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Just had someone leave feedback on my F/OSS project saying “maybe that's fine if a product is focused on your Chinese community.”

I'm Korean. Every single piece of documentation is in English. There's nothing in Chinese anywhere in the project.

This kind of microaggression is exhausting. As a non-white maintainer, you deal with these assumptions constantly—people who feel entitled to your labor while casually othering you based on your name.

It chips away at your motivation. It makes you wonder why you bother.

https://github.com/dahlia/optique/issues/59#issuecomment-3678606022

M3.3, 107 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska, 2025-12-22 16:08 AKST. Depth 29.6 km. Tsunami not expected. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ak2025zdovdt/executive #AlaskaQuake

Do you mean like round Earth and democracy? 🤔

Trump doesn't just "love the uneducated", he also hates the educated.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@stuarth2o/post/DSh1CMDlFPl

Are there enough scientists in Silicon Valley to privately fund this?

Seems also like it would be under the Gates’ foundation mission

Seems also that a founder of an EV company and a rocket company would want it around

To @catacalypto.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy and her many clever friends: should I play Pillars of the Earth with my Pentiment-loving 12yo over winter break, or will that traumatize her/me or be otherwise a terrible idea?

"While this latest round of Epstein files aren’t yet on the DOJ’s website, they had apparently guessed the link by following the URL formatting of previous releases. WIRED identified the email associated with the video by following that same formatting to view the preceding file." 👀

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pe3psgg2em7bx7zhqqtup5c7/post/3mamjoffxo22c

NEW: Judge Cannon blocks release of Special Counsel's report about Trump’s retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. “There is no legitimate reason for the report’s continued suppression. ... We will appeal this ruling," @scottbwilkens.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy. knightcolumbia.org/content/judg...

Judge Blocks Release of Specia...

Gee. Why would Judge Cannon want to block Jack Smith's report about Trump's classified documents retention? It's a real head scratcher...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qqavis3fg5675o3steyynvfh/post/3mamjjiscmk2k

Venezuela Blockade Intensifies; Health Care Fight Lingers | Balance of Power 12/22/2025
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-12-23/balance-of-power-late-edition-12-22-2025-video?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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