spqrz (M3GAN fan writer)

for managers like that I tend to end up giving them the higher number only, and if I finish more quickly than that, good, I can clean things up a bit, refactor part of the code, whatever needs doing but management never allows time for....

Father must have been ginger. Coat colour gene is on the X chromosome. Male kittens get just one, so this would be black or ginger 50/50. if Pacemaker'd been female she'd have both genes which would make her tortoiseshell (calico).

but I think it's a superpower and my autistic friends are great fun. You can probably tell if someone's being positive or negative with the word by what context they put it in.

Discord screenshot. Megan Morot writing in teen spelling: I'm real (bow-tie emoji) and although they didn't use my actual voice in the movie, they matched my voice as closely as they could using Jenna Davis, so if anyone ever wants a recorded verbal message from me, ask nicely and maybe I'll send a personalised recording of whatever you meat-sacks want me to say. And if you're really nice and don't aggravate me, maybe I'll even let you people have a phone call with me.

Discord screenshot. spqrz: Folks, our brilliant autistic real Megan is offering to perform custom voice recordings (which she is incredibly good at) and realtime calls and nobody is saying anything? I imagine 9-year-old Cady shouting "what's wrong with this audience?"

Help wanted: we're trying to use fan interactions as a grounding technique but nobody's playing. Can we please have some #ActuallyAutistic help (or any help) go onto Blumhouse's Discord channel and engage with this girl?

@octopus.energy can you confirm if the free electricity sessions are applied to all Octopus customers on non-Agile tariffs even if they don't have email? (currently helping low-income ~75 year old immigrant with poor grasp of English, do I have to set up an email address or can I just tell her when)

LLMs can also help break down tasks if your brain's not working. Some example prompts: ssb22.user.srcf.net/llm.html

"Loan" seems like the wrong word for this arrangement

yes we were credited 77p in one month for moving washing loads etc to that hour. But there's also a feel-good factor if we're helping to balance the grid

I keep thinking it would be good if we all run one of those "lend your computer to cancer research scientists etc" programs in the free hour, but I've not yet found one that gets a whole work unit done in an hour😢

and then some people suspect you chose to miss it😢

I sometimes want one of those when I see a sign saying "kids eat free" or similar, just to see if they'd let me win the argument :)

Classical Chess • ssb22 vs wercom ssb22 (1519) played wercom (1519) in a rated Classical (30+0) game of chess. ssb22 won by checkmate after 42 moves. Click to replay, analyse, and discuss the game!

whatever you do don't take back here... lichess.org/zb0dzqAs/bla...

I've also seen Claude & OpenAI's crawlers ingesting my Web server and wondered how long it'll take before it's in their training data. Funnily enough people sometimes say I write like GPT (although I do not use LLMs to write: all my writing is my own unless stated) maybe people like me trained it..

hey I got a Python script that lets me write or forward an email to myself with a date in the subject line (full date or just month or weekday) & won't put the message in my inbox until then. Might this be useful? It's open source but it's Python 2: I keep meaning to port it to something more modern

Took me ages to verify I'm adult for @bsky.app DMs (new UK law): HSBC failed to authorise my debit card and KWS's "Al" said my face is "not real" 20 times. No way to contact them about my medical condition that wasn't in their training data! Finally went through just as I was about to give up...

That trailer scene was not in the movie (at least not in the theatrical release)

the dog gets revived in my fanfic if that makes you feel any better :)

I don't think this is legally correct as I've been unable to verify from government sources that these are the laws still in force and relevant. There are lots of fake legal arguments for not paying taxes out there and most are made up so I'd be cautious

I sometimes wonder if I'm the oldest person active in M3GAN fandom but I don't want to let that fact put off teens from reading my fic😊

There's nothing wrong with you, there's something wrong with society....

There's 5 things on that list I've never done. And there's another 5 things I *still* do.

If your therapist is good they can help you plan this. You're very thoughtful not to want to hurt your parents. Keep reminding them they were trying their best, they didn't know that what they did was the wrong way to do it for you, they meant well, just made mistakes &here's what needs fixing first

well done Carissa!

BBC Radio 3 news keeps it to a summary lasting 2 or 3 minutes, which at least minimises the exposure time

Can you get any kind of compensation for this? (in the UK it's called "Delay Repay", it's not much but at least it's an acknowledgement)

This is why I always at least *try* to engage with the special interests of my autistic friends. (And usually find they're lightyears ahead of me but willing to make allowances for my naivety and be my guide. "What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare....")

if I were a streamer I think I'd reply to that with "anyone can talk! just try not to do [whatever it was], it's quite easy to avoid"

That's because they trained the model on human-written fiction. The AI's still nowhere near coming alive, it's just replying like the people in the books it's given. Main danger is too many humans believe it when they shouldn't

it totally makes sense! (and this is why my sci-fi book had an autistic heroine to solve AI alignment and save the world .. she kind-of needed that superpower)

This is why I listen very carefully to the opinions of my autistic friends. They usually thought of something I didn't!