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Hey Canada? Remember how you burned down our White House 207 years ago this month?

...could you come do that again please? I think it might help!

Some people are saying that you should be receiving government-issued kobolds.

This makes some sense, since the equitable distribution of kobolds is appropriate, as should the equitable distribution of all other resources.

That and none of my coworkers blinking or raising an eyebrow at the fact that I was rocking a They\Them pronoun tag the whole con.

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Fuck it. Gonna make a game. I've been thinking about this idea for...16 years. Time to stop fucking around.

Velocity was great. Really good stuff and some great talks from LizTheGrey and Alex Qin and some other folks.

It was very reassuring to see some trans folks standing up and giving really insightful talks and breakout sessions where people seemed to really value what they had to say. I'm really glad I went!

Trans PoC asking for help, Boosts OK 

Hey, so I figured out that I don't need to feel bad about using the internet for its intended purpose: the sharing of information.

So, here's my asks to Trans PoC Masto:

1: How much did it cost you for facial hair removal, and what sort of procedure worked for you? Laser, electro, chemical, or do you just shave constantly?

2: What're your wig recommendations? This is new territory for me and I need more intel.

3: Does anyone have a good resource on reversing or treating going bald? Wigs are a pain in the ass, and not the most comfortable yet for me.

4. Can you share some starter makeup tutorials?

But no Kindle until tomorrow night.
A tiny storm dragon is hiding in her box crying while I'm at this conference.

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7 years even.. Well I have enough cash back for a replacement

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Ffff... After 6 years some how my Kindle screen got broken in my bag.. In a case

Tech Industry DevOps 

Velocity has been great so far and makes me really glad I've moved into SRE space. I can learn new tech but I'm far more interested in influence good policy, decision making and design through data driven thinking. Velocity has had some really good talks and sessions on those topics.

Also I learned my phone autocorrects DevOps to Devils lol

If your voice conference software shows a list of participants but does not show any indicator for mic volume or usage, your voice conference software is bad and you should feel bad 

This post made possible by the "fucking feedback echo went on for 4 minutes before we found the asshole who couldn't figure out what a mute button was" gang

Tech Industry 

This is in stark contrast to AWS Summit

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Tech Industry 

So I'm at Velocity today... And they gender pronouns badge ribbons including they/them and a plaque explaining how to use them and why they are there.

I think Velocity just became my new favorite conference. It helps that like 60% of the sessions in my schedule are being but on by LGBTQ+ folks

:heart_pride:​ I would like to have no gender
🇺🇸 No, you must have a gender
:heart_pride:​ Fine, I would like to form a corporation
🇺🇸 Okay
:heart_pride:​ This corporation will represent me in all things
🇺🇸 Okay
:heart_pride:​ This corporation has no gender
🇺🇸 Wait-

Too fucking hot.. hit 106F in San Jose.

Please sent chilly thoughts or ice dragons or something cold...

Fuuuuuuck this weather.... and tomorrow is suppose to be hotter :(

Identity, Cultural Polarization, Rise of Fascist Symbology 

Thanks to John Scalzi's wonderful burdsite response to the straight Pride Flag I stumbled across this... and it is really good and worth a read.

popula.com/2019/02/24/about-fa

Burdsite link because John Scalzi is surprisingly awesome dude who writes some pretty great modern scifi.

twitter.com/scalzi/status/1137

I have spent a vacation day to take today off work because I wanted to buy a 3-day weekend for my birthday (which is tomorrow) so I did

Right now I’m fighting a strong urge to log in and write software. :|

re: Instance Block Recommendation 

... The server's already gone down due to an SSL misconfiguration.

:thaenkin:

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work rant 

so ... I spent all of Tuesday working on some static infrastructure deploys with complicated db setups in AWS... and then a good chunk of yesterday.. today the dev team was doing it for looked at it and collectively facepalmed because they uploaded and posted the wrong fucking cloud formation template... and forgot to update the docs with the new parameters they wanted and didn't post any of that in the jira tickets for the deploys... soooo I get to do it all again. On the upside they are groveling ad apologizing.. a lot.

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