Oops! 😅 It freezes well…

I am trapped in a twisty turny maze of little voice service APIs, all different.
> look docs
There are no docs here.
> search
You find a million forum confused forum questions with no answers, as if they all cried out at once and were silenced
> score
0/65535

I am diving into the madness that is monitoring IP Voice tech - if I am never heard from again you know I have been eaten by a grue. 🔦

For real, if you know trans people inside the USA, and you have capacity to help, especially if you are local-ish to them, reach out to them and get contact details for them in an end-to-end encrypted chat system (specifically Signal, Apple Messages, or WhatsApp), then talk to them.

Is anyone actually surprised that the new USA regime is chock full of Nazis?

And seriously, Musk’s Hitler Wannabe salutes posturing is a pop gun distraction - there are much more nasty things going on inside the USA than whatever bullshit chaff Musk (and Trump) are peddling as “news”.

FYI, Trump’s “slip” about “having a shared cultural and political heritage” with Italy? This is not ignorance or stupidity. It is literally coded Nazi talk.

Italian Roman Empire
1st Reich = Holy Roman Empire.
2nd Reich = German Empire.
3rd Reich = Nazi Germany.
4th Reich = USA.

Police will march in the 2025 Mardi Gras, but supporters of a ban say it's a "big step forward" A motion to prohibit police officers from marching in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade has been voted down, but advocates for a ban say it's only a matter of time until they win.

www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

No Cops (in uniform) at Pride. Not until there are absolutely no more queer bashings by cops. Just this year a cop “allegedly” murdered two queer men in Sydney. That uniform makes too much of the community feel unsafe *for good reasons*.

Right? I was BBSing aged 13 or so - definitely helped me socially a lot. And my 11yo with school can’t would be a total mess without being able to connect with his friends.

FED25 Election – New Seat Margins and Electoral Pendulum At the 2025 Federal election, more than half of seats in the House of Representatives will be contested on new electoral boundaries. In this post I summarise the state of play going into the electi…

With the 2025 Federal election approaching, I've published my best estimates of margins for all seats post redistribution, along with a new and augmented electoral pendulum for the election. #auspol antonygreen.com.au/fed25-electi...

psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

“There is no evidence that time spent on social media is correlated with adolescent mental health problems”

In other words - social media isn’t the problem, and Australia’s “under 16yo” social media ban is complete policy rubbish.

Korea Expert here. I’ll explain what’s going on over there because the Orient can be confusing to Westerners. In Korea, there is a concept known as “the law.” (법) This is a set of rules which are enforced to encourage prosocial behavior and ensure stability which leaders aren’t allowed to break.

Bwahaha. Yeah look she’s a Bay Area Terminally Online techie, that’s probably a fair description :-)

I read it in batches myself, it’s not an easy digestion

Heh. Skip to halfway down, you’ll know where, it gets less specific about then.

Hey, as an enby trans femme who stayed in the closet for the first 30 years of her career (Unix/Internet/Dev/Ops) because there’s too much toxic masculinity in tech… Thank *you* for posting it. It’s really important stuff. Much love. 🦄

(Been on hrt about 3 years now, out professionally for 1 year.)

… as someone who’s been deep in online coding spaces since 1991, and who was on the periphery observing the *first* C++ standardisation process back in 1997-1999, Izzy has a *lot* of truth bombs here, both in detail and about the industry in general. It’s a long read, but worth it.

*purrrrrr*

I just go with Rezzamaaate to dive down the full rabbit hole

Oh no, it’s trans awareness week

*hides in introvert bunker*

😅

Met literally every single partner I have had, between 7 and 12 depending on where one draws lines, including the one I’m still with after 22 years, I met online. Plus the vast majority of the people I call friends, including many I’ve *never* met in person and likely never will.
Albo is ridiculous.