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keira_reckons

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Mammal, Australian, living on Wurundjeri country.

Feeelance web dev professional (#django, #python)
Security hobbyist (#infosec, #cyber)
Privacy enthusiast (#privacy)
One half of meetniq.org, friendli.io, redandblack.
Looking for work in product, project, and tech- translation.

Into #vegan #baking, #painting, #lifedrawing, #dance, #kindness, #scifi, #mystery, #pottery, #gardening and various social justice things.

Typos abound in phone-written text, I have dodgy hands. Toots auto delete.

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@keira_reckons@aus.social avatar keira_reckons , to random

Three good things today

  1. Caught up on Bridgerton. Love a bit of swoony, glittery fun.

  2. Pesto pasta with tomato salad.

  3. Clean sheets day

@keira_reckons@aus.social avatar keira_reckons , to random

Odd culinary sourcing question for you, Melbourne. Where would one find shiitake mushroom stalks available for purchase?

I mostly come across shiitake's dried, and relatively stalkless.

There is one market stall I know of that might have stalks, but they seem to be there rarely, and I haven't been to the market in months either.

@keira_reckons@aus.social avatar keira_reckons , to random

I've been into a lot of workplaces, in a lot of industries. And I can say that I haven't yet come across a place where there are a lot of people doing nothing.

There's always someone who doesn't do much, for whatever reason, but most "waste" comes from ways of doing, or poor decision making, or bad communication — not from individual laziness, as far as I can tell.

Between my own jobs and my time as a Union Organiser and later contractor, I've spent time in: retail, hospitality, fast food, unions, political parties, the public service at every level and across federal and two States, politician's offices, psychiatric hospitals, aged care, disability care and group homes, gyms, international aid, engineering, software development and domestic trades. Everyone is working.

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Anyway, this note because people love to slag off workers in industries they don't care for, don't understand or pay for via taxes.

The people you hate are also working hard, generally.

The people not working hard mostly have good reasons (mental health, physical capacity, the exhaustion of grinding poverty etc).

And for the most part ... Who cares?

@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange avatar JessTheUnstill , to random

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    @JessTheUnstill one on one or small group privacy and cyber security evangelism with normal people.

    And feeding people.

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    @JessTheUnstill do you have someone who can tell?

    Sometimes I do this for a friend. A conversation about two hours after dose o'clock, and I can usually tell if she's forgotten her meds.

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    @JessTheUnstill ah yeah, damn.

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    the more i read contemporary crime novels the more i'm tempted to start a consultancy for crime fiction novelists who incorporate crypto into their writing

    this must be how doctors feel watching medical dramas

    "But his genius was an algorithm that layered the transactions through the dark web, making his scheme virtually untraceable."

    🙃

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    @molly0xfff I had a favourite one recently where it took several professionals to work out a Ceasar cipher.

    @joyousjoyness@mastodon.social avatar joyousjoyness , to random

    Some Detox Doodles!

    I've been working on replacing the urge to scroll mindlessly with daily sketching!

    Here are some hedgehogs, sugar gliders, red pandas, burrowing owls, ducks, and armadillos!

    Compilation of 6 photos of sketchbook pages. Top row consists of sketches of hedgehogs, sugar gliders and red pandas. Bottom row consists of drawings of burrowing owls, ducks and armadillos.
    ALT
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    @joyousjoyness gorgeous. And what a great idea!

    @keira_reckons@aus.social avatar keira_reckons , to random

    It's charity season again in Australia, just before tax time when there are donation-matching set ups and reminders all over the place.

    Who do you give to (if you're in a position to be able to give)?

    @keira_reckons@aus.social avatar keira_reckons , to random

    There are a lot of problems with democracy, and not all issues are best resolved through trying to convince the majority of people to vote for the right charismatic narcissist.

    But!

    Take a moment to enjoy our very free, very fair elections here in Australia. They're some of the best in the world, and worth our pride and protection.

    @keira_reckons@aus.social avatar keira_reckons , to random

    I'm going to put this here (it's also in a reply) in case people don't know.

    In Australia, the parties are paid by the AEC, to reimburse some of their campaign spending, if they reach 4% of the primary (first preference) vote.

    So if you like your local independents or socialists or small parties or greens, give them your first preference.

    It means your vote can be useful to changing the political landscape, even if it ultimately ends up with a major party because you live in a safe seat or similar.

    It's also a really good reason not to donkey vote. Vote they way you want, or don't vote. Donkey voting (numbering down from the top without thinking) sends money to whoever is at the top of the ballot.

    https://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/public_funding/index.htm

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    @JessTheUnstill I really like my Withings one, which I chose because it doesn't have internet connection and the data storage is on my phone or in Europe, and the company is German (GDPR for the win).

    It sleep tracks, although I don't know if it's any good at that. And does heart rate and steps and has a timer and a stopwatch.

    The heart rate is periodical, not constant, but there may be a setting for that.

    It doesn't have the weather though.

    But the battery life is ~25 days.

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    @JessTheUnstill @dan @irene

    Yep!

    It doesn't tick though, and you have to set the time through the phone.

    @akareilly@hachyderm.io avatar akareilly , to random

    A large number of humans are one virus away from permanent disability.

    A lot of ableism stems from the fact that this is terrifying. I get it. It’s scary.

    Coming to terms with this earlier will help you avoid becoming a total asshole if you are lucky enough to become old.

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    @JessTheUnstill @akareilly it really does seem like something we (temporarily abled people) would do. I'm thinking in particular of parents of disabled kids, who don't want to imagine any other future than the one they had planned for them. Who don't want to hear their kid talked about as different, either because they think that's best for the kid, or because they don't want to have made someone "not normal".

    And it feels very capitalism too. No need change to expectations or productivity, if you treat disability like a trifling inconvenience, just some ramps and a hearing loop (if that), right?

    I'm sorry that it's what you're experiencing. My best friend has an energy limiting disability, and it's straight up ruined her quality of life, maybe permanently. People refuse to hear it though, telling her it'll come good etc etc.

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    was pretty jazzed to hear bookshop.org started selling e-books, but that DRM is a bummer 😞

    keira_reckons ,
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    @molly0xfff agreed.

    I pirate because my perfectly good reader is too old for new DRM books (even from the library). But try to balance it out with physical book buying.

    @keira_reckons@aus.social avatar keira_reckons , to random

    Just in case there are any gynaecologist practice managers on here (unlikely), I'd like to express a wish.

    Please, please, please, if you have space, separate your pre and post natal patients from your infertility, non-obstetric, and childless patients.

    Or at least balance up the info posters a little, so at least a few are about childlessness. Even just a gonorhea poster would be welcomed.

    The usual waiting rooms are packed with babies, pregnant people, posters about breastfeeding, and happy smiling baby faces everywhere.

    I find it a tiny bit upsetting even now, but I can't imagine how it must be for someone actively miscarrying, reaching the end of an unsuccessful fertility journey, or who lost a child or children, where it's all so raw.

    I'm not expecting a world without pregnant people, but maybe a tiny acknowledgement that women's and gynaecological health isn't only about babies, would be great. We're ~20%.

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    @JessTheUnstill sure beats the process I have seen, where you chose the vendor who doesn't meet any of the requirements your staff set out, and whose price is towards the top, but who has the whitest, middle age-est, smarmiest sales rep, who makes the boss feel smart and important.

    (Not at my current employer)

    @onepict@chaos.social avatar onepict , to random

    I grew up with an unusual example of masculinity.

    My Dad cooked and cleaned. He sewed and repaired clothing. When I wanted to talk about my feelings he was always the person I talked to instead of my mother.

    He taught me to bake.

    He kept his nails tidy.

    So when people meet him for the first time, they are a bit surprised at seeing a short man with a bushy beard.

    But he's always tried to protect me. Including when I was stalked. Just by checking in on me.

    keira_reckons ,
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    @onepict I'm fully with you on this, but I also learned something interesting from some trans masc friends - apparently testosterone makes crying physically harder to access.

    One friend was even upset about it, because he misses the relief that tears bring, but they don't come now.

    Not to understate how much social pressure men face to not cry, but I thought it was interesting.

    @bastardsheep@aus.social avatar bastardsheep , to random

    “Separating pedestrians and cyclists” while there’s pedestrians all over the bridge walking blindly and idly in to the cycle lanes clueless as to any coming up behind & in front of them.

    You get this -everywhere- there’s bike/pedestrian shared paths.
    https://aus.social/@Corsair_of_time/113693810247399713

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    @juliew2010 @bastardsheep last time I was on a path with cycle and pedestrian lanes marked, one family was walking 4 wide, on the cycle path. There was even nature strup between the cycle and pedestrian paths.

    I got off my bike and asked, very politely, that in future they stay off the cycle path (the pedestrian path was empty). A woman actually sneered at me and said "you could've just gone around us".

    I absolutely couldn't have, safely. I'm not a very good cyclist. That's why I chose the damn bike path route, and not the road or shared paths.

    @kimlockhartga@beige.party avatar kimlockhartga , to bookstodon group

    Today is International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. First Peoples, First Nations, we celebrate you!

    bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group What are some books by First Nations authors that we may have missed out on, the ones that are underread?

    Here are a few I suggest:

    Noopiming: The Cure For White Ladies, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

    Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson

    The Tao of Raven, Ernestine Hayes

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    @kimlockhartga bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group

    Claire Coleman's books.

    Terra Nullius

    Enclave

    The Old Lie

    Lies, Damned Lies (non fiction)

    http://clairegcoleman.com/books.html

    @rabbit_fighter@mastodon.world avatar rabbit_fighter , to random

    bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group I'm looking for book recommendations for an 11yo who reads at a much more advanced level. He likes sci-fi. He has read the Hitchhiker's Guide series and loved them. I think he would enjoy some more 'hard' sci-fi as well. He needs something challenging but without subject matter that is too mature. Thanks for any help!

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    @rabbit_fighter bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group possibly the Ancillary series by Ann Leckie?

    There's a little bit of grown up romance, but it's quite repressed and (literally) robotic, so probably not too adult for him. And her book Provenance is YA.

    Vernor Vinge is great for hard SciFi with very alien aliens, I can only think if one scene in one book that I wouldn't recommend for a mature 11 year old, if they like a little bit of alien horror (there's a rape scene in A Deepness In The Sky that comes out of no where and while not physically violent, is not the kind of thing to leave a mind quickly).

    Murderbot diaries might be fun too, the violence is comicbook/superhero style.

    And all the William Gibson. The political side might go over his head, maybe, but there's generally nothing too adult about those, and there are interesting characters, women heroes, relative gender equality, and complicated technology.

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    @rabbit_fighter bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group one of my nephew's is in the same boat. He read the Hobbit alone when he was 8, and wants to read books with adult length and complexity, but any kissing and he's outta there, and complicated adult relationship stuff can upset him because he doesn't have the emotional maturity for that.

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    @rabbit_fighter bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group I've just realised you asked a year ago, and I'd already replied.

    I just saw it boosted and thought, I think I remember someone asking this a while ago.

    Whoops