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anyway here's the cold take on "professionalism" it's really just what people say to mean you should act more cishet, white, and neurotypical
and basically fuck that

hot take: mastodon should just have a pronouns field in the profile so you don't take up one of your limited metadata fields on it, and so it doesn't feel optional

I'm so happy every time somebody flips their shit over Todon's notorious "tankie clause" because there's simply no better way of making our point for us

OH this is also why notification bloops were broken??!??

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thinking i'll just "keep track of the time till my next meeting" is real adhd russian roulette

because i look away and
3 seconds could've passed
or 5 years

FYI, if you like chocolate and don't like slavery, there are a bunch of companies committed to improving the whole industry to make it more transparent and get rid of exploitation. And I can almost guarantee the chocolate they produce will taste better too.

I just found a list and it's now on my tumblr, if you'd like to know more:
invaderxan.tumblr.com/post/628

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Normalize reading profiles before sending follow requests.

yeah, now my own toots appear in my timeline right away, and the local TL actually gets updates without refreshing the whole page

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hmm think mastodon-streaming should be fixed again for pixie.town, some weird redis shit happened

like, i'm not sorry. if you want to maintain some illusion of your epic gamer uwu anime gay white person space with no poc in it disrupting the fun white person times you should not be a coward and actually block me

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ahhh okay done till afternoon review meeting

tempting to just take a nap tbh

so sleeeepyyy
didnt have time to get my coffee (nor breakfast) before the lecture/meeting started :>

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im looking at you, zoom homescreen that stays open even while you're in a meeting

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sending annoying programs to some high desktop number like im banishing them to the shadow realm

@polarisfm I mean I *want* them to have a deep distrust of authority. I respect their privacy cause they deserve it like anyone else, but not because I want them to trust authority. They should see power with suspicion, including especially the economical/ageist power I hold over them.

we're talkin a casual "I want to hit fascists with my car", we're talkin "I give my time and energy to autonomous zones" we're talkin "I don't trust the police and will hit them with my car"

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A friend of mine who teaches elementary school, taught her class, “don’t yuck my yum”

It was like a class mantra, all the kids knew and understood the phrase. So, if a kid brought a bean burrito for lunch, and another kid said “gross! I hate beans” burrito-kid could just say “don’t yuck my yum”

It became the perfect phrase when one student liked something another student hated it. Quickly, it moved from the tangible (food, smells, textures) to the intangible (music, religion, quality)

By the end of the year “don’t tuck my yum” was woven into the culture of the class. They actually used the phrase LESS by then, because yuckers would check themselves before tearing anyone down.

And that class of second graders moved to third, secure in the knowledge that it’s ok to love the things you love, even if other people don’t.

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