Kee Hinckley
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Kee Hinckley's Bio

Passionate about making social media a safe place for everyone.


SWE with a BA in Anthropology.
Four decades on social media.
From Bell Labs intern to Meta TL in Scaled Human Review (it doesn’t). Currently consulting.
Previously nazgul, mooshjan, and coyotetoo (a long time ago) on Twitter. they/he

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Banner Art: ©️ Shadi Fotouhi. Four self-portraits of my daughter depicting various medications and the emotions they are meant to treat.


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Loading my main Meetup page on my mother's 3Mbps Internet connection.

Gee this is slow.
Bring up developer console.

128 domains
2483 resources
47MB
531 redirects.
I wasn't tracking the time, but it was at least 5 minutes.

For one page.

Of course it's a dynamic page, so it did another 5MB while I was typing.


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@nikkiana It's even worse in other countries.
I was in Mexico for 3 months last year and Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are the only way you can find or talk to a business. And since they subsidize them with the phone companies, even someone with a 0 minutes, 0 data, plan can use them.


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For those who haven't followed, Los Angeles has five active fires in the city, and has winds gusting to 100mph. Lots of houses and businesses gone. I know folks who have evacuated. (G+/Twitter folks may remember Bruce Shark).

My daughter's place is just outside the "prepare to evacuate" zone in Eagle Rock. But she's on a plane from Ireland to Boston, and her partner is on a plane from LA to Boston. Nicely, another passenger heard her asking a flight attendant how to get wifi so she could check on her house, and gave her a voucher for free wifi. And she has a friends at her house now picking up a few irreplaceable items like art, books, just in case things change.

We've been through this once before when she was in junior high and we had a house fire. You learn what you really care about. And to do offsite backups regularly. (I got really lucky that time, I did backups just before we left for the weekend. They were onsite, but at the other end of the house, which got the least damage.)

Now I need to stop procrastinating and go buy BackBlaze for my Synology.


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We desperately need a really simple to use and sign up for service for running groups of people. Like a virtual version of Meetup. It should have group discovery, and private and public groups. Free for small groups. Moderator pays for large ones, and has a built in way for people to donate to the moderator for the fees and their time. Federated is a bonus, so moderators and users can take that option, but it needs a central host too. Oauth suport would help, since many people have Google or Apple accounts they could use. The key is extremely low effort signup and group creation.

Mind you. It still won't get most people off FB. But it's a start.

And don't say "just leave". If I leave FB right now I completely lose any ability to see what social events are happening around me. I lose all access to my local physical community, and two remote ones I need to track.

Zuckerberg says he’s moving Meta moderators to Texas because California seems too ‘biased’ - The Verge theverge.com/2025/1/7/24338305


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I finally have an iPhone with a working charge port, and USB C to boot. Apple, what took you so long?

  1. Packing was so much easier. Took a dual USB C charger and a couple cables. I did still need a wireless for my watch, but it also charges my AirPods.
  2. I can (I know, some Android phones have had this for ages) actually charge my other devices from my iPhone.
  3. I'm at my mother's and wanted to do a fitness workout, and I just took a USB C to HDMI dongle and put the workout on the TV from my phone. (Didn't show the countdown and rings info though.)


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Kit Bashir

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Some folk infer from the fact that Earth had single-celled organisms for three billion years before multicellular life finally arrived, that the leap from single- to multi-cell is the “Hard Step” that explains why we do not see a universe teeming with intelligent life.

Those people were about half correct. The hard step is having all the supervisor drones installed on a farm planet to keep the biosphere generating fossil fuels (and not, say, evolving any life that would consume those fuels) break down.

We worked this out after we dug up a broken supervisor. But not, alas, before we repaired it.


@Unixbigot Your proof-reader says it should be "Those people are..." unless you change " infer" to " inferred".

by ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘 ;

Tags: #tootfic #microfiction #poweronstorytoot

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Kerri

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200 years ago, a French teenager took six little dots and opened up the world of literacy for himself and generations to come. Merci Louis. Without the code that bears your name, I wouldn't have gotten through school or found success at work. I definitely wouldn't love to read as much as I do. is independence, dignity, resourcefulness, pride. is beautiful!! Happy


Tags: #blind #Braille #worldbrailleday

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Mother Bones

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“The left seems chaotic because the right reaches toward the past, and there’s only one past. But there are infinite possibilities for the future.”

-- Steven Barnes (Mr. Tananarive Due)


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See you later Seattle.
Hello Boston & Maine.


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@jalefkowit @Shanmonster Cis men are not okay.


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Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

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Shout out to Lina Khan's FTC and the amazing work they have been doing, summarized in this post. This what a functioning regulatory body looks like & what we should continue to hold as expectations even in the face of pressure to normalize anything less.

ftc.gov/policy/advocacy-resear


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@CptSuperlative JFC.
I hope you can find a backup somewhere else.


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@Teryl_Pacieco Not sure whether to be delighted or terrified.


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@FoxesInLove Have definitely been there. Fitted sheet and foam mattress are not a usable combo.


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@CptSuperlative For adhd I got provigil from a grey market adhd med distributor in India. That's my backup. It's somewhat less controlled in most countries than Adderal and friends. And it's used for adhd off label.

However for a more legit solution I highly recommend canadapharmacyonline.com/

They are licensed in Canada. They require a prescription. They want a list of all your meds so they can check for any issues. Once you've gone through that you can pick what country and manufacturer from their list, and they'll have it shipped from there.

We used them for Trintellix, which won't have a generic for another year or two. We had choices of buying it from Canada, Australia, England, Turkey, and India. The one in India was cheapest, but a different manufacturer (however, it is the one who has applied to sell a generic on the US). We opted for the next most cheap, from Turkey. So instead of paying $400-500/month (with insurance), we are paying $66/month (without). And we get 3 months worth each time.

Our meds provider and primary care doctor both fully supported this decision and wrote the prescription for us to scan and send.


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@crlcan81 Had to look that up. I actually took it for a while as Strattera, but it didn't do anything for me.

It's not a stimulant, so it shouldn't have the same restrictions. It's certainly not a controlled substance like Adderal, but other than that, I don't know.


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Pup Denali

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There was the woman who told me this was the safest she'd felt at a bar in years. The trans man going out for the first time post-op. The straight white dude who thought he'd never be caught in a gay bar. The polycule who could finally display affection comfortably in a public space. The people who were always curious about pup play, rope, wax, etc but never knew how to start. The dom who told me I'd never get a room full of kinksters in our city beaming in excitement the whole night. (2/3)


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Lauren

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Over a decade ago when I worked at the Mead Gallery they exhibited a number of Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky’s images from his survey of the Russian Empire around 1910. They’re some of the most beautiful and fascinating images I’ve seen with their ethereal jewel like tones as well as complex history as tools of an empire.

publicdomainreview.org/essay/i


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I get so pissed when I see articles arguing that price transparency is somehow going to solve US healthcare issues.

It's not that it's a bad idea to make it clear what a procedure is going to cost—especially for people who don't have insurance—but otherwise it's pretty useless.

The theory is that by making prices visible, you increase competition. But that only works if the consumer has a choice of providers.

  1. If I have an urgent healthcare issue, I don't have time to shop around.
  2. If I have insurance, I don't actually have a lot of choices as to providers. I'm stuck with who my insurance company said I could use. This is especially true for anyone who doesn't live in an urban area.
  3. Knowing the retail price tells me nothing about what I'll pay after my insurance company negotiates a price. Never mind after my copays, out of pocket limits, and previous expenditures are taken into account.

Some services simply make no sense in a profit-making environment. And health care is a prime example. Pretending otherwise is just a way to avoid addressing the underlying issue.

thehill.com/opinion/healthcare


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Serious question.
When the FDA or whomever was changing the rules wrt ADHD meds to prevent abuse, did nobody point out that the strict "28 days supply, can't renew until 3 days before the end" makes going on vacation (or a business trip) with your meds impossible?

I keep a stash of an alternative medication purchased from India specifically so I can go on vacations. Which makes international travel a bit dicey, since I don't have a prescription for it. So thank you US healthcare for forcing me to buy drugs illegally so I can function.

And we won't mention that the stuff from India is fulfilled faster and far cheaper than my prescribed medication.


@nazgul Can I ask if that's true of ANY ADD/ADHD med because that makes sense why it's such a pain to refill atomoxitine even though I'm 'off label' since I'm autistic.

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