hellianne.bsky.social
A writer of many stripes. Seriously, lots and lots of stripes. It's like a tiger in here. she/her
Feminist | Fat Liberationist | Anti-racist | Pro-trans-rights | Social justice for all | WEAR A MASK
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He complains he can't hang out and talk about sandwiches on BlueSky, a platform that has at least six feeds in English dedicated to talking about sandwiches. Huh.
I get that there's a learning curve here, but it seems to me that "using feeds" is one of the first results for "how to bluesky".
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That's an option you can turn on or off, as you please.
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I mean, I've worked with a lot of engineers (SW, electrical, mechanical) and product managers and the rest. Their ways of working are highly resistant to any kind of normal human influence. They see even a hint of humanistic expertise and they run away hollering "Ew, cooties!!!"
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I have some background in safety compliance testing for machinery, and I've had the same reaction to a lot of recent trends in car "features." Like touch-screen interfaces replacing tactile buttons. But "failsafe for broken accelerator: *engage* acceleration" is absolutely mind bogglingly wrong.
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Yeah, these smart features are things like start the stove with a voice command (which shouldn't need internet access, really) and check the timer from a phone/table app anywhere. Neither of these gives much benefit, especially next to the risk of SURPRISE FIRE HACKS.
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On the plus side, that big digital display means less stainless steel. I'm so tired of that aesthetic in appliances. Looks cold and industrial, gets fingerprints if you look at it funny, and it requires special products to clean it.
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My kitchen range came with "smart" features. I decided *not* to give the fire-making machine that lives in my house access to the internet (because why the hell would I want something that dangerous to be vulnerable to hacking?!?!?) so it remains stupid.
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Given what's happening in our country today, the sign of the Morrigan seems kind of unnecessary. "Beware! A battle looms on the horizon!" Yeah, no shit, Sherlock. We know.
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I don't have any military background at all, so I kept an eye out for what more informed people have to say. Uh...
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SpaceX launches are devastating fragile habitats that *should* have been protected. End it to protect the environment.
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IIRC, this is still technically part of a police department budget, but since the new work is about connecting people to social services rather than focusing on charging them with crimes, I’m hopeful it will help popularize broader defund efforts by showing how well they work! 2/2
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Recently, Boston invested in putting a bunch of social workers into the law enforcement process. The result: Violent crimes decreased more in Boston than in other US cities. Like, the city’s murder rate last May or June was something like *80% down* from the previous year. 1/2
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Go to the user’s profile, tap the three dots menu, and select Search Posts.
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#Alt4You
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#alt4you
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If I'm reading Lorenna right, she saw that ICE drove a vehicle through the barricade, but she didn't see whether the injuries were because they struck people directly or whether flung barricade objects hit people.
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Yes. Unless this fundamental piece of infrastructure gets picked up and run by some other company, the most people who make home-sewn garments will require a substantially different skill set.
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I did the exact same thing on Tuesday. And the sad thing is, I might even take an offer that low at this point. The job market has been brutal to me this go around.
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Oh yeah, it’s very brioche-like. For rustic, again not a restaurant chain, but I like When Pigs Fly’s multigrain with pumpkin seeds. I like a bit of crunch but I don’t much care for walnuts, which seems to be The Default Bread Nut, so pumpkin seeds are nice.
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Not a chain, but I always laugh when I remember that The Parker House, a pretty fancy restaurant that charges $21 for avocado toast, is famous for their free bread.
Parker rolls truly are amazing, though. I can't remember a better bread experience.
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We GenXers got ignored so hard that we managed to suck the generations before and after us into obscurity.
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I think they focused on some other past incidents of Bad Choices, noted that the org had managed to weather those storms, and figured the same would happen this time. But what with this Bad Choice being so much worse and their tech debt piling too high, it just wasn't possible.
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If it's any consolation, I'm pretty sure that *was* what ended the org. They lost key sponsorships and a ton of donors stopped donating because of that. The AI thing was fallout from a new sponsorship they'd accepted to try to keep the org on life support.
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It’s a deep-fried, skinless sausage, commonly served with onions, mayo, and curry ketchup.
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As I first said a year ago, if a site allows any relaxation of spam enforcement for what they consider a good cause, the organized worldwide spam industry will instantly pivot to exploiting that good cause, and that is precisely what has happened, both on Bluesky and on other sites.
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None of the above. Gimme a frik.
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It’s great that you’re diving into a novel-writing challenge! However, you should be aware that NaNoWriMo (the organization) has shut down, and the website will likely also go away at some point. You might want to look into an alternative tracking method, just in case.
Happy writing!
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It’s not seasonal allergies, it’s ectoplasm?
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Updated link here:
academicminute.org/dennis-wilso...
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It’s not your fault that we humans took a chassis optimized for quadrupeds and kluged it into walking upright.
I hope the PT solves your pain!
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I did exactly that yesterday. A real sentence I said to my friend in the passenger seat to make sure I didn’t miss any exits on the highways: “I need take 93 South in a westerly direction in order go north on 95, right?”
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He’s on this platform at the same handle dot bsky dot social, for our blocking convenience.
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Adoption of gen AI also further entrenches biases against humanistic endeavors and worsens the many, many ways that the public misunderstands that kind of work. It amplifies and popularizes what I would say is the tech sector’s biggest failing: devaluing and decentering the humanities.
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This. There’s no point in fixing our systems of government if we ignore how bigotry is driving a huge percentage of the US public. How do you instill empathy and compassion in hundreds of millions hearts?
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I know I'm just a random internet stranger and don't have any power to change things, but I'll say it anyway: You deserve good food and safe housing that meets your needs, access to the spaces you want to be in, and healthcare that honors your dignity and autonomy.
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It is perfectly designed if your intent is to keep disabled people out of public life, dependent on family (if available), and precarious.
I'm pretty sure that is the intent.
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And also, if your pool of potential employees has fewer safety nets, they'll accept lower wages because they have no choice. This reduces payroll expenses and increases company profits. I'd argue that a "stronger economy" built on a foundation of stolen labor isn't actually stronger.