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- 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
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on twitter it was obvious in its insidiousness. being put on twitter lists with titles like "race" and "PoCs to follow" "anti-racists" and other things i wouldn't ever use to describe myself, ever.
on fedi, its the weird performances in my mentions that really seal it for me.
but regardless of where i am, what remains is that i'm not seen as a person whose personhood isn't meant to exist in relation to lofty anti-racist performances on social media.
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"Ugh! Laughing at someone unable to do this simple act isn't ableist!"
We all struggle in different ways. It's amazing how many people take for granted what they can do, until they can't do it anymore.
Seriously. Many simple tasks are out of reach for disabled people.
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A quick thing — can you please boost?
I'm looking for an an artist to commission a character design piece for noncommercial public use. Since this piece would depict an agender character, I would love if a trans or nonbinary artist could be the one I commission!
If you know of anyone who has commissions open that seems a good fit for this, please let me know!
@kf I wonder if it'd be safer to put a little piece of felt with the lemon oil on it on the chassis of the bot so he left a little fresh trail?
Selfie, no ec, alcohol mention
@gwenprime aww, yaaay! Yeah, that stuff will stay on until tomorrow. Lol. I use an oil to remove it. Really impressive stuff, IMO. Have fun!
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@gwenprime you look great. That dress is incredible! 🖤✨
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No doubt the bigotry in this space is annoying. Still, in many cases, it's less annoying than Good White People™, who 'just want to understand' and badger me for information I've discussed at length, can find on their own and/or completely ignore the context of what I have already said.
The way white people just expect me to drop what I'm doing and explain the ENTIRE social and cultural context of the fedi to them FOR FREE because they are too lazy to do a shred of labor is an easy way to show me they don't give a shit.
If you want to be viewed and treated as a reasonable and intelligent person, you need to act like one.
This is not a high bar.
The racist museum of abuse thread. Read if white 🙃
@deadwitchflying@eldritch.cafe dang, this is ugly. Thanks for your work in drawing attention to this.
I don't wanna be patronizing, so sorry if this comes off that way, but have you gotten some time to take care of yourself a bit in the wake of this crap? I bet you've already got your own coping routines, but after bad moderation vibes, I like to have a snack and something warm to drink (usually herbal tea or hot cocoa) and look at cute animals for a little while until my body calms down. A bath can also be nice. Also, I like to talk it over with friends. If you would like, here is a link to some cats solving a puzzle, I think it is very cute (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU-MBLePCvQ).
You are worth treating well, even if there are deeply problematic assholes on the internet.
It looks like you might be keen on running your own instance. Do you want any help with that?
eggnog cappuccino! @fack man, I vibe this whole thread.
It can be liberating to have projects that don't fall apart of Amazon is down, but I also don't think that every project needs to be like that.
There's an interesting interplay between self worth/the work you can do/make and anti-corpo stuff. Best discussed with snacks and bev, IMO. It can be kinda dark stuff.
@astrid honestly, no. They're a little rough, so you will probably want to use many coats of clear coat gel. I think we used about five, they can take a while to fully cure.
Other than that, just artificial nail hassles.
Honestly, it was pretty rad, and the nail tech, once she got her stride, was really into buying some for her own projects and stuff, too.
I honestly really like them, they feel like one of the very few techs that is feminine and really punishes someone for not putting it on a nail as a part of a lovely manicure. It's a really nice place for an item that's okay if it goes off a lot. I had a lot of fun with mine.
When I had the data only chip, I wished for an led nail to help folks scan it. If you're considering getting a data nail, I recommend also putting on an led one, but that's about all the issue I ran into. It was easy and great, just plan for removal strat, the removal process generally damages the circuit (and the nail a little, too, bc gel/acrylic).
I took my little nail sticker to a salon. I think this is on top of an acrylic coffin mani? But tbh, I prefer it over a black gel. I really don't like having long nails for dexterity reasons.
You can also get nfc nail components that can store a little bit of data, but they don't look cute, so you need to embed those within acrylic or poly gel, generally. They have a lump about the size of a grain of rice in them, so you need the thickness.
@astrid they're great! I like to put them over black with a clear sealant to smooth over the chip.
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An awesome quote from @aurynn that I need to share, in a discussion we were having about automatic filtering/moderation:
"if your tool hasn't thought about how it will be used to create harm, and isn't built in such a way to reduce its ability to cause harm, maybe don't build the tool"
It's amazing how many people don't think like that.
@jennaisjewish@mastodon.world where are you located?
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Earlier this year, I was invited down to Texas by folk who asked me: "Do you think you could teach our assorted group of blind, low vision, and neurodiverse folk about lockpicking?"
Their results were terrific. 😁👍 This video was captured that day...
...and we are jointly publishing it as a way of sharing this lesson plan with you all in the hopes that more classes like this can be replicated by others. 🔓
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"Hemp is one of the fastest-growing plants in the world and can grow 4 metres high in 100 days. Research suggests hemp is twice as effective as trees at absorbing and locking up carbon, with 1 hectare (2.5 acres) of hemp reckoned to absorb 8 to 22 tonnes of CO2 a year, more than any woodland."
Techbros: *get extatic about untested and potentially useless carbon capture tech*
Actual scientists: "yeah just go on and plant hemp, that shit can capture carbon *fast* and store it forever in clothes and building materials"
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#introduction
I'm Artist Marcia X, one of the og's of the fedi. Helped mod the only Blk instance onhere before it was chased off.
I longboard, I'm a visual artist, scholar, I do as much DIY content/art stuffs as possible. I write, sell prints & started ur favorite tag on here 😎
Afro-Indigenous Puerto Rican Peruvian hard femme w the tea on the fediverse. Elephant memory 
www.artistmarciax.com/shop
I also have a GFM bc I'm in need of assistance
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- 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
