timorl @timorl@qoto.org

Woot! I fixed a policy limitation at work by simply refusing to apply the policy as written and standing my ground. "Family" for purposes of sick/bereavement/etc. leave now includes anyone with which the employee has a "family-like relationship", not just "blood and law relatives"

I got into a little trouble by signing off on family leave for an employee whose dear friend ("she's like a sister to me") needed some medical support, but I stood my ground on the basis that we shouldn't be defining family in a way that excludes people our employees consider family. And I signed it off twice more.

HR threatened to fire me over it, but a whole bunch of my peers and a good chunk of my team basically went together to HR and my VP and said "he goes over this, we quit". Solidarity works!

Very proud to announce our first event. With the fantastic Mireille Hildebrandt and Wendy Chun, moderation by Felix Stalder. Part of our new research project "Latent Spaces – Performing ambiguous Data".
Details: https://latentspaces.zhdk.ch/general/public-event-1

“Europe cried about a 'migrant crisis' in 2015 against 1.4m refugees fleeing war in Syria and yet quickly absorbed some 2m Ukrainians within days, complete with flags and piano music. Europe never had a migrant crisis. It has a racism crisis.” - Ayo Sogunro

So I've got a Singer 834 #sewing machine that I would gladly give away. It broke down yesterday again and I expect I could fix it again, but I am kind of tired of this happening so often, so I want to get a more reliable one.

The thing that is broken is the spinny thing that is supposed to tangle the lower thread with the upper (as you can see I'm clearly a professional who knows all the terms) -- it isn't properly synchronized with the needle. I suspect you want it only if you like tinkering with such devices or you want it for parts.

I can send it anywhere from Switzerland, but if the postal costs are too high I might ask you to chip in.

i need more mathematician friends on mastodon. can you boost this for visibility, please?

Facial Feminization Surgery
>$10,000~
>go to a consultation so some cis person can describe everything wrong with your face in excruciating detail
>insurance thinks it's cosmetic
>cis people: "ah yes that person is a cis afab adult human female, I can entrust her with my private opinions about the trannies"
>neurotypicals: "this human said with words that she likes me, but according to her facial expressions, she actually hates me. I will respond as such but not explain why."

Mask
>you can steal one for free
>hot-swappable to different types for different threats: pathogens from the deadly endemic forever plague, allergens from the ever growing creep of spring back into winter territory, dust from the dead world post-climate apocalypse, smoke from the world being on fire, chemical weapons from the accelerating fascist regime, you can be ready for anything
>cis people: "I cannot judge this human's entire personality and life history by a quick glance at their face, they must be one of those weirdo nonbinaries, I will avoid"
>neurotypicals: "cannot read the facial expression that tells me everything I ever want to know about this person, I have no choice but to judge them by their voice tone instead"
>they also look cool
>mask wearers are 200% more hot
>facial recognition software now thinks you are "the infamous Grey Fox, confidence: 99.87%"

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the thing about trying to restrict what code runs on a computer is that computers just love to run code, it's their favorite thing to do and if you show them code they just want to run it so bad

"I teraz konkurs: która z tych wypowiedzi pochodzi ze strony Ministerstwa Spraw Zagranicznych Korei Północnej, a które zostały sformułowane lub polecone przez bardzo ważne postacie zachodniej lewicy?"

https://magazynkontakt.pl/antyimperializm-idiotow/

WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS ON THIS GODFORSAKEN PLANET

The world starts making much more sense once you realize that nobody has any idea what they're doing

Got a chance to talk to Miles Alan about his amazing projects:

* (Early days of) #Sxmo
* framebufferphone: new UI
* Mepo: new map app for Sxmo, fbp, Phosh, possibly PlaMo & more
* Why he likes #zig and #oilshell

#linuxmobile

https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/15-Interview-Miles-Alan-Sxmo-fbp-Mepo/

TDD? XP? SBE? DDD? FDD? BDD? All lame.
Be a CHAD.

Curry-Howard
Assisted
Development

@aral Indeed. As much as I wish copyleft wasn't necessary (it can be needlessly cumbersome), situations like these show how invaluable it can be.

german: guten appetit
dutch: eet smakelijk
british: ()

Obvious choice for the first thing to crochet.