Intermittent homelessness from an early age is one of a complex cluster of obstacles to reaching old age faced by the queer community that many other demographic categories never have to contend with. Others include elevated exposure to HIV/AIDS and diseases like hepatitis; chronic financial instability; inadequate, inaccessible, or discriminatory health care; and physical and mental abuse from family, friends, and society at large. Yet as the U.S. population ages rapidly, so, too, will LGBTQ community members.

Those of us who live long enough to need help with cooking our meals, washing our hair, getting dressed—activities of daily living, or ADLs in nursing home speak—can turn to our unmarried eldest daughter still living at home (jk), our retirement funds (lol), home health aides (whose services can cost from $13 to more than $30 an hour, times twenty-four hours a day, times seven days a week), or long-term care facilities (funded by health insurance, if you’ve got it, or Medicare and Medicaid, as long as it lasts).

The nursing home industry is defined by the word care, but it is often run in a way that diminishes the humanity of its clients—and not only on the basis of their identity.

Masturbating during a video conference is not wrong if you are not seen doing so

The failure of the Free Software community to account for Richard Stallman’s behavior has a chilling effect. The norms set by our leadership influence the norms of our broader community, and many members of the Free Software community look to Stallman as a ideological and political leader. The norms Stallman endorses are harmful and deeply confronting and alienating to many people, in particular women and children. Should these norms be adopted by our movement, we risk creating a community which enables the exploitation of vulnerable people.

Sometimes you fuck up and lose your only copy of a GitHub secret that you can't replace easily, such as a Cachix signing key. However you lucked out and that key is actually saved in GitHub Actions secrets...which won't let you read the contents of that secret for understandable security reasons. Here's how you work around that.

It might be not obvious for most of you, but behind the scenes I'm neurodivegent, specifically #ActuallyAutistic2 3, so I'm mostly in limited availability, not only for my mental health.

The movement might be gaining steam now, but its roots date back to 1998, when Mark Bernstein introduced the idea of the “hypertext garden,” arguing for spaces on the internet that let a person wade into the unknown. “Gardens … lie between farmland and wilderness,” he wrote. “The garden is farmland that delights the senses, designed for delight rather than commodity.” (His digital garden includes a recent review of a Bay Area carbonara dish and reflections on his favorite essays.) The new wave of digital gardens discuss books and movies, with introspective journal entries; others offer thoughts on philosophy and politics. Some are works of art in themselves, visual masterpieces that invite the viewer to explore; others are simpler and more utilitarian, using Google Docs or Wordpress templates to share intensely personal lists. Avid readers in particular have embraced the concept, sharing creative, beautiful digital bookshelves that illustrate their reading journey. Nerding hard on digital gardens, personal wikis, and experimental knowledge systems with @_jonesian today.

To [[contribute]] to the Agora, first you need to publish your [[digital garden]] or [[content]] elsewhere online. The Agora doesn't host your data, but rather pulls it from a location you control and renders it for you and other users; it interlinks it with that of other users.