Honestly one thing I enjoy about retrotech is that it's static. I never have windows 95 autoupdate on me and suddenly there's copilot or recall.
It's truly stunning to even attempt to explain, what #congress is to people that don't know.
Like there's this event with hackers and they have a whole radio telephone network but you can also use your smartphone, because the venue has a mobile network too and ... 🤯
You will save more lives by being an ear* and a shoulder and helping hands digging garden rows, than a megaphone for your own anxiety, a great deal of the time.
This is hard if you're young and this is your first time experiencing this cycle.
It's hard if you're older and not used to being threatened.
It's hard if you're white and not used to not being centered.
But you've gotta practice.
We're in that phase again. Get there every time something Scary happens.
Trying to invent new resistance on the fly, urgently, is not *helpful.*
If you feel desperate and disconnected.
If you feel like you need to swing in and save the day in order to be meaningful.
Your job is to show up in communities and listen.
You don't lead by showing up at the end of the beginning.
@FirstProgenitor this is going to sound insane but I had a dream that you posted an image of a house and for some reason I boosted it and then you replied to me with “I’m legally entitled to your house now” and showed up on my doorstep
Question for people who do on the ground organizing — is there a reason that so many action requests come day of or with less than 24 hrs notice?
I can’t make arrangements to attend a rally when I hear about it 2 hrs before and I often need a day or two to research and craft a message to my electeds.
It’s very stressful for me, but this happens so frequently I figure it’s purposeful. I’d just love to know why?
@xgranade doctors who don't wear masks confuse me
De Belgen hebben ‘boekenstouw’ dit jaar tot nieuw woord uitgeroepen. Het ‘ontbreekwoord’ noemen ze het.
Betekenis: de stapel boeken die je nog moet lezen. Vertaling van het Japanse woord ‘tsundoku’.
https://www.vrt.be/vrtmax/luister/radio/n/nieuwe-feiten~11-9/nieuwe-feiten~11-27310-0/fragment~6bc15257-3234-4b8d-9a1d-5a92cce14e75/
Twitch's version of a wrapped report dropped and... hmm... I've become really, really uncomfortable with the idea of distilling things down to numbers so flippantly. Especially in a space where distilling things down to numbers then tying those numbers to success and even money is a lever for abusive practices.
If there's anything I've learned from a lifetime of constructing metrics, alerts, and statistical models it's that you never measure just what you think you're measuring. Any distillation is lossy, and frequently abusively and deliberately so.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
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.