While this is different in the modern era, historically gay spaces were less segregated by race and class than straight spaces which feels important to understand where things come from getting muddied

White gay men use black culture but so does your favorite white enby barista because it’s a white American issue, but acknowledging that would mean owning complicity and not being able to deflect the idea that gay men experience homophobia

Ironically, the way white queer people deploy “this was stolen from black people” specifically at white gay men does feel like stealing a critique from black people without thinking deeply about it

Working with people who have been reminding me of the value of moving slow to move fast, something I’m trying to use more in my approach to work / tech generally

They’re a really smart kid (19!) who has been working in a tech since their early teens and that largely makes them an interesting person except man it’s obvious they’ve picked up some of the worst arguing tendencies as a result

a friend did it about 10 years ago, super easy class / test (there’s a legal limit to how much you can charge which is good in terms of equity)

That does, unfortunately, mean I will probably need to remain subscribed to his newsletter

There are many good reasons to learn outside of that, but if nothing else having more modalities available to you is just going to be better

Most people are resistant because they think their friends and family won’t so why bother (and they are usually correct), but it also opens up more access options for you! VRS, live interpreting, etc etc

That said, having lived in a satmar neighborhood and worked elections there, they’re a strong, consistent voting bloc so good get!

I don’t love concessions around yeshiva standards, but his ass better reinstate bike lanes on Bedford Avenue

There’s also stuff like why the fuck is it even up to a vote on digitizing maps, I’m sure it’s for budget reasons or whatever, but that absolutely shouldn’t be my call!

Not in the top five changes I would make tomorrow, but man I miss those bus bike racks

Subway stations in Berlin have safe, covered places to lock up you bike so you can bike to a station and take a train part of the way, busses in Minneapolis had the ability to put a bike on the front, etc etc

I know I shouldn’t expect much from the “openly jealous of HIV criminalization crowd” but man