Tully

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Purveyor of inopportune misfortunes. Unapologetically queer.

I've given up on defining "gender", but can confidently say that whatever you think mine is, it's not that.

My happy place is where I art and engineer at the same time.

Follow requests welcome. Empty profiles, fash, obvious bots, & exclus/truscum will be ignored.

Avatar description: a drawing of me in profile, in front of bi and nonbinary pride flags. Artwork by Sascha Viktor.

Pronounshe/him or they/them
Stuff I am:nonbinary_flag: nonbinary | :bisexual_triangles: bi | :polyamory_flag: poly | ♾️ autistic
Stuff I do:arcade_stick: videogames | 🧑🏼‍🎤 singing | :crt_w_prompt: coding | :d20: TTRPGs
Stuff I love learning about🛰️ space | 🔭 astrophysics | 🔬quantum mechanics (all the "weird" science, lol) | 💻 low level hardware stuff
TullyJan 11, 2023
Riker GooglingJan 11, 2023
which ninja turtle used bat'leth
Show threadTullyJan 11, 2023
One of many things I will proudly die mad about
TullyJan 11, 2023
"Convection oven" is a confusing name because who the hell calls it "forced convection"? It's just a fan, bro. Just call your oven "fan forced" like everyone else does.
TullyJan 11, 2023

So, The Oatmeal's random comic generator threw this at me.

I lol'd.

TullyJan 11, 2023
KaCi Jan 11, 2023
One reason why many Allistics have a problem with Autistic people, who "don't look autistic" and call themselves disabled, is their thinking pattern of hierarchy and competition. We are "too different" and "too similar" at the same time. They don't want to support someone, who might be even "better" in any aspect than they are. In their view only people who are lower in their idea of hierarchy, who for sure can't be serious competitors are allowed to call themselves disabled and be supported.
#ActuallyAutistic
@actuallyautistic
TullyJan 11, 2023
liffy 💜Jan 11, 2023
reminder: "4K Ultra HD" is pronounced "fork ultra head"
TullyJan 11, 2023
Jeremiah LeeJan 10, 2023

Native technologists call for the Apache® Software Foundation to change its name.

https://blog.nativesintech.org/apache-appropriation/

I am not Indigenous, but I join their request in allyship.

#ASF #NativesInTech #software #programming #openSource

Apache® Appropriation

It is not uncommon to learn about non-Indigenous entities appropriating Indigenous culture but none of them are as large, prestigious, nor well-known as The Apache® Software Foundation is in software circles.

Natives in Tech Blog
TullyJan 11, 2023
ManonJan 10, 2023

@AutisticAdam @actuallyautistic
I think we have a very beautiful sense of authority. It has to be earned and lived, independent of social status. It goes along with integrity and fairness. It takes critique as a chance for improvement.

Allistics‘ understanding of authority based on social status, being upheld by believers and followers, is just vanity.

TullyJan 11, 2023
Hannah Kolbeck 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 11, 2023

It's really unfortunate that today is the first time I heard the idea (from @todd) that things like #ChatGPT should be thought of more as an index than a source of facts. As he pointed out, half of being good at computers is knowing which index to use.

The primary issue then is that most people are not good at computers (or well, indexing) 😬

TullyJan 11, 2023
Michael W Lucas Jan 10, 2023

Dear fellow techies:

If you have a great idea for a fediverse tool, and it's amazing that nobody's done it yet... ask around. Especially ask PoC and LGBT folks.

There might be very good reasons it hasn't been done yet.

Or--it might have been done already, multiple times, and raised a storm of protests that drove each developer into shelter. You don't want to be that person.

The fedi needs tools! The fedi needs activitypub hackers! Don't waste your time writing code nobody wants, work with the community.

Hint: we don't want indexers or search engines.