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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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when you're looking for your genderqueer friend in a forest, and climb one of the trees to see further, that's a nonbinary search tree
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Update: the announcement is closed. Thanks all!
Hey Fediverse, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is doing a large batch hire of data scientists to fill positions across the agency! If you want to work with some of the largest sets of healthcare data in the country, please apply! The position is GS-13 and remote-friendly. Announcement closes 4/14 or at 250 applications.
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/718410300
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CHANI is hiring:
Customer Experience Specialist
Executive Assistant to the President
Social & Content Marketing Manager
No one is paid less than $80k before benefits #LivingWagesForAll;
Fully covered health, dental and vision insurance;
401k with a 5% match;
7 weeks of full office closure each year;
Unlimited vacation plus a vacation stipend; (more in description)
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if youre in nyc on april 15 come through to the show i am coorganizing at wonderville as part of livecode nyc!
the lineup is killer, and we are setting up a temporary pirate tv station to broadcast visuals onto as many CRTs as we can get our hands on! its a crunchy glitchy stuttery analog heaven 😍
poster by voyde w/music by me in 8fl/renoise 🎵
@magicalgrrrl awww hey.
Do you have an idea of what part of Minnesota you'd like to move to?
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We're looking for help to build a wireless, solar-powered chat network across the Philly area! Are you interested in learning about off-grid solar power? Do you have a sunny place on your roof, in your yard, or near an upstairs window where you can leave a small radio transceiver? This workshop may be for you!
Each participant will receive a free kit with all the parts needed to build a solar-powered LoRa radio node. You'll assemble the kit, mount it in a weatherproof enclosure (provided by you), and use the Meshtastic app to start sending encrypted text messages.
Registration opens Monday, April 3rd at 8:30 p.m. You can sign up on our site:
https://iffybooks.net/event/solar-chat-network
Supplies for this workshop are provided by a grant from the Engaged Humanities Studio at Swarthmore College. Many thanks to @pixouls for helping plan the event!
@reese when I lived in a tiny ex-urb, in the spring time, the city has a pothole hotline. They printed the number in the paper, and they'd send someone to fill it within a week or so if you called during 'pothole season'.
An article like that sounds cool! I wonder how much money potholes cost in damages to transit systems, and I'd love to hear how long the average pothole goes unfilled. I wonder if there is a standard based on size?
Idk if it's useful, but here's a couple resources:
It looks like the city of Minneapolis has a page here: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/report-an-issue/pothole/
Here's an article with a nice illustration for how they form: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Schematic-diagram-of-pothole-formation_fig1_331938195
This one is also nice, I like how the expanded ice clearly compacts the ground under the road, really showing what the road collapses into.
https://www.ezstreetasphalt.com/blog/where-potholes-come-from/
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"just trying to help" is like a very particular flavour of ableism
"don't push my wheelchair without my consent" - "i'm just trying to help"
"don't lecture me on scammy miracle cures" - "i'm just trying to help"
"stop trying to diagnose me with made-up fad conditions" - "i'm just trying to help"
"don't give me advice i didn't ask for" - "i'm just trying to help"
"no, i don't care which diet you think will cure my genetic disease" - "i'm just trying to help"
"please stop making suggestions for jobs you think i could do" - "i'm just trying to help"
"don't make assumptions about our needs without even asking" - "i'm just trying to help"
"please just give me the prescription i need instead of expecting me to somehow magically fix myself" - "i'm just trying to help"
"please stop forcing me into treatments and rehab programmes that only make me sicker" - "i'm just trying to help"
why are we supposed to be grateful for any of that?
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Listen up all you foolish mortals:
Someone talking about a weird thing their computer did is not a cry for help. *Especially* when said someone clearly said they solved the problem.
I understand this particular platform is very-much filled with computer nerds who want to be helpful, but please check whether help is being requested before you pop out of the woodwork like some sort of Clippy
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ALL SNAIL POSIX SHELL! 🐌
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Erotic art, partially nude men
Some oil paint sketches I did a few years ago, feels like a good place to show them. #gayart #eroticart
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In case you needed to hear it, trans and nonbinary people are an important part of my life. I am happy and secure in my masculinity because they exposed me to a world where I can be anyone I want, and I finally felt peace with being a man in a society with some awful ideas about what a man should be. If you enjoy my masculinity, consider accepting other people's expressions of their gender. Daddy says trans rights.
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"[Screen readers] often stumble on PDF files, which have long been the default digital format for journal articles and other research materials"
"In a detailed survey, six scientists with vision loss described how they frequently found themselves unable to access or read PDFs. One respondent mentioned that they encountered problems two-thirds of the time, and that they use at least six different approaches to read papers"
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00645-6
So please share article links as HTML not PDF!
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J'ai eu l'occas de revoir ce dessin de #huevember2021, et je l'aime toujours bien ' ^ '
@june there's boats you can rent off the northern coast of Wisconsin that are good, big, live on 'em sail boats. You can sail around the apostle Islands. I've heard it's a lovely trip with a handful of friends, though you do need to pay.
You might want to look up the size limits on various lakes before hanging around their clubs. I think a lot of the lakes here are too small for boats that big, iirc.
You might use a system like this, assuming your site has the technology to support it?
https://www.pocketbeancrafts.com/collections/all/products/gifting-abandoned-carts
International Women's Day, showing some love for trans women in technical spaces
@klara@wandering.shop also, just a fit note-- I'm afab, and wear around a size 6-8 dress. I have wide shoulders and wide hips/thighs. I prefer things that don't put tension over my knees, so I look for pants that are a bit roomy.
Bra-wise, my girlfriend strongly recommends the b tempt'd line from Wacoal. She has a small frame, her dress size is around 2-4. There's a subreddit, r/abrathatfits , that may be able to give good advice.
International Women's Day, showing some love for trans women in technical spaces
@klara@wandering.shop yes! I boosted two old threads, but...
My current favorite is Noctex for clothing. They do dead stock fabrics and ethically made stuff.
Buddaful Boutique has some nice things, but may be problematic in some ways. Typical yoga place vibe issues, nothing bigger.
House of Aris is amazing and bold and perfect.
CrisisWear is nice but expensive and I haven't had perfect luck with their fits.
Son de Fleur (etsy) makes amazing but expensive wrap dresses.
CryoFlesh is owned by a few nice friends of mine as a hobby project thingie.
Pocket bean crafts occasionally makes incredible clothing.
Sock Dreams is the OG of thigh highs that are actually thigh high, but Thunder Thighs is a rising star.
Carmen Liu now has a US distributor, but their thongs are too small for folks not in hormones, just FYI.
My secret for comfy wrap shirts is to order from https://www.bellahatailors.com/ . They also make custom wrap dresses.
I have found one fast fashion place that I do like for pants because it's so hard to find ones that are comfy with good pockets. I can't speak to their ethics, but Soft Surroundings has comfy pants that have a lot of stretch in them. Make sure they say they have pockets, though, because some do not. They often have sales.
See also https://social.pixie.town/@starless/106145166566413416 and https://social.pixie.town/@starless/104532518135869399 .
The woman I was talking with recommended Black Tailor, which looked really neat.
- 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
