Rynn M (they/them)
@cyberynn.bsky.social
Community, oss, dev rel, cloud native.
Disability justice. Paraclimbing. Classical tenor, bad drummer, karaoke nerd. Hellthread survivor.
Disability justice. Paraclimbing. Classical tenor, bad drummer, karaoke nerd. Hellthread survivor.
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Every person deserves dignity and healthy, delicious food to eat! We serve an average of 1,705 free meals per day. With SNAP cuts that’s going to go up. Worried about San Francisco’s families.
Something I learned from my public health days is that an easy way to improve health broadly in the U.S. would be to simply increase funding for SNAP so families could buy what they want. Too long we've restricted SNAP because of ridiculous ideas about what lower income people should eat.
SNAP assistance should be enough to cover 2000 calories a day of HEALTHY food PER PERSON. Yes I want the government to make sure everyone has wholesome, tasty, filling meals. The problem isn't that people need assistance with food, it's that the assistance is a freaking joke.
October 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Every person deserves dignity and healthy, delicious food to eat! We serve an average of 1,705 free meals per day. With SNAP cuts that’s going to go up. Worried about San Francisco’s families.
Hey Siri? Stop me from using ChatGPT to analyze my whole chat history with Alexa.
October 12, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Hey Siri? Stop me from using ChatGPT to analyze my whole chat history with Alexa.
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I have been trying to figure out how people recover from burnout in a system designed to have them stay burnt out.
For all the books and articles I’ve read, my friend put it best when they told me that recovery can only happen when nothing is expected of you for some time.
For all the books and articles I’ve read, my friend put it best when they told me that recovery can only happen when nothing is expected of you for some time.
September 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I have been trying to figure out how people recover from burnout in a system designed to have them stay burnt out.
For all the books and articles I’ve read, my friend put it best when they told me that recovery can only happen when nothing is expected of you for some time.
For all the books and articles I’ve read, my friend put it best when they told me that recovery can only happen when nothing is expected of you for some time.
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Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics.
The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.
The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
www.vanityfair.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics.
The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.
The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.
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The 2025 Social Web Needs Assessment is live. From Nostr to Mastodon, Discord to Bluesky – if you moderate, this is for you. Share your experience and help shape the next year of resources and advocacy. See about.iftas.org/moderator-ne... for details. Any platform, any protocol.
Annual Needs Assessment
Our work is directed by the needs of the communities we serve, and we conduct an open survey of administrators, moderators, and community managers to ascertain their needs and priorities. Current A…
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August 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The 2025 Social Web Needs Assessment is live. From Nostr to Mastodon, Discord to Bluesky – if you moderate, this is for you. Share your experience and help shape the next year of resources and advocacy. See about.iftas.org/moderator-ne... for details. Any platform, any protocol.
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I agree with what Erin says here, but would add that Newsom's recent comment citing the age of 25 is especially scary, as that's well beyond centrist-sounding "fairness in sports" rhetoric – it is a hardcore anti-trans activist talking point! it's like he is actively consuming 4thwavenow/TERF posts
A really good (and scary) point from @erininthemorning.com... for trans rights, a President Gavin Newsom could be *more* harmful than a Republican would be.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/why-transg...
www.erininthemorning.com/p/why-transg...
August 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I agree with what Erin says here, but would add that Newsom's recent comment citing the age of 25 is especially scary, as that's well beyond centrist-sounding "fairness in sports" rhetoric – it is a hardcore anti-trans activist talking point! it's like he is actively consuming 4thwavenow/TERF posts
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Many Linux users have recently reported their fans running at full speed and high temperatures. They discovered that Firefox was consuming all CPU cores, and it turns out that the cause was Firefox's new default AI features. This is how you ruin your product 😅 www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/f...
Some users report Firefox scoffing CPU power
: You guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI
www.theregister.com
August 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Many Linux users have recently reported their fans running at full speed and high temperatures. They discovered that Firefox was consuming all CPU cores, and it turns out that the cause was Firefox's new default AI features. This is how you ruin your product 😅 www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/f...
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We're thrilled to announce Contributor Covenant 3.0, a major revision to the most widely adopted code of conduct for open source and other online communities!
www.contributor-covenant.org
www.contributor-covenant.org
Contributor Covenant | A Code of Conduct for Digital Communities
The most widely adopted code of conduct in open source.
www.contributor-covenant.org
July 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
We're thrilled to announce Contributor Covenant 3.0, a major revision to the most widely adopted code of conduct for open source and other online communities!
www.contributor-covenant.org
www.contributor-covenant.org
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🚨ROOST is announcing Coop and Osprey: two new, open-source online safety tools.
✅ Customizable
✅ Open source
✅ Trusted integrations
A better way to handle online harm, built by people who get it.
More here: roost.tools/blog/roost-a...
#TrustandSafety
✅ Customizable
✅ Open source
✅ Trusted integrations
A better way to handle online harm, built by people who get it.
More here: roost.tools/blog/roost-a...
#TrustandSafety
July 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🚨ROOST is announcing Coop and Osprey: two new, open-source online safety tools.
✅ Customizable
✅ Open source
✅ Trusted integrations
A better way to handle online harm, built by people who get it.
More here: roost.tools/blog/roost-a...
#TrustandSafety
✅ Customizable
✅ Open source
✅ Trusted integrations
A better way to handle online harm, built by people who get it.
More here: roost.tools/blog/roost-a...
#TrustandSafety
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I wrote last week about how the tech dream is ending for mid-career workers. This is a really good companion piece about how entry level tech jobs are vanishing, too, and the Silicon Valley gold rush is coming to a close: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...
August 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I wrote last week about how the tech dream is ending for mid-career workers. This is a really good companion piece about how entry level tech jobs are vanishing, too, and the Silicon Valley gold rush is coming to a close: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...
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Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
Release from HHS: HHS will wind down its development of the mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
August 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
This but I recognize it is hard to shut down these days.
stop doomscrolling. sleep will feel better than staying up late. I know things are super hard right now. I know how hard you are trying. Take care of yourself. One thing at a time.
August 6, 2025 at 5:58 AM
This but I recognize it is hard to shut down these days.
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this isn't what I do, but maybe you do?
Can any of my fellow writers on here recommend a sensitivity reader (for a historical novel) who specializes in disability issues (Down's syndrome)? Someone you've worked with personally and liked their work? Thanks!
July 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
this isn't what I do, but maybe you do?
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So many leftists are laser focused on never doing anything wrong instead of ever doing anything helpful.
July 7, 2025 at 10:19 PM
So many leftists are laser focused on never doing anything wrong instead of ever doing anything helpful.
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The expansion of American transphobia from a minority position is almost wholly astroturfed (more like astroTERFed) by a few writers, editors, and capitalists at the Times, the Atlantic, and maybe NYMag.
July 5, 2025 at 8:12 AM
The expansion of American transphobia from a minority position is almost wholly astroturfed (more like astroTERFed) by a few writers, editors, and capitalists at the Times, the Atlantic, and maybe NYMag.
The South is highly gerrymandered dating back to segregation in order to ensure that Republicans retain their hold. It's much more politically complex than you think.
I don't have much to add to the 'you voted for this haha' conversation that people haven't already said, but something I think a lot about is the real lack of solidarity I see with communities in the South after disasters and the profound lack of understanding about who actually lives there.
July 8, 2025 at 5:59 AM
The South is highly gerrymandered dating back to segregation in order to ensure that Republicans retain their hold. It's much more politically complex than you think.
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TEACHING AND LEARNING DISTRESS TOLERANCE IS CRITICAL TO A FUNCTIONAL SOCIETY
so much driving motivation in people in even the slightest position of power, regardless of where they find themselves on the political map, is "i should never have to feel bad, feel regret, feel shame, or otherwise reconsider my decisions" and every choice, policy and personal, falling from there
July 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
TEACHING AND LEARNING DISTRESS TOLERANCE IS CRITICAL TO A FUNCTIONAL SOCIETY
I'm so tired of people being enthusiastic about my brain and then being exhausted by my emotions.
a woman in a pink sweater is sitting in front of a window and talking .
Alt: a woman in a pink sweater is sitting in front of a window. She says "they're the same picture.
media.tenor.com
July 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
I'm so tired of people being enthusiastic about my brain and then being exhausted by my emotions.
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change of plans. feeling like I'm just gonna come to terms with my rusty cage
March 7, 2025 at 2:37 AM
change of plans. feeling like I'm just gonna come to terms with my rusty cage
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it's pretty fucked up how the information and social media environment for trans people is such that a very small number of trans people are burdened with an incredible amount of movement work, while everyone else is panicking and spiraling and clueless what to do.
everyone needs to fight!
everyone needs to fight!
June 19, 2025 at 5:54 AM
it's pretty fucked up how the information and social media environment for trans people is such that a very small number of trans people are burdened with an incredible amount of movement work, while everyone else is panicking and spiraling and clueless what to do.
everyone needs to fight!
everyone needs to fight!
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Sotomayor points out the similarities between the Skrmetti ruling allowing discrimination against transgender people's medical care to Virginia's argument for its interracial marriage ban in Loving.
June 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Sotomayor points out the similarities between the Skrmetti ruling allowing discrimination against transgender people's medical care to Virginia's argument for its interracial marriage ban in Loving.
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House Republicans passed the biggest health care cut in U.S. history. Senate Republicans’ response? Hold my beer.
Now they’re pushing even deeper Medicaid cuts—knowing it’ll shut down rural hospitals, strip care from their own voters, and leave millions hanging.
Now they’re pushing even deeper Medicaid cuts—knowing it’ll shut down rural hospitals, strip care from their own voters, and leave millions hanging.
June 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
House Republicans passed the biggest health care cut in U.S. history. Senate Republicans’ response? Hold my beer.
Now they’re pushing even deeper Medicaid cuts—knowing it’ll shut down rural hospitals, strip care from their own voters, and leave millions hanging.
Now they’re pushing even deeper Medicaid cuts—knowing it’ll shut down rural hospitals, strip care from their own voters, and leave millions hanging.
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do you have any idea how furious you have to make career civil servants to get them to put their names to a letter
Several hundred NIH employees sign a letter of protest to the agency’s director
Several hundred NIH employees signed on to a letter rebuking agency actions since the start of President Trump's second term
www.statnews.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
do you have any idea how furious you have to make career civil servants to get them to put their names to a letter