…First, you spend your whole life hiding your emotions, your pain, your frustration because each time you let yourself show it - you hurt their feelings, and you care for them and don’t want them to be hurt.

Then, they throw into your face accusations of being emotionless heartless cold inhumane creature when you don’t let them see your soul burning inside when they spit something hurtful at you. Or tell you that you don’t understand their difficulties because it has been so easy for you.

And you just mute yourself again because you can’t let yourself crumble
And you put on that fucking smile
“Oh yeah, so easy, must be gifted”

And while your soul screams at you that this is unfair, when your mind tells you this is unhealthy, when all your self-education in psychology (which you did since adolescence in order to deal with yourself and the world around) tells you to stop masking - the immense shame and all of the love you still have make you to shut the fuck up and keep that smiling pokerface…

@autistics

"...Over time, it’s possible that my own sense of “what sounds right” is being trained by these interactions. Not consciously. Not through a single interaction. It occurs through thousands of small decisions and calibrations across months and even years of daily use..."

https://www.psychologytoday.com/ie/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/ai-is-quietly-colonizing-how-you-think/amp

#ai #psychology #dido

So, here's another fun thing about the #SAVE Act that nobody is talking about.

It would require states to check if every voter is still eligible *once a month* using federal databases that government inspectors have repeatedly flagged for high error rates.

The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 established detailed rules to stop officials from unfairly removing people from voter rolls. Those protections include: states must notify each person individually and wait through two federal elections before removing them (roughly four years), and strict limits on what evidence states can use to justify removing someone from the rolls.

The two laws contradict each other and cannot both work at the same time.

#USpol #Senate #USGov #Voting #VotingRights #Epstein #EpsteinClass #GOP #GuardiansofPedophiles

https://govfacts.org/elections-voting/voting-rights-reform/barriers-to-voting-voter-suppression/voter-roll-purges-what-due-process-protections-the-law-requires/

Lost Archimedes Page from Medieval Manuscript Discovered in France

A page long thought lost from one of the most important surviving manuscripts of antiquity has now been identified in a French museum, offering fresh insight into both ancient science and medieval book culture.

https://www.medievalists.net/2026/03/lost-archimedes-page-from-medieval-manuscript-discovered-in-france/

#mathematics #books #literature #science

"What happens in Gaza doesn't stay in Gaza".

It's worth taking seriously what BigTech has been saying for decades:

"Even if billions perish in the coming [...] catastrophe..we shouldn’t be too concerned".

They said [climate], but also read [forever wars, poverty, pandemics].

They're white-male-supremacist, eugenicist fascists & likely malignant narcissists (psychopaths).

Well past time to stop feeding them.

https://www.salon.com/2022/08/20/understanding-longtermism-why-this-suddenly-influential-philosophy-is-so/

#Tescreal #psychopathy #USPol #EUPol #Fascism #racism .

Is there any way on Mastodon to automatically filter out image posts with no alt text?

Edit: think I've got my answer- thanks y'all!
Edit 2: Copy-pasting my reply to compile the solutions from the comments: The best solution for my usecase (mobile on iOS) is Martin Wenisch's fork of Phanpy (https://mastodon.cesko.digital/@mwenisch/116249807965211752)  but if you're on Android the Moshidon app client is also an option and if you're on PC there's uBlock and Tampermokey scripts (https://neilzone.co.uk/2024/02/suppressing-posts-containing-images-with-no-alt-text-in-the-mastodon-advanced-web-ui-via-ublock-origin/ & https://social.jpoesen.com/@jpoesen/116250073497451531)