Good birdsite thread on the power waste of bitcoin: https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1350869944888664064?s=21
Just a privacy reminder that instead of using #Google Translate, that you can use Deepl.com
It's not perfect, it's still a private company and isn't open source, but its translations are comparable and privacy-wise it's drastically better than using the Google panopticon.
Enjoy!
that being said my Biggest advice for figuring out if u have adhd, which isn't even really advice for figuring out whether you have it but is instead for figuring out whether you should DO something about having it: ask urself if it hurts you. have you failed classes bc you couldn't do homework. have you been fired for being late. does your stuff get damaged bc u can't put it away. do relationships suffer bc u forget things/interrupt people/get very upset easily/etc.
linguistics opinionated opinion, sign languages
Since we’re bashing linguistics today:
The more I learn about linguistics the more baffled I become that "at least one sign language" isn't a mandatory subject for all linguists from, like, undergrad year 1, and all skill paths like phon/phon, morphology, prag etc. aren't studied from the start using both sign and voice as first-class objects of study for contrast and comparison.
I mean I maintain that
widespread acquisition of sign languages by children of the general population – the way Australian Aboriginal and other peoples did it – would have a ton of advantages not just for inclusion, which would already be worthy the effort ofc, but for everybody else too; but, come on, us linguists? There's 2 fundamental types of human language and we base all our models and conclusions on 1?
It's as if you're training chemists and on first semester somebody briefly flashes them a periodic table for a minute and says "yeah so there are 3 types of elements, metals, metalloids and nonmetals. From now on we're going to focus on metals." And most of them, for their whole career, never think about silicon or sulphur again. They try to learn everything about bonding and reactions and molecule structure etc. using metals as the sole subject 99% of the time. Sometimes somebody who took the 8th-semester optional subject "General Introduction to the Most Common Nonmetal In This Area I" (where they do a crash run over reactions, molecules etc. now with 1 single nonmetal added into the mix) will point out "oh, actually hydrogen does not behave like that", then everybody else gets annoyed at this arrogant interrupty person who keeps bringing these weird nonmetal complications into the stuff they're already finding it hard to follow with metals only.
Putting my effort where my mouth is and my hand will soon be: anybody wants to learn Deutsche Gebärdensprache with me please send a note, I'm serious o/ maybe we could start with fingerspelling over jitsi or s/t :)
#art #mastoart
The last commission I did from last year...were these illustrations for a children's book! I worked with @/JessGunnAuthor from Twitter, and she wrote the story. Click the Behance link to see more pics! :)
https://www.behance.net/gallery/107368917/Blaze-and-the-Iridescent-Flames-A-Childrens-Book
friendly reminder that:
- you do not need to think someone is the scum of the earth to block them or mute them
- being blocked or muted does not mean you are a bad person in any way shape or form
- you have a right to surround yourself with people you enjoy, indeed, you have a right to happiness
- people liking you doesn't mean you are a good person
- you liking something or someone doesn't mean that that thing is good
it is a misconception I think a lot of people hold, and it's not truth.
one final thing before i move on, i havent seen it yet but mocking Biden's stutter is ableist. he might be a lot of things and criticism is necessary for them but he won't ever hear you mocking his stutter
your friends who stutter (this includes me, there's a reason i don't speak aloud much) will hear that shit tho. if you're okay with looking your friends in the eye and explaining to them why their stutter impacts their morality then i mean by all means go ahead but otherwise fuck off
four years of fat jokes about trump never touched him but it sure did ruin the entire psyche of fat people being made to feel subhuman, unlovable, and inherently of lesser morals in a society that already actively does this on all levels of our lives.
break your habit of criticizing appearance and ability because otherwise i'm forced to assume you're just a hateful white noise machine, just here to fill in the background gaps with no comprehension of the topics at hand.
tech, indentation wars, accessibility
poll for Black people, boost ++
Poll meant at Black fedi users (newcomers and elders).
Would you be interested in joining a Black-only Masto instance* where older Fedi users could volunteer to give ✌🏾 trainings✌🏾 about online antiblack behavior, how to detect avoid/defend from them, sharing experiences + more general admin/moderation advice for people who would like to run Black/Indigenous instances?
*The instance would be completely defederated from the whole Fediverse, at least for the first weeks/months of its existence.
Mornington Nomic (a Make-As-You-Play game set on the London Underground) has now been updated to version 6!
https://averylychee.neocities.org/mornington-nomic/
money (-), help needed
Hey, I'm a disabled queer person who doesn't have a stable source of income. I try to do emoji commissions when I can but I really haven't had the capacity to finish the commissions I have or take more on atm and I'm really running out of money to pay for food and bills. If you could help that would be really appreciated:
https://paypal.me/mutantstandard
(thank you so much in advance)
Mutual aid request, trans woman in financial trouble, please boost
Hey, there’s this woman I follow on Twitter who lost her job because of covid and her state decided that she shouldn’t have had unemployment benefits and asks for her to repay all of it, which she can’t really do. Please help her if you can: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-katie-manage-her-unemployment-overpayment
did the ace attorney fans on here already see this? probably.. but it’s not worth the risk of them NOT seeing it..
• ⚠ if i ever say/do something bad (by any measure) then PLEASE tell me so i can fix it and not do it again ⚠
• you literally cannot hurt/annoy/bore me with your dm/mention that is a *challenge*
• not very good at deeper/double/hidden meanings though (puns/jokes are okay) so if you wanna be understood i gently recommend not
• idk why you'd wanna draw my mashup of 3 copyrighted characters but it's not forbidden
• unfortunately immune to transformations, trying to get that checked out
• #yesbot
• white, amab, probably not trans (def not a girl), singular, relatively human-esque, overall (and additionally) p boring
• don't seem to care about politic even though it's Pretty Darn Important
• tech
• asperger's
• ace if it involves The Real World™, cringe if it involves me, otherwise see my 500-page list of kinks (coming soon™)
• quoiromantic (what is love)
• furry as in "i like the aminals,," but not as in community (how do community anyway)
• vaguely wanna be an aminal but would not be good at it probably
• languages: english, polski, toki pono or whatever it is
• 🇵🇱
• not a representative sample of any of the above
• observer/lurker/janitor
• not particularly serious ever
• resident pushover
• rules for me but not for thee
• a very wide definition of "bothering people"
• on the dunning-kruger peak of many things
• not good at double meanings
• not good at forming opinions
• not social, which is a very good quality on a social medium
• shallow
awesome pfp by the even awesomer @ElectricLizardFren#7243@discord.com (full: https://files.catbox.moe/dxup8r.png)
matrix (sorta good): @sobsz:matrix.org
discord (sorta not good): @zsboS#8977