AuDHD can hide itself.

ADHD's impulsivity masks autistic traits. Autism's structure masks ADHD chaos.

The result? A presentation that confuses everyone — including you.

#AuDHD #Neurodivergent #Diagnosis

Loving this work from home life with #WorldCup matches being on during my work hours.

Just watched #CaboVerde maintain the fact they have never lost a match in the World Cup. (2 draws).

Yesterday I came back to a film I've watched several times over the decades: Different for Girls.

I love how Prentice honestly wants to protect Kim, and how he is truly curious in improving his understanding of Kim being transgender. And when curiosity turns to passion, he does not shy away.

And it's wonderful that Kim has growth as well, ultimately protecting Prentice in turn and being there for him in his time of need.

I know there have been critiques that the film is heavy-handed in educating you on the transgender experience, but that's one thing I appreciated. This film was my onramp to better understanding this, and thus understanding myself better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Different_for_Girls_(film)

#Film #DifferentForGirls #Transgender

Thing I love about the world game is not just that the players all have such multicultural names, but that the commentators usually pronounce them very well. ⚽️ #fifa #WorldCup

Thread Poll 😆

Sometimes it’s nice to do polls that let you reminisce and indulge in nostalgia.

The world doesn’t have much room for that right now, so here’s a sweet little poll for you
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Do you remember your first kiss??

💋 💋 💋 💋

Comments would be nice, of course

#mastodon #fediverse #love #poll #answer #romance #boost

With the World Cup matches scheduled during work hours in my time zone means my sleep isn’t getting interrupted. 🎉⚽️

#BenefitOfWFH

@wendynather Someone shared this the other day. Let's be that support always

RE: https://mas.to/@BruceMirken/116711319347807062

How come Andrew Wakefield was (correctly) struck off his profession’s register for these harmful shenanigans, but #RFKjr still gets to keep his job?

Talking to another parent yesterday and it seems we are among the last two holdouts giving our kids their own devices.

They have devices they can use but they aren't "theirs".

Some have smart phones already (age range 9-11). Many have smart watches.

When I voiced privacy concerns to other parents, I was made to feel like the bad guy for failing to protect my kids. They are the good parents for giving their kids the ability to call for help in case something happens on the way home. I live in the city and I'm pretty much at the furthest corner of our dense district at a whopping 800m from the school.

There's also the old Chinese saying, two actually I'd like to share. "Far away water can't save a near fire", and "close neighbours are better than far away relatives".

So my kids have an emergency on the walk home. What kind of community would I have to live in to feel like they can't scream for help or walk into the corner store for help?

This is all part of the erosion of society. Don't depend on your community. Give a subscription to tech bros to keep your children safe.

Friends, this is f'd. I should not need to depend on tech to guard my kids against a mythical threat when I should have neighbors and friends all around who contribute to the well being of all of us.

If your solution to safety is tech and not community building, your priorities are f'd and you're letting the tech bros eat what's left of your brain.

I hate when I'm made to feel like a bad parent for not caring about my children's safety.

Tech is not the path to child safety.

History-making mayor of Maribyrnong, Mohamed Semra, is only getting started https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-31/history-making-mayor-of-maribyrnong-mohamed-semra/106674090

#movies

If anyone can track down this short film, it gets ever more relevant. I think I saw it on Netflix way back when.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Please_Hold_(2020_film)

RE: https://aus.social/@timwestcott/116626052009210771

As someone who started a business, I’m all for taxing business capital gains.

Yes I do want to make enough money to live very comfortably.

And yes I do want to contribute my share to the society from which I derive benefit.

Kitchen at Domaine D'Audabiac (2024) by Aldo Balding. Oil on canvas.

#Art #Painting

oh. ohhh.

No!

All major housing developments should include some affordable housing. This isn’t just about having affordable housing. It’s also about where it’s located. If you live in a wealthy neighbourhood, & you want local shops & other services, you must provide housing so that workers aren’t forced to commute long distances. And if you’re too much of a snob to do that in your own neighbourhood, you don’t deserve those shops & services.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-20/luxury-apartments-greenlit-under-affordable-housing-scheme/106680592?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

RE: https://mstdn.social/@jschauma/116610268796045193

So many levels of wrong here. Google’s newest reCAPTCHA “experiment“ tells people to scan a QR code in order to verify that they are human. Yeah, like scanning a QR code displayed by some random website is a good idea in the first place.

But of course your ability to scan the code isn’t what verifies your human nature. That QR code merely tells you that you need the reCAPTCHA app (on iOS) or newest Google Play services (on Android). In other words, you have to verify that you own a mobile device and are providing data to Google. Which they promise not to share with the website, like that’s what I’m worried about.

This obviously excludes people who don’t have a smartphone, have a de-Googled smartphone or simply don’t want to feed their data to Google. And it again ties a large chunk of the web to Google services. If reCAPTCHA wasn’t evil before (a questionable statement), it definitely is now.

We somehow went from "script kiddies are bad" to giving any random office worker the power to launch hundreds of programs that will hammer unknown servers across the web to make mediocre power point presentations.

Not to mention the massive usage spikes that are now hitting public software and data repositories.

What a world.