Ryan 🔇📯 @foureyedsoul@octodon.social
Librarian, tinkerer, listener, etc. He/him/his.
perhaps a very niche meme
Someone asks you to write unethical code
1. Document that shit
2. Discuss the ethical implications and try to get them to reconsider
3. If you can afford to refuse please do
4. Blow the fucking whistle, a number of news sites have secure drops https://twitter.com/lindseybieda/status/978832746448654336
a numbers station that only says “420,” “69” and “nice” at random intervals
Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
a game about running around petting friendly ghost dogs, Bark Souls
Exhausted.
Also increasingly suspicious Weezer’s been Inferior USA Sloan this entire time, but no one’s ever told me.
Considering I can’t really Math, I absolutely do love me a polemic all dressed up in Math.
The Difference Between Free/Libre and Open Source
“Free/Libre = Open Source + Ethics
<=>
Open Source = Free/Libre - Ethics”
—Christophe Lafon-Roudier, @Framasoft
"If you give a book to someone else you no longer have the book, but if you give them knowledge or know-how you still have them, much like giving someone love."
- James Paul Gee, _Introducing Discourse Analysis_ p. 32 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1007529754
We have plenty of "how-to's", but I see a distinct lack of "why-for's". It's very good to know *how* to do something, but I think it's equally important to know *why* to do something.
Einstürpettze Neupuppen
did i tell you about https://maastodon.net/
Not sure where it came from, but I've got a version of Crass's "Do they owe us a living?" running through my head with "living" replaced by "library."
It's such a weird form of salty to be disappointed in someone's seemingly willful misreading and also disappointed in the author's original writing.
Probably part of why I have a hard time finishing my own writing.
the four genders
Realizing that my semi-vacation this week has given me perspective on work & school & family and also put extra time pressure on multiple projects & things.
It’s almost like stuff can be complex, multifaceted, & even somewhat internally contradictory.
hey mastodon, my library is doing some heavy collection development heading into next year and we're looking to fill some gaps in our collection and we've hit kind of a wall on this one so:
does anyone have recommendations/suggestions for adult fiction books either written by or featuring trans men or nonbinary people?
-not looking for YA at this point, just adult fiction
-has to be published within the last ~5 years
-trans/nb protagonists written by trans/nb authors would be great but i'll take a look at any combination of the above
please boost!
A BLACK WOMAN-OWNED non-profit is currently 2nd trying to get a $7000 grant. Her org provides STEM workshops, Spanish, & meditation classes for BLACK GIRLS in Phoenix. Please vote for them each day so they can win. Please RT.
http://wshe.es/voYy5Xkb
I really love the Medium series that @danrabbit and @cassidyjames curate about #ElementaryOS and apps. Super cool to see so much progress! 😀
It's also uh, kind of tempting me to switch away from Ubuntu 17.10.
I wonder if people with perfect pitch feel about their sensory attention the way I increasingly feel about perceiving low text contrast on websites. Pointing each error out would feel incredibly obnoxious, but I see it almost everywhere.
🎼 Seasonal affective disorder, my old friend
Seems you’ve come to visit me again
