Just saw this group trying to form an #lgbt center in #atlanta. Currently in early phases. I'm just learning about them as a group, but I already see several people involved whose names I know and respect, and that makes me hopeful that it could work out.

Take a look, and consider filling out their short planning questionnaire, especially if you're a local community member or ally.

https://atlgbtqcenter.com/ (one "L")

That specifically trans feel of when aftermarket body or presentation details are occasionally inconvenient actually, but only by enough to draw your attention to them and remind you of how damn nice it is that they're there.

#TransJoy

@roadriverrail Do you mean the thing where every language invents its own cross-OS package management?

As a backend dev of 25+ years who's lived and breathed package management for most of that, I've been souring on them over time. They have a lot of potential for building an OS-agnostic dependency layer. But IME everyone gets lured in by easy access to bleeding edge cowboy libraries, and almost nobody wants to invest in maintenance discipline, much less let go of toolkit chauvinism.

Frontend devs. Sweeties. Let's talk.

Do you remember the Web in the 90s? I do. My computer today has more RAM than my computer in the 90s had hard disk. My cable modem today can download that amount of data several times over every second.

The web today feels as slow today as it did in the 90s. On a 56k modem.

It's not your fault. I get it. Business demands, shifting frameworks. But engineer to engineer here, I'm really gonna need you to start telling them no. It's getting embarrassing.

@roadriverrail Many years ago someone brought one to a regional burning man event I attended. It was a huge hit.

@roadriverrail Next you're gonna try and tell me Tracey was really on the light side of the street (not the dark side of the street) and had a coat.

Spoilsport.

@roadriverrail Interestingly, while the historic Montecchi/Capelletti rivalry was Ghibelline/Guelph, this morning's wikipediaing suggests that da Porto probably drew most directly from his own conflicts in early 16th century Udine, near Venice. I'm not an expert, but it looks like Venice/HRE conflicts were a little skew of Ghibelline/Guelph by then. Also there's some evidence he drew inspiration specifically from conflict inside his own Venetian Savorgnan-aligned family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Da_Porto

TIL #Shakespeare probably lifted the Montague and Capulet rivalry from Luigi da Porta, writing several decades earlier. Da Porta probably drew on recent popular stories and actual rivalries from his time in Udine. Da Porto's uncle was related to the powerful Montecchi family originally from Verona, whose 13th century Ghibelline rivalry with the Guelph Capelletti family of Cremona was famous enough that #Dante mentioned it in his Divine Comedy.

pol but imply kink

Why does technology.

Just.

Argh.

@roadriverrail Wait doesn't Atlanta Roller Derby stream some of their games? Or did I imagine that?

/ @ajroach42 @emily @montag

I just saw someone say that America's fettuccine alfredo is basically just mac and cheese. They aren't wrong, and I am *struggling* with this reality.

Atlanta's Ansley Mall Starbucks is closing permanently. It's been in the same space for 35 years and is constantly busy. Corporate has just decided that they don't want to renew the lease on the space.

This comes after the store recently unionized.

The workers will have the chance to transfer to another store, presumably one less unionized.

#Atlanta #AnsleyMall #SBWU #UnionBusting #Starbucks

info from an anonymous worker at the store, who asked that the info be shared

Any library folks follow me back? Are people over there talking about the disappearance of Nianli Ma from Indiana University's Wells Library, with US federal involvement? She disappeared with her husband, Xiaofend Wang, a prominent infosec researcher at IU.

An article about him that mentions her: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website/
An archived version of her IU library staff page: http://web.archive.org/web/20240415200728/https://libraries.indiana.edu/nianli-ma
A fedi thread about his disappearance: https://ioc.exchange/@matthew_d_green/114246136476059749

Didn't see this from my usual US news sources yet, so I wanted to give it a bit of a boost here. Liberal sweethears Ben & Jerry's are suing parent company Unilever, who they say is trying to squash B&J's activism.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg8pk9rpx4o

ACLU is suing. https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/families-and-advocates-sue-trump-administration-over-executive-order-seeking-to-restrict-access-to-gender-affirming-care

@roadriverrail I do not!

@roadriverrail "I have a question. I understand either you or your co-presenter always lies. If I were to ask her how your theory addresses the conclusions of Foucault's Crime and Punishment, would she tell me..."

@roadriverrail Yes, that's my understanding as well. Invalidating existing documents is much more difficult, both legally and bureaucratically. All of the info I've found so far indicates that the regime isn't currently threatening to invalidate current, unexpired passports with X gender marker.

This reddit thread includes information from several passport workers on how they're handling gender markers. They're still waiting for official word on some edge cases, but this thread has answered several of my own questions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Passports/comments/1i96980/comment/m901hro/

#transgender #passport