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Willa

@willawillnot.bsky.social

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🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her | Baltimore | 29 | Electrical engineer working on prosthetics 🦾

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Willa @willawillnot.bsky.social · 12h

literally i think the prerequisite is just Doing Fucking Anything About It

any single thing that takes it out of the realm of your brain and into reality

Willa @willawillnot.bsky.social · 12h

holy shit there's actually a fucking "baeddel" labeler? dweebiest transmisogyny of all time. no swag. just call me an evil tranny already

Willa @willawillnot.bsky.social · 23h

"i'm not going over that bridge. bridges are terrible. my static analysis class is really hard"

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𝔸𝕝𝕖𝕒 𝕃𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕪 @alea.bsky.social · 1d

Wow!

If I wasn't autistic and hadn't spent years practicing literally every "subconscious" gesture and expression so that I can blend in with neurotypical people, I would worry that they would simply use the machine to deny me needed medication.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

PainChek is one of these behavioral models, and it acts like a camera‑based thermometer, but for pain: A care worker opens the app and holds a phone 30 centimeters from a person’s face. For three seconds, a neural network looks for nine particular microscopic movements—upper‑lip raise, brow pinch, cheek tension, and so on—that research has linked most strongly to pain. Then the screen flashes a score of 0 to 42. “There’s a catalogue of ‘action‑unit codes’—facial expressions common to all humans. Nine of those are associated with pain,” explains Kreshnik Hoti, a senior research scientist with PainChek and a co-inventor of the device. This system is built directly on the foundation of FACS. After the scan, the app walks the user through a yes‑or‑no checklist of other signs, like groaning, “guarding,” and sleep disruption, and stores the result on a cloud dashboard that can show trends.

Willa @willawillnot.bsky.social · 1d

i'd say who provides the knockoff vaginas but they're litigious 🙃

Willa @willawillnot.bsky.social · 1d

i didn't originally like the taste of coffee, but i deliberately cultivated a taste for it because i felt (correctly) like i was missing out on a meaningful art by having no appreciation for it. still primarily a tea girl, but if a friend offers me their way of making coffee? i'm stoked.

Willa @willawillnot.bsky.social · 1d

coffee and tea are culinary artforms with centuries of history across a huge variety of cultures around the world, but coffee is a "drink with no nutritional value and many substitutes"

Willa @willawillnot.bsky.social · 1d

okay but that's a completely different thing than what you were warning about in your first post. that's an external threat, not an internal one.

Willa @willawillnot.bsky.social · 1d

but there is no concrete "people" to believe here. you're sounding the alarm about a hypothetical.

i'm not sure what has you on edge, but I'm sure it's something real. we have to be honest about what we're seeing right now, about what things are warnings and what things are fears and anxieties.

Willa @willawillnot.bsky.social · 1d

i literally haven't even heard his name since like 2015 and he doesn't even remotely claim transness. why would we assume responsibility for the cis gays' reactionaries? they can keep him.

Willa @willawillnot.bsky.social · 1d

getting paranoid looking for reactionaries in our midst at *this* moment is exactly what the fascists want. they don't want us acting in total unity in the face of emergency. because doing that actually works. history shows us that, too.

Willa @willawillnot.bsky.social · 1d

even the *existing* trans reactionaries are already getting pushed aside because fascists have moved past the manufacturing consent phase into the open exterminationism phase.

i don't think we're gonna see *new* ones cropping up, there's no audience.

Willa @willawillnot.bsky.social · 1d

this is so fucking funny because there very famously *is* universal access to custom coochie in cuba!

as provided by their world class doctors, because cuba has proven that a socialist state can become incredibly good at knowledge work even when under heavy blockade of material goods.

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 2d

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen
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Transsexualism as we conceive of it in America is bourgeois, the product of a society that venerates the freedom of an individual to choose. There is no designer vagina under communism, I'm sorry.

Willa @willawillnot.bsky.social · 2d

you can still have it apply the label during the appeal process, just like the status quo. this is just a change in presentation.

and you don't need to offer this reminder-you-can-appeal prompt for every type of flag. probably just the less serious ones.

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BigNoseGirl @oliviacruz.net · 2d

Progesterone

Willa @willawillnot.bsky.social · 2d

Basically exactly how it works now, except reframed to highlight user agency - you can and should proactively label your content, you can and should use appeals to correct erroneous automated mod decisions.

Willa @willawillnot.bsky.social · 2d

Agreed, and I think a way to improve the culture around this would be for the automod to ask the author when it flags one of the less severe flags (e.g. regular nudity.) "Does this contain nudity," Y/N, if user says no then automatically put it in the human review queue.

Willa @willawillnot.bsky.social · 2d

listen a big part of why i got vaginoplasty was easier bottoming, i'm sure there's at least a few strict bottom cis gay guys out there who are willing to commit to the bit

Willa @willawillnot.bsky.social · 2d

anyway DM me if you want to get involved in an effort to pass a previously tabled bill to make maryland stop housing trans people strictly by their genitals, and ban staff from responding to complaints of transphobic abuse by putting the trans victim in "protective" solitary confinement

Willa @willawillnot.bsky.social · 2d

lot of people in these replies and elsewhere on the internet going "wow, can't figure out things are bad until you experience them yourself? conservative hypocrisy, amirite?" meanwhile they've never lifted a finger for prison reform, let alone abolition

onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

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wunk @wunk.bsky.social · Sep 13

My two halves 🧠
#art #pixel

Willa @willawillnot.bsky.social · 3d

few better feelings than realizing that both cats have silently teleported into your room while you weren't looking 🙂

Willa @willawillnot.bsky.social · 4d

if i'm writing a story with a polyamory, i'm gonna make someone hopelessly in love with their partner's ex who said partner cannot stand

Cause Problems On Purpose: The Artform

Sara Hinkley @boneysoups.bsky.social · 4d

Someone at the TVL NYCC panel asked if the writers had considered "solving" the louis-lestat-armand love triangle with a throuple and the response was an emphatic NO (lol) and i have a take brewing that readers/fans are drawn to imagining solutions where writers are more about loving problems

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nel gosh @thunderflower.bsky.social · 5d

i want trans women to read my poetry. i am writing for you, trans women

Willa @willawillnot.bsky.social · 5d

am i the only one in this thread who likes them because i just eat my lunch during them