April Ayres-Griffiths
Platform Engineer, resilience engineering nerd, poet, writer, ERG lead. Brains, disability, retro-tech, incidents, engineering. trans/non-binary. MCAS. Autistic and ADHD. Opinions my own.
turtleSpaces.org co-dev
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- Reposted by April Ayres-GriffithsMost predictable thing ever happened. arstechnica.com/security/202...
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- What's all this about "met gala". I met a galah once.
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- Reposted by April Ayres-GriffithsThe next Bourne movie is just gonna be two hours of Jason getting chased through a series of Arizona strip malls
- The #neurodivergent need to supply people with so much front-loaded context that they fall over backwards.
- Reposted by April Ayres-GriffithsVote tomorrow, or I will hunt you down! Ha ha! 😘😍❤️
- Reposted by April Ayres-Griffiths"Our parent company, Paramount, is trying to complete a merger. The Trump administration must approve it. Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways"
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- I took this picture last week because someone went to the effort to populate the outdoor furniture section with plushie animals.
- Reposted by April Ayres-Griffithsso they're mycoblogging
- Saw this in a hotel and I had to have one. (melody bought me one - we didn't steal it from the hotel). The top is a wireless phone charger.
- Reposted by April Ayres-GriffithsCan confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
- NSF has posted an “update on priorities.” They’re canceling all “DEI and misinformation/disinformation” grants. And the guidance on how to fulfill the longstanding, legally mandated Broadening Participation requirement is utterly incoherent. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
- In the bottom of the box, all that was left was hope, and a board with a nail in it.
- Reposted by April Ayres-GriffithsThank you for that, Slackbot.
- Reposted by April Ayres-GriffithsASAN, Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network, the Autistic People of Color Fund, Autism Society of America, Autism Speaks, The Arc, and others stand united: Autistic people deserve respect, support, and science-based policy, not dangerous disinformation. autisticadvocacy.org/2025/04/lead...
- Reposted by April Ayres-GriffithsI said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
- Resilience Engineering feed should be working again.
- Sometimes automation causes more issues than it solves.
- Android WebView is the new Internet Explorer. There, I said it.
- Android WebView: it's like chromium except we broke a bunch of things so they either don't work, or don't work the way you'd expect. 100vh? surely you don't expect that to correspond to 100 percent of the viewport height.
- Mood.
- I wrote a desktop app in golang, that became a web app in golang wasm + javascript, that become a golang + electron app, that I am now porting to android using gomobile and kotlin.
- A great thread, with a lot of great reads within.
- Seeing as it is #AutismAcceptanceMonth, I thought I would share a thread, in no particular order, of some of my favourite books related to being neurodivergent, in particular the books which have helped me in some way, shape, or form. 1/
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- A bit slow, can we give it some welly?!
- Reposted by April Ayres-GriffithsThe problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.
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- Reposted by April Ayres-GriffithsDonald's babysitters must have been *extra-busy* today keeping that thin-skinned toddler from seeing pics of all the thousands of people throughout America taking to streets to say they are OVER Trump and Musk and the chaos/destruction they bring.
- Found an old selfie from a few months ago that I don't dislike, so trying it on for a bit.
- Fall is the best season because it's the one I'm least allergic to. Summer - smoke. Winter - mold. Spring - pollen.
