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Charlie Stross

A reminder about gun massacres in the USA:

Back in 1979 the Cleveland Elementary School shooting was so shocking that people wrote songs about it.

It was one of two spree shootings that year: there were a total of just 26 shootings in the decade 1970-1979.

Brenda Spencer killed two adults and injured 9 children.

Yesterday (May 6th) there were THREE comparable spree shootings in the USA: the day before that there were FIVE.

There have been 14 spree shootings in the first week of May, 2023.

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Derek Powazek 🐐

Just a reminder to my fellow old white men: shutting the fuck up is always an option.
theguardian.com/film/2023/may/

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Shy bunny

Montana rep Zooey Zephyr proposed to her girlfriend, Erin Reed. ^_^

thepinknews.com/2023/05/06/zoo

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My sister just got this tattoo (cute!) and named it Jinchou, which I didn’t know was Japanese for penguin (also cute!) but when I looked it up I found it’s written人鳥, that is, person-bird. The bird just out there doing its business like a person. That’s the jinchou, that’s the penguin. Now you know.

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government selfie time tunnel 

@pauline I’m sorry, my dear, but I simply do not believe I’ve met _either_ of those two boys. I’m pretty sure I’d remember if I had!

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In other news, Zooey Zephyr knows how to spell "principles," the Washington Post doesn't

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Mz. April Daniels

The thing about being a trans woman is that growing up, all the boys around me knew I wasn't one of them.

Nobody ever called me a man until they realized they could hurt a woman by doing so.

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Tomorrow, we’re releasing the Pocket 8 GM to TestFlight beta.

It’s been two years and some days since we did the incredibly dangerous thing of setting our 13 year-old ObjC codebase on fire and starting over from scratch with Swift, SwiftUI, and a brand new squad of iOS engineers.

To say that it’s been a wild ride would be an understatement: I could write a book on lessons learned as a manager.

But mostly I am just insanely proud of the engineers. They worked so hard to make this happen. 🥰

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Marco Arment

Months of low-level development: "I'm going to keep iOS 15 compatibility!”

Two hours of SwiftUI work: “Screw this, I'm requiring 16.”

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@pauline you are just sooooooo proud of yourself. 😎

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@pauline and I, along with our friend Matt, were able to join the memorial services at Manzanar this year.

Manzanar is one of ten American concentration camps, where Japanese-Americans were held during WWII. The camp grounds are in California, near the Nevada border. At 4,000 feet, the atmosphere is thin, and the sun is blinding. Standing around, being cooked for hours on end, it was difficult not to imagine oneself on the surface of the moon: the terrain was as desolate as it was beautiful.

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Evan Urquhart 🏳️‍⚧️

An Ohio woman who was targeted by corrupt local GOP officials after changing in a YMCA locker room has been found not guilty of public indecency, but the fact that the Republican responsible had faced no repercussions doesn't bode well.

This is how the eradication of trans people from public life will proceed. It's not some future possibility, as the case in Xenia shows us, it's happening now.

assignedmedia.org/breaking-new

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David August

#UnionStrong #WGAStrong #SAGAFTRAsolidarity

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Trans Joy and Friendship 

Finally caught up with @pauline

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ADHDinos

The cost of productivity

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Sommer Panage

Accessibility isn’t something you add to your product. It is your product.

I think 90% of my job is trying to convey this. If the button isn’t labeled, if the text cannot be seen, if the action cannot be performed, then it may as well not be there for some subset of people. #accessibility #a11y

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