Made a fun little thing on my CodePen and trying to figure out how to add some functionality to it. It probably won't land me a job, but hey, It'll be a neat little thing to put on my website when it's finished.
Today the director of my local library claimed that we focus too much on minority groups and that we need to remember moving forward that there is a majority we should be mindful of and that we can't lose support of white, christian, men. 😒
Hot take: wishing to go back to what politics were like in 2012 is a form of conservativism. As soon as you start viewing politics through the lens of nostalgia, you are ignoring that we are here now because of where we were and are wishing for an ideal that helps no one.
Over the last several months (since June) I've been powering through freeCodeCamp and have gotten 2 certifications with a third close behind. I've learned CSS, HTML, and JavaScript very nearly from nothing, and have reinforced that knowledge by doing project euler problems and codingame puzzles.
I've really got to try to force myself out of just lurking all the time on here 😵
there was a new study published *today* in Nature showing that state-level anti-trans laws increase suicide among trans kids up to 72%. when we say that the New York Times (and other rags of equal repute) is killing us, that's because *IT IS LITERALLY KILLING US*
Nature Human Behaviour - From 2018 to 2022, 48 anti-transgender laws were enacted in the USA across 19 states. This study shows that these anti-transgender laws increased past-year suicide attempts...
reminder that Mike Parson chose to intervene and pardon the McCloskeys for pointing guns at protestors, but wouldn’t step in to save an innocent man from execution
Some trolls/bigots are coming through today along with the cool people ditching Twitter. Remember: don't interact with trolls, just block. They're here to monetize outrage, which depends on interaction. Blocking deprives them of that. ❤️
Take note how much a "stopped at the gate" assassination attempt - the type that normally merits only a passing mention, as the u-haul attempt on Biden in 2023 did - has dominated the news and pushed discussion of Trump's failure in the debate and competency totally out of the news.