lizzzzard

https://social.tchncs.de/@lizzard

software engineer (focus on ux/ui/requirements), mama of one, gardener, hiker, keeper of chickens.
Located in Germany.

Self-diagnosed autistic, on depression medication, socially awkward and pain-in-the-butt know-it-all. Ask me for an infodump any time!

Anticapitalist but caught in the machine.

Pronomen: sie

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2026-09-03 10:13:10 UTC

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lool yeah, love the idea. Does it automatically catapult the chickens back over the fence? I imagine that a little like the comic-style circus cannons, complete with flying feathers and angry chicken noises!

2026-09-03 07:53:10 UTC

Dear #chickensofmastodon and #gardening communities, how do you keep your chickens from devastating your vegetables?
I've got a raised bed that needs to be fenced in with metal wire, and they still get in, and built a ground-level vegetable patch fenced in by a bamboo fence (which I thought would be enough - laughable in hindsight).
As the garden year is winding down I'm thinking about fall planting some green manure (not possible in the ground-level patch currently) and structural changes, so give me all your tricks!
I need the little dinosaurs to keep their claws and beaks off my veggies next year!

2026-08-23 08:02:55 UTC

#silentsunday #hiking #tegernsee
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2026-08-06 19:40:59 UTC

Heute hatten wir auf Arbeit einen Teams-call mit mehreren 100 Teilnehmern. (AI Schulung). Die wurde aufgezeichnet.
Wir mussten die Aufzeichnung vorerst wieder offline nehmen, denn... Wir hatten einen Flitzer. Unbeabsichtigt.
Ich meine, man muss zweimal auf einen Knopf drücken um zu bestätigen, dass die Kamera an ist und dann auch aufgezeichnet wird.
DAS STELLE ICH DOCH NICHT AN, WENN ICH VORHABE, DUSCHEN ZU GEHEN UND ANSCHLIESSEND NACKIG DURCHS BILD ZU LAUFEN! LASS DIE KAMERA AUS, WIE HUNDERT ANDERE AUCH!
Anyway. Irgendwelche Tipps, wie man mit Office-Tools Teile von Videos verpixelt? ;-)
#officeLife #officeLive #teams

2026-05-19 19:35:44 UTC

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ah, sorry, didn't even think of looking

2026-05-19 18:16:33 UTC

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Flockenblume, or Centaurea!

2026-04-26 07:46:57 UTC

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also dieser neurodivergente Haushalt kann toll aufräumen. Nur immer diese Kisten mit "weiß ich jetzt auch nicht wohin" die sich dann in den Fluren stapeln!

2026-04-07 03:13:03 UTC

Hey @npub1pce…geep ! I have a problem, and wonder if any of you might have similar problems, but maybe, hopefully, also a solution to go with it?
After intense days, my body decides that what I need now is not a full night of sleep, but intensely processing my stress at 4am. It takes the form of my mind being wide awake, looking for problems to solve. Could be real to-dos, but if I get those out of my mind, it'll reliably find other things to ruminate about.
Has anybody found a way to avoid that and tell their bodies to go to sleep? It compounds and leads to a constantly deteriorating state after a few nights like that.
I've learnt about body scans, muscle relaxation and breath work in therapy, but those don't help much: my body is decently relaxed, but my mind is wide awake and racing.

2026-03-25 18:53:27 UTC

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I like https://embrace-autism.com/autism-spectrum-quotient/, what do others think about that?

2026-03-23 07:14:59 UTC

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Rainman was the reason I didn't consider being autistic for a long time, too. I'm certainly not that far out on the spectrum, but I'm still well able to collapse regularly if I don't get enough quiet time, as I've learned the hard way. The phrase "but everybody feels that way" was a sign of more than a few non-neurotypical people in my family tree, not a sign that we were all normal.
@npub1pce…geep

2026-03-23 07:11:42 UTC

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thanks for that essay.
I'm sad for all the people who grew up earlier, and that today might get help and understanding instead of being pressured and excluded. For autistic parents who got overwhelmed, and for their children who suffered under them. I'm sad for all the people who still, today, feel "other" but can't find a name for the feeling or get misdiagnosed. We're so many that we might as well be called normal. We've always been there.
@npub1pce…geep

2025-12-17 10:56:27 UTC

Can someone point me to some research that proves that sports or bodily activity actually *cause* improvements in #depression and #burnout , rather than just correlate?
I've just been told again to just "go for walks more" by a doctor and I find it really fucking hard to implement. I need some convincing.
Because I'm well able to believe that people who are able to do sports also improve their depression (correlation), because the damage to their ability to be active just isn't as big. I need to see actual causation, please.
Retoots welcome for range.

2025-12-01 05:37:08 UTC

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niemand mag sie so wirklich?! #KartoffelLiebe!

2025-11-05 07:27:49 UTC

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the selected F type (Schuko) actually has a ground connection, just not realized as a pin. It's a great plug!

2025-09-25 08:13:03 UTC

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ich sehe hier bei uns vor allem gutes und motiviertes Personal, das gegen die Rahmenbedingungen kämpft.
Weil, nur ein Beispiel, das ukrainische Flüchtlingskind ohne Sprachförderung in die Grundschule geworfen wird. Der Junge hat ein Jahr lang kein Wort gesprochen mit der Lehrerin! Das kann sie nicht auffangen, auch wenn sie ihr Bestes gibt.
Es bräuchte zusätzliche Angebote, die über reguläre Schule und Kindergarten hinaus gehen.
Aber du hast natürlich Recht, auch dafür bräuchte es mehr Personal.

2025-09-25 06:47:22 UTC

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naja, ich meine schon konkrete Programme und nicht nur "ja, auch wir finden Familien irgendwie wichtig und gut"

2025-09-25 06:27:59 UTC

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es wäre bei so vielen Problem so viel einfacher, sie im Kindesalter (Kindergarten und Grundschule, aber auch danach in der Schule) abzufangen. Ich verstehe nicht, dass keine Partei sich mal vernünftige Politik für Familien und in der Bildung auf die Fahnen schreibt.

2025-09-23 10:46:47 UTC

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People are offended because he is singling out autistic people, and talks about them as if they are worthless. And the history of fascism has taught us that what comes next might be actual violence instead of just verbal. This is extremely dangerous, and there needs to be strong pushback on this rhetoric.
Subtleties such as "Tylenol might or might not contribute a bit" are not what the whole discussion is about, and shouldn't be our focus. 2/2

2025-09-23 10:46:41 UTC

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while I appreciate your dedication to civil discourse, truth and being the better person... I believe you are missing a point.
The *increase* in autism, which is all that rfk jr and Trump are talking about, is obviously caused by exactly what you describe: you just didn't get diagnosed in Gen X. There was stigma, there was no help available, doctors didn't know about it. Now we diagnose more. The prevalence of autism was very likely similar all the time. We can't prove otherwise because there's just not enough data.
JFK doesn't care about the cause of autism, and even if Tylenol caused it, that wouldn't be the point. It's fascism doing what it always did: making up a threatening scenario and pretending to "solve" it with simple solutions. 1/2

2025-09-16 13:48:20 UTC

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Leute halten sich nicht an etablierte pattern. Weder im Code noch im ui. Komisch eigentlich, sollte nicht "Denken in Mustern" zur Grund-Qualifikation von Informatikern gehören?

2025-07-09 17:51:27 UTC

I harvested the carrots. At least those that I could still find below zucchini and pumpkin...
Not as many as I had hoped, but still pretty decent. Still happy I don't have to live off that soil.
#garden #gardening #growyourown
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2025-07-06 09:24:29 UTC

#SilentSunday #Garden #Garten #BloomScrolling
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2025-07-03 09:12:31 UTC

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wow, those are detailed! What camera did you use to take them?

2025-06-27 16:48:19 UTC

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no, they need to go into syrup.

2025-06-27 15:50:35 UTC

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I read "freshly pickled" and got very confused...

2025-02-22 07:59:52 UTC

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wow that's a lot of time without that freedom! Poor guys. That's one of the reasons why I stopped at one child, although I originally wanted more...

2025-02-16 12:08:00 UTC

Liebes Mastodon, kann jemand Adventure-Games für Kinder empfehlen? Mein Sohn (7) liebt die Freddy-Fish-Reihe. Gibt's noch was Ähnliches? #FediEltern #Gaming #Kids

2025-02-05 07:15:01 UTC

Toll, diese #Digitalisierung: da rufe ich beim Arzt an, und der stellt mir direkt ein #ERezept aus. Und das ist dann schon *checkt Notizen* 12 Stunden später auf meiner Krankenkassenkarte... Wait, what?
Das ist digital, Leute! Trägt da im Hintergrund jemand Disketten durch die Gegend? Ich hätte ja schon erwartet, dass ich die Nachmittagslieferung meiner Apotheke noch mitnehmen kann, wenn ich das direkt zu Beginn des Tages bestelle.

2025-01-17 11:37:51 UTC

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ist das ein Tippfehler, oder heißen die tatsächlich so?

2025-01-15 06:07:45 UTC

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has the author, in the time they tried both products, experienced any actual wear on their screen protectors? That part of the article sounds a bit speculative, and I'd love to hear about actual practical results.

2025-01-12 08:11:02 UTC

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beautiful, thanks for sharing. I love how abstract the formations become close up.

2025-01-07 17:04:32 UTC

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oh, her birth name wasn't Curie? Didn't even know that.

2025-01-06 11:16:42 UTC

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Germanys Constitution is hardened so as to not let fascism rise again and not having a concept like the executive order is part of that. We learned the hard way / were made to put safeguards in by the winners of a world war.

2025-01-06 06:47:53 UTC

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your whole "executive order" concept should be done away with during peace times. It's just not democratic.

2024-12-20 11:39:36 UTC

#Gardening bubble, I need some tips. I'm thinking about creating a #wildflower #meadow with native plants in this part of the garden. Can I have some suggestions on what to prepare before sowing? Do I need to dig up the whole area? cover the area with fresh earth or #compost?
It's a pretty dark area: eastern side of the house, under a large gingko tree. The roots are close to the surface, so breaking up the whole soil will not be easy.
zone 7b, sandy soil, thin toplayer.
#gardenplanning
https://f2.tchncs.de/media_attachments/files/113/684/928/887/045/314/original/a13eaba7d42b2fb8.jpg
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2024-12-08 15:07:27 UTC

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wo wohnst du in D, dass dort kiwis wachsen? Rheingraben?

2024-12-01 09:24:12 UTC

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do we know these women's fates?

2024-11-15 11:58:19 UTC

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"it feels good" is the actual reason for most things. Rationalisation aka inventing other reasons comes afterwards.
Also: helping other people, most of the time, is work. Work does not feel good.

2024-11-10 21:47:23 UTC

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beer can chainmail!

2024-10-17 00:33:29 UTC

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what's a good rule of thumb for how moist it should be?
When I read about worm composting specifically, they said "if you press the earth with your fist,a few drops should come out. Wetter than that is too much".
Would it be about the same for a regular compost heap?

2024-10-16 01:57:46 UTC

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and why is she wearing a bathing suit in the lab?
(The thing on the floor is obviously a colleague, although not human)

2024-09-30 18:35:34 UTC

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I love the game description, and will try to incorporate "suspicious sardine scheme" into my everyday talk.

2024-09-14 17:00:43 UTC

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No idea actually, because I didn't get to eat last year's harvest due to bugs that had already moved in! 🤷😮‍💨

2024-09-14 13:57:29 UTC

Feuerbohnen geerntet! #garten
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2024-09-07 13:39:10 UTC

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brrr

2024-09-07 12:47:36 UTC

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um stattdessen was zu tun?

2024-09-05 04:36:05 UTC

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huh! Great idea! I'll look into that. I already have multiple heaps (they were here before I moved in), so this would be quick and easy to do.

2024-09-04 20:47:13 UTC

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hmm interesting. our compost heap is definitely a chicken magnet. The chickens mostly don't dig all the way down but just move the top layer around.
The difference could be that
a) we use kitchen scraps on the compost, not only garden waste. That's extremely attractive to our chickens, especially if it's not just vegetables but fruit.
b) our whole area is much smaller than yours and the compost is one of the best places to catch protein snacks (bugs, worms)

2024-09-04 19:35:27 UTC

@npub1sh5…uyrq what's your opinion on combining #compost heaps with free ranging #chickens? Seeing as they influence the worm ecosystem (by eating them), but also help getting oxygen into the pile and add droppings?

2024-09-04 19:32:40 UTC

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thanks! I'll read this for sure!

2024-09-04 16:54:57 UTC

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can you recommend some resources that would help me understand such details about composting better? I just throw stuff in a heap and that mostly works.