Reading about Platformer leaving Substack after sending the company examples of Nazis hosted on the service and the company tried to discredit them about making a mountain out of a molehill.
So odd to see Substack ban porn yet go to the mat for Nazis.
https://www.platformer.news/p/why-platformer-is-leaving-substack
Remember how my previous employer denied my WFH request so that I could flee the state of Ohio to take care of my trans kid while still working for a company I loved?
I just heard they did it to someone else today.
When you insist people come in to an office a few days a week because you want a "hybrid culture" not a "remote culture" and then tell them to just fuck off when all they want to do is get their kid somewhere safe that makes you an absolutely shitty person.
I'm done hiding who it was.
The company is #OverDrive, based in Cleveland. They make ebook lending software for your local library called #Libby. They say they care about their LGBTQIA+ employees and families but that is clearly a lie.
Ohio lawmakers are turning my home state into absolute garbage and companies like this one are playing along.
Tell your local library to #DropLibby
[Edit, since this is doing numbers: The reason my request was denied a little over a year ago, despite me explaining in detail why, was because they "want a hybrid culture, not a remote culture." (a quote from a senior leader to my face)
In both 2020 and 2021 while the whole company was working remotely I won two annual employee excellence awards for my work on their Security team, while the company had record growth.
Meanwhile, one of my teammates moved out of state to be closer to family and continued to work remotely.]
#Trans #TransRights #Ebooks #Libraries #Bookstodon
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An electrician had to cut a hole in our drywall and instead of just patching it up, my wife decided to make a little scene with miniatures embedded in the wall. 😂🖼️🤯
#art #miniatures
Getting rejections months later (like 2+) makes me scratch my hair. I've been looking for work for ~100 days now (according to my pinned post) and at this point, I truly forgot about y'all.
I'd name the company but that's not worth it
Yesterday some guy made a post in the Baldurs Gate 3 subreddit asking "How can I buy this game?"
Obviously the answer is "steam, xbox etc" so I clicked on it like "huh"
Turns out the guy (who I presume is a teenager) has been saving for this game for 2 (!) years and thinks he finally has enough funds to buy the game.
But, he lives in Egypt. Valve does not support purchases through EGP (Egyptian Pounds). So he has to buy it in USD. But, in Oct 2023 his and other banks in Egypt, disallowed debit cards from making purchases in foreign currency.
So he can't buy the game, what does he do? He really wants to own his first game, and he really wants it to be BG3.
Suggestions were "use PayPal" "I can't, they're charging in USD too" and "use crypto" (not sure if that was an avenue open to him, but that's an arse ache and rife for scams if you don't know what you're doing).
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"Microsoft Edge runs on the same technology as Chrome, with the added trust of Microsoft."
They forgot to continue: "… the warmth and humanity of the Emperor Dalek, Donald Trump's humility, Elon Musk's quiet egalitarianism, and ChatGPT's searing truthfulness and insight."
Interviewer: Can you explain these gaps in your resume?
Me: Those are typographical indicators called spaces and line breaks that separate words and paragraphs.
Look, browser makers. If you REALLY want to innovate then give me a button that consolidates every tab from the 7 browser windows I somehow have open into one fucking window.
I get approached a lot by recruiters. Like most modern algorithm, powered things, it suggests more of the same. This poses a challenge for me as I want to do things differently.
Just discovered https://github.com/gayanvoice/top-github-users/blob/main/markdown/public_contributions/united_kingdom.md
According to that I'm #1 in public GitHub contributions in Scotland, #10 in the UK and, if I were in the USA, would be #9.
Neat.
<p>When writing technical documentation, blog posts or conducting code reviews, it can be useful to render backticks in Markdown inline code, code blocks or fen
Annoyance of the day: take affiliate marketing links, extract JWT tokens from click-through tracking URIs, extract information from token to find landing page destination.
I wish this wasn't a necessary skill -.-
if a post gets traction and a wider audience, it should be possible for the community as a whole to suggest alt text, rather than suggesting the original poster get fucked for not including alt text
access conflicts are real and we're all just individuals doing the best we can under our own circumstances
businesses need to be held accountable and platforms need to be made accessible, but part of that accessibility is providing tools to help people to help people
The problem with working in the UK with most colleagues being in the US is that the first thing you see in Slack on a Monday morning is people celebrating Friday afternoon.
You know what's *actually* the craziest part about being gender non-conforming?
When you realize you can just be whoever you want, whenever you want.
If I get tired of being a girl in 10 years or whenever, I can just stop being a girl.
Yeah, I'll have a vagina and stuff but like, I could just throw on some mens jeans, a men's tee, a baseball cap, and stop shaving. I wouldn't have a beard or anything anymore and maybe people would still gender me as female, but like, 🤷♀️
Gender is personal on an intimate level, but also meaningless on a societal level.
I spent 30+ years looking like a guy. I've always been a girl but people thought I was a guy bc of how I dressed mostly.
But now I dress like a girl and take some hormones and people think I'm a girl.
Gender is dumb.
Be trans.
Do crime.
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I found the best use of the OpenAI API yet. https://www.chaintexts.com
Plz enjoy this fantastic AI-generated emoji chain text about 9/11 that I just generated.
I talk about being autistic because it is a normal thing to talk about and if that makes you uncomfortable I recommend you mask up and play nice with someone you struggle to communicate with
I'm only halfway through it, but Chants of Sennaar is an easy #NoCombat #GameRecommendation for me.
In this #IndieGame, you observe four different tribes to piece together their languages from environmental clues. Once you can decode the languages, the inscrutable puzzles that block your way become obvious, and it's a very rewarding gameplay loop.
Artwork is gorgeous, and the game runs fine on #Linux with proton.
https://www.rundisc.io/chants-of-sennaar/
80 character column limits in code are a legacy from 80 column text displays which are a legacy of IBM's 80 column punch cards which are a legacy of Roman chariots which had two side-by-side 40 column horses
coincidentally the Roman Colosseum, completed in year 80 AD, has 80 archways & thus 80 columns around the outer perimeter
https://www.thecolosseum.org/facts
Happy New Year, friends! 🎉 Over the last two years, I’ve been debating if I should even write a wrap-up of my year given that these days, you can do it with a 60-second Instagram Reel (guilty 🙋🏻♀️…
@Edent @tommorris Apparently it's a library which, given a forename and a "country", makes a guess as to the gender of people with that name. So the whole concept is just fundamentally broken from beginning to end, and the "countries" list including "East Frisia", "Swiss", and "Kazakh Uzbek" is just extra bonus lulz.
Jamie Tanna
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