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transponderings

@transponderings@eldritch.cafe

Autistic+ADHD queer nonbinary woman

she/her (en)

I’ll sometimes talk about mathematics and linguistics, those being fields I attempted PhDs in (but burned out)

I’ll sometimes talk about activism

And sometimes I’ll talk about railway signalling

And cats 😽

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transponderings, to LEGO
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⚠️ Brick Fest Live European tour – AVOID!

Please share with anyone you know who might be considering paying the exorbitant entry fee to these scammers

The American-run event series has kicked off their European tour with a series of three underwhelming shows in the UK (hyped as ‘the UK’s biggest brick festival’)

This weekend they are at the Birmingham NEC, and you can see exactly what they’re offering for the money (very little) in this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79HZojq_zsQ

Besides avoiding Birmingham this weekend, please don’t waste your money on their shows across Germany (billed as ‘das größte Mitmach-Event rund um Bausteine’) over the summer – coming first to Regensburg and Stuttgart

#LEGO #scam #AFOL #AFOB #BrickFestLive #Germany

transponderings, to random
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Just remembered to cancel my subscription to Ground News 🙌

I only signed up in January, after several YouTubers had convinced me it was a good way to get a balanced overview of relevant news

What none of them told me was that the whole thing is an (expensive) load of machine-generated drivel

I somewhat suspect none of them had been using it as regularly as they claimed

transponderings, to random
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Don’t forget your meds! ✨

Andy_European, to random
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Surge in Covid cases prompt fears of a mini-wave

https://apple.news/A8eyMVOzWRGCkxpRJs1F9DA

transponderings,
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@Andy_European Unbelievably watered down advice here from the UK Health Security Agency’s director of public health programmes:

‘If you do need to go out when you are unwell especially if you attending settings with vulnerable people, consider wearing a mask’

😷

#CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask

purplepadma, to random
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New piece of stellar advice just dropped! Been told by a relative to “just think happy thoughts”

transponderings,
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@purplepadma Can your GP prescribe ‘happy thoughts’, or do you need to go to a psychiatrist?

transponderings, to random
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Don’t forget your meds! ✨

kate, to random
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    transponderings,
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    @kate @Sylvhem The word ‘nibling’ was right there, Auntie Anne! 😉

    Admittedly, I only just discovered that it existed back then!

    It was apparently coined in 1951 – maybe – by linguist Samuel E Martin, and the Merriam-Webster post which contains this information does concede that it took half a century to gain any sort of traction: https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/words-were-watching-nibling

    The OED, where I looked first, doesn’t even acknowledge the word’s existence, let alone offer any insight into its history – poor show!

    transponderings, to random
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    This sounds great, but then you realise it’s being promoted by Big Nature 😉

    https://press.coop/@Nature/112198362708639600

    transponderings, to random
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    Don’t forget your meds! ✨

    transponderings, to random
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    I am always mildly irritated when I come across the phrase 24/7/365

    24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 weeks a year?? 🤯

    Why do people never write 24/7/52 (which does admittedly look like a mid 20th century date) … or just 24/365?

    transponderings, to LEGO
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    I can’t think why YouTube’s algorithm recommended this video to me … apart from the cats, and the LEGO, and the trains 😉

    It’s not a video of cats playing with LEGO trains btw

    No, it’s cats riding in specially engineered cat-size LEGO trains! 😻😻

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3CnDXh7hH0

    transponderings, to LEGO
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    New blog post about making LEGO railway track look more like the real thing 🛤️

    https://transponderings.blog/2024/02/29/the-art-of-lego-railway-track/

    transponderings, to random
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    I’m calling this one ‘The Tie’

    transponderings, to Typography
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    Having been on my first train of the year today (still masking btw), I was enjoying looking out at the infrastructure rolling past the window (yes, I know!)

    But I was dismayed – nay, shocked – to see this permissible speed indicator with a non-standard typeface 🙀

    Not sure what font they’ve used – it’s not one of the usual suspects as far as I can tell – but it should, according to UK rail regulations, be the one described in BS 3693B–1964, as I’ve mocked up in the second image

    A quickly mocked up 35 mph sign according to the RSSB specification for sign AD01m, ‘Permissible speed indicators (mph)’. The ‘3’ in particular is quite distinctive, with an angular upper half.

    transponderings, to random
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    Oh yes, besides travelling to my hairdresser with Pride 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (see last repost), I did actually get my hair cut!

    CW: eye contact

    transponderings, to random
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    A belated post featuring Vanya

    One half of a bed, with assorted cuddly animals and softness. Up jumps a beautiful tabby cat, who bleps as he walks towards the camera and then rubs against it.

    ColinTheMathmo, to random
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    A couple of odd corners, but pleased to get it done ...

    597

    ➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️

    https://www.andrewt.net/puzzles/cell-tower/?p=597

    And the streak continues ...

    Current streak: 37

    transponderings,
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    @ColinTheMathmo Thanks for introducing me to a new word game

    Not sure if that should have been sarcastic or not, given the time I spend playing them every day! 😉

    Current streak: 1

    DivergentDumpsterPhoenix, to Autism
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    The state of autism diagnosis in the UK. (1/2)

    All content on slides can be found at this link along with the option to listen as audio-

    https://emergentdivergence.com/2023/11/12/the-shocking-state-of-autism-diagnosis-in-the-uk/

    @actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy @audhd

    transponderings,
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    @DivergentDumpsterPhoenix @actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy @audhd Alt text for images in the preceding post:

    1. The shocking state of autism diagnosis in the UK. [Title slide, with swirly-lines-and-question-marks graphic.]

    2. Autism is under-diagnosed. We are gatekept out of diagnosis by discriminatory and financially inaccessible systems.

    3. What is the average age of diagnosis? Estimates place the average age of a diagnosis around 5 to 6 years old (Brett et al., 2016; van ’t Hof, 2020). These studies have limited accuracy as they only covered an age range of 2.5 to 19.5 years (van ’t Hot, 2020). It is clear that more robust research is needed.

    4. Gender difference in diagnosis. Where diagnosis occurred at 5 years old or later, males were generally diagnosed earlier than females (Petrou et al., 2018). Again data is hampered by a lack of insight into adult diagnoses and people outside of traditional gender binaries.

    All four images are on a gradient sky blue background with the Emergent Divergence logo (featuring a stylised rainbow phoenix) in the bottom left and the handle @ EmergentDivergence at the bottom. Various colours and angles make titles stand out.

    transponderings,
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    @DivergentDumpsterPhoenix @actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy @audhd Alt text for images in the preceding post:

    1. The impact of race and ethnicity on diagnosis. Despite prevalence of autism being nearly double the average for Black children at 2.11% (Roman-Urrestarazu, 2021), there is little data on average age of diagnosis for ethnic minorities. Tromans et al. (2021) found that autism was less likely to be identified in ethnic minority groups.

    2. Despite Autistic people being more likely to have co-occurring diagnoses, such diagnoses were associated with a delay in identification of autism (Petrou et al., 2018).

    3. Age-related issues with diagnosis. O’Nions et al. (2023) found that as age increased, the number of autism diagnoses decreased. 2.94% of 10-to-14-year-olds had a diagnosis (within the study cohort) compared to just 0.02% of people aged over 70. This highlights the incorrect belief that autism is a condition of childhood.

    4. Conclusion. The diagnostic environment of the UK is currently crippled by racial and gender bias, ageism, and stereotypes that lead diagnosticians to believe that autism only exists in aggressive little boys. Added on top of this is the fact that co-occurring diagnoses appear to be delaying autism diagnosis when they should, in fact, be an indicator that autism should be considered as a factor.

    All four images are on a gradient sky blue background with the Emergent Divergence logo (featuring a stylised rainbow phoenix) in the bottom left and the handle @ EmergentDivergence at the bottom. Various colours and angles make titles stand out.

    transponderings,
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    @DivergentDumpsterPhoenix @actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy @audhd No problem. Hope the surgery went well, and that you recover quickly! 💜

    itsOasus, to random

    Firefox is officially and directly fucking with Google and I am here for it!

    transponderings,
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    @itsOasus @simon_brooke Oh, that’s very good!

    I’ve often thought it would be handy if Mastodon apps stripped the tracking stuff off URLs, but I’ve resigned myself to the small effort it takes to do so by hand when posting here

    I do realise this isn’t a small effort for everyone – non-tech-savvy people and people who simply lack the spoons deserve not to be tracked too

    I hope Apple follows suit – and it would be great to have the option of doing this by default when copying URLs from location bars and explicit hyperlinks

    transponderings, to random
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    ℕ – the natural numbers
    ℚ – the rational numbers
    ℝ – the real numbers
    ℂ – the complex numbers

    𝕏 – the mind numbers

    masukomi, to random
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    I am irrationally annoyed at the current thing that is being printed. There are very legitimate reasons that it is taking as long as it is, but at the same time it’s actually very little material that is being laid down. It’s just being laid down very sparsely and that takes forever so it looks like there is no progress at all because the printer is spending so much time moving from one pointy bit to the next.

    But I am like “arrrrgh! finish already!”

    transponderings,
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    @masukomi It looks extremely cool!

    (But what is it?)

    christianp, to random
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    After seeing a toot* by @mcc, I've added a mode to my "is this prime?" site to show you the current UNIX timestamp. You can make it beep when the time is prime by clicking on the ear icon.

    https://isthisprime.com/now

    transponderings,
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    @christianp @mcc I think this is ready for prime time 😉

    transponderings, to random
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    Don’t forget your meds! ✨

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