It's been a really interesting trip, owning and running a one-person instance. Time to simplify though, so I'm off and this instance will be shut down in due course. Find me @afloatingbea !

We love you @Codeberg https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html > As an association, we believe that these technologies are incompatible with responsibly creating and maintaining free & open source software. [...] > The […] [Original post on neuromatch.social]

#crowdfunding #trans #transHealth #topSurgery https://chuffed.org/project/help-n-get-top-surgery Sharing this for a dear friend from choir who, like many of us gender-wonky types, is having to work around, rather than with, the NHS to get the care they need. Three cheers for F*Choir's official […]

A little while back I learned something cool about my maternal grandmother, who I knew in life as a retired florist whose life revolved around her husband’s interests in a very traditional cishet way. Turns out she had a whole other life before marriage and working with my grandfather, and what […]

A little while back I learned something cool about my maternal grandmother, who I knew in life as a retired florist whose life revolved around her husband’s interests in a very traditional cishet way. Turns out she had a whole other life before marriage and working with my grandfather, and what […]

Welp, given unemployment and all that, I think it's probably time to migrate servers and shut this single-person instance down to save the ten bucks a month it costs to keep up. Pinning this so you can see it if you have to approve a follow from migrated-me!

[CW: transphobia, hate speech, threat] Buzzing with adrenaline after being followed around Tesco by a clearly unwell person who wanted me to know I was a 'f*cking tr*nny' and a 'subhuman' and describe what he wanted to do to me. Not my first bit of street harassment by any means but the first […]

[lewd] My phone pinged to tell me I'd signed for delivery of a new sex toy but I wasn't even in the house. Thought I was gonna have to go through some amusing and possibly slightly humiliating admin with Royal Mail until my partner discovered the postie had, in an unintentional act of […]

Mondays are for restoring the living space to order from the chaos of parenting, contemplating the silence of the telephone, and wondering what is required to get it to ring. #jobhunting

Two and a half days of light messing around and I have a functioning home-made #agenticAI coding assistant. Not as polished as Claude Code et al, but does a perfectly adequate job of RNGing valid code to a prompt and writing it to disk. Affords me the chance to talk about agentic workflows in […]

This is really going to be Binface’s day in the sun.

CW; culture wars, unemployment Don’t you always wish you could tell that old auntie with terrible politics to fuck off?

How is #jobhunting going, you ask? Let's just say I wish my proven career experience as a woman counted for even 10% of what my unproven potential was worth when they thought I was a guy.

Celebrating hot trans girl summer by buying a huge 12v beer fridge from Halfords, strapping it precariously onto the bike and teetering back to the boat to fill it with estrogen and makeup

Human agency and creativity in art is primary and that's why we should exercise great care in allowing generative AI into creative spaces. But also I want there to be a book called 'I, AI Ai Weiwei; The AI Ai Weiwei Way' (I'm sorry, my brain woke me up at 5am trying to do something with this […]

Kerb-sitting and outdoor summer drinking at #FirstTimersFest in Haggerston, where we are all just taking a break from hardcore punk bands to avoid disturbing the yoga class now kicking off in the next railway arch along, and I can’t think of anything more #hackney.

Oh, I am feeling salty today. But I started the day well. ⛴️ moved a boat 💩 did not comply with the draft EHRC code of practice

So is the #UK doing a #bathroomBan today? It sure looks like it if you look at the right wing gutter press. I mean we’ve all been living with this over our heads for a year and a bit so it’s not a surprise. But it’s still a massive fuck you. Fuck this fucking country. There’s no safety here and […]

Hackney has a new Green mayor! 💚 https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2026/05/08/green-party-wins-hackney-mayoral-contest/ #UKPol #Hackney #London

Family member politics chat that went straight to ‘Britain is full’ chat in five minutes straight. #deepSigh #VoteGreen

Just got doorstepped by a Times reporter looking for dirt on #ZackPolanski, whose BF lives in the area. Desperate grasping-at-straws fuckery. #NoComment #VoteGreen #GreenParty

Possibly my favourite #MayDay of all time. Kicked things off with a quick #boat move back to the home mooring with partner and teen as crew, in perfect conditions, with everything going smoothly. 1/

Hey #Boativerse ! Looking for a welder around E5 on the Lea for a small but critical job overplating the chimney hole in my roof, which is oversized, corroded, and preventing the install of a new wood burner. Thanks for any leads 🙌 #BoatLife #Boatstodon #CanalLife #Boating #theBoatyard #leaBoaters

[Transphobia, employment precarity] So I’ve been out sick for a couple of months following a mental health collapse from working for my institutionally #transphobic employer. Today I commenced a ‘phased return’ and made it three minutes into the workday before the first piece of dogshit […]

I’ve come to realise that as a trans woman who spent the entirety of the 90s closeted and in denial, my ‘nobody knows I’m a lesbian’ T shirt was both far more ironic and far more literal than I could have ever imagined.

Italian Prime Minister Meloni announces suspension of military cooperation & defense agreement with Israel. #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Geopolitics More News at @Free_Press

Not that anyone cares but if you create and post genAI pics as some sort of entertainment I will unfollow you. Unless they’re of an animal doing something amusing in which case I will suspend all my ethical principles and go ‘oh haha a dog doing grocery shopping so cool’

le coût de la guerre excellente vidéo

Metaphorical champagne corks popping here this morning as I can confirm that (for the first time) my house ran for a full 24 hours without consuming any grid power. The battery started supporting the house loads from about 7pm last night as solar power fell away, it ran the heat pump and fridge […]