Erica 💜🦊 @packetcharmer@witches.town

I am reminded that there's nothing about tech as a field that requires frequent career changes.

It's the industry players failing to grow and retain in-house talent.

'Zuckerberg has repeatedly doubled down on the toxic idea that we should only have one self, one persona. That we should be the same person in all social circles, lest we be “frauds”.' - https://m.signalvnoise.com/growing-apart-and-losing-touch-is-human-and-healthy-52b5a678fbf5

I don't always see eye-to-eye with DHH but this article is pretty good

@Dalmaty https://witches.town/media/TxzCV2zQIBmyJXHpbiQ

if polyamory were the default assumption, popular music would be TOTALLY different

A post-work society is more viable than you might think, and long overdue:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/19/post-work-the-radical-idea-of-a-world-without-jobs

When I see how badly standard employment can handle mental disabilities, the failures of the system are unmistakable.

Imagine how different the US would be if we put as many roadblocks between rich kids and their potential inheritance as we put between trans people and SRS.

wow archivists are kinda bad-ass in a way. the SAA's code of values lists like first that the point of an archive is to hold the present time "accountable to the judgement of future generations" like wtf archivists here saving receipts

im a girl
im a girl
im not good at being a girl but im still a girl
im a girl and you cant do shitting fuck about it
and if you want to be a girl you are too

helping your smol friends get up to high places, agree if you boost

How to hack this bus stop advertising space

By Subvertisers for London

#AdHack

https://mastodon.social/media/lYn7ZZRZZbDxkR1qAAY

And so it's -really- difficult for me to feel sympathy when I see people being like "I'M JUST A PERSON WHY CAN'T I JUST FUGGING MAKE THE THING AND LEAVE IT?!"

I dunno, because people fucking use it? People like the thing you did. If you document it enough, there is entirely a possibility that you could just leave it.

. #1) Respect the privacy of others.
. #2) Think before you type.
. #3) With great power comes great responsibility.

I used to bite partners casually, like just bcos biting things is a nice stim.

Affectionate stimming in relationships should be a thing

To borrow a friend's phrasing: a very reputable investigative outfit that found out huge levels of infiltration by Russia including major conservative groups like the NRA. And lays out a case for the Trump organization money laundering for Russian organized crime.

Thread writer is a former securities litigator, coming at it from a legal angle. It basically confirms a lot of things people were simply suspecting.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/954150836191547392.html

@green @frameacloud spirituality suffers a lot of traditionalism, and so a lot of orthodoxy to make it "authentic". I'm not returning to the way people worshipped, I'm finding my own essence for it.

remember that you have power. what you feed, you empower. empower what you want, depower what harms you. to be a creative mind is to be a powerful mind.

"back in the old days everything was better" is the most tired take, no matter if it's applied to politics, computers, ...