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I actually think that not misgendering people is very important - I would no more want to use the wrong pronouns than the wrong name (which is ironic since I'm extremely bad at remembering names...). And I think that SE considering this is a good thing. But the way the CoC, and especially the FAQ, are written, is not good, and the way they have treated Monica is abysmal - even if she had violated the CoC (which I've seen no evidence of), this would still have been the wrong way to go about it.

(The other issue is between AO3 and a subset of SF/F fandom who are being very concerned that fanfic writers joke about having won a Hugo)

Yes. I'm very fed up with the situation. Speaking as a SJP (like an SJW, but Paladin) and as being in a relationship with a trans person, I am very in favour of not misgendering people, and if that were what the new CoC requires I would be applauding it. But it's not, and kicking out a respected moderator and shaming her with the media under her actual name, and resolutely ignoring all the long-term members who've made the SE sites into what they are... it's way beyond what I can support.

well, two of my main online communities are having big kerfuffles adversely affecting people I care about, so... Monday it is

Spent the whole day in server hall upgrading a PKI system. My head is full of noise.

All this is very near to Arlanda, the main airport for the Stockholm area. The authorities don't allow building houses near the airport because that inevitably ends with noise complaints. So the farms and the woods nearby are likely to stay the way they are, giving us a lot of lovely routes to go riding!

When we got out of the woods we were just a few hundred metres from the stable.

This is very good training for the horses, the climbing is good exercise for the muscles and the tricky ground means they need to be careful about where they place their hooves, which trains their balance. And mine - it's hard to sit well balanced on a horse that's moving around sideways and downhill!

The stable is attached to a farm, and there's forest nearby, so we can ride on the small gravel roads, or along the fields (there are paths where we are allowed to ride that won't harm the crops), or in the forest, or a mix. Today I went out with two friends. We started out on the road, then turned into the woods, then climbed a hill that's maybe 20m high and with a lot of undergrowth so the footing is a bit tricky.

I'm going to spend tonight sleeping - too old for Friday night partying... tomorrow mostly at home, and Sunday going horse riding. I'm planning on hacking (=riding out in nature instead of in a paddock) for at least an hour.

@yagmoth555 so no rest for you this weekend?

is the answer

I've had 5 weeks so I shouldn't complain. Though I did work a bit, but I could set my own pace and do most of it sitting in a chair on my porch so it wasn't exactly painful.

Tomorrow's the last day of my vacation. I think I want to be retired.

@peterh I lack about 30 reopen votes to get all 6. (And yes, I do occasionally vote for reopening!)

@peterh Yes I am, near Stockholm.

Didn't even go horse riding yesterday - would have been no fun for me or the horse

It's heading up towards 30°C here today again

Indeed. I'm doing a little work for a client, sitting in the shade on my porch.

And once helped him figure out the German text on the Austrian DNS registrar site so he could keep the domain "dotat.at".

@Hennes I confess to not getting that reference... I "met" Tony in Usenet some 25 years ago

But I don't want to go travelling every year. It gets tiring.

Usually me and my husband travel somewhere for a couple of weeks during the summer - last year we drove from Sweden to Scotland, the year before that we flew to Italy.

This year it's just relax, get some things fixed around the house. I've been having some health issues during the spring, and will have surgery to hopefully fix them for good sometime in late September/early October, so I want to just enjoy the peace and quiet at home now, take the time to go riding my horse a lot, to charge my batteries before the surgery.

I've just started my 3rd week of vacation. Two more after this one still to go.

@Hennes Do you know ftony or just follow him on Twitter?

I'm really happy with this one. I hope it'll keep as long as the last - 5 years until it starts feeling too sluggish is a good run for a laptop.

Including opening Firefox and getting all my tabs back

Also, the Migration thing is great - I just told the new computer to copy everything from the old one. It took a couple of hours due to using wifi instead of cable, but once it was done, everything just works

Todcay I finally got my new laptop! I em very much enjoying having several VMs chugging away in the background while working in several browser windows, and it does not keep freezing!

the question in question is workplace.stackexchange.com/q/140119/9164

@JourneymanGeek yeah, but if you then get asked "so you have no work experience" and you say "that's right, I've never worked", and they later find out that you did work for a couple of months, they're going to start wondering why you lied. Lying about stuff is a good way to get fired.

@Hennes I really don't get why I got that many upvotes on an answer that seems so obvious and selfevident

I just got told that my computer won't be ready until mid next week. I might be able to get a rebate though as they just released new models after I'd ordered but before it got delivered

It should be ready for pickup this week.

I'm waiting for my new Macbook Pro, which will be the most expensive laptop I've ever bought, even accounting for inflation and suchlike.

wobbles tiredly

the second image one shows people in traditional dresses, basically only used in midsummer celebrations now

@yagmoth555 in Sweden we do those kinds of fires on April 30th. On midsummer we raise phallic symbols and dance around them, a bit like that scene in the original Wickerman.

hey, I get to play with my pet peeves and you don't have to join in :-)

@JourneymanGeek I'm trying to not use "google" as a generic term, I don't want them to be the default...

@YetAnotherRandomUser this is why I use duckduckgo instead...

@yagmoth555 grats in advance!

@window.document I'm doing some as well. Not many left now.

A gentleman's agreement only works if both parties behave like "gentlemen". Which your partner doesn't. This means it's time for the two of you to get down to brass tacks and put things into writing, before you stop being friendly.