Notices by Kat (kats@chaosfem.tw), page 2

@chjara Not only that, but workstations were connected to a LAN using (and I'm not kidding) vampire taps.

This newfangled RJ45 stuff was a big step up in convenience.

@jasongorman That's a good analogy.

On a related note, some of the best motorcycling advice I've gotten is never to ride beyond 90% of your ability. That seems like good business advice, too.

@dee
Now you put it that way, I think that's what fascists want for everybody: for them to be afraid to be themselves.
We're "just" the group they're starting with.

@mjausson @SecurityWriter Right?
The worst part is that it was a mystery to them. To this day, I don't know whether they failed at pattern-recognition, or whether it never occurred to them that we would learn the pattern.

@SecurityWriter I had no idea that "layoff season" was an established phrase.

However, I do remember when Citigroup laid of 10% of their IT workforce in September without notice, to improve the bottom line for the annual investor report.
Three years running.

And how, for the two more years I was with the company, senior management noted with concern that morale in the IT department plummeted alarmingly in August.

@SEGFAULT I've just finished doing that very thing :)

@millihertz @SEGFAULT I feel that: Perl is the reason I discovered Common Lisp.

Seriously, I got so fed up with Perl's ugliness that I googled "elegant programming language."
That took me on a detour through Scheme, which I'll concede fits the criteria, but that turned out to be the necessary (at the time) stepping-stone.

@BethanyBlack There's a simple telltale: Dutch people always get "if" and "when" backwards.

I don't know why, but ever since I noticed it, it's remarkably consistent.

Most memorable incident was somebody provoking her 8.5-month pregnant friend into screaming "WHEN!!! When the baby is born!"

@ryanhoulihan WE KNOW!!!
I'm talking about your country. The USA. Where TFG's team is all set to put you in a concentration camp.

This is no time for self-righteousness. You can hold your nose and vote for the less-despicable, or you can try to hold your nose in the gas chamber.

There isn't a good choice here, just a less-catastrophic one.

Also, I'm being entirely selfish here, because if the fascists take over the USA, they'll divert even more resources to manifesting it in the rest of the world, including here in Spain. There are plenty of people here trying to revive Franco's reign, so it won't take that much.

So fine. "Not going full-throttle with fascism." Is that nuanced enough for you?

You want to fight for other people's survival as well? Excellent. But it's hard to do that from an unmarked grave, and that's what you're facing if the GOP get in.

@ryanhoulihan Not-fascism?
The absence of concentration camps for trans folk?
Buying time to build up a good option?

@EeveeEuphoria @mia Oh, absolutely.
It's been one of my life goals to have to plan for my partner in the event of me being fatally hate-crimed, so that's why I grew an egg. Or something like that.
All that white-male privilege was just holding me back, anyway.

@anarchopunk_girl @hrefna This idea is given some space in Sun Tzu's The Art Of War, which may be where the author got it from.

Paraphrased from memory: when laying siege to a castle, always leave the occupants a visible, safe way to leave. If they see no way out, they will fight to the death.

@lanodan @chjara That's a whole other kind of "sticking the landing."

@siege
That's not an appealing prospect. Perfect timing, though, as my first endocrinologist appointment is tomorrow.
Thanks for the heads-up.

@foone @lunareclipse Oh, so very much this!
All this wibbling in SF/F about "what it means to be human" and "discovering one's humanity."

I've been othered, dismissed and minimised my entire life, and I fully expect to be murdered by fascists for the crime of not being like them.

I'm not going to suddenly lose my loyalty to the species after replacing this suboptimal meat-chassis with something that looks like a cheetah fucked a giant mantis.
It was already pretty much destroyed. By humans.

@Terra @roadriverrail It's not just the cheese, though. There's also the way the actors overplay things now and then.

Buffy and Firefly: the ham and cheese sandwich.