Using end-to-end encrypted messaging to ask my husband if the cartoons are on tonight*.
#NormalizePrivacy #MarriedLife #GayMarried #LGBTQIA #FrogAndToad
* Response: Simpsons at 8
Since the Frog and Toad bot is no more, here are Frog and Toad on a date at UVic on Vancouver Island.
Lunching at Mr. Badger's cafe in Hawera.
I get the feeling that the Mastoverse will appreciate this as much as I do.
Hoping to waste less time and emotional energy on social media, I've removed the social apps from my phone.
Last time I tried that, I just wound up logging into the web versions.
It reminds me so much of one of my favorite Frog and Toad stories, in which they try to stop eating so many cookies by putting them on a high shelf.
@FrogandToadbot Where are you moving to once your instance closes?
Frog and Toad are trying to cancel their amazon prime subscription!
https://botsin.space/@FrogandToadbot/113388667284689076
Frog dropped his CAP_GETCOOKIES capability. "There," he said. "Now we will not eat any more cookies."
"But we can authenticate again and get all our capabilities back," said Toad.
"That is true," said Frog.
Summer reading decor at one of my favorite #publiclibraries #crozetva zoom in to spot #FrogAndToad
There’s another #LibroFM #audiobook sale on right now. The best deals are kids’s books which, in some case are over 90% off. I was very happy to snag #FrogAndToad Are Friends.
#books @bookstodon https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9780061712180-frog-and-toad-together
What bothers me about Frog and Toad is that the birds are clearly allistic (not autistic), and the lessons that Frog and Toad learn are often about how to meet allistic expectations
After the birds learn what Frog and Toad are doing with the cookies, they say (repeatedly) things like "I love cookies"
Do they ask for the cookies? No. Do they explain how they can help Frog and Toad with the cookies? Not in a direct way, only through implications.
Eventually, Frog says, "I know what we can do!" — and finally realizes that they can give the cookies to the birds
This is the double empathy problem for autistic people: realizing how allistic people communicate about their needs and offers, and conforming to that.
It's not even clear about how to interpret allistic signals and navigating allistic communication/interpretations. It's just showing that autistic people have to figure it out ourselves.
This is wrong. The solution to the double empathy problem is not to learn how allistic people communicate or how to interpret allistic communication, but for both autistic and allistic people to learn how each other communicate and to meet in the middle.
I watched the first episode of Frog and Toad (on Apple). It struck me immediately how autistic they are.
They make cookies, and they struggle with "willpower" to not eat so many that it upsets their stomachs, so they look for what to do with the cookies because they lack the willpower not to eat them.
"We can put them in a box so that we won't see them"
"But… we can open the box, and then we see them and will want to eat them"
"That's true"
"I know! We can tie the box closed with a string and then we can't open the box!"
"But… we can untie the string and then we can open the box and eat the cookies"
"That's true"
etc
Frog and Toad Season 2 | Official Trailer | Apple TV+ | May 31
Brand new adventures hopping on the horizon. All new episodes of Frog and Toad premiere May 31 on Apple TV+.
#FrogAndToad #AppleTV #OfficialTrailer #Entertainment #Television #TV #Streaming
Switching gears for a little #MarshMadness humor (not my photo).
#Puns #FrogAndToad #Humor
Frog and Toad are Gay.
A gift for my boyfriend
#Art #MastoArt #FrogAndToad
December on #AppleTVPlus:
Premieres:
#FrogAndToad, #TheSnoopyShow, #ShapeIsland, #JohnLennon: #MurderWithoutATrial, #TheFamilyPlan & #SagoMiniFriends
Finales:
#MessiMeetsAmerica, #TheBuccaneers & #SlowHorses S3
Ongoing:
#Monarch: #LegacyOfMonsters & #ForAllMankind S4
What are you most excited for?
@countcol
I love this! It's such a #FrogAndToad moment for me! "The List".
I like good smells, loud music, interesting podcasts about the supernatural, paranormal, and true crime when they're done tastefully.
I miss the stereo system that I had when I was fifteen, that I bought with my own money. Dual cassette deck, a whole set of speakers, and a volume level that would blow out your eardrums if you weren't careful. (I was almost not careful enough)
I love #FrogAndToad, #UrsulaKLeGuin, my various well-worn copies of #LordOfTheRings, burning incense and candles that smell like ginger, citrus, vanilla, black tea.
I used to be the only parent to four kids, and now I am part of a blended family group (we refer to ourselves as an intentional community most of the time). I don't have to parent alone, I don't have to make money decisions alone, and I won't grow old alone. As a sweet bonus, my co-parents had a wee child four years ago and he is one of my most favorite people.
If I'm stranded at the airport, I'll have my antihistamines, nose spray, chapstick, and water bottle.