Notices by masukomi (masukomi@connectified.com)

Dear Programmers and HR people.

"Trans" (& "Transgender") is not a gender. It literally means to cross gender. Also it doesn't tell you starting point, ending point, or direction. It's a useless answer to the question of "what's your gender?"

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This reminder brought to you by the fact that I'm currently putting together a will and living will, and it wants to know my gender for some reason. The options are Male, Female, Trans, Non-binary.

@BeAware @hazelnoot get out of my office!!!!

😉😅

@aral @dmarti at least i’m not in texas *shudder*

Being trans in the US right now is bringing up a lot of homosexual / jew in 1937-1938 Germany vibes. I’m more scared with every passing month

@dmarti @aral I’m in the US and I’m afraid to leave because there is a fair chance, they will arrest me because of the gender on my passport when I try to come back.

There are so many words missing from #Emacs's iSpell dictionary that I feel like I'm being constantly gaslit.

"That's not a word." "That's not how you spell that."

Just now it was "smattered" As in "her skin was smattered with freckles"

Fucking A. As I type this even macOS doesn't think it's a word despite the fact that it's in the dictionary app that ships with the system.

[edit: corrected word in screenshot]

#Writing

@Zenie someone else mentioned that and some other options. Alas i have roughly zero desire to futz with things like that right now. 😝

how an interns attempts to familiarize themselves with a codebase, and spice up the comments resulting in finding a major security vulnerability. Via Reddit, via 🤷♀️

TIL that AO3 lets you download works in a variety of ebook formats, AND it'll combine all the parts of a series for you when it does. 😸

#AO3

@sillyCoelophysis @siege

i am _extremely_ suspicious of those extra benefits.

it has zero noticeable effect on my ADHD.

It has done nothing to improve my sleep. if anything it might make it worse because upset stomach is a frequent side-effect (and thus why you're instructed to take it before bed)

Increased sex drive makes ZERO sense because if it has ANY anti-androgen properties you'd (by definition) have LESS sex drive.

can't comment on anxiety.

@sillyCoelophysis @siege

Depression makes sense but not because of the drug so much as because trans tend to feel emotionally better when they've got a hormone balance that better aligns with their inner self.

Spironolactone alleviates a significant source of my body dysphoria which makes me feel better, which makes me less unhappy. but it's not because removing depression is a side-effect of spiro.

@sillyCoelophysis @siege

re how quickly they have effect:

Some effects of HRT are noticeable quickly (like Spironolactone's ) some just slide in subtly. I don't think it really matters because physical transition from HRT is a multi-year process.

In that context, does it really matter if it was a day or a week or a month before you could see effects?

@tim yes! There was a great big gap in the Cloud front that looked like it would be heading for us, but the way the mountains are here we end up just on the inside (wet) edge of very long cloud fronts that just keep going for hours or days.

Yeah but… dogs. 🐕

US #BlackHistory help?

Ok, this is going to sound kind-of stupid, but I can't figure out the bill number for the Civil Rights Act of 1866 that defined black people as citizens of the US.

There are a bazillion pages about it, but none of them mention the bill number.

All i know is that it was a Senate bill so it'd be S.XXXX where the Xs are some integer, but i don't know WHICH integer.

Help?

#History

I'm simultaneously excited 🎉 and feel like a complete moron. 🤦♀️

Because I've spent decades using bookmark managers without the ability to use _full_ markdown (or anything similar) when creating bookmark descriptions, it took A YEAR for it to occur to me that now that I've created my own bookmark manager ( https://backupbrain.app ) I can do things like create links to related pages in the description any bookmark.

@deobald @samebchase yes but explaining that sucks and takes way more time and brain-space than most people actual want to invest in a concept that they either don’t care about or isn’t actually relevant to their usage of the software

@deobald @samebchase also, anyone who cares is going to care about WHICH open source license and is then going to read the details anyway. Those are the people i least need to explain the differences to.

Edit: Also, I’m pretty up-front about it right there on the front page.

@tim yeah, that's covered, plus forcing people to get their drugs from CVS instead of independent pharmacies because they control reimbursments too.

Well this is fucking concerning. Wonder why your not getting your medications from CVS?

Late stage capitalism.

Short version, they don't feel like paying for enough staff to actually process your drugs (or anything else) and keep you safe, or medicated. Apparently staff costs more than the profits on giving you drugs.

Yet another really great bit of reporting from More Perfect Union.

~14min video https://youtu.be/woACpI9C9XE

#RemoteWork people. Especially #LGBTQ & POC folks

Millions of us are reeling in existential dread right now.

You blowing off an hour or two of work to take care of your mental health by playing a video game, reading a book, going for a walk, etc. is not only good for you but also good for your company and your coworkers.

Give yourself permission to take care of yourself first.