Jessica Nell

@JessicaNellH
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PronounsShe/Her
HobbiesElder Scrolls Online addict! MotoGP. Love exploring the country with my partner.
WorkIT Manager

Anyone else noticed that deadnaming and misgendering incidents are getting more common from cis family and colleagues?

Another one this evening, a colleague deadnaming me on email out of the blue.

“I’m going to be late”
– mundane
– overused
– sounds like it’s your fault

“The cold and unfeeling machinations of fate have once more thrown my plans into disarray”
– mysterious
– implies some kind of impending doom
– sounds like the start of a villainous monologue

I was in a meeting yesterday with a potential system vendor, and the sales chap ignored me more than once, and at one point repeated what I'd just said as if I'd never spoken.

Interesting sales strategy, and one that's failed.

Ok, so there is much discussion about the alt text on pictures. My mom is legally blind. As she has gotten older her sight is almost gone. She LIVES on the computer and to say she gets excited when special attention is paid for the blind is a great understatement. Please use alt text and describe the pictures you post. Describe it as if you had your eyes closed and the only link to the outside world is what a kind soul took an extra 5 minutes to type. Come on, do it, make someone’s day.#AltText

Four years after being referred to a GIC I picked up my first NHS prescription today.

#trans

This should be boosted everywhere. The BBC is in breach of its charter requirement for impartiality and has been for decades now.
#Bylines #BBCQT
#FionaBruce - stick to antiques!
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/an-open-letter-to-the-bbc/
An open letter to the BBC

Dr Russell Jackson, senior lecturer in communication and public relations at Sheffield Hallam University, writes to the BBC about Question Time

Yorkshire Bylines | Powerful Citizen Journalism
Here's a wonderful piece of street art
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram explores the broader picture of what's going on inside ChatGPT and why it produces meaningful text. Discusses models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language syntax.