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Zoë Blade

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Musician, writer, programmer. Analysis and synthesis. ∞ Makes music for ContraPoints http://patreon.com/zoeblademusic

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Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · Aug 27

New video: How to play chess

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dAZ...

How to Play Chess

YouTube video by Zoë Blade

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Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 57m

I got a lot faster at good-enough editing when I realised the last take is almost always the one I was most happy with.

Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 1h

Me: "You really don't need to be so obsequious. I can handle my questions not being especially good."

ChatGPT: "Fair enough -- thanks for saying that."

Me: "Aaaaa!"

Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 4h

Thanks! Updated: notebook.zoeblade.com/Underworld.h...

Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 22h

The superior temporal sulcus! That's the groove in the brain I'm thinking of.

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Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 22h

I tentatively believe there might be parts of the brain that automate this (I’d have to look up again which, that one with the groove for instance), hence it really is a disability to not be able to do that, and have to spend all this concentration on trying to perform it all manually.

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Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 22h

Yeah, they’re speaking with more channels, and if some of us lack the ability to broadcast in those extra channels, then we’re just transmitting a random signal that comes across as harsh. I’m overstretching the analogy here. 😅

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Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 22h

Like… no one person involved is “wrong”, so much as they’re using different protocols.

Like someone trying to use SMTP to talk to a server using POP3, neither’s wrong, they’re just incompatible.

Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 22h

Oh, totally, I realise the offence is real because I’m accidentally saying things too directly and with not enough enthusiasm in my tone... but I still don’t know how to not do that, especially while remembering what I’m saying, and coming across as sincere. (Too much tone sounds sarcastic!)

Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 22h

And yes, autistic direct speech seems very much to come across like speaking in swearwords. The first step is to realise we really are speaking a different dialect in which it’s normalised, expected, even essential, and not take offence.

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Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 22h

Yes, exactly. It‘s not *purposefully* there, but that’s inadvertently how I probably sound. I realise I “Don’t have a tone of voice” the same way some people claim they “Don’t have an accent”, but I’m really trying not to be rude or mean at all!

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dog girl jesus @doggirldotfaggot.bsky.social · 1d

From Doom Patrol by Rachel Pollack

Kate Godwin saying "I suspect they liked my powers but couldn't handle me. so i guess I'll just have to give up the superhero business and go on being myself." theres a button on her coat which says "put a transsexual lesbian on the supreme court"

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Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 1d

Thank you! Gotta get 1994. I have 1995.

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Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 1d

Mmm Skyscraper I Love You and Dirty Epic have been playing in my head for days now, send help. 😅

Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 1d

Ah, I think it’s *just* after mu:zines’s era. There’s one in Sound on Sound though, plus Hyde’s autobiography. I’d be keen to learn of any others!

Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 1d

My obsession is currently this deep:

$Karl Hyde’s fractured autobiography I Am Dogboy, and classical album Grieg’s Peer Gynt, San Francisco version. I’d imagine Underworld themselves probably don’t know this, but this recording is the ultimate source of the pad bookending Mmm Skyscraper I Love You.$

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Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 1d

This week, I have been mostly listening to:

Dubnobasswithmyheadman

A cacophony of text, a handprint, and a circle of rectangles, all in black and white. It's a beautiful thing, and everybody is a beautiful thing.

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Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 3d

You *might* like the (admittedly often frustrating) game The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...

You type in commands in plain English. An interactive book! Good idea, that...

Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 3d

I think one of the factors is how important it is. If it's not terribly important, they just expect/want to walk away with neither party understanding what the other one was trying to say. I find it difficult to remember to accept that, and to remember that many things aren't important. 😅

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Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 3d

Nice! I’m pretty sure my mother loved Zolyx and Viduzzles. (Is that right, @bethomas.bsky.social?)

I vaguely remember my good-for-nothing father eventually completed Fire Ant, with much swearing and pipe smoking, and disappointment at the ending.

Zolyx, a Qix clone that might just be better than the real thing. Someone else's photo shows the cassette tape (computer games used to come on cassette tape in the '80s and early '90s) standing proudly in front of a monitor showing the title screen. Very fancy! Old TV set not good enough for this'un!

Someone else's screenshot of Viduzzles™️, presumably short for Video Puzzles. It's a virtual jigsaw puzzle. You get to choose between several pictures, such as this rather fetching purple owl (I think another one was a dog in front of a doghouse..?), and several shape types and numbers of pieces.

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Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 3d

I saw a similar but different question a while back about how to ask for clarification and come across as sincere, but that probably wouldn’t apply here.

Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 3d

Ah, that makes sense. There’s probably some difficult and subtle way to indirectly ask, but alas I don’t practice talking to allistic people enough to try to figure it out in practice.

Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 3d

I *think* I got it for Christmas 86, but IIRC my mother reckoned it was 85, so I could be wrong…

I remember enjoying Qix clone Zolyx at the time. I’ve since discovered the brilliant Spore on both the C64 and Plus/4.

Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 4d

It's very common for autistic people to not realise why non-autistic people are reading too much into what they're saying. (I see it mentioned on forums near-daily). So I made this video explaining the basics of it:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6zW...

Why Don't People Say What They Mean?

YouTube video by Zoë Blade

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