Jess👾

https://infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnstill

Queer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Cybersecurity
Nerd
Neurodiverse
I am a woman, but I'm CERTAINLY not a lady.
I don't actually have zero followers, they're just intentionally hidden.

Pronouns: she/her
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2025-04-17 16:38:18

It can't be overstated enough about how American Presidential elections basically amount to under a million people just voting based on vibes. Which is precisely why you can be the smartest candidate with the most well thought out plans which will directly help out individuals. But if you can't project "good vibes" to those million people, you'll lose every time.
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2024-10-04 00:39:03

I'm always very baffled when Christians think that quoting Bible verses at people who don't believe in the Bible is a convincing argument. I don't actually care what your 2000 year old fan fic of the Torah says, which is itself > 2000 year old oral traditions and mythology.

2024-06-16 17:15:45

Not gonna lie, my opinion of someone drops about 2 points if they have MBA in their email signature.

2024-06-15 14:40:29

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I doubt it's a "this or that" situation. Even if you try to cut down on AirBnB or investor owned vacant homes via regulation, there's still just not going to be enough housing supply in the areas where people want to live.
Besides, trying to remove investors solely through regulation turns into a real whack-a-mole situation where you spend a year getting a regulation passed to stop them at one trick, they make 3 more. However, growing the housing supply reduces housing demand, and thus housing prices. Many investors will automatically flee the market because they're losing money.
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2024-06-14 13:02:58

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Absolutely, fascism is growing. Climate change is getting worse. Anti-trans rhetoric is growing.
But also, anti-fascism was something that pretty much only existed in the punk scene in the 90s and 00s.
There was very little leftism.
There were far fewer ways for private individuals to meet up with strangers over common interests and organize resistance.
We still had CFCs destroying the ozone.
Lead pipes were way more common.
There was only very limited international collaboration and treaties on ecological matters.
It was still considered normal for sexual harassment to happen in schools and workplaces, and the widespread opinion was that it was the woman's fault when it happened.
There was no gay marriages anywhere. In fact, being called gay was one of the worst pejoratives one could be called in much of the world.
Trans people were either invisible or a joke. It was commonly accepted that the only "right way" to transition was to be an adult, extremely stereotypically binary and gender conforming, and after transition, move to a new city, cut all ties, and try to hide that you were ever trans. I couldn't even imagine that 13 states would have explicit laws protecting trans people even 8 years ago.
The internet itself was some that was really only accessible to middle class and wealthy people in rich nations outside of libraries and internet cafes.
I could go on and on and on with all the problems the world had in "the good old days". Sure, today's world has problems. They're super scary and bad. But there were also lots and lots of scary and bad problems "back in the day". Many many more minorities had no voice or visibility at all. We just didn't have to know about it or worry about it as much because we were kids, and our only source of news was whatever we happened to overhear on the mainstream nightly news or from adults complaining.
So stop glorifying the past. Accept that the past kinda sucked, just in different ways to the present. We can only fight the battles in front of us today, and accept that even if we "win", tomorrow will have other and different problems. That's just life.

2024-06-14 05:31:18

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I saw enough pearl clutching moral panics from boomers and genx for my lifetime. Why the fuck are there so many of my peers doing this "damn kids these days" bullshit.

2024-06-14 05:29:59

It's so depressing to see my fellow millennials slide right into "back in my day, things were better!" bullshit.

2024-06-12 21:13:54

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"I would do anything for my child"
"My child asked me to call him Amanda and to buy him some dresses.
"So I yelled at him, confiscated his phone, banned him from the internet and his friends, and got the school board to ban books that mention that queer people exist."

2024-05-20 17:02:34

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Whenever I'm dealing with some Christian who is super into "every word of the Bible is the absolute truth and divine word of God!", first I point them to all of the various translations of various verses, some of which result in different translations directly contradicting one another. Then, I teach them about the Council of Rome, where the Emperor of Rome locked all the bishops in a room and told them they had to all agree on a canon based on the hundreds of different "holy scriptures" and letters and bits of the Torah whatnot written over thousands of years. And this was over 200 years past the time of Jesus.
It'd be like if there wasn't an actual signed US constitution, having an President 250 years later lock a bunch of people into a room and force them to agree on what the constitution should be based on any letters written by any of the "Founding Fathers", books written by enlightenment philosophers, etc. And somehow, coincidentally, the letters and documents they all compile seem to support the idea that Presidents are good.

2024-05-20 16:51:41

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The same can be said of most myths and religions - until/unless they have an Orthodox movement that declares a canon and brands anyone else as heretics.

2024-05-20 00:21:32

Finally playing through it for the first time, and the most unbelievable part about The Institute is that a bunch of ~~MIT~~ CIT scientists and engineers would actually design a big, bright, airy, and "pretty" complex. Put a whole shitload of techy people in charge of that sort of thing and you're going to get the most confusing rats nest tunnel of warrens of weird mad science labs stretching for miles.

2024-05-11 01:35:00

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Yeah, just your brain being bullshit. You look like a hot woman, because you are a hot woman.

2024-05-07 05:53:40

It's utter ridiculous nonsense that companies can just shove dozens of pages of legalese at their customers that would take an experienced contract lawyer a few hours to read and understand, and courts are willing to hold that kind of shit as a binding contract.

2024-05-05 19:31:01

Periodic reminder Transfem sisters:
There are multiple multi billion dollar industries that prey on amplifying women's insecurities about not being "woman enough". It's a very real thing ALL women deal with. You're not alone - in fact being insecure about being "woman enough" is like one of the most gender conforming emotions you can have with your cis sisters.

2024-04-19 16:51:47

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"Well, you see, Guardian Reporter, when I was 12 years old, I put on the Gender Sorting Cap, it took a look at my mind, and shouted out "Girl!" But a bunch of hateful adults refused to believe the Gender Sorting Cap, and instead shoved me in the boys dorm. Eventually I learned how to make gender polyjuice potion, and now I just take that every day so I can be who the Gender Sorting Cap told everyone I was years ago. How do I make the Gender Polyjuice Potion you ask? Oh come on dummy, you know that. It's just sugar, spice, and everything nice, simmer for 30 minutes, put it in a syringe and inject it in your thigh."
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2024-04-08 18:42:24

Because I was curious and felt like doing some math, the speed that totality of the eclipse travels is roughly 2300 mph, so almost 4 times the speed of a commercial jet. Faster even than the recorded top speed of an in-atmosphere plane, the SR-71. So even if you wanted to charter a jet to follow totality so you could have more time, you wouldn't be able to keep up.

2024-04-07 03:41:07

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Somehow from out of their pocket, they pull 200 blackberries and just start chowing down.

2024-04-07 00:38:37

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And if said random new person in town was gifting me 2 diamonds every week, I'd be getting a restraining order because WTF, that's like some stalker shit.

2024-04-07 00:27:30

Every time I replay Stardew Valley or any game with a relationship/dating mechanic, I think about just how creeped out I'd be if the new person in town suddenly started trying to talk to me every day and hand me 2 of my favorite things as gifts every week. Like, sure one or two gifts outside of my birthday or Christmas or something, fine, but pretty soon I'm gonna be like ... Thanks, but umm ... No thanks...

2024-04-06 18:02:12

Every internet of shit, phone, tablet, and other sorts of device manufacturers should be required to push/post a root unlock firmware for their devices before they can stop supporting them. There's too goddamn much ewaste from everything already. If they're going to abandon their devices, at least make it easy for people to unlock them and do whatever else they want with them.

2024-03-27 03:37:01

It's still always confusing as hell to me when I've casually known someone for a long time, not bothered to be particularly on point with my voice, or presentation, or anything else with them, I just assume they knew I was trans, and I mention something about being trans and they're surprised by that fact. Like ... Are cis people just really that oblivious?

2024-03-27 03:30:40

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I might rephrase it from:
"Infrastructure is supposed to be boring."
To
"Infrastructure should be useful and usable even to people who find it boring."
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2024-03-25 17:52:42

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"Our small town has BOTH types of culture: conservative Catholic AND conservative Evangelical.

2024-03-25 17:49:52

Sometimes I wish that there were rural small towns that were also progressive and queer affirming. I hate that your options are: high cost of living metropoplex or MAGAville.

2024-03-21 00:22:02

I really wish there was some objective and quantitative measure for how well my mental health meds are doing. I'm a very unreliable narrator of my own experience.