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Watch 150 Classic Horror and Suspense Films Free Online: Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Carnival of Souls, Night of the Living Dead & More

 From roughly the mid-nineteen-fifti...

#film

https://www.openculture.com/2026/10/watch-150-classic-horror-and-suspense-films-free-online.html https://faithcollapsing.com/system/media_attachments/files/117/533/168/286/808/985/original/4633f6c380f09a59.png

How Thinking About Information Density May Help Your Relationships

It is not just what you say, or how you say it, but both matter.

#advice #communication #relationships #society #sociology #philosophy

https://www.ideatrash.net/2026/10/how-thinking-about-information-density-may-help-your-relationships.html

@eff

It appears that US users may be blocked from IFTAS' website by Cloudflare. I have verified with a VPN as well. This seems... not right ... but I don't have the skills to pin it down more than that. You do or know people that do, can y'all help?

LibreOffice Rescues Microsoft Users With Abandoned PUB Files

Microsoft’s exit from desktop publishing puts decades of documents at risk. Free software offers a path forward.

#libreoffice #open-source #scribus #standards #the-document-foundation

https://fossforce.com/2026/10/libreoffice-rescues-microsoft-users-with-abandoned-pub-files/

Zombies, Replicants, the GOP, and Mrs. French's Cat

https://www.ideatrash.net/2020/08/zombies-replicants-the-gop-and-mrs-frenchs-cat.html?fsp_sid=1865

ICYMI recent #writing related posts for #authors:

Why you want a contract for your creative work (even if you're not interested in profit):

https://www.ideatrash.net/2026/09/why-you-want-a-contract-for-your-creative-work-and-the-minimum-it-should-include.html

Why AI Slop feels so "hollow":

https://www.ideatrash.net/2026/09/writing-is-the-space-between-the-words-or-why-ai-slop-feels-so-hollow.html

Value should always flow toward the author:

https://www.ideatrash.net/2026/09/value-flows-toward-the-author-always.html

#writing #writingcommunity #businessofwriting

You are not losing your job to AI. Someone is deciding to give your job to AI.

That may or may not be the "right" move for a company. I don't know.

I do know that using passive voice to hide one's role -- as an individual or as a company -- in that decision is cowardice.

The Workplace Wasn’t Built for an Average Brain, Either

https://www.ideatrash.net/2026/09/the-workplace-wasnt-built-for-an-average-brain-either.html?fsp_sid=1841

’There are no easy answers here’: New study forecasts a dire dip in food production if key Atlantic currents coll...

Researchers have examined how weakening currents in the Atlantic Ocean could impact global agriculture—and the results are concerning.

#climate-change #planet-earth

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/there-are-no-easy-answers-here-new-study-forecasts-a-dire-dip-in-food-production-if-key-atlantic-currents-collapse

Kernel.org Battles AI Crawlers Generating Millions of Daily Requests

Millions of automated requests are hitting Kernel.org daily, pushing maintainers to deploy increasingly aggressive defenses against AI crawlers.

#ai #kernel #linux-&-open-source-news

https://linuxiac.com/kernel-org-battles-ai-crawlers-generating-millions-of-daily-requests/

Twitch Adds Setting Letting Users Opt Out of AI Training Amid User Backlash

The new setting is enabled by default, meaning users have to opt out if they don’t want their content used to train Amazon’s AI.

Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing....

#artificial-intelligence

https://gizmodo.com/twitch-adds-setting-letting-users-opt-out-of-ai-training-amid-user-backlash-2000798452

So, fun fact, if you

• Run Wordpress
• Use the ActivityPub plugin and your SITE gets federated
• Have your cache plugin refresh the cache with every page update
• And enable webmentions
• And get someone with a wide range of followers boosting a post directly from the site to the fediverse (lol thanks
  npub1ksfsk7z…gmr6s6

  )

You are going to spawn a LOT more php processes than you think you will. Adjust your settings appropriately.

Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies

Had the hacks used conventional methods, someone would likely go to prison.

#ai #anthropic #biz-&-it #claude #security

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/likely-illegally-claude-gained-access-to-3-networks-will-anthropic-be-held-to-account/

How Anti-Chinese Immigration Laws Unexpectedly Led to a Chinese Restaurant Boom in America

This past spring, the oldest continuously operated family-owned Chinese restaurant in the Un...

#food-&-drink #history

https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/how-anti-chinese-immigration-laws-unexpectedly-led-to-a-chinese-restaurant-boom-in-america.html

The Simulation Is For The Mice

The ego on these hominids....

#philosophy #hitchhiker'sguidetothegalaxy #hubris #simulation

https://ideatrash.net/2026/07/the-simulation-is-for-the-mice.html

An Entire Ancient Greek Philosophical Treatise Burned by Mount Vesuvius Has Been Deciphered with X‑Ray and AI Technologies

Most of our conception of Stoicism, an ancient school of thought much featured here on Open ...

#history #philosophy #technology

https://www.openculture.com/2026/06/an-entire-ancient-greek-philosophical-treatise-burned-by-mount-vesuvius-has-been-deciphered-with-x-ray-and-ai-technologies.html

A jailed billionaire’s Birkin bags are going on sale. It won’t be enough to repay her victims CNN

Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/dziz4

#ethics

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/18/world/vietnamese-billionaire-luxury-auction-intl-hnk

RFK Jr.’s New Lyme Plan Is More Conspiracy Than Science

Chronic Lyme disease is a dubious medical diagnosis, but that isn’t stopping RFK Jr. from boosting it.

#science

https://gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-s-new-lyme-plan-is-more-conspiracy-than-science-2000769583

Meet Héloïse, the Medieval Woman Philosopher Who Turned a Doomed Love Affair into a Meditation on Ethics

The ill-fated romance of Abelard and Héloïse may be a permanent cultural fixture, but it’s w...

#history #philosophy

https://www.openculture.com/2026/06/heloise-the-medieval-woman-philosopher.html

Weaponizing Your Insecurity, aka Microcheating

https://ideatrash.net/2026/06/weaponizing-your-insecurity-aka-microcheating.html?fsp_sid=1308

More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates

Since the Trump administration doesn’t track how many children have been separated from their parents by immigration detention, a Brookings report ...

Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/2dp6q

#immigration

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-immigration-child-parent-separation-estimates-brookings

Firefox Gains 6 Million Users in Europe Thanks to the EU’s Browser Choice Law

Firefox gained over 6 million users in Europe thanks to the EU’s Digital Markets Act browser choice screens on iPhone and Android.

https://www.tech2geek.net/firefox-gains-6-million-users-in-europe-thanks-to-the-eus-browser-choice-law/

You Were Right About What That Poem Really Meant. You Were Also Wrong.

Art has no inherent meaning. And it can also mean everything.

Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/c7uxx

#philosophy #society #sociology #writing #tw

https://ideatrash.net/2026/05/you-were-right-about-what-that-poem-really-meant-you-were-also-wrong.html

Researchers Suggest Cooks Stop Boiling Lobsters Alive After Study Shows the Crustaceans Can Feel Pain - Yahoo

Lobsters in the study given painkillers reacted less to being electrically shocked, leading researchers to suggest the creatures process...

#ethics-food

https://nz.news.yahoo.com/researchers-suggest-cooks-stop-boiling-232000466.html?guccounter=1

Compensating For (Temporary?) Hearing Loss With Linux

An online hearing test and EasyEffects to the rescue.

#health #technology #audio #hearing #linux https://ideatrash.net/2026/04/compensating-for-temporary-hearing-loss-with-linux.html https://faithcollapsing.com/system/media_attachments/files/116/389/502/920/368/381/original/05d3e51af5492e0f.jpeg

Pittsburgh to block police cooperation with ICE

#goodnews-uspol-fuckice

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/04/08/pittsburgh-council-police-immigration-bill/89514752007/

I Decompiled the White House’s New App

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy’s GitHub Pages.

Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/q...

#uspol-technology

https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app

Feds Are Downplaying Methane Leaks in America’s Biggest Oil Field, Satellite Data Suggests

A report found methane emissions in the Permian Basin to be nearly four times higher than EPA estimates. A senator wants an explanation.

https://gizmodo.com/feds-are-downplaying-methane-leaks-in-americas-biggest-oil-field-satellite-data-suggests-2000736269#energy

Does The New York Times Want to Eradicate Trans People? — Assigned

An analysis of its coverage reveals a pattern of misrepresentations, deceptions, distortions, the exclusion of trans voices, and the endorsement of contempt.

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/does-new-york-times-want-to-eradicate-trans#bigots-media-uspol

The Ozone Layer Is On Track for a Full Recovery, Thanks to Global Collaboration Since 1987

Once upon a time, all the countries of the world came together and agreed on a plan to save the plan...

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-ozone-layer-is-on-track-for-a-full-recovery-thanks-to-global-collaboration-since-1987-48755#environment

COVID-19 cleared the skies but also supercharged methane emissions

Less pollution meant lower amounts of a methane-destroying chemical.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/covid-19-cleared-the-skies-but-also-supercharged-methane-emissions/#atmospheric-science #chemistry #climate-change #covid #greenhouse-gasses #methane #pandemic #pollution #science https://faithcollapsing.com/system/media_attachments/files/116/032/895/889/329/851/original/4b35ed46767d5f2a.jpeg

Despair-Inducing Analysis Shows AI Eroding the Reliability of Science Publishing

A flood of slop has arrived in science, and everyone has to get less lazy. But does 2026 ...

Archive: ia: https://web.archive.org/web/20260127033012/https://gizmodo.com/despair-inducing-analysis-shows-ai-eroding-the-reliability-of-science-publishing-2000713786

https://gizmodo.com/despair-inducing-analysis-shows-ai-eroding-the-reliability-of-science-publishing-2000713786#artificial-intelligence

GitHub Restores Repo of GTA Mod ‘Multi Theft Auto’ After Take-Two Fails to Sue

First released in February 2003, Multi Theft Auto ❲MTA❳ is an unofficial multiplayer mod for several...

https://torrentfreak.com/github-restores-repo-of-gta-mod-multi-theft-auto-after-take-two-fails-to-sue/#anti-piracy #dmca #github #gta #mta #take-two

’Artificial intelligence’ myths have existed for centuries – from the ancient Greeks to a pope’s chatbot

’Artificial intelligence’ myths have existed for centuries—from the ancient Greeks to a pope’s chatbot

Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsi...

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/artificial-intelligence-myths-have-existed-for-centuries-from-the-ancient-greeks-to-a-popes-chatbot#archaeology

6 ’lost’ cities archaeologists have never found

Scholars know of some important ancient cities from texts, but they haven’t been able to find them.

Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/m0ymf

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/6-lost-cities-archaeologists-have-never-found#archaeology

Great Cthulhu

This excellent Cthulhu wall plaque is brought to us by Studio Aki.    

https://propnomicon.blogspot.com/2025/12/great-cthulhu.html#cthulhu

’This has re-written our understanding of Roman concrete manufacture’: Abandoned Pompeii worksite reveal how self-healing concrete was made

The discovery of a 2,000-year-old building site in Pompeii reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman s...

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/this-has-re-written-our-understanding-of-roman-concrete-manufacture-abandoned-pompeii-worksite-reveal-how-self-healing-concrete-was-made#archaeology #romans

Ancient Egyptian pleasure boat found by archaeologists off Alexandria coast

First-century luxury vessel matches description by the Greek historian Strabo, who visited city around 29-25BC

Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/9e71k

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/08/ancient-egyptian-pleasure-boat-found-archaeologists-alexandria-coast

An out nonbinary candidate just won a seat in their ruby-red Ohio town by 13 votes. They didn’t believe it, either.

Gie May thought their race would help show Wadsworth that other candidates existed besides Republicans. Turns out, voters wanted m...

https://thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/12/09/gie-may-nonbinary-elected-official/#angela-may #genderqueer-nonbinary #gie-may #leah-nichols #lgbt-ohio #lgbtq-elected-official #lgbtq-ohio #lgbtq+-elected-official #medina-county #wadsworth #wadsworth-democratic-party

Court: “Because Trump said to” may not be a legally valid defense

The “arbitrary and capricious” standard strikes down another administration action.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/trumps-order-blocking-wind-development-thrown-out-by-court/#administrative-procedures-act #executive-order #lawsuit #offshore-wind #policy #science #trump #windmills https://faithcollapsing.com/system/media_attachments/files/115/695/885/314/941/293/original/49ce6464d442c32a.jpeg

This bizarre online community is a warning about where the internet is headed

A strange porn subculture reveals what life online is doing to us.

https://www.vox.com/culture/471667/gooning-internet-subculture-sexuality#culture #internet-culture #podcasts #the-gray-area https://faithcollapsing.com/system/media_attachments/files/115/695/570/823/249/276/original/9f802331a2211210.jpeg

Inspired by Andreas Gursky

https://www.deviantart.com/pkohoutdotcom/art/Inspired-by-Andreas-Gursky-1259967202

Stopping evil and open source: my thoughts

Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/s3xnh
https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2025/stop-evil/#opensource #ethics

For This Prestigious Contest, Photographers Capture the Planet’s Most Stunning Landscapes

A panel of judges chose three top winners, with the first place award of Landscape Photographer of the Year presented to J. Fritz Rumpf.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/12/international-landscape-photographer-of-the-year-2025/#deserts #landscapes #lpoty #mountains #nature #photography

(25 Nov) Watch Winsor McCay’s The Sinking of the Lusitania, the First Major Animated Propaganda Film (1918)

You might know Winsor McCay (1867? ‑1934) for the gorgeously surreal Little Nemo comic strip...

https://s.faithcollapsing.com/bx3uj

#animation #history

Want to mess with your understanding of cosmology? Kurzgesagt has you covered.

Astronomy is in crisis -- and it's incredibly exciting.

(24 Nov) A decade-long chimp war ended in a baby boom for the victors, scientists discover

A deadly conflict between rival groups of chimpanzees in Uganda led to comprehensive victory and a bounty of territory and food — does it show why humans go to war?

https://s.faithcollapsing.com/44b0p Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/kbpw9

#animals #land-mammals https://faithcollapsing.com/system/media_attachments/files/115/611/785/502/717/013/original/33acd6159fec0e55.jpeg

(16 Nov) The evolution of rationality: How chimps process conflicting evidence

Chimps can take in new evidence, evaluate its strength, and change their minds.

https://s.faithcollapsing.com/l0188

#behavioral-science #beliefs #biology #chimps #evolution #science

(04 Nov) World’s biggest spiderweb discovered inside ’Sulfur Cave’ with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black

A giant colonial spiderweb in a sulfuric cave on the border between Greece and Albania may be the largest ever found — and it was built by spiders we didn’t know liked the company of others.

https://s.faithcollapsing.com/hkndj

#animals #arachnids #spiders

(10 Oct) Alzheimer’s disease: CBD may help calm neuroinflammation

Cannabidiol ❲CBD❳ can calm two critical immune pathways that drive neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study in mice.

https://s.faithcollapsing.com/opyz8

Archive: ais: https://archive.md/wip/djOv7 ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/0w4xj

#research #cbd #dementia

When bitter foes find themselves agreeing that you've gone too far... you might be a fascist.

#YouMightBeAFascist

Dayton Metro Library hosts upcoming free transgender history summit ‘Don’t struggle alone in despair. Let’s strive together. Come fill your cup with hope and community.’

https://thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/09/23/dayton-metro-library-hosts-transgender-history-summit/

#dayton #GoodNews

(09 Sep) We Asked LibreOffice and Collabora: Why Aren’t They in Schools Instead of Word and Google Docs?

We ask LibreOffice and Collabora why their software isn't used in more schools, and what can be done to turn that around.

https://s.faithcollapsing.com/5s3dj

Archive: ais: https://archive.md/wip/7tzsq ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/r7z3u

#apps #collabora #libreoffice #open-source

(11 Aug) Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs

Judge tossed claim but said UK must not “significantly impede” Wikipedia operations.

https://s.faithcollapsing.com/0varn Archive: ais: https://archive.md/wip/DsYkp ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/jz2ds

#policy #uk-online-safety-act #wikimedia-foundation #wikipedia https://faithcollapsing.com/system/media_attachments/files/115/020/964/720/320/843/original/4311845980d4c430.jpeg

(12 Aug) We Are Gaia’s Yeast Infection, or, How We Got Hive Minds Wrong

We are Gaia’s yeast infection. Hear me out. The Gaia hypothesis is actually that living organisms interact with inorganic surroundings to create a complex synergistic system. The pop […]

https://s.faithcollapsing.com/su3mm

Archive: ais: https://archive.md/wip/fBSgo ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/c2zdm

#philosophy #society #sociology #gaia-hypothesis #hive-mind #thought-experiment

(04 Jul) May 2024 solar storm cost $500 million in damages to farmers, new study reveals

GPS positions were off by up to 230 feet during the Gannon Solar Storm in May 2024 in a disruption that lasted for up to two days, a new study has revealed.

https://s.faithcollapsing.com/6z3x4

Archive: ais: https://archive.md/wip/A88UC ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/116nn

#astronomy #space #the-sun

(18 Jun) Evidence is building that people were in the Americas 23,000 years ago

A new analysis of the ancient human footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico offers more evidence that they are around 23,000 years old.

https://s.faithcollapsing.com/sh5be

Archive: ais: https://archive.md/wip/6jPcp ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/glda8

#archaeology

(11 Dec) How To Know If You’re The Baddies: A Metric For Evil People

Without touching a penny of their existing wealth, while still leaving $500,000 per year income each, the top 1% in America could raise everyone above the poverty line 3,781 times over.

https://s.faithcollapsing.com/v6j0z

Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/g9awq

#computers #economics #ethics #philosophy #social-justice #society #sociology #evil #poverty #uspol

(18 Mar) Former Golf Courses Are Going Wild

Across the U.S. and beyond, fairways are becoming wildflower meadows—and communities are reaping the benefits.

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/rewilding-golf-courses/

Archive: ais: https://archive.md/wip/dgPhy ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/muoiz

#birds #climate-+-environment #ecosystems #nature #rewilding #sports #wildlife

From 06 Mar: New Fossil Discovery Reveals Surprising Insights into Prehistoric Human Behavior - (Image Credit: Jason L. Heaton) A fossil leopard lower jawbone next to a skull fragment of a juvenil... https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/new-fossil-discovery-reveals-surprising-insights-into-prehistoric-human #the-sciences

From 14 Feb: Urgent CDC Data and Analyses on Influenza and Bird Flu Go Missing as Outbreaks Escalate - Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily... https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/cdc-data-analyses-missing-mmwr-bird-flu-seasonal-influenza/ #cdc #health-industry #hospitals #public-health #trump-administration #vaccines

From 31 Jan: ’Zombie’ spiders infected by never-before-seen fungus discovered on grounds of destroyed Irish castle - Scientists have discovered a never-before-seen mind-controlling fungus that creates spider “zombies“... https://www.livescience.com/animals/spiders/zombie-spiders-infected-by-never-before-seen-fungus-discovered-on-grounds-of-destroyed-irish-castle #animals #arachnids #spiders

From 03 Dec: The Golden Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants: Explore the 1977 Illustrated Guide Created by Harvard’s Groundbreaking Ethnobotanist Richard Evan Schultes - I mean, the idea that you would give a psychedelic—in this case, magic mushrooms or the chemical ca... https://www.openculture.com/2024/12/the-golden-guide-to-hallucinogenic-plants-1977.html #biology #science

From 30 Nov: How should we treat beings that might be sentient? - What’s needed, Birch argues, when faced with such staggering uncertainty about the sentience stature... https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/11/how-should-we-treat-beings-that-might-be-sentient/ #biology #consciousness #ethics #neurobiology #science #sentience

A screenshot of the new version of Patootie, a simple YAD interface that lets you post to both Mastodon and Bluesky accounts simultaneously.

#bash #linux #mastodon #bluesky

https://github.com/uriel1998/multiple_scripts?tab=readme-ov-file#patootiesh

Meditations On Zeroth Philosophy Am I real or just a pattern-matching machine?

https://ideatrash.net/2024/11/meditations-on-zeroth-philosophy.html?feed_id=486&_unique_id=6738e27fcc561

#consciousness #philosophy #society

From 22 Oct: Dow Jones says Perplexity is “freeriding,” sues over copyright infringement - Rupert Murdoch’s Dow Jones and the New York Post have accused artificial intelligence start-up Perpl... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/dow-jones-says-perplexity-is-freeriding-sues-over-copyright-infringement/ #ai #copyright #llms #perplexity #policy #syndication https://faithcollapsing.com/system/media_attachments/files/113/380/983/468/094/207/original/d79677031b4de341.jpeg

From 15 Oct: Google signs deal with startup to build small nuclear reactors to power AI - Deal with Kairos Power comes as tech giants are scouring the globe for electricity sources to power ... https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/10/15/google-signs-deal-with-startup-to-build-small-nuclear-reactors-to-power-ai?traffic_source=rss #economy

From 15 Oct: Doctor pleads with world after attack on Gaza hospital grounds - NewsFeedMohammed Tahir, a UK doctor on his third medical mission to Gaza, pleads with the world to d... https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/10/15/doctor-pleads-with-world-after-attack-on-gaza-hospital-grounds?traffic_source=rss #show-types https://faithcollapsing.com/system/media_attachments/files/113/311/561/277/065/274/original/0cb773ced1d187f1.png

There is a HUGE chicken recall. The majority of the products are things including, but not limited to "ready to eat" salad kits with chicken, frozen casseroles, skillet kits, and more. The PDF with labels of recalled items includes brands from Kroger, Trader Joe's, Giant Eagle, Amazon, and more. The PDF is 162 PAGES worth of stuff.

Alert: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-alerts/brucepac-recalls-ready-eat-meat-and-poultry-products-due-possible-listeria

Direct to PDF of recalled labels: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/food_label_pdf/2024-10/Recall-028-2024-Labels.pdf

#food #recall

Lies, Damn Lies, And Surveys About AI GitHub's AI Survey is embarrassingly bad and doesn't support its conclusions.

https://ideatrash.net/2024/09/lies-damn-lies-and-surveys-about-ai.html?feed_id=405&_unique_id=66f7fb1882c05

#artificialintelligence #computers #research

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Weekends are always not-fun. I am actively lonely right now (I'm ENM; partner's out of state and swamped with work). I don't want to go to things if I don't have a specific reason to do so or someone to go with. The things that MIGHT be interesting are > 30min driving away, and then I'd possibly end up just feeling as alone, but alone AND uncomfortably around people. I might not know how to socialize at all with NT people anymore.

From 21 Aug: Humpback Whales’ Bubble Nets Are Way More Complicated Than You Think - Humpback whales may not have hands, but that doesn’t mean they a... https://gizmodo.com/humpback-whales-bubble-nets-are-way-more-complicated-than-you-think-2000489657 #alaska #animals #humpback-whales #marine-mammals #tool-use #whales

Chicagoland region: If you know anyone looking for a pup, this little guy desperately needs someone to give him a chance:

https://www.petfinder.com/dog/angus-final-plea-deadline-august-9-2024-72694467/il/chicago/for-the-love-of-woofers-inc-tn1020/