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Is a Religious Studies course “for” a software career? Well, is a Computer Science course “for” a software career?

That Religious Studies course applied to my software career in •exactly• the same way that my Algorithms course applied: I rarely use (and have mostly forgotten) the specific knowledge from it. I use its approach, its patterns of thought, •constantly•.
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Here’s the hidden truth of education:

You don’t know what you’re preparing for.

Your teacher doesn’t know. Your school doesn’t know. Your future employer doesn’t know. Nobody knows. Not really.

Much of what you’re preparing for doesn’t even exist yet. We •hope• it doesn’t exist yet: don’t we educate students in the hope that they will make the world better by changing it? By creating realities that don’t even exist yet?
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When I’m on a software project, I try to listen hard to what everyone is saying, to the words they choose. “Don’t blame me! They asked for it!” is never good enough. I ask critical questions about what people are really thinking, what we’re all hearing each other say, from the start.

I have saved many companies on many projects a whole lot of money (and tears) by using that skill to nip misunderstandings and hidden assumptions in the bud early.

A skill I honed in a Religious Studies course.
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Art I recently got!! The artist can be found here and is really good at drawing sporty girls: https://skeb.jp/@shark_waka

I posted this a while back but am reposting for pride month, iI wrote it a few years ago for a Pride open mic event
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Prefer Not to Say:

I am filling out yet another form
On which I am asked my gender
And then given only 3 options to choose from
Man, woman, And “prefer not to say”

I have seen it too many times
And as someone who is not a man
And is not a woman
But who has a hell of a lot to say
I will be
From this point forward
Formally requesting
No
I will be DEMANDING
That every form or survey that gives me an option
Of prefer not to say
Also gives me an option
Of prefer to shout

An option of
I have spent far too long being forced “not to say” and I refuse to stay quiet any longer

Or better yet
A blank box

Give me a blank box
And I will write you an epic poem
About how I spent years looking for myself only to realize I was calling out the wrong name

I’ll find a way in 100 characters
To write a thesis
Examining theories of why
Even after countless hits
Each new gut punch of erasure
Somehow hurts as much as the first one did

Or remove the character limit
If finally accepting my gender taught me anything
It was that limiting myself
Is no way to live

So give me unlimited space
And let me write you a book
Titled “Enby Euphoria”
Filled with stories that will make you laugh
And cry
And understand why this matters

Because at the end of the day
That’s what I really want
For you to understand why this matters
To understand THAT this matters

And I will never get a chance to explain any of that to you
If you keep making me check a box next to the words
“prefer not to say”

#Pride #PrideMonth #Nonbinary #Trans #Transgender #Enby #Queer #Gender #GenderNonconforming #QueerPoetry #QueerArt

fairy mushrooms #creativetoots #art #pixelart #mastoart

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I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking “Hey. Remember those weird Zelda games for the CDi? I wish there was a modern day game like those!”

Folks…. It’s happening. They’re doing it. https://youtu.be/PKVj3fAsO_s

It’s a lot of the same crew even…

There is a Google doc that lists gynaecologists who will perform tubal ligation (tie tubes) without asking if you have kids/your partners permission/are married etc. as long as you're old enough to consent to surgery.

It's sorted by alphabetical order by state.

If your city isn't listed, keep checking because it's constantly being updated.

So far there are entries for USA, Canada, and Australia. Europe will hopefully soon be added.

GOOGLE DOC https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Djia_WkrVO3S4jKn6odNwQk7pOcpcL4x00FMNekrb7Q/htmlview?usp=sharing&pru=AAABgbyEz80%2Aki0mctT40bBlN9NCfbfg6w

#RoeVWade #gynaecology #ForcedBirth #RightToChoose #ReproductiveRights #BodyAutonomy #PleaseShare

Her name is Dignity of Earth and Sky, and it's the first time I've been able to see her in person.

Thanks to efforts by volunteers Nosamu and bai0, the Internet Archive's flash emulation just jumped generations ahead.

Mute/Unmute works. The screen resizes based on the actual animation's information. And for a certain group who will flip their lid:

We can do multi-swf flash now!

A pile of previously "broken" flashes will join the collection this week.

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash

It’s amazing to think how much digitization has made it less likely content will last beyond a generation. Writing on stone tablets last hundreds to thousands of years. An Atari cartridge or Betamax tape is almost impossible to consume today if you aren’t a collector of classic electronics.

I used to think my kids and grandkids would read my blog posts and tweets. Now I doubt Medium or Twitter will still be around in ten years.

https://gamehistory.org/87percent/

Apparenty, David Tennant wore an enby pin and a t-shirt reading "leave trans kids alone you absolute freaks" for the official Good Omens 2 press photos.

RE: Evernote firing all employees. Potential company shutdown/selloff.

You can download & export your entire evernote collection using evernote-backup: https://github.com/vzhd1701/evernote-backup

Can't do it in the app anymore without a $paid$ plan.

#evernote

I saw a post here (that I can't find) that kinda changed my life.

It said the best first step to changing the world into a better place is to just stop making fun of people. Ever. For anything. Including in your own thoughts that you may never speak aloud.

I try very hard to do this! it's such a stabler and nicer-feeling foundation to my thoughts and my life. It sheds a mental weight/burden I couldn't see before.

Such a great distilled bit of advice for a big concept!