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- She/They
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- 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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10 Image #CaptionTips from a transcriptionist:
1. Any words are better than nothing.
2. You don't need to say it's "a picture of…" screen readers will already say it's an image.
3. Start with the framing or format (i.e. close up, landscape, meme, text).
4. Think about the reason you're posting the pic and describe that first, add background details if you have time.
5. Pretend you're talking to someone on the phone and want to tell them about this cool thing you're looking at.
6. Transcribe any and all text in the image, even if it's the only thing you do.
7. If you've described the image in your post, you don't need to copy and paste it again in the caption. But again, don't leave it blank, just put something like "as described."
8. You can add small subjective notes, but don't give too much interpretation of the image in your own opinion.
9. Caption jokes are fun, as long as they still describe the image objectively.
10. Use punctuation, and capitalize words properly. A lot of us have interacted with this tech when calling customer service or talking to Siri, so keep in mind that you're writing for a computer to read, and it needs all the help it can get.
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New print for the wall!
Support artists like @anaisfae , the creator of this piece, who does phenomenal work!
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I love the genre of posts about supportive ancestors losing their shit over their descendants' comparatively decadent lifestyle.
I think about this whenever I look at my spice rack. So many spices...
Me: *opens cupboard*
Ancestors: *ululation intensifies*
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Merry Christmas! I used GPT-3 to generate some new Victorian holiday cards, and did my best to illustrate them.
Fare ye Very Well Indeed!
https://www.aiweirdness.com/victorian-christmas-cards-by-ai/
@j3s how did it go?
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Floofington has entered the “squeaking” phase of its growth. It is very squeaky.
intersectionality musings
@crash I wonder if the professor changed their course materials to try to account for that.
My favorite professor would say "if most students get it right, and you get it wrong, it's on you. If most students get it wrong, but some get it right, it should go on the final, and if everybody gets it wrong, that's on me, and I need to change how I'm teaching it."
Like, don't get me wrong, that sounds frustrating and heart-breaking, but they were in that course to learn.
What a thing to chew on, though. Oof.
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Alternate universe where the '90s trend for calling things "bad", "sick" or "rude" never ended and now we compliment each other's shoes by calling them "catastrophic" and "fundamentally misaligned with my values"
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Hey you
Keep being a good person
you are the dreams of dead stars
@fack mine are plastic with a little handle shape molded into em. They stack and are easy to manage.
But yeah, it's a lot of coffee. Cold brew batch, perhaps?
@fack I confess, I have been using the same coffee containers ever since college.
@fack put it in the dedicated 'give away' zone that the residents have established for the purpose.
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When a marginalized person voices their lived experience, like a chronically ill person talking about their condition or a racialized person talking about the bigotry they face, they are often inundated with unsolicited and frequently inane advice, like have you tried this or that treatment, why don't you move to a better instance etc. etc.
This is not helpful. The "helpful" comments really voice a wish for the problem to go away so the speaker doesn't have to be uncomfortable. It's also really, really condescending, like why assume the other person is helpless or ignorant, and presume to be an expert on other people's lives? (Because bigotry, that's why.)
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i think "overmorrow" and "ereyesterday" should be words again
so many other languages have words for "the day after tomorrow" and "the day before yesterday" respectively, english not having them is kinda awkward in comparison
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Writers are taught not to write wish-fulfillment—it's too easy, boring, or low stakes. But that reasoning is wrong. It only seems that way because we've all already read thousands of wish-fulfillment stories about cis het able-bodied white males, so they're very... predictable.
For every other demographic?
Readers actively, desperately crave wish-fulfillment stories about themselves, because they rarely if ever see them.
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Comrades, if you’re able, please help our unhoused neighbors in #Minneapolis. We are in a deep cold patch (air temp & windchills below 0F) w/blizzard forecast for next 2-3 days. Our soul-less smug piece of shit mayor has destroyed encampments, displacing many during this time the NWS has called life-threatening conditions. Here’s a link where you can help. 🙏🏻
https://linktr.ee/sanctuarysupplydepot
Homelessness, chronic illness, boundaries, freezing weather, Minneapolis city council politics, bad vibes
@thufie yeah, agreed. Some years, places have opened up. I guess we'll see what happens here. It will get much colder than this this winter. Hopefully, the snow insulates stuff okay. Maybe the park cops won't evict people on Christmas day.
Damn, fuck this timeline.
- 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
