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kim

@kim@social.gfsc.studio

Studio lead https://social.gfsc.studio/@gfsc

Community organiser, software developer (retired), researcher

trans and very tired

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kim, to random
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my european mind cannot comprehend this site fully

https://www.capitoltrades.com/

its like - oh great, someone's catalogued all the insider trading politicians are doing

except it's not for that reason?? it's to help guide your own investment decisions???

the uk version i guess is this sad collection of pdfs and some vague mumbling about blind trusts

https://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/standards-and-financial-interests/parliamentary-commissioner-for-standards/registers-of-interests/register-of-members-financial-interests/

wild how we are both doing capitalism just as awfully but americans just don't give a fuck who knows

kim, to random
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Prob a good time to re-share my piece on what I think is the singularity: not super smart AIs, but ones just dumb enough to do mediocre jobs badly reducing the signal to noise to the point everything on a computer is suspect: https://kim.town/Singularity

jonty, to random
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One of the worst parts about getting older is realising that people you once admired are actually complete muppets

kim,
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@jonty do muppets even have footsteps or do their legs just kind of dangle in the air not touching the ground

kim, to random
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appreciate all the trans people reporting on the . but really, i don't want reporting, i want the whole thing to be psychically crunched into a giant ball and banished from existence along with all the transphobes and never have to think about it again

can we get a crowdfunder going please

kim, to random
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the irony of effective altruism is that probably by far the most cost effective thing to change the world is hiring hit men to go after billionaires

kim,
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not only would this have an immediate impact on wealth hoarding, it would put people off wanting to be billionares.

hard to think of anything else that would materially do so much for so little investment

it would also make a great tv show

kim,
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omg do it as a dexter inspired show about an effective altruist psychopathic cannibal who hunts billionares as the most ethical way to slake his thirst

call it "eat the rich"

please someone make this show

kim, to climate
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has anyone done a analysis on the impact of mass ?

seems reasonable to me that landlordism stops people putting down roots (and therefore making communal solutions harder), making their houses more eco-friendly (insulation / solar / heat pumps / energy efficient appliances etc), means they have to earn more and therefore ups consumption in general, etc? i bet rentier churn is awful for the environment, lots of skips and cheapest possible ikea furniture?

kim, to ADHD
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just saw this paper and yeeeeshhhhhh this is on the nose

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32851204/

kim, to random
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a bit of science for u all. where two are present, the third will always emerge

sue, to random
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Since the word "learning" became part of my job title I get an unbelievable amount of unsolicited sales outreach for edtech products, L&D services etc, a lot of money in pretending to help folk learn it seems!

kim,
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@sue from what i understand, manchester city council will only hire people who live in inner city postcodes for the low paid jobs, but you can apply for the higher paid ones wherever you live (i.e. from suburbia). i can't think of a system more designed to engineer racial disparity that is absolutely reflected in their current diversity stats.

kim,
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@sue exactly. and tbh i think the whole thing is falling apart atm because rents are too high in the city, and they keep hiring people on 0.2 FTE jobs with no hope of promotion. i think CPD is dead as a concept tbh

kim, to transgender
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if people want to do something really tangible to help people at the moment... honestly the best thing you can do is just reach out to your trans friends. invite us to the pub or for dinner, or anything that lets us forget about the state of things for a bit.

i've been on HRT for a year this week, it's been one of the most socially isolating years of my life. basically every trans person i know is really not ok on multiple fronts. relationship breakdowns are everwhere.

kim,
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every transperson experiences transphobia differently but as a transfemme its wild living in this liminal space where it feels like you don't have access to either male or female spaces and privilage.

as a participant said in @gfsc studio zine on trans inclusion, “the best [experience] I’ve had is mediocre”. i agree, it would be a vast improvement to go back to a place where trans issues were niche politics again and we could just get on with it. bleurgh.

https://gfsc.studio/project/guide-to-inclusive-events/

kim, to philosophy
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Some thoughts on why leftist / / / groups fail – and how it should feel to organise.

Very WIP, thoughts welcome

https://kim.town/minimum-viable-organisation

b0rk, (edited ) to random
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what git jargon do you find confusing? thinking of writing a blog post that explains some of git's weirder terminology: "detached HEAD state”, "fast-forward", "index/staging area/staged", “ahead of 'origin/main' by 1 commit”, etc

(really only looking for terms that you personally find confusing, not terms that you think someone else might be confused about)

kim,
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@b0rk i have accepted what a pull request is now but i still find it a really unintuitive term - who is pulling what where?

christianp, to random
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Quite on-brand for Microsoft Teams to show me a list of 9 people in a team, and say there are 3 people in total.

kim,
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@christianp power bi is my fav name for a ms product

ryanc, to random

Is the same origin policy a cop?

kim,
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@ryanc idk but its deffo a border

sophie, to random
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This chatbot could’ve been a form

kim,
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@sophie agree, i think the options here aren't great. we built a twine format to do this with for one client and still havn't had the resources to write it up! https://github.com/geeksforsocialchange/enquirywitch

Tweetfiction, to random

You know why the fascists win? Because they get the left to constantly fight amongst ourselves over purity tests. You're not socialist enough, or anarchist enough, or anti-racist enough or using the exact correct language when being a LGBTQ+ ally. It's why we lose, and why our spaces fall apart, why the real enemy runs rampant and destroys our world.

I'm so sick of seeing it, over and over again. Sigh...

kim,
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@Tweetfiction had a few chats with people recently where i've tried to impress that people who call you names and bully you are not your ally no matter what side you think they're on and its depressing af

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    kim,
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    @grimalkina i think if the research design is flawed to that degree then expecting women and nb people to give their labour for free to fix it so a for profit company can tick its EDI box is a little rich

    jonty, to random
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    would anybody like an ASK NOT FOR WHO THE VENGABUS IS COMING / IT IS COMING FOR THEE sticker because I have a lot of ASK NOT FOR WHO THE VENGABUS IS COMING / IT IS COMING FOR THEE stickers

    kim,
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    @jonty omg yes is this an open invite to send an SAE?? i think i have never actually sent an SAE despite all the kids TV I watched in the 90s so will feel strangely nostalgic

    kim, to random
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    why is an orange not that appealing but the single slice of orange in a cocktail is like the worlds most desirable foodstuff

    ben, to random
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    People really really don't like it when you criticize Mastodon's user experience.

    kim,
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    @ninavizz @ben im not sure this is true as much as its totally unclear how to contribute things if they're not in a pull request on github which is obviously a very coder brain and culture thing to do

    kim,
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    @ninavizz totally fair. i guess im talking about something a bit different here which is that if you're a programmer and there's a bug in some FLOSS you are empowered to clone the source code and fix it and open a PR, this is all using skills you have. for a designer this process just don't exist in the same way and it's fundamentally more subjective than "code broke". i don't have too much insight into how big FLOSS projects finance and manage themselves big picture!!

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