iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I haven't been active on here for a while because of overwhelm but wanted to let people who knew him on twitter and blueskiy more than elsewhere know that @bra-dyke-inesia.bsky.social died of compounding medical malpractice last night. In the end he chose hospice and at least had friends visit.

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Yeah that particular script is one that I was told to use pre-chatGPT by my social skills classes even!

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Helen Rottier @helenrottier.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

people punish autistics for being too blunt > autistic people learn and incorporate scripts to avoid punishment > large language models use the same scripts > people get suspicious of the script > people accuse autistics of being AI > people say “Don’t do this,” without offering solutions 🙃

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 19/04/2026

I filled in the survey and so can you! tomorrow is the deadline, so get on that. headlight glare is bad for other drivers of course, but also for pedestrians and cyclists and other non-car travellers. tell them to regulate that shit!

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

its not even one which really changes the meaning off of just having 🇮🇪 much at all haha, just oh you're probably gonna be loud about your opinions. which is why its such an entertaining example to repeatedly run into

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

lol there's someone I regularly interact with who's flags list in their name is 🇮🇪 ❌🇬🇧and I was like that's the only time I can think of someone using 🇬🇧

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/04/2026

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight

Her father shook his head. “And you like doing this?”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
Tiffany had to think about this, her father’s eyes never leaving her face. “Well, Dad, you know how Granny Aching always used to say, ‘Feed them as is hungry, clothe them as is naked, and speak up for them as has no voices’? Well, I reckon there is room in there for ‘Grasp for them as can’t bend, reach for them as can’t stretch, wipe for them as can’t twist,’ don’t you? And because sometimes you get a good day, that makes up for all the bad days and, just for a moment, you hear the world turning,” said Tiffany. “I can’t put it any other way.”

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

my to do list over the next few days: things for getting ready for service dog - 5 items things for dealing with MCAS being a nightmare - 4 items things for dealing with trying to navigate support services - 3 items other disability things - 3 items other Adulting - 2 items Disability is Exhausting

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Bluesky should get with the times and have options besides email for two factor but until they do you should deal with the annoyance that is email for two factor because it's always worth turning on

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 12/04/2026

It’s a good day for everyone to turn on two factor verification on Bluesky. Also on all your other online accounts.

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Don't you know genAI can replace the inability to see a computer screen! Also can be used instead of helping improving lighting! Who needs to see. You can just ask the computer what it sees.

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Very unimpressed by pop neurodiversity influencers and their AI apologia. More bullshit claiming that anti-AI stances are classist and ableist and racist. Meanwhile, AI is built on exploited black labor, kills disabled people every day, disposesses the working class, and drinks all our water.

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Drew @drewking.dev · 12/04/2026

Where as a society are we investing our resources if the labor of caring for and accommodating disabled bodies is labour worth automating? This is the insidious ableism in the rhetoric of pro-AI apologists who hide behind positive disability principles.

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

For that example about blindness. I've actively not been able to get any of the assistive tech I need funded through any of the funding sources that I'm supposed to get it from in the last 8 months because of the assumption that I can just use AI to do everything if I can't see it.

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

AI will do good for disabled people sometimes but the AI apologia will actively make it harder to get either that help or other help in a lot of ways. It's not simply "AI can't help" but it sure is AI is not only harming, the apologia and obsession with AI being able to do everything is even worse

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I'd like to have a working sleep schedule made of something besides pain and anxiety please

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The operators of any site have access to a lot of metadata that the average user can't see, and it's anywhere from "pretty easy" to "trivially easy" to identify around 90% of batch account creation once you get the metadata patterns of a particular network mapped out well enough.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/04/2026

omg those astronauts who are parents? THEY CAN LITERALLY TELL THEIR CHILDREN “I LOVE YOU TO THE MOON AND BACK”

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

a spacecraft landing is literally like ALL THE SCIENCES AT ONCE textile strength is important and wind and water are important and what kind of metal they used on the outside and the trajectory of re-entry and the distribution of weight and mass inside the thing and atmospheric conditions and

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Sparrow / Liz @untonuggan.myatproto.social · 08/04/2026

[Food intolerances] I will say, I do have a very small sample size of people besides myself who tolerate homemade ferments WAY better than store bought Who are also diagnosed with MCAS, or have the related HATS mutation + a bunch of digestive issues Again: it's hard to know why without a lab!

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I'm also in this list! Homemade yogurt? Definitely can have. Store bought. Questionable and brand dependent if it's at all.

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Turn your lights off for the migratory birds!

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Could have a follow up about medical ableism and dealing with life threatening chronic illness and being able to better advocate for care because of being treated as more human than someone with a different disability presentation lol

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

My high school keeps emailing being like we want impressive alumni stories! What great things have you done so we can tell the current students! And I'm like lol it'd be funny to propose writing an article for them about quitting and going on SSI in order to survive

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Choosing what to get my dog for her birthday is the hardest challenge. 2 years old is such a milestone for a dog!

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The fact that my cat loves ASL is the most important thing for people to know about me obviously.

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I really enjoy that introducing myself in ASL class is actually introducing my cat and feel like this is appropriately autistic

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/04/2026

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Also of course it's an office that's incredibly difficult to call and get a person so I probably just have to wait until my next appt to make a portal account

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I try to put my relay number for my home phone and my cell phone for my cell and say preference to call home phone as usually the best option I've found but it still only rarely works This office accidentally swapped the two.

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Stickman Communications @stickmancomms.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Don't forget: It's okay to leave an event or interaction to manage your symptoms if you need to. I've lost count of how may times I've needed to go outside to cool down or to relieve sensory overload, or so I can process an environment and work out how best to navigate it in peace/where I can think.

This card with a multicolored striped border, and a stickman casually following an 'exit' arrow, says "I need to leave to manage a medical condition/disability. Don't worry, this is normal for me. I will return if and when I can."

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Well now, would you look at that? A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of SEVERE disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

the inability to get text messages to an ip relay phone number is an incredibly annoying limitation made worse with two factor authentication Anyways i can't make a patient portal for this doctor because it requires texting me a number and i can't receive a text in the only number they saved for me

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

"Freedom isn't free" is "thoughts and prayers" in wartime.

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

they have a giraffe version of my dog's favorite toy i feel like i need to get this for Autism Party Giraffe reasons

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

So like, when we go to the store she'll help me not get lost and confused, lead me to requested places, tell me when I'm needing emergency medicine, help me keep aware of my legs when I'm losing sensation, stuff like that. But picking up items I drop, that's what she's taking her time with.

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

and then she's working on learning mobility tasks and that's where she's currently really mostly in training is that she took to the whole idea of telling me things about my body and my environment that I wasn't being able to process so much the other classes of tasks got abandoned for a while

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Currently reliable with medical alert and response tasks and a variety of autism assistance tasks and super solid helping me with those - working on increasing difficulty of locations with me given she's still getting used to me rather than her trainer in order keep that controlled but she's so good

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

She's doing 4 hour long visits! And going on errands with me! And is so obsessed with working. She's enthusiasm with more enthusiasm and enthusiastic about everything but most of all about work. And everything.

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Also photo for dog tax (Some off leash training yesterday with a dropped leash for if I fall in the woods and she has to get partner's attention)

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

and take all that and taking on a dog like i have idek how to talk about it and be understood but its fun to talk about the statements like how she is the easiest dog to train in decades and if she was going anywhere else she'd have washed out, because that gets across at least some of it.

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

service dogs are such a big question if its a good fit for anyone, they're so much more than just the tasking they're so incredibly more than people will realize in terms of the things you're signing up for

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

its a mess of everything is hard and everything is work and everything is overwhelming *and its what i signed up for* and i knew it and i wanted it and it helps me so much including the work including the overwhelming being in directed ways that hurt less than other ways and its so so so much

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

its i'm so so so physically exhausted and i've not been able to safely move this much as i can with her help and have been badly craving it and i *feel better* when i am doing so and i don't have the ability to not if i flare and i still feel better right now and it makes it easier to avoid flares

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

its so much and exhausting and overwhelming and i can't say i think this is a good idea and i have better awareness of my self and my needs even in ways that aren't from the dog nudging me poking me that i'm messing up my awareness of my body in dangerous ways again

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

its both the i need a dog who can task constantly doesn't understand the idea of a break. and that kind of dog will destroy any semblance of life that isn't about the dog because they're that entirely all encompassing they have to be and that being a thing *actually helps me* and it's overwhelming

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tuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

because it is so incredibly much work to manage a dog like her and its so incredibly constantly overwhelming everything. and its so much that is risk of burning me out. and its also that is the sort of things i need in order to stay regulated. i can't keep track of my own sense of self without it.

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