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🇵🇹(Azorean)/🇺🇲 binational, 🇧🇷 by marriage. Queer (he/they). Sign Language interpreter specializing in tech interpreting, computer stuff hobbyist, casual gamer of video and board varieties, conlang enthusiast, and former handbell ringer. Languages: En, ASL, Pt, Es, Eo
I am officially in my vovó-making-doilies era
#crochet #doily #avó #vovó

Finally getting around to an #intro post. I'm a first gen US born Portuguese (#Azores) binational, with Brazilian husband (Portuguese language FTW). Queer (he/they) #Leftist from the #SFBayArea.

Using a late-in-life CS degree to work as a (hearing) #SignLanguage #Interpreter specialized in #Tech interpreting. Former interpreter coordinator for #DeafCon.

I pretend to understand academic #Linguistics research, #Conlang enthusiast, and former #Handbell ringer. Have dabbled in the #FiberArts and enjoy games of the #VideoGames and #BoardGames variety.

Hashtag dump: #ASL, #DeafCon, #Defcon, #Terp, #Crochet, #Handbells, #TechTerp, #Deaf, #ASLInterpreter, #SignLanguageInterpreter

There's A LOT of discussion about content moderation right now and very little of it touches on the fact that we've all lived on the big social sites for the last decade-plus thanks to the massively exploitated labor of mostly-invisible moderation workers. The social web at scale wouldn't have happened without these laborers, who in addition to shit wages, have been exposed to literally every imaginable horror.

If we're remaking this world, let's do better on that front.

I've said before, but I will say it again: Slack is just gentrified IRC.

And yet again, as so often in history, it's a #queer #black #woman who does The Right Thing and bears all the risks. #Hero!!!

#FIFA #WorldCup #Qatar #OneLove

This site makes me feel guilty about the fact I didn’t let mastodons on the Ark.

You might have seen somebody using the proverb Vox Populi, Vox Dei. What was missing was the context in which it was used:

Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.

In case you do not speak Latin, it means in English:

And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.