Steven

More homes and less infectious disease.

I live in BC, and that is important context for many of my posts.

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2024-04-23 19:21:49

Petition to rename MOSFETs to "MOFSET" so my Google results work.

2024-03-31 03:03:22

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@npub1dm5…5sqe /* Lolz, so plastered, but it compiles so YOLO!!!1 */

2024-03-05 18:30:31

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@npub1gmx…atcq I think sometimes even... and I don't know the correct medical terms...
I would not be surprised if we learned that some autistic people experience hallucinations with the same neurological origin as, for example schizophrenia, but in a way that does not really cause problems.

2024-03-05 18:10:12

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@npub1gmx…atcq I've definitely heard some "don't talk about hallucinations unless they're really bad" chatter in disability circles.
Just because you don't really know if your doctor will ruin your life for talking about them.

2024-02-25 08:16:32

Okay, I looked it up. Weird cultural artifact.
First aired September 30, 2021.
cc / @npub1r4h…u0jf
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2024-02-25 07:42:55

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@npub1r4h…u0jf I don't remember what Coroner did.
Grey's Anatomy did their half season, and then showed a card that basically said "While real doctor's are still dying, Grey's Anatomy is set in a world where the Pandemic was brought under control", or something like that.
I don't think they've really mentioned it since, but I haven't watched in a while.

2024-02-25 06:10:44

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@npub1r4h…u0jf Definitely interesting.
Grey's Anatomy did half a season. And I think CBC's "Coroner".
Both medical shows and both where I'm sure the on-screen safety stuff made it easier to film during lockdown.

2024-02-23 21:18:21

Okay, here me out.
Most of the reason that autistic people have a hard time realizing that they're autistic is because the medical definition and popularly understooding of autism are all from the perspective of neurotypical people who hate us.
It's reasonable to not feel, internally as an autistic person, the way that neurtypical people think we look.

2024-02-19 00:01:29

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@npub1gmx…atcq Or against me!

2024-02-14 21:36:30

Watching a Youtube video, where an autism-friendly psychiatrist suggested being patient and accommodating if your autistic kid always gets upset or sick when it's time to go to church.
MY DUDE. IT IS NOT OKAY TO FORCE SOMEBODY TO GO TO CHURCH.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU.

2024-02-14 05:59:14

"You cannot convince people what they feel is wrong, just because you give them data."
What are you talking about.
You at least need to pretend that reality is real and you care about it.
Empiricism is literally one of the core pillars of our society.
We have all agreed to this.
That is the whole deal.
It's how science and courts and stuff work.

2024-02-06 00:44:43

If your "moderate" position is that it's okay for abusive parents to deny their children health care, you can absolutely go fuck yourself.
If a child wants birth control or puberty blockers or an abortion, and their doctor is willing to prescribe those things, then that is the end of the story.
If a parent tries to stop that child from accessing medicine that a doctor has prescribed for them, then that is, by definition, an abusive parent.

2024-01-31 04:37:33

Oh! In more positive ADHD news, if you're looking for a healthier cumulative clicker, Idle Iktah is very good and is designed to not ruin your life.

2024-01-29 05:39:59

Interesting article.
A summary of three experiments finding that:
- Discrimination against autistic people is widespread, even if the person isn't identified as autistic.
- The discrimination is based on how the autistic people look or sound (consistent across sound recordings, video + sound, video only, or still pictures).
- This discrimination, specifically, has nothing to do with anything an autistic person has actually said.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5286449/

2024-01-21 03:08:51

Masks are not a "personal choice" if you are around other people.
Vaccines are not a "personal choice" if you are around other people.
Your truck or gun or poorly trained dog is not a "personal choice" if you are around other people.
Pissing and shitting your pants is not a "personal choice" if you are around other people.
Your choices impact the people around you.
Choosing to cause harm is not a personal choice. It's a choice you are taking away from other people.

2024-01-17 18:46:45

I wish scientists would attempt to develop and evaluate tests for autism and ADHD that seriously considered the internal experiences of teenagers and adults with autism, ADHD, BPD, etc.
- Questions shouldn't validate the bigotry of people who hate us.
- Questions shouldn't prioritize indirect measures that are external evaluations of us by NTs, like "behavior" and "personality".
- Questions should prioritize direct measures that only the person taking the test can answer, like sensory experiences and emotions.
- Questions should describe experiences in the language that neurodivergent people use.
- Questions should include very common comorbidities, and physiological symptoms where possible.
- Questions should minimize how much they center childhood, and not phrase questions about childhood in a dehumanizing way.

2024-01-02 23:29:27

What I'd really be curious about if wearing masks for COVID safety reduces any of the social advantages that NTs have over neurodivergent people.
Because a lot of people used the premise of autistic people's sensory issues as an argument against a mask ban.
And, like... NTs do not care about autistic people's sensory issues.
Very clearly that is not something that the NT population cares about.

2024-01-02 07:07:25

I used to think Y2K stuff was memory-holed because the problem was successfully solved and so nobody outside of IT experienced the impacts.
Now, because of COVID, I really think that explanation is too specific.
Now I think Y2K was memory-holed because, like, somebody said it was fine now or whatever. 🤷
https://infosec.exchange/@tychotithonus/111670219441506220

2023-12-30 03:06:26

In BC, to get Paxlovid, you need:
A) Access to a family doctor;
B) Be 70+ years old; and
C) Have 3+ chronic conditions.
Symptoms don't start right away, and it needs to be taken within 5 days of infection, so effectively you also need to be able to get a medical appointment with ~2 days notice.
That's essentially impossible, which means the drug is (in effect) banned.

2023-11-29 04:24:35

Finally booking my vaccine dose. I let this one get too late.
Very frustrated the appointment confirmation still perpetuates the falsehood that children who want the vaccine need parental consent.
Too many medical professionals choose to ignore the civil rights of children.
People who ignore the civil rights of children should not be allowed to practice medicine.

2023-11-27 04:44:39

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This is only my personal experience, but I had a lot of friends growing up who were associated with the foster system.
If the foster system cared even slightly about preventing abuse, none of my friends (who were not Indigenous) would have needed to live in constant terror of "family reunification" policies.
Child consent should be an absolute minimum for reunification.
The fact that it isn't is proof that the system doesn't give a fuck about abuse.

2023-11-27 04:27:13

This is such an exciting and powerful move forward.
Giving Indigenous Nations jurisdiction over their children is the best hope we have at squaring the circle between a system that fails to protect children from abuse while needlessly seperating poor and Indigenous families.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cowichan-tribes-vote-to-take-over-child-services-authority-1.7040662

2023-11-13 15:39:20

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@npub1lwu…6w4j I think the thing about Python is that it's the one that is easiest to get permission for.
In a million years, IT won't give me a compiler.
But I can get Python, via Anaconda or R-Studio or Jupyter or whatever, because people need Pandas and I can pitch it as statistical software.
Before that, the best hope was... Powershell and VBA?

2023-11-06 16:09:49

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@npub1e9h…ghzz @npub192y…7pyw @npub14pn…rag6 @npub1pcn…zf7l @npub1ccn…czwu I think what this tells you is that "was there a historical Jesus" is defined in two contradictory ways that are played against each other in bad faith by theists.
Like, if the question is "are historical claims made by the bible, about Jesus, true" the responsible answer fits somewhere between "obviously not" and "there is no evidence".
But if the question is "was Christianity founded around a cult leader claiming to be the messiah, who would later come to be known as "Jesus Christ", that seems fairly likely.
The trick is that people point to pretty good evidence for the second question, and claim that as historical proof for the first question.

2023-10-26 06:33:44

What's everybody's favourite #RSS reader for Android?
Bonus if it also has a web app.

2023-10-02 15:57:08

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@npub1k4q…3lsq @npub1sac…apc0 @npub1kut…c7av I don't understand.

2023-10-02 15:49:18

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@npub1sac…apc0 @npub1kut…c7av Yes. He is comparing residential schools to sex and gender education for LGBT kids.

2023-10-02 15:47:42

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Rustad was kicked out of the BC Liberals in 2022 for being a climate denialist.
He's also subsequently come out anti-vax, pro-convoy, etc.

2023-10-02 15:40:29

John Rustad is a racist and transphobic piece of shit.
If you don't know who this is, Rustad was the BC Liberals' minister for Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation from 2013-2017 and is now the leader of the BC Conservative Party.
He absolutely knows better. He's choosing to be a fucking monster.
https://media.zeroes.ca/media_attachments/files/111/166/134/880/291/501/original/ed4e2c0d94380eee.png

2023-09-20 21:02:05

I seem to have misplaced my glasses.
Can anybody help me find the First Day of School, based on this 30 day chart of Vancouver COVID wastewater levels?
https://media.zeroes.ca/media_attachments/files/111/099/483/732/056/955/original/9e077f4a000aef59.png

2023-09-19 18:17:16

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@npub1m0g…642v 🦦

2023-09-19 15:17:51

Tomorrow is the date for a major set of anti-LGBT marches across Canada.
Before COVID-19, these campaigns were led by biker gangs and European style neo-Nazi groups like the Hell's Angels and Soldiers of Odin.
Those groups are still involved, but now they also include:
- Anti-vax extremists who've spent the last three years threatening our doctors, nurses and teachers;
- American-style Christian Nationalist anti-trans terrorists who've been calling in bomb threats to local queer events;
- Convoy groups inspired by the US "Jan 6" attacks, who ship themselves into cities to harass their residents, and who have recently attacked BC firefighters;
- So called "sovereign citizens" and Qanon-style conspiracy theorists like the followers of Romana Didulo, responsible for various political murders in the US; and
-A new movement of fringe Muslim conspiracy theorists who support sex-trafficker Andrew Tate.
https://www.antihate.ca/1_million_march_4_children

2023-09-11 16:36:34

US excess mortality is still more than a 9/11 every single week.

2023-09-09 17:08:18

Ageism is not pointing out that Biden and Trump are too old to be president.
Ageism is the fact that young people are dying en masse because the people in charge of everything are too old to feel the effects of the policies they're imposing on us.
The problem isn't words. The problem is policies.

2023-08-26 00:11:39

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@npub1gmx…atcq If you were trans and in a bad state, I would absolutely be encouraging you to take any excuse you could find to come here.
As much as I personally have problems with the BC NDP, there's kind of no comparison. There are some people who are in danger, and if they can get out they should.

2023-08-16 18:15:36

Man, the Naomi Wu stuff isn't surprising, but it is super fucking depressing.
She does so much fucking good work for COVID safety, women in tech, 3D printing and maker stuff, LGBT representation, and she has an absolutely fucking fascinating gender story.
But she was doing all that in China, and they were going to crack down eventually. Especially since she's married to a Uyghur woman.

2023-08-15 19:49:08

So, for some reason, Youtube thinks I'm Jewish.
And is trying to sell me far-right, genocidal "Jews for Jesus" cults.
Google is choosing to promote this group, by accepting their ads.
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2023-08-10 17:55:23

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@npub1ena…yyv4 Yeah. I'm really excited about using clover for my actual garden beds.

2023-08-10 17:49:54

Does anybody have experience growing #alfalfa as a strategy to improve soil health?
I was thinking of starting a few small-ish patches in under-used areas of my yard, in hopes it would make them more hospitable to growing a bit of a food forest in future years.
#gardening

2023-08-02 21:56:40

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@npub1jvr…8tkt @npub1qw8…kkl2 You kind of just have to try it!
Mint is a very unique flavour. When you substitute mint for something, it's not because it tastes similar to other herbs, but instead because it fills a similar role.
Sometimes, if you use mint instead of something else, you're just not going to get over the fact that it tastes like mint.
If somebody had a hard time with fresh cilantro or basil in a burrito or salad, I would feel pretty confident recommending mint instead of parsley as a substitute.

2023-08-02 20:53:51

If you can grow one plant, it should be mint.
Spearmint is easy to grow, it is fun to grow, and you will use it every day if you have it.
Big Herb doesn't want you to know this, but a lot of time you can use mint in place of parsley, basil, or cilantro.
It doesn't work in all cases, but way more than you'd think.
It's also tasty in cold water, or as a hot tea. And you can mix it into ginger ale or club soda for a super tasty drink.
If you plant it in 5 gallon pot outside, it will come back in the spring. Whatever you have left over in the fall, you can freeze or dry.
You want a spearmint (or similar) with big leaves. If you can find it, pick up something like:
- Apple Mint
- Mojito Mint
- Kentucky Colonel
- Pineapple Mint

2023-08-01 17:40:56

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@npub1zq0…ehz8 @npub1200…aqy2 I am also pretending it was me!
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2023-07-19 07:59:29

Are there any downsides to using clover as a cover crop/companion plant, around peppers; tomatoes; or zucchini?
The hope is to improve my soil, and act as a living mulch to protect my soil and fight weeds.
#garden #gardening

2023-07-16 22:19:33

Okay, so, return to work.
I feel like there is a systemic inequality that people haven't really been talking about as much.
Bosses and extroverts and neurotypical people are saying "oh, we don't like emails and Zoom calls, because there's information that doesn't get communicated through these methods."
What?
What is that information?
If you are communicating a substantial amount of secret coded information that can't make it into the literal syntax of the words that you are saying, you should be concerned about that.
Both because you are doing a shitty job at communicating, but also because of the types of people you are choosing to exclude.

2023-06-11 15:55:34

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@npub1ztf…nzmz I feel like I might have accidentally cheesed this boss, because I might be the only person I've seen who thought the boss was fun and easy.

2023-05-24 20:15:01

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You realize that if trans people can't use toilets, they can't work or go to school or do anything required to exist in public life, right?
You need to be able to use toilets to do any of those things.
Trans people already need to flee Florida, because they're banned from access to healthcare and the state is stealing their children.
A boycott is not going to make things worse.
You just don't want to do a boycott.

2023-05-24 20:09:20

It is completely wild the ends people will go to defend the US South.
Look in the responses of /anybody/ calling for a boycott of Florida, and you will see people pretending that this is just some crazy, irresponsible thing to suggest.
Florida is doing genocide right now.
They've already banned gay-owned businesses, LGBT political organizing, trans health care, kidnapping trans kids, etc.
What is this.

2023-05-09 16:06:24

Okay, I have a #Fediverse request.
Are there any accounts that post art from the collection of a single museum?

2023-05-05 18:09:30

This is probably the most important editorial you'll ever read.
Thousands of people are dead because our public health officials fundamentally misunderstand a fundamental component of scientific methodology.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/masks-work-distorting-science-to-dispute-the-evidence-doesnt/

2023-04-02 16:49:18

It's so weird to me, seeing artists and lefties defending copyright law.
Copyright law exists almost entirely to prevent the production of new creative works.
It serves no benefit to any artist, and only serves to allow legal bullies to attack the very existence of creativity.

2023-01-25 04:52:44

Support for private schools is support for child abuse.
BC tax money goes to fund religiously-motivated hate targetted LGBT children.
That money could go to real schools.
https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/nanaimo-christian-school-nixes-queer-straight-alliance-as-clubs-name-6422765