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Anyia, queer girl 🏳️⚧️
@anyia@lgbtqia.space
mastodon 4.7.2Trans girl, poly ace(???). Maker of things. Here for the therapy journal side, and sense of queer community. Does not take herself too seriously, and you probably shouldn't either.
Open to queer followers; unlikely to accept others.
Books(fantasy/scifi) / story-rich games / tech / human nature and commentary there on.
🐣: 2023-11-07
🧪: 2023-12-11
Syndication outside of the fediverse not consented to. No Meta, no BlueSky, no X.
#nobridge #nobot #noindex #nosearch #noai
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Joined October 29, 2023
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traumagenic? non-disordered median system?
In a sign of how the internet is going, /s has changed from meaning "smiles", to now meaning "sarcasm".
I kinda miss the times when it meant smiles.
Oh great, Open AI "accidentally" hacked Medicare down here, and all they're getting is a stern talking to.
I love sleeping with friends. The shared intimacy, the vulnerability, the trust. It feels like such a social bonding.
I don't love how "sleeping with" has been appropriated to always mean "having sex with", rather than its literal meaning.
It's always interesting to read the Ig Nobel updates: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/meet-the-2026-ig-nobel-prize-winners/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116488045155292546
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social oh yay, SpaceX dropping debris on /two/ celestial bodies now 🙄
I just spent a lot of time trouble-shooting why macos insisted I could only write 25GB to the new external blu ray writer. For some reason it wasn't recognising the disc as dual-layer / 50GB.
I finally realised that what I have is a 50-pack of 25GB discs 🤦♀️
15 years after I left WoW, I have now been recognised as a High Crafter on Curseforge for 1+ million downloads of my WoW addons 🙃
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@alice@lgbtqia.space all the pickers will out themselves with the glitter on their hand(s).... like money ink stain, only sparklier 🤭
swearing
Through my life i've learned how to make a lot of different things, but as the years go on I'm getting less and less certain how to make a living in this capitalistic world
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@JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw preeetty sure that was a Caterpillar reference, as in, heavy machinery. Though I could be mistaken.
@spinach@girlcock.club @kinsale42@mstdn.games
Earlyish night for me. G'nite fedi
I just finished reading Raymond E Feist's A Darkness Returns. I've been following the series since I first picked up Magician 26 years ago. I loved Magician, and the Empire trilogy was sooo good. There's been some ups and downs along the way, but I recall enjoying them as a whole. And Magician's End was... gutsy, to say the least.
Looking back, I should've stopped reading after that. It was a good finale. I've been powering through a chunk of my to-be-read shelf the last few weeks, and reading A Darkness Returns right on the heel of those others (Becky Chamber's Wayfarer series, Martha Wells' Murderbot vol1-3) made me realise I'm not really enjoying it. It felt... repetitive, and lacking in depth in motivation for the characters, them being more like tumbleweeds in the wind. I was going to say the female cast felt emotionally shallow, but on reflection that extends to the male cast too.
The completionist side in me may still decide to pick up the next book, but I think I'll be looking at an exit point now. It feels like these books no longer provide what I'm after.
Apparently I don't have much in the way of Cat-6 and Cat-6A cables. This is now in the process of being rectified, seeing as my otherwise trusty Cat-5E was having flapping issues on the 2.5GBps link
Playing the game of "what devices do I *really* need?" by disabling everything in kconfig and then selectively loading modules...
People insisting on opt-out rather than opt-in come across to me as not having learned the basic lesson of "don't make free with other people's stuff unless they've said it's okay", which I thought we all learnt forcefully in kinder or thereabouts, but evidently not 🤷♀️
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@JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw Is there such a thing as too much time in said crowd?
@spinach@girlcock.club @kinsale42@mstdn.games
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@revoluciana@chaosfem.tw does anyone have privilege then, by that reasoning? The men trapped by the patriarchy, forced to play the role of a modern "alpha" male? Just like us, they too have to suppress part of who they are, just to a lesser extent.
I moved through the world, where presenting male (if only weakly) made doors open that I'm far less sure they would these days. That was a privilege, as far as I see it, now that I finally see it. Privilege, albeit at a wretched cost.
Watching a slow-tv live stream, with the sun rising over a mirror smooth river in Sweden's north, with the early birds gently twittering. I think I feel home sick for a place that hasn't been home in over half my life.
Last night the bonfires would've been lit back in my old home country, for the Valborg celebrations. Or "Valborgsmässoafton" to use its full contemporary name - Valborg's mass eve. Aside from missing it, being on the southern hemisphere and all, it always gets me riled up over Christinanity's usurpation of the holiday. The official story is that it's came from Germany's Walpurgisnacht in the 1400s, the honouring of saint Walpurgis. Never mind how it falls on Beltaine, how Old Norse and Old English were lately interchangeable with frequent movement of people between britain and scandinavia. You cannot tell me this is a Christian holiday. I think what makes me the most sad is how its original name and meaning has been erased from the communal memory.
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@Hex what I never understood even the first time I heard of Roko's a great many years ago, is how anyone could take it serious. Let alone go along with it. Even on the assumption that it was real, it would make it an evil deity as far as I'm concerned, and grounds for going SG1 on it.
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@JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw The Throne of Glass series did that, but also so much more. It was a fun female power fantasy that I really enjoyed and found awfully refreshing even before I hatched (there were no signs) 🙃
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@AzulCrescent I don't think you're ever too old for young love. Sometimes someone just walks into your life and sweeps you up.
Sending you as much positive vibes as I can! May you find someone(s) who will take your breath away in the best way possible 💜
And I have to comment on your drawing too - it's utterly gorgeous!! You've taken this to the next level here.
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@keremgoart@mstdn.social That has to be one of the most encouraging things I've heard from a government. Normally it's all censorship this and that
RE: https://aus.social/@adavid/116629729070724146
I hadn't even heard about Fender going off the rails, but I agree this video was an apt response.
Later than intended, but finally got my flu shot done
Neat! My first 2.5Gbit link is now active! Now getting 927Mbps down, on a 1000Mbps plan. I am pleased.
I was a bit concerned this tiny little NanoPi R5C wasn't going to be capable of actually handling these speeds, but it's kicking along just fine. Yay, tech that makes me happy for a change!
LLMs be all "there are five lights" 🙄
Seems like we might not just be torturing the sand itself...
"The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It":
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16247
I see GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Bytespider and AmazonBot all in the tail of my access logs, lapping up poisoned data. {villain voice} eeeeexcelllllent! {/villain voice}
Zach's been fedi again, eh?
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fur
The last however long has been a lot. Like a lot a lot. Is it really too much to ask for a bit of a breather? 😩
This test is 100% crazy, but I'd still place it in the fun zone 🙃
Now the race to cram earth's orbit really heats up: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/china-recovered-its-first-reusable-rocket-and-showed-a-new-way-to-do-it/
(I'm sorry, @sundogplanets@mastodon.social )
I shall not reinstall WoW. I shall not reinstall WoW... 
Started out with a pretty good hair and face day. Then I had my PRF session, and now I'm feeling quite the opposite. At least there's a legitimate reason...
If I'd told teenage me that I'd be downloading 2TB of games in less than 24h, I would not have believed that. Yet here we are. GOG games backup in progress. Now if only I could afford to replace the disk space this will use up...