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Bee

@bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy

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Vegan. Cognitive dissident. Music slut. Professional technologist. Lives in a makeshift Faraday cage at the mercy of the elements. Gender abolitionist. Gay as in fuck your borders. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ tusky.pink/@bee, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

It's been a really interesting trip, owning and running a one-person instance. Time to simplify though, so I'm off and this instance will be shut down in due course. Find me @afloatingbea !

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social It’s not the People’s Front of Judea, it’s the Judean People’s Front! Splitter!

Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

@praetor @lgbtq Blending is so not the entire point. Passing privilege is nice and all but it’s not evenly distributed and, safety aside, nobody HAS to pass. Being trans is just being yourself, but outside the box you were assigned at birth. You erase trans men and non binary people here and […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

@brenttoderian.bsky.social love seeing an article saying 'we have five years to change these behaviours' and then realising it's from 2021 and we did not, in fact, change these behaviours.

Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

(Side note: I suspect this technical aptitude is why it took about ten years playing, singing and songwriting before anyone else in the family noticed I was also a performer!)

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

We love you @Codeberg blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-fl… > As an association, we believe that these technologies are incompatible with responsibly creating and maintaining free & open source software. [...] > The […] [Original post on neuromatch.social]

7. You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools (including services such as *Claude*, *OpenAI Codex*). Such projects having an unclear copyright status (see requirements § 2 (1) 1 and § 2 (1) 3) and furthermore have little safeguards to ensure that they do not include harmful code (c.f. § 2 (1) 5).

Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

#crowdfunding #trans #transHealth #topSurgery chuffed.org/project/help-n-get-top-… Sharing this for a dear friend from choir who, like many of us gender-wonky types, is having to work around, rather than with, the NHS to get the care they need. Three cheers for F*Choir's official […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

A little while back I learned something cool about my maternal grandmother, who I knew in life as a retired florist whose life revolved around her husband’s interests in a very traditional cishet way. Turns out she had a whole other life before marriage and working with my grandfather, and what […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

The final thought I have on this for now is about trans women in software. A lot of us transfeminine types are Good at Computer, to the extent that it's become a trope and a stereotype. I'm not sure I believe in gendered brains, but if they're a thing, perhaps coding really is 'women's work' […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

My grandmother died more than thirty years ago. I'm left with a lot of gratitude, and a good deal of regret for not ever knowing this side of her. And I'm sad that she didn't get to write actual code for general computation, because I bet she would have been incredible at it. Those analytical […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

I didn't think of Nana as an activist, and I don't think for a moment she did either. But I can see very clearly how on some level she was doing the work. Her insistence on her own independence and freedom to work as a young woman, and the affordances she created for me around the =very= rigid […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

Many years later, when I had finally come out to myself, one of the first shifts was a powerful sense of connection to her. I remember doing some baking and being so immersed in the memory of learning with her that it was as if her arms were around me like I was five, helping me hold the bowl […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

Nana happily taught me to bake, sew, and knit, and cooed over my infant attempts at cross stitch and tapestry. She was proud as hell that I could thread a needle and fix my own clothes. And when everyone else in the family was saying things like 'that boy's too soft' and 'he needs toughening up' […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

But there's another level to the personal stuff. There was no way in hell I was going to figure out my transness as a young kid in the 1970s. But there was one (and only one) person in my family who didn't on some level have a problem with me wanting to hang out with the other women and girls […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

Then there's the personal. My ability with systems and computers and code and such was a big surprise to my artsy, theatre-centric family. 'I don't know where [she] gets it' was a common refrain. Well, now I know where I get it. Just as Nana could look at a pile of punch cards and tell what […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

Then there's the intersection with class and comphet. When she got engaged, the factory owner begged her to call it off, because he knew that as a young middle class woman she would not stay in his workforce when she got married. This didn't apply to the women on the factory floor, who were […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

There are so many ways in which this is fascinating to me. First up there's the way in which this kind of essential, highly technical work on which the whole enterprise depends used to be thought of as 'women's work'. If you haven't seen the wonderful Hidden Figures I would highly recommend it […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

The machines were controlled by punch cards, abstract representations of the lace the machines would then produce. Margaret’s role was to come up with new and unique punchcards so that her factory could compete by producing unique and novel designs. And by all accounts she was spectacularly good […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

A little while back I learned something cool about my maternal grandmother, who I knew in life as a retired florist whose life revolved around her husband’s interests in a very traditional cishet way. Turns out she had a whole other life before marriage and working with my grandfather, and what […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

Welp, given unemployment and all that, I think it's probably time to migrate servers and shut this single-person instance down to save the ten bucks a month it costs to keep up. Pinning this so you can see it if you have to approve a follow from migrated-me!

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

[CW: transphobia, hate speech, threat] And they keep calling back and doing it again! I have now had to tell three increasingly senior cops to leave me the fuck alone (in slightly more polite terms. But only slightly.)

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

[CW: transphobia, hate speech, threat] So what happens when you report this kind of hate speech is the police call you up to misgender you. And they won’t log it without a face to face appointment, which presumably comes with a similar level of sensitivity. So that’s the last time I report that […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

[CW: transphobia, hate speech, threat] Buzzing with adrenaline after being followed around Tesco by a clearly unwell person who wanted me to know I was a 'f*cking tr*nny' and a 'subhuman' and describe what he wanted to do to me. Not my first bit of street harassment by any means but the first […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

[lewd] My phone pinged to tell me I'd signed for delivery of a new sex toy but I wasn't even in the house. Thought I was gonna have to go through some amusing and possibly slightly humiliating admin with Royal Mail until my partner discovered the postie had, in an unintentional act of […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

@gastonrampersad especially when the entire process was automated from the applicant's POV. Just replied to one of these with 'have you considered hiring a whip-smart, highly experienced woman to improve your feedback gathering processes?'

Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

Mondays are also for integrating the former keyboard of a soon to be much missed friend into the home music making setup, and discovering sometime in the last year I magically got better at piano without trying. I'm glad of the unexpected comfort of that find, in the midst of this precarity […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

Mondays are for restoring the living space to order from the chaos of parenting, contemplating the silence of the telephone, and wondering what is required to get it to ring. #jobhunting

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

In summary, then? 'This hot new development in AI' turns out to be three "use the AI less, do more thinking and designing"s in a trenchcoat, Also, since I had the job rejection that criticised me for being AI-naive, prompting this little project, I've had another telling me I had an, ahem […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

So wherever you want to eliminate stochasticism from the process, you have to put some determinism in. In human brains we call this 'reasoning'. Step away from the raw API call to the LLM and what you've got is primarily a good old fashioned deterministic computer program with enough spicy […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

See, 'agentic' just means 'has access to a bunch of functions that either access unsanitised input, make destructive changes, or both'. So we need guardrails. And it doesn't work to put the guardrails in the prompts when you're operating at any kind of scale. You still get a hecking _giant_ […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

Am I happy about this? Well. We all love making working software. And it was very fun being able to hook up a chat box, persuade the front end I'd just built to start editing itself, and see the changes hot reload. Mostly though? Really fascinating how the whole 'agentic' paradigm revolves […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

Two and a half days of light messing around and I have a functioning home-made #agenticAI coding assistant. Not as polished as Claude Code et al, but does a perfectly adequate job of RNGing valid code to a prompt and writing it to disk. Affords me the chance to talk about agentic workflows in […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

This is really going to be Binface’s day in the sun.

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

@FlohEinstein It’s even worse than that: any sufficiently competent sleight of hand may be hailed as technology

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

Another knockback today from interview process 7 of 10 so far. This one explicitly because they didn’t think I was sufficiently embracing AI. The problem is I just really don’t wanna. I’m going to build a hobby project running vs a locally hosted model just so I can demonstrate some skills and […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

CW; culture wars, unemployment Don’t you always wish you could tell that old auntie with terrible politics to fuck off?

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

How is #jobhunting going, you ask? Let's just say I wish my proven career experience as a woman counted for even 10% of what my unproven potential was worth when they thought I was a guy.

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

Looks like the celebrations are set to continue! Today’s highlight: escaping my bra undetected in a crowded Victoria line carriage #transitionGoals

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

Celebrating hot trans girl summer by buying a huge 12v beer fridge from Halfords, strapping it precariously onto the bike and teetering back to the boat to fill it with estrogen and makeup

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

Human agency and creativity in art is primary and that's why we should exercise great care in allowing generative AI into creative spaces. But also I want there to be a book called 'I, AI Ai Weiwei; The AI Ai Weiwei Way' (I'm sorry, my brain woke me up at 5am trying to do something with this […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

Kerb-sitting and outdoor summer drinking at #FirstTimersFest in Haggerston, where we are all just taking a break from hardcore punk bands to avoid disturbing the yoga class now kicking off in the next railway arch along, and I can’t think of anything more #hackney.

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

@ush.bsky.social I liked the bit where they stopped trying to milk trans people for incriminating quotes and started trying to interview the parliament Square day drinkers about trans people. That Colleen knows her audience.

Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

@ush.bsky.social ‘Reporters’ 🙄

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

[Transphobia, bathrooms] Performance art piece: glamorous woman enters public space, erects a tent made of paper and vanishes into it for 5 min, emerges and confidently walks off not taking questions Inside the tent; ⁃ graffiti of the words ‘THIRD SPACE’ ⁃ a neat baggie of used toilet paper ⁃ […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

[Transphobia, bathrooms] ‘Excuse me, I’m sorry, I really need the bathroom, can you tell me who I need to see to advocate for a third space?’

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

Oh, I am feeling salty today. But I started the day well. ⛴️ moved a boat 💩 did not comply with the draft EHRC code of practice

Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

[Uk transphobia] Let’s be clear though, it’s still a disaster. It means every fucking interaction with gendered space of any kind outside of my own house will be potentially contested. It means living in a state of permanent fucking threat and fear. But it’s not yet unnavigable. Wonder how […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

[Uk transphobia] So in the end what we got appears to be ‘it’s not a bathroom ban! But it’s not _not_ a bathroom ban! Vibes! Is everyone ok with that?’ I’m guessing that nobody will be ok with that and this will continue to rumble on. Meanwhile, well resourced transphobes have an exciting new […]

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

In advance of Phillipson’s written statement today here’s my own written statement; I will not comply, and neither will my siblings. You are trying to make us into scapegoats for the sins of your patriarchal death cult, and we refuse. Or, to quote #kimya; We won’t stop / until somebody calls […]

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