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Sheril Kirshenbaum  

For thousands of years, fermenting beer was considered a household task for #women.

By the Middle Ages, some sold beer at English markets. Female brewers wore tall, pointy hats to be easily spotted. They stood by cauldrons & often had cats to keep mice away.

Sound familiar? It should.

You see, when male brewers felt threatened by their success, they accused the women of witchcraft. These rumors may have led to some witch iconography we still recognize today.

theconversation.com/women-used #history

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Ariella  

@pixiecata

I’d kill to have one of these.

Just tell me who.

(Completely kidding! Great writing foible!)

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finally puts this year’s beach demon baby to rest, in epic comedic fashion:

youtu.be/HkvQywg_uZA

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Tony Arcieri 🌹🦀  

#JoanMastodon #JohnMastodon

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Ariella  

I was able to reserve a table at a restaurant online today, instead of on the phone, and thank the gods it's for things like this that web software exists. <3

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jessica by the bay  

This is your year non-trans folks. This is the year

to be the one to call out grandma for misgendering your non-binary cousin,

to call out how fucked up your uncles transphobic jokes are, or

to tell your mom that her excuses for deadnaming someone aren’t good enough.

It’s time to make this your problem. How are you going to stand up for trans people this holiday?

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Ariella  

The faces in office Christmas party photos posted on LinkedIn keep getting younger.

What's up with that?

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Uma Página  

How it started / How it's going

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Ariella  

@svetzal visible and replyable

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Attractive Nuisance  

@jes Bill Microsoft got all the credit, but all the work was done by Ms Dos.

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Untitled Goose Name  

I keep seeing that “first they came for the journalists” sign, and it pisses me off so much, because when they came for muslims, immigrants, and trans people, mainstream journalists normalized it and reported it as “both sides”. Somehow it didn’t count for them until it was happening to them personally, which is *exactly* what the fucking poem was warning against in the first place.

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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽  

The guy who wants to put neurolinks in our heads worries about people knowing where he is.

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Ariella  

Art of Noise -- In Visible Silence

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Ariella  

What is your favourite Christmas movie and why is it Gremlins ? 😁🎄🎞

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Ariella  

@codemonkeymike I meant donating money hehe.

I like Mint. When I first got the Lenovo in my photo it came with Trisquel. But I've had others on there over the years, including Mint XFCE.

On my main tower I've Pop OS, for now.

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Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮  

WOW. Elon Musk's Twitter straight-up banned the account for Mastodon. Just, wow.

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Ariella  

I was looking for some new , not a new , but browsing random store collections is magical like that. 😋

Album: Being Special -- Sophia Kennedy

PS: don't know the artist, nor this album, and won't be buying

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Amiga Love ❤  

Still hard to believe something that went on-sale in 1985 could do *this*. 1985!

#Amiga #Commodore #retrocomputing #1980s #BTTF

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Ariella  

I also find this useful to remember given that code is temporary, will be refactored, or thrown out. But a day to day commitment to software that serves people doesn't depend on one effort persisting forever. It's the daily showing-up for people that continuously rewards and will be remembered. <3

All the software I wrote 1980s-2010s : gone. Tossed or refactored because of time, innovation, tool changes.

But the people the software helped? They remember and continue to thank. :)

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Ariella  

But ultimately, you're in service to the betterment of lives of people, if it's by making a system suck less so that another can breathe more easily in their day, or via a very personal connective tissue in the expression of human culture and vulnerability, like a journal or medical app.

People are who you develop for. Architect, develop, test, for them. Stay soft. Stay humble. Stand beside them.

Remembering this will keep your heart connected and your mind innovating for great experiences.

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