Notices by Ruby Rhod (feld@bikeshed.party), page 93

Ruby Rhod (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 22:32:51 UTC

@lain you put them in a bowl when you party at Lain's house?

Ruby Rhod (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 22:29:31 UTC

Ruby Rhod

I hate this pronoun bullshit.

The paperwork for the health inspector @ the cafe listed the inspector's preferred pronouns.

WHY?

We'll never see that person again and there's zero chance I'll ever speak of them in the third person in their presence and use the wrong pronoun.

I don't need a picture of them. Or their pronouns. Or their favorite food, or a list of their kinks, their favorite bands, or their spirit animals. Please stop this madness.

Listen, I will never intentionally use the wrong pronoun for someone to hurt them. That is cruel and stupid behavior.

Expecting everyone to memorize your pronoun and being upset if they don't know it is selfish behavior, though.

Here's how things always worked and how to fix it. We had three methods of concluding the correct pronoun:

1. You infer their gender by their appearance.

2. You infer their gender by their name

3. You have their gender documented (Official paperwork, database, whatever)

Let me provide an analogy:

Society is a large SQL database. The "people" table has over 7 billion rows. You're asking to add a "pronoun" column because we can no longer infer pronouns with the data from the "gender" column, so you want it to be explicit. This transaction is going to lock the table for a long time and piss off a lot of people who are just trying to live their lives and get work done.

Let's put on our "senior engineer" hat on and optimize this properly: deprecate his/her pronouns with elimination from English by 2025 and substitute "they" for everyone.

Problem fucking solved.

Ruby Rhod (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 21:55:51 UTC

Ruby Rhod

Ruby Rhod

@nihl I believe FreeBSD used to prefix with ipv6_ too but was changed

Ruby Rhod (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 20:34:39 UTC

Ruby Rhod

Ruby Rhod

@tuxcrafting

Ruby Rhod (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 20:33:01 UTC

Ruby Rhod

Ruby Rhod

felt cute might delete later

Ruby Rhod (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 20:32:50 UTC

Ruby Rhod

@lain ok ok last chance

Ruby Rhod (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 20:31:19 UTC

Ruby Rhod

@lain

Ruby Rhod (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 20:30:28 UTC

Ruby Rhod

@lain That's pre-politics NJ Governor Chris Christie I think

Ruby Rhod (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 20:29:16 UTC

Ruby Rhod

in reply to

@lain or do you prefer something more tasteful

Ruby Rhod (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 20:28:35 UTC

Ruby Rhod

@lain better?

Ruby Rhod (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 20:28:04 UTC

Ruby Rhod

Ruby Rhod

should i make this my av

Ruby Rhod (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 20:26:29 UTC

Ruby Rhod

damn one of @anarchiv's feral hogs got out again

Ruby Rhod (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 20:24:34 UTC

Ruby Rhod

@lain i can help with that

pylon fan (sophia@glitterkitten.co.uk@glitterkitten.co.uk)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 19:56:09 UTC

pylon fan

in reply to

RMS, kink, lewd

Ruby Rhod (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 20:17:51 UTC

Ruby Rhod

Ruby Rhod

WASHINGTON - America's first gold medalist Fenga-Sk8r was invited to the Whitehouse this week

Ruby Rhod (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 20:14:56 UTC

Ruby Rhod

Ruby Rhod

Truth hurts

Ruby Rhod (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 20:13:08 UTC

Ruby Rhod

@lain tell me my thighs are fat again

Ruby Rhod (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 16:30:01 UTC

Ruby Rhod

@mwlucas I just wish Apple Books and others would permit "lending". I should be able to "lend" an ebook to a friend digitally with an expiration date as well as the ability to take it back. You shouldn't be able to use it while someone is borrowing it.

I think more people would purchase ebooks and audiobooks if this was easy.

Sid (interneteh@sunbeam.city)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 14:19:43 UTC