Non-Authoritative Information @benhamill@cybre.space

Time for an #introductions

I'm a white cishet man, more or less living at the top of Privilege Mountain, trying to learn to dismantle and undermine that privilege.

Things I'm into:
• #roleplaying
• #linguistics
• #socialjustice
• #software
• #parenting
• #reading
• #videogames
• #kindposting
• #lego
• #comics
• #argyle

Things I'm (interested in?) learning about:
• #socialism
• #coops
• #urbanplanning
• And all the stuff above, naturally.

This is, of course, incomplete. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Uh. What do you do when the #introductions post you pinned to your profile is out of date? I guess you make a follow-up post with the correction, pin it and hope people notice?

Anyway, uh, in the above post, I describe myself as "cishet", but I figured out I'm actually pansomethingual? Only in the last, like, 8 months or so. I'm still a white cis man, so the thing about Privilege Mountain is still pretty accurate, though. But, yeah.

Good morning, bits and bytes.

I read the Squirrel Girl YA novel to the 7yo and we finished recently. It was real good. SG is one of my favorites. She is probably the least authoritarian super hero I know of.

We started the Captain Marvel one this evening. The first chapter shows promise. It'll have the expected glorification of the military-industrial complex, but since were reading it together, I can editorialize to compensate.

Y'all. There is many wind today. 🌬

Good morning, bits and bytes, nibbles and naughts. 🌇

Why do I have that song from Titanic stuck in my head today? No one knows!!!

jean words

fox jords

INT. A CAR ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL

4yo: Dad, look!
Me: I can't. I'm driving.
4yo: …
Me: *stops at stop sign*
4yo: …
Me: *drives through intersection*
4yo: Dad, look!
Me: 🤦🏻‍♂️ I can't. I'm driving.

I wanna know more about "sacred geometry". It gets tossed around in Escherey video games like Fez and Monument Valley, but is there geometry that's actually sacred to a people or is it a phrase that just sounds really good and mystical?

Good morning, bits and bytes, nibbles and naughts. 🌇

You probably don't want to know the context, but the 4yo just yelled to me, "Poop crime! Poop crime!" And I don't know if it's a band, an album title or a song title, but I love it.

Good morning, bits and bytes, nibbles and naughts. 🌇

I've been having a pretty good week so far, but I have to say: I am INCREDIBLY OVER allergies. Part of me is starting to yearn for 100+°F just so all the plants turn brown and stop making babies all over my upper respiratory tract.

Hi, fedifrens. I checked this morning and while I'd be really happy if more folks donated, it looks like I've hit my goal! Yay! If you donated or shared my post: Thank you! 💖 (Also thanks to my mom who will not see this post and donated a bunch because she's wonderful like that).

For someone who believes romantic relationships can make people incredibly happy and fulfilled, I sure do come up with a lot of story ideas about women and how their happiness needn't be contingent on being in a relationship (esp. with a man). The other that comes to mind being Good Morning Moon (inspired by the Marian Call song), which I think I have in my w.t archive and might could dig up if anyone's interested.

The story is about her realizing she doesn't need the validation of a cis man being in a relationship with her to feel confident in her womanhood and she doesn't need employment with a big company to validate her technical skills. Her happiness can exist independent of these things. In the end, she's broken up with her shitty boyfriend and started a co-op with some other women where she runs the servers how she wants.

She feels imposter syndrome as a woman and a technical worker and her boyfriend and employer both subtlety exploit this fact to control her.

She's also dating a cis man. It's a very one-sided relationship: he wants her to be available to him when he asks, but doesn't want her to impinge on whatever else he has going on (which we never need see on screen). He really begrudges when she gets paged by work. He basically prevents her from exploring any hobbies of her own. When she tries to get some time/space to herself, he implicitly undermines her womanhood to make her feel trapped. This is very subtle.

She's on-call constantly and works a lot of off-hours because of the system's instability and an internal drive to do good work. But she's entirely unappreciated for this effort.

I had this idea for a movie this morning. It's called High Maintenance. It's about a straight trans woman sys admin. She works at a big company with an aging technical infrastructure. Her bosses don't want to hear about using modern tools to make the servers easier to work with. Her asshole programmer coworkers don't want to hear about devops or other modern share-the-work kinds of things.