Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

"google's security team released--" blah blah blah just stop there, google the corporation has long ago burned all of its social good will.

if you work at a google/facebook and want to be taken seriously, you need to work with community groups and publish things that way. dumping tablets from a mount isn't going to work anymore

This week a bicycle was in the way for a new episode of “random places where the sidewalk is opened for unannounced and unspecified construction work”.

@smveerman construction crews have zero chill

There is a canonically non-binary trainer in Pokémon Gen 2 games! :D

https://youtu.be/Q6E6OaWb7LQ?t=38m9s

If you're writing about an issue that particularly impacts women and girls, please take a moment to consider if it would be more accurate to use language that includes all AFAB people, and not just women and girls.

#trans #nonbinary #ActuallyAutistic #feminism

my spicy thought for the day is that that the hiv/aids epidemic was the canary for how late stage capitalism will treat the next epidemic. general uncaring and systemic attitudes of ignoring actual suffering and death to the point of genocide so that the show may go on.
this time, however, society is much more fractured in our ability to make a ruckus so that community health is taken seriously - resulting in a lot more uncaring and outright denial of the effects of #covid

I went to three in-person conferences this summer. All asked attendees to COVID test every other day.

The first "encouraged" masks, and had a COVID outbreak.

The second "encouraged" masks, and had 10 percent positivity by the second to last day, at which point they started requiring masks.

The third REQUIRED masks indoors, and had zero positive COVID tests.

i love downloading gigabytes of updates for no noticeable improvement

Thanks crowd! We now know the source: https://theshovel.com.au/2021/10/26/man-announces-he-will-quit-drinking-by-2050/

As an immunocompromised person, I do not attend large events often because...we are in a pandemic 🙃I have missed everyone so much, but it's such a huge risk to take. I wanted to highlight GeekGirlCon's 2023 Covid-19 policy here, as it was a major factor in my decision to be a guest this year. #Covid19 #GeekGirlCon

Seriously, this is not a "people can disagree about things" or "you should accept constructive criticism" thing. If you mock people for wearing PPE, getting vaccinated, or otherwise protecting themselves, the most charitable possible interpretation of your behavior is that you're an asshole. If you defend it, you're also an asshole. This is really simple.

I am *SO* sick of joining #Discord Servers for everything and anything.

I do NOT want to join your server of 400+ people I *do not know* and have no desire to talk to because you wouldn't link me your GitHub or site directly or put necessary information in your README for a thing I just want to download and use.

Please, for the love of Celestia STOP doing this. IF your server gets deleted, that information is GONE. If Discord shuts down, that information is GONE. If someone doesn't want to join a 400+ person chat room, they're SCREWED. PLEASE STOP.

You people know that there are limits to the number of servers people can JOIN right?!

Sweet Luna's Moon! Seriously, just make an RSS Feed..! Put up an info page on GitHub Pages, it's FREE.

I miss forums you could browse without an account

Please... please... #StopDiscordCentralization

/rant

How does a librarian access remote computers securely?

ssh!

I'm open to being wrong, but for my money, "identify as"/"identifies as" is almost always a useless phrase.

"She identifies as a woman" => "She is a woman."

"They identify as Catholic." => "They are Catholic."

And so forth. The only utility I can see is to distance the act of identification from actual belonging (as in the classic journalistic twist, "Name Lastname, who identifies as non-binary, [proceeds to misgender them]"), or to discuss the fallibility of survey results ("well, 50% of the cohort identified as sanitation workers, but it's possibly because you said 'garbage people' instead").

In my opinion, it's just not a phrase you should use, unless you can articulate why a simple "is" or "are" doesn't work.