evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

1. assume every camera has film unless you personally verify otherwise
2. never point a camera at something you're not willing to photograph
3. never put your finger on the shutter button until you're ready to take a photograph
4. always be aware of the subject of your photograph and what is behind the subject

RE: https://things.uk/@eclectech/110117502467818244

Not quite back online yet, but hello, and please accept an old bouncy post for this #TransDayOfVisiblity x

484) Hopebot. Finds you in the darkness and tells you that at the end of every tunnel is a light, no matter how bleak the future looks it is still unwritten, you are alive and a human being with mind, the universe's last defence against entropy. Rise. Continue. Be. #SmallRobotsRemastered

The Finding Out will continue until the Fucking Around improves

old: autistic oversharing
new: neurodivulgent

(I DuckDuckWent for this word and was rather shocked not to get any matches (but: update). I have a really hard time believing this hasn't been previously thought of...)

Oracle have laid off 30k employees today. They did it to personal email accounts at 6am 🫡 saying they needed the money to spend on GenAI instead. https://thenextweb.com/news/oracle-layoffs-march-2026

Oracle’s share price since they went GenAI nuts:

The idea that Office 365 is compliant for use in any regulated space is *absolutely laughable*, but apparently the reason GCC High is approved for government use is because the government let agencies use it while they were evaluating it, and then realized so many agencies were now dependent on it, that they had to approve it even though it wasn't able to actually meet the security criteria.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/03/federal-cyber-experts-called-microsofts-cloud-a-pile-of-shit-approved-it-anyway/

#microsoft

just noticed it's How DNS Works' 4th birthday soon! https://wizardzines.com/zines/dns/

it's still one of my favourite zines, and it comes with a free ★★ playground ★★ at https://messwithdns.net where you can create DNS records and see what happens!

So it's TDOV again apparently.

Which means it's five years that I've been out publicly.

There's about 1 or 2% of us in the population, so you probably know at least a couple others.

I tend to be more visible than other trans folks, in part because I can be. There's a lot of us who aren't as obvious or as loud about it.

A lot of us tend to be shockingly competent and capable, tho at least some of that is survivorship bias.

Most of us want to be able to live our lives in peace, tho there's some really loud assholes who have unreasonable objections to this.

Ultimately we're people, just like you - with our own hopes and fears and joys and challenges.

And if you ask me - I think we're pretty fucking awesome. Why don't you get to know us and find out why?

Bunnies in the Yorkshire Dales. Still, then very fast.

My whole life I was told Satan was red.
Turns out he’s orange.

oh no what have you done

I love that cats slap the shit out of everything they can't understand.

no AI, nothing stressful particularly, just a person who is obviously really good at her job calmly but excitedly explaining stuff (pun intended)

https://youtu.be/RGbZsE7qFgw

The power of ChatGPT

Remember my old bot that posted every rejected parliament petition?

I've resurrected it. Let the chaos begin: @rejectpetitions

Pretty sure the time magazine photo of the year just dropped…

483) Spacebot (and Landerbot). Explores space, finding interesting planets and then deploying Landerbot to investigate further. #SmallRobotsRemastered