David Gerhart @dumbo@yankee.social

Dear members of the self-appointed fediverse tone police: this is your periodic reminder to heed your own advice: if you can't handle posts about racial injustice, colorism, or anti-immigrant bias then it's *your* job to mute or block.

If you want to keep pretending that this place is a welcoming utopia for all persons, then it is *your* job to curate your feed to live your lie — it is not my job to self-censor for your comfort

Go on, now, and stay out of my mentions with your digital NIMBYism

RFK, Jr is an asshole.

It's chilli, tomato, et al sorting and labelling day...

Then planting out some in the #greenhouse.

Then off to plant out more in the #allotment #polytunnel.

@johnlray
If you post a link to an article, you are now required to indicate whether it’s paywalled so that you don’t waste any clicker’s time.

If you post a link to GitHub, you are now required to indicate whether it’s technical so that you don’t waste any clicker’s time.

If you post a link to a podcast, you are now required to indicate whether it’s really long so that you don’t waste any clicker’s time.

Absolutely absurd.

@dumbo One, it’s complicated. Two, it’s too early to tell how significant Harris will be. It also depends on how long DeSantis lasts. Will be age be a factor? Trump has no advantage over Biden in age. If Trump can’t paint Biden as the boogeyman will he use Harris as a proxy? Possibly.

I think it’s too complex to assume that voters will make the decision to vote for Trump because Harris might become president. You’re either motivated to vote against Biden or you’re not. Who comes out?

Introducing the one thing no one wants, more talk of all things political. Oh, but wait. There’s actually a huge audience of educated, opinionated policy wonks with fewer places to turn? There has to be some place for we masochists to go.

Enter Rome.
https://medium.com/rome-magazine
#Politics #Medium #Writers

I have a little challenge for all you cryptography enjoyers out there.

I am presenting you with this text:
MSbGoAAAIAAgACAFWyAAZgAAAAAAeAB4ACAACqLAAAqi799gAUgmWMoAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMAIAAgQEBlAcASwAVbIABmIABC1AAAQsZqosAAAAAAAG00uaGEveMs9Fbjnf0zN0327OmOD7nb1Vnbu/sreakDnUnnETTgW/Y2W14tvoZflwSjQMwbg/dP

First one to DM me a decoded result, along with the process they used for decoding the text, will advance to the next round...

#cryptography #Programming #challenge #Recruiting #jobs #Job

Announcing the launch of a new politics magazine called Rome. Click on the link and follow the publication. We can’t defeat fascism if no one is informed.

https://medium.com/rome-magazine

#politics #medium #writing

I had to stop drinking years ago, which I have mixed feelings about, because it was one thing I was actually pretty good at but it was also something I was really good at on a regular basis