I learned about the First Lady about a month ago, and when I did, I knew it was the cocktail I wanted to make for the solstice.

I got home tonight at about 9:00, whipped it up, and took one sip before I realized it was loaded with macha, and I actually wanted to sleep tonight. 🤣

#cocktails #mixology #homebar

I have signed the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact on behalf of Motley.

History shows us that large technology corporations like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook will only ever see open ecosystems as sources of value to enclose and exploit. I have less than zero interest in helping one of the chief architects of the modern Web's consolidation continue their efforts.

The Web is best when it's diverse, diffuse, and homegrown. Motley will not federate with any Meta instance, because Facebook is not welcome in my community.

#FediPact

I miss the smaller, weirder, more personal Web.

Last year, I semi-quit Twitter, and the Reddit blackout means for a couple days, I've semi-quit that as well. It's somewhat nice, not being plugged into big corporate social media so much, but it also shines light on just how much of the modern internet is corporate social media.

I don't want to forgo the internet (or social media) entirely, I just want it to be a lot more personal and homespun.

There are wasps making nests behind my shutters.

This is my new least favorite part of home ownership. 😩

Hey #hamradio friends, I got my Technician license a year ago and have exactly diddly-squat with it since then. I have a little Baofeng handheld to play with.

What are some fun things I could do, now that I'm licensed? Bonus points for small, easy things; I'm a new dad and don't have a ton of time or money to spend on hobbies at the moment.

Our last #Netrunner set, Parhelion, was the first set where flavor text I'd written ended up on cards.

I'm excited to have contributed many more flavor text ideas for the next set, The Automata Initiative, as well as what might be the final name of a card I expect to see a lot of play.

The "Oh shit, I'm actually helping make Netrunner" feeling never really goes away.

"being direct isn't the same thing as being aggressive"

sure, but being sarcastic and disparaging ain't the same as being direct, bucko

The Florida legislature seems set to pass a bill making sex crimes against children punishable by death.

Given recent trends in US anti-trans legislation… holy fuck, this is bad bad bad.

Death penalty for child rapists bill gets bipartisan support in Florida Legislature

The legislation would challenge existing U.S. Supreme Court precedent.

^{Romy Ellenbogen (Tampa Bay Times)}

I have no love in my heart for Disney, but I'll hand it to the crew at Ravensburger: the ruleset they've built for Lorcana, the upcoming Disney #TCG, is clean.

#CardGames #TabletopGames #BoardGames

Disney Lorcana rules aim to be accessible for new and old TCG players

Disney Lorcana, the highly anticipated new tabletop game, wants to expand the audience for collectible card games. We talked with its co-designer to learn why it plays so differently from its biggest competitors, games like Magic and Pokémon.

^{Charlie Hall (Polygon)}

In other words, while supporters of the Greater Idaho movement essentially talk about the ability to live according to their cultural beliefs, doing so arguably would mean restricting the political rights available to all individuals in their part of the state, should the secession effort succeed. Secessionist advocates make it clear that they believe that unauthorized immigrants have too many rights, transgender people have too many rights, and women have too many rights.

Beneath the surface, the Oregon secession movement isn't about democracy - Flux

PORTLAND–What small state resident doesn’t get a thrill when the national media flick their gaze towards one’s beloved home, even if ever so briefly? Oregon had a sweet run of such sugar rush coverage in the early 2000s, propelled by Portland’s excel…

^{Jim Carroll (Flux)}

The rhetoric was always obviously bullshit, but now that I'm a parent, I am fucking livid that the queerphobic hatemongers would appeal to a supposed "right" of mine to justify their abusive and genocidal policies.

Motherfuckers, I don't want your "right" to tyrannize my child. I want trans and queer kids to be safe. I want kids to have access to accurate information, even if their parents don't think they should. I want kids to be treated as fucking human beings, not property, and given the opportunities to develop autonomy accordingly.

Here's a look at my #WIP design for my new website, built using Hugo. Sharing it here so that I can hopefully inspire myself to get back into the swing of working on it. 😅

#WebDesign #Hugo

If you were trying to teach someone about critical reading—what it means to critically engage with a text, and how—what 1-3 resources would you give them?

It seems to me critical reading is a deeply underdeveloped and misunderstood skill. I see people dismiss it because they see it as pointless intellectual faffery and/or futile efforts to squeeze the "Hidden Meaning" out of a text. Or they see it as a roundabout way to judge something as Good or Bad.

I wish that when I was in high school, or even college, someone had sat me down and explained what it meant to critically engage with a text. How the goal isn't to find the one true meaning, but instead to place the text in conversation with others, using it to illuminate a concept—that sort of stuff. I got there eventually, but mostly by trial and error, and I'd love to find resources that provide clearer guidance.

So, scholars of the Fediverse: What 1-3 resources would you use to help introduce someone to critical reading?

#academia #academic #scholarly #scholars #humanities

Another one of my many, many Someday Projects is to make a #minetest game.

Of course, to do that, I'd need to learn Lua. And pixel art. That's not happening anytime soon. 😅

American military leaders oppose helping the [International Criminal Court] investigate Russians because they fear setting a precedent that might help pave the way for it to prosecute Americans. The rest of the administration, including intelligence agencies and the State and Justice Departments, favors sharing the evidence with the court, the officials said.

well we wouldn't want American war criminals to be prosecuted, now would we 🙃🙃🙃

who do I talk to to never ever again hear the word "woke" used as a pejorative

because fuck me I hate everything about how it's become the right's boogeyman du jour

It's been two weeks since my daughter was born and it is a goddamn crime that this country doesn't provide for any paid parental leave.

We are what passes for fortunate in this country, in that my wife was able to take 3 months off, and I got 6 weeks off with an additional 6 weeks part-time. All our leave is unpaid, of course. And even in that, the idea of going back to work when my daughter is only 5 weeks old—because she was born a week into my leave—is ghastly to me. I hate it.

This country is shit.

One day, I really want to start a tool lending library in my community.

Have you ever been involved in a project like that? Any personal insight on how to get started or what really works? I'm curious to hear people's stories.

#sharing #sharingEconomy #giftEconomy #lendingLibrary #community