ScottinSoCal πΊπ¦ π π³βπ @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es
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So... me. Work in aerospace, more space, not as much aero. Can fix my own car, choose not to. Can fix the random appliance of your choice. Hardcore introvert in person, which is why I love online. Lifelong science fiction fan. Read constantly. Scalzi is my favorite author, because he mixes exactly the right amount of snark into his writing. Together with a guy 30+ years, married since it was legal. Own a home in CA and don't plan to leave unless I immigrate to another country.
Joined Nov 2022
My thanks to @Slate for chatting with me on the What Next podcast about the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers sedition trials and sentencings.
https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next/2023/09/proud-boys-leaders-convictions
When you'd rather be doing anything else but put up with their shenanigans because you love them #mondog
And the mainstream media is complicit by "presenting the controversy".
Suddenly shopping for groceries, going to work, riding the train while trans is a controversy.
#Transphobia in the is on the rise β and the #press is to blame.
An increase in #public #AntiTrans #sentiment in the #UK has been #fuelled by #hostile #coverage of #trans #issues by #rightwing #newspapers.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #CultureWar #Media #MoralPanic #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #HateSpeech #StochasticTerrorism #Hatecrimes #Transphobia
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/09/transphobia-uk-press-media-negative-coverage/
What are the "life-changing" or "health implications" of asking to use a different name or pronoun?
Will a child explode if you use they/them pronouns? Call them Bill instead of William or Karen and a leg will fall off?
It's all bullshit. Protect trans kids.
the only proof we need about how bad climate change is gonna get is elon musk claiming that its not gonna be too bad
Happy to announce that I am a recipient of the IRC postdoctoral fellowship award.
https://research.ie/assets/uploads/2023/09/GOI-Awardee-list-2023.pdf
My project titled "STALWART" will be at University College Dublin (UCD, Conway Institute) under the supervision of Dr. Ronald Halim and in collaboration with Prof. Oskar Modin at Chalmers University.
I am very excited to learn new concepts, gain more skills, and make new friends!
I love my smart TV. I love the way it takes a long time to boot up because it's trying to refresh the advertisements on the home screen. I delight in the way it randomly restarts because it's downloaded an update without asking me, each of which makes the TV slower and slower with every subsequent install. I adore the way it buries the apps that I want to use, and that I use without fail every single time, below the apps that it's being paid to promote and which I have never touched in my life and would never use without the cold metal of a glock pressed hard against my sweating temple. I am infinitely thrilled by the way the interface lags constantly, due to the need to have one thousand unnecessary animations rendered on hardware ripped wholesale from a ten year old phone. I feel myself borne aloft on wings of pure joy when I am notified that my data will be collected and analysed to determine my useage patterns. Even now I am writing this from a field of beautiful flowers and soft luscious grass as I lie and look up happily at the bright blue sky, smiling happily to know that this is the future of technology
I disconnected my smart TV from the network, and use an nVidia Shield to stream. I did this after the whole scandal about the TV mic being on all the time, feeding audio to the manufacturer's servers.
Unmasking is Mindfulness for autistic people
Although the source of friction in my house is when I'm watching TV in the background, get hyperfocused on something, then come back to the TV and realize I've missed an important plot development. I rewind, and bitter grumbling ensues
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To me it sounds like episodes of hyperfocus - what you're doing becomes everything, and the rest of the world fades away. Being pulled out of that feels (to me) almost like a physical jolt, and it is unsettling. And annoying.
Happy Monday! How was your weekend? π€
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The date sneaked up on me this year, attacking from behind. Every year on 9/11 I reflect, grateful I survived the attack. This year, I find myself angry. Some of that may be my own loss: my father to COVID this year; my unemployment. But I'm angry on this 22nd anniversary at what has fallen since: at the authoritarianism that overtook this country & threatens the world, racism and bigotry set loose, the pandemic killing still, my own field--journalism--failing to meet these challenges. 1/
I understand what you're saying, but most of it is pure science, and it has made life much better. It may very well make life better in the future, by tracking what's happening on the planet.
We hear about the splashy stuff - the SpaceX bullshit - but quietly pure science, cooperative science that are joint ventures among many countries, are going on all the time, exploring, learning, and raising new questions.
I was told I had to put up a "brag wall" in my office at work - all the pieces of paper that say I have some idea of what I'm talking about when I open my mouth. My quiet rebellion demanded that I include something frivolous.
@yourautisticlife @CynAq @actuallyautistic
A hard day for me too. I had an interview in the building the day before. I was fresh out of college, moving to New York City! I stood in the plaza looking up at those towers filled with joyβ to be in a big city (that thinks it is) at the center of the world!
A man was drumming on plastic buckets in the subway. People walking fell in time to the beat. Could I join them?
I kept my promise to myself made the day after. I have never left the city. I joined them.
But did you answer your country's call to go shopping?
- Pronouns
- He/Him
- Orientation
- So gay. So, so gay.
- JoeMyGod
- Ε ΔΕΕ§Ε§ Δ - πΊπ¦ π
So... me. Work in aerospace, more space, not as much aero. Can fix my own car, choose not to. Can fix the random appliance of your choice. Hardcore introvert in person, which is why I love online. Lifelong science fiction fan. Read constantly. Scalzi is my favorite author, because he mixes exactly the right amount of snark into his writing. Together with a guy 30+ years, married since it was legal. Own a home in CA and don't plan to leave unless I immigrate to another country.
Joined Nov 2022
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