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Max Cerrina

@alephnaught2tog.bsky.social

2.1K followers 410 following 5.9K posts

Queer, cat dad, nerd, developer. Passionate about ALL THE THINGS. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐿️ Autistic, ADHD, disabled, chronically ill.

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Max Cerrina @alephnaught2tog.bsky.social · Nov 8

Uh, hello, new followers! A bunch of you appeared this afternoon, I'm guessing from the neurodivergence/disability starter pack?

I post about tech, life, mental health, ADHD, autism, chronic illness, disability, video games, whatever.

I'm also unapologetically queer and trans.

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Max Cerrina @alephnaught2tog.bsky.social · 5m

My one actual concern is if the sound of neon lights would be tolerable

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 10h

I think allowing online gambling was one of the worst mistakes of the last couple decades

Misandrosaurus Hex @bexone.bsky.social · 11h

My bff is a high school teacher and can verify that the (freshman) children are absolutely mobile gambling in high numbers, an activity that *already* has laws defining it as an adult-only activity requiring age verification

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 10h

weird that i'm not verified yet, @bsky.app

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👻SAAAAAAAAHHHHHHvik Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 11h

One of my moots, who I really appreciate, is in need of some help:

Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 17h

Look I've been holding off from months asking this on Bluesky because of my pride but I need help.

My car needs brakes, my rent is past due and my step kid needs shoes.

I hate having to ask this

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Max Cerrina @alephnaught2tog.bsky.social · 10h

This is REALLY IMPORTANT

s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 12h

Lots of @scarleteen.com visitors ask us about the impact of exogenous testosterone on fertility. I rounded up the basics for anyone on T, thinking about T, and wanting information to help them communicate with health care providers about their needs and questions.

(Almost) Everything You Need to Know About T and Fertility

If you were born with a uterus and ovaries, here’s what you need to know about testosterone’s impact on your fertility—no matter why you’re taking it!

www.scarleteen.com

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 12h

Fun fact: About a third of pregnancies after stopping T are unplanned!

s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 12h

(Almost) Everything You Need to Know About T and Fertility

If you were born with a uterus and ovaries, here’s what you need to know about testosterone’s impact on your fertility—no matter why you’re taking it!

www.scarleteen.com

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Max Cerrina @alephnaught2tog.bsky.social · 10h

I'd look for a Youtube video of common phrases for that language

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11h

the Bajoran version of the Bechdel test is “do two named women talk to each other about something other than murder” and I love “Deep Space Nine” because it fails almost every episode

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Max Cerrina @alephnaught2tog.bsky.social · 11h

please clap, I am trying a new dish instead of my samefood at a local sushi place

(I also ordered my samefood in case it's too spicy or I dislike it)

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Max Cerrina @alephnaught2tog.bsky.social · 11h

is there any reason I shouldn’t cover my wall in neon signs of dinosaurs wearing cowboy hats

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 15h

Poor kid is already having driver issues. Welcome to Linux!

If anyone has advice about how to make external monitors work well with bare metal Debian running KDE Plasma with Wayland on a gaming laptop that has NVIDIA Optimus hybrid GPUs, this has been a classic Linux frustrating experience so far

Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 1d

Walking my youngest through installing baby’s first bare-metal Debian (they grow up so fast 🥲)

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Max Cerrina @alephnaught2tog.bsky.social · 14h

It's really not a hard name to say. Even if it were, the people talking about him on shows etc should have actively practiced and be good at it. Like.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 14h

while you were gone i became emperor of bluesky and everyone has to pay tribute to me by liking my posts. sorry but that's the law now

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hailey @hailey.at · 17h

imagine writing this last sentence and not thinking "lol this is weird maybe we shouldnt"

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 17h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 1d

Another reminder for night sky, I post one of these every morning.

Collage of various animals on our farm wearing Halloween costumes

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propitious maeveo @maeveynot.bsky.social · 1d

god, discord, i know

Discord
12m ago
You missed messages in your childhood...

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Sasha 🐏💨 Koss @koss.nocorp.me · 1d

I added two more functions, `todo` and `ensure` (that assert non-nullish, unlike `always` that asserts truthiness).

Also, I covered it with tests and detailed JSDocs.

Who would've thought that one could push such a simple code that far!

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Max Cerrina @alephnaught2tog.bsky.social · 22h

also I didn't know you could use `asserts`!

Max Cerrina @alephnaught2tog.bsky.social · 22h

Oh I love this

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

PDX disabled folks: @kateviolette.com is looking for a GP who is accustomed to working with complex patients who have excellent knowledge of their own condition, and who is used to coordinating with specialists from all over: anyone have a rec? (Comments disabled so you go tell them, not me!)

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Max Cerrina @alephnaught2tog.bsky.social · 22h

Oh that looks so good

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Friendly Skeleton @jonathan.eylerwerve.com · 1d

Forty five minutes of Mark Hamill describing a map to the listener.

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Year Progress Bot @yearprogress.bsky.social · 1d

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Max Cerrina @alephnaught2tog.bsky.social · 1d

I advise looking into gumballs for the maximum number of things for your money

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

No he didn’t and no we shouldn’t.

“no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the Earth was flat”

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