Reposted by Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 11/12/2024An excellent and informative thread 🧵 3659622509
Reposted by Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this 19123024934
Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 09/12/2024On placing the squares together: err on the side of making too big rather than too small 000
Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 09/12/2024My apologies for the lack of alt text on the image: A wonky quilt square, the pattern is called Whirlwind Square consisting of 2 sets of alternating green and pink quadrilaterals, set against white triangles. 000
Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 09/12/20242) A pattern will definitely help. 3) It's okay to sew on the blocks. 4) Geometry is surprisingly useful when evaluating triangles. 5) I can have a PTSD episode and quilt before and after it. This will be an adventure. 200
Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Block 2/64 was a struggle. I think I sewed the order incorrectly, and I definitely underestimated some seams. Overall, I am not thrilled with the product. But I learned: 1) It's okay to unpick (I kept telling myself that an unpicker is just like an eraser). 110
Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Block 1/64: my very first quilted block. I was gifted the fabric and covers of The Art of Quilting, and so I have a project to learn with. It doesn't need to be perfect, or even good, it just needs to exist. 240
Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 06/12/2024 "We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves—all of our selves—wherever we go." ~You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smitha.coYou Could Make This Place Beautiful: A MemoirQuote shared via Kindle: "We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves—all of our selves—wherever we go." 010
Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 06/12/2024I really hope it works out well for your family. Sending best wishes 000
Reposted by Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦Dwuff 🇿🇦✨ @dwuff.com · 06/12/2024Here is more information. They may not all be bots, some may be real people, but any time someone offers to boost your campaign for a fee, you should be very careful. Here is an article on how to spot red flags. There are also some helpful videos: www.vvdailypress.com/story/news/l...vvdailypress.comGoFundMe reminds fundraisers, donors to be wary of scammers. Here's how to spot red flagsScammers use several tactics to try to con organizers and donors of online fundraising campaigns. Here’s how to protect yourself. 166
Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 27/11/2024"The danger of stereotypes is not that they untrue, but that that they are incomplete." youtu.be/D9Ihs241zeg?...youtu.beChimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story | TEDYouTube video by TED 000
Reposted by Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 23/11/2024"92 million low-income people in the U.S. states—everyone whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line—have some basic aspect of their lives decided by AI" www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines... this is a damning report 831803924
Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Absolutely, as a country we have no right to starve people. It is wrong in Gaza, where we are rightfully stepping up, and it is wrong here. 110
Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Be hopeful, evil feeds on nihilism. 000
Reposted by Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 15/11/202411) The next few months are going to bring unimaginable pain to so many. I did my breakdown earlier this week because I confronted the fact that I might be separated from my kids like my husband was. Grieve. But remember we are legion. Be uncompromisingly hopeful because fascists feed on nihilism. 69956139
Reposted by Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 15/11/20244) Learn to live with social complexity. If you write off the possibility of persuading your fellow citizens, fascists win by default. In practice fascist ideologues are few, but people think they can ride that tiger for their own purpose. Read Sarah Ahmed’s organization of hate. Weaponize love. 101425232
Reposted by Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 15/11/2024My current go-to line is 'if you can't out-human a computer, you're going to be in serious trouble once you leave university...' - bleak, but unfortunately true. 29124
Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Today, I continued an unexpected journey of helping a 7th grader reconcile with maths, the more I teach fundamentals the more connections I see between disciplines. 000
Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 13/11/2024"The thrilling freedom of having nothing to lose" hard-hitting words. 000
Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Today I have rocked my job, I have helped kids master word-attack skills and helped a 7th grader grasp the base 10 number system. She paid me a huge compliment: "You make maths seem simple ma'am". Of course, I reminded her that maths truly is simple if you take it step by step. 000
Reposted by Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 29/09/2024 062
Reposted by Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 02/07/2024I utterly despise doomer thinking. We have WORK to do, god damn it. We have years, DECADES of work to do. It is going to take our time and money and emotional commitment. 223290
Reposted by Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 03/07/2024Functional political systems are *supposed to be* boring! It should be sewage specialists arguing over what size pipe is most efficient for the city layout! It should be debates over whether to put a mural or a frieze in the new park! “Interesting politics” are when people start dying! 417448
Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 03/07/2024And incorporated representations of all of the band members astrological sun signs into the crest. 0250
Reposted by Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦Dys @whiskeytown.bsky.social · 19/06/2024Bitcoin consumes about 2.5% of US electricity, about the same as all residential cooling. An article decrying *that* electricity usage as a personal moral failing would be much less tone deaf. 141824852
Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 20/06/2024This is beautifully narrated and while I am only 2 chapters in (it is heavy), highly recommended. 052
Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 20/06/2024An interesting and delightfully written, opinion piece on AI ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-... Contains profanityludic.mataroa.blogI Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity 000
Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 20/06/2024Google cofounder Larry Page once said, “Even if you fail at your ambitious thing, it’s very hard to fail completely. That’s the thing that people don’t get.” Quoted by Timothy Ferriss in The 4-Hour Chef 000
Reposted by Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 28/05/2024Darlings, a moment. You are *not* hard to love. If someone made you feel that way, that is 100% about THEM and their own bullshit. Loving people is easy. None of us are perfect. We're all quirky, with flaws and baggage. But love doesn't give a damn about that minutiae. 26512149
Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 10/05/2024An amazing read. Like all the best stories, it has an ending, but leaves room for so much more. 084
Reposted by Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 24/04/2024Trash talk in Ancient Rome 527335
Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 22/04/2024Daily reminder: While all feelings are valid: it does not justify all behaviour in response to those feelings. 000
Reposted by Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 22/04/2024feeling unsafe and being unsafe are not the same thing 27932166
Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 12/04/2024I cry for my beloved continent. We are a big and beautiful place, we should not kill people for being who they are. The fact that a lot of Africa's homophobia can be traced back to colonialism compounds the tragedy. 000
Reposted by Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 04/04/2024This week, Uganda's Constitutional Court upheld a law that makes homosexuality punishable by death. To justify it, the Court cited the US Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs as an example of using "the nation's history and traditions...to overrule the broader right to individual autonomy" 24515332
Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 12/04/2024I believe the word for this is procrasticleaning. 010
Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 11/04/2024This is such a cool idea. I am going to gratefully implement it, Thank you for sharing your wife's ingenuity. 010
Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 03/04/2024Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/04/03/o...nytimes.comOpinion | José Andrés: Let People EatYou cannot win this war by starving an entire population. 161
Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 02/04/2024is sies (which has a similar pronounciation to cis) and has a meaning similar to eww, gross. So I think part of it in South Africa is associated with not being the default and a sound association. 3/3 010
Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 02/04/2024When I have managed to convey that the cis- prefix comes from well established science in other terms there is less resistance. I also suspect that it might have to do with the homophonic analogue of sissy (as in not masculine); and in South Africa, an Afrikaans word expressing disgust 2/n 140
Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 02/04/2024As a cisgender woman I have no problem with it. People who I have spoken with about it when they have made comments, seem to object because they feel like they don't need a label. That the default doesn't need definition and seem to object to "new-fangled" and "non-scientific" terms. 1/n 230