Helping Cinnamon to make her bed.

#rats #ratstodon #PetsOfMastodon #RatsOfMastodon

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First and most important (and a week late), #HappyNewYear #AndyTheTortoise who came out of brumation a week ago today. He’d started it at the end of October. Was too busy to make announcement.

In the last 3 years, I always prolong his brumation artificially (with nightly coolings) till May 1, for optimal heat. This year, however, I extended by an additional week due to poor weather and my lack of readiness… So he was in brumation 6 months and 1 week! Likely his longest, because even in Northern California he normally woke up mid-April!

But he is up now, and doing very well.
Happy 104th year, Andy!!! You rock! I'm so happy to have you!!

The cutting board contains his typical meal at the beginning of the season: From bottom to top: Lettuce (here, red leaf), chopped up roma tomatoes on a leaf of lettuce, and above on chopped dendelion on the left and chopped broccoli florets on the right. I also plant an assortment of plants which I will show in a different toot.

If you want to steer clear of maga & other right-wing businesses, there is an app where you can check businesses to find their true affiliation. We stumbled on The Tea Rose Garden that way. I was kind of surprised to find a local business in there. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/publicsq/id1573823343

SO SO TRUE!! And something I so often forget.

One of my biggest change in recent months is to have put shredded bark in the dog area so that it and everything stay cleaner, including the dogs. I started sitting here since then because it’s where they pee and poop but the bark repells insect and as it gets dirty and can remove the top and put new clean bark down. I compost what I remove.

I started sitting here before the puppies but the puppies give me an excuse to sit here.

Also, adding hummingbird feeders has given me yet another excuse: watching birds; I so love nature.

It's hard for me not to work because I feel I have to justify my existence. But I'm starting to do better. I hope to get Andy's area more functional so I can also sit there
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The sun is back
@altbot

Gardening does help with anxiety. For me, the key is to find the pleasure, not just feel "I MUST FINISH.”

RIght now, I’m watching the puppies while my husband is in EMDR therapy, but I hope to return a little later to continue Andy’s very needed “renos” LOL
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Good morning! Not drizzling this morning but very gray and garden soaked. Sun trying to pierce through low clouds. They say it could get as warm as 24°C (75°F) with ☀️ l8r.

Trying to be focused because this is #AndyTheTortoise’s area and I predict he will want up by tomorrow with heat arriving. Usually he gets up no later than May 1 but I held him back due to both weather and my backlog.

So he’s moving in tomorrow morning I believe, till November.

Aside from focusing, also trying to enjoy myself, something that can be difficult when one is too driven to both work and beat himself up. But so far, so good this morning.
@altbot

I wish not putting #ContentWarning were a violation of the terms of use on Fedi. I've been guilty omitting content warning myself I'm absolutely certain, and I did it more than once. But at least I would have been warned and would likely have learnt much faster not to do it.

If you post upsetting political news without content warning, you can cause so much harm, especially with what is happening in the world/US currently.

No #CW can mean ruining someone's mood. Or worse, ruining their day. Or even worse, pushing them over the edge and putting them in a psychiatric ward. Or even worse, you may be pushing them over the edge when they are actually suicidal.

No upsetting political (especially) information is so critical that it should be posted without content warning. There is just too much at stake. People’s lives are at stake.

Do you care? Think about this for a moment. This is my safe space, but it doesn't feel very safe when I'm bombarded with things that upset me and make me question whether it's worth going on living.

Or at least, be honest: if you don't care about content warning, then don't make any post about suicide prevention, because you are no using the very tool that could prevent suicides of vulnerable people. You are part of the problem.

Please boost!!!

Attention: #philatelists https://beige.party/@ratcatcher/114398659103232351

A biography of Tesla exists and is available electronically in Apple Books hopefully still free of charge: https://books.apple.com/us/book/nikola-tesla/id622963231

I wonder if the vehicle brand will follow the same path as the man who inspired it…

“Bouncing from cheap hotel to cheap hotel, Tesla began spending more time with pigeons than with humans. One white pigeon caught his eye. “I love that pigeon as a man loves a woman,” Tesla wrote. “As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life.”
The white pigeon died in one of his dreams in 1922 — her eyes like “two powerful beams of light” — and Tesla felt sure that he was done, too. At the time, he told friends that he believed that his life’s work was finished.
Yet, he continued to work and feed New York City’s pigeons for 20 more years.”

From: https://allthatsinteresting.com/nikola-tesla-death

Looks 😍 and sounds so good 😋 https://tech.lgbt/@SunnJax/114393474051796290

Great quote! 👏🏻 👏🏻

“I would die for my family”

Okay, but…

would you exercise for them?

would you eat healthy for them?

woud you chase your dreams for them?

would you quit your bad habits for them?

You don’t need to die for them. You need to live for them.”

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Good Morning from #Pasadena. Resumed our walks in #Altadena this week. Our first walk was great; where we went there had been virtually no damage. But that wasn't the case of our latest walk.

This area was a beautiful neighborhood full of amazing old houses and trees. At least 1/2 of those old houses seem to be gone, at first sight. But it's hard to tell with so many trucks everywhere.

Not feasible driving around for a look and I stay on the beaten track away from trucks and bulldozers to avoid too much toxic dust, especially with Moses.

#WildfireWednesday #EatonFire

@altbot

Why is sex so high on the agenda for so many men? IMO sex is highly overrated and exaggerated. In a recent discussion with support group fellow autists, almost everyone felt the same way and it wasn’t even me who brought it up.

No one should ever feel pressured for sex but I get the feeling many women have sex with their husbands so they then can be left alone for a while afterwards. Very high sex drives seem very juvenile to me. https://mstdn.games/@dreadfulsanity/114341557336915704

I think it’s disgusting that a person claiming to be there to save your life wants to charge you for the service. This is exploitation of the most vulnerable. I tried to report but could not find a way even though they are spamming people with unrelated posts via the comment section. https://masto.nu/@akash8877/114369648016270218

I am finding it very hard to know out what to do re: the political mess this US is in.

If I donate to a single election candidate, I start getting dozens of unwanted emails and texts for other candidates and even projects not related to elections at all. Plus I find many emails and texts asking for money are deceptive and exaggerating many things (I know that’s hard to believe with exaggeration not being needed in 99.9% of cases).

I certainly do not feel like signing petitions. Putting our info and then it being sent to far right folks? That seems #1 totally ineffective. (Orangeade won’t care that people sign petitions.) I think they are more likely to be used as lists of people to harass or persecute or even prosecute! for being antigovt… Ironic when it’s traitors in power dismantling the govt.

I can’t watch the shit show. I just can’t. I know I should want to be informed but I’m either informed and it disables me in my day-to-day life. Or I try to be productive but must ignore all that’s going on.

I can donate to assistance organizations like Planned Parenthood but those are just bandaid on a patient that is terminal.

I’m really at a loss as to what to do. We could eventually leave the country, as we have options, but frankly I’d rather just die before then. What’s going on is debilitating for me.

This is my 3rd day of a major cold. Whose fault? My husband for not wearing a mask and another member of his congregation not bothering to wear a mask even though she knew perfectly she was sick and contagious. WTF!!! That’s very Christian of her! I am not sure I will interact with members of his congregation again.

If people were more careful (including my husband) I would not be bedridden atm. I take all necessary precautions including masks & deep sinus rinses with salt and mucus solvents 2s/daily. I have not been this sick in 20 years. And I haven’t had even a very mild respiratory infection in ar least 10 years. I have been wearing masks for 5 years!

I am disgusted with people who are sick and don’t care whether they spread illnesses which can be extremely costly for people especially considering the fact that people who are weak may end up disabled or dead.

But who cares if you’re a person who goes to church. Some Christians are so fucked up and I don’t mean ideology but juvenile and irresponsible behavior like knowingly spreading diseases because they are too fucking lazy to mask even if only when sick. That’s uncivil behavior.

#AskingAutistics Do you know how to flirt (whether you actively do it or not these days). This topic of #Flirting came up at our #AutismSupport group last night when someone asked advice on flirting. That made me realize that it's something I've never done.

I have always been able to show interest in a person I like when first meeting them, but they ALWAYS had to do the flirting and make the moves.

If I’m truly interested in a person and I feel a connection from under the mask (like my #IntenseInterests, I sometime let my true self show and that would be as close as flirting as I could get.

How about you #ActuallyAutistic folks out there?