CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@moshidon Great!

@itsfoss Arch, Debian, Fedora.

@nixCraft
Well, I don't program to make money now; I do it as a kind of hobby or mental exercise, the same way I play guitar, practice martial arts, or play chess. I enjoy the challenge of programming, of learning. All the languages ​​I learned were for that reason, and now I'm learning Rust. I don't mind AI, but I don't need it either.

I'm not a social person. That is, I'm not a sheep. Many years ago I understood that the social world doesn't work the way I was taught and that the social contract is a lie. So I decide my own value system, what matters and what doesn't, and I break the social contract because the other party doesn't comply; it was just a deception to subjugate and exploit me.
I do not adhere to beliefs or ideologies, nor to cultural trends, tribes or groups with special and superficial preferences.
I don't believe any lies, I have no idols, heroes, no one to follow or emulate. Neither football nor movies or TV series can keep me busy. Social media doesn't fool me either. Nobody here cares about people, only about data and getting attention.
And my personal social relationships consist of a few people and my cats.
And I know very well that nobody cares about what I'm saying and that my criticism will bother them, but I don't care about that either.
I hope these spaces will be a little better someday. But for now, for someone like me, they're of very little use compared to the toxicity one has to endure.
I've been in several battles, even real ones, and I don't mind dying. But I do mind living badly.
#actuallyautistic #gifted #bipolardisorder #society #socialmedia #people

@simonzerafa I have the same dryer at home and I also have a very low energy consumption washing machine. It's a top-loading one.

@admin Excellent! What a great article. I always say that death is a friend who teaches me how to live.

@JeremyMallin And the cream puffs

I think the only thing that has kept me from completely leaving social media (I only use Mastodon and Instagram) is that there's still plenty of humor, memes, cats, and sarcasm.
The rest of the topics that interest me or that I work with daily are widely available on blogs, technical and scientific pages, and from very intelligent people who just happen not to use social media.
Certain medical, scientific or highly specialized topics are present on social networks but at a very low, almost vulgar level. I know that many influencers share basic introductory information for people who want to learn or are just curious. But in the end, to access that content you have to put up with an extraordinary amount of junk information, personal issues, and very biased opinions on topics that don't interest me.
At one point, Mastodon seemed different; I almost thought it might be like the old forums. But no, it's a social network, with all that entails.
And I've come to understand very well that "socializing" is not something I'm very good at, nor something that interests me much.
Because I'm not very interested or don't know how to decipher communication and socialization codes, I always end up doing it quite badly. I mess things up constantly.
So here we go again. I'll just try to share some of my interests here. And if you see me posting a lot of cats and memes, it's because my brain is constantly telling me not to talk about controversial topics and not to get into arguments, not to start fires with my opinions, which in the end are not important because opinions are not reality.

#actuallyautistic #autism #socialmedia #mastodon #opinion #bipolar #neurodivergent

@Heliograph

@Heliograph I wish mine would take a break; it doesn't leave me alone, not even in my dreams.

One day I woke up from a nap because my cat was touching my arm. When I opened my eyes, I saw him open his mouth. He was meowing, but I couldn't hear him.
So I wrote this little poem, with a little sadness and a little acceptance. For all those sounds I love that are fading away as I become increasingly deaf...

My native language is Spanish so I put the original and then the translation.

Los pájaros se han ido
Los loros ya no juegan
en las ramas
La lluvia ya no canta
y el viento apenas sopla
Las risas de los niños
los perros del vecino
y la voz de ella
se alejan poco a poco
El silencio me devora
lentamente...

The birds have left
The parrots no longer play
on the branches
The rain no longer sings
and the wind barely blows
The children's laughter
the neighbor's dogs
and her voice
gradually fade away
The silence slowly devours me...

Perhaps the most painful loss is the loss of oneself, when time slowly steals away your gifts and treasures...

#deafness #hearingloss #deaf #silence #sordera #hipoacusia #silencio #actuallyautistic #autoimmune #poetry #poem