Had my GF write her #Intro post, then realized I may not have done that for this account. Even if I have, sometimes it’s good to revisit because interests and focuses do change.

My name is Kaylie (she/her), though my friends usually call me Kayls or Fox. I’m a #deafblind, #queer, #ActuallyAutistic girl living in Minnesota with my girlfriend and our three cats.

I’m a #gamer, pretty much exclusively on PC these days, though I enjoy #RetroGaming with slightly older and much older titles via #Emulation. My current gaming obsession is #Diablo4, though I have a weird schedule of binging it for weeks on end, then drifting away for a while. I've been a gamer in some capacity or another for practically all but the first four years of my life, so...

Other than that, I make music of many kinds, though not all of it is online. I am an #Ableton user, #synth lover, and #keyboardist, though my first love and joy musically will always be #Guitar, particularly #Ibanez.

Musically, I’m into #Industrial, #Metal, #ProgressiveRock, #Ambient, #Synthwave and #Cyberpunk, #Acoustic, and virtually anything that captures my attention with either a good melody, some obscure and trippy effects, or a good story. I can’t really say my music has boundaries because, honestly, I’m at the point in life where I see beauty in everything, even if that beauty isn't always apparent to me.

I’m also a fan of #AI, and believe that it can do many amazing things for us, if we use it as though it were a tool and not an end-all be-all to everything.

I’m a college #student studying AI, though admittedly, I’m strongly considering switching my focus to my minor, which is in #Education, particularly STEM studies in #Elementary schooling. Either way, I’ve already got quite a bit of experience serving as an SME to my university on a few projects related to AI and found the whole project-focused application of my self-learned skills and know-how to be extremely stimulating.

The one thing I fear is the ethics of Big Tech and corporate greed ruining my love for technology and Futurism as a whole, which is one major reason I’m considering a shift in study focus.

I’m also currently teaching myself #Linux, mostly for the challenge of it, though there may be some utility to it---something something something Windows enshitification...

I’m also very big into concepts like radical #unschooling and #YouthRights. To me, “kids” are just as equal as anyone else. What divides us may be things like lived life experience and maybe some hormonal chemistry, but these aren’t disqualifiers to the right of having a voice and having that voice be heard.

I’m very against the concept of learning through forced memorization, and I believe that anyone and everyone, regardless of age or demographic, should have access to free learning, be given the ability to direct their own education, and should also be able to pursue their interests through hands-on experience and application of the lessons they take in, which is why models like Sudbury appeal to me. It is the job of the teacher to guide and to gently light the way, not to bully or use flimsy metrics that don’t mean a thing to measure the success of a student’s growth for the sake of “standardization.”

Ahem...I get a little impassioned sometimes.

Other things about me include the fact that I’m #ADHD, struggle with and post about #MentalHealth, am very pro #420 and medicate with #weed for multiple conditions and will always be a #stoner, I pirate and #Datahorde for the sake of personal archival purposes, I love making new friends, I can be very unfiltered at times, I practically live online, and I love helping people in any way I can. There seriously needs to be more kindness in the world, and I’m on a mission to do my part where I can.

There are about a billion other things I could put in this thing, but I think you get the idea. As a writer, I sometimes like to string words together too much, so I think to keep some mystery in the mix, I’ll leave it here for you to decide whether or not I’m someone you’d like to follow. Absolutely no pressure of course.

Anyways, if there’s anything else you want to know, please feel free to follow or interact with me. I promise I don’t bite. :P