Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es

I’ve started muting people who use asterisks in place of letters in certain words in order to get past filters.

(Most often these words are the names of public figures or companies. This is completely unnecessary. Just be specific and let our filters do their work.)

#MastoTips

little-known fact, but PHP is actually short for "please headpat". because the programmers who have to deal with the language need it

I think when I posted this last night, I was thinking about how so many arguments over complex issues reduce to “_____ may kill a lot of people, but it also _____, so it’s impossible to say if it’s good or not”.

it provides a wild amount of clarity.

#Podcast friends! If you interview people involved in audio drama podcasts and have an open slot in March-April for me to come on and talk about @JumpLeadsScifi (launching in the Spring!) please reach out. I have a couple of appearances booked, I'd love to book some more!

For those trans folk out there who are straight/hetero, I'm curious, do you view your orientation as a queer experience?

Please boost so I can find those other straight trans folk out there.

I'm not asking about being queer as an aspect of being trans, but rather, whether you view your orientation itself as queer.

For me, I view my orientation as inherently queer, but I get the feeling I'm very much the minority in that.

#trans #transgender #orientation #poll #queer #QueerIdentity

fair's fair

what's fun about all the coding AI hype is that even if I'm wrong in thinking it's mostly hype, I still win because I'm way better at debugging than coding. so computers will still suck at debugging and people will get worse at understanding, leaving those of us who are good at debugging in a favorable position

Tidbits from therapy:

… the difference it makes having a neurodivergent therapist is unmeasurable.

Yesterday she said to me, after I said that “I overthink everything” …

“Don’t you think that maybe people telling us not to overthink things are being ableist? This is how your brain processes the world.”

Woah. #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic @autisticadvocacy

Folks, the more dire the legislation gets, the more it needs a CW.

I know its important. And vital. This is why it needs a CW.

Thank you,
A trans citizen of both the US and the UK (all of this is killing me. My mental health is turning to shit. Please use a fucking CW. Throwing out this shit on to the timeline without a CW is collaborating. Dont at me.)

Finally figured out how to succinctly describe what’s gone wrong with Google Search: They focused so hard on figuring out the *one* single most relevant thing to your query that it just tries to find *that* thing, to the exclusion of anything else.

If you’re lucky, your results will be: (1) ad, (2) thing you want, (3) basically a copy of the thing you want, (4) another copy, etc.

You can’t easily find all the possibilities for a category. So you can’t use it to really explore a topic in breadth anymore. You can’t find variations on a theme.

It’s like if you asked the server at a restaurant for the menu, and instead of giving you one with all the options, they instead look you over, decide you want a hamburger, and when you ask for options just give you the same hamburger with slight tweaks.

The popular macho image of #CaptainKirk is so way off, especially in the context of the mid-60s, when the ideal male action hero was an unfeeling lone wolf (think Sean Connery's Bond, early John Wayne, etc). #StarTrek shows Kirk as connected, caring, even vulnerable, a foil to Spock's struggle to suppress emotion (which is arguably also about gender, but that's a whole other essay). Their dynamic was a huge part of the appeal to women, who flocked to ST fandom & invented slash.

cis lesbians are my sisters. the astroterf movement would have you believe they hate us all, but they don't. don't let them divide us.

Last year I made a website for people who want to #volunteer or do good in the world, but may not want or be able to do something in person.

https://goodworksonline.org

It's a categorized index of ways you can #volunteer your time with a variety of projects.

I made it specifically for people who are struggling with #mentalhealth issues, who may be #disabled or are maybe just overwhelmed at where to start.

I'd love feedback or suggestions for more sites!

#virtualvolunteer

- Don’t flee pain, chase the incandescent joy at the heart of your soul. Growth can be painful. It often means facing the deep dark inside of us, but that joy is the hope that lights our path. That hope for a better you, for a better world, for what brings you joy is that sustaining kind of hope.

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