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elmyra

@elmyra@wandering.shop

Rogue scholar, warrior poet; #trans, #bi, #ace, #queer af; #migrant; #disabled/, #adhd; they/them.

I care (toot/boost) about #socialjustice, #disability, #mecfs, #adhd, #plants, #crafting, #videogames, #scifi, #popularculture, #transrights, #consent, #climatejustice, #fandom, #fanfiction.

The personal is political.

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SallyStrange, to scifi
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10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:

Ursula Le Guin
Kim Stanley Robinson
Octavia Butler
N. K. Jemisin
Becky Chambers
Iain M. Banks
Martha Wells
M. R. Carey
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vonda McIntyre

#scifi #ScienceFiction #SFF #books

#10Authors5BooksEach
@bookstodon

elmyra,
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@SallyStrange @bookstodon

10 authors marginalised on at least one axis of whose books I have read at least 5 and am broadly happy recommending:

Neon Yang
Martha Wells
N. K. Jemisin
Alix E. Harrow
T. Kingfisher
Charles Stross
Alexis Hall
Naomi Novik
Ursula K. LeGuin
Yoon Ha Lee

elmyra,
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@SallyStrange @bookstodon I find Novik a little hit and miss but Spinning Silver is very good and the Scholomance series is a good effort at the genre my friend calls "screw you jk rowling". Yoon Ha Lee is superb.

elmyra, to random
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Anarchist accounts, I really need you to start using alt text.

Aleenaa, to art
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Boring classes actually bring out the artist in you 🥰

@mastodonindians

elmyra,
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@Aleenaa @mastodonindians this is wonderful

cstross, to random
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Plotting the curve of increasing home broadband speeds I've had since I first got cable in 1998, I expect this to be the speed of my home hook-up some time around 2040. I wonder what I could use it for …?
https://social.edu.nl/@SURF/112274114167483854

elmyra,
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@cstross transferring data from your home particle accelerator, obviously.

mcc, to random
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When I think about the security of a computer system, I have a specific scale I rate it on:

  1. The US government can crack it OR the government of China can crack it (equivalent)
  2. The government of Israel can crack it
  3. My friend Kristin could crack it
  4. The government of Russia can crack it
  5. A nation-state not listed above can crack it
  6. A well-qualified single infosec professional could crack it
  7. I could crack it
elmyra,
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@mcc @inthehands @dangillmor your friend Kristin sounds awesome

tomkindlon, to mecfs
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Full text published today:

Longitudinal cytokine and multi-modal health data of an extremely severe ME/CFS patient with HSD reveals insights into immunopathology, and disease severity

Free:
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/immunology/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2024.1369295/full

Funded by the Open Medicine Foundation

@mecfs

1/

elmyra,
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@tomkindlon @mecfs oh good I fall into severe. (thought I was moderate)

NickEast, to scifi
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I didn't realise this was a thing, do people really think Mary Shelly wasn't the first SciFi author? 🤔

@sciencefiction @writers @writingcommunity @writing


elmyra,
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@NickEast @sciencefiction @writers @writingcommunity @writing even before that there were a bunch of utopias written by women that somehow also "don't count".

britt, to random
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I’ve started using Speechify again and I’m really finding it useful for reading textbooks/long PDFs that I wouldn’t be able to otherwise.

It was created by someone with dyslexia, and the service has grown a lot over the last 3 years that I’ve used it. It’s also designed for us ADHD folks.

If you are neurodivergent like me and need support with reading, I highly recommend checking it out.

Here is my referral link, it provides you with $60 off the yearly sub: https://share.speechify.com/mz7PSRj

elmyra,
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@britt thank you for this prompt. I can't afford the speechify sub right now but I have finally sorted out the Android default text to speech on my phone.

elmyra, to disability
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folks, can you point me at some reading on power dynamics in care/caring relationships please?
@mecfs

gerrymcgovern, to random
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Degrowth is the only hope

Imagine a world where you work three or four days a week. In your free time, you play sports, spend time with loved ones, garden, and engage with local politics. Overnight shipping, advertising, private jets, billionaires and SUVs no longer exist, but health care, education, and clean electricity are free and available to all.

We must massively reduce our energy and material consumption to have any hope of saving our environment.

https://grist.org/looking-forward/the-growing-popularity-of-degrowth/

elmyra,
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@gerrymcgovern I want to see degrowth supporters set out visions for how we will support the most vulnerable in our society. This piece is pitched to the middle classes (and I do understand the need to appease the middle classes) but I need to see how we will support disabled people, homeless people, poor people, refugees (economic, climate, and otherwise).

elmyra,
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@Syulang @gerrymcgovern I think what the degrowth rhetoric increasingly glosses over in an effort to appease the middle classes is the need for concurrent radical redistribution. Not just from the private jet owning classes either. That article gives me the creeps because it's very much "you'll still have your lawn and white picket fence, you'll just work three days a week".

elmyra, to random
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Unpopular opinion: The censorship of the 2023 by the administrators is appalling. But the smug, self-congratulatory language employed particularly by Chris M. Barkley in the report, only just stopping short of declaring that only majority-white western countries should be allowed to host a Worldcon, really fucking grates.

elmyra,
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These alleged bastions of truth, freedom, and free speech include the United States where police kill political dissidents with impunity, and the UK which has recently banned face masks (notably life-saving in a still ongoing pandemic) anywhere near a protest, i.e. anywhere a cop decides they don't like them. I'd like a touch more self-awareness from western commentators please.

elmyra, to random
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Folks I need tech help. I want to be able to see who's outside my front door before I open it. Ideally, before I get up from the sofa. I do not wish to give any data to amazon or the cops. Does a solution exist?

ErikUden, to random
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On this day ( ) 21 years ago U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell presented a model vial of anthrax to the United Nations Security Council accusing Iraq of a chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) program. This was later found out to be a complete lie and the own investigation and intelligence of the United States did not support this claim nor many others the George Bush administration at the time made. Despite all this, these very lies lead to and justified the Iraq War (second Gulf war).

This war resulted in the violent deaths of 210,519 civilians, over 300.000 people if you include “combatants”. These are only the number of people who died directly from a bullet being put in their head, the number of casualties due to the fallout of this war, meaning those who died whilst fleeing, died due to lack of access to medicine or food and water, are not even included in that number. The total number of civilian deaths caused by this war is estimated to be in the millions. These numbers had to be leaked because the U.S. government themselves said:

“We don't do body counts”

​- General Tommy Franks

The leaker of these stats was WikiLeaks :wikileaks: under the leadership of Julian Assange, who since has been forced to live in exile, hide, and currently, this very day, is under trial by the UK High Court most likely resulting in being extradited to the United States where he will not receive a fair trial, or only as fair as John McAfee got or Edward Snowden will get. Silenced, killed, buried, kept outside of the public eye in order to not expose the embarrassment and colonial intentions of this mass killing event they call war.

All of this — all of this started with a simple vial and presentation in front of the United Nations. Do you think anyone involved in pandering these lies has ever been arrested or prosecuted similarly as the people who exposed them? Of course not. And while this convoluted story revealed itself in front of the public eye we completely forgot that this was the second time the U.S. fabricated lies in order to justify a war in Iraq and it was done by George Bush's father.

With every whistleblower prosecuted, dead, or too afraid to speak up, who will be there to expose the next wave of lies?

elmyra,
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@ErikUden The leaker was not Wikileaks, they were the publisher. Assange has put himself in jail not for his Wikileaks work but because he refused to be questioned by Swedish authorities in relation to credible accusations of sexual assault and rape.

elmyra, to random
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Am I the only one who's bothered by the "covid is making everyone stupider" discourse? Yes there is credible research showing significant post-covid cognitive slowing (even in the absence of other long covid symptoms). But there's something particularly and insidiously ableist about the way it keeps getting presented as a gotcha.

elmyra,
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I think part of it is the "well even if you're not one of those people with long covid it's still bad" - it feels like further marginalisation of folks with long covid. And the other part is the way intellectual disabilities are still treated even in parts of the disability rights community, let alone in wider society. It's still acceptable to insult someone at stupid or an idiot, and this just feeds into that.

elmyra,
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To be clear, covid is bad, we should be using all available mitigations and working to eliminate it. But we should be making sure our fight against it breaks down rather than shoring up existing power structures.

elmyra,
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@dave yeah no, that one's entirely on politicians and the media. There has been a deliberate and sustained misinformation campaign. Also see https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-consent

elmyra,
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@dave yeah humans are herd animals and standing out from the herd is really hard work and really scary, esp. if you've been lucky enough to be part of the herd all your life. (I've been queer and neurodivergent all my life, a migrant for most of it, and am now disabled, I ran out of fucks to give some time ago.)

elmyra,
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@SharkAttak @dave read the room?

elmyra, to random
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Watching German mastodon going "we need fewer nazi cops but more of the right sort of cops" is painful.

aral, to ireland
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If you’re worried about Covid, come to Ireland. Here, Covid starts at 50. That’s why we don’t provide boosters to anyone under that age.

☘️ 🦠

elmyra,
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@aral I'll see your 5 0 and raise you 75 the UK.

elmyra,
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@aral oh oops I stand corrected, it's 65 now apparently.

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