I also invite folks to join their community Nextdoor and see the reasons their neighbors mention calling the police.
Y'all invoke the police for absolutely wiiild reasons -- mostly to manage your discomfort with and fear of the Other.
I think a lot about how the combination of queer people finding each other without realizing it, and the deep internalized transphobia we're all taught from birth combine into a horrible soup that causes us to do a lot of harm to each other, both before we're out to ourselves, and usually for a long time after.
Range of progress for my avocado trees!
The first one started in a batch of three, but two of the seeds were not very good and started molding (so I tossed them). - Started doing this 23 October.
The successful seed got relocated to a bigger container of water, so it got to this point by 9 January.
A linguistics professor was lecturing on the role of the double negative, noting that in some languages like Russian a double negative remains negative, while in other languages like French a double negative becomes positive. However, the professor observed, in no language in the world does a double positive become negative. From the back of the classroom a student replied, "Yeah. Right."
@aeva TRIANGLES FOR THE TRIANGLE GOD
re: frustrated, tech, child abuse
like seriously, anyone who is not even familiar with the idea of "most abuse comes from close circles, not from strangers" is absolutely *not* qualified to be building anything relating to child safety
Zo doe je dat! Robin Hood stakingen!
@LilyVers i feel like sometimes executive function cartridge comapnies are just ripping us off; often it feels like they're only half full!!
i demand full executive function cartridges!!
@Vierkantor sowing/reaping vs sewing/ripping
This party is now complete. Who should I draw for the next one?
I’ve come to realize that the traditional classroom isn’t so much about learning as it is creating the illusion of learning from standardization, and favors those who can disproportionately exploit that. It doesn’t allow for individual comprehension rates (can that even be measured?) or relevant tangents. It’s one size fits all vs. diversity and that doesn’t work.
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
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
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.