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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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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
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?
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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?
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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
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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
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When you're talking about Linux, it's okay to say that it's "open source".
It's okay to say that it's "free software".
It's okay to call it "GNU/Linux", "Linux", or to mess up its name.
It's okay to refer to it as "the one with the friendly penguin".
Part of RMS' legacy has been an incessant obsession with terminology and pedantry, overshadowing far more important shared objectives which are fundamentally emancipatory in nature.
Pedantry is not activism; it is alienating, not emancipatory.
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nyc friends! i am part of the crew organizing an algorave tomorrow night (saturday april 15) at wonderville. we have a killer line up livecoding music and visuals that are broadcast over a pirate TV station onto and as many CRTs as the venue's breaker can handle. its going to be a night of glitchy crunchy analog visuals and its going to be bonkers, come through if youre in town!
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Yo anyone with a new Australian passport, look at it with a UV torch. Every page has SO much detail. At least five different UV inks used in different ways including photo-quality monochrome printing that’s otherwise invisible, different on every page. This shit is wild @Iridaceae and I are peering at it like it’s a picture book.
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Swamped with client work after falling sick for a while, so art making has been sporadic.
But I want to share a few tiny color studies I did the other day of Claude Monet's "Houses of Parliament" series.
Each is about 9x9cm, painted with water-soluble pastels in a sketchbook.
I did all the colorful ones, maybe I should do the foggy muted ones next...
#art #MastoArt #artist #CreativeToots #neocolor #sketchbook #MasterStudy
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Watching my post (which never mentioned Steve Jobs) spread and mutate into straight disinformation, entirely via Google News search alerts for my name, has been *fascinating*.
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I know someone posted a variety pack of patterns for hand sewn juggling balls a while back - I’ve got a bunch of kimono scraps and a lot of free time, and I do like patterns that are
Yknow
Good
When we’re using up the Fancy Scraps.
But mastodons search engine is what it is, so can I consult the collective instead?
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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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I love this argument. In a recent interview, Adam Rutherford -- author of the new book "Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics" -- argues that part of of the reason our popular notions of genetic inheritance of traits is so simplistic and wrong is because Gregor Mendel was such a good scientist! #eugenics #inheritance #science #genetics
- 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
