Notices by a libi rose (rose_alibi@post.lurk.org)

why have one special interest when you can have 173 that you cycle through at the slightest provocation

fear is the mind killer but it's also the community killer, the cooperation killer, the gentleness killer, the kindness killer.

explaining individual vs collective action using the 1990 classic film Tremors

@ntnsndr i saw you like this you should be warned this is where my guest spot in your class tomorrow might go

who out there still watches over-the-air television?

for those in the US... please be aware that the national crisis lifeline (that 988 number) will call police without consent on people in crisis. the trevor project will also. inclusive therapists has a list of lines that will not involve law enforcement without consent: https://www.inclusivetherapists.com/contact#crisis

oh my god if i see the Mr. Rogers quote about what to do in times of crisis one more time...
that is advice for children. not adults.
if you are an adult, do not look for the helpers. be one.

there is probably a jargon-y shorthand for it. i don't care. it is an inaccessible way to write (which is ironic considering how often it gets deployed when talking about accessibility)

of all the tech jargon-y habits i hate, i think i hate the replace-middle-of-word-with-number-representing-missing-letters thing the most.

today's silliness: barbed speaker wire. Dial M for Murder, audio via telephone over barbed wire fence

glad i never got that mozilla fellowship i applied for so i don't have to explain that it was before all the nonsense

whyyyy does my email think i want confetti to pop up around words like "congratulations"

who asked for this? i just wanna talk

@inquiline @darius same, but not consistently for some reason? i disabled every goddamn auto-fill auto-complete predictive text whatever there was available to disable and STILL it does this shit. it also refuses to lowercase my name consistently.

@inquiline @darius like my dudes email is work shit why are you trying to fun up work shit

@roadriverrail wow. just... wow. for some reason that makes me think of the Patton Oswalt bit about people with good intentions but the wrong vocabulary vs. people with bad intentions who know all the right words

the spouse did an implicit bias training today. the trainers asked the attendees to come up with back stories for people based on 4 pictures of folks of different skin color and implied class (clothing, visible hygiene). spouse, being spouse, thought they were sus and said he didn't think they had backstories because they looked like they were AI generated. trainers admitted they were. spouse then asked what prompts were used to generate the images. trainers were flummoxed. everyone got a training about implicit bias, but not the one they were expecting. I'm so proud.

it's such a bummer when really beautiful graffiti gets covered in gray and beige

@darius oh no ew

@darius what are they supposed to be????