protected discussion of working conditions
probably not original, but realizing that one of the most important qualities for this job is a self-protective sense of humor
because you have to *care* on some level just for all the things you need to remember to stick in your brain
but you'll go mad if the caring means that all the things that go wrong can hurt you
so past a certain threshold you have to be able to find them funny
and they didn't feel that way exactly because it wasn't so mentally and physically taxing to go for a small walk to buy bread and tomatoes or to retrieve a package from the post office.
now i live in an apartment where the nearest mall is 1.5 km away. i DREAD shopping. i HATE going anywhere. i feel like i will lose time on so many things and sometimes i just feel like i can't move. and also i have to spend money on delivery or taxi, money that wouldn't have been spent if i could walk there.
as a person with depression and ADHD, i just wanna say that walkability not only is good for your health and logistics, it is also saving money and neurodivergent-friendly. i used to live in an apartment where everything was within 5-10 minutes of walking and going to the grocery store or pharmacy was easy and pleasuring. routine things i had to do didn't feel like a chore.
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Last night, my dreams conjured up an absolutely cursed keyboard setup: a smartphone-shaped device that was 1/3rd screen, 2/3rd keyboard below it, but the keyboard was in portrait mode, it only contained something like the 70% most common letters, and some keys were actual keyboard keys while some others were capacitive 'touch' things, with no discernible pattern to the division between the two
You can call your proposal 'free cake for everyone' but if it threatens powerful groups you'll get painted as a sinister plot anyway.
Zeer interessante documentaire over wat er precies fout is gegaan bij de grote brand bij een transportbedrijf in Hapert in 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FDj5EKf4DQ
A related thing I've learned: even if I personally choose to put a lot of effort into adapting to things like neurotypical communication, that doesn't make it acceptable for people to *demand* of me that I do so. It should be by my own choice.
[3] This is a pivotal moment where the Dutch government must practice what it preaches. By enforcing this update, they are pushing users away from privacy-respecting solutions and further into the arms of invasive big tech companies. It's a step in the wrong direction.
Source: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/395#issuecomment-1747188652
[1] DigiD used to work for users that want to evade invasive Internet oligopolies by using privacy-focused alternatives like /e/OS or LineageOS-MicroG. However, as of January this year, DigiD has taken a concerning turn. An update has introduced a hard-coded, unnecessary feature availability check for Google Mobile Services. An honest mistake at best, or masquerading as an anti-tampering measure at worst.
Is this a good thing? No, but it's a reflection of how a lot of social dynamics currently work. And it shouldn't constantly be marginalized folks paying the price of trying to change that.
Something I've learned over the past few years: when dealing with marginalization aimed at you, it's often so much more effective to simply specify expectations and demand things, rather than trying to request things or appeal to understanding.
Requires much less energy, and is much more likely to be successful. Despite the complaints and claims to the contrary.
I found out yesterday that one of my favorite Mastodon instances (Simcha.lgbt - a Jewish LGBTQ focused instance) is closing at the end of the year.
I appreciate the reasons the admins are doing this (burnout from dealing with abuse, particularly antisemitic abuse) but I'm still bummed out about it and what it means for the sustainability of smaller instances.
If you’re a publicly owned public transport operator and your driving force is NOT “how can we transport as many people as possible?” then why should you even exist?
And then if #DeutschlandTicket is imposed on you, your answer needs to be “ok, how do we find a way to transport these new customers?” not whine and complain about the existence of these extra passengers
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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.