I get a lot of bra ads on commercial platforms. Like A LOT. But this is the first one that highlighted the fact that I can CLEAN HOUSE in this one. Thank goodness I will have good posture while I vacuum.
Copying over my #introduction post:
I've proud to have been part of the fediverse since before we had a cool word for it.
Ever evolving tag cloud because I keep being reminded of interests:
#Justice #Socialism #Sustainability
#Linguistics #Semantics #Taxonomy #OpenWeb #IA #UX #DigitalGovernance #Feminism #Journalism #Writing #Français #Marginalia #Incunabula #UrbandDesign #USExpat #Immigrant #Quebec #Programming #Costumes #History #Queer #Goth #Theatre #InfoSci #SciFi #Sighing
Elaine Brown, 2026
Oil on Canvas Board 8 x 10”
Elaine Brown is a US prison activist, writer, singer. She was the 1st & only chairwoman of the Black Panther Party, but left the party as a #feminist who could not tolerate the sexism there. She started the Free Breakfasts for Children program that became a model for the nation.
She continues to do the work.
Her website:
https://sisterelainebrown.com/
#art #artwork #portrait #civilrights #activism #powerToThePeople
#feminism #leadership #BlackWomen
Elaine Brown, 2026
Oil on Canvas Board 8 x 10”
Elaine Brown is a US prison activist, writer, singer. She was the 1st & only chairwoman of the Black Panther Party, but left the party as a #feminist who could not tolerate the sexism there. She started the Free Breakfasts for Children program that became a model for the nation.
She continues to do the work.
Her website:
https://sisterelainebrown.com/
#art #artwork #portrait #civilrights #activism #powerToThePeople
#feminism #leadership #BlackWomen
I get a lot of bra ads on commercial platforms. Like A LOT. But this is the first one that highlighted the fact that I can CLEAN HOUSE in this one. Thank goodness I will have good posture while I vacuum.
If you aren’t watching Lisa’s (yv_edit) play by play annotated Mad Men breakdown & her thesis about it…as a very feminist show exposing the patriarchy, you are missing out. She gets into every detail.
I never watched the show bc it was very upsetting, #metoo but watching it through her eyes is amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFWaez_YOmAegKGJ4gQB_J3mnelFJAyPD
She has another playlist that talks more about the show characters, rather than the play by play.
I recommend all her content.
(Even though I've been here for 2 years. Intros make me that anxious. 😅)
Curious. Introvert. I always try to be compassionate. I live in a small town in the state of Rio; grew up in one here too.
Now, in no particular order, I'm gonna drop lots of hashtags somehow related to me, 'cause it feels less intimidating: #queer #bi #nb #transfem #autistic #ADHD #bipolar #SpeculativeFiction #animanga #pop #alt #electronica #goth #solarpunk #feminism #left #LearningFrench #LearningSpanish
If you aren’t watching Lisa’s (yv_edit) play by play annotated Mad Men breakdown & her thesis about it…as a very feminist show exposing the patriarchy, you are missing out. She gets into every detail.
I never watched the show bc it was very upsetting, #metoo but watching it through her eyes is amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFWaez_YOmAegKGJ4gQB_J3mnelFJAyPD
She has another playlist that talks more about the show characters, rather than the play by play.
I recommend all her content.
They say 80-90% of men are seeking to harm women.
My own stats with every man I’ve encountered…that sounds right. For my experience closer to 90%.
The other 10% are silent and do nothing to compensate the women around them suffering from it. They try to fit in to patriarchy unnoticed. They don’t play the way the abusers play…but they still play & profit from it.
So, for me it really is all men.
On va te dire le résultat tout de suite manu, le problème c'est pas les jeux vidéo mais belle et bien l'éducation genrée qui broie les garçons et les pousse dans la violence
#jeuxvideo #feminisme #feminism
Edited 2025 to update gender and a few other things.
I'm a software engineer with a degree in Anthropology. I highly recommend the combo.
Most recently I was tech lead for Scaled Human Review at Meta. I worked in the Integrity Foundation (what other companies call "Trust and Safety") on Better Engineering initiatives and #Metaverse integration, with the teams that build human review software for the 30-40K external reviewers. I'd sworn I’d never work at Facebook, but I decided to see if I could make a difference. I couldn’t. And it wasn't a good fit for either of us. But I learned a lot about how the sausages are made and why they have such a hard time with #contentmoderation.
I've been on #socialmedia for four decades (seriously, I saw someone catfished in chat in 1978—this stuff isn't new), and virtually everyone I know I met online somewhere—many I've still never met in person. Needless to say, that's made me pretty passionate about making online communities safe for everyone, and especially marginalized groups.
I'm now a freelance #consultant and semi-retired, working on my own projects (I'll write more on that later), and with my wife's #consulting company (see below). I'm planning to do a lot more writing about #society and #technology (as well some #SFF), and to travel more.
I tend to write long posts (like this one). They may get shorter once my blog is back up. I don't stick to one topic, but I'll try to tag them so you can filter. I post about tech stuff (recent, as well as old geeky #Unix stuff), #social issues, #LGBTQ issues (especially the T), pretty #photos, and random personal anecdotes. When I boost, it's because I think it's something that might be interesting to someone, or some group, that follows me. Those tend to include all the above topics, plus SF&F-related things, and cool science stuff.
I'm #pan, #poly, and #trans. I prefer "they" or "she" for pronouns, but "he" is fine. I spent most of my life thinking I really was a straight cis man who just happened to be a bit quirky and a passionate and tearful ally, so I'm not too picky about how you refer to me. I'm also more than happy to answer any questions about all that, public or private.
I grew up mostly in #Maine and then lived in Massachusetts for a long time, but I now live on sovereign #Swinomish land in #WashingtonState (US), on the edge of the San Juan islands. Despite my first name (that's a story) and current location, I'm not Native American, although I focus a lot on Native American rights. My parents were both active in that area, and that was my introduction to civil rights in general.
I've been a #software engineer at various levels (from programmer to CTO to company founder) for 40+ years. I learned BASIC in high school, taught myself Pascal, FORTRAN and PL/1 in college, learned C as an intern at Bell Labs (Murray Hill, one floor up from the Unix crew), and went on from there. In college, I majored in #Anthropology with a concentration in #Psychology, and that's influenced the way I look at software ever since. Software is designed for people. Software systems build communities (whether intended or not). Anyone who does that damn well better understand how people and #communities work.
I've worked for Bell Labs (psych stats), Sperry Research (window systems, UX design), Apollo/HP (programmable shell, windowing systems, Unix porting, UX design), Bright Ideas (cookbook, educational games), OSF (windowing standards), Alfalfa (multimedia email - SMTP *and* X.400 :)), Wildfire (phone-based voice assistant), Utopia/USWeb (web and security consulting), Saroca (small boats), Messagefire (anti- #spam software), MessageGate (corporate compliance software), Somewhere (software consulting), ZeeVee (web video aggregation, metadata scraping), TiVo (video content correlation, #metadata pipelines), and Meta. Plus a few others.
I've been with my wife, Dr. Mollie Pepper, for over a decade. She's a #sociologist with a focus on #refugee migration, #gender, and violence; the kind of work that gives you PTSD. She did her dissertation on women's roles in the (now extremely defunct) peace process in #Myanmar (aka #Burma). A few years ago she was at a military base frantically processing thousands of Afghan refugees and managing translators (whom Trump is now deporting). She has a consulting company that specializes in evaluating and designing social service projects. You can find her at https://carlsonpepper.com/. Everything I know about #feminism, #intersectionality, #queer theory, #CRT, and #racism I either learned from her, or she gave me the theoretical underpinnings to understand them properly.
I have two grown daughters from my first marriage with Nassim Fotouhi; a kick-ass software engineer/engineering manager who came to the States just before the Iranian revolution.
Shadi Fotouhi is an artist (see my profile background photo, go look up the drug codes and compare them to the mermaids' behavior) turned software engineer; building dynamic room installations will do that to you. She worked in QA at a gaming company, and then at Jibo; a robotics startup. Now she's a senior software engineer at Wayfair--Kubernetes, release configuration, and all that fun stuff.
Shireen Hinckley is a documentarian, digital image technician, video editor, and co-founder of Somewhere Films (https://www.somewherefilms.com/shireen-hinckley); a womxn's filmmaking collective. She works for #Beyoncé at Parkwood Entertainment, where she's an editor and post-production supervisor for all of their video releases. She worked on "Black is King" and just about every video since then, whether it's for Instagram, Times Square, Tiffany's, the Oscars, or Chloe x Halle.
I'm incredibly honored to have those wonderful women in my life. I wouldn't be who I am without them.
A couple other things that may come up, especially in my photos. My mother is an artist who lives in Maine in a round house she designed, and the family built, when I was in high school. And I'm part owner of a #lighthouse on Cape Cod.
--kee
This is a long shot but does anybody know anybody who worked on the Calgary feminist radio show "Yeah, what she said?" that used to air on 90.9FM CJSW?
I was interviewed on it for Escher Girls in 2014 (though the episode wasn't posted online as a podcast until 2015) but the site no longer exists except on the internet Archive and the mp3s weren't backed up afaict.
http://static.cjsw.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/Sept1_2014_EscherGirls.mp3
Does anybody know anybody who used to run the show that might have the episode backed up? Or if any of my fans actually backed it up when it was live. (I might have, I have to check but I don't think I did ): )
Feel free to boost on other platforms.
This is a long shot but does anybody know anybody who worked on the Calgary feminist radio show "Yeah, what she said?" that used to air on 90.9FM CJSW?
I was interviewed on it for Escher Girls in 2014 (though the episode wasn't posted online as a podcast until 2015) but the site no longer exists except on the internet Archive and the mp3s weren't backed up afaict.
http://static.cjsw.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/Sept1_2014_EscherGirls.mp3
Does anybody know anybody who used to run the show that might have the episode backed up? Or if any of my fans actually backed it up when it was live. (I might have, I have to check but I don't think I did ): )
Feel free to boost on other platforms.
On va te dire le résultat tout de suite manu, le problème c'est pas les jeux vidéo mais belle et bien l'éducation genrée qui broie les garçons et les pousse dans la violence
#jeuxvideo #feminisme #feminism
D-Bag Chopra & “The Divine Feminine “
https://youtube.com/shorts/beWJGBWXi3U
#epstein #misogyny #patriarchy #feminism #women #deepakChopra
