ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

Nazis are shitstains, pass it on

Nothing has intrinsic value other than food and weapons.

TIANRFTTBAA

⠀

or There Is Absolutely No Reason For This To Be An Acronym

When I was 18 I worked for Gallup Polls. I spent a week or so calling people to ask them:

Who is your favorite actor - John Ritter or
Ken Wahl?

I learned two things:

I learned that you can't trust polls, and I learned who Ken Wahl was

@freedomofpress
now has close to 4K followers. It would be nice to see the account's audience here grow even further - it'll help us make the case to treat the fediverse as a first class platform in support of our mission to protect journalists and whistleblowers.

Beyond press freedom advocacy, we post digital security tips and updates, with an eye to protecting journalists, newsrooms and whistleblowers. Many of those tips are generally applicable to anyone who wants to stay safe online. :)

I’m inspired by the cool bags @geekmomprojects has been making, so I wanted to share this quilted pouch with a pull-up strap that I made for @arturo182.

It was super fun to learn straight line quilting with a walking foot. But I’ll be honest, the pouch wasn’t easy to make. I mixed up the right and wrong sides, even wrongly aligned the pull-up mechanism but it worked out in the end. Just had to rip apart the seams, and rebuild it altogether 😅

The German word "Sack" can mean:

- sack, bag

- man (derogatory)

The German word "gerissen" means:

- torn, ruptured

- sly, shrewd

So, when Germans say "Der alte Sack ist gerissen" it can mean:

- "The old bag is damaged"

or

- "That old fart is clever!"

Enjoy our language!

#TheGermanWord

Computer keyboards should have a removable crumb tray, like a toaster.

It’s getting to the point where you can’t even plan an insurrection, beat and kill police officers, invade the United States Capitol, and try to overturn an election in this country.

Texas' government just spent $31.7M in the middle of a heat wave and energy shortage.

No, not to provide fresh shelter to the homeless. Neither to install booths with free fresh water. Neither to increase the number of public spaces (outside of shopping malls) where people can gather, instead of burning energy to keep their homes cool 24/7. Neither to boost its investments in renewables and pivot away from the oil that it keeps digging.

No, the government just gave that money away to Bitcoin miners to convince them to turn off their energy-hungry machines, so everybody else can also use energy to keep themselves cool.

Let that sink in. Even a life-threatening heatwave can't get miners to behave cooperatively and turn off their machines, whose only purpose is as pointless as randomly guessing a number whose SHA256 hash satisfies a certain arbitrary numeric constraint - and they skim some profits out of these pointless puzzles just because someone decided that putting up a system with such perverse financial incentives was a good idea. In order to get them to behave as someone who's not a complete selfish sociopath and evolutionary failure, the government had to compensate them for the losses that they would make by turning off their computers.

I guess that today's capitalism is that system where it's actually ok for the government to spend public money - as long as that money goes to those who need it the least.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bitcoin-mining-cryptocurrency-riot-texas-power-grid/

#ReligionPoisonsEverything

Accepting, honoring, and embracing your autistic self isn't limited only to those #ActuallyAutistic humans who understood that they're autistic recently

It's a journey that ALL autistic people, from all backgrounds & needs supports must take

Join us

@actuallyautistic

https://www.theautisticcoach.com/autistic-self-advocacy-unmasking-exploring-the-autistic-self