Posts by baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone
(DIR) Post #AjfpRIUeN25idfbGFM by baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone
2024-07-06T16:22:29Z
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@AlSweigart I think it's interesting that so many folks in tech seem to think unions are only for physical labor. Your employer can take advantage of you in any field if you aren't organized. +++
(DIR) Post #AkDt779KqFibUA98Ou by baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone
2024-07-23T13:08:05Z
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@stux I showed this to my partner who immediately said, "Is that paw-kour?"
(DIR) Post #AkuAvExRwZIw2dOLBI by baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone
2024-08-12T14:10:57Z
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@detachedspork Yep. Same for any kind of citizen lobbying or protesting. I've seen "journalists" bypass the 2 or 3 people who are from the organization that organized a citizen's lobbying event (slightly dressed up, wearing a button from the org, holding a notebook, etc) and make a beeline for a stoned person who is just as likely to have wandered over for the free food so they could print stuff like, "Activists attending the protest weren't very clear on what their goals were."
(DIR) Post #AnfTVbystSFC6vXWc4 by baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone
2024-11-01T15:07:26Z
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I appreciate living in a place where a ten year old comes to your door for Halloween dressed as Google AI and if you consent, recites the recipe for gasoline spaghetti.
(DIR) Post #AoMzwXatFf4z2wPlIG by baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone
2024-11-22T20:51:00Z
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@cwebber I'm so glad that you continue to enjoy that mug. And I'm also grateful that you do serve on open source program committees.
(DIR) Post #AsjzCmyHKKUDPlPWLY by baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone
2025-04-03T15:18:08Z
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Usually, when I tell people, "don't be afraid to ask for help" I am talking to everyone except myself. This week, I have let a few people know that I could use some specific help and have been met with incredible generosity. Like truly incredible. This is my PSA to tell YOURSELF "don't be afraid to ask for help" and mean it.
(DIR) Post #AsxBiHh19e9ubxfqC0 by baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone
2025-04-09T16:10:17Z
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I don't know who needs to hear this but you are still allowed to have fun and see friends and eat a slow dinner and celebrate things, even while "all this" is going on. Make your five calls, be part of a protest, pick your piece of "the work" each week but also make sure to nourish yourself and your networks because we are going to continue needing each other.
(DIR) Post #AtE1NQtcd899kgl3ia by baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone
2025-04-18T19:27:27Z
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If we put cats in charge, the primary benefit would be:
(DIR) Post #Atn3qqcvYqzcc0tO8e by baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone
2025-05-05T14:48:46Z
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What is your most common reaction when you hear a recording of your own voice?
(DIR) Post #AxQlCdtQBrchiJhh0y by baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone
2025-08-21T14:20:41Z
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This morning I woke up mad at software that doesn't exist. In my dream, I was trying to write a note using some kind of notecard template and it kept auto-completing all my words, eg but -> buttermilk, later -> lavender. Eventually my whole (very important in the dream) note was just a biscuit recipe with like 7 greetings at the top and my name signed at the bottom. I woke up angrily trying to just do a handwritten note with the world's dullest pencil on a piece of scrap paper. #softwaredreams
(DIR) Post #AxtbBOoHPzrqghuBNI by baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone
2025-09-05T12:22:24Z
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@futurebird @uguisubari One of my exes avoided a lot of popular culture because she didn't like the way the music was emotionally manipulating the audience. Now I always pay attention to it, but it still often works! It also occasionally makes me mad when they try to get you to sympathize with an unsympathetic character.
(DIR) Post #AyDTXmQG91aPhofETA by baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone
2025-09-14T22:12:17Z
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Why are only clam and corn soups called "chowder?" Maybe there are other chowders that I don't know about...
(DIR) Post #AyFZQqJiFrjLnXb55k by baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone
2025-09-16T02:46:25Z
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@futurebird If we're not going to stop police and civilian gun violence, build housing or do basic income? Maybe we could normalize more napping by building and maintaining public hammock parks and sleeping pods.
(DIR) Post #B1FZIAgPfln7P2EvDc by baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone
2025-12-11T22:49:18Z
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@glyph I like to think about it as an alternate future that we veered off the path of. Like we had this idea that computing was going to empower the masses, democratize access to information and power over the discourse. We didn't quite get it, but we tried a lot of times. I still have hope for our timeline.
(DIR) Post #B1FZIFGicjD1cnFyMa by baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone
2025-12-11T22:52:26Z
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@glyph A thing that I take lot of encouragement from is knowing that for every famous moment of change and famous change maker (eg Rosa Parks) there were dozens, if not hundreds of earlier attempts that paved the way for the one time it was successful. I don't need people to visit the house I was born in in 50 years or ask me for advice on unrelated stuff. I am completely happy to be part of one of the hundred earlier attempts that paves the way.
(DIR) Post #B1sxBdknQu3o4NttSa by baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone
2026-01-02T20:22:37Z
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@lowqualityfacts You know, I'm something of a cannibal myself.
(DIR) Post #B32wtlkV4hL98pldey by baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone
2026-02-06T13:58:35Z
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@futurebird @aadeacon I'd say for many jobs, at the highest level they would rather have an interchangeable set of machines that do all the exact same work and are equally disposable. Everyone tidily fits in the same spreadsheet column and when they need anything extra they can immediately be replaced with a less needy person who has identical skills. This world is unattainable and would be boring even if it were possible.
(DIR) Post #B3iriusMSiI989lbns by baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone
2026-02-26T15:15:23Z
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Is there a long fancy word for the experience of holding a 10+ item to-do list perfectly in your mind when you are outside on a walk and then having it all disappear somewhere between taking off your shoes and sitting down to your computer? Etherlistia, maybe?
(DIR) Post #B4vb3egjnjT6MZlrTk by baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone
2026-04-03T20:35:05Z
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@futurebird This is reminding me of Harrison Bergeron, except there's no way that cats would willing serve as tools of the deep state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
(DIR) Post #B62OgV6xRxJOSOSkyW by baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone
2026-05-07T00:58:52Z
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@Nimbius666 See also flooring installation, long distance trucking, moving work...