ScottinSoCal πΊπ¦ π π³βπ @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es
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- So gay. So, so gay.
- JoeMyGod
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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
Nothing has intrinsic value other than food and weapons.
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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. :)
Iβm 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 Iβll be honest, the pouch wasnβt 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 π
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!
Computer keyboards should have a removable crumb tray, like a toaster.
Itβs getting to the point where you canβt 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/
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
https://www.theautisticcoach.com/autistic-self-advocacy-unmasking-exploring-the-autistic-self
Growling at me for food π π₯°
To early for #Dinner
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@100mountains @markusl @pathfinder @anantagd @actuallyautistic @RolloTreadway
Twitter (x) has changed due to the influence of Elon Musk, the new owner. He's unleashed quite deliberately, by his own invitation, a tidal wave of hate speech, racism, far right tropes, and these kinds of voices are becoming more and more dominant. The US fascistic right-wing is flooding into twitter more and more and they now see twitter as one of "their" online spaces.
English-speaking twitter isn't specifically "American" but certainly it often expresses a part of the US that is toxic, depending on which corner of twitter you hang out in, but with the new algorithms its hard to avoid the toxicity.
So, yeah, many people are leaving twitter, Americans included, and coming to mastodon, or going to other platforms. Twitter for many of us is dying a slow death. I still check in there to get a sense of political patterns and trends. The US in in a period of major flux with politics, with fascistic impulses on the rise as it is in other parts of the world including parts of Europe (see Hungary for ex).
Anyway... I'm "American" in terms of birth. Culturally being American is hard to exactly pin down, because it's a large geographic area. West coast is very different from East Coast. Urban different from rural. All the things that make up my world-view including being multiply-neurodivergent make me quite different from most others around me. My values and mind-set are so different from others in the US that I feel often socially alienated (mostly because I'm autistic). For me, it's not where someone is from, or where they grew up, it's their values, awareness of diversity, acceptance of differences. In the Portland area where I live, people tend to be very progressive compared to other areas of the US, and for that matter, probably more progressive on average than most other parts of the world, with some of us being far left. People here are often open as autistic. We have a lesbian governor. And yet just travel a short distance into the eastern part of the state and it's culturally very different.
But the internet collapses space in terms of giving a platform for all voices... and often the loudest are the most toxic.
Anyway... yes, I'm "American" whatever that means... I feel estranged from the world in my own country most of the time, these days.
The comments on my women in computing videos just keep on coming, and today it was someone who says he's been in IT for 30 years and has "never, ever" met a woman who has shown any interest in computers.
I seriously didn't know how to respond except to say that it's okay, not everyone meets women. Because what other explanation could there possibly be?!
#Wisconsin Republicans are moving to impeach a newly-elected state Supreme Court justice before she has ruled on a case because she won an election and she's a Democrat, and the NY Times is here to normalize it. I'm not going to link to the article, but it's framed as "here's a new tool Republicans are now using to their advantage."
A trope that I hate in novels is when a female character makes it clear that she doesn't want to have children, but then oops! she gets pregnant. Suddenly, she is super happy to have a kid. Stuff like this lends support to spurious arguments that women don't really know what they want.
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DA Fani Willis is channeling some Herschel Walker fake sheriff badgeness in this filing, and Iβm here for it.
Mercury is in the microwave again, so if you drive a Taurus, make sure your Chaka Khan tape is aligned and avoid candy corn and vertigo.
Tommy Tuberville is a clear and present danger to Americaβs national security and military readiness.
Pass it on.
- 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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