Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
@lioness that link is a 404
@12 I wish I could cuddle more of my friends and casual acquaintances. -Esme
mn/st paul politics
No on city questions. Both seem questionable (unsure that vouchers for childcare make sense as a solution, or what effect lining up other races with US presidential elections would actually have).
Incumbent for all judge races except Paul Yang.
mn/st paul politics
As is my tradition, looked up my sample ballot the Sunday before election day. Currently likely to:
Vote DFL in all the partisan races. Just not seeing other candidates I can support.
Yes on constitutional question. I gather it's renewing a fund that exists already and is used to do important work, though I'm not a fan of lotteries.
Esme Povirk
boosted
How a misinterpretation of a BMJ publication from 1996 caused (and yes, I do mean caused) the explosion in rates of peanut allergy.
In a nutshell: for decades the guidance issued in the USA and UK was the opposite of what it should have been and left a generation with preventable, life-threatening allergies.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/10/excerpt-from-blind-spots-by-marty-makary/
pandemic
It's weird to me that now people reassure with "it's not covid" as if being sick and spreading other communicable diseases is actually fine.
@sota767 Maybe next time I'm asked about dietary requirements I should be like PLEASE WHOLE GRAINS.
@sota767 The thing I worry about with this isn't weight, it's digestion and blood sugar. I had to make dietary changes to regulate those things and they're just being steamrolled right now.
Esme Povirk
boosted
If you tell the story of the burnt ballot boxes in Portland and Vancouver this week (an important story that warrants attention), also tell how good fire-suppressant design saved all but three ballots in the Portland box, and the efforts of the election workers who contacted those three voters and arranged for replacement ballots.
Things are scary and bad, and often literally on fire. But there are good people and good systems too. Making us forget that is always a win for the worst ones.
Esme Povirk
boosted
Annoying edge cases: non-binary person who identifies as binary.
Not as a binary gender, but as having the gender "binary". Like the gender options are "man", "woman", and "binary".
0 uses 0/1 neopronouns, of course. 0 says 1s never been happier with this gender and pronoun choice, it really works for 1.
@mcc That is very inconvenient for the admittedly weird way I want to develop for it, which is to dump posts into a static html file chronologically sorted with posts from other places and not think about any interaction beyond that.
Also there's just.. no easy way to get a post's url from the API? They give you a weird at: url and you have to take it apart and slot the pieces into an https: url?
Well now that I can see some actual post data, this bluesky thing is super complicated.
Well darn, I was kinda hoping I'd have more to read about while waiting for my vaccine appointment.
OK usually the simplest thing for me has been to ignore any "client libraries" recommended in documentation and use the curl documentation to do raw http stuff in Python, but it seems like this isn't even http and atproto is complicated so following their Python documentation is probably the simplest way.
looks at Bluesky documentation Uh I was expecting a typical web API with oauth and tokens and json stuff and there are uri's starting with "at:" and I'm confused.
Hey if any friends are on other socials more (been hearing about bluesky a lot), I would like to follow you there. I have feed-merger to conveniently pull everything together, although I need to update it with bsky api (rss feed has some annoying limitations), and it doesn't work with Twitter because Twitter charges unreasonably for API access.
Probably will still only post here though, as much as I do at all.
Esme Povirk
boosted
Lots of PCs are poised to fall off the Windows 10 update cliff one year from today
Windows 10 is by far the most-used version of Windows, and support ends soon.
Joined Aug 2018
