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skye

@skye@toot.cat

hello, i’m skye. i’m a bad crip, segfault summoner, race traitor, sleep enthusiast, and a hopeless optimist.

if you followed me because you liked one of my posts, i’m sorry.

disabled, sick, poor, white, trans, tired, under 40, german. i like to do music and writing. spiders love me.

I believe in: Black liberation, Land Back, sex worker rights, fat love, anti-psychiatry, disability justice, climate justice, environmental restoration, police abolition, a better future for all of us.

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ireneista , to random
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so you remember Neuralink, the brain implant that we can't really call experimental because there doesn't seem to have been any sort of, like, science going on? with the lab that was investigated for animal cruelty?

skye ,
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@ireneista hahaha 200 times compression? in real time, on low power? i am not a computer scientist but looks at every file i have ever compressed no

skye , to random German
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some of you need to learn the difference between “a yacht” and “a sailing yacht”. i thought environmentally friendly hobbies and modes of transportation is something we wanted people to have. but suddenly you’re all gleeful about people ending up in a very dangerous situation because their sailboat got sunk 😒​

skye OP ,
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for the more visual people among you.

first image: the type of boat you think about when you read “yacht”. very expensive, exceedingly wasteful and dirty, a menace for marine creatures big and small, and incidentally also completely unaffected by medium sized whales

second image: the type of boat that these orcas like to sink. also happens to embody the most environmentally friendly way to travel on the ocean

hope this clears up some of the confusion because it’s starting to get on my nerves

a sailing yacht that is basically just a little wedge of a boat with an enormous sail, clearly a contraption intended for sports.

18+ skye , to random German
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Since this is unfortunately not common knowledge yet, let’s spread some information. Here is the guide for what to do when someone is having a tonic-clonic seizure, as described by Epilepsy Action:

• Protect them from injury (remove harmful objects from nearby)
• Cushion their head
• Look for an epilepsy identity card or identity jewellery – it may give you information about their seizures and what to do
• Time how long the seizure lasts
• Once the jerking has stopped, help their breathing by gently placing them in the recovery position (see below)
• Stay with them until they are fully recovered
• Be calm and reassuring

Call for an ambulance if any of these things apply:

• You know it is their first seizure
• The seizure lasts for more than five minutes
• They have one tonic-clonic seizure after another without regaining consciousness between seizures
• They are seriously injured during the seizure
• They have trouble breathing after the seizure has stopped

18+ skye OP ,
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Here’s a pretty little picture that you can save for bad times or send to all your friends

Infrographic by Young Epilepsy. Headline: Seizure first aid. Point 1: Time the seizure. Time the duration of the seizure. Let the seizure run its course. Point 2: Keep the person away from hazards. Move any hazards out of the way. Cushion their head. Make sure nothing hinders their breathing. Guide them away from danger (local seizures). Point 3: Don’t restrict their movements. Don’t restrain them. Don’t put anything in their mouth. Point 4: Stay with them. Reassure them. Stay with them until they have fully recovered. After the seizure, put them in the recovery position (if they are on the floor). Point 5: Make a record of what happened. Include what happened before, during and after the seizure. Point 6: Call 999 or an ambulance if they have never had a seizure before, they are not breathing or are blue around the lips, the seizure lasts more than 5 minutes, they are not responding after the seizure has stopped, they have sustained an injury during the seizure.
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    skye , to random German
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    twitter used to be like: aww, i put all this work into this post and it only received 230 retweets, i don’t know why i bother

    fedi is like: oh no, this post received 36 boosts, people in my real life will probably end up talking to me about it, i am scared

    skye OP ,
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    @BeAware it’s really different when the social media you use is full of real people that are relevant to your life lol

    skye , to random German
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    i hate that german wikipedia has a different layout than english wikipedia

    skye OP ,
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    german wikipedia: good, practical, looks the way that wikipedia has always looked, i know what to do here, yes this is wikipedia

    english wikipedia: ugly, too much whitespace, i always have to search for where the index went because it’s in the space that i have learned to ignore because that’s where 99% of websites place only ads and sponsored content

    but then i train myself to use the layout from english wikipedia and then i end up on german wikipedia again and then i am AGAIN having to figure out where the index went

    skye OP ,
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    the way that the internet has trained me to ignore ads and sponsored content is impacting my ability to parse legitimate content on honest websites a lot, actually.

    like for example, a lot of wikis place important tips in a little highlighted box.

    little highlighted boxes is something i specifically ignore, because that’s an ad.

    earlier today i ended up on a blog. i could not find the content. the top bar had categories. i clicked on the category i wanted. a descriptive text was all i could see. i could not find any links to entries in the category.

    because my brain completely refused to interpret the big fucking fat boxes with pictures on both sides of the descriptive text as relevant information. that’s where ads and clickbait go.

    i feel like the people who design honest, non-exploitative websites should take these kinds of problems into consideration more strongly

    autisticbookshop , to ActuallyAutistic group
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    Here’s a challenge for all of you this month! How many of you have read books by autistic authors/containing autistic leads? Which of those books have you loved?

    @bookstodon
    @actuallyautistic

    #ActuallyAutistic

    skye ,
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    @autisticbookshop @bookstodon @actuallyautistic On The Edge of Gone!!! only book ever that had me crying my eyes out from the first page on, 5 stars, no notes

    skye , to random German
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    fedi must look wild today for the people who aren’t Into Computers

    skye OP ,
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    for those of you who are like “what the hell are the computer people going on about today”:

    a small package that is widely used, including by the linux kernel itself, got a backdoor put in that would allow any interested parties access to affected systems. this backdoor was added by the maintainer of the package who took over from the overwhelmed previous maintainer. the backdoor that we know about is restricted in what systems it can affect and it did not make its way into stable releases. your ubuntu laptop is fine.

    but if this had gone undetected and they had added additional functionality, basically every linux system everywhere might have been made vulnerable (this includes all android phones, most routers, many vacuum cleaners, all kinds of servers and internet infrastructure, and more).

    it probably has not gotten that far (TBD, but it’s looking like it got caught early enough) but everyone is adequately terrified because it got discovered completely by accident.

    foone , to random
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    It's kinda depressing how tumblr is imploding now and I'm seeing half my follow list go "man, after seeing both twitter and tumblr do this, it's really showing how it's a bad idea for a social media network to be run by a company who can make arbitrary changes without user consent.

    anyway, here's my bsky: ..."

    skye ,
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    @hosford42 @zanagb @iykury @foone @mcc this is mostly a legal problem. lolicon is not illegal in japan but very much so in europe, and federating with a server usually means copying some of their data onto yours - so you effectively end up hosting illegal content if you federate with japanese servers, unless these servers explicitly ban and actively moderate against content that is legal in their country. so, the traditional solution for fedi servers from the us and europe is to defederate from all of japan

    skye ,
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    @hosford42 @zanagb @iykury @foone @mcc if it was about the moral issue, then blocking single users would be a feasible solution in some cases. but it’s not. it’s about admins not wanting to go to jail on csam charges. hence the drastic action being pretty much universally implemented by fedi servers in western countries.

    SingsongRaptor , to random
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    Hey fam, where do ya'll publish your work online? I'm not sure I'll publish traditionally, and I'm not sure about patreon, so I'm looking for other options that would also allow people to support my work

    skye ,
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    @SingsongRaptor i’ve bought some stuff from ko-fi

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