Sally Strange
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Contacting Sally Strange

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@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe

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Sally Strange's Bio

Chronic illness, probably neurodivergent. White & anti-whiteness.
Liberals DNI. Just kidding, I love you liberals. Don't block me just because I'm right

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Sally Strange has 243 posts.


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I can't believe they just announced the Anita Bryant Memorial Gender Neutral Restroom. It's sure to be a destination on many summer vacation plans.


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Micr0byte

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Recently, Altbot has been targeted by DDoS attacks. While the motive is unclear, it seems tied to a misguided belief that the bot’s alt-text generation is harmful to the environment. Let me set the record straight.

Altbot uses Gemini-1.5-flash, a specifically low-power AI model. Processing a single alt-text request consumes around 0.0005 kWh, meaning that in the 4 months since I created Altbot—and tens of thousands of alt-text entries generated—it has consumed roughly 10 kWh in total. That’s about the same energy as running a single LED light bulb nonstop for 41 days or driving an electric car just 40 miles.

These DDoS attacks, however, have already consumed more electricity and computing power than Altbot has across its entire existence... in a matter of hours. This means the attacks have caused more environmental harm than the very thing they seem to be protesting.

Altbot exists to improve accessibility on Mastodon, not to harm the environment. Accessibility and sustainability can coexist, and I’m committed to keeping Altbot energy-efficient and purposeful.

If there are concerns, I encourage constructive dialogue—not destructive actions that undermine both inclusivity and sustainability.

Thank you to everyone supporting Altbot’s mission of making the Fediverse more accessible for all.


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Fuck Work

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Just heard a reporter call the LA chief of police out for lying about looting.

"I have been out here for the last 2 days and haven't seen any looting and neither has anybody I work with. Is this really something we should be concerned about?"

But you know LAPD, any excuse to show off their police state monopoly on violence.


Tags: #copaganda #curfews #losangeles

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Lesley Carhart :unverified:

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If anyone is like, overwhelmed with a plethora of extra United miles, I wouldn’t like, say no, to have the luxury of scoping out Melbourne and bringing a few extra things before I move. If you just have some you don’t know what to do with.


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Ron Chusid :verified:

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It is not certain that bird flu will become a pandemic but the risk is too great to ignore. Biden seriously damaged public health the last few years, failing to take either H5N1 or Covid seriously enough, and it is doubtful that Trump will do any better.

fortune.com/well/2025/01/09/bi


Tags: #h5n1 #COVID

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James Davis Nicoll

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When The Earth Was Green by Riley Black

The long relationship between plants and animals on Earth.

jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/wh


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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:

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I know everyone has been worn down by years of propaganda telling you to sacrifice your health for capitalism, but please understand that wildfire smoke is no joke. Its particles can penetrate deep into your lungs and bloodstream. Please wear a N95 or P100 mask at all times you are exposed.


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FinchHaven

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@cbarbermd

People who are not actively following this enormous disaster have no Idea of the scope of "massive California wildfire"

I follow @ai6yr at infosec.exchange/lists/7279

He does storm and fire tracking in Southern California particularly, but nationally too

This was 18 minutes ago

"Start planning for Oak Park to be impacted. Launching 5 closest engines from VNC."

Edit @ 3:21 PM PST

" -- Oak Park and Agoura need to be on top of this. They are evacuating people, RROS. "

Edit @ 3:28 PM PST

"Update MANDATORY EVACUATION ORDER Brush Fire - Kennith Fire (name update); INC#1365; 03:12PM; 24850 W Victory Bl; MAP: bit.ly/3C2XV2k; Woodland Hills; The Kenneth Fire is burning south (updated). LAFD is issuing a Mandatory Evacuation Order for Vanowen south to Burbank Blvd. County Lane Road east to E Valley Circle Blvd. This is an immediate evacuation order for all residents within this area.; "

His final update @ 3:40 PM PST

"I will not be posting much, Kenneth Fire is heading this way. Hopefully folks at Watch Duty will step up to this one. Good luck, folks. "

See: app.watchduty.org/i/40508


Tags: #kennethfire #agoura #oakpark #kennethfire #agoura #oakpark #kennethfire #agoura #oakpark #kennethfire #agoura #oakpark #kennethfire #agoura #oakpark #kennethfire #agoura #oakpark #venturacounty

Mentions: @cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

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Julie Webgirl - Just Your Luck

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Wow. Just wow.

Hi Aaron,
..I'm very excited for our summer expedition. However.. I read a substack by Nate Bear.. that detailed a outbreak on an arctic circle trip last summer.. sounded really, really rough.. I was just wondering if you could detail what covid.. precautions will be in place for this summer's sailing?
Thanks so much, Aaron. Really appreciate it!
Happy holidays,
Aaron

His response:

Fuck off Dr. Kreuter.
Aaron

donotpanic.news/p/the-arctic-p


Tags: #COVID

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stefshepardrox

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Hello! I'm an author for in multiple sub genres and romance. I'd like to connect with fellow writers and readers, other queers and everybody who is fighting against the global rise of rightwing parties. Let's connect, I need to fill my time line 😁


Tags: #fantasy #queer

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Christine Lemmer-Webber

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Hey remember how for years anyone interested in or working on decentralization was told "yeah but it's not moderatable, you need centralization for that"?

Isn't it funny how the two big centralized social media websites are now both "neo-nazis-are-cool-here" websites

Isn't it just a whole barrel of laughs


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b9AcE

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After civilians in the march were drone-bombed and artillery bombarded to death directly by Turkey, the march to protect the millions of civilians afflicted if Turkey's bombardments of Tişsrîn Dam bursts it, heroically continues marching:


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@peter @ecosurrealism @Brendanjones Just because you get a kick out of acting like a cop, it doesn't mean it meaningfully helps that agenda.
You are not really helping any cause except perhaps that of profit- and rent-seekers.
You are helping the other side to paint themselves as the good guys.


@SallyStrange
Cute.

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Mentions: @peter@mastodon.nl @ecosurrealism@jorts.horse

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alxd ✏️ solarpunk prompts

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I will need to make a new rule, "no AI will be used to promote or organize any of the events I'm taking part in".


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alxd ✏️ solarpunk prompts

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I was invited to give a talk on and climate protests at the University of Warsaw next Saturday (11th of Jan).

I wrote a summary of my talk and linked to the page containing (among other things) a lot of my essays on why using AI for climate communication is counterproductive. The same page also has a lot of intentionally-created Creative Commons illustrations to use.

Yet, the students organizing the talk decided to AI-generate a banner for my talk.

Eh xD


I will need to make a new rule, "no AI will be used to promote or organize any of the events I'm taking part in".

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Tags: #solarpunk

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Calishat

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"Google failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a privacy class action claiming it collected personal data from people's cellphones after they switched off a button to stop the tracking, paving the way for a possible August trial."

uk.news.yahoo.com/google-must-


Tags: #google #smartphones #privacy #legal #classactionlawsuits

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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:

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From a UCLA scientist 💔


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Sam Levine

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If you're in the LA area and wondering how you can help the UAW is organizing for finding people places to stay, transportation, & other aid.

They do ask for your chapter/local number, but my guess is that they only care about that if you need a place to stay and that if you want to help by letting people stay in a spare bedroom they might not care if you just choose "other"?

uc-uaw.jotform.com/25007484274


Tags: #palisadesfire #eatonfire #cawx #unionstrong

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