Enno @enno@mastodon.technology

My parents gave me an awesome and unique name, but not everyone is that lucky. Legal name changes are hard, especially for kids, and maybe we should allow them to try out their new identity first?
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RT @PaulCliffcouk
I have a student who is refusing to acknowledge and be acknowledged by her legal name. She is insisting that everyone use a name she's just made up. I believe words matters, so I'm refusing to indulge - I imagine it'll…
https://twitter.com/PaulCliffcouk/status/1525444523702222850

When software project managers ask me to put estimates on my tasks.

I'm 2nd screen and bad shave.
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RT @EthicsInBricks
Which ZOOM character are you?
https://twitter.com/EthicsInBricks/status/1523260845555339265

TFW you listen to an old podcast episode where @jamesthomson mentions the death of a friend, and you go "I know who this is, and I miss him, too!"

If I were to Twitter-shame every store with bad or no cycle parking around here, I'd be extremely busy.
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RT @CyclingInASkirt
The only #cycle parking at this @LidlGB #Sheffield.

Pathetic.
https://twitter.com/CyclingInASkirt/status/1521790821414100993

Doctorow on chickens, centaurs, and app-capitalism.
https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/02/reverse-centaurs/#ill-form-the-head

The latest News from Gilead

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473

Finally found out why Ctrl+F1 and Ctrl+F3 had stopped working in all my Windows IDEs. The @ParsecTeam app was registering those for global hotkeys. Those are not for you to steal!

Fun fact: The next page starts with a picture of the New York skyline that dates it even more.

Yesteryear's Science Fiction has already been overtaken by recent events.

Wordle 306 2/6

⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Here's a problem with sharing Wordle results: If you know my regular starting word, that gives you my first guess for free.

I see that NFT gaming is going great.
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RT @FoldableHuman
The Axie Infinity devs’ mentions are full of digital landlords pissed that their “scholars” (Filipino employees being paid in game scrip) are all quitting the game and no-showing their weekly quotas.
https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman/status/1513802014349701122

#Wordle 296 3/6

🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Biscuits and Cigarettes.
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RT @SoVeryBritish
Replace one word of a film title with “biscuits”
https://twitter.com/SoVeryBritish/status/1513071443894054918

At my bus stop, someone re-enacted Easter traffic with candy cars (bilar).

It is proven! I am ennorehling on Keybase: https://keybase.io/ennorehling/sigchain#a01a030547ca23ca61cf1b35437ac4f0dfb0d78646662fa71105da30dddeb4ff0f