Ambrose Verdigris

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Formerly [email protected]. Header & avatar are my own photos.

Variously queer & trans. Neurodiverse. Contains unfiltered disabilities.

Yes, I’m a dragon. No, not physically—but that’s the least important aspect.

I’m also a Jew. Sometimes I talk about Judaism.

GenderDragon
PronounsThey/them
Ambrose VerdigrisFeb 20
Minor PSA: Items with a CW including "gripe" are where I manage emotions when I'm struggling with a task. Suggestions to fix the actual problem are welcome!
Ambrose VerdigrisFeb 20

I'm getting really tired of recipes that only give instructions for a stand mixer. If you, recipe-sharer, have one? I'm happy for you. But unless you're doing fancy molecular gastronomy, the basic type of cooking was done before power tools. The rest of us need to know some qualitative information.

How should the mixture feel in the hand/to the spoon? Does a particular texture change have a meaning? Does one of those signal an 'overdone' point? And so on.

Ambrose VerdigrisFeb 20
mhoyeFeb 20
Once you realize it’s not “age verification”, but actually “identity verification”, then it’s easy to understand that the real goal is “papers, please” for the entire internet.
Ambrose VerdigrisFeb 20
foundseedFeb 20

NO. If you don't already have one, you DON'T need to go get a gun.

What you really really need to do?
-de-escalation training
-First aid training
-Gunshot wound first aid specifically
-unarmed self defense, pick any
-gun disarmament training
-gun use training with multiple types of firearm

But that sounds hard and unsexy and responsible so let's just talk about possible shootout scenarios that will never happen/s

Ambrose VerdigrisFeb 20
brettezeleliquideFeb 16

Le langage est un ensemble de citations

Jorge Luis Borges (Le livre de Sable, trad. Françoise-Marie Rosset, p.106) / Dublin, Ireland, ca. 1957 – by Leonard McCombe (1923 – 2015), American
#philosophy #quote #caturday #cats #photography #Ireland #books

Ambrose VerdigrisFeb 20
tefFeb 20

it is funny to me that on one side of the argument, the extreme view is "we are creating the antichrist and the machine god slave will herald in a new society"

and on the other side, the views that get labeled as extreme are things like "i don't want to use it, it gives me the ick"

Ambrose VerdigrisFeb 20
Clueless by SamFeb 19
My "No, your use-case does not negate all of the horrifying externalities" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt
Ambrose VerdigrisFeb 20
aldroidiaFeb 19

"I had just finished painting an Australian musician when I realised I had forgotten to include his instrument."

"Didgeridoo?"

"Nah, I just painted it over the top."

Ambrose VerdigrisFeb 20
CeruleanFeb 20

A member of my extended family is working on an Android app designed to provide good audio access to Project Gutenberg. To submit it to the Google Play store, he needs at least 20 testers to use the app regularly for 14 days. Testers can be blind or sighted, and both are wanted so their experiences can be compared. I promised to post about it here because blind users and champions of accessibility seem well-represented on the Fediverse, so please spread it around.

If you are interested in volunteering to test the app, which he hopes to have ready for you in about a week, email Frank:
[email protected]

Here is a link to the project's github space with a README section: https://github.com/ducrestfd/GutenbergWebAccess

#blind #accessibility

GitHub - ducrestfd/GutenbergWebAccess: The app offers simple access to Project Gutenberg for blind or sighted persons.

The app offers simple access to Project Gutenberg for blind or sighted persons. - ducrestfd/GutenbergWebAccess

GitHub
Ambrose VerdigrisFeb 20
grmpyprogrammerFeb 19
I am not the first person to point out that a “Luddite” isn’t someone who hates tech — they hated the EXPLOITATION OF PEOPLE by capital through the use of tech. Too many of my peers are on the wrong side of that and a lot of us are watching and making notes and will remember.