@marta I recall there is an easter egg in #simcity2000 that pops up when you attempt to build a university next to a prison (or the other way around?). Something about student protests preventing construction.
There was a “No #tech for genocide” demo in #Oslo this week, and here’s a list of organizations supporting it. If you haven’t joined a #union yet, there are three on this list (NTL for state workers, Handel og Kontor which won’t really make sense for you as a tech worker, and El og IT for workers in private companies).
Hey #tech worker, if you want to have any control over what happens to the products you work on and who your employer signs contracts with, you gotta make sure you, your team, and your department is #unionized. Don’t procrastinate this. There is power in a union.
You speak Norwegian with a Polish accent. Your vowels strained like half-smiles you receive from your neighbors; your consonants rough like a Monday morning workout session at SATS. There’s no escaping from stereotypes your accent invokes.
@marta To write this elegantly in any language, let alone a non-mother tongue, is, as they say in this one:👌🔥. 👏
Was reminded of that time I hydroplaned on a tram rail on my scooter and hit my (helmeted) head on the kerb, then had to convince Dutch persons of sufficiently timely answers to questions about the day of the week, who was prime minister etc. That half-step for translation... Ouch. Mars and back.
A lovely piece that will resonate with all exiles, peripatetics & fellow travellers.
Not to mention that the demand for integration is made very selectively. As a white western european immigrant I can't remember ever being asked (or suggested) to integrate I wonder why that is 🙃
I’ve been feeling like my given name hasn’t been working for me anymore, so I’ve been trying to use a different one when introducing myself to new people. It felt good, so I went ahead and changed my socials. 🥰
A programmer I matched with on a dating app asked me if I'm team vim or emacs. When I said I'm team nano he called me cute and told me he'll teach me a real editor. 🙄
There’s a mix of pride and suspicion whenever my PRs get accepted without requests for change. It’s “fuck yeah I’m the best engineer!!!1” on the one hand and “I’m sure my reviewer missed something… let me run the tests again” on the other.
@marta this is actually one of the reasons I try to always have some sort of suggested change. Something that might improve things, something that might teach them something... Anything
I very rarely make it "mandatory" though. That tends to defeat the whole purpose to me. There's such a wide range between optimal, and acceptable, and all the various permutations of those. Why would one of those prevent the others from being acceptable?