lucky🍀 [uncommon] @lachesis@cybre.space

> Thank you for all of your tremendous help last Saturday. All together we were able to bike three thousand and forty five pounds of food and provide valuable support and relief to 77 neighbors all over North Seattle who are experiencing food insecurity. We also fully restocked 13 Little Free Pantries. This is a new record - great work everyone!

And this is just from *one* food bank. There are *five* in this group.

https://pedalingrelief.org/

it's only a blockchain if it comes from the techbro region of silicon valley, otherwise it's just sparkling linked lists

Gently waking me up in the morning

Feel proud to be you, baby boy

the trolley problem in modern america:

there is a GMC Yukon with a hood height of 44.5in carrying a single person eating fast food and trying to read a bouncing kitten sticker in a group text

they are about to collide with a cyclist just trying to get to the grocery store

you can pull funding for highway transportation and they will march into the next city council meeting demanding to know why communists have taken over

[dragon trailing sparkles from their nostrils as they curl tighter around their hoard of pronouns gathered from gender conquests]

Did you receive an allowance as a child?

you know how USB 3.0 plugs have backwards compatible connectors with more pins in an additional segment?

and how PCI Express have downward compatible x1, x4, x8, and x16 length connectors?

what other connectors are like that?

normalize changing your name for whatever reason you want

even if you're cisgender, just... you can just change them, there's no rule against it. You don't have to identify as transgender to change your name. People do it all the time. Motorcycle riders, punks, snowboarders, athletes...

When an indented line of code is followed by an indented empty line, that empty line's indentation should be...

"going off the reservation" as an analogy for "a bad thing" is extremely racist against native americans

it's a reference to the forced relocation of native americans to reservation lands, and that going off that land is "bad"

caretakers, doms (d/s), caregivers (cg/l), housekeepers, and other "providers" need care too

often that means a chance to not make a decision, not handle a situation, not have to empathize, not have to make the first move, or clean something up, or ask for action

it can be very difficult for them to let go for a while without feeling like they're letting people down, so one way to help might be to make sure things are taken care of, rather than try to force them away

Most of the time, I don't ask. I lock up where I think is reasonable and nobody questions it. Only if they ask me to lock up somewhere else, or there is no reasonable place to lock up, do I ask the question: "Where"

I often deal with situations where bikes and cyclists have not been considered at all, so I have to *make* them be considered for things like safe parking and room to operate

One method that has worked very effectively for me is to go in with confidence, just assuming the person I'm dealing with wants to make affordances for bikes. I don't ask "if", I ask "how"

Asking "do you have a place to park" or "can I park" will often get a negative answer,
but asking "where should I park (now that I'm here)" will usually get a positive outcome, and will make them change to accommodate bikes in the future

As always, I try to be considerate about where I park so I'm not blocking entryways or sidewalks, and especially so my bike won't become an obstacle for people with limited mobility, but if they provide space for cars then they will provide space for bikes. Even if I have to be the first to ask

Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Uber, just sent letters to all state governors and the CDC asking for their couriers to be counted as "essential personnel" for the purposes of vaccine distribution

This is the same company whose personal safety efforts amounted to giving couriers one package of disposable masks and a bottle of hand sanitizer, one time, on request

They're happy asking for other people to spend the effort, as long as it doesn't take anything but an email from the CEO

It hardly needs to be said, but gig economy companies do not care about you

⚠️ Do not surprise your partner with a choke. Your unexpected force and their subconscious reaction can cause serious injury

So here's how you can still be "dangerous" and "surprising": Hit their sternum

Hit just below where the collar bones come together with the same force that you would have used to stop them in place (that is to say: pull your punch) and then after a second continue up onto their neck

the ACLU and EFF have both reviewed the Exposure Notification framework and concluded that it is effective

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/apple-and-googles-covid-19-exposure-notification-api-questions-and-answers

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-comment-applegoogle-covid-19-contact-tracing-effort

@ili

Do not push any changes to Prod this week

I know it's tempting. I know it's just a tiny change. Don't do it

Gig companies being allowed to treat their employees as contractors means:
- Income is on you
- Insurance is on you
- Equipment is on you
- Training is on you
- Safety is on you

The fact that employment protections, insurance requirements, mandatory equipment, mandatory training, mandatory safety, workers unions, liability protections, and discrimination protections even exist in law is proof that companies regularly abuse workers and must be held to strict standards under the penalty of severe punishment

Letting gig companies off the hook because they're "new" is willfully ignoring history

top / bottom
dominant / submissive
seme / uke
power / service

everyone has their own positions on the axes, and it often changes depending on who they're interacting with

(there could be more axes, I'm interested to hear your experiences)

"monotonous" talking has nothing to do with your pitch

It's all about your pacing. You have to pause, have a point, speak and then stop

Add punctuation to your speech