Dan Hunsaker [they/them] @danhunsaker@retro.social

parents can't disown you if you disown them first ​

i think it bears mentioning that any time a corporation asks to repeal a safety regulation it actually means they're asking to murder people. this includes duty time limits and number of people on a job

It tells you everything you need to know about the #American #right that this billboard was considered objectionable enough to take down, and possibly enough for the landowner to receive death threats.

#US #Pennsylvania #ArmstrongCounty

https://www.unionprogress.com/2023/02/13/youve-got-a-friend-in-armstrong-county-billboard-apparently-has-an-enemy-and-is-taken-down/

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!

HAPPY 🔪 Captain 🔪 Cook 🔪 Getting 🔪 Stabbed 🔪 The 🔪 Fuck 🔪 To 🔪 Death 🔪 By 🔪 Hawaiians 🔪 Day 🔪 !!!

I very recently learned that the term “boycott” comes from someone’s actual name: Charles Boycott. Boycott was an English land agent who tried, in 1880, to collect unpayable rents from Irish peasants on behalf of an English aristocrat landlord. When he failed to collect the rents, he tried evicting the tenants. The Irish Land League responded with a campaign to ignore Boycott’s orders and isolate him socially and economically.

They not only ignored his eviction orders and threw manure at his process servers, but refused to deliver his mail or sell him food.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott

It was pretty effective—the British government eventually had to deploy a thousand soldiers (naturally, because the state works for the propertied class and none more than the 19th century British state) at a cost of some £10,000 to harvest £500 worth of crops. Boycott had to be evacuated by the soldiers, who even had to drive him out, as no locals would agree to drive his carriage out of the region.

Imagine being cancelled so hard that your name becomes permanently associated with getting cancelled.

I'm just so tired of cis people leaning into their neurotic hangups about sex and gender to justify a psychopathically murderous hatred of people who aren't bothering anyone.

Wired's review of the Antisemitic wizarding game replaces the "buy now" link with a donation link for Trans Lifeline. Spectacular.

(Great review, too)
https://www.wired.com/review/hogwarts-legacy-review/

YALL HARPERCOLLINS UNION HAS A TENTATIVE AGREEMENT AFTER 3 MONTHS OF STRIKING

#bookstodon #books #reading

I was today years old when I realized that the time from the US's forced removal of Cherokee (1838, the last of the five big native nations we removed) to the beginning of the Civil War (1861) was only 23 years.

I grew up in the South and learned history in school, but I didn't grasp the enormity of it at the time. 23 years. White people who rounded up Cherokee people at 18 were fighting for the right to enslave Black people at 41.

‘Witnesses who claimed they saw (Leonard) Peltier shoot the FBI agents later recanted their statements. Forensics that pinned the weapon on him turned out to be false. Even the account from the FBI agent of the vehicle that was followed into Jumping Bull Ranch was later changed to match the description of a van Peltier regularly drove, which was also proven to be false.”

https://sourcenm.com/2022/02/03/we-request-that-mr-peltier-be-immediately-released/

I should work on my book. I'm excited to see it out in the world!

But then, that requires working more on StoryLines (https://storylines.ink) to fix any bugs that show up and add more features that I really wanna use. Like Timelines and Backstory Prompts.

Which, of course, means I need to work on Calends more (https://github.com/danhunsaker/calends) for Timelines, and reach out to a bunch of folks to license their stuff for Backstory Prompts.

The work on Calends is currently focused on custom/"dynamic" calendar systems - defining calendars in configuration rather than code. This would allow, among other things, authors to define their setting's calendar(s) however they see fit, then place happenings along their Timelines according to the in-world date/time - and even convert them between each other (and the built-in ones). I still have a lot of pre-defined calendars to implement in code, but I want this one first because it's the main feature I created Calends to support, back when StoryLines was going to be a (*shudder*) PHP web app.

The list of Backstory Prompts folks is ever-growing, as I discover more projects aimed at this particular niche. But top of the list are the likes of Ryan Macklin (Backstory Cards) and Jay Aress (Better Backstories), among others.

The former requires the ability to focus on code. The latter, the ability to reach out to folks who have No Clue Who I Am™. Both require a lot of energy to pull off.

And here I am, with round 4 of COVID and none of what I need to do the things that bring me joy - and hopefully let me spread some joy to others in the process.

All of this ignoring the BS in the wider world aimed at ensuring I no longer exist in the first place.

I hate everything.

accidentally wrote "saad" instead of "saas" in a text to my partner; they immediately coined "Software as a Disappointment"

and honestly, where is the lie

Proposed: the Techhel Test of any reality is an AI writing a misinformation article based on a photo generated by a generative AI prompted with a fictitious enemy written about by a third AI?

there’s a non-zero chance that a billionaire is scrolling the federated feed, seething, absolutely writhing with displeasure.

WE HAVE A WINNER!

Strawberry Brian wins the day, becoming the Official Brian The Brain Frog!

https://retro.social/@danhunsaker/108269952754926120

A White-techbro-dominated web will never be a good one.

So what do we -- a community of BIPOC non-White queer techfolx (and our allies) -- do about it, gang?