omg spees
@spees.bsky.social
testing in prod at work and in life. she/her
the number of bangers I don't post because they involve topics I don't want to get into on this account
I think I learned the concept of pathological demand avoidance years ago, but somewhere along the way my brain forgot the actual word and I started conflating it with "oppositional defiance." or referring to it as "like, mild oppositional defiance?" because I'm aware that ODD is much more serious
do people actually wink at other people? to like, flirt? like is this a thing that actually happens naturally in the real world, or is it just a way for authors and Hollywood writers to evoke flirtatious intent in lieu of dragging the audience through hours of dialogue?
Has our brain tried a GC collection algorithm that doesn’t have a stop the world mark and sweep phase? Could be interesting. Hmu, biology, I’d like less sleep pauses please
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 9mo agoRecent research reveals we dip into a sleeplike state as our brains flush out waste buildup. on.wsj.com/40ekauw
Yeah, hi, I’m a person with “mobility challenges” (excuse me while I hurl). What we want, by and large, are not expensive, heavy devices that will “help us walk again”, but ramps. I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.
NPR@npr.org · 9mo agoNike's battery-powered footwear system, which propels wearers forward, is part of a broader push to help humans move farther and faster.
*extends battered tin bowl* plz may I have money for room and food and poasting tomorrow
Kait Richardson 🥔@thryse.com · 12mo agoI’m a disabled homeless trans woman living in a motel in the short term. If anyone can help me out with funds to extend my stay and cover necessities, I would be immensely grateful. My links are in my bio. 💕💸💸💕 #crowdfunding #disability #homeless #transcrowdfund #mutualaid
okay the helicopters are much more intense than usual. unless they're prop planes?
NEW: Jonathon Redondo-Rosales, a 36-year-old LA protester, spent six months in jail accused of assaulting a federal officer with a *cloth hat.* A judge tossed out the DOJ’s case, accusing govt of acting in “bad faith” and engaging in “prosecutorial harassment“ that could “chill lawful protest”
Case dismissed against LA protester accused of assaulting federal officer with cloth hat
Judge says US government acted in ‘bad faith’ in case of Jonathon Redondo-Rosales, 36, who spent six months in jail
theguardian.com
If you want to understand why so much of the Epstein coverage feels so weirdly icky and bad faith, this article gets at the main dynamic I’m seeing. The takeaway is that men use allegations of rape as a domination contest. Yelling “rapist” doesn’t always translate into care for survivors.
Good Guys Don’t Rape - C. J. Pascoe, Jocelyn A. Hollander, 2016
journals.sagepub.com
Heroku was a lot of things to a lot of people. It jump-started the careers of many very smart people. It pioneered a lot of cloud architecture that we now take for granted. It hasn’t been relevant for a while now, but Heroku’s impact on the industry is undeniable.
naur investigation, naur right to speak@tef.bsky.social · 9mo agorip heroku o7 www.heroku.com/blog/an-upda...
DAILY MEMO: A New CA State Bill is Introduced To Hold Private Detention Centers Accountable, Border Patrol Spends The Week in Meetings, and ICE Continued Targeted Arrests @eltragon.bsky.social
You know, having touched my university founder’s collection of books— It was sure a lot easier to be a “polymath genius” back when everything you needed to know was like music, a guess at chemistry, superstition, religion, and which plants will kill you if you eat them.
this one gets a lot of use in our household
omg spees@spees.bsky.social · 9mo ago"dictated, not read"
there's a tacit "compulsory" in "trad" which, once you see it, reveals how much it's always been about control and the removal of choice related: Wilhoit's law
The Pithiest Critique of Modern Conservatism Keeps Getting Credited to the Wrong Man
“Wilhoit’s Law” was coined by a different Frank Wilhoit.
slate.com
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 9mo agoodd feature of our time in how many liberals and progressive are bog standard monogamous family types--Serwer, Bouie, Hayes, AOC, etc--and how many Traditional Family Values conservatives are fuckin drugged up perverts
Every time you log into X, you are signing a contract that allows Elon to sue you, for any reason or no reason, and have the case assigned to a court where he’s virtually guaranteed a win
my partner just shared this with me. y'all have probably already seen it but just in case
Hackers ( 1995 ) - David Vidovic - Animated Experience
hackers-1995.vercel.app
Just because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
Along these lines, if you want to read a fascinating book about how genocide/war/political repression fucks with foodways, including but not restricted to indigenous americans (Pueblo Nations are specifically featured in it) check out The Last Sweet Bite by Michael Shaikh
Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · 9mo agoAnd almost none of Native American food culture remains. That is how thoroughly, brutally, the genocide went. A genocide so vast and monstrous it managed to *kill recipes*
thebitenm.com/the-last-swe... "authoritarian regimes have long relied not only on the murder of civilians and the demolition of neighborhoods but on the suppression of language and traditions and the deliberate disruption of foodways."
The Last Sweet Bite
"The Last Sweet Bite" reckons with the impact of violence on foodways, arguing that culinary heritage is serious business and preserving old recipes can be a meaningful “rebellion against forgetting” ...
thebitenm.com
Meli@mismatched.bsky.social · 9mo agoAlong these lines, if you want to read a fascinating book about how genocide/war/political repression fucks with foodways, including but not restricted to indigenous americans (Pueblo Nations are specifically featured in it) check out The Last Sweet Bite by Michael Shaikh