Sami Kelsh is a tired bearPride moths for Pride Month! Did this happen because I just kept misspelling pride month as pride moth? Yes. Did I have a wonderful time interpreting these pride flags as moths? Very much yes!
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Vivian Volz
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Architect. Specifier. Crafty. Ally. Presbyterian. Tea snob.
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just realized Easter and the Transgender Day of Visibility coincide this year which means it's the world's ultimate egg hunt
What are we calling the movement of tech and office workers to permanent telework, or to hoteling (hot desking) a few days a month? Techxit? Because whatever it is, it owes its workers some ergonomic home-office tools.
Laura HelmuthResidents of Königsberg asked Leonhard Euler to figure out whether it was possible to walk a path across all 7 city bridges only once. Euler dismissed the problem as banal and non-mathematical—but then got hooked and invented the math to solve it https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-seven-bridges-of-koenigsberg-spawned-new-math/
Electronic Frontier FoundationDid you know a group of ravens is sometimes called an unkindness? Learn this and other bird facts when you pick up EFF's #DEFCON member t-shirt. Catch it before it flies away this evening. https://www.eff.org/vv
GovTrack.usSeeing comments writing off the Deep South bc the commenters don’t like some of the politicians there. These folks should consider that when they do that, they’re making the same mistake that white nationalists do: assuming that the only people who exist and/or matter are white Republicans. There are lots and lots of people in the Deep South who, for a host of historical & intentional reasons, cannot fully participate politically. When you write off their states, you write them off too.
"If being 'woke' means actively considering the available data and analyses and responding to them by considering the social contexts, histories, and processes that facilitated and created them, then being woke is just doing good science" https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adj7675
Christopher Mimsif you're a journalist and active on Mastodon respond to this post & I'll boost your toot (ugh, the lingo on mastodon lol)
Sarah FackrellOne suggestion: If you want the fedi to be a welcoming place, don't jump in to someone's mentions to explain the fedi UNLESS explicitly asked to do so.
"But...."
But nothing. This place will survive a little technical misunderstanding or misstatement.
It will not survive newcomers being bombarded with endless fedisplaining.