Annika Backstrom @annika@xoxo.zone

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"High child and youth poverty rates perpetuate the intergenerational transmission of poverty very effectively, and ensure that the American dream is rapidly becoming the American illusion. The equality of opportunity, which is so prized in theory, is in practice a myth, especially for minorities and women, but also for many middle-class White workers."

The most amazing thing about this report is that it asserts as plain fact many things that white society, the right, and the Trump administration flat out deny or downplay.

From the report: "the policies pursued over the past year seem deliberately designed to remove basic protections from the poorest, punish those who are not in employment and make even basic health care into a privilege to be earned rather than a right of citizenship."

“At the end of the day, however, particularly in a rich country like the United States, the persistence of extreme poverty is a political choice made by those in power,” the report reads. “With political will, it could readily be eliminated.” http://thehill.com/policy/international/un-treaties/393659-nikki-haley-ridiculous-for-un-to-analyze-poverty-in-america

Jiffy Lube is short for Jiffory Lubrication

Uh... I guess nobody else wants to watch The Incredibles 2 tonight.

exploding fractals of recursive data structures

I love to talk in idioms but I'm trying to cut back. I just wrote and deleted "throw the baby out with the bathwater because Get Off My Lawn"

Yeah, there were weird language features and some questionable defaults and there could have been a better sandbox, but I'd wager for many people it was a jumping-off point to a very successful career in software development.

I just hate to see us throw away the good along with the bad, just because we're feeling curmudgeonly.

There was a time when I saw lots of hate directed at PHP, not because of any particular language feature (plenty of which you could criticize) but because of who the language attracted.

PHP was so ubiquitous, so easy for literally anyone to dabble in, all those newbie mistakes were ascribed to the language itself. Maybe the language could have preempted some of that, at the cost of accessibility.

It felt like PHP's greatest flaw was how easy it was to use.

you probably think this toot is about you

I have a growing urge to implement ActivityPub. Maybe in #GoLang?

I enjoyed reaching equilibrium with my #transition. At a certain point both my therapist and endocrinologist told me I was fine and I didn't need to see them any more.

There was a period of intense activity and focus but now it's just a comfortable part of my identity that's mostly taken care of.