Deirdre Saoirse Moen

Amazing photo by Cheney Orr from today. Black woman sitting alone on the DC Metro with a crowd of masked white supremacists on their way to the capital to march with confederate flags. There is also a deeper analogy for what I keep hearing over and over from Black people: finding themselves surrounded by white people who either do not know, or do not care, about how America looks from the Black person's perspective. #Photography #PoliticalPhotography #July4th

@jonny@neuromatch.social I was genuinely shocked to hear that features we'd shipped for ages were features some customers preferred a competitor's product to ours—because they believed, in error, that we didn't have that feature. Most average consumers do not understand file systems *at all*. Or bookmarks. Etc.

Fender's dive to the bottom continues with a copyright legal threat to #Yamaha, the largest musical instrument maker in the world, over the #Pacifica, a design they've made for over 30 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6UVmhOLFts #fender #stratocaster #guitars

And now #Fender has sued the EU's largest music retailer #Thomann for copyright in German courts. The "copyright protection" aspect is a partial error; a German court overstepped and issued an opinion about #Stratocaster copyright after a no-show from a Chinese company. Thomann makes #HarleyBenton guitars as well as representing both Fender and most of its competitors, including #Yamaha . https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/fender-sues-german-retailer-thomann-copyright-dispute-over-stratocaster-2026-07-16/ #music #FenderLawsuit

@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange I'm looking at my spreadsheet of musical instruments (way too many), and realized I really *don't* need that Fender American P-bass. *sigh* I'll try to sell it without the case; many players prefer soft cases and I absolutely love the hard case it has. I can put my other (Japanese-made) P-bass in it and then yeet that particular case.

@apgarcia @dymaxion Meanwhile, my mom was in what would now be devops at a particle accelerator before I was born. (In the 50s.) I’m a grandmother, but I had code in space (on a science experiment) before I was 18.

@sasha_strange@tech.lgbt @ErinInTheMorn@mstdn.social Also relevant here is that Utah has a huge breast implant industry, the largest in the country. https://www.utahbusiness.com/in-pursuit-of-perfection/

@apgarcia @dymaxion FWIW, I don’t take offense, but then I know my accomplishments. Where I worry is when people quietly feel not welcome and don’t go into technical fields they’d excel at.

@courtcan@mastodon.social I love this post so so so much (and have reposted it more than once, but not in a while).

@arclight @mekkaokereke A good book about this is “How the Irish Became White.” Also, when I was smol, Italians weren’t considered white by a lot of people.

@d_christiansen@types.pl @lkanies@hachyderm.io I first thought of Norwegian’s æ ø å song: https://youtube.com/watch?v=f488uJAQgmw Because those aren’t three accented letters, but three additional letters.