥰

https://youtu.be/dUtjA6pEjns?si=qGr9AgLWjwxYkzp6

“Kathy’s song” live version - Simon and Garfunkel

I’ve heard that when in an argument, lie down on the floor to interrupt it.

So I tried it when feeling anxious.

And it feels helpful.

So I thought I’d share it with you.

#sentfromthefloor #seetheresthelight

@Tamtam @autistics
As autistics we naturally think outside the box, mostly because we don't even see it. We are also pattern chasers. It means that we connect and see things in terms of a much bigger picture. Especially when you add in our sensitivity and tendency to retain our ability to feel and connect with things outside of the human world on many levels.
Unfortunately NTs tend to be far more human centric and to compartmentalise even that into small boxes of carefully separated and guarded understandings. Even their very language, that we all use, is geared towards this purpose.
It makes seeing the interconnectedness of all things much harder to see and really come to terms with and the problem of single issues and solutions being one more of design than inherent.

@autistics And that is the limitation I feel with such single issue communities. We need to extend our found sense of connection outwards. That is how healing really works. It makes you safer in the world at large. More connected. Not just in an In-group. That's just the first step.
I actually have kind of found the same limitation in any group revolving around a galvanizing issue.
I've explored the perspectives and the intersections of them. I've found languages to speak about being a woman, being autistic , being an unpaid care worker, being this being that. But ultimately I need something else entirely.
A movement of healing and of interconnection, that includes all specific issues and finds a new definition for being human. I am bored with the single issue spaces. I'm a hyperempath . I am neurodivergent. I am bored. I am a woman. I feel connected to all of you out there. I am seeking a language. An open space.
And I am aware that this is a matter of survival of the species. As well as of me as a person. And if I suffer, I suffer as that. Not as an individual person, but as someone who does not have lids to close her eyes nor her sensitive fibers of connection that run every where they should not. Not in the current system of belief in separateness. I exist as a mycelium. An ecosystem of shared breath. Spanning the forest floor of my fellow humans. I hear. I feel . Substances run through my fibers, making me aware of need.
When I leave any such single issue - single perspective group, what I miss most is a language. Briefly, I shared some words with some people. It's always a relief. The connection that runs through the fibers of my being finds resonance in a conscious space of shared experience. In every other instance, that connection is not conscious in our western patriarchal capitalist culture. It remains in the dark, below every ones feet. And while we all root in it, we have forgotten how to nurture it and unite with it.
I am forest mycelium. As such, I suffer, whenever a tree falls, it's a part of me. But I suffer not individually.
The difference I can't explain Not in normal words. I'd have to use woowoo terms that are void of meaning in a culture were spirituality is one more item to be bought and sold an build a disconnected ego around.
I am screaming, I am whispering. I am alive, but I feel very weird exploring this in this invisible space, where integrity of all living beings still exists and will always exist but seems to be outside of all categories that our culture has to offer.@pathfinder ( writing this, I realized maybe I should tag you🤔 )

People have the ability to grow and change.

It happens every day.

Also trust your gut ❤️

https://www.techspot.com/news/114383-us-company-wants-build-two-undersea-data-centers.html

Make datacenters endangered

Patrick Stewart has died. I wanted to remember him for being the absolute badass that he was.

Was going to dress up as Garth from Wayne’s World for Halloween but my partner thinks wearing a wig will be an issue as there is too much homophobia.

I sighed and

unfortunately

agreed.

😑

Creativity dies without diversity.

#lgbtq

The first word sent on the Internet were sent on this day in 1969 between UCLA and Stanford. That word was "lo" because they meant to say "login" but the computer crashed.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/meet-the-professor-who-was-there-when-the-internet-was-turned-on

minimalism is a scam made up by big small to sell you more less

Men are from earth and women are from earth.

Pay attention to the ableism being thrown around with respect to Christina Applegate finding out she doesn’t have MS.

People acting like it’s a relief or a blessing.

Like she’s “better off now”.

She’s still sick.

She’s just sick without answers.

I guarantee it’s not a “relief” for her.

Seeing so many people talk about how “lucky” she is shows two things:

1) People are inherently ableist and can’t accept that disabled people aren’t “less than” just because they’re sick.

2) Having a misdiagnosis doesn’t make you well. It means you’re starting over from scratch.

In many ways having a firm diagnosis is better because it offers closure.

It provides validation.

It may open the door to treatment options.

It helps people “believe” that you’re sick.

When doctors say they “don’t know” what’s wrong… many folks will psychologize you.

They will decide it’s all in your head and you were never really “that sick” to begin with.

Listen to the patient, not the diagnosis.

Christina has said she’s getting worse.

It’s devastating to have to start over because your medical team got it wrong.

She deserves better. We all do.

#chronicillness #disability #ableism #christinaapplegate #ms