Amy Qualls

@amyqualls
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100% human, according to lab tests. Technical writer, vaguely creative person in #Portland, #Oregon. Usually holding a cup of tea and bewailing her chilly toes.

Things I love: #quilting, #AperiodicTilings, #ScienceFiction, #origami.

On the bird site, I am...@domesticat
Movies we watchhttps://letterboxd.com/amyq/
Antique, mostly dormant bloghttp://domesticat.net
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I was just thinking where the Scooby-Doo gang would be today, and I reckon that Fred and Daphne got married, a decision Daphne regrets in the moments she's honest with herself, which happens a lot more since Fred went full MAGA, and starts yelling at her every time he thinks she's talking to Velma, who is one of those coastal elites trying to make his kids trans.

He drives a big American pickup truck with a 'NO MYSTERY, JUST MACHINE' bumper sticker, even though he only commutes to the office with it.

Velma is living her happily ever after in a major East Coast city with her wife, while Shaggy and Scooby live in Portland, working in a dispensary by day, and posting updates on converting his van to an EV by night, to his YouTube channel.

I was diagnosed with early stage 2 breast cancer in late October. We've set up https://www.caringbridge.org/site/9d3fef37-b688-11f0-b911-1db17410aa30 as a central point for updates. (Create an account there to see the posts.)

The last two months have been intense. I've had lots of tests run, started chemotherapy, and lost my hair. We're doing our best to adjust to our new normal. Sometimes we manage, and sometimes we don't.

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Heyo,
Me + @dx made a project for #39c3 this year, in which we made 5 DIY air purifiers a la Corsi-Rosenthal Cubes, but modified to be more portable, easier to take apart and put together, and overall be congress-safe. We had them at Angel Restaurant (2), CERT (2) and Kidspace (1), so you may have seen them around.

We have published details and files here if interested: https://github.com/c3infsch/aircycles (feel free to reach out with questions or if you want to build them so we can help)

We just finished taking them apart for the year and threw out most of the filters as they looked really dark, and with that we're done with 39c3 🎉

If you'd like to help offset our costs so far, and help us build more for future events (we got so many more requests than we could supply), we've set up donation links:
https://bunq.me/aveao (also shows the IBAN if you prefer to do a bank transfer)
https://paypal.me/aveaoz
(Transfer reference "Aircycles Donation" or "Aircycles Spende" please.)

As for the amount: We've spent about 700eur not including the costs of prototyping, and for next year we plan to build even more of them to meet the demand. We don't intend to make a profit, so I might edit this post later if donations reach too high an amount (but I doubt we'll get there).

Thank you! (and boosts welcome)

"Click the button. You will extrude the work product faster and more. More work product faster and more. Content. Clicking the button will make the work extrude faster and more. There will be no effort, no friction. Bright pastels and rounded corners and smoothness the line will go up. The number will go up. The line will go up. You will extrude the work product faster and more line will go more up. Productive extruded thoughty textlike work product will fast go line up easy. Streamline go up."

I'm super excited to share with you the hottest new methodology from ✨ actual working engineers ✨!

We are calling it Relearning Lessons of the Past as a Service, or RLPS (pronounced "relapse")

In this talk, I'll...

Beauty of an #infosec sticker:)

Edit: the creator made it from here!

https://observatory.db.erau.edu/generators/signs/

Safety Sign Generator

accidentally wrote "saad" instead of "saas" in a text to my partner; they immediately coined "Software as a Disappointment"

and honestly, where is the lie

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