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MegaMichelle

@MegaMichelle@a2mi.social

Ann Arbor City Council thoughts, and also random nonsense.

Special abilities: Flying, shooting lasers out of eyes -- you know, "girl power". "Ms. Information". (She/Her) 🏳️‍⚧️

DJ on WCBN-FM, 88.3, https://wcbn.org. Tue 6-9am Eastern time. I play music that is made primarily by people other than cis men. And then I talk about city council stuff.

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MegaMichelle,
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@sjmarf

I couldn't find a link to coffeestains the package except in the image, so I transcribed it out here in case anyone wants to click it.

https://framagit.org/Pathe/coffeestains

RickiTarr, to random
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WHAT IS HIS CRIME?!

MegaMichelle,
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@RickiTarr

Kitty arrested by university police for protesting the ongoing war in Gaza.

toplesstopics, to trans
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Today's video short to piss off the misogynists: at what point do and people's nipples become "sexually explicit nudity"?

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRwT3xPy/

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7CN_ANLTL8/?igsh=ejRtN2IzYjk2NDk3

https://youtube.com/shorts/khGv8Bxv2T4?si=3FkeudTFt_rp1xaC

MegaMichelle,
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@toplesstopics

Around here, if a trans woman were to show her boobs in public, she could be arrested for showing girl boobs, and then sent to boy jail because of it.

MegaMichelle, to random
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Last night, someone mentioned to me the idea of a Theremin Keyboard. I figured if anyone can make this happen, it'd be @foone! Whaddya say??

MegaMichelle,
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@foone

Well, I contributed to your ko-fi. If any lurkers wanna do that too, you can click here: https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing

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I'm going to ramble a bit, but it will hopefully come around to something. When I was growing up, I read a lot of older historical book series, a big one would be the Little House On The Prairie series. While I really enjoyed it, there are some very obviously negative portrayals of Native Americans and African Americans. I remember being angry about it as a kid, and my Dad telling me, that part of learning about history is that we have to acknowledge the people we were, and still are. But because Little House on the Prairie is only semi-autobiographical, I still have mixed feelings about this. I do think they are well written books by a female author, an interesting perspective on early American life, and as an adult I can see and acknowledge the issues with the text. If we try to get rid of every author with racist ideas there wouldn't be much left to read from the 20th Century, and it also feels like being dishonest about who we are. So, I'm very mixed, how do you all feel about it? Do you think children can handle books with racial issues like this if it's explained to them? What is our responsibility here?

MegaMichelle,
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@RickiTarr

I think we might do better to read literature by Black and indigenous people which discusses racism. That would also get a good discussion about racism going, and provide perspectives it would be hard to provide by just reading stuff from the racists' perspective.

MegaMichelle, to random
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There oughta be an audio book app where you can describe the last thing you remember happening in the book and it'll take you to the place where you fell asleep.

stefan, (edited ) to accessibility
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Trying to understand human psychology a bit here, boosts for reach are very much appreciated.

When you post an image without alt text, and someone replies with the image description for you to use, what is your typical reaction?

#accessibility #a11y #AltText #ImageDescriptions

MegaMichelle,
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@stefan

There is one situation where I have not posted alt text: When I'm live-tooting a city council meeting and post a screenshot of a presentation slide or something. I apologize, in the main text, that I don't have time to alt-text it because I'm trying to keep up with the meeting. I link to the source of the presentation.

If someone replied with alt text, I would thank them, retoot it, and edit the post to add it after the meeeting.

MegaMichelle, to firefox
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My computer said it had to reboot for update reasons, so I rebooted it. Now Firefox has lost all my emotional support tabs 😩 😭

Whyyy, Firefox?

#Firefox

MegaMichelle,
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@janriemer

Ooooooo, I can restore previous session from the history menu!!

Thank you! 🥰

MegaMichelle, to Kubernetes
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Kubernetes stuff is all like "Kubestock is a kube control node for funneling proxyd from your kubesits to your kubesats, allowing connections with kubenite and spintwiddle twanks, to keep your yart flow in line with your kubehats."

#Kubernetes #K8s

MegaMichelle, to random
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I think people need to be more judicious with their use of the word "attack". I'm looking at you, headline writers!

All the time, I see headlines like "So and so attacks so and so" and I'm like "Holy shit, what happened?" and it turns out that what they meant was "So and so says harsh words about so and so" and I'm like 🙄 .

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MegaMichelle,
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@RL_Dane

I've tried to come back to facebook, but my little bell icon is just lousy with fake notifications like "Hey, you wanna interact with this post??" kinda stuff. It turns me right the hell off.

azonenberg, (edited ) to random
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Curious if there's a correlation here...

Do you self-identify as (even if not officially diagnosed) or neurotypical?

Do you enjoy the effects of (regardless of how often you use them) any psychoactive substances, including but not limited to alcohol?

I'm specifically asking about the recreational psychoactive aspect so drinking solely for the flavor or taking prescribed stimulants for medical purposes doesn't count, while drinking because you enjoy how it makes you feel does.

For the purposes of this poll, caffeine used solely as a stimulant to help with wakefulness doesn't count (but if you drink coffee because it makes you feel good in some other way, it does).

(will follow up with my hypothesis once results are in, I don't want to say which direction I think the correlation goes to avoid skewing results)

MegaMichelle,
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@azonenberg

Wow, I thought I was the only person in the world that liked being sober! Apparently, it's much more popular than I thought!

MegaMichelle, to trans
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Tucking guide for trans women.

Step 1: Place blankets on top of your partner, making sure to cover vulnerable areas such as the feet.

Step 2: Place all necessary plushies next to your partner.

Step 3: Place a kiss on your partner's forehead.

RickiTarr, to random
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I don't get the genre of T-shirts and bumper stickers that are Wives proud of their husband's jobs.

MegaMichelle,
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@RickiTarr @Waitnwallflower

🤔 Proud Wife of a Lesbian.

MegaMichelle, to random
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What the hell is the deal with the "soon" emoji 🔜 . How did that get into the standard? It's got text in English fer chrissake. Who needed this so badly that this symbol was in sufficient circulation that they had to standardize it?

MegaMichelle,
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@CharlotteBuff

Where did Docomo get the idea to include this emoji?

MegaMichelle, to random
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Who's ready for ??

Agenda: https://a2gov.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1141234&GUID=C2088826-7FE4-4736-A98B-17F0A870AF85&Options=info|&Search=

Zoom: https://www.a2gov.org/councilzoom

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6PJwgHD7jc

MegaMichelle,
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CM Eyer says this is Women's History month and Equal Pay Day was Mar 12.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Pay_Day

MegaMichelle,
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CM Eyer reads us some stats about bias in hiring.

Also, I know a lady who was getting no calls when applying for jobs as an IT manager. Then, just out of curiosity, she sent out some resumes with her deadname, which was a male name, and got tons of calls back.

MegaMichelle,
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CM Akmon says that she was someplace where they implemented anonymous hiring and it dramatically improved the diversity of hiring pool and of the people actually hired.

And, it's passed!

https://a2gov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6575132&GUID=75518D9E-7B11-49D2-AED4-CC80AE328214&Options=&Search=

MegaMichelle,
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DS-1 General Obligation Capital Improvement Bonds to Fund 121 Catherine Affordable Housing Project

https://a2gov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6566282&GUID=2CDCBC96-F17F-44A4-B2B2-36EA6A8BA2DF&Options=&Search=

MegaMichelle,
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Staff is here to talk about it. Jen Hall, director of the Ann Arbor Housing Commission.

Q: If we take out bonds, does that affect our ability to build more housing in the future?
A: Yeah: Positively. It takes a jillion years to get subsidized housing online. If you do them serially, you'll never get 'em done. Bond financing lets us proceed with multiple at the same time.

Also, using bonds lets the financing be way better interest rates than private loans.

MegaMichelle,
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CM Song says that bond financing will make 121 E Catherine happen in a year instead of 10 years. It's awesome.

MegaMichelle,
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CM Disch asks more specific questions about the bond.

$7.2m is the total amount of money from the millage. Some of that is for overhead. In order to get 121 E Catherine done this fast, she'd have to use all of the millage money from this year and next year, and other projects would suffer.

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