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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14h

You’d think the cable’s loop exists to indicate “Cat’s face goes here”.

#catsofmastodon #catandkeeb #ergomechkeyboards

Canonical tabby lying on a white duvet. Closer to the camera a split keyboard steeply tented is mounted on a small board with a trackpad between the keyboard halves, and a white cable loops off the board. The cat’s face rests perfectly within the loop.

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 5d

So true 😭

Also I can hear this image 😁 @xyla https://shitpost.trade/@xyla/115310603490897961

xyla the rar 🐀 (@[email protected])

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 9d

@skinnylatte Nice, you even have a soundtrack!

(Being a Millennial, I can’t read “How did it end up like this?” without hearing The Killers 😁)

Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 9d

@glyph Wait, shouldn’t we get to decide for ourselves how we’d like to be referred to? Did I miss a vote on this?

1) I don’t feel diminutized by being referred to as “wife”

2) I honestly hear gay folks use “wife” more often than straight folks these days?

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13d

@andypiper Did you spot any chatty duelists at the top?

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14d

Exactly this 💯

#actuallyautistic #neurodivergent

Tweet but Emily Zanotti @emzanotti

My children are not on the autism spectrum because I took Tylenol while pregnant. They're on the autism spectrum because I, a person who will wear only one type of shoe and can't eat food that is "too potato-y," had babies with a man who has an encyclopedic knowledge of European aristocracy but a limited ability to process social cues.

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15d

I do wish that instead of readers having LLMs summarize stuff that writers would put a TL;DR at the top instead. Like I’m sure it’s a masterpiece and every detail is vital and nuanced but most people aren’t going to read it all anyway (I know. I’m sorry 💔), so you might as well provide a summary […]

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15d

@sue I’m part of a working group developing learning paths for contribution in open source, so I definitely agree the problem isn’t you!

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Julia Evans @b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23d

if you're interested in helping with Project Improve Git Documentation, I'm still looking for beta readers! Here's a signup form: https://forms.gle/QP5NUcvPQV6W7DCJ9

I'd love signups from anyone who uses Git on the command line, isn't 100% comfortable with it, and who would be interested in […]

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28d

@sundogplanets You weren’t missing much —except for that excellent quote she doesn’t have much else to recommend her. She was the kind of person who really liked Nixon, and even *stayed* really liking Nixon. 🤡

Alice the Goat > Alice Roosevelt

Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28d

@glyph So much this! I had an allergic reaction recently that sparked a huge inflammation and histamine spike, featuring freaky brain things like suddenly not being able to remember particular words, like an older person. It went away again, but of course it’s only a temporary reprieve because I […]

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28d

@sundogplanets “I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.”
⁃ Theodore Roosevelt

You can refer all of your other responsibilities to ^^^ 😁

https://www.nps.gov/people/alice-roosevelt-longworth.htm

Alice Roosevelt Longworth (U.S. National Park Service)

A short description of Alice Roosevelt Longworth.

www.nps.gov

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Glyph @glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29d

Is there already an app for this: adult #adhd friends & family relationship maintenance. Plug in a list of friends (ideally, select from contacts app) and automate reminders to schedule meeting up, calling, or scheduling group events, so you don't forget to see people for 8 years at a time

Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · Sep 9

Two lists I keep in #obsidian that punch way above their weight in saving me headspace and/or money

⁃ Things to Try Sometime: the kind of thing I used to keep open in a tab because I totally want to do them but not today (and yes, I do back and try some of them later!)
⁃ Things I HAVE Tried […]

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · Sep 5

Hi @vagrantc! I’m the community manager for the University of California OSPO network, and we met at FOSSY last month. I'm part of CURIOSS—a group of academic OSPO folks—and I thought Reproducible Builds might be a useful tool for our research software projects, so I wondered if you'd be […]

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · Sep 4

@sue @jenn That sounds cosy!

Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · Sep 3

I scrolled through my timeline just a wee bit and https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/115140962523300077

So yep, I’m very sure there’s a room to add a non-competitive version! 🩷

Dr. Cat Hicks (@[email protected])

I have studied how believing that software engineering is marked by "technical contests" exacerbates developers' experiences of threat and impostorism (inspired by and extending work by psychologists on "contest cultures" as a driver of field-specific ability beliefs). Nevertheless somehow I am always Surprised Pikachu Face when it affects me directly, even though I LITERALLY HAVE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ABOUT HOW IT WORKS.

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · Sep 3

For those of us who simply don’t vibe with competitions: is there a hackathon format that isn’t competitive? Even “For social good” ones seem to involve teams competing to come up with the most innovative idea. For my brain it makes more sense for teams to come up with ideas and then share […]

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · Aug 30

Watching the #python documentary and playing “Count the #SplitKeyboards” 🩷

(Truly my people!)

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · Aug 29

@glyph Reminds me for some reason of this conference I went to in Petaluma in April.

https://hachyderm.io/@LauraLangdon/114411305148562997

Laura Langdon (@[email protected])

You know you're hanging out with a bunch of nerds when more than one talk at a conference uses a variation of "raises" or "leads us to" instead of "begs" the question. Because IYKYK, right? #NBPy @[email protected]

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · Aug 25

@EvilCartyen @skinnylatte Exactly! My genes think I’m in northern Scotland or further back in time in the Baltic areas, and my optometrist doesn’t dilate my pupils because they’re big enough already. If I could I’d hemisphere-hop twice a year to avoid late spring-summer entirely.

Anyway, pupil […]

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Renaud Chaput @renchap.oisaur.com · Aug 21

Coming soon on your Mastodon server… The long awaited quote posts, with user-control (you can chose if you want to be quoted on a per-post basis, change it later, and retract any quote of your post)

Amazing work by the team 🎉

Expect a blog post with all the […]

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Screenshot of the Mastodon composer, showing a new visibility picker button with a "Public, anyone can quote" label

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · Aug 13

[US terribleness]

@sundogplanets I also think probably they’re fine but I totally get why you’d be unusually concerned. Do you know any of their friends so you can say “Hey, sorry, I’m sure I’m just being a mother hen but given The Circumstances I wanted to… check?”

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · Aug 13

@cascheranno 💯

Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · Aug 13

@cascheranno Right, before they do it it’s rare and you don’t need to worry about it or have an anesthetic in case it happens, but if it does then it’s a known risk and you signed up for it. 🙃

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