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Nothing like the shock of cold water from a closed-minded family member to start the day.
I wrote my sister this morning to let her know I had big stuff going on in my life. Just yesterday evening, my husband and I signed the papers and filed them with the court to get the last stage of the divorce going.
Was she supportive? Why, no! Instead she said "Happy to hear all is going well for you."
Now it's true that we're not devastated by the end of the marriage, but still, this is the end of an 8.5 year marriage/over 9 year relationship. And I had also been very supportive of her 3 or 4 marriages. I know she and her husband are very anti-LGBTQ, but in this case, I'm family, and aren't you more likely to be decent to those close to you?
Succubard's Library 
Dude. If I live until I’m 65, I’ll write a book about my life, with all the gory details thrown in for good measure. I’d write one now, but something tells me the ride’s not over quite yet. When I do meet my creator, we’re gonna have words. We might even have a fight. They got me fucked up
#life #musings
more to this point, some posts are for general audiences, while others will only be appreciated by a niche, and unless I'm making an education PSA post, most of my posts are faaairly niche to begin with 
A post from the archive 
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Validate your identity on Bluesky with your GitHub account
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/validate-your-identity-on-bluesky-with-your-github-account
#socialnetworks #musings
@ TheKamalaVoter@ mastodon.social: Reminder that there is NO ethical justification EVER for using so-called “AI” (which is more like it should be called “SCAM”) because LLMs are “Bullshit Engine” by Tech Bro and we should hit anyone who uses them with a rock repeatedly and make sure they are in grievous pain #resist #musings #imwithher #techbros
@ RevolutionMolotov@ kolektiva.social: Ummmm guess what abelist fuckface. People in wheelchair need LLMs to be able to survive. In trump’s America. Educate yourself liberal. You’re the one who should be hit withg a Rock,
@ SadieCuddlyPuppy@ peniswoman.gay: PSA: Please CW Rocks!! It deeply upsets this wan.
another thing I realised today is that a lot of people here with large followings make short funny or interesting posts consistently that get them followers interested in small doses of fun in their timeline 
me? aside from the video and stream posts (my actual core profession), it turns out I put out a multi-hundred-boost PSA about social justice every, ooooh, 3 months or so? 
Shower Thoughts: "Burping is the body's/Stomach's Defrag"
A post from the archive :
A better vision for Central Ohio
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/a-better-vision-for-central-ohio
#musings #columbus
Just published 
: If LLMs Can Code, Why Are We Building More IDEs?
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/if-llms-can-code-why-are-we-building-more-ides
#software #musings
Shower Thoughts out loud:
"No news sites, I really couldn't give a proverbial sh!t that Katy Perry paid Jeff Bezos to ride up near space for a few minutes, stop showing me this crap, there are REAL news items to report on.."
I'm used to people following me on Twitch while I'm live, but I'm seeing follows even when I'm not live, which is heartening 
it means my non-live efforts are worthwhile enough for people to seek out my Twitch account in hopes of catching lives at some point 
It's a strange kind of paradox when a small fandom or group starts that's pretty cool. People love it, there's a small feeling of like "It'd be awesome if more people knew about this, etc." And then when it becomes huge, the feelings immediately become "I miss the old days when this was a smaller, tight-knit community."
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tl;dr #neurodivergent #freeassociation #musings
Combining proof-reading with textual markup and manual entity recognition, it becomes the perfect hyper focus activity.
I use #Transkribus for my #HTR and for the last few days, I have been unlucky with the traffic for both model training and text recognition. The queues are long and take a lot of time and I am deprived of my error hunting and current hyper fixation on #Mongolia #BogdKhanate #EasternChina #TravelDiaries #TEI #Encoding
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tl;dr #neurodivergent #freeassociation #musings
Some work days are fragmented due to meetings or co-working sessions or the nature of the tasks at hand. I don't do well with having my routines and sequences disrupted, and on such days, I will seek activities which have a calming effect and are enjoyable. Proof-reading HTR-results is such an activity: it's monotonous, requires a certain focus and attention to detail while it provides immediate gratification for every error I find and fix.
Surprises are Culturally Normalized Violence
We are all intentional beings, we must exercise our agency to feel empowered in our own lives and to actualize our truest sense of self.
As intentional beings, when we meet each other out in the world, we must respect that we are co-creating this life by respecting each others choice and freedom to do as we will. To, by word or action, disallow or invalidate the choice of another being is to do violence to them.
When we plan a surprise for someone, we remove their ability to choose. We can get lost in our own feelings about the surprise, the look on their face when, how meaningful we think the gift will be to them (our to our self), thinking they will love this.
You may have no idea what traumas someone has or what triggers lie undiscovered, they may not even know themselves. You have no idea what landmines you may step on that will hurt them, which is probably not what you intend.
As a culture in the West, we normalize being grateful for gifts, being grateful for someone expending resources on your behalf, especially if you didn't ask for it. Your choice is removed by surprises because you were never even given the chance to say no, or even yes!
Spoil the surprise. 
Always ask if someone would like you to get them that thing or plan a special event for their occasion. Don't assume, a surprise is never about you, it's about the person you may hurt. 
