I'll leave it til tomorrow before I force-move followers from the old account. Just in case.

Hello frens, followers, lurkers, people who forgot they followed this account!

I am now at @noodlemaz@mstdn.games and will be migrating stuff over shortly.

Med-mastodon experienced a surprise shutdown but a lovely person has now managed to get control and restart it. But I don't feel comfortable staying on this instance anymore so, away we go :)

My daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen:

Tl;dr, there’s no evidence “dyslexia fonts” work — being based on a myth about what dyslexia actually is — and in fact some evidence they make reading even harder.

After 15 months of hard work, my dad has finished this impressive model of Minas Tirith! It is 1.4 m high and entirely hand-made out of wood. One of the most time-consuming parts was manually engraving the bricks on all walls and buildings, but this was key to properly convey the huge size of the city. Everything was painted by hand, adding some wear and tear. For a behind-the-scenes look at how he built this check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Ywlc8ojjE

#lotr #MastoArt #art #craft

Today I am reflecting, not for the first time, on the fact that Trump told us exactly what he was going to do if elected, AND many people pointed out what he was saying and yelled as loud as they could, "Listen to what this guy says he is going to do if he gets elected!" and yet somehow there are tons of people acting surprised that he's doing the things he said he was going to do, not to mention all the people who are still trying to convince us he's not doing them.
#politics #USPol #fascism

ORG has long warned that the botched UK eVisa scheme could create another Windrush scandal.

Flawed data and systems can corrupt a person's immigration status, especially as there's no offline way to prove it.

Tell your MP this needs to change ⬇️

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/write-your-mp-allow-physical-proof-immigration-status

#ORG2025 #digitalrights #evisa #migrantrights #migrants #immigration #dataprotection #ukpolitics #ukpol #ico

First impression after coming to Brussels in a while: sad to see so many people driving (recently refreshed) #Tesla models.

You would think that people in Brussels, at the heart of the EU, wouldn’t give money to a man intending to destroy it.

I still can't believe #Brave is a thing. There apparently are just people out there who are like "I'm frustrated by the corporate bullshit in Chrome, so I think I'll try this crypto scam made by a homophobe"

Masks always have been, and are still worth wearing.

COVID is an airborne virus. It spreads through shared air — often from people who don’t yet feel sick or never develop symptoms at all. Masking works because it filters the air we breathe, reducing how much virus we inhale and exhale.

Generally, I identify as a woman, but I'm vibing with the aggression of None of it.

Petition to rename the game of golf to "annoyingly big golf" and "minigolf" to "golf"

Watching #MidnightMass on a rec and it was fun and interesting to start but then..
Eh, one of those. OK.
See it through, few to go, maybe it ends strong
#TV

Don't post pictures and videos of kids on your public profile.
Especially if you don't have autodelete set up.

Did you ask them?
Will they mind later even if they say they don't now - are they capable of understanding what that privacy violation means?
You can be. You can just not do it.
#children #onlineSafety #Privacy #photos #christmas

My last quilt top of 2025 ~

Early on, when AI came for quilts, you could tell because it'd use hyper-realistic jewel tone colors in the too perfect to be true designs. Browns and oranges were especially popular, probably because the AI was sucking up images of traditional quilts made with warm color fabrics

That's why I chose this color scheme and made this wallhanging deliberately, overtly wonky. Those are *my* hands and this is *human* crafted

#FuckAI for stealing from artists

#Quilting

it's come to my attention that the star tribune has put out a piece highlighting the struggles of downtrodden straight white men in literature and outside of all of the obvious things I'd just like to point out that all of the best books I have ever read have been by people who are not straight white men so maybe just be better

I appreciate all the boosts on this.
I don't want to be that reply person on people's happy posts but jeez, some of the vids that passed my feed yesterday.
Those children haven't agreed to being gawked at by a load of strangers. Please stop.
#onlineSafety #christmas #FediTips https://med-mastodon.com/@noodlemaz/115782478138416151

This institute, cofounded by Musk, circulated an email about me not just internally but to their "partners" a couple of years ago when I started calling them out as eugenicists in the TESCREAL bundle, as we wrote in our paper.

They didn't name me but it was clear they were talking about me, hence the reason someone forwarded me the email.