I’m undecided about whether to go for pixelfed or flashes. Was there something that attracted you more to flashes?

Oh wow, so cool! I really want to do this but i think it would interfere with Finnish language immersion. Would be so fun to surprise my dad with the language of his childhood!

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Stephanie Moran, Elizabeth Mputu, Maggie Roberts, Legacy Russell, Lucy A Sames, Victoria Sin, Giulia Smith, Megan Snowe, Linda Stupart, Ayesha Tan Jones and Faith Wilding

I understand that museums are under increasing financial pressure, so why would they get an independent to do anything they have done internally? So they get people like me to do the bare minimum for maximal extraction.

combining processes of cybernetic divination with mystical knowledge making, the systems that are set in motion are both a self-reflective analogy for AI and a challenge to a predisposed idealisation of AI as a rational tool." 3/3

"Her discourse on embodied cognition and wet computing lays bare the messiness of matter meeting, alway more than the sum of its parts. As she offers her body to become an oracular collaborator with non-human life, 2/3

Yep, Signal better than Telegram. At the moment I seem to just be adding more messaging services rather than getting rid of any 😵‍💫

Thanks for recommendation, I heard of pixelfed or similar then lost the reference! Will look into it and try to bring more over from insta. I even tried to instigate a shift away from WhatsApp in various groups as that’s owned by Meta. Feels like uphill struggle but worth pursuing the exodus!

Of course. Have you got an account on alternative image sharing platform?

I have noticed as a cancer patient how much the material directed at patients and also getting yourself checked is so White. "Cancer does not discriminate, and neither should cancer care" (DOI: 10.6004/jnccn.2023.7078 5/5

You are now living in your nightmare and from that point onwards it’s the stuff of cinema in your head. When you close your eyes you can see cells rushing around your body, lodging themselves in little crevices and starting to multiply. In a bad, monstrous way 4/5

The metaphor is almost too much, for White people, that the monstrosity you see in other people, those poor bald people with cancer who you take pity on, you are them. So when you are told you DO have cancer, it is an actual living nightmare 3/5

How many people suffer from the anxiety that they have cancer? It’s a kind of shameful anxiety (at least I was ashamed before I had a diagnosis) which I suspect is one of the most common anxieties that exists 2/5