Someone posted this but with no alttext. I couldn't find anyone else who's already posted it to boost, so am re-posting it. From the far right march in London yesterday. From, of course, Led By Donkeys.

Edit - Tricia also posted it yesterday! https://mastodon.scot/@TriciaB/116586009943155391

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@rauschma/116580126323021614

Now see what you’ve done. Axel’s decade+ work on explaining the intricacies of web development and ECMAScript in particular had to be taken down because of AI. This royally sucks and anyone who thinks AI is nifty for coding should be ashamed if themselves.

New zine is out today. Bhutan, butterflies and Buddhism in the Himalayas. https://ewenbell.com/zine

Free to download. No subs or trackers or logins. My monthly photography zine where I share my moments and thoughts from the field.

#PhotoZine #EwenInBhutan #Photography #Zine #CameraNotIncluded

The quest for the perfect print is ongoing...

(Doing a print swap with @pyrenaicus and this wonderful image is one of his and I want to give it my best! So over the past 2 weeks I've been going through different variations, whilst also updating and re-calibrating my workflow, curves & equipment... still some more to try out!)

#AltProcess #Kallitype #Darkroom #PrintMaking #LandscapePhotography #Monochrome #Pyrenees #Mountains

Are folks still using Flickr? Is it a nice place to be in — no algorithms, no AI slop? Would you recommend it?

Thinking of reviving my long dead account 🤔

(Boost for reach, please)

@autistics

A number of different conversations on here recently has prompted me to remember something. When I was a teenager we had a next door neighbour who was in her 90's and still lived alone. Sometimes people would comment on how great it was that she could still be independent at her age and I would always completely agree. Despite knowing that,

Long before home deliveries, I did her shopping every week and picked up her prescriptions.
My mother would help her with any official correspondence that needed replying to and any phone calls that she needed to be made, (mostly because the old dear was profoundly hard of hearing.)
Another neighbour took her to church every week and to any appointments she had.
A friend from church looked after her garden and another one would do any DIY jobs, or heavy lifting that needed doing.

And yet, everyone still saw her as living independently and this is because independence has always been health and age related and by those standards she did. And because hardly anyone lives truly independently of everyone else. There is always occasional and more than occasional food, or help, or just someone you can call on, whether that be a neighbour, or friend, or relative, for baby sitting, or lifts, or whatever. Independence as an absolute doesn't really exist, and hardly anyone views it that way.

Except, perhaps, us. I don't know whether it is our tendency towards black or white thinking, or perhaps the perfectionism we often view things by. But for many of us, and perhaps more so for those of us realising we're autistic later in life, the trap of viewing our desire and need for independence by the absolute standard of all or nothing, is something that we are only too prone to fall into. And then, of course, end up wondering why we can't live that way and blaming ourselves accordingly.

#Autism
#ActuallyAutistic