Notices by Jules she/her (afewbugs@social.coop)

Hell I even see it in queer spaces where the women, femmes and enbies are the ones organising booking the venue and bringing home made cake after checking everyone's dietary requirements in advance. The first step towards dividing the tasks that bring the glory and the tasks that just have to be done up fairly is just noticing how they're divided now

Oh and before anyone says "Oh but women are good at recurring maintenance tasks because they're naturally good at multitasking": 1) saying this will earn you a block. 2) No, we're not, we had to learn to be. That's why I need a task manager to tell me to keep on top of things like that. If you're willing to put in your share of the work to maintain a healthy, functional environment both at home and at work you can learn too

See also: "But women naturally notice mess and dirt in a way men don't." No, women learn to notice because we're shamed for not noticing and keeping on top of things in a way men aren't. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0049124119852395

So we've strayed a very long way from Nextcloud's task manager, but the older I get the more I see "Who does the dishes after the revolution?" as one of the first questions that should be asked in any progressive space. I've seen at permaculture camps where the men wonder off to form a drumming circle while the women set up the cooking rotas and compost station. I've seen it at the meetings where the men stand up and give inspiring speeches while the women organise drinks and take the minutes

If you build a task manager without the facility to do recurring tasks that tells me a) you're not the one doing the recurring maintenance tasks and b) you either don't recognise the importance of maintenance tasks or you haven't even noticed that they're being done around you to allow you to do the big one off production of a European open source task manager, say.

Come on, it's 2026. Do better men. And it is mostly men.

The first type is the one that tends to get celebrated, awarded and rewarded, the second type are necessary for everyone to stay healthy and everything to keep ticking over, to create an environment in which the first type that impresses everyone can happen. At home we call these housework or care work, in a professional context we call them routine maintenance or "glue"

Guess which one usually gets handed to which gender. Men tend to get the one off high profile, highly regarded tasks (build the shed or the kitchen or the database), women tend to get the recurring tasks (clean the house, make sure the invoices are paid on time) that don't get the respect the one off tasks get but without which the big one off projects couldn't happen.

Because if there isn't I am developing a very strong suspicion that NextCloud developers aren't the ones who do the housework in their households

If any @nextcloud developers happen to be reading this and want a feminist perspective, actually especially if they're reading and don't want a feminist perspective: there are two types of tasks, one off achievement tasks like build a website, write an article, paint a room where once it's done it's done, and recurring maintenance tasks: do the laundry, change the sheets, water the plants.

Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks?

#AskFedi

The people who made the #BankJob film have made their film #PowerStation available online this weekend, a very #SolarPunk little film about their attempts to organise their street in #Walthamstow to crowdfund #SolarPanels for several local houses and a school.

I know there isn't much of this weekend left, but for the remainder of this weekend the film is available to view online for £12, £10 of which goes straight to the project and £2 is the processing fee.

https://streetbystreet.power.film/stream-on-demand

Today in "infrastructure isn't meant to do that" news from Normal Island, a canal has fallen down a hole.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2lvq0yk9dko

My banking app just sent me a popup review prompt asking if I was enjoying using it, and someone needs to sit down with the person who wrote that text on this their first day on planet Earth and explain that enjoyment is not why humans use these things

@rhw12 sorry to request this of you in a difficult time, but could you contact @aral or @joynewacc about getting verified through Gaza Verified. Once you do that I would be happy to boost your fundraiser

The only tiny positive I can see of the near ubiquity of AI "illustrations" out there at the moment is that I and many other people are now reluctant to share posts if we can't be sure the image isn't AI. Want people to know your post has real art on it and get it shared? Why not credit the artist and link to their work!

One of my favourite Mastodon things is you have people with account names like CapitalismMustFall@SmashThe.System posting about gardening and baking biscuits and people with names like ANiceCupOfTea@Friendly.Cafe cutting the power lines to arms factories

@TheBreadmonkey had an excellent day thank you. My brother and I have hit the age where Dad and dyke interests converge, so he came over with his new pressure washer and we blasted dirt off a variety of things in entertaining ways while drinking alcohol free beer

@neil if we self hosted I guarantee one of the cats would pee on the server

Today I learned that my colleagues refer to the method I discovered for easily inserting a temperature probe into compost as "Jules's wiggly worm trick", and while I suppose I always wanted a scientific method named after me I wish it hadn't been this one

I would like to thank Apple for giving me the best laugh I've had in ages by a) releasing a product so ridiculous it was immediately christened the iScrotum by the internet b) causing my wife, an IT professional who should really have known better, to Google "i scrotum" in search of a picture and be startled by the predictable results