Amanda Unvarnished

The Star Trek and Daystrom Institute Reddits stood up their own Lemmy server at https://startrek.website/. This is the way. They now answer to nobody.

—@gabek

Wherever I look I can see news about a few very rich individuals being stranded on a submarine that was supposed to take them on a tour of the Titanic. The effort put in place to rescue them appears huge in scope.

Last week over six hundred people died in a #shripweck off the coasts of #Greece and nobody cared. Nobody even bothered to start a rescue operation until it was too late.

Stop pretending people are equal, I hate this hypocrisy.

—@gabrielesvelto

If I have one piece of advice for anyone with a diasbility at work who happens to have an understanding manager it’s to get your accommodations formalised _now_. It’s tempting to sit back and relax if your manager is kind and understanding and accommodates you willingly, but they might leave one day and you could end up with someone who absolutely won’t listen to you. Better to take advantage of your luck and get things in writing immediately.

—@kirsty

Spouse: I have “Karma Chameleon” stuck in my head.

Me: Is it really stuck, or does it come and go?

Spouse: You. Are. An. Asshole.

—@disappearinjon

JetBrains is making a new IDE called Fleet, and, according to a blog post they just released, they’re using a completely custom GUI framework that doesn’t use native OS / Swing controls and just draws to the screen. This is an accessibility disaster in the making.

—@miki

Managers are rarely mocked in professional introductions. Many pros in ethical roles (accessibility, diversity, hr, etc.) are. Our jobs aren’t jokes, and we aren’t trying to be hardasses. We’re trying to educate about the importance of our work, often to those uninterested.

—@mothdust