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Parent, reader, devops/python, neuroscientist & cook. Queer, neurodiverse, Jewish, & disabled soft-butch trans dyke. opinions my own She/her, they/them
My new translation app, I guess. f-droid.org/en/packages/... Based off of the Firefox translation models so tragically it won't translate or transliterate pinyin (will translate 我不知道 but not "wo bu zhidao" or "wǒ bù zhī dào"), but otherwise high quality, even does images.
Offline Translator | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
On-device translation of text, images and pdf/odt files, with TTS
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Allegheny County set the standard and made history with the first county-level paid parental leave policy in the country. This victory reflects the power of organizing & advocacy. No parent should have to choose between a paycheck & caring for their newborn. Now it's time to guarantee paid family.
Okay, ya'll. The Apex Magazine Kickstarter still needs another $8,637 to fund 2027 and we only have 10 days to go. I'm starting to get STRESSED! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2027
An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
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Likely the most important thing I've ever written — if you're an academic and the AI mania unsettles you, here's my best shot at presenting some intellectual tools that might help you articulate why. arxiv.org/abs/2610.27251
Part of my literal job is to fly out to physical game studios to rescue and recover historical materials that might be endangered and put them in a permanent archive. @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is a 501(c)3 publicly funded to do that, my DMs are open, and I'm free for the next couple weeks...
centuries, actually: “where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power?” - the communist manifesto, karl marx and friedrick engels (1848)
Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 6h agoTalarico is on record as willing to compromise when it comes to the rights of trans people. This is important because we have played this game for decades now where the world’s most spineless liberal is defined by their enemies regardless of how much they compromise values & people. So don’t.
Someone less tired than me really needs to sit down and spell out that the post-Goldwater conservative conquest of the GOP (and the Tea Party/CHUD devouring of the conservative mvmt) are solid proof that a left conquest of the Dems is eminently achievable.*
the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · 7h agofor all the focus on those challenges that fell short in Massachusetts or Colorado, the insurgency within the Democratic party created more caucus turnover in one cycle than the first two years of the Tea Party combined. and it extended to open races. the Tea Party took over the Republican party!
The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...
I'm out here sweating in the theory mines, discussing gender and race and tech, and these chucklefucks just tweet it out.
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 5h agoThe first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...
Related: The @accountabilityji.bsky.social is building a free-to-use, searchable public database to reveal the individuals behind dark money groups and their connections to broader political influence networks. There’s nothing like it today. This will be an essential public resource.
Accountability Journalism Institute@accountabilityji.bsky.social · 9h agoToday, we are announcing a huge new project in development: The Dark Money Illuminator. You can search any nonprofit to see: - Funders - Directors and officers - Groups it’s connected to You can also explore/search nonprofits by assets. And it’s going to be FREE! Donate to support this project
May 1933: Nazi troops storm a vital community institute in Berlin dedicated to providing trans people with lifesaving healthcare October 2026: Germany police (which includes many neo-Nazis) storm a vital community institute in Berlin dedicated to providing trans people with lifesaving healthcare
mady castigan✨ 🏳️⚧️@mady.cat · 2d agoGermany is quickly catching up to the US and UK in their fascist crackdowns of trans people. This Sunday, reports say police officers violently stormed and searched an important German transfem community space under allegations of providing prescriptions to third parties without authorization.
Let's follow One Piece (Zou arc) further and require such cities to form symbiotic relationships with giant elephants that will outlive them all.
Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️🌈@kennedy.northsky.social · 10h agoEvery city above a certain size should have a night mayor as well as a day mayor, it's ok if the two mayors do not see eye to eye, that just adds to the excitement
This really unlocked something for me. Before consolidation, a crossover meant two competing companies worked out a deal to give fans something exciting. Now it's a reminder that three people own the entire creative output of the whole human race.
✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪@jongraywb.blacksky.app · 23h agoCrossovers had meaning and weight not too long ago. Now its just showing off IP farms and it all feels so shallow
The implicit messages we get about neutralizing emotion in our scholarship (even when writing about deeply emotional events) has always bothered me. Ruth Behar's 'Anthropology that breaks your heart' (1996) is a classic, but it's well past time to revive the conversation. Can't wait to read this.
David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · yesterdayI just came back from a talk about this book. It's a genre-breaking braided academic narrative about horrific fires as a result of flamable pjs, the death of the author's daughter, and the meaning of a "life" - which is to say the history of the curriculum vitae. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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It is not in fact our generation’s job to be the last group of physicists who know how to do things, you fucking dodos. We don’t just hire students to make our research go. We hire them to pass on knowledge and secure humanity’s ancestral inheritance.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · yesterdayMore broadly I’ve heard a variety of comments from physicists (not the blogger) that are along the lines of: “we don’t even need students anymore” and “what’s the point of hiring students anymore” and it’s really hard not to reply “it’s our job to train the next generation you stupid, selfish fuck”
an angel is supposed to be sharp how else is the message supposed to get in (angel portrait commission for @shookegg.bsky.social)
Critics of a far-right Washington sheriff say the armed volunteer posses he created lacked regulation: “We received from that area a lot of serious concern about untrained volunteers wielding weapons, going on people's property, hunting cougars with dogs.”
A Far-Right 'Constitutional Sheriff' Departs, but His Legacy May Endure - Bolts
Bob Songer, who claims sheriffs have supreme authority to decide what is constitutional, is retiring. Voters in his Washington county are showing appetite to turn the page—to a point.
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Carve this into your fucking BONES. It takes care and effort to call people out - it's WORK - and I for one don't enjoy pointless conflict with my friends & comrades. If I take the trouble to try to call you in, it's because I think you're worth the trouble.
McNutcase@mcnutcase.bsky.social · yesterdayOne thing that's really helped me deal better with callouts is remembering that getting called out is an indication that people think you're capable of doing better. If they didn't think that, they wouldn't be doing it.
Clara is a real person you can help, she is a Black trans woman in Venezuela and an awesome horror artist actually!! (She is also looking for work/commissions! I'll put some of her art here: bsky.app/profile/trop... )
clara from miranda@tropicalbeauty.blacksky.app · yesterdayStill trying to get at least $200 for medication, no luck yet, I hate that I gotta ask so much but it is a need that I can't fulfill in my situation, please help if you can, any amount of money helps
For those struggling with BlueSky's awful alt text bug, you can type the alt text in the body of the post and cut/paste into the alt text box, but make sure you do any needed editing before you do so, because you cannot sensibly edit alt text once you paste it without deleting and redoing it. <3
Sable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️⚧️@ghostlysable.bsky.social · yesterdayHi, @bsky.app, your alt text box no longer functions on mobile and you need to prioritize fixing that ASAP. The cursor does not appear in the correct place and inserts and deletes characters in unpredictable ways. Speech-to-text also does not register properly within the text box.
the fact that an intermediate CA in India that sells only into the Indian market, when compromised, can generate TLS certs for literally any website on the internet, that feels like a major trust boundary problem
Filippo Valsorda@filippo.abyssdomain.expert · yesterdayAfter the firefighting is done (and a nap) we'll need to have a long, serious conversation about the state of non-browser non-platform X.509 verifiers. The Linux status quo is "a pile of PEM files behind a dumpster" and that's not an acceptable excuse for a root store in 2026.
Tax the living fuck out of them.
Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦@kaicable.bsky.social · 2d agoInvestors buying unsold Toronto condos at 40% discount to original selling price, report finds. This tells us that developers are profiteering by massively overpricing the real value of real estate - with government support. #cdnpoli #canada #corruption #neoliberalism shorturl.at/Z7Msg
Hey, it’s the official release day for Seeing Like a Supply Chain! And of course I’m swamped with grading and lesson-planning, but maybe I can say a little about the book and the process of researching it. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Apex Magazine @apexmag.bsky.social is doing their annual Kickstarter and I urge everyone to back one of the genre's most constantly amazing magazines! BONUS: If you share this post you're in the running to receive a signed book from me. Details in thread. 1/ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2027
An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
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State DOTs control most of the deadliest city streets (including this one in Memphis), but they won’t fix them bc they don’t want to constrain speed or vehicle throughput. The funding issue is bogus IMO. State DOTs always find $$ for favored roadway expansions. Urban safety just isn’t a priority.
Greg Shill@gregshill.com · 3d agoEvery big paper has run a story like this in recent years. Why nothing changes: “The state can’t add more crosswalks, reduce the number of lanes or lower the speed limit on Union Avenue, all of which would take time and money,“ said the state DOT, which owns the road. 🔓: www.wsj.com/us-news/the-...