Amanda Unvarnished

I AM ABSOLUTELY BEGGING Y’ALL.

If you are bringing back personal/hobby/small-business websites (and you should be), enable RSS.

And TLS, but that’s a whole other thing.

—@patcharcana

boop!

—@yaakov

The real reason that online-only conferences won’t be allowed to work is because the argument about whether or not online-only conferences can work is a convenient proxy battle for the people who believe their subsidized-travel job perk is more important than the accessibility of their field and the health and safety of its marginalized participants, and who _really_ want to avoid saying so out loud.

—@mhoye

Them: We can’t afford full page reloads! We build #SPA|s. That’ll make the page load faster!

Also them…

—@odrotbohm

Me filling in a grading form 10 years ago: enters text into PDF, save and submit

Me filling in a grading form today: opens PDF into Adobe Acrobat, all bullet points are now on the far left hand side, two areas for signatures are greyed out with radiation symbols. I click on a drop down menu to select the specialization, the lights flicker and turn off, a subsonic whoomph is heard in the distance, car alarms plaintively start bleeping-

—@mattkenworthy

The climate deniers who claim that climate scientists are in it for the grant money should be forced to write and submit 10 grants.gov proposals as punishment.

—@davidho