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Get in #fedizens we're doing Monday. Today in pre-coffee autopilot adventures, I tried to put coffee grounds in my cup instead of hot chocolate mix. Good thing I caught it before I poured. But yeah, not an awesome start to Monday. Currently delivering caffeine to my brain via my cup. Very inefficient.

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ALSO also, as others have mentioned, “Judeo-Christian” is not a neutral framing. It has a particular vector of deployment by specific groups who mean it in a very intentional way.

It flattens the concerns of diverse groups and it smuggles assumed Jewish support into areas where Jewish people might and probably do have wildly divergent views from the “Christians” in question.

End of the day, “Judeo-Christian” is almost always used as a euphemis phrase for “White Christian Dominionist Eschalotogy.”

“Abrahamically-derived” is more descriptively accurate, but still, if you mean to talk productively, carefully, nuancedly about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, it’s probably better to just SAY, “Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.”

—@Wolven

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Be careful if you register your domain name through #Bluesky. “Bluesky offers an additional layer of privacy protection by acting as your domain registrar agent. We do not register your personal information with the WHOIS directory, [sic]” which, in practice, means you don’t control your domain name, you are not even the holder, Bluesky is.

https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/7-05-2023-namecheap

—@bortzmeyer

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Envisioning a happy “in”accessible experience on a.website, with share links, of which one is labeled X. Sadly, a frequent issue among popups and dialogs is to label the close / dismiss button as X. Cue lots of people unwantedly opening x share dialogues while hoping to actually close a cookie popup.

—@jakobrosin

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One more postscript on my independence question. If you need help, get it. There’s no shame whatsoever in finding yourself in need of help, there’s no shame whatsoever in availing yourself of that help And there’s no one-size-fits-all explanation about how much of what kind of help we may need. Remember, this is a guy about to be enering into chronic care talking. I know all about needing help. And I don’t care what you choose to call, or not to call, independence. I was just curious.

—@bruce_toews