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

When you listen to The Verge’s podcast and they’re legitimately saying Mastodon is a “no girls allowed” club? And we don’t want Facebook here because Instagram will bring women here?!

What the fuck is wrong with these American tech pundits? Mastodon is the gayest, transest, most feminine social network I’ve ever seen. There are so many more outspoken, smart, odd, and downright weird women here than I’ve ever seen on any other social network. It’s fucking great.

—@thomholwerda