Lia
@liasae.bsky.social
French-Swedish UI game engine plumber, textile tangler (Fibraquarelle) and glassblower-in-training. DIYing public health since 2020. Ranter extraordinaire. Queer. No pronouns, else they/iel/hen.
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Sri Lanka is hit hard by Cyclone Ditwah with severe flooding across the island. Over a hundred and fifty are dead, and tens of thousands are displaced. Some ways you can help:
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Cyclone Ditwah Flood Relief Sri Lanka
How to donate to Sri Lankan flood relief initiatives in the wake of Cyclone Ditwah.
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November 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Sri Lanka is hit hard by Cyclone Ditwah with severe flooding across the island. Over a hundred and fifty are dead, and tens of thousands are displaced. Some ways you can help:
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Getting to meet the Baten Kaitos microfandom was fantastic though it’s less fantastic I had to do that to cope with the Swedish State epidemiologist telling everyone masks were useless and everything was fine IN OCTOBER 2020 while my other home country was in lockdown the second
What's a charming memory you have from the worst period of the pandemic?
November 29, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Getting to meet the Baten Kaitos microfandom was fantastic though it’s less fantastic I had to do that to cope with the Swedish State epidemiologist telling everyone masks were useless and everything was fine IN OCTOBER 2020 while my other home country was in lockdown the second
Yup sure love being accused of bigotry for such inflammatory statements as “this book sucks because it builds a framework that assumes people like me don’t exist” or “this theorist harasses people online and ignores vital criticism of the political dangers of the stuff she’s trying to modernize”
November 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Yup sure love being accused of bigotry for such inflammatory statements as “this book sucks because it builds a framework that assumes people like me don’t exist” or “this theorist harasses people online and ignores vital criticism of the political dangers of the stuff she’s trying to modernize”
If you were wondering whether Reem Alsalem (UN special rapporteur on violence against women and girls) has stopped being an anti-trans (and anti-porn and anti-surrogacy) piece of shit, the answer is no
WoPAI tweetade i samband med IDEVAWby länken till filmen och skriver att de anser att transvård och byte av juridiskt kön är industrier som förbygger diskriminering av kvinnor.
November 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
If you were wondering whether Reem Alsalem (UN special rapporteur on violence against women and girls) has stopped being an anti-trans (and anti-porn and anti-surrogacy) piece of shit, the answer is no
Cursed knowledge is seeing GOG sweeping in as Defenders Of Free Speech and still holding grudges against them for historically being more on the “freeze peach” side of things.
Did they ever formally apologize for the GG shit or is that just water under bridges as always?
Did they ever formally apologize for the GG shit or is that just water under bridges as always?
November 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Cursed knowledge is seeing GOG sweeping in as Defenders Of Free Speech and still holding grudges against them for historically being more on the “freeze peach” side of things.
Did they ever formally apologize for the GG shit or is that just water under bridges as always?
Did they ever formally apologize for the GG shit or is that just water under bridges as always?
This! Struggling (however little) means I am constantly learning, reinforcing neural pathways, finding new patterns. I’m also committing the codebase to my brain so I can think through it holistically and improve things.
The chatbot can’t do that BECAUSE IT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND SEMANTICS
The chatbot can’t do that BECAUSE IT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND SEMANTICS
i suspect people severely underestimate the negative cognitive effects of using AI tools. even for programming tasks. and even if you are someone who gets real efficiency gains from those tools; perhaps especially then
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This! Struggling (however little) means I am constantly learning, reinforcing neural pathways, finding new patterns. I’m also committing the codebase to my brain so I can think through it holistically and improve things.
The chatbot can’t do that BECAUSE IT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND SEMANTICS
The chatbot can’t do that BECAUSE IT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND SEMANTICS
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I have written this thread up into a blog post, it has more extensive links to sources & previous conversations about fake content & users on the internet. It's easier to share, if you want to make sure your friends don't get caught in that honeypot of a corporate blogpost aramzs.xyz/microblogs/d...
Don't trust the human slop telling you how much of the web is AI slop
Is a lot of the web algorithmically created content? Possibly! But don't share the argument that's trying to sell you on creating more fake content.
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November 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I have written this thread up into a blog post, it has more extensive links to sources & previous conversations about fake content & users on the internet. It's easier to share, if you want to make sure your friends don't get caught in that honeypot of a corporate blogpost aramzs.xyz/microblogs/d...
COULD THE PRÉFET DU NORD STOP BEING GARBAGE FOR FIVE GODDAMN MINUTES
BREAKING | French police agree to intercept migrant ‘taxi boats’ at sea, according to reports
France agrees to stop migrant boats at sea after pressure from Starmer
French police agree to intercept migrant ‘taxi boats’ at sea, according to reports
www.independent.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
COULD THE PRÉFET DU NORD STOP BEING GARBAGE FOR FIVE GODDAMN MINUTES
I should know better than to ask the cheesemonger for The Good Stuff because it’s probably not normal for one bite of very aged goat cheese to make my ear canals itch
November 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I should know better than to ask the cheesemonger for The Good Stuff because it’s probably not normal for one bite of very aged goat cheese to make my ear canals itch
Cool cool cool LA grosse asso locale sur les violences domestiques (cis-centrée comme d’hab mébon) est en train d’exploser et de focaliser sur les auteurs plutôt que les victimes www.mediacites.fr/enquete/lill...
Référence de l’aide aux femmes victimes de violences, Solfa voit sa vocation remise en cause
«J’étais au téléphone avec une femme victime de violences. Son mari a débarqué pendant l’appel. Je ne savais pas quoi lui dire : je n’étais pas sûre d’avoir de nuit d’hôtel à lui proposer si je lui de...
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November 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Cool cool cool LA grosse asso locale sur les violences domestiques (cis-centrée comme d’hab mébon) est en train d’exploser et de focaliser sur les auteurs plutôt que les victimes www.mediacites.fr/enquete/lill...
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In this week’s @strangehorizons.bsky.social, one of my favourite pieces I’ve edited this year — on orientalism from Star Trek to Game of Thrones.
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence,” by Tanvir Ahmed —
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Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence,” by Tanvir Ahmed —
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Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence
Dragon fire on white bodies is sad. Dragon fire on not-Muslim bodies is cheered on the screen. We ache when the scimitar prows of not-Muslim ships cleave through a white human captain’s ship. But b…
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November 28, 2025 at 9:24 AM
In this week’s @strangehorizons.bsky.social, one of my favourite pieces I’ve edited this year — on orientalism from Star Trek to Game of Thrones.
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence,” by Tanvir Ahmed —
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence,” by Tanvir Ahmed —
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Kinda baffled to see so many people engage with the PETA thanksgiving post as if it’s a legit thing the org posted and not obviously OP’s own artstyle. It immediately read as a riff off previous campaigns of theirs to me - I’ve yet to see evidence otherwise such as A GODDAMN LINK
November 28, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Kinda baffled to see so many people engage with the PETA thanksgiving post as if it’s a legit thing the org posted and not obviously OP’s own artstyle. It immediately read as a riff off previous campaigns of theirs to me - I’ve yet to see evidence otherwise such as A GODDAMN LINK
There’s another Trans Emigration From The USA article and it quotes someone going “I don’t feel that privileged to be able to leave” immediately followed by “I have white skin and I am able to stay in Portugal despite not finding work in a year” (paraphrase mine), give me a fucking break
November 28, 2025 at 1:24 AM
There’s another Trans Emigration From The USA article and it quotes someone going “I don’t feel that privileged to be able to leave” immediately followed by “I have white skin and I am able to stay in Portugal despite not finding work in a year” (paraphrase mine), give me a fucking break
So when I tell French people that DGR is *really fucking bad news*, that’s why. They’re not just a bit weird, they’re genuinely awful top to bottom
I know we're all focusing on the chat gpt thing but this is an absolutely insane way for the observer and also glinner to refer to an ecofacsist who believes that trans people were invented by jews to eliminate humanity and that mass bombing campaigns should happen for the enviroment.
November 28, 2025 at 12:16 AM
So when I tell French people that DGR is *really fucking bad news*, that’s why. They’re not just a bit weird, they’re genuinely awful top to bottom
This one's been cooking for months but I finally managed to hammer it into probably-slightly-blasphemous shape. Contrary to public opinion, I am in fact neither the pope nor a saint - yes it's about covid again: lia-sae.net/articles/202...
Lia's blog - I am not the goddamn pope
Though maybe I should charge for indulgences since so many people seem to want one?
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November 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM
This one's been cooking for months but I finally managed to hammer it into probably-slightly-blasphemous shape. Contrary to public opinion, I am in fact neither the pope nor a saint - yes it's about covid again: lia-sae.net/articles/202...
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"Les enjeux politiques du déni pandémique: petit guide de ressources à l’attention des camarades militant’es"
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Les enjeux politiques du déni pandémique: petit guide de ressources à l’attention des camarades militant’es
Zine réalisé par Rimona Eskayo et Sheyam Ghieth : Le covid est un sujet pour la classe travailleuse : portez un masque au travail et sur les piquets de grève. [Texte initialement paru dans la lettr…
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November 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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“Many competent tools are built with dear imgui these days”
And how many of those are accessible to screen reader users or people who need solid keyboard navigation, do tell?
(This is not Omar’s fault it’s a systematic failure of most game engine devs to be curious about tools and UI)
And how many of those are accessible to screen reader users or people who need solid keyboard navigation, do tell?
(This is not Omar’s fault it’s a systematic failure of most game engine devs to be curious about tools and UI)
November 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
“Many competent tools are built with dear imgui these days”
And how many of those are accessible to screen reader users or people who need solid keyboard navigation, do tell?
(This is not Omar’s fault it’s a systematic failure of most game engine devs to be curious about tools and UI)
And how many of those are accessible to screen reader users or people who need solid keyboard navigation, do tell?
(This is not Omar’s fault it’s a systematic failure of most game engine devs to be curious about tools and UI)
“Bird flu could affect healthy individuals, including children, unlike COVID-19”.
What in the Tegnell-helvete is this bullshit? We’ve got a giant pile of data saying long covid is real, can hit everyone “healthy” or not and is dire in kids, c’mon!
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
What in the Tegnell-helvete is this bullshit? We’ve got a giant pile of data saying long covid is real, can hit everyone “healthy” or not and is dire in kids, c’mon!
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Bird flu virus could risk pandemic worse than COVID if it mutates, France's Institut Pasteur says
The bird flu virus that has been spreading among wild birds, poultry and mammals could lead to a pandemic worse than COVID-19 if it mutates to transmit between humans, the head of France's Institut Pa...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
“Bird flu could affect healthy individuals, including children, unlike COVID-19”.
What in the Tegnell-helvete is this bullshit? We’ve got a giant pile of data saying long covid is real, can hit everyone “healthy” or not and is dire in kids, c’mon!
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
What in the Tegnell-helvete is this bullshit? We’ve got a giant pile of data saying long covid is real, can hit everyone “healthy” or not and is dire in kids, c’mon!
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Folks. Please. Payment processors aren’t behind EVERYTHING, if Valve mentioned concerns about *minors* then it’s not about payment processors, it’s about laws. Some of the scariest laws in existence if you host content online.
(I’m not saying they’re CORRECT)
See: denise.dreamwidth.org/91757.html
(I’m not saying they’re CORRECT)
See: denise.dreamwidth.org/91757.html
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November 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Folks. Please. Payment processors aren’t behind EVERYTHING, if Valve mentioned concerns about *minors* then it’s not about payment processors, it’s about laws. Some of the scariest laws in existence if you host content online.
(I’m not saying they’re CORRECT)
See: denise.dreamwidth.org/91757.html
(I’m not saying they’re CORRECT)
See: denise.dreamwidth.org/91757.html
I wish this went a bit *more* historical - ‘cause the theory goes further back than that - and didn’t commit the usual crime of flattening transmasculinity and trans manhood but it’s a convenient overview of recent strands of theory solomonskalozub.blogspot.com/2025/11/tran...
Trans Men/Mascs in Storytelling, Part One (7) How to Make a Monster
“If they are recognized as transmasculine, even if they can navigate the world as men, transmasculine individuals become subject to degend...
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November 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I wish this went a bit *more* historical - ‘cause the theory goes further back than that - and didn’t commit the usual crime of flattening transmasculinity and trans manhood but it’s a convenient overview of recent strands of theory solomonskalozub.blogspot.com/2025/11/tran...
I can’t yell at people in distress to stop using ChatGPT to write emails but every message with idiosyncratic bolding is making my eye twitch and that’s an actual problem aaaaaaaaaaa
It’s actually harder to read! The bolding makes for weird, inhuman pacing and it’s NOT EVEN CORRECT EMPHASIS
It’s actually harder to read! The bolding makes for weird, inhuman pacing and it’s NOT EVEN CORRECT EMPHASIS
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I can’t yell at people in distress to stop using ChatGPT to write emails but every message with idiosyncratic bolding is making my eye twitch and that’s an actual problem aaaaaaaaaaa
It’s actually harder to read! The bolding makes for weird, inhuman pacing and it’s NOT EVEN CORRECT EMPHASIS
It’s actually harder to read! The bolding makes for weird, inhuman pacing and it’s NOT EVEN CORRECT EMPHASIS
Goddamnit jeweler nerds in my feed I CANNOT get into another Lifelong Calling And Never Stop Learning craft I already have three of those
November 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Goddamnit jeweler nerds in my feed I CANNOT get into another Lifelong Calling And Never Stop Learning craft I already have three of those
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Thing is, the "closure" was only a red rope between two brass poles. So it was entirely possible to sneak in and since it was officially off limits, stay in there undiscovered for a while.
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Thing is, the "closure" was only a red rope between two brass poles. So it was entirely possible to sneak in and since it was officially off limits, stay in there undiscovered for a while.
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"We used the symbolism of Yom Kippur not to comment on Judaism, but to place the conflict within the oldest human ritual of confronting what we have collectively done – and allowed. It is, therefore, a day of atonement for all of us; Gaza will need many such days."
Laibach Interview on 21st Century Trauma, Gaza And Algorithmic Control - RetroFuturista
Laibach's Ivan Novak discusses Gaza requiem 'Yom Kippur' with Palestinian choir, spectator complicity, and 21st century trauma. Out October 23.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"We used the symbolism of Yom Kippur not to comment on Judaism, but to place the conflict within the oldest human ritual of confronting what we have collectively done – and allowed. It is, therefore, a day of atonement for all of us; Gaza will need many such days."
Those are beautiful shots with impeccably evocative alt-text, highly recommend a gander if you enjoy postcards from places that don’t exist
And with that, my full Elden Ring Photography Tour is now complete: www.robhainescreative.space/collections/...
Any signal boosts would be much appreciated!
Any signal boosts would be much appreciated!
Elden Ring Photography Tour
Writing, visual art and miscellaneous creativity by Rob Haines
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November 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Those are beautiful shots with impeccably evocative alt-text, highly recommend a gander if you enjoy postcards from places that don’t exist