“Under the shelter of each other, we survive.” -Mike Davis, RIP
Human, curious; designer, usability advocate, oss fangirl; snowboarder, Michigan kid, Motörhead fan. Former Model UN dork. Still a general dork. #nobot#noindex
I love you masto but life is short and I’m apparently back in the tech stuff for a minute so I’m instituting a block on-sight policy for fedi lecturing of any kind, especially including but not ltd to every grisly joyless flavor of “that thing you don’t like is objectively correct and superior, like linux on the desktop”
I totally get that you think this is a good way to exchange ideas, but it won’t be with me :*
@kissane "...like Linux on the desktop" lol. Ohh, bless their suffering hearts. I say, as a UX'er that wishes any company were willing to seriously invest in Linux usability. Ubuntu is a great start, but their parent co still isn't that great or emowered to make a significant difference.
Wow, this is a fascinating assembly of minds and perspectives. Charlton Heston and James Baldwin, among them. Cigarettes abound, grainy audio—and a very different world from what we live in, today.
Took an extra cannabis gummy tonight after a brutal gym sesh, and am now mulling a thinkpiece on AI, Cliff Burton, Orion, and joy. What IA will never touch, and we best stop worrying ourselves to bits, over. Other ethical considerations, aside. #MyBrainOnDrugs
Ohhh... and then this. Cliff and James were absolute babies. Yes, kids, before the internet, this is how music "went viral" https://youtu.be/qkebCJDevMA
Us deathrock kids liked to fancy we had the market cornered for sun non-exposure. Nope, Cliff's arms and forehead in this video probably hadn't seen a ray of sunlight in eeons! 24y/o. True brilliance we lost far too soon.
One thing I find is that if you really strongly push back to condescension from others, they’ll react as if you are being aggressive, when (in my experience) they’re actually being aggressive in a way that’s coded as civil/respectable. It is freeing once you stop caring about being seen as “nice”.
I love kind people, and aspire to being kind, but I have no interest whatsoever in being nice.
@jplummer "Nice" is how girls are coded to behave. Jackie Kennedy was always nice, but I never met her and heard no real stories about her, so don't know if she was kind.
Affable, agreeable, and neutered of all sincerity. It's saying what others want to hear, and the way they want to hear those things—with no regard for honesty, outcomes, or impacts, beyond leaving a good impression from an exchange.
Hoping that 2023 becomes the year when legislative calls "for decorum" become understood as the White patriarchy's equivalent to "can I speak to a manager?"
A racialized, gendered, class-rooted power-play of disenfranchisement through gaslighting, as a last-grasp hold on power.
Good people of #Montana, hang in there!! Rooting for y'all, from rural Oregon.
It’s not dangerous, it’s a good thing to simplify onboarding for more users. Other major instances should do the same, and of course keep the option for these client apps to support other instances as well. It is appropriate and good for the internet to prioritize onboarding less experienced users over teaching federation theory up front. https://mstdn.social/@feditips/110233282251253677
Just got an email from Google, offering to send me alerts if "my information is found on the Dark Web."
No—but, how'z about this, Google: please do send me an alert every time onion services get the boogeyman jazz-hands innuendo thrown at them. Bcuz I live to shut that misinformation down.
Yes, this is hideously transphobic. It's also deliciously ignorant of Western fashion's commitment to bling, flamboyance, and showmanship. I welcome the ghosts of Gene Autrey, Porter Wagoner, Minnie Pearl, and Patsy Cline to steer this ship, accordingly.
Also: good luck ordering the Boss of Western workplace fashion, Temple Grandin, to dress more ladylike.
There is a person trying to smear an org in my field by making new email accounts and pretending to be a bunch of different people complaining about them to people like me. They seem to be completely unaware that their writing style is distinctive enough to give them away every time.
Just read that I am older than the average life-expectancy for trans women of color, in the Americas. By quite a lot. Which is horrible to learn. Wishing the CDC or HUD could shut down all the anti-LGBTQI+ laws being introduced at the State level.
Ok, and I also just now read—in a book printed in ink on treeware—about Roe being overturned. Reading about that in a real paper book I ordered and had delivered to my door, just made it feel so much more real. As a past event, living in a future I never believed we'd let happen.
Next door elderly neighbors just re-hung their drumpf flag. 😬 That said, their adult son who lives in the home on the same property behind theirs, is blaring early Chilli Peppers (w/ Hillel); so, things could be worse.
Today's entry in #OneThousandYearsOfWomen is Héloïse, born 1100, a French nun who was also a gifted writer, philosopher, scholar and proto-feminist. She is known primarily for (and from) an exchange of letters with Peter Abelard, a similarly accomplished philosopher and scholar who was her lover and then her husband until they were tragically separated and forced to become a nun and a monk, respectively, after which they wrote each other challenging moral and philosophical questions.
drove past a casino with a lot full of RVs and senior citizens flowing into and out of the front doors just below the sign for a Third Eye Blind concert coming to the casino in just a few weeks and had to sit with the fact that father time is coming hard for Gen Xers
@leeloowrites I'd be here more if other ND design-y types were. :) Only thing I ever "loved" about Twitter, was the community. Meatsacks can congregate on any platform; and most, aren't working harder to make harassment of minoritized ppl, easier to get away with.
