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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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get yourself a girl who deletes tracking parameters from URLs she shares you
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I'd think this should be obvious... But one thing you should never do when you're using a blind person's computer is mute the sound, then give it back to them while it's muted. Seriously people? That's not a hard concept to grasp. It's incredibly rude because if it's muted, they won't know what the fuck is happening. It's something that I'd think would be quite obvious, but apparently it's not.
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Folks, do any of you remember a blog post that used "gears" as a simple metaphor for how much capacity/energy a person has at a given day or point in life?
Gist was that the lowest gear is "just do what's needed to survive" and the highest gear is when you might be able to work towards complex goals/projects/etc?
Pretty sure it was in the context of Spoons Theory, maybe also neurodiversity. I think I saw it on here, but don't seem to have bookmarked it.
(More context: I've found the metaphor useful, and I want to share the post with a neurodiverse friend who is dealing with some very difficult events but also beating themselves up for not progressing their other work/life goals at the moment. I just can't find the post!)
Tagging #Spoonie #ADHD #ActuallyAutistic folks for reach. Thanks!
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it’s night one and time to go to bed
I can’t leave her running around the living room unsupervised yet, but I don’t want to have to physically remove her from the lovesac 😭😂
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“Evaluating Verifiability in Generative Search Engines”
"On average, a mere 51.5% of generated sentences are fully supported by citations
and only 74.5% of citations support their associated sentence."
The difference between the AI crowd and the rest of us is that they’re going to think this is an excellent result. https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09848
food, Minnesota so decidedly not vegan
@bright_helpings @diffrentcolours@tech.lgbt I hope he's careful about the hot cheese burn potential. They are hazardous!
Fragrance discussion
I'm doing an elf project thing this summer and decided to put together a perfume blend since I found an empty atomizer. I was aiming for something that smells like a forest the afternoon after a thunderstorm, and I think I nailed it!
I mostly used dirt and wet garden, with a healthy dose of mushroom, but I think the linden really adds the impression of tree pollen to the mix.
I wish it were feasible to share smells on the internet, but alas.
Ironically, this smell is way more magical indoors in the winter, but hey, I'll take what I can get.
Any thoughts on the most magical place/way to experience the smell of a forest?
@thufie congratulations!
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A lot of #solarpunk ans social #scifi books are exploring non-nuclear #family models, whether through #polyamory , different kinds of found families, co-living etc.
What's your favorite vision of family in speculative fiction?
I really like the bash-es from Ada Palmer's #terraIgnota , which are strongly implied as start of the great social transformation in that world.
Ruthanna Emrys' #halfBuiltGarden puts a very global focus on family models, differences between humans other civilizations.
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I have an indoor cat. She greets me at the front door, like a good indoor cat.
Except this morning, when I returned home in an unfamiliar car, from the wrong direction. As I got out of the car I saw my good indoor cat barrel down a treetrunk, scoot across the lawn, and leap up a wall and through a window I didn't know she could access.
Then she demurely greeted me at the front door like any good indoor cat.
How long has this been going on?
@futzle happy to volunteer my voice :)
@futzle could you be more specific about c shanty? The programmer in me is weirdly thrilled.
Selfie, eye contact, non veggie food
@diffrentcolours@tech.lgbt i have not seen anyone so delighted while eating a corn dog in years. Beautiful.
I'm.. Pretty sure that's daylight? Smugness? Hmm. Anyways, good feels, A+.
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i know several people who would happily patronize this "absolute silence bar" in Ghostwire Tokyo called HUSH which stays open no later than 9pm
@thufie how much caffeine? 🤔
@paulference@mspsocial.net go for it!
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Planned Parenthood in the St. Louis region is doing pop-up clinics TODAY Monday 4/17 for new patients looking to start gender-affirming care before Missouri's pending emergency rule goes into effect, more info on their website here- there are options for walk-in appointments and online and phone scheduling, please pass along to anyone you know who might need this https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-st-louis-region-southwest-missouri/patients/our-services/transgender-care
Girlfriend and I saw the most precious thing at como zoo today.
The man in the image told me he's a regular, and we watched Kemala carry bedding across the exhibit to come lay down next to him against the glass. The woman told me that she went to the library and checked out three different books, and that this one seems to be Kemala's favorite.
The man's sketchbook was filled with drawings of primates. Apparently, Kemala used to be interested in seeing them, but by now has seen them so much that she's pretty chill about them.
Every so often she'd look at him and move around. For a little while, she pressed some food against the glass and ate it by scraping her teeth across the slice of fruit on the window. It was very silly.
When the woman came up and sat down, Kemala saw the woman's bag and pointed to it, then pointed to the book inside. She was super interested in it.
It was really really sweet. The folks in the image were a-ok with me snapping a pic.
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A mechanism for #LongCovid
I am beyond excited to finally be able to share what I’ve been working on for the past year.
At the beginning of March 22, I discovered a potential mechanism for #LongCovid. It was a unifying mechanism that could explain every single symptom that patients were reporting, something I never thought possible for a disease that has over 200. Yet, this mechanism actually did.
Link: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1150105/full
- 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
