Like many I am new here. I haven't decided what a Mastodon profile bio should look like for me, yet.
I use she/her pronouns
Incredible. A female falcon was equipped with a satellite tracking system in South Africa before migrating to Finland. Image shows tracker data. In just 42 days she flew over 10.000km at an incredible average of 230 km per day and almost in a straight line.
📷via reddit@ChemBioJ
“The people who blame wokeness for the collapse of a bank do not want you to understand or even think about the political economy of banking in the United States. They want to deflect your attention from the real questions toward a manufactured cultural conflict. And the reason they want to do this is to obscure the extent to which they are complicit in — or responsible for — creating an environment in which banks collapse for lack of appropriate regulation.”
@SimplyJennifer I used to teach keyboarding, so the phrase 'find the ridges on F and J with your pointer fingers' is sort of indelibly etched in part of my brain.
I have wondered what that looks like for other keyboard layouts/character sets.
@ryanhoulihan this is why I've always hated the Rudolph song etc. Everyone was fine with out grouping poor Rudolph until his differences could be leveraged and then he was ok.
It's unfortunately too reflective of society's viewpoint on disabilities and neurodivergence.
“Women make up only 9.8% of the people who contribute to open-source software projects. . . . our research found that women’s negative experiences range from minor to severe harassment, sexism, discrimination and misogyny to explicit death threats. Their expertise is challenged, their contributions are not well-received and their roles are diminished.” - Vandana Singh
https://theconversation.com/the-retention-problem-women-are-going-into-tech-but-are-also-being-driven-out-200625
#OpenSource #WomenInTech
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