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Creator of 📰 News feeds, @xblock.aendra.dev, @moji.blue, founder of @shoots.green, co-organiser @atproto.london. Opinions my own. Not a journalist or an engineer, but a secret third thing (panicked). she/her/ze/hir 🏳️⚧️ 🌐 aendra.com 🗞️ ft.com/æ
We urgently need to address the fact that queer media has been decimated over the last year. Them has been sold. NBC Out dissolved. INTO shuttered. At a time when they are needed most, most queer and trans journalists have no platform or income.
I'm not sure why I'm trauma dumping here; maybe if only to say, please be gentle I'm kind of already having a week. 💚
Anyway despite the endlessly tragicomic aspects of it he remains one of only two masculine guys I ever spent significant time with and I still think back to it a lot. I learned a lot about my attraction to men with him, and I'm probably still a bit traumatised by it if I'm honest lol.
It might shock you to learn I'm a *significantly* more stable person these days, lol.
Transitioning, and having good people around me, really really helped!
It really wasn't a good relationship, like, he wouldn't be seen outside with me, and when I invited him to Christmas dinner with my partner, he showed up 2 hours late and drunk, got into a heated argument with my partner, then fucked off to get high for the next two days. Oh and he was twice my age.
Like, it wasn't exactly an amicable breakup and when I bounced I very much disappeared from his life, so I'm not, like, at all distraught? Maybe just a little messed up about it? "Oh, another person I loved at one point has left this mortal coil; so it goes, I guess."
Please bear with me, I learned over the weekend that someone I dated for a few months right before I transitioned passed away and I'm sort of still digesting it.
Labelling all warnings in my source code with "⚠️ Come on, please"
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There's four of 'em and they all ride horses
Yeah.
I need to leave news media.
Used the phrase "life is an unbroken chain of misery and then you die" in standup today, how y'all's weeks looking?
The fact I didn't is a clue.
This is pretty spot-on.
"Not today, Satan"
Me, whenever I see a particular byline.
Is it really broken, or have staff simply had enough? 🤔
It's Dantastic
"Geribatric ward", amazing
If you use Python and are curious about learning Polars, you might like the workshop @eadehemingway.bsky.social and I delivered at #NICAR26: Analyzing election data with Polars and Python. The repo contains a detailed walkthrough of everything we covered in the session.
github.com/olihawkins/n...
It's kind of poetic if you read it top to bottom and left to right:
What? What the...? The... The fuck? What the fuck. What, fuck. FUCK.
Starting a new linux audio server and calling it sisyphus
See also:
bsky.app/profile/aend...
Linux: "So first you figure out whether your distro is Pipewire or JACK..."
I somehow got recommended a YouTube drama video and I'm like 23 minutes in and am like, why do people watch this shit?
I did an undergrad degree in Comms, and when I told my ex that, she said I should ask for my money back.
Like look at this absolute legend, there's a frickin' cassette tape audio recorder skeuomorphism in a signal combiner app, where has this been all my life
VOICEMEETER BANANA HIVE RISE UP
Oh my god it's my lord and saviour I can't even begin to sing its praises
MacOS: "To combine audio signals you go to Audio Midi Settings"
Windows: "Well, the first thing you gotta do is download some random tool called Voicemeeter Banana"