Ammi Burke really going for it today, it's impressive in its own weird way.
If you're not in Ireland and you're wondering what this is, it is a woman from a very weird ultra-religious family who got a job in the real world as a solicitor (lawyer), lost it by being weird, took the employer to the labour relations court, fucked it up in weird and interesting ways, took the labour relations court to court, and... well, that was today.
@cstross@kevinteljeur wow. Especially the transphobe who was fired from a school and then kept showing up on campus anyway—what a nightmare! Toward the bottom of the article it says that the Westboro Baptist Church thought they had gone too far. Can you imagine having tactics that even WBC thinks are too extreme?
@irvingpop I usually hate this kind of gatekeep-y stuff, but in this case, it’s absolutely justified. If you don’t know the vim keybindings, you really don’t want to activate that mode (the same way I wouldn’t want to accidentally set my keyboard to Dvorak).
Spam (like the torrent of cryptoscamspam lots of people got this morning) has been very rare for me here (and dealt with quickly), but I've noticed that almost all of the spam I've gotten has been via Mastodon's DM feature.
I really wish there was a way to turn DMs off or at least restrict them to people I follow. Control over incoming DMs was a thing Twitter did better than here.
@crashglasshouses@erik365@JohnMashey@mattblaze DMs aren’t secure, but there’s a big difference between sending an insecure message to Alice and sending an insecure message to both Alice and Bob, when Bob (like most people) isn’t actively trying to read other people’s messages.
@mattblaze I hate that attitude. I can both (1) like a service and want to keep using it and (2) have opinions about how it can be better designed. “Love it or leave it” is a crappy viewpoint.
I got my first crypto scam mention on Mastodon. I clicked to report it, and ... the report came to me, as my instance's administrator, even though it's on mastodon(dot)social. Lord, this platform is broken.
They are making us come to the office for no reason so I am going to ride #transit for no reason. It's an odd #commute that takes a slow train and a fast bus and goes from the city into the burbs. #rtd #denver#wagonwheel#bus#business
@LetsRoc@Green_Footballs it doesn’t sound like these were patient files, but rather the organization’s membership lists and meeting minutes. The organization is not the main professional association for pediatricians—that would be the American ACADEMY of Pediatrics—but a small splinter group created by people mad that AAP said there’s no evidence that being raised by same-sex parents harms children in any way.
@dangillmor great article, although I am skeptical that DeSantis actually cares that much about how the courts rule on his actions against Disney.
I suspect that a court ruling against these actions would serve his purposes almost as much, letting him argue that the actions of a “woke judiciary” further illustrate the need for his movement.
@grammargirl it’s really interesting because I’m pretty sure I picked up this construction in childhood from my mother, and she is not from that region. I’m not aware of any ancestors that were from that region or that were Scots-Irish. It’s somewhat of an anomaly. 🤷🏽♂️
As an adult who was recently diagnosed (in my early 40s) with autism, I’ve been reading the experiences of other neurodiverse people (eg #ActuallyAutistic ) online. It has been awesome and has helped me understand myself and my struggles (past and present) a lot better.
However, one thing that hurts my feelings is when someone expresses anger at all parents of autistic children. Not just THEIR parents, but blanket statements. 1/
In my case, and I’m coming to understand that this is NOT an uncommon experience, I didn’t realize I might be autistic until my kid was diagnosed, and I learned about autism as a result.
If you want to complain about your own parents, that’s cool. In fact, I WANT to hear it, because it helps me better understand how to parent my own autistic kid. But it’s really hurtful to tell me I don’t love my kid. /end
@suksisauvasekoitin certainly, of course, autistic parents can be bad or abusive too! I was just hurt by the blanket statement that all parents of autistic kids are faking their love and affection.
Edit: my point is that this person might not have realized they would hurt anyone’s feelings because maybe they didn’t realize any parents of autistic kids were in the audience.