aekis @aekis@chaos.social
Nonbinary queer person. #3dprinting, #electronics, #woodworking, #metalworking. Pronouns: [en] they, [de] beliebig
I made & lapped a bench block last week and here is the video on the project:
I'm a nonbinary queer person from Germany. I do stuff with #3dprinting, #electronics, #woodworking and since recently #metalworking. Other interests of mine are feminism, queerness and inclusive communities.
I love reading about other people's lives and thoughts. But interacting with them consumes a lot of energy - often more than I have. So don't be surprised if I won't do it that much :)
Happy Pride Month to all of you, especially if you can't wave your flag or haven't found it yet.
“If you want to make a safe place to create... you have to start by making the most vulnerable people safe first. So you have to take the people who have been most marginalized, most pushed away from conventional tech and say ‘you are going to be at the center of this, you’re going to be the first people we reach out to, to say does this work for you? Does this meet your needs?’”
—Anil Dash on CodeNewbie podcast
https://www.codenewbie.org/podcast/from-tech-blogger-to-fog-creek-ceo
New #introductions post for pinning!
Hi! Name's Robyn. Queer ace bunny and proud weirdo at your service.
I like all things creepy (dolls!!), gothic and elegant.
Most of my time goes into playing MMO's like #GW2 or #FFXIV but I also draw (digitally) and make music, mostly dark and gloomy stuff that fits my Gothic Aesthetic™.
I also like tinkering with #vocaloid
♦ Music example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4OimPGk9nw
♦ Art examples:
Cheap roomba!
I made & lapped a bench block last week and here is the video on the project:
I made & lapped a bench block last week and here is the video on the project:
strategic blocking n muting is good for ur MH. dont be shy about it
Done! Very pleased with how this turned out :)
Now I "just" have to edit down ~30GB of videofiles into a video about it :D
Nearly done. This is turing out to work better than I thought!
Getting there!
You have no idea how the person will react. Yes, for the person in the twitter thread it turned out to be helpful. For me the mental impact of that would probably be along the lines of someone breaking into my apartment. And I know that it would be absolutely horrifying to a lot of other people too.
You just can't know that you won't just inflict much more damage. So please, don't. Ask for consent. Explicit, informed consent. Beforehand. You need to respect people with mh issues. Thanks. 2/2
Since this twitter thread about a person's friends showing up unsolicited at her apartment unpacking boxes for her when she was unable to do so due to mh got shared into my timeline here:
(https://twitter.com/sheilakathleen/status/1005116845240848385)
Please never ever do something like this without asking for explicit consent beforehand.
A group of people I thought I could trust showing up at my home without my knowledge, ignoring my protest, ripping open all my personal stuff? That's one of the worst nightmares I can imagine. 1/2
So many communities are held together with the strength of basically one person making all the invitations and remembering everyone's hobbies and taking the time to talk to new people
& that one person n e v e r gets the credit they should bc people don't recognize emotional labor as work
I wrote a prototype that analyzes natural language in English and German with https://spacy.io/ and translates it into SPARQL queries to Wikidata. It's incredibly primitive, but looks promising so far.
Examples:
$ python3 nlqa.py --question="Was ist die Hauptstadt von Angola?" --language=de
$ Luanda
$ python3 nlqa.py --question="What is Estonia's national currency?" --language=en
$ Euro
old computer + hi-girl amplifier cranked to about 20x the normal volume + photoshop = you can hear the size of the convolution kernel !!!!
Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
I wonder what effect it would have on the world if we changed primary-education classrooms to put zero stigma on saying "I don't know" or giving a wrong answer.
