LilahTovMoon

@LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt

Software engineer, I really like housing, bikes, and nice communities 👩🏻‍🦰 ✡️ 🇮🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

Lilah tov moon, lilah tov cow jumping over the moon 🌕 🐄

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LilahTovMoon, to random

"She's everything. He's Just Ken."

Barbie = { Everything }

Ken ∈ Everything

∴ Barbie is Ken

Given that Barbie is everything and that Ken is a member of the set Everything, we therefore know that Barbie is Ken.

LilahTovMoon,

@Billboquet For those who haven't seen it, the French poster says "Elle peut tout faire. Lui, c’est juste Ken."

"c'est" sounds like "sait" (he knows) and "ken" is slang for "fck". So he just knows how to fck.

LilahTovMoon, to random

It's only Peace if it comes with Justice. Otherwise it's just sparkling oppression.

LilahTovMoon,

@jamie_blumberg I was thinking of Frederick Douglass' 1859 note that has the phrase "no peace without justice".

MLK later said, "There can be no justice without peace. And there can be no peace without justice." He also said other variants of it and others have said even more variants.

Even the Talmud over a thousand years ago said, "Rabban Simeon b. Gamaliel used to say: By three things does the world endure: justice, truth and peace. R. Muna said: The three are one, because if justice is done, truth has been effected and peace brought about; and all three are mentioned in one verse, as it is stated, Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates, [indicating that] wherever justice is done peace is to be found."

I thought I had uploaded the Frederick Douglass note and didn't realize it didn't get uploaded until much later (and then didn't want to edit the post since it would then alert so many people)

LilahTovMoon,

@jamie_blumberg Oh, I totally had to look it up in the Talmud (I only had a vague recollection). I think it's a sentiment expressed in so many ways and I don't think the song's version is any less great.

I have a strong belief that good ideas should be restated in many different ways because different things connect with different people and people get exposed to ideas by different venues.

The amount of fancy-sounding stuff that I learned from pop culture is pretty high.

LilahTovMoon, to feminism

Utah is now asking for detailed menstrual information for girls looking to register for high school sports.

LilahTovMoon, to random

People ask me why I use JetBrains' IDEs instead of VS Code.

I like getting findom'd by my IDE.

LilahTovMoon, to random

Who do you think has the best dad joke in history?

I'd have to nominate the Dutch Royal Family. They named their eldest daughter Beatrix knowing that eventually the Netherlands would literally have a Queen Bea.

👑 🐝 👑 🐝 👑 🐝 👑

LilahTovMoon,

@CodexNotFound Ah, in English it'd a nickname for Beatrix and pronounced like the word for the pollinator "bee"

Cambikelanes, to random
@Cambikelanes@better.boston avatar

Went on a 20 mile bike ride today. 5 miles from home to North Station, and 15 then from the Salem commuter rail station, along the Marblehead rail trail and over to the lighthouse, then grabbed lunch and biked down to pick the commuter rail up in Swampscott. This is quite a lot more than I usually do, so we took the commuter rail back from North Station to Porter since we made it before outbound rushhour. Whew. Tired!

LilahTovMoon,

@Cambikelanes Woah, did the train car have a bike rack installed?

LilahTovMoon, to Tennis

Watching Wimbledon, I immediately noticed this rule change allowing women to wear dark-colored undershorts (https://www.npr.org/2022/11/17/1137394181/wimbledon-dress-code-change-white-period-women)

Last year, Wimbledon stopped referring to married women as "Mrs. Husband-Name" (https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/33992017/wimbledon-drop-miss-mrs-titles-women-honor-board)

It's kinda crazy that it took until 2022/2023 for these changes to happen.

LilahTovMoon, to random

Nebraska Mom Pleads Guilty to Giving Abortion Pills to Her Teen Daughter

Jessica Burgess faced eight years in prison for helping her then 17-year-old get abortion pills. A plea deal brought it down to two

https://jezebel.com/nebraska-mom-pleads-guilty-to-giving-abortion-pills-to-1850621217

This kinda sh*t is scary as F

LilahTovMoon, to random

In case anyone on here has illusions that I'm cool, I just went furniture shopping with a protractor.

LilahTovMoon, to random

Chelsea Manning: Be Gay, Do Grimes

LilahTovMoon,

@RichSPK hahaha, not the Grimes I was thinking of

LilahTovMoon, to bluesky

Billionaires are giving closed social networks a new hat!

Before people argue that is open, it's not open until there are many different servers that aren't controlled by Bluesky.

Before people argue that is open, it's not open until they implement ActivityPub (and in a fair way rather than embrace, extend, extinguish)

We've yet to see if they will actually be open.

, , , , , and others in the are actually open today.

Simpsons episode "Lisa vs Malibu Stacy" with a kid pointing at a "new" Malibu Stacy. It's captioned, "They changed closed social networks that lock you in! They're better than ever!"
Simpsons episode "Lisa vs Malibu Stacy" with Lisa taking the hat off Malibu Stacy. It's captioned "Wait, don't be fooled! It's just a regular closed social network with a stupid new overlord."
Simpsons episode "Lisa vs Malibu Stacy" with Smithers pointing and saying "But it's got a new overlord!"

LilahTovMoon,

@runewake2 I also don't quite get what the point would be for Meta. If they use ActivityPub and start putting ads in the Threads app, it seems like a lot of people could simply leave Threads for a Mastodon instance without ads.

LilahTovMoon, to random

When I came out as trans, it was hard for me to choose a name because I was told a girl has no name.

LilahTovMoon,

Short story, mostly it felt heimish (homey) and other names didn't fit as well.

Longer story, I wanted a name that would be reasonably pronounceable by Americans, Irish people, and Jews. I decided that I wanted an "S" name which eliminated things like Lilah, Naomi, Talia, Anna, Miriam, Rebecca, Hannah, and Zoë

I thought about Sydney, but it didn't feel right. I really liked Shira, but thought people would think "princess of power". I like Sasha, but decided I didn't want a gender-neutral name.

But as you can see, I kept "Lilah" as part of my username. I enjoy night.

Oh, for middle-name, that's after Abigail Adams, a childhood hero. I always liked how she spoke her mind, even when others would wish her silent.

My other middle-name is Ruth. In the bible, Ruth has to make a choice about the direction of her life and she chooses a tough direction knowing it might work out poorly for her - but also knowing it's the right decision for her. And she's known for her kindness.

LilahTovMoon,

@notsometony I thought it was a really common name. I know multiple other redheaded Shoshanas. When I started using it, I realized it isn't that common for a lot of people.

ttpphd, to random
@ttpphd@mastodon.social avatar

I think I'm obsessed with orange-red this summer?


LilahTovMoon,

@ttpphd I love the shimmer!

LilahTovMoon, to random

Conservatives are always saying "beware of people with pronouns in BIOS". Jokes on them, my computer uses UEFI firmware!

decolonialatlas, to random

“Humans, like all mammals, are heat engines; surviving means having to continually cool off, as panting dogs do. For that, the temperature needs to be low enough for the air to act as a kind of refrigerant, drawing heat off the skin so the engine can keep pumping. At seven degrees of warming, that would become impossible for portions of the planet’s equatorial band, and especially the tropics, where humidity adds to the problem. And the effect would be fast: after a few hours, a human body would be cooked to death from both inside and out. At eleven or twelve degrees Celsius of warming, more than half the world’s population, as distributed today, would die of direct heat. Things almost certainly won’t get that hot anytime soon, though some models of unabated emissions do bring us that far eventually, over centuries. But at just five degrees, according to some calculations, whole parts of the globe would be literally unsurvivable for humans. At six, summer labor of any kind would become impossible in the lower Mississippi Valley, and everybody in the United States east of the Rockies would suffer more from heat than anyone, anywhere, in the world today. New York City would be hotter than present-day Bahrain, one of the planet’s hottest spots, and the temperature in Bahrain “would induce hyperthermia in even sleeping humans.”
― David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

LilahTovMoon,

@wildlime @decolonialatlas Your regular thermometer temperature and the wet bulb temperature are different things.

A wet bulb temperature of 35℃ (95℉) is equivalent to a heat index of 71℃ (160℉) and is considered the theoretical limit of human survivability.

You don't die at 35℃ air temperature, but 35℃ wet bulb temperature is quite different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature

LilahTovMoon, to random

These bathroom choices are starting to get confusing!

mjdxp, to random

it's really awful seeing how badly GNOME really fucked itself up in the transition to GNOME 3

deciding that the desktop environment that people have been using for years is just not a good design anymore and that it needs to be completely revamped is a baffling decision to me. i understand wanting to modernize, but completely changing everything about your desktop is really just a shitty choice to make

although, perhaps i'd be less hostile towards it if the default modern GNOME experience wasn't a complete joke. there are some absolutely baffling omissions, like no window list, only being able to maximize by double clicking on a window header or by dragging it to the top of the screen, not being able to minimize windows without accessing a right click menu, being over reliant on what's essentially the windows 8 start screen's distant cousin, among other issues. lots of important settings like turning on the maximize/minimize buttons aren't in the GNOME settings app, requiring a secondary GNOME tweaks app to change. people joke about windows having two settings programs, but GNOME does as well, and it's just as annoying to deal with.

most of the issues i have can be solved with extensions, but using them causes a whole bunch of other issues. locking basic functionality like having an applications menu and having a dock or panel behind extensions is completely asinine. extensions are handled through the GNOME extensions app, which basically just ends up being a third settings app. i really don't see why a separate app needed to be made in the first place, it was originally part of GNOME tweaks and i don't really see the problem there. apparently a lot of changes made to GNOME were to make it easier for new users to figure out, but installing extensions to add functionality they'd expect is going to be much more confusing for a new user than just having it available. this is made even worse by the fact that lots of extensions don't even work on certain GNOME versions, so you need to hunt for a version that works with your GNOME version. it's really unintuitive and annoying.

there's also GNOME classic, which is meant to be more GNOME 2 like, having two panels at the top and bottom of the screen. i don't understand why they haven't bothered to just remove this, because it feels completely pointless. you're not able to edit the panels at all, so if you want to do something like get rid of the workspace viewer, you're out of luck. in comparison, MATE is also made to look like GNOME 2, but its panels allow for much more customization. also, all of the applications are still using GTK4 and look modern, so it's really not even a very "classic" experience.

overall, GNOME doesn't know who it's trying to appeal to. it claims it's meant to be intuitive and user friendly, and yet it has very confusing design choices which will frustrate new users. it's baffling that people actively choose to use it. i typically criticize ubuntu for a lot of things, but at least canonical was smart enough to actually install a bunch of extensions by default in order to make it actually feasible for daily use. it's absolutely bizarre to me that someone would actively choose to use GNOME when much better options exist.

LilahTovMoon,

@mjdxp Yea, GNOME 2 felt so easy to use and I could never wrap my head around GNOME 3 and just stopped using it.

It felt like GNOME wanted to be more than a good implementation of ideas that existed in other operating systems and wanted to be "innovative".

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