Matthew | The Autistic CoachWhat are my #ActuallyAutistic comrades reading/listening to this weekend?
Fabien@theautisticcoach likely the same thing as every other week end ? ;)
Synkr3tyk@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic Listings of homes for sale
ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳🌈I'm currently touring homes for sale in Bel Air and Beverly Hills. I wouldn't actually live either place, even if I could afford it. I don't even like to go as far as the 101/405 interchange, but it's fun to look at the houses.
@ScottSoCal @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic I'm actually looking for real - leaving California for someplace cheaper
I'm gay, so leaving California isn't really an option. I'm just looking for fun. Anyway, I bought a house up in Ventura County about 20 years ago, and I'm pretty well settled.
BlackDutchSnark@synkr3tyk @ScottSoCal @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic don’t come to the South…it’s cheap cost of living, but we pay for it with having to deal with homophobic, trans-phobic, racist, misogynistic asswipes.
I sympathize, though. We moved to California in the 90s, to Santa Barbara, and bought a place there just before real estate went insane there. We only owned it 3 years, but sold it for twice what we'd paid (after a lot of DIY fixup). Sank that into the current house, and I couldn't afford to buy this place today. My mortgage payment is half what we'd pay in rent for a smaller place.
@ScottSoCal @johnettesnuggs @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic If it works out like we hope, I might be able to make my mortgage disappear entirely, which is a whole new level of slack for lining up the next venture.
@synkr3tyk @ScottSoCal @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic i know some people who moved here from California, and they do not have a mortgage. It’s unreal the difference in real estate costs out there vs here.
@johnettesnuggs @ScottSoCal @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic It's a balancing of concerns, the financial windfall vs. living among fascist shitbags. We'll be in a blue urban enclave, though. ("Blue", because although they vote Democratic, I wouldn't suggest most of the people there are actually left of center - but with a healthy number of notable exceptions.)
@synkr3tyk @ScottSoCal @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic Little Rock and Fayetteville are very blue. The rest of our state is super MAGAt Christofacist…I hate living here. If I didn’t have elderly relatives to take care of, I really think I would sell everything and move.
@johnettesnuggs @ScottSoCal @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic We're moving to the Midwest, so... Yeah. But there are reasons.
Blitzen@johnettesnuggs @synkr3tyk @ScottSoCal @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic that's the paradox of the south. You're right about the attitudes and isms being very loud and present, and yet there are more queer folks here than anywhere.
Scott, present & accounted for@synkr3tyk Hey. If you're leaving CA, consider moving to a swing state. Purple states generally have a lower cost of living than many blue states and you could perhaps vote to save our democracy! Consider states like AZ, PA, WI, GA, NV, MI, NC, VA. Niche dot com has good data about locations.
@scottspeaking Destination is already picked, for reasons other than politics. Roughly 60/40 red but went to Obama in 2008.
@synkr3tyk Cool. Best of luck with the move.
I've moved to @theautisticcoach The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett. I haven't read most of the proceeding books so I'm a little lost. (But it's for a buddy read.)
Galoot@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin, novel about game creators
Encyclopedia Briannica@actuallyautistic @theautisticcoach English Ancestral Surnames by JR Dolan (1972)
River Kitten 🏳️⚧️“The Internet Con:
How to Seize the Means of Computation” by Cory Doctorow
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3035-the-internet-con
I’m not far in, but it’s hard to put down if you’re into tech & hate being manipulated by corporations
PaulNickson 🕊️🎛️🎼@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic David Crosby and AES Dana. Needed a chilled afternoon.
Aerliss@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic finished the second Percy Jackson book, started the third. Also finished Neurotribes. Been listening to the Deep Space 9 audiobook A Stitch in Time, narrated by Andrew Robinson himself. Plus a bunch of the Real Ghost Stories podcast, which I listen to with the boyfriend.
Kristen A.@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic Yesterday I finished What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman. Today I read More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech by Meredith Broussard. And since I'm in the U.S. and this weekend continues tomorrow, tomorrow I'm planning on reading an advance copy of American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America by Martyn Whittock.