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RE: https://thingy.social/@malcircuit/116618403522904283
I think this post was playing in my mind, because I looked at the simple mechanical timer that had our coffee machine turned on this morning, with (newly) due appreciation!
Trello has tweaked their HTML — and if you want to hide that damn annoying island navigation with CSS the incantation you need now is:
div#content-wrapper nav div#island-nav {
display: none !important;
}
:-)
I got a ~~hot~~ fairly tepid "kids these days" + tech take for you:
Seeing everything as a file and/or a process is one specific model of computing. If kids today don't have that model drilled into them, they may be more able to grasp other models, such as system images. Maybe they'll take us down more of a Lisp / Smalltalk path when they start getting nerdy.
That would be cool.
I have lots of things to do today so naturally I'm doing none of them and feel the need to create a rage-inducing poll:
What do you call the bread that's a bit round and you slice it in half to put things in it? (Example image in following toot)
Reminder: Notorious fascist Henry Ford never said "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses". He pretty much said the exact opposite.
(Since I've just seen it rolled out as justification for ignoring folk not wanting AI 🙄)
Anyway, this was a relief to see: 'Build rituals, don’t introduce processes. Instead of introducing a new process and asking (expecting) your collaborators to follow it, simply behave as if the process is already in place. Want your team to start using PRDs before building? Make the PRD and send it out. Want to do an implementation review? Put it on the calendar. Repeat a behavior enough times and it will become ritual.'
Source: https://mattstromawn.com/writing/design-from-the-inside
Thanks to everybody who came to #BalancedTeam this week — talked about everything from finding what teams are not seeing to setting token budgets!
The next online meeting is on July 23rd — do come along! Tickets and more info at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/balanced-team-in-the-ether-25-tickets-1990088064974
*cis man walks into women's toilets*
Cis woman: hey this is illegal, I'm getting the manager
Manager: excuse me sir this is the women's toilets, you have to leave
Cis man: I'm a trans man, legally I'm not allowed to use the men's and this is the toilet associated with my sex assigned at birth
Manager: i don't believe you
Cis man: I don't have any ID with me, what are you going to do, ask me to flash my vulva
Manager: no, I'm going to ask you to leave
Cis man: if you do that then i will sue you for not providing toilets for trans people
Trans woman who doesn't pass: oh hey guy what's up, I'm a trans man so I'm allowed to be here too. If you only do sex checks on people whose gender presentations seem a bit trans, that's discrimination on the basis of perceived trans status under the Equality Act 2010 and I can sue you as well.
Butch dyke: hey I don't want to tell you what's in my pants but I don't want to make anyone uncomfortable legally speaking, so i just wanted to check with the manager - which toilets do you think i should use? I really need to pee so please decide quickly
Passing trans man in the men's restroom nextdoor, to a cisgender man peeing in the next urinal over: pssst hey guess what, i have a uterus and that means you can sue the proprieter for letting me in here
Manager and cis woman: Oh my god what is happening
*manager makes toilets gender neutral*
TERFs: no not like that
Ruth — of systems & design
Random Geek
Helen
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
FINOkoye
Mizuki :3 
Cassian [main]