@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social
@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social avatar

LinuxAndYarn

@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social

🐧Linux sysadmin, infosec aficionado, occasional writer, genx emo kid, 🏳️‍🌈️old lesbian marrried to https://journa.host/@Chrisblue, 🏳️‍⚧️️24 years post, ⚾️Phillies phan phorever, ⚽ever hopeful WNBA & NWSL will give us a franchise. she/her/yo 💙️💛️ Black and trans lives matter. Full stop.

I am avoiding birdsite trauma and will reject follow requests from people who have no posts. Don't take it personally.

infosec on-topic account: https://infosec.exchange/@linuxandyarn

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

LinuxAndYarn, to random
@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social avatar
mekkaokereke, to random
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io avatar

I told y'all, cops don't do what you think they do.🤷🏿‍♂️

Black folk know this from lived experience. Some white folk only learn this when they go to report a theft or sexual assault and find out that the $11B/year NYPD are not equipped to handle that.

15K NYC bikes stolen a year!

https://www.404media.co/nypd-bike-lock-chain-kryptonite-columbia-university-protests/

1/n

LinuxAndYarn,
@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social avatar

@mekkaokereke Seth Meyers took the bike lock ridicule national last night.

https://youtu.be/MJxQQk3cd0I?feature=shared

LinuxAndYarn,
@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social avatar

@mekkaokereke That's always been the key argument for me when people complain about taxes. I get way better value from the Philadelphia Streets Department (even with our potholes) than suburbanites do having to pay private contractors separately for paving, signage, garbage pickup, and recycling.

mekkaokereke, to random
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io avatar

🤔Nothing confirms the statistic that most white Americans have zero Black friends more than seeing whole newspaper articles call a "fade," by far the most common, most generic, simplest haircut that's worn by most Black US citizens, a "Travis Kelce."🤦🏿‍♂️

Even with fancier Black men's haircuts, most start with a basic fade, and get more complicated from there.

The fade is so common and so foundational that it's how Black barbers are judged. It's like asking an artist to draw a perfect circle.

Jamie Foxx with a bald fade
LeBron James with a bald fade.
Travis Kelce with a fade.

LinuxAndYarn,
@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social avatar

@mekkaokereke When I saw the Charlottesville torch march I called that haircut the "fash fade" and had a panic when my boss got one a month later. He said it was unrelated to the white supremacist horsefuckers, and white barbers call it "high and tight"

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io avatar

Nimarata is a beautiful name. It's also Nikki Haley's first name.

Every time racist and xenophobic people in her base see that her name is Nimarata, she loses voters. The name has no impact on non-racist/non-xenophobes.

Her performing anti-Blackness and transphobia to try to win the presidential seat, or help Trump get elected and win the Vice Presidential seat, is bad.

Not bringing up the name Nimarata, helps her maintain the white supremacists in her coalition. That is what I don't want.

LinuxAndYarn,
@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social avatar

@mekkaokereke @asmallteapot @amanjeev

Look, this will be the last thing I say. You have to care about who gets splash damage.

I once called Trump a walking colostomy bag and got called out by a wheelchair user who forced me to think from another side of it.

Nimarata is a beautiful name, She probably heard it at Thanksgiving. She may have a grandmother who has never called her Nikki the same say some guy might have an aunt who won't stop calling him Jennifer. Which is also a beautiful name.

cstross, to random
@cstross@wandering.shop avatar

Scientific American op-ed:

Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real

Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlook

(by me):

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech-billionaires-need-to-stop-trying-to-make-the-science-fiction-they-grew-up-on-real/

LinuxAndYarn,
@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social avatar

@cstross Even worse that this, SV billionaires are happy to give us threads but no dragons we can ride to burn them before they can reach the ground.

LinuxAndYarn, to random
@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social avatar

There's a frightening overlap between the "ChatGPT is awesome" crowd and the "Do your own research" crowd.

fkamiah17, to random
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

WEEK 31: Remember the elderly lady who was shoved to the ground and arrested Wednesday night at Dartmouth?
Alan MacLeod is a senior reporter with MintPress News.

LinuxAndYarn, (edited )
@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social avatar

@fkamiah17 claims this was a condition of bail the university opposes, but it's completely ridiculous and unconscionable no matter who imposed the ban.

Not surprised Chris Sununu would send state police just on spec.

"Jeff Sharlet, a bestselling author and fellow Jewish faculty member at Dartmouth, told JTA that he spotted state riot police at the protest even though the college said it only called in local police."

https://www.jta.org/2024/05/02/united-states/90-pro-palestinian-protesters-arrested-at-dartmouth-college-that-drew-rare-kudos-for-its-oct-7-response

rbreich, to random
@rbreich@masto.ai avatar

Waffle House reportedly deducts $3 from workers’ pay for each on-shift meal, even if they don't eat it.

The policy could cost all Waffle House workers ~$30M per year.

This is a company that already pays some workers as little as $2.90/hr before tips.

Textbook corporate greed.

LinuxAndYarn,
@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social avatar

@Nonya_Bidniss @rbreich It is, but is rarely actually prosecuted, and even when a settlement is reached it won't cover the back pay.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/owed-employers-face-little-accountability-for-wage-theft/

But sometimes it works, so the feds should step in where state prosecutors fear to tread

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/chickies-petes-proposes-multi-million-dollar-settlement-with-dol/157213/

LinuxAndYarn, to random
@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social avatar

When someone says they're pansexual on Mastodon, I think that's grand.

When someone says they're pansexual at the bakery, I'm putting down the baguette until I get clarification.

LinuxAndYarn, (edited ) to Virginia
@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social avatar

has given Democrats a ten-seat majority in the Senate, including , whose House seat was divvied up in an attempt to gerrymander her out of office.

"She decided to run for Senate in the newly created District 30 after redistricting split her house district three ways."

https://www.advocate.com/politics/danica-roem-wins-virginia-senator

And they've flipped the house to prevent any more GOP dirty tricks.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/virginia-democrats-win-full-control-of-statehouse-dealing-blow-to-gop-ahead-of-2024/ar-AA1jzhrs

LinuxAndYarn, to accessibility
@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social avatar

This is one impressive asshole seen outside a library in . No disability plate, no hang tag, but taking up BOTH wheelchair apaces in the parking lot.

I almost feel bad about obscuring their license plate.

Fail

LinuxAndYarn, to science
@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social avatar

Stealing from Cute & Funny Animals, which never posts alt text:

!

LinuxAndYarn, to random
@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social avatar

Whereas, women need pockets, and
Wheress, the fashion industry is improving but moving too slowly to address their previous problems,
Therefore, I submit the following schedule of charges amending the Fashion Crimes Amendment of 1982, title II, p 7, s iii to cover all genders of clothing:

Two or more roomy pockets: no crime
One roomy pocket: misdemeanor (FCA II.3.iv)
No pockets: felony (FCA II.3.v)
Fake pockets:

  • first offense, felony plus charge of fraud;
  • second offense, summary execution
LinuxAndYarn, to HashtagGames
@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social avatar

"Casper! You'd better not be floating around with that can of WD-40 again!"


LinuxAndYarn, to LGBT
@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social avatar

It's official: GOP bigots are trying to use anti-trans panic to overturn Brown v Board of Education, in a bill sponsored by Iowa governor Kim Reynolds.

Introduced yesterday in what's both Black History Month and (QIA2S)+ History month, the authors claim “the term ‘equal’ does not mean ‘same’ or ‘identical’” and “Separate accommodations are not inherently unequal.”

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/02/gop-lawmakers-push-separate-but-equal-for-trans-people/

LinuxAndYarn, (edited ) to philadelphia
@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social avatar

's BlackStar is holding a live contest in July with a grand prize of US$75,000. Submissions are open for the next month.

https://www.blackstarfest.org/festival/pitch

LinuxAndYarn, to philadelphia
@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social avatar

Shit, reporter Josh Kruger shot in his home overnight. Kruger was also queer advocate for the homeless and people with addictions. No suspect or motive's been yet reported

https://patch.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/journalist-lgbtq-advocate-shot-death-philadelphia-home

https://www.inquirer.com/crime/josh-kruger-killed-point-breeze-shooting-philadelphia-journalist-20231002.html

https://joshkruger.com/hello/

_L1vY_, to random
@_L1vY_@mstdn.social avatar

I did grocery pickup. My regular picker came out looking overwhelmed. The store was crowded like a disaster was coming, he said, and they were out of everything, even staples like milk and cereal.

I'm here looking at @ai6yr's timeline trying to figure out what the looming disaster is! 😂

LinuxAndYarn,
@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social avatar

@ai6yr @_L1vY_ Ot just people who need plenty of snacks, comfort food, and caffeine to get their taxes finished.

LinuxAndYarn, to queer
@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social avatar

here's something Boomers relate to that GenZ does not: being away from home and needing to find a pay phone while breathing exhaust from leaded gasoline.

Here's something GenZ understands that Boomers don't: Until I was 50, I never had a job that lasted more than 2.5 years.

Here's one thing GenZ understands that everyone must: + kids don't have to grow up bullied and abused from the streets to the state houses like we did.

are

LinuxAndYarn, to HashtagGames
@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social avatar

He drinks an ichor drink
He drinks a vampire drink
He drinks a mogwai drink
He drinks a spider drink
He sings a song that reminds him of the dead times
He sings a song that reminds him of the zombie times.


TheConversationUS, to music
@TheConversationUS@newsie.social avatar

It’s wonderful to have holiday songs that recognize Christmas isn’t the “most wonderful time of the year” for many people.

Drop your favorite bittersweet holiday song ⬇️

https://theconversation.com/christmas-isnt-always-holly-jolly-even-some-of-its-best-loved-songs-are-bittersweet-195156

LinuxAndYarn,
@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social avatar

@TheConversationUS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfY4b1NszpY

Second place, Father Christmas (Give Us your Money) by the Kinks

LinuxAndYarn, to HashtagGames
@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social avatar

The Milagro Beantown War


LinuxAndYarn, (edited ) to firefox
@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social avatar

Getting used to the new multi-account container tabs extension from , and can't wait for an update to the feature that will let me automatically tie a domain to a container.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
@BlackAzizAnansi@mas.to avatar

Abolish Rent-A -Center.

LinuxAndYarn, (edited )
@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social avatar

@BlackAzizAnansi Rent-a-Center, Aaron's, and the like are just loan sharks with a physical inventory.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • anitta
  • mdbf
  • magazineikmin
  • InstantRegret
  • hgfsjryuu7
  • Durango
  • Youngstown
  • slotface
  • everett
  • thenastyranch
  • rosin
  • kavyap
  • khanakhh
  • PowerRangers
  • Leos
  • DreamBathrooms
  • vwfavf
  • ethstaker
  • tacticalgear
  • cubers
  • ngwrru68w68
  • modclub
  • cisconetworking
  • osvaldo12
  • GTA5RPClips
  • normalnudes
  • tester
  • provamag3
  • All magazines
    •