Notices by Terra Field (rainofterra@terra.incognita.net)

I love San Francisco.

They are dismantling the Forest Service: https://open.substack.com/pub/morethanjustparks/p/breaking-trump-administration-orders?r=23nvm&utm_medium=ios

I’m at a #GDC event at DNA Lounge and in the words of the greatest poet of all time: this whole thing smacks of gender

I wasn’t convinced Claude could really replace me until I watched it trigger fail2ban while configuring fail2ban and lock itself out, just like I would have. 🫡

If you’ve ever asked yourself “what would I have done during the holocaust?” the answer is whatever you’re doing right now, at this moment because another one is starting right under your noses.

If you are not willing to fight this with every fiber of your being, block me right now. I do not need you in my life if you are not angry enough to speak out about this. This will kill children. Actual living and breathing children will be dead soon and if you do nothing, you are complicit in their deaths. If you can live with that, fuck you.

#TransRights

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-signs-order-to-end-federal-support-for-gender-transitions-for-people-under-19

When an installer asks me if I’m from a GDPR country I just assume it’s asking me if it can install spyware or not.

RE: https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115504720054699983

A literal TAR!

A fun little exercise: if you think the things Kirk said weren’t racist or sexist or homophobic, paste them without attribution into the general chat of your work Slack.

It’s really hard to plan anything for the future when a significant portion of your brain is screaming at you to upend your entire life and flee your home before your government takes it all away from you.

In 8th grade we did a class trip to the Holocaust Museum in DC. I remember thinking “why didn’t more of them try to get out?” and I just didn’t expect the answer to be so personal.

Conservatives want to attack trans people as being mentally ill but if cis white men had to have 1/10th the therapy we are required to have just to be elligible for life saving medical treatment we might have a lot fewer dead school children in this country.

Woodie Guthrie is doing more to fight fascism than most Dems and he’s been dead for 57 years. https://inthesetimes.com/article/new-protest-music-anti-fascist-folk-singer-woody-guthrie

Like many boomers, RFK Jr. was exposed to high levels of lead during childhood. These are people who will never pay taxes, they'll never hold a job, they'll never play baseball, they'll never write a poem. They'll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted.

Shit, I accidentally invited The Atlantic to our polycule chat.

This isn’t an onion link so please tell me they didn’t really delete information on the Enola Gay from the DOD archives because of the name, rofl: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/03/pentagon-dei-panic-images-tagged-deletion/681970/

The public comment period for changing passports to misgender trans people is open. Please take a moment to let them know that you do not support that change. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/14/2025-02648/30-day-notice-of-proposed-information-collection-application-for-a-us-passport

Cis people: the more of you that speak out, the better I feel that we can survive this. Please familiarize yourself with why transition related care for trans teens is so important and how it is safe, effective, and literally life saving: https://transequality.org/news/get-facts-truth-about-transition-related-care-transgender-youth #TransRights

This is who I am.

My birth certificate says I am a woman. My documents say I’m a woman. My family says I’m a woman. My parents say I’m a woman. My friends say I’m a woman. My doctors say I’m a woman.

Fuck this government if it disagrees, and fuck you if you disagree.

We exclude so many of what could be our best people because either we tell them their path isn’t a valid one or they look at the people who make it in tech, don’t see anyone like themselves, and self select out before anyone has a chance to say “actually, you could do this.”

Especially as someone who is nearly entirely self taught and who is the daughter of someone who taught shop classes, I truly believe a more equitable path forward for preparing people for work in tech is to make it a vocation and not something perceived as only for folks with degrees.