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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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coronavirus ableism death etc
disabled people are like, hey we're the ones at risk of dying from the pandemic and the restrictions are the bare minimum precaution keeping our fellow citizens from casually killing us en masse.
and abled people are like, i hear you, and i'm very sorry, however i'm also bored
Hearing tech, guide to getting started, illustrated comic
I drew up a basic comic guide to getting started with the tympan audio processor as an assistive device. Plan to spend around $350+ including mounting stuff and headphones.
Apologies for the lack of full transcriptions, I'm kinda tired. Please let me know if you need them for personal use, though, and I can type them up for ya.
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Kiwi translation guide
“Ah yeah”: I understand
“Yeah nah”: No
“Yeah nah yeah”: Yes
“Heaps”: A lot
“Sweet”: Good
“Sweet as”: I find this to be of satisfactory quality
“Sweet as bro”: I’m not super satisfied but I’ll allow it for now
“Choice”: Really good
“Choice as”: Exceptionally good
“Cool story bro”: You’re embarrassing yourself and you should stop talking
“Did you blow on the pie”: It’s been in the warmer all day, it’s nuclear
“Ghost chips”: You know I can’t grab them
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Join us tonight for a clown-full and (hopefully) explosion-free evening in the #CircusInPlace video chat, starting at 8pm UTC-5:
https://meet.jit.si/circushomegym
See you there!
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"While there are big differences between Italian fascism, British colonialism and pro-slavery groups in the US, all have contributed to a fantasy idea about Rome’s whiteness that’s still a feature of Western civilisation...
"As white supremacists storm the centres of Western governance, this is not just a niche issue. It could play a vital role in strengthening our democracies."
https://aeon.co/essays/colonialism-is-built-on-the-rubble-of-a-false-idea-of-ancient-rome
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🚨I'm moving my canvas paintings to storage in a few days. 🚨 If you are interested in buying any of the pictured paintings please DM me. Promise they're extremely cheap because I don't value my art correctly.
$45-$55 each. Can only be shipped in the USA sorry 😐
Disability pride, hearing info
Happy disability pride month! 💙
Just ordered more adapters for my cyber ear. Thankfully, the adapters are pretty inexpensive, so the accessories for my commercial sound processor come out to about $4/week.
If your hearing is currently not a subscription service, take a moment and enjoy your ability to hear sounds while in wet environments like rainstorms, at the beach, and while showering. In case you didn't know, most hearing devices aren't remotely waterproof and will be totally fried by exposure to liquids.
Also, your hearing probably is actually a subscription service. Go check that you've got some earplugs on hand. Not all hearing loss is exposure related, but sufficient exposure will cause hearing loss in anyone.
The more you know! 🌈✨
Minneapolis police brutality, new information on Winston Smith case, dark
Anyone who wasn't upset about this before, place kindly upset yourselves? Surrounding a man and his date in a nice neighborhood with unmarked vehicles in plainclothes and opening fire is not 'keeping the peace'. It's a execution without due process. This. is. not. okay.
For folks who don't live here, this happened in uptown, a predominantly white, kinda yuppie area. Winston Smith and his date were probably one of two black couples their server saw the whole night. They likely paid $75-150 for a nice date together, and had only been dating for a few weeks. Uptown is a lively, bustling area. It's a place where people want to be, at least a little bit. And this.. It just seems like they were killed in cold blood for being black and parking in the yuppiest parking ramp in town for a nice date night. This is egregious. Our police department would never do this to a white couple. Small, incremental reforms just can't unseat this kind of stark racism. There needs to be a fundamental change in how the department functions.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/07/01/passenger-officers-didnt-id-selves-in-fatal-smith-shooting
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elevator pitch: it's a bash script that assembles video entries from a collection of rss feeds into a "local access UHF television station" stream at crappy resolution, with optional custom titling of the videos and station idents via json or some bullshit, updated every 24 hours with a new rotation of videos for the broadcast day
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oh shit oh fuck its the last day of pride month and im a brand and i totally forgot to rainbow everything on the account
ok dont panic what should i do what should i do
um
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phew saved it
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Hello Wednesday!
In a few short hours, the clowns will be doing their acrobatic thing in the #CircusInPlace video chat.
Come cheer them on and keep them company starting at 8pm UTC-5:
Negative book review, menstruation mention, sexist author, little rant, spoilers for Pattern Recognition
So, I read pattern recognition by Gibson.
Cayce Powell puts in a tampon, then never takes it out. She spends what appears to be the following week drifting in and out of consciousness. I know the author is glossing over things, but our girl got kidnapped and knocked out by the Russian mob. How tf did she not come down with toxic shock syndrome?
If you're going to bother to write women, please stop making your action heroines kill themselves via lack of education about their own sex organs. This was stressing me out the whole book and it turns out the author just forgot that leaving a tampon in a vagina will kill someone.
/rant
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i say a limited capacity because the way it works on the typewriter is there's a separate key for the "word extension" glyph. it works but its not terribly interesting. the same is true of Unicode, where there's a code point (U+0640 ARABIC TATWEEL) which plays the same role.
compare that to the jaw dropping beauty of Ottoman maps that use the elasticity of the script to make labels of things cover and follow the thing they label. digital text rendering cant really do this...
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the university of milan has released over four hundred meows for non-commercial and research purposes https://zenodo.org/record/4008297 (via https://www.data-is-plural.com/)
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If someone had wanted to learn more about what it’s like to be trans (or queer) what would be some good books or articles to read?
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RT @eevee@twitter.com
github copilot has, by their own admission, been trained on mountains of gpl code, so i'm unclear on how it's not a form of laundering open source code into commercial works. the handwave of "it usually doesn't reproduce exact chunks" is not very satisfying
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i got my hands on an old east german arabic typewriter and ive been taking it for a spin! the thing is pretty wild. missing some obscure but important letters, representing some letters up to four different times to accommodate for the cursive nature of the script. the typeface is spartan but fine. it has a certain charm to it. i dont have a project in mind, just noodling for now.
- 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
