Jen, 10 months ago

@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic Listening to Purple Disco Machine and reading Fullmetal Alchemist

estellechauvelin, 10 months ago

@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.

sal, 10 months ago

@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic "I Explain A Few Things."
("why don't you talk about something happier while your community and the prospects of your life are being cut down?")
https://allpoetry.com/i-explain-a-few-things

Aerliss, 10 months ago

@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.

PaulNickson, 10 months ago

@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic David Crosby and AES Dana. Needed a chilled afternoon.

E_Briannica, 10 months ago

@actuallyautistic @theautisticcoach English Ancestral Surnames by JR Dolan (1972)

galoot, 10 months ago

@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin, novel about game creators

willaful, 10 months ago

@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.)

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joshsusser, 10 months ago

@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic I'm listening to the Andy Serkis narration of Lord of the Rings trilogy. Just started The Two Towers yesterday. I love Seriks' reading - he's amazing with all the different voices he does. I'm still not recovered from the burnout enough to be able to read for pleasure, so it's really nice to have the audiobooks as a way to connect with my oldest autistic interest.

synkr3tyk, 10 months ago

@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic Listings of homes for sale

ScottSoCal, 10 months ago

@synkr3tyk

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.

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synkr3tyk, 10 months ago

@ScottSoCal @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic I'm actually looking for real - leaving California for someplace cheaper

ScottSoCal, 10 months ago

@synkr3tyk

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.

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johnettesnuggs, 10 months ago

@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.

ScottSoCal, 10 months ago

@johnettesnuggs

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.

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synkr3tyk, 10 months ago

@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.

johnettesnuggs, 10 months ago

@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.

synkr3tyk, 10 months ago

@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.)

johnettesnuggs, 10 months ago

@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.

synkr3tyk, 10 months ago

@johnettesnuggs @ScottSoCal @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic We're moving to the Midwest, so... Yeah. But there are reasons.

bike, 10 months ago

@synkr3tyk @johnettesnuggs @ScottSoCal @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic

I have ruled out the midwest so many times because of its reputation for indirect communication.

hah, ironically I just spent a bunch of time trying to figure out how to communicate that this was not trying to indirectly communicate anything.

Waiting4Thunder, 10 months ago

@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.