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Catoblepas

@ Catoblepas @piefed.blahaj.zone

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  • Lemmy instance post visibility rankings

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  • It might be that we’re defederated mostly from instances that everyone else also defederates from, so that wouldn’t impact the score? Or maybe the instances blocked by Blahaj don’t put out much content. You can see here who is defederated.

    E: that’s actually for Piefed Blahaj but I’m pretty sure it’s the same

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  • Let’s go Blahaj! 🩷🩵🤍 🦈

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  • Can’t overlook banging rocks together to get a sharper rock. Big tech, invest now!

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  • If there were less false positives, people wouldn’t distrust your diagnosis

    Did you come to this conclusion by talking to diagnosed people? Because even in the decades where it was massively under diagnosed, I don’t think there’s any time period I could point to and say ‘oh yeah, nobody questions autism diagnoses because they’re so rare!’ It just changes what they say: ‘oh, are you sure? That’s so rare, it’s probably something else!’

    I have experienced both sides of this over the decades, and as far as I’m concerned I’d rather cast too wide a net than too small of one, because at least that way more people that need support get it. Being told you’re making it up sucks ass no matter which direction it’s coming from.

    You hear people say the same thing about fake service dogs, but they only ever wind up harassing anyone with a service dog because they think it’s their responsibility to be a disability cop.

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  • I also feel that making me self-diagnose with a disorder would be very useful for keeping me small and powerless

    That’s a valid way to feel, but for many people on the spectrum it’s the exact opposite. A diagnosis is an answer for why in NT spaces we often feel constantly misunderstood and out of place, and reassurance that we aren’t the only people like ourselves in the world. It’s also an amazing way to connect with others for tips on how to manage symptoms or other issues; if I wasn’t connected to other autistic people I never would have discovered there are tools to reduce my sensory problems, or found the ability to advocate for myself and what I need rather than shutting up and feeling inadequate for needing help.

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  • Perfectly fine statement to make in a vacuum, but in the real world there are massive hurdles and downsides to getting diagnosed. I’ve interacted with more than one psych who has basically said that of those who have sought an adult diagnosis with him, they’re rarely wrong. Any image you have in your mind of hordes of neurotypical people making up that they’re autistic is based on prejudice, not reality.

    There’s also not a single way to determine if someone is on the spectrum; a psych can run a test wrong or make wrong judgements, and a person doesn’t need a degree to know they have sensory meltdowns or can’t keep up socially to save their life. The idea that doctors are the only ones with insight into health (ESPECIALLY mental health) is something best left in the first half of the 20th century.

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  • Almost as sad as shuttle bat 2009 😔

  • Shrimp ceviche

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  • That looks like some good quality avo. You ever do just avocado and rice with a bit of soy sauce? It’s shockingly tasty.

  • Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

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  • They put ‘for entertainment purposes only’ on a product that’s actually AGI?

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  • Left my home to fly across the country with no backup plan and a few hundred bucks to my name. We’re married and have been together since.

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  • I assumed OP did, since they’re a new account with the same name as the comic

  • Bowtie pasta and short rib cream sauce

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  • That’s a much cuter name! I wish I knew why it’s not called that in English. Maybe to some it implies pasta made with butterflies? 🤔

  • Bowtie pasta and short rib cream sauce

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  • I can confirm we call it bowtie pasta! What do you call it?

  • Putting down roots

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  • Shoutout to Miniminuteman/Milo Rossi, he’s an archaeologist and does a lot of debunking of ancient aliens-esque conspiracy theories, collaborative videos with other archaeologists about their work, and cool educational videos about things I’d never heard of before, like The Great Raft: a unique ecosystem made up of a log-jammed river that existed for ~600 years and supported multiple indigenous societies.

  • "Subscribe & save"

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  • That keeps them from contacting you, it doesn’t keep them from storing information on you. Your name, address, and credit card are all things you have to give them to get the thing you purchased.

  • "Modern SEO explained"

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  • human slop

    Calm down Wario Amodei, the predictive text isn’t going to become sentient.

  • Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys

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  • Thank you!! I couldn’t remember the title and searching ‘Grace Jones art’ was barely getting me anything

  • Butters aka bubble butts prefers bird water

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  • Birb flavored

  • Welp. Cat distribution system has found me again. This is Kovu.

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  • That focuses on predation without examining the threat to native wildcats through hybridization, territorial competition, and disease transmission from domestic cats, which the IUCN cites as risks to wildcat species. If no outdoor cat ever killed another prey animal again, that still wouldn’t solve the threats they pose to wildcat species.

  • Welp. Cat distribution system has found me again. This is Kovu.

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  • housecats and African/Eurasian wildcats aren’t separate species.

    They absolutely are, I’m not really sure what you’re talking about. Domestic cat: Felis catus, European wildcat: F. silvestris, and African wildcat: F. lybica. Hybridization with pets risks their genetic diversity, outcompetition, and disease transmission: https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/60354712/50652361#threats

    the UK where cats have been around longer than humans

    Cats entered the UK around the same time humans did, via Doggerland during the Holocene. It should also be noted again that this is the European wildcat (specifically the Scottish wildcat subspecies), not domesticated cats, which descend from African wildcats. Domesticated cats only reached Europe a couple of thousand years ago. Their population density in comparison to wildcats and the advantage they have in access to human spaces and wild spaces means they reproduce more, which is part of why the Scottish wildcat is critically endangered.

    It’s fine to have cats, it’s not fine to just invent facts about how they don’t actually harm the environment.