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- Pronouns
- She/They
- hangs out with people on
- https://cyberia.club
- Gender/orientation
- Demi-femme/Novi gender, demisexual/panromantic/polyamorous
- Hackerspace
- https://layerze.ro
i like kind machines. pro-people-not-dying. anti-nazi. anti-colonizer. pagan, but lazy about it.
I am #HardOfHearing, #nonbinary, polyamourous, into ttrpgs and #tech. Hobbyist #leatherworker, hobbyist scifi author, community builder, and artist.
I like to build #whimsical things that help people to #dream better and form meaningful connections. If you wanna hang out with friendly computer weirdos in Minneapolis, lemme know.
Profile image description: a watercolor painting of a person with pale skin and brown and blue hair laughing. They have a side cut and an audio processor is visible behind their ear. The art style is loose and the eyes are squinched into little crescents.
Joined Jul 2020
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covid, putting on my dad hat, risk assessment
Judging by what I'm reading about hospital capacity, and from the local EMT friends my roommate knows, now would really be a good time to practice IRL risk assessment.
Everyone's already made up their minds about covid risk levels and balances, so I won't harass except to say Get Your Boosters Please.
But also:
Cook and clean carefully.
Watch the state of the leftovers you eat.
Don't do anything stupid with electricity, wires, or your space heater.
Consider postponing repairs and projects that need power tools, if you can.
Stay off interstate highways as much as possible.
Watch. Out. For. Ice.
People are already sitting in ERs for *days* at this point. This won't last forever, but it might be a good idea to live like you're made of breakable materials for a few weeks. Because you are. 💜
Holiday posting, solstice
Happy solstice.
Friendly reminder to nourish the lights in your lives so they don't extinguish on the darkest nights.
Love and light to all ~
@June@kitty.town @elsilnora@octodon.social burn a vigil candle all night (from dusk until dawn). Maybe do a little shadow work, like figuring out one thing you'll work to change in your life this year.
🖤✨
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please stop donating to my transition fund you're making me too hot it's getting out of hand
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I'm proud of what cyberia.club has done with capsul.org, our home-grown "cloud" VPS provider over the past couple of years. We keep it running day in and day out, and others have joined us in our repos / made a fork, embarking on their own journey.
https://sequentialread.com/capsul-rumors-my-demise-greatly-exaggerated/
@loveisanalogue very cool! Do you have the sheet music for this somewhere? Are covers okay?
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Please caption your images, describe what's in the links you're sending people toward, describe the videos you're sharing, make sure you use words on your posts that verbally describe their contents so people's filters work on them. If you can't do that consistently, consider switching to unlisted posting by default or ask for help. For image descriptions, "caption please" in a post will nearly always inspire a reply or two with help allowing screen reader users to enjoy your posts.
We do have people who need such accommodations on this instance; please use the tools (built-in or social) provided.
@drwho@hackers.town what area are you in? I'd contact a local college art department and a local insurance company.
Unfortunately, the value of most oil paintings is very market driven, but the insurance folks especially usually know the right appraisal people.
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Want to work as a SRE (full remote) for the Tor Project?
https://www.fossjobs.net/job/10775/onion-services-sre-at-the-tor-project/ 
@FirstProgenitor I suspect there may also be a "what is she's not a cis woman?" thing going on.
Before I realized I was nonbinary, I preferred dating people who liked men because, for some reason, I felt more 'seen'. For some mysterious reason that I couldn't figure out. I wonder what that might have been. :P
There's also maybe some toxic privilege stuff happening, or whatever else.
But like, for a lot of people, especially if they look like conventionally attractive young women, the scale on "should I do something about Gender Thing?" is tipped a bit towards "wait a few years until you're too old to easily do Hot Girl Shit, and then check back", IMO.
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If you read about Jean and Jorts, please read this too.
the extended metaphor for workplace accommodations nobody asked for
graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2021/12/16/jean-and-jorts-the-extended-metaphor-for-workplace-accommodations-nobody-needed-but-my-brain-insisted-on/
"Abled people spend a significant amount of time designing things they just assume will work for disabled people because they think that disability awareness is a matter of *morals* and not practicality. They think that ‘being a good person and having good intentions’ is enough to understand what’s needed, because they’re trying, and that’s the important thing. Nope. The important thing is that it actually provides a solution to a problem, and if you don’t speak to disabled people before buttering them with margarine, you may find a horde of angry people who don’t really care that you thought you were doing a good thing with your weird ramp if it’s so steep it’ll tip a person into traffic, or your metal studs in the pavement help one group of people while providing a major slip hazard for others."
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Now I discover
that the templates have been put
up for deletion
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White people know this. Hell, all non-Black folk know this. They profit off us: our fuckups, our mental illness, our lack of knowledge of how money works in this society.
I dunno the answers. But I want to strive to work towards our betterment. The freedom we were promised but never got (because that would be "ReVeRsE RaCiSiM!1!").
We're gonna get free. Free of just being the workers in their warehouses. Free of being their excuses of excessive policing and rousting of the homeless.
And I'll dedicate the rest of my lifeforce to making this the truth.
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@sidd_harth0_5h4h I can't hear you I'm too busy minmaxing my gender
organic chemistry / hormones / quesiton
@polymerwitch you might want to reach out to four thieves vinegar collective, if you haven't. Do you know them/want more info or an introduction?
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Friend of mine will be doing free online Javascript classes on matrix. Mostly self-directed, in a classical setting, but with (more or less) 1:1 support from them whenever you get stuck. You'll be working on a project of *your* choice. The teaching is text-based, but you don't need to be good at expressing problems in text!
Marginalized folks particularly encouraged.
~3 hours a week, skipping sessions not an issue, schedule tbd with participants
more info: https://twitter.com/joepie91/status/1471084098634530819
matrix room: #open-js-class:pixie.town
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I know there are folks on the fediverse who work for companies like Google and Amazon (Ive seen your bio's, you cant hide from me).
I wanna know: how many Black devs do you work with? How many black devs -- or fuck, just Black folks in general -- have been hired on around your sphere?
I can definitely guess as to what these statistics are, but I wanna know forreal. Let me know.
My take on addressing gender and racial staffing inequities in tech (corpo levels)
@somarasu IMO, we prevent the "white dude company" phenomenon by capping the numbers of white dudes folks hire at all stages of company development.
If, when the company is young, they only hire white people then, ten years later, the employees with seniority will all be white.
(tiny soap box time)
Also, ignore cultural 'fit', use better metrics for developer performance, anonymise pull requests when possible, and prefer contract to hire models based on performance metrics. If metrics overall show patterns, address the systematic issue in your company rather than ignoring it and deciding that it's the employees fault. Promote/give bonuses to whole teams when they do well. Deliberately ensure that every reporting chain has at least someone of a similar gender or culture to folks, and ideally, that there isn't a clear dominant pattern in that reporting chain. Use anonymous surveys for diversity stuff (religion, sexuality, etc) and run training on how to be inclusive for folks in those categories. Set clear expectations that delaying your colleagues work or wasting their time will eventually impact your own performance reviews. Have users rate the actual work done by devs, rather than just the dev perspective on performance.
(end soap box)
- Pronouns
- She/They
- hangs out with people on
- https://cyberia.club
- Gender/orientation
- Demi-femme/Novi gender, demisexual/panromantic/polyamorous
- Hackerspace
- https://layerze.ro
i like kind machines. pro-people-not-dying. anti-nazi. anti-colonizer. pagan, but lazy about it.
I am #HardOfHearing, #nonbinary, polyamourous, into ttrpgs and #tech. Hobbyist #leatherworker, hobbyist scifi author, community builder, and artist.
I like to build #whimsical things that help people to #dream better and form meaningful connections. If you wanna hang out with friendly computer weirdos in Minneapolis, lemme know.
Profile image description: a watercolor painting of a person with pale skin and brown and blue hair laughing. They have a side cut and an audio processor is visible behind their ear. The art style is loose and the eyes are squinched into little crescents.
Joined Jul 2020
