shello @shello@octodon.social

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Watch me make computer graphics in REAL TIME! 🎨 💥

If you see another non-binary person with an even better haircut than yours, would you say you're feeling... enbious?

Wait I forgot the most important thing! My mom made this for me before I came out to her lmao

doing stream stuff at http://twitch.tv/darkbowser64 if you wanna chill?

I just dismissed a ridiculous number of notifications about this toot.

Please tell your children everything you know about normal body development. Get them every embarrassingly explicit reference book they'd like. Turn off the internet filters, whatever.

I had a rural US sex education. I extrapolated outward from diagrams, none of which included *skin*, even as a shaded outline. Just one photo would have cleared up some real body horror.

Look at the size of this dog :o
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/rarepuppers/comments/ea7jb0/who_wants_to_cuddle_with_me/

In my fifth grade class, a few kids were worried they'd developed breast cancer. There were informative ads on TV at the time describing hard lumps in one breast which do not move freely. They'd scoured the library. The working theory was that the drainage field behind our school held toxic effluent.

This was, of course, normal early breast tissue development.

Selectively hiding information from children about their own bodies is cruel.

be kind today
be kind to your friends of colour
be kind to your friends with disabilities or who cant get PIP
be kind to your friends who are on benefits or can't get them
be kind to your friends who are chronically ill or mentally ill
be kind to anybody who relies on the NHS
be kind to doctors, nurses, teachers
be kind to your working class friends and those who are out of work
be kind to single mothers and those who rely on food banks
be kind first cos we need to fight again tomorrow

If your argument for why "echo chambers are bad actually" is that they are not a demographically representative sample of the world and therefore give a skewed and unrealistic picture of the way things actually are, you have completely unrealistic and totally confused conceptions about how interaction works. Unless you're literally running a poll, "demographic accuracy" has nothing to do with your self-selection of who you interact with.

Just because you're on a website with someone else who disagrees with you doesn't mean that the person who disagrees with you has anything valuable to contribute. Just because you're on a website with people who agree with some major core components of your particular outlook on some certain whatever-it-is, politics or art or religion or life or whatever, doesn't mean those places are free of major disagreements, that shit happens all the time in "echo chambers"

As a programmer it's been really hard to wean myself off of thinking in terms of global solutions. This, in comparison to building local or community technology.

Thinking this way can make things harder (now your tech needs need to scale to the world) and not useful (different people in different places have different needs).

This kind of blew my mind: like, you can just go and build a piece of tech and only give it to your friends & the immediate people it's helpful for. You don't *need* to design for The World. I think this kind of thinking is really important for breaking away from capitalistic modes of thinking.

Finished the blue one. These three are commissions for a friend of a friend :) #MastoArt

And now I'm making elf ear earcuffs. The middle one hasn't been beaded yet. ^.^ #MastoArt #CreativeToots

this has been a difficult night for a lot of us. many people in this country will now feel unsafe.

please, use your skills and understanding to do what you can to get involved in your own community. be there for each other. be kind, look out for other people. bourgeois democracy has made us believe a ballot every five years is all we can do, but the truth is there are people around who need support every day.

we can help them.

together, we can help everyone.

Hey, I'm disabled and unemployed and I try to do my best to make money but it isnt always enough.

I've been late on a bill already and as you might imagine from current events or my feed, I literally am not gonna be able to work for a short while, so it's gonna make this even worse.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

https://paypal.me/mutantstandard

Please take care of yourself. Whether that means setting a time to turn off the returns and following it or something else, do what you need to do to stay sane and safe.

If you feel despairing and desperate, please remember there are people who care for you. There are experiences worth sticking around for even if everything feels like it's falling apart. Please ask for help if you are struggling. If you don't have someone to call, Samaritans helpline is open 24-7. 116 123

'FCC unanimously approves proposal for new 3-digit number as Suicide Prevention Hotline'

"The proposal requires [US] carriers to implement 988 as a national suicide prevention hotline within an 18-month timeframe"

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/12/politics/fcc-988-suicide-prevention-hotline/index.html

(The hotline is currently accessible at the 10-digit number 1-800-273-8255 (TALK).)

If you're like me and would really rather not watch BBC's coverage of election night, Novara Media has you covered. It starts at 9:30pm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3RQWEziIKw&feature=emb_title