ideal_stingray

5 ms·

1.
by ideal_stingray 5y ago
No, mostly because I’m fairly conflict-averse :) If my coworkers misgender me and aren’t amenable to correction, or otherwise overtly discriminate against me, I’m much more likely to quit and go elsewhere than to fight it.
2.
by ideal_stingray 5y ago
I think you’re right that this is one of the biggest downsides. It’s possible to feel people out by how they react if I point out discrimination in the product, and if that goes badly I might consider leaving the company before discriminat
3.
by ideal_stingray 5y ago
I think it’s hard to tell; people like me tend to not be heard a lot in these kinds of conversations. But I feel like there are enough of us that it’s better to exercise caution and specifically carve out opt-in spaces for political discus
4.
by ideal_stingray 5y ago
When I can, I try to point out “hey, we need to caption this” or “hey, I’m not sure this is accessible to visually impaired users” or “uh, these gender options suck”. Probably wouldn’t bring up my personal identity unless it was somehow re
5.
by ideal_stingray 5y ago
I’m trans and disabled, and I’d rather work with someone who thinks people like me shouldn’t exist but keeps their mouth shut about it at work than someone who thinks work is a great place to debate hot-button trans issues. Of course, othe
6.
by ideal_stingray 6y ago
I’m hard of hearing and need automatic meeting captions. At a company that uses Google Meet, these are free. If the company is on Zoom and needed to subscribe to a third-party transcription service, let’s say that’s maybe $25/month,
7.
by ideal_stingray 6y ago
You need to believe that computers are understandable. There’s no magic involved. Eventually, every abstraction leaks — so if you have fear or learned helplessness blocking you from trying to understand the leaky abstraction layer, the on
8.
by ideal_stingray 6y ago
Stars mostly look white to me (or very light yellow or blue) and I‘m fairly confident I have standard color vision — but I’m nearsighted and have mild strabismus, so they look pretty bad unless I’m using a telescope. :(
9.
by ideal_stingray 6y ago
“Do people like me get to exist in public life” is often a hot topic of political discussion, but it’s not a discussion I’m interested in having or even hearing about at work. Not sure I’d consider this “privilege”.
10.
by ideal_stingray 6y ago
As a member of several different marginalized groups, I want to be able to go to work and do my job without having to hear my coworkers argue about whether I get to exist. I’m well aware that politics doesn’t ignore me, but for my own sani
11.
by ideal_stingray 6y ago
I don’t have chat bubble “blindness” — I have configured my ad blocker to hide them, as well as any other clutter I find distracting. I wouldn’t be surprised if other users, rather than being blind to it, never even know the damn thing is
12.
by ideal_stingray 6y ago
Learn to sew. And to repair and maintain your things more generally, but sewing seems much more overlooked than e.g. car maintenance in this thread, even though more people wear clothes than own cars. You can fix minor rips in your clothe
13.
by ideal_stingray 6y ago
As is, this seems utterly useless for rinsing hair (particularly long hair), and it’s difficult to see how it can achieve broad adoption with this flaw. If there was a pushbutton that would turn on a “high flow” nozzle for 30 seconds at a
14.
by ideal_stingray 6y ago
How can I express a preference to have my managers discuss my mistakes over email, instead of by “gently pulling me aside” and talking in person? I am more comfortable expressing myself in non-real-time text format, especially with topics
15.
by ideal_stingray 7y ago
Cosigned! Personally I’m a big fan of weightlifting, particularly in the evenings when I’m too tired to do anything but my heart is racing because of stress. It tends to tire me out pretty fast and the repetitive motion feels meditative.
16.
by ideal_stingray 7y ago
As a kid I was fascinated by the garbage truck lifting arm, as well as any other cool mechanism I saw. I’m a robotics engineer now.
17.
by ideal_stingray 7y ago
In the first example, isn’t it kind of a problem to have a bunch of different functions for calculating pay? Seems like it would be easy for the accounting department to end up with a different version than the HR department that actually
18.
by ideal_stingray 8y ago
I find animations generally overused, but the point in this article that really irks me is the one about animating call-to-action buttons. I know the button is there, it’s the biggest button on the page, but I want to read the content on th