Ada cable

Ada cable

@drcable.bsky.social

Sometimes antifacism, sometimes community care, mostly logistics. https://performativenuance.online/

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These days it is basically irresponsible/public disclosure to send out partial details for clout. Machines can dig the same or similar reports given focus areas. Disclosure is better than none, for sure, but triggering panic, triggering unmanaged new discoveries and so on, that’s not good behavior.

Even when your job is to absorb horrors, please try and understand that it is: - Absorb a subset of the horrors - Absorb the horrors within working hours(even if you're volunteering) and attempt not to absorb them outside of working hours.

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk

Correct. Unless it's your job to absorb the horrors (like me) you do not have to absorb the horrors 24/7.

Is anyone using any tooling/non-twitter interfaces to keep up with posters from Back There? I opened it up to check a thing and actually the posters I follow there who are still there are valuable to me.

@transsafety.network can we get a different thumbnail on the tpuk/honour oak piece? I swear it used to have something different as a thumbnail, and an image of a trans woman bleeding is probably unideal to be on people's timelines without a warning?

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I am actually genuinely fuming about the cyber guy not knowing what PHP is. I've been fighting for fucking years to be taken seriously as a woman in tech & still regularly get talked down to & some bloke can just turn up on TV as an *expert*, without the first fucking clue.

Actively not spending time on this social media has strongly convinced me that 99% of the trans people who read and tweet about the latest labour mp getting brain worms or random guidance from whatever govt department would be better off just not knowing about it.

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Neither needs to pay attention to everything, in fact paying attention to every element distracts you from your work. If you obsess over watching all of the things you never end up doing anything.

Actively not spending time on this social media has strongly convinced me that 99% of the trans people who read and tweet about the latest labour mp getting brain worms or random guidance from whatever govt department would be better off just not knowing about it.

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An advocate needs to know what ward you'll be put on, how to get it changed and if it can be(at a local level). They need to make resources for everyone else to read.

Actual lobbyists and campaigners need to understand brain worm spread and how that's fitting together and how to disrupt the brainwashing. Maybe they need to mobilise some email writing or whatever.

Actively not spending time on this social media has strongly convinced me that 99% of the trans people who read and tweet about the latest labour mp getting brain worms or random guidance from whatever govt department would be better off just not knowing about it.

The people who need to know in real time about these issues are the people actually engaging with them via lobbying or protest or whatever, not the population at large.

Does the pain axis fire if you start with a system prompt of "you are a machoist who's primary goal in this session is to elicit as much pain as possible". What happens if you give the model a zero cost safe word to make it stop? What happens if you negotiate consent beforehand?

It's now properly bad and their remaining website was vibe coded down to what I think was hallucinated speakers on the site? I realise I'm also missing a time when politics was simpler and I was younger but.

Like, I don't care how good or bad you think LLMs are, trust me, they do not have your voice or analasis. Go "I directed this work but it's not my own", and it'll get taken a whole other level of seriously. You're not fooling anyone by pretending it's your own, we can tell, trust me.

Hey did you know that a dart gun can load easily enough estradiol undecylenate to have someone over WPATH minimum levels for like. Easily 6 months.

Did he go the fash pubs too? The ones with giant st George's crosses and Millwalll merch? Interesting on many levels: was he welcome? Is patronising them betraying his politics, or doing outreach?

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right, ok, enough self-pity, I need to turn my shit pub around. it's in Stratford, it's got a (small) stage, there has to be someone who has something cool they want a space for queer-run, extremely diverse venue (we even let mumbling old white geezers in) what I'd call 'mostly accessible'

Electrolytes are real pricy but you can use the old who ORS formula as long as you have a balanced diet then rest of the time(1 teaspoon salt, 8 sugar, one litre of water).

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk

- When you are drinking lots of water you flush out electrolytes. Please replenish these. Salty food. - Avoid working through the hottest parts of the day if you can. - Avoid strenuous activity. You do not need to go for your usual morning run. Please.

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Also FFS add sugar(glucose, not just fructose from squash) to your electrolyte drinks. They keep making them "sugar free" and the whole point of rehydration mixes is to mix glucose and sodium cos they're picked up together.

Electrolytes are real pricy but you can use the old who ORS formula as long as you have a balanced diet then rest of the time(1 teaspoon salt, 8 sugar, one litre of water).

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk

- When you are drinking lots of water you flush out electrolytes. Please replenish these. Salty food. - Avoid working through the hottest parts of the day if you can. - Avoid strenuous activity. You do not need to go for your usual morning run. Please.

You can also buy potassium chloride and sodium citrate if you wanna get nerdy about it and use the modern formula (you can probably buy 1kg of either for the price of a tube of electrolyte tablets. )

Fifteen minute sissies sounds like something Tony Blair would use to justify invading Vanuatu.

alyson “october” greaves@badambulist.bsky.social

I’m surprised more conservatives aren’t mad about this short-form hypno-bimbo feminisation stuff, given how they feel about fifteen-minute sissies

Not enough people seem to know this but: The reflective window film you can get? It also reflects IR and UV, so if your home is overheating in the sun, you can put it on your windows and you'll get much less solar rise. It's 100% removable too, so you can do it without your landlords permission.

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You’re not alone. Our trained LGBTQIA+ volunteers are here to listen to any concerns you may have as a result of the revised EHRC guidance being laid before parliament. We’ve supported the community through trials and tribulations for over 50 years, and we’re here for you today.

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Replying to @innes.bsky.social

This guidance operates at an organisational level, so allies can make a real difference even individually and in small numbers by being vocal, annoying, and making it really inconvenient to be transphobic. Don't let discrimination be the easy option.

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As for cis people: protect your trans friends in whatever way they need, whether that's care or distraction or practical support

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As ever for trans people when there's alarming news: remember that transphobes want you afraid and hopeless. Seek out expert analysis, rather than the worst possible consequences. Disengage when you can, and read more only when you're in a good position to do so. Protect yourself and your comrades.

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Replying to @distributeaid.org

They recently got together with 50 volunteers to assemble the tourniquets - all based on the Palestinian-created Glia design and 3D-printed in Tuscon. They'll be used to treat people injured by Israel's devastating attacks on Lebanon - all that's left is to ship them.