Jaycie @jaycie@vulpine.club

People talk about how Linus is a genius like his toxic, abusive behavior was the price of benefitting from his genius.

I can't help wondering how many better operating systems and better version control systems withered in the minds of better engineers than Linus, because open source's toxic culture pushed them out.

If people "looting" a Family Dollar bothers you, but this doesn't, you might be a fascist (and you definitely are an asshole) #FuckCapitalism #Florence

Only news I care about today is that Bert & Ernie are a confirmed gay couple.
http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/international-news-news/sesame-street-writer-confirms-bert-ernie-written-gay-couple/171840

- start on a big-ass instance
- make friends
- worry that the timelines are scrolling much too fast and/or are filling with more and more junk
- make an instance or pay a nice man in Portugal to make one for you
- follow all your friends back
- boost and fave the musings of strangers
- make new friends
- tell each other good morning and good night as if the home timeline is a communal kitchen
- be vulnerable
- be friendly
- be warm

another thing

IMO, "Linux" is too general of an interest to form large decent communities over, smaller communities seem to be fine (like for example the IRC channel I met @chosafine in all those years back) but once they get to a certain size it attracts unpleasant people

I suppose that is a more general statement on how communities work

Check this shit out

my extremely general community management advice:

excise the rot before you become the rot

this does not necessarily mean kicking a person out but it does mean decisive action

like:
"hey that thing you just did is shitty, please knock it off, apologise and don't do it again"

and from there one can escalate further as needed

http://pluralthey.tumblr.com/post/170060899440

"This is 'Keys'. She keeps putting her paws in the air and nobody knows why." - https://imgur.com/gallery/1OVsa

@seldo like if you *actually had* MULTIPLE billions of dollars, you could take ONE of those billions and hire 50 thousand people, each with the singular job of making the world a better place somehow with $20k *each*.

That's more employees than Sprint.

It's an obscene amount of money.

Everyone is always so focused on the “super” and “hyper” keys on Lisp keyboards, but I find the 👎 and 👍 keys a lot more fascinating. #retrocomputing

shamelessly stolen from birdsite - science proves furries were right https://logicmag.io/05-everybodys-brain-knows-how-to-run-a-tail/

The notion that you have to have a certain level of profession at a certain age is extremely toxic and just fosters a culture that never goes developing beyond a puberty stage.

If you learn new things, you are of course bad at them.
If you pick up painting with 30, you're not picasso at 30

You need to learn and train to become better, but if you're expected to be a pixasso at 30, there is no room for that.