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- She/They
- hangs out with people on
- https://cyberia.club
- Gender/orientation
- Demi-femme/Novi gender, demisexual/panromantic/polyamorous
- Hackerspace
- https://layerze.ro
i like kind machines. pro-people-not-dying. anti-nazi. anti-colonizer. pagan, but lazy about it.
I am #HardOfHearing, #nonbinary, polyamourous, into ttrpgs and #tech. Hobbyist #leatherworker, hobbyist scifi author, community builder, and artist.
I like to build #whimsical things that help people to #dream better and form meaningful connections. If you wanna hang out with friendly computer weirdos in Minneapolis, lemme know.
Profile image description: a watercolor painting of a person with pale skin and brown and blue hair laughing. They have a side cut and an audio processor is visible behind their ear. The art style is loose and the eyes are squinched into little crescents.
Joined Jul 2020
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I spent a day helping to maintain a 3000-year-old hillside chalk monument with a group from Long Now London. Crushing chalk into the ground with a hammer was so satisfying that I kept forgetting to enjoy the view, and I had some great conversations with the interesting people that the task attracted (including @mdales)
Here's a writeup with photos from the previous excursion: https://medium.com/the-long-now-foundation/what-a-prehistoric-monument-reveals-about-the-value-of-maintenance-4d1b89343984
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Anyone have any recommendations for good places to buy crochet supplies online? Particularly somewhere with a good selection of non-wool yarn.
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Please donate to the #StopLine3 bail fund, even if you can only give a dollar or two that is that much closer to someone to make bail.
https://www.stopline3bailfunds.org/
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I create special editions of books for charity auctions at conferences. The plague has shut down the cons, so I'm opening this to THE WHOLE DANGED INTERNET.
Only five copies of this edition of "FreeBSD Mastery: Jails" exist. Four are spoken for. Help human trafficking survivors start their lives over.
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friendly reminder that:
- you do not need to think someone is the scum of the earth to block them or mute them
- being blocked or muted does not mean you are a bad person in any way shape or form
- you have a right to surround yourself with people you enjoy, indeed, you have a right to happiness
- people liking you doesn't mean you are a good person
- you liking something or someone doesn't mean that that thing is good
it is a misconception I think a lot of people hold, and it's not truth.
@qdot very cool!
As someone who has hearing issues (ask me more about weird assistive tech!) I'm really curious to hear more about what the haptic ear experience was like. Do you think you'll publish a longer write up about it?
Not to be pushy, but I'm curious about a few things... Did you find the printed fixtures comfortable? Did your mind 'map' the ear haptics to interactions on its own? Was it ever disorienting? Did anything about it surprise you?
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ok so i hate to be That Guy but is anyone else weirded out that everyone is using fucking white supremacist 4chan cartoons of "Nordic" and "tradwife" ideals for generic meme characters?
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/yes-chad
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/trad-girl-tradwife
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/time-travel-is-invented-men-with-a-time-machine
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The Moon is Full 🌝
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If you live in the USA please call your senators and representatives and tell them to apply pressure on President Biden to stop the Line 3 pipeline. #StopLine3 #USpolitics
If you don't know who your representative or senators are or don't know their contact info you can use this website to find out: https://whoaremyrepresentatives.org/
Below in the image is a script for calling your reps by @asgitsga on twitter. Of course you can say something else, this is just an idea.
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Sorta fun clip from my stream yesterday showing my software tripping over itself + the command line tool working for the first time ever https://picopublish.sequentialread.com/files/stream_clip_2021-08-21_06-26/
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Signalise is a platform co-op that enables users to request and book interpreting services. Its democratically owned by deaf people, health staff and interpreters. This year they raised £330,000 pounds of investment in a crowdfunding campaign, exceeding their target by 10%.
It has now won the bid to become the main service provider for sign language interpreter services for the National Health Service in Liverpool, the fifth largest city in the country.
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Ok so I went to the art museum, and this is gonna be a two-parter for maximum effect; here is the placard for a bronze Brancusi sculpture called Princess X, please read and imagine what you think the sculpture might look like
re: USPOL, OF, MMIW, bad vibes
@thegibson@hackers.town also, most of the folks writing and pushing for these things have zero involvement with many human trafficking nonprofits/orgs.
They're making rules that don't address major concerns, like the patterns seen for Missing, Murdered, and Indigenous Women. Changes to restraining orders and resources for folks who feel like someone is trying to kidnap or stalk them seem like very reasonable places to start.
The only conclusion I can see is that politicians aren't trying to prevent these things if the bodies aren't white and upper middle class or above. Because that's the only 'perceived' demographic that these laws could ever possibly positively impact, and yet, they're also hitting tons of sex workers in just those demographics, too.
So uh, IMO, both inept and also probably racist. Sounds about right.
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Hot take but using animal activism and vegan virtue signalling to verbally abuse indigenous people (and non white ppl in general tbh) about their meat consumption is racist.
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How ableism manifests onhere
Importantly, ridicule is one of the primary mechanisms of ableism. Laughing about it is not in fact a subversive, detached, ironic perspective; it's actually one of the primary ways in which the sharp end of ableism has always expressed itself. It's clear how ridicule isolates disabled people. Yeah some things about disability are really tragi-comic! That's for *us* to find humour in, not you!
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How ableism manifests onhere
Imo a better response to seeing someone give a wrong example of something being ableist is to Shut The Fuck Up And Mind Yer Fucking Business. Let people be wrong sometimes. There's plenty of other stuff out there to laugh about.
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I am having a bad day today.
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does anyone in the midwest have a spare room for me and my 3 rabbits?
i can pay $400 a month
i really need to get me and my rabbits out of very abusive housing
https://plush.city/@DrSagan/106632934180680269
https://plush.city/@DrSagan/106576368303114598
https://plush.city/tags/bunyPosting <- my rabbits
- Pronouns
- She/They
- hangs out with people on
- https://cyberia.club
- Gender/orientation
- Demi-femme/Novi gender, demisexual/panromantic/polyamorous
- Hackerspace
- https://layerze.ro
i like kind machines. pro-people-not-dying. anti-nazi. anti-colonizer. pagan, but lazy about it.
I am #HardOfHearing, #nonbinary, polyamourous, into ttrpgs and #tech. Hobbyist #leatherworker, hobbyist scifi author, community builder, and artist.
I like to build #whimsical things that help people to #dream better and form meaningful connections. If you wanna hang out with friendly computer weirdos in Minneapolis, lemme know.
Profile image description: a watercolor painting of a person with pale skin and brown and blue hair laughing. They have a side cut and an audio processor is visible behind their ear. The art style is loose and the eyes are squinched into little crescents.
Joined Jul 2020
