Notices by Irene Zhang (irene@discuss.systems)

My secret to being a 10x engineer: a daily lie down. It’s the opposite of a daily stand up. If I don’t take a nap with the cats every day I feel bad and my productive drops. Follow me for more life hacks.

No one warned me that it would be hard to photograph 4 #cats at once.

@vaurora thanks so much 🥰

Asking for help for the UW systems lab women. As the sexual harassment situation drags on with no end in sight, the grad students are now unable to afford their lawyer. So I started a fundraiser for them if you would like to support. https://www.chuffed.org/project/fight-sexual-harassment-in-the-allen-school

@sam @RadicalEdward lol, if you are angry about the Go garbage collector now, I know the person that wrote that too.

@atsuzaki @dev @dan We actually know many human named cats, including our friends Tim and Tom who had a cat named Tom. Tim adopted Tom before he got married to Tom.

@paw @rogerparkinson @mekkaokereke I have a lot of old friends that are lovely people but prioritize gas prices/abortion/something over my safety. They can act nice but that doesn’t keep me safe

@mekkaokereke this is great on Mastodon when you host your own server.

@GramrgednAngel @fifilamoura @mekkaokereke I wonder how many people are still getting that, veiled or not, today.

New flufffy white couch and fluffy white rug. #cats #catsofmastodon

For the month of October, let’s celebrate our #catsincostume and #blackcats in this thread! I’ll start with one of Pixel in a Chinese New Year lion dance costume. As you can observe, we never put her in a costume again.

@wollman oh yeah @dan and I love having food in the freezer like bears for winter. I cut the meatloaf into slices for sandwiches and freeze with the beans.

@wollman @dan Understandable. We are actually thinking about getting a .. fourth freezer ..

I’ve made an advancement in food technology. Cooking a meatloaf upside down (which I always do) *on top of baked beans* with a layer of bacon in between. Will report back on how it turns out but let’s be honest, it’s a giant meatball on top of a pot of beans.

Attention to my faculty friends: The University of Washington CS school is an unsafe environment for women, so as grad application season starts, please tell your students not to apply. There are at least 3 men in the systems lab that have sexually harassed numerous women and they continue to do so. More details below:

It has been 3 months since the women of the UW systems lab sent a letter detailing three incidents of sexual harassment and bullying. The university has bounced them from the Title IX office to HR with no resolution. There is an ongoing HR investigation with the women handing over dozens of incidents and pages of documentation (emails, text messages). At least one of the men has been documented to be physically violent, and he has sexually harassed women across the department, not just in the lab.

Despite this, the women of the lab have been forced to leave their coworking space, leaving them in a precarious position where they must risk interacting with violent men. The systems lab is still holding lab events with the men actively under investigation. The Allen School has become a place where women are AFRAID to go to work and at least three women have been driven out due to harassment. If you know women who are thinking of attending grad school, tell them to avoid UW, especially in systems. I’m happy to put them in touch with the women of the UW systems lab or discuss alternate options with them.

@kf What’s wrong with the Michelin man? He can help you with a flat tire and knows where all the best restaurants are

This is the only way towards equal pay for women. https://social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrasseur/113110399417468052

NOOO Seattle is ruined. I went to a fancy tasting menu and the table next to us kept talking about networking, virtualization, serverless and IPv6.

Announcement: Ohio is now banned on discuss.systems

- thanks, your admin from Indiana

Can I just say again to everyone in tech doing DEI: It is immoral and unethical to recruit women to a fundamentally unsafe environment