If everything goes according to plan, I'll be initiating the migration from this account to @robin tonight 🤞🏻

In theory, follows/followers should transfer automatically.

I'll keep this server and account online for a time to ease the transition.

The camellias are in bloom. The air is crisp and carries, sharp and clear, the song of the chestnut-backed chickadee. The sun is shining through the maples, whose canopies are now bare.

Pico-cat thinks he wants to go outside, until his paws meet the cold.

It's […]

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There's a lot I don't know yet, but no sense in delaying with what I do know – hi, my name is Robin and I'm trans.

I'll be going by Robin Riley, and using they/them pronouns for the foreseeable future. And it's going to take ✨ time ✨ to update my info everywhere […]

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Picking a new name in the modern era is a wild experience. Doesn't help that I consider it nonnegotiable to have a short domain name that reflects my real name 😂

But also: don't want it to be too common. Or too rare. Or shared with well known and problematic people.

I keep seeing this anecdotal thing circulating in which a professor is blaming ChatGPT for their students' struggles to, for instance, remember words.

And I think we do ourselves and those students a disservice by forgetting we collectively forced students into the COVID meat grinder, making […]

Had one of those moments that, if I read it, I'd say, "Yeah, that never happened."

I was waxing philosophical about uncertainty as someone shared the latest in drone hysteria.

Finally they asked: "Aren't you uncomfortable with that uncertainty?"

Which is a fucking excellent question, because […]

Welp, I guess we all did a good job of getting the word out about California's ebike voucher program! My brother entered the queue 90 seconds after it opened (aggressive caching be damned) and this is the wait time.

Thrilled to see bikes and ebikes taking off in […]

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"Working class" includes people who happen to be lucky enough to go to expensive private universities and draw a good salary from their work.

Popular narratives miss this, sometimes intentionally.

Given the systems we're up against? We need to widen the scope of solidarity building.

Starting December 18th, Californians earning less than 300% the federal poverty level can get up to $2000 toward an ebike and accessories: https://ebikeincentives.org/

And lemme tell you, an ebike can be life changing. As someone who is in "just ok" health and fitness, having an electric motor […]

Federation of Foundations for Small Projects 💡

A multinational network of nonprofits and co-ops that provide a legal home for projects, pairing a flexible but standardized set of governance with a flexible but standardized set of services.

Could be a project's forever home, or 'just' a way […]

Sometimes being a #HealthAndSafety / #iaq advocate can feel a little lonely, but I'm an eternal optimistic – and not without reason.

When I bring air quality monitors to events, and make the data easy to access, people respond. People here at #matrixconf have been […]

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Well gosh, I'm glad we required masks 😂 If we use this venue again (and we definitely will when we return to Berlin), I've got some ideas about how to manage airflow differently.

#matrixconf #HealthAndSafety

Annnnd the air quality monitoring array has been deployed at #matrixconf! Can you guess which room the BarCamp is starting in? 😂

Tomorrow will be the real test of the venue's ventilation, as we're expecting about 4x the attendees that we have today.

We take the […]

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Gooooood morning, #matrixconf! Can't wait to see you all in person over the next few days.

And if you can't make it, worry not -- we'll be live streaming the talks starting tomorrow! Visit our website later today for more info on that.