#WestSeattle street-name planning has, uh, incurred a persistent cognitive load tax on pedestrian and automotive street users alike
Be especially kind to trans/agender/non-binary people in the UK today
Lots of news sites and people are going to be discussing a high profile report into the UK’s NHS and gender identity.
One of the report’s conclusions is around the toxicity of the “debate”, which is no surprises and is borne out by some of the headlines I’ve seen in papers today,
Anticipate plenty of anti-trans comments and sentiment today so please be extra kind and supportive to people in your life who could be affected.
If you ever leave a community - any community - because of (systemic) problems with it, *please* post the reasons publicly if you are able to.
You don't need to engage with people questioning your reasons or asking you things, or any other replies - merely state your motivation for leaving, what led up to it.
It may sound like a small thing, but it is *immensely* helpful to the people staying behind fighting to fix the community's issues, who will have a concrete thing to point towards to show that other people are not tolerating it either.
Also I've said it before and I'll say it again our Tech communities have an accessibility problem.
It's incredibly hard to understand why some blockers are blockers, an inaccessible interface is only part of it.
Often the community attitude renders it inaccessible as well.
I have some thoughts about FOSS sustainability and burnout.
If we want projects to be a part of the commons to encourage the commons to join in, they need to be able to afford to.
TLDR: We need universal basic income. Our current systems can't cover everything.
If we want to prevent maintainer burnout, we need better support structures. Which isn't going to happen with anymore Orgs set up specially.
Don't do this, people. It helps no one and if anything pushes people away from our community.
Big update there on the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of solar PV. It was just 5 tons before 👀
Most numbers got updated, but solar is a big shift. No apparent explaination given, but I assume the feed data got updated.
you want to show solidarity with trans people? actually do something that will help a little bit? put your pronouns in your CV! if you let trans people stand alone, just know you are not an ally when it counts. who up when it matters to trans people not when its the most convenient for you.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/04/05/job-seeking-pronouns-cv/
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Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.