DakRalter

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[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

People are desperate for honesty, courage, and compassion in politics again. They’re tired of being told that things can’t be different, that we just have to accept rising bills, crumbling public services, and an overheating planet as the price of modern life. We refuse to accept that. We must provide a real political opposition. Because if politics isn’t about improving people’s lives, then what’s the point of it?

We all know the answer to that. It's so politicians can make themselves and their rich mates richer.

I used to vote Green mostly because I'm in a Labour safe seat area and Green was the only appealing alternative, but if Polanski can keep this up, I might even consider joining once I'm financially more secure. Politics these days is a social media game and the far right have it nailed. The left really needs to catch up.

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 week ago

I thought we were real until wikihow told me I'm actually probably a femboy.

https://thelemmy.club/comment/22140064

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well, I'm a woman and it's letting me call myself a femboy, so... 🤷🏽‍♀️

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 7 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Yes! Now I can find out if I'm a femboy.

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 week ago

Robert jenrick gonna be confused by all those white faces. "This does not compute."

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 week ago

Waiting for the flag shaggers to turn up en masse to show their commitment to protecting women and girls.

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I knew I saved this!

Trump looking at best practices and his little brain whirring away

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 11 points 1 week ago

She's a person who has the courage to stand by her convictions. Some people feel threatened by it, some people feel insecure about themselves because they lack the strength to do what she does. Much respect to her.

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No it's not. I have what used to called Aspergers and it's not a freaking superpower, it made my childhood a painful and confusing time and still causes my trouble today. You can't judge all autistics by one autistic. Look at Elon Musk, you think he represents the autistic community?

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 week ago

Tomorrow's headline: Keir Starmer describes Zack Polanski as "un-British".

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 8 points 2 weeks ago

Oooh did you fall for that teddy bear hoax too?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jdbgmgr.exe_virus_hoax

Also, it's time to get off the Internet now, I need to use the phone.

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra (thelemmy.club)
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@ thomaskember3412
1 year ago
What exactly did Zarathustra say?

@ jimpickard3850
1 year ago
@ thomaskember3412 'Also'

Video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-3HvgVGyY4k

 

I can't believe I forgot about this.

The entire darn comment section is absolute comedy gold!

If you need a laugh, have a scroll through, you won't be disappointed!

 

Found in the wild

 

I only just found out.

A bike-friendly city is a people-friendly city.

Happy cycling!

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by DakRalter@thelemmy.club to c/lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca
 

There seems to be a visual glitch, where upvoting also makes the downvote counter go up by one as well.

Edit: hopefully this link works: https://autistics.life/@SilverArrows/114474315964904870

 

I don't know if I'm missing it, but I can't see an option to report accounts. I just got another Nicole spam, this time with a bunch of bitcoin links, but I could only find a block option via Connect, and had to logon via web to report the account. I looked on the three-dot menus both on the message and the profile, but I couldn't see a report.

 

There used to be a red and blue gradient background here. Now it's gone. I reset the theme, but it still shows white text on white background. Not that big of a deal as there's nothing there I need to read, but still mildly annoying. Also it means the switch user option isn't visible now.

Also is this how the surface colour setting is meant to work? I wanted the background colour in light mode to be an off-white so it's easier on the eyes, but there doesn't seem to be a way?

Thanks!

 

From https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yDjlRu4CnjI

NomoSapienss: Park Tool company is the father I never had!

ParkTool: We're proud of you, son 💙

 

This time, Jenny is done with his crap and walking away from a toxic relationship.

(Background iimage by DallE 3)

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Anxiety vs Overwhelm (neurodivergentinsights.com)
 

Warning: ranting.

Like many, I was fobbed of with an anxiety disorder NOS diagnosis. I assumed that what I felt was anxiety. Last autumn I got to the top of the waiting list for anxiety therapy.

And it was useless. It got to the point where it felt like the therapist was trying to push low self esteem onto me so she could cure me of it, and thereby cure my anxiety.

I tried to explain to her that my anxiety wasn't based on irrational thoughts, but experience. If I have to go somewhere I'm not familiar with, I will get overloaded with all the new input. I will struggle to process it because I need to be alone to process. The same applies to my feelings. I can't deal with them when I need to, because I can't identify them. So all this makes me scared because I know it will exhaust me or make me shut down. I just see this void when I don't have any reference images. The more I can fill in that picture, the less anxious I feel. Because I can process this in advance (eg using streetview to memorise a route and save landmarks so I can navigate).

No, she says. It's because you have low self esteem. Now write down some bad statements about yourself and say them out loud.

In my quest to educate her, I came across this article and it makes so much sense why CBT wasn't working. The anxiety diagnosis doesn't fit.

Even after asking her to learn about autistic anxiety, she didn't bother. So next session I gave her a printout of that article. Something told me she wouldn't bother to learn anything from it, so I discharged myself.

Is what you're feeling anxiety or overwhelm? Does the anxiety come because you know from your own experience that something will cause you to struggle? Is the feeling more akin to dread?

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