The most effective one I know I call “eating the breadcrumbs”

First I follow the breadcrumbs since Neurotypicals and some neurodivergents like talking about themselves and I listen for indicators of things they like and respond w questions that align w them.

Then I eat the breadcrumbs by maintaining a practiced look upon my face that seems like I’m enjoying a snack and pursue each chance I get to make a joke so that I can actually enjoy the conversation. (Alcohol helps A LOT with this part).

It’s a lot like social masking, but it’s targeted at an individual and w a bit more depth instead of a just a public facade.

It’s also more draining than ordinary masking; so I mostly use it in social situations than I know will replenish my energy.

some part of me hopes that microsoft will enshitify github enough to enable decentralization like this like reddit did to enable lemmy adoption and twitter did for discord adoption.

does it give you warning/notifications if you forget to update it?

and it’ll become just as legal here if anyone ever tried to challenge it in the courts; this seems like a tiny technicality to me.

if by “self-coup” you referring to trump’s election; they did the same thing with their own fascists and their parliament helped in the same way that our congress helped and their repression is also focused on lgbt arena’s like ours is; but goes well beyond minor policy changes and it’s here where they’ve gone further down the fascism timeline than we have.

the united states is part of a civilization that’s changing more rapidly than the rest of it and even then, only its privileged classes; italy’s another part of western civilization that has also changed in the same manner and to a further degree than americans have (so far).

how so?

you’re aware that italy is ahead of us in the fascism timeline, right?

they’re ahead of us; they’ve had a fascist leaders for a couple of years and have already legally disenfranchised many.

everything that has nothing to do with creating a family and moving with them to the suburbs.

i’m had to move 15 times over the last 20 years and it’s taught me to live with only the bare essentials. i also have legal entitlement to my target country so i’m not sweating the paperwork either.

the only things i’m worried about are the regime change the united states is going to impose on my target country and my pets since they’re the most important things in my life.

if only it were so simple as shops on a sunday and they’re making everywhere homogeneous; this and a handful of other cities are the only unique ones.

i’ve made a list of the things that i care most about where i live and are different from the rest of the country and have decided that i need to have my emigrations plans in motion when the first of them is made illegal.

I liked the cinnamon & icing pizza; yes I was a fat kid. Lol

People follow the crowd and centralized media had considerably bigger crowds

it’s manifested in our reality; only the liberal branch of leftism is permitted (particularly in the united states) while the other branches are openly denigrated by moderates and rightists alike and persecuted by our governments and militias.