Alex Schroeder @kensanata@octodon.social

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Fencing: The perfect covid sport

I've let my TAKE cool down a bit, and this really isn't a big deal. It's pretty much down to an interface language change that honestly seems like the right idea.

The folks who wanna call them toots are gonna carry right on calling them toots. They're still gonna be called toots in ten years' time. Every now and then a newbie will ask "Why do you all call posts toots" and you'll say "They were actually called toots in the interface years ago" and that's basically it.

There's something incredibly... wonderful about writing a person an email after you've read their gemlog which you randomly stumbled over. And if they answer and you actually end up having a real conversation. This. This is peak internet.

What wellness is marketed as:
-Body lotions
-Supplements
-Fancy juices
-Candles
-Crystals

What wellness ACTUALLY looks like:
-Health care coverage
-Access to therapy
-Walkable cities
-Green spaces
-Living wages
-Paid time off
-Physical activity
-Close knit communities
-Sleep

well over half of my programming interviews in the first half of my career occurred over lunch with three or four other programmers from the company/project I was interviewing for, and they'd describe the whatever, and I'd ask the right questions, and they'd nod and we'd talk and then it got turned over to the paperwork people. no whiteboards, no coding tests, pretty much just talking. simpler times.

I'm going to post my concurrence to the "we don't need to have videos of the violence in our timelines.

As someone who is unlikely to be subject to police violence, I'm going to say that, if I know that some bit of police violence has occurred, I don't need to see the video. I don't need the images of what happened taking up space in my head. If I know that a thing happened, I can pretty well assume what the process looked like.

We don't need those images taking up space in our timelines or in our head. I already know that the police are terrible. A lot of people already know that.

What we need isn't images to drain our emotional energy and enrage us.

We need people to be taking that energy and putting it into mutual aid and support. We don't need to fall into the trap of letting ourselves be consumed by one atrocity after another.

We need to build each other up, making us stronger, through our support, through the love that we show to each other, to our vulnerable allies, friends, and associates.

I don't want to have to numb myself to the atrocities. I want to feel free to express feelings of support to all of the people who need it, to show them that they're not alone.

Images of atrocities don't build us up. Reaching out and helping who we can, where we can. That builds us up. Don't forget that.

I wish there was a way to filter news so I just learn about things that happened at a higher/systemic level.

I don't want to know about individual occurences really. Just trends. Systemic shifts. My brain can grok those things more easily.

Individual stories are too confusing and nuanced, and I don't want something that is either extraordinarily bad or extraordinarily good excessively coloring my understanding of How Things Generally Are.