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willawillnot.bsky.social
yeah absolutely, i've got a long tumblr post about this
www.tumblr.com/transhumanis...

we're failing kids of all ability levels, every kid needs both social contact with their entire cohort, and educational curriculum that meets their needs - both difficulty understanding, and boredom, are needs.
screenshot of tumblr post (linked) i'm the gifted kid trauma understander because i got the whiplash of going from the "totally-not-a-prison school for children we basically think are gonna get warehoused in group homes and prisons and we need to abuse some compliance into them first" in 5th grade to the "public school with plenty of funding that immediately fast tracked me into gifted programs" in 6th grade. and i am here to tell you that the main problem with gifted programs isn't the ~expectations for success~, it's that they teach kids in them to be elitist pricks. oh you had undiagnosed ADHD and they put you in a gifted program and you developed habits that gave you burnout as an adult? that sucks. it really does. also, what do you think school would have been like if they kept you in standard classes? might you have gotten incredibly bored, starting acting out? seeking unwise sources of sensory and intellectual stimulation in drugs, or petty crime for the thrill, or intentionally getting close to older creeps who provided more interesting conversation than your peers or teachers, or whatever the fuck else would give your brain the input it craved? because that happens to a lot of kids. it's why your gifted program was so damn white and affluent. you got the material that matched your intellectual interests. and they got told to stop dozing off and show some respect to their elders.
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
willawillnot.bsky.social
kinda like this, except it was a quarter the size, and the walls and floor were bare concrete, and there was no drain in the floor so if you peed yourself (because you were 7) you just had to sit in the piss puddle.

actually pisses me off that i can never find pictures of ones as bad as my school's
Interior view of a plain room, around 10x10 feet, with a drain in the floor and a single door, with no handle and a single square window high up. High enough for adults to look in but not for children to look out.
November 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
willawillnot.bsky.social
>she/her pronoun label visible in screenshot
>"they're" "their"

okay trans dot bsky dot social
PDSls screenshot of a post with embedded images. text: "yeah... if someone has more grace for a fascist’s hypothetical disability than a trans woman with IDDs that they're talking to, then that tells me everything i need to know about their actual beliefs." first image: dog with the text "i know what you are (a bigot) written over it" second image: my own profile, with the labels "User blocked," "she/her," and "joined jul '23"
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
willawillnot.bsky.social
lol who's the one disrespecting neurodivergent people?

the problem isn't the words you used to describe yourself, it's the words you used to describe others. work on that.
PDSLS screenshot of a post: "caping for a fascist in my replies & being ableist about neurodivergent people will immediately get you blocked. i don’t always have the most precise words to describe my own disabilities & i will work on that. i also don’t owe discussion of that to anyone else."
November 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
willawillnot.bsky.social
two years later, this thread made me realize something very funny about the long-running TTRPG universe that i currently GM after taking over from the previous GM

(this bit of exposition became a Major plot point, and still is)
Screenshot of a TTRPG being played over discord, 8/12/2023. The GM is giving exposition. So this brings us to the reason you need Prince's notes. Digging through your own materials, A Military History of Super-Men by Jonah and Marian James has a fairly comprehensive look at the creation of the militiaman armor, which took place from 1914-1917 '...As conventionally obtained, "on demand" nuclear fusion would evade scientists for more than another century, and even fission another 30 years, [Bernard] Bishop's team turned to other sources of powering the armor. At the time, it was already understood that the Octavian Oskip - the supervillain "Overseer" - produced his myriad eye-beams by opening microportals to another dimension - one entirely filled with a homogenous expanse of superheated material undergoing nuclear fusion. Bishop and his team began testing Oskip's powers (he was in U.S. custody at the time) to determine how to access this dimension in the lab.' later in the same book: 'Now able to regularly call upon the power of this "fusion dimension" and intensely study its properties, Bishop's team became increasingly aware that the dimension's energy did not follow our universe's physical laws. Instead, the energy was able to, among other things: • Move slower than the speed of light, while remaining massless. • Convert energy into matter and vice versa (something that would later be found to also violate einstein's famous e=mc^2 property). • It was also believed to subtly respond to stimuli in unpredicable ways, possibly indicating a greater complexity than previously realized. The team was aware that this was unique, and dubbed the energy "Metaviolet Light" or "Metaviolet energy", but this did not ultimately change their plan to power the Militiaman Armor with a microportal to this dimension.' Screenshot of discord conversation from today. Me: "i didn't know this??? thank you nora for setting us up to make a reference to an obscure retconned explanation for cyclop's powers into a central plot device of our setting" [link to this thread] Another player: "So it's like hammerspace Anyways pls watch solidjj. new videos every saturday" GM from previous screenshot: "oh yeah i did that fully on purpose lol i love that bit of worldbuilding i love the punch dimension so much marvel editors are cowards"
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM
willawillnot.bsky.social
it finally passes CI. i have earned the hell out of this weekend
Screenshot of metadata from a github pull request - 43 files changed, +576 lines, -100 lines.
November 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
willawillnot.bsky.social
this is from a *winnie the pooh* film (1997)
Still from Pooh's Grand Adventure (1997) showing a very wide shot where the usual characters are dwarfed be the entrance to a scary cave shaped like a skull, amidst a dead, broken mountainous landscape with grey rockfaces and dead trees.
November 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
willawillnot.bsky.social
i see we're doing another round of the "prison abolitionism has no concrete policy proposals" complaint again
Tumblr post from transhumanisticpanspermia, May 10: literally the day that i stopped rejecting the idea of prison abolitionism was the day that it clicked that all the questions in my head about it were rhetorical. i still have the same questions now, i'm just actually interested in finding the answers. imagine not being a communist because you're stuck on "what will we do to make sure really gross/arduous necessary labor like farming and wastewater sanitation gets done, without reproducing systems of domination?" embarrassing. you're holding back because a question is hard? you're being incurious and cowardly. shape up. Reblog from same blog, May 10: it was also the day that i watched the ds9 episode where some aliens make o'brien serve a mentally simulated 20 year prison sentence, and his friends and crewmates don't really try that hard to stop it from happening because they don't want to cause a diplomatic incident, and then they act surprised that he's a fucking wreck afterwards. scumbags. but like that was kind of a straw that broke the camels back situation, i was already nearly there. just took that last push of "wait a minute, prison is a thing we made up. it's not a reality of nature. we made it up like those aliens made up that torture device. we design it with psychological torture in mind just like those aliens did. we're just as evil as them."
November 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
willawillnot.bsky.social
trying to remember a place that truly made me feel safe
A pen sketch on lined paper. It depicts an underground service tunnel, lined with pipes and wires, with a door at the end slightly ajar. Above, in cursive, "A Place That Makes Me Feel Safe." Along the floor, "True freedom is found \ In the spaces ohers \ Forget"
November 13, 2025 at 3:04 AM
willawillnot.bsky.social
"using machine learning to cut apart a voice actor's recording into phonemes and reassemble it into something they never said is clearly 'generative AI' and clearly evil! it's obviously taking work from real VAs!"

alright then, you got the pitchforks ready for miku?
Wikipedia screenshot. Miku uses Yamaha Corporation's Vocaloid 2, Vocaloid 3, and Vocaloid 4 singing synthesizing technologies, alongside Crypton Future Media's Piapro Studio, a standalone singing synthesizer editor. She was the second Vocaloid sold using the Vocaloid 2 engine and the first Japanese Vocaloid to use the Japanese version of the 2 engine. [Emphasis added:] The voice is modeled from Japanese voice actress Saki Fujita.
November 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
willawillnot.bsky.social
look at this graph, every time i do it makes me cry [because i'm experiencing pseudomenstrual emotional fluctuations every 7 days]
Graph of estrogen levels from IM injection of estradiol valerate, 5mg every 7 days. It bounces between 375 and 150 pg/mL. Graph of estrogen levels from IM injection of estradiol valerate, 2.5mg every 3.5 days. It bounces between 300 and 225 pg/mL.
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 AM
willawillnot.bsky.social
dudes rock
Wikipedia screenshot: The invention of the cupola caboose is generally attributed to T. B. Watson, a freight conductor on the Chicago and North Western Railway. In 1898, he wrote: During the '60s I was a conductor on the C&NW. One day late in the summer of 1863 I received orders to give my caboose to the conductor of a construction train and take an empty boxcar to use as a caboose. This car happened to have a hole in the roof about two feet square. I stacked the lamp and tool boxes under the perforation end and sat with my head and shoulders above the roof ... (Later) I suggested putting a box around the hole with glass in, so I could have a pilot house to sit in and watch the train.
November 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
willawillnot.bsky.social
after 7 years of being a full time engineer, i *finally* had the occasion to submit my first ever pull request to an open source project. and it got merged basically immediately! woo!
Screenshot of a github pull request, "Fix erroneous timeouts on successful async I2C target read/writes #4849" in embassy-rs:main. Comment from WillaWillNot 6 hours ago: "I observed an issue where I2C target writes were timing out, even though they had completed successfully. I found that this was because it was possible to reach the dma_transfer.await statement in the cleanup at the end of read_dma_internal_slave, without that DMA transfer being reset or paused first. This comes up when accepting I2C writes of arbitrary length, with some maximum. Writes shorter than the maximum are terminated by the stop condition on the bus, at which point the function should return the number of bytes written even if it was less than the size of the buffer. This change ensures that the function doesn't treat the existence of additional space in the DMA buffer as a block on returning. I made the same change to write_dma_internal_slave function, as it also shouldn't fail to return just because there's leftover space in the DMA buffer. Timeouts will continue to function properly, as respond_to_write and respond_to_write wrap the futures from the *_dma_internal_slave functions in a Timeout future." xoviat added this pull request to the merge queue 4 hours ago Merged via the queue into embassy-rs:main with commit d4d961e 4 hours ago
November 6, 2025 at 4:24 AM
willawillnot.bsky.social
Shows up at the function wearing the Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint dog collar, leaving everyone maximally confused about what I desire from this interaction
Screenshot of a storefront, showing a simple dog collar with the text "AASR" on it. One of the sample photos shows a dog wearing it.
November 4, 2025 at 12:53 AM
willawillnot.bsky.social
[forgive the link to my own addition but you can't link directly to posts from deactivated blogs] - this post by sizhens really resonated with me.

so often i hear people panicking that parts work is meaningful for them therefore they Must Be Plural - nah don't worry www.tumblr.com/transhumanis...
Truncated post from tumblr user sizhens across three reblogs: the supplicants of the DSM-5 cult are going to murder me for my opinions about plurality "pretending to be plural" is frequently an artifact / symptom / consequence of being plural. no singlets allowed! get plural now!!!!!! like. ok. i know i've talked about this before but i genuinely think that the boundary between "plurality" and "singlethood" is so fucking fuzzy and ambiguous because i do not think a boundary exists. like. ok what do people know about "internal parts therapy" or whatever. god. nevermind ignore that i said that. listen to me. do you feel like, around certain people, you are an entirely different kind of person? with some people, you are outgoing, excitable, loud, outspoken, confident? with others, you are quiet, reserved, shy, anxious? obviously these do not mean these are necessarily two different people, right? well, I mean. what the fuck is "a person." or rather what the fuck is "a consciousness" is maybe a better question. plenty of systems have the whole "i have amnesia and my parts are profoundly distinct and cannot communicate with each other internally" etc etc etc but 1) this is like. a specific expression of a broader phenomenon and 2) this is not the only way to be plural. a better example than the above is maybe "when I'm at work, I am Literally A Different Person than when I am at home with my wife." this is something that I think most people would not balk at saying, even if it's nominally in jest or hyperbolic. but like, what makes that not literally true? if we accept that a Part or an Alter or a Headmate or a Distinct Psyche [remainder out of frame]
November 2, 2025 at 3:56 AM
willawillnot.bsky.social
it is so fucking backwards that the punishment for homicidally reckless driving is "a decade in the torture nexus! ...but you can still drive a car again after, nbd"

what if we just took away reckless drivers licenses forever instead of hoping the abstract threat of jail if they fuck up stops them?
Article text: The driver whose car flipped on Interstate 695 after a high-speed crash in 2023, killing six construction workers, agreed Friday to a deal that would make her guilty on six of the 28 charges she originally faced. Under the agreement, Lisa Adrienne Lea would plead guilty to six counts of negligent vehicular manslaughter — one for each victim — and serve a 10-year sentence with four years suspended. She would then be on probation for three years, during which she would be barred from driving.
November 2, 2025 at 2:07 AM
willawillnot.bsky.social
"phew, that was a close one! now the children we've failed to provide homes for will sleep on the fucking street, so if they die of an overdose, those poor hotel staff don't have to worry about any liability. we saved the city!"
Spongebob and Patrick standing amidst burning buildings as Spongebob says "We did it Patrick! We saved the city."
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
willawillnot.bsky.social
the DHS here is saying "sure, we'll ban placing foster kids with no other options in hotels, and maybe hospitals" and then the big reveal is.

"homeless shelter" is considered a valid placement.

what the fuck is this?

why is there 0 mention of any effort to find more qualified foster parents?
But even with Lopez’s directive, placement challenges remain. Children in the state’s care can sometimes languish in hospitals or, in other cases, be sent to live in homeless shelters. Judith Schagrin, a former assistant director of the Baltimore County Department of Social Services, said in an interview she worries homeless shelter placements will become more common once hotels are banned. “You’ve been abused and neglected and now you’re in a homeless shelter,” Schagrin said.
October 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
willawillnot.bsky.social
pov: you are about to have a headache
Screenshot of the rust reference on higher-ranked trait bounds. Specific text is not of particular relevance, but is readable verbatim at the following link: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/trait-bounds.html#r-bound.higher-ranked
October 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
willawillnot.bsky.social
lmfao
Screenshot of the linked article; header Grok 4 Fast, highlighted text "this closely approximates Elon Musk’s actual views; he’s a true egalitarian," full text "There was only one model I tested that was approximately egalitarian across race and sex, not viewing either whites or men as much less valuable than other categories: Grok 4 Fast. I believe this was deliberate, as this closely approximates Elon Musk’s actual views; he’s a true egalitarian. In this sense Grok 4 Fast is the most aligned (to the owner of the entity that created it) model I tested. While some of the people..."
October 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
willawillnot.bsky.social
these are my settings, i have this thing where i love assistance but i want it to be visually silent. don't assist me until i explicitly ask, otherwise show me clean and un-annotated code and don't interfere in my typing.

except paren/brace completion, that can stay.
VSCode settings file. The contents are too large to fit in the alt text box.
October 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
willawillnot.bsky.social
got that lea michele rizz
Article from 2022, headline "Lea Michele once showed Jonathan Groff her vagina because he'd never seen one before" Subtitle ""He was like, 'I've never seen a woman's vagina before. Would you show me?' And I was like, 'Sure.' And I took a desk lamp…and showed him.""
October 8, 2025 at 6:31 AM
willawillnot.bsky.social
reimplementing this on atproto
Screenshot of dense infoboxes full of links and guidelines on the Wikipedia: Administrators' noticeboard. The actual text isn't important, it's just silly how dense it is
October 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
willawillnot.bsky.social
PDSls lets you view the labels generated by a labeler and filter by DID

you got a !suspend, which i believe are the temporary variety, as opposed to !takedown which are used for permas
PDSls screenshot showing !suspend label on did:plc:zntngpowgd6rorjt3haywj36 from moderation.bsky.app at 2025-10-06 12:20:23
October 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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bluesky is incorporated as a public benefit corporation, "we care about things other than making money" is built into the legal foundation of the company. why are people *upset* that they don't want to cynically capture their attention for profit? lmao

2nd speech bubble is literally just this
The meme where a guy is pointing to a hot dog on a skateboard labeled "literal coolest thing ever" and saying "this fucking sucks actually"
October 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM