djnavarro

@djnavarro@hachyderm.io

Only sometimes interesting (she/her)

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djnavarro, to random

I’m sitting on a park bench next to the Marks Park Memorial in Tamarama, memorialising the victims of hate crimes targeting the LGBT community in Sydney. The site was a gay beat in the 70s and 80s and the nearby cliffs were the site of several brutal murders that the NSW police ignored because of who the victims were.

Less than 1km away, Mardi Gras is setting up a massive beach party at Bondi and straights are playing beach volleyball and sunbathing. It feels like a metaphor, but idk what for

djnavarro,

There’s been some selective memory about the behaviour of the Australian police towards the LGBT community. Quiet whispers of inclusion and promises to one day be better. But… just not today

Anyway, this is the story of Mhelody Bruno from a few years ago, a Filipina trans woman beaten and strangled to death by her boyfriend, and whose death was barely even investigated by the police and the courts because they believed the lies of the killer, a nice white cis army man

https://amp.abc.net.au/article/100256330

djnavarro,

I bring this up, not just as a perennial reminder that NSW police are trash (literally everyone here knows that), but because a lot of people who fancy themselves allies persist with this delusion that “everyone is so accepting now, it’s okay now” (yes a straight man told me this barely a week ago). It’s not true, and most of us are holding onto very dark stories of violence and abuse. But we’ve learned not tell them because straight cis people prefer the fairy tale that “love is love”

djnavarro, to random

Well that's bloody fabulous. TIL that even though I have my linkedin feed set to "sort by recent", the platform is still doing algorithmic shenanigans to it. For a very brief window in time it showed me a post from a friend of mine whose work I enjoy reading (less than an hour old), and the moment I refreshed the page it disappeared again. The post is still on her profile, but it has completely vanished from my feed 😠

djnavarro,

For the love of all that is good and pure in this world, I am begging social media platforms to make it an actual option to have a simple chronological feed that shows every post from people I follow, in the order they were posted and nothing else. I don't want to see what they liked, I don't want your suggested content, just let me see posts from people I follow. At least make it an option for me FFS

djnavarro, to random

Nice little personal achievement. After 10 months of continuous low key effort to improve my diet and exercise habits (let’s just ignore my failures on the cigarettes front, shall we?) I’ve managed to bring myself back to my pre-covid weight. It does feel nice to be able to fit into my old outfits again, I have to admit

djnavarro, to random

One of the most surreal things about belonging to a marginalised community — and I think this is true for almost every marginalised demographic — is that you pay attention to terrible things that affect your people. You see an endless stream of stories about murders, assaults, legislation targeting your community, and a great deal more besides… but other people don’t. And since they don’t see them, they expect you to keep on going at work like everything is normal. Business as usual.

djnavarro, to random

I think I'm going to start making a habit of occasionally reposting old blog posts. To that end... a little while back I wrote a toy R package called "queue" that implements multi-threaded task queues in using R6 classes. It's by no means the only way to do this (and certainly not the best one), but it was a nice exercise in thinking about how to design tools with R6, and more importantly was a good way to learn how to use the {callr} package

https://blog.djnavarro.net/queue

djnavarro, to random

This is something that is very apparent when viewing American politics from the outside. Everything is so dramatic, and the drama fuels conflict and chaos. Journalists typically love drama. It’s more fun to write about than reading policy documents. But in reality, people lead better and happier lives when politics is boring and driven by careful policy. In truth, you want to live in boring times. Boring politicians are good. If you want excitement watch a movie.

(Via https://c.im/@cdarwin/111948876445719682)

djnavarro, to random

Tech educator with a very long, easily searchable history of providing free educational resources and trying to find ways of making a reasonable income from them:

It is actually very hard to get people to support open educational work

Reply guy on mastodon:

Ah but have you tried obvious thing that I thought of just now maybe you’re not trying hard enough

gvwilson, to random
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One day, maybe, if I stay focused and work hard, I will write something so good that I will look at it and say, "This—this deserves cover art by @djnavarro." https://art.djnavarro.net/gallery/

djnavarro,

@gvwilson You massively undersell yourself! I would be absolutely delighted if you were to use my art on the cover of any of your books, tutorials, or whatever. (I mean I literally just bookmarked the querynomicon knowing I’m totally going to need it later!)

djnavarro, to random

Ugh. Looks like Sydney is introducing millimetre wave scanners even for domestic flights. Flying while trans is about to get gross again. Sigh. I’d enjoyed this brief respite from being humiliated and groped at airports

djnavarro,

Managed to escape this time thanks to the fact that there’s still one old school metal detector in terminal 3, but presumably that will be phased out soon. Consoling myself by looking at pretty shoes, but I’m seriously wondering if my days of air travel are coming to an end. Last time I had to go through a millimetre wave scanner and endured the inevitable genital pat down it triggered a rape flashback and I had a panic attack in the middle of LAX. Not a fun moment.

djnavarro, to random

Pet peeve.. if you are advertising an online tech event that anyone can join, regardless of where they live, please advertise the time in UTC as well as the local timezone. I know my own local timezone relative to UTC off by heart, but I have no idea what it is relative to US Eastern or whatever

djnavarro, to random

Cross study comparisons are tricky but nevertheless this is striking: A study of men in tech finds 80% believe women in tech are treated equally to men, and only 6% say that there gender inequality exists. In contrast a study of women in tech finds that 50% report having experienced sexism in the workplace

(via @amydiehl)

https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/02/11/four-in-five-men-in-tech-say-women-are-treated-equally-as-women-criticise-invisible-challe

djnavarro, to random

Huh. Okay so I deleted my bluesky account a few days ago, and noticed that my mental health immediately improved. I think I’ve worked out why: I don’t handle anger well. There’s a lot of angry politics posts on bluesky, and even though that anger usually aligns with my personal/political beliefs, it still triggers an intense reaction in me that is surprisingly similar to ptsd episodes that I sometimes get from sexual assault stories in the news. Not sure why I didn’t make this connection before?

djnavarro,

I suppose it’s surprising in part because my emotional reaction to bluesky is so similar to my emotional reaction to twitter, and so different from my reaction to mastodon. But bluesky and mastodon posts in my feed tend to have broadly similar political orientation, and twitter was… different. So I’d been puzzled at why bluesky was so upsetting for me. The common element is anger. Bluesky is angry like twitter is angry, just in a different direction and I guess I don’t handle anger well. Huh

djnavarro,

@MattCrumpLab yeah I don’t think you can do it yet? Bluesky has a very slick interface compared to Mastodon but the user tools seem to be almost nonexistent.

djnavarro, to random

Nice article by Jane Caro in The Saturday Paper, albeit a rather sad one. It’s genuinely frustrating to look at how the mishmash of Federal/State level funding of education creates a system that massively disadvantages poorer states. And honestly I still don’t understand why the Federal government has any public policy justification for funding private schools.

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topic/2024/02/10/simple-idea-225-fully-fund-public-schools

djnavarro, to random

reading the documentation for the S7 object oriented programming system for (as one does on a Friday night) and I have to admit this bit made me smile

djnavarro, to random

I’m in a really foul mood about it, so one more Jesse Singal comment. The reason this incompetent twit can get away with this sort of thing is because professional statisticians waste their time and mine faffing about with asymptotics instead of looking at how statistical claims are made in the world.

djnavarro, to random

Sigh. I just wasted 60 minutes of my life writing a quick statistical write up of a "Jesse Singal complains loudly that other people are statistically illiterate when interpreting the data from the 2022 US Trans Survey, while making several egregiously stupid statistical errors in the same sentence" blog post and then deleting it after realising I was making myself stupider by taking anything that man says seriously

djnavarro, to random

I am so sick of the men who insist on referring to me as “Daniel” in emails. These are men who have never known me by any name except “Danielle”, and as far as I can tell have not clocked me. “Danielle” is the only name that appears anywhere in documents. Women never do this to me, only men (about 5-10% of them). Nobody, regardless of gender, makes the reverse error. Not once in 30+ years did it happen

I think it’s plain misogyny? Some men are simply too lazy to use women’s names correctly

djnavarro,

@KeithDevlin probably some truth to that. I often think about the Johnny Cash song “Boy Named Sue”, and how the premise is essentially “calling a man by a woman’s name is a justification for extreme violence”, whereas for cis women and trans people this is essentially the norm that we’re expected to live with on a daily basis

djnavarro, to random

the linkedin news sidebar is the living embodiment of how not to think about a topic in the most inappropriate possible way

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