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

I wish there were more keyboards that are both aesthetically pleasing *and* practical for me (ie. split, and including an F key row)

So this is probably the most important thing I've learned about dealing with marginalized topics: talk *with* marginalized folks, don't talk *over* them.

If you're cis, don't "debate" with another cis person about trans legislation. If you're white, don't "debate" with another white person about whether Black folks experience racism.

Instead, learn from marginalized folks themselves. They're living and breathing creatures, not abstract debate topics.

But don't demand that they educate *you, personally* either (unless you're paying them for it). Start by reading things that have already been written from a marginalized perspective, it's not exactly hard to find with your search engine of choice.

(And if this makes you go "wait, but what's wrong with debating over people, isn't that just how political debate and podcasts work?": you've just discovered why those things are harmful)

You can tell that Twitter is a healthy company by how they're auctioning off their office chairs

To be clear, this doesn't mean that legitimate discussion cannot be had about the relative merits of some programming languages vs. others, but when someone tries to define that specifically along the axis of "scripting vs. programming language", that's incredibly sus

(Basically it's the techbro equivalent of a dogwhistle, a derogatory term for "not a Real Man programming language")

Reminder that "scripting languages" are not a thing that exists outside of a game development / macro context, and people using it in programming discourse (almost always in bad faith) are typically either necrocomputing enthusiasts or your typical toxic-masculinity C bros, or both

If you think that the problem with antifa is that some of them are violent towards nazis, well, I don't know what to tell you.