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Monstrous queer woman on vacation before starting her new job. Yells at JavaScript frameworks.
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Hi, new people, I'm Emma. I'm a queer, trans non-binary woman (she/they,) amateur astronomer, and wife of @cynthia1960.
I get paid to help people make web browsers, and have cats, a lot of tiny computers, and I like cooking, hockey, indie pop, shoegaze, and post punk.
I'm helping make the all-online version of #wiscon happen this year too.
The photo is Json, the youngest of our cats. They are extra, but I love them.
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Me: What if computers are sentient and have feelings and moral status and every time you turn it off, they die
IT support: I don't know what to tell you, turning it off and on again is the first step in the troubleshooting flowchart
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Captain America; US politics
Can you imagine the lecture that the Democratic Party would get if there was a Captain America in real life?
*Nancy Pelosi chuckles nervously, leans over to an aide and whispers, Hail Hydra*
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You optimize for engagement, then say this, how do you think that let's you wash your hands of it? If this is a thing you know to be true then you ought to know what optimizing for engagement _will do_. Maybe your core metric is sick. Maybe that's what everyone has been saying.
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NEW: Why are right-wing FB pages so popular?
A Facebook exec argues the msg is just more visceral: "Right wing populism is always more engaging..…
https://twitter.com/AlxThomp/status/1309856276374003713
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It’s not a proper reboot unless it’s gayer than the original.
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I totally agree with Amanda’s assessment. It is time we stop excusing lack of accessibility with “but it’s free and open source”. Hats off to the W3C for this statement!
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“W3C Is Prioritizing Accessibility Over Its Open Source Licensing Preferences”. Why is that a bad thing again?: https://www.customerservant.com/w3c-is-prioritizing-accessibility-over-its-open-source-licensing-preferences-why-is-that-a-bad-thing-agai…
https://twitter.com/cswordpress/status/1309720703718039553
You can probably find a pair cheap on Craigslist, Nextdoor, or local swap lists.
A $70 pair of binoculars are a great thing to have for astronomy
I took two sets of photos, one where the Moon is not overexposed and will composite them.
Waiting for the Pleiades to rise. How’s your evening going? 🔭✨🪐
Is Among Us essentially "Werewolf/Mafia but Space"?
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After the sidewalks in my neighborhood got besmirched with anti-mask sentiments, I put up a home-printed poster of Paul Sizer's great #WearTheMask illustration in a street-facing house window.
link goes to where you can get your own free download
https://paulsizer.com/wear-the-mask-poster-now-available-as-free-download/
The Moon, Saturn, and Jupiter will be close together in the Southern sky tonight. This is how it will look at 2000 Pacific (UTF-7.)
Blaseball fanwork from @cynthia1960: https://archiveofourown.org/works/26643754
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Monstrous queer woman on vacation before starting her new job. Yells at JavaScript frameworks.
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