Show more

The US needs national movement to , even though it is not yet popular in enough states.

Beat the drum.
Simple message.
Loud and louder.

Bank mobile apps:
I will keep you signed in forever, even if you cloud restore to a new device, as long as you show me your pretty face, darling.

Bank Web apps:
You glanced away from the screen for 5 seconds. Sign in again, criminal. Have we even ever met??

Watched the documentary “Pray Away” tonight. It’s about the Christian ex-gay movement, which continues to thrive. Growing up in the Bible Belt, fear of being put into conversion therapy kept me in the closet. That fear and closet might have saved my life.

youtube.com/watch?v=tk_CqGVfxE

Is there a book or video course on business writing for software engineers you would recommend?

I've spent many hours teaching writing and pair-editing with software engineers. I would like something to help accelerate that learning.

The tech companies who court and then betray sex workers deserve public shaming, but sex workers shouldn't have to rely on tech bros' largely nonexistent sense of shame in order to continue to transact and communicate. For that, we need *lots* of platforms, not just *better* ones.

--

Image:
Come As You Are Co-operative
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

CC BY 2.0:
creativecommons.org/licenses/b

eof/

Show thread

Engineering managers: replace “bus factor” with “bingo factor”.

I hope my team members leave unexpectedly from winning big bingo bucks rather than getting killed by public transportation.

“When their shitcoin price goes low, we go high.”

—Michelle Obama

What happens when Bonobo’s sound engineer hears the house organist practicing at 1am? youtu.be/AdyAF9M3XVw

A chatbot has never improved my customer support experience.

Waking up to a cryptocurrency DeFi Ponzi scheme collapse is an improvement over the usual US news I wake up to.

🪴 Indoor plant friends: what is the best way to deal with watering when on a 2-week vacation?

(Assume all my friends are also on vacation because Sverige in July.)

The glass bulb thing did not work last time.

Do the plastic water bottle spikes or rope methods actually work?

Deutschland will launch a €3.5 million annual sovereign tech fund to support engineers working on open source software government agencies and industry rely on.

Good for the intellectual commons. Good for national security.

sciencebusiness.net/news/germa

Being able to set multiple timers with Siri apparently won’t happen until macOS Inland Empire.

Show more
Librem Social

Librem Social is an opt-in public network. Messages are shared under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license terms. Policy.

Stay safe. Please abide by our code of conduct.

(Source code)

image/svg+xml Librem Chat image/svg+xml