Nostr notes by jenny (phire)

I've looked at literally thousands of online event listings ...

2026-09-08T14:51:52Z

I've looked at literally thousands of online event listings over the past year and a half and now I have Opinions™ about how they should be structured, perhaps you would be interested in these if you run events or if you are also similarly frustrated by how events run or you enjoy a slightly exasperated blog post https://phirephoenix.com/blog/2026-09-08/event-wishlist

I say this with all the love in my heart for my weirdo leftist ...

2026-08-31T03:45:56Z

I say this with all the love in my heart for my weirdo leftist pals (of which I am one tbc) but please understand that I will simply never listen to a 3 hour podcast episode

Firefox on iOS feels increasingly unstable, is that just me? ...

2026-07-15T03:09:28Z

Firefox on iOS feels increasingly unstable, is that just me? Should I try Vivaldi?

I know it's super normal to email an academic and ask for a ...

2026-03-31T02:54:18Z

I know it's super normal to email an academic and ask for a pdf copy of their journal article, do the same norms apply to an insanely expensive academic press textbook that I just want to look up something in and am not using in a formal professional context?

what the—and I cannot stress this enough—absolute fuck: ...

2026-03-03T23:07:21Z

what the—and I cannot stress this enough—absolute fuck:

"...sensitive and personal footage captured by [Meta Smart Glasses]—including people going to the bathroom, getting dressed, and having sex—is being reviewed by contractors who see all of it uncensored."

https://gizmodo.com/dear-meta-smart-glasses-wearers-youre-being-watched-too-2000728928

My friend Eva has run an absolutely incredible mutual aid ...

2026-02-27T21:29:39Z

My friend Eva has run an absolutely incredible mutual aid operations out of MacArthur Park in LA for an uninterrupted six years, and she experienced a brutal and bizarre attack during food service that landed her in the hospital last week.

Eva is truly an incredible community leader whom I have personally learned probably everything I know about mutual aid from. Can you help us support her recovery and medical bills? https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-a-community-leaders-recovery

It’s a new year and things are still bad! If you want to join ...

2026-01-06T00:23:23Z

It’s a new year and things are still bad! If you want to join folks in #Toronto who are doing organizing, activism, and mutual aid work to make things less bad, I run a calendar/newsletter that tracks it all. Newsletter returns tomorrow, or use the iCal/RSS feeds, or the automatic reminder bot Show Up Toronto (npub148u…8d25)! Tell your friends and let’s get to work! https://showuptoronto.ca/

hey what are some pro-union / pro-labour novels? like not just ...

2025-12-04T02:57:46Z

hey what are some pro-union / pro-labour novels? like not just broadly leftist novels, but ones where collective labour action is a key part of the plot

I read a lot of newsletters and whatever about the tech industry ...

2025-11-25T17:57:01Z

I read a lot of newsletters and whatever about the tech industry and finance and labour and it consistently annoys me that the majority of people writing about this loudly are dudes. recommend me your favourite tech/finance/work blogs and newsletters written by not dudes please!! assume I know none of the obvious ones, I’d rather get redundant recs than miss a good one

For anyone who hasn’t heard, Doug Ford wants to end security of ...

2025-10-25T13:53:43Z

For anyone who hasn’t heard, Doug Ford wants to end security of tenure for Ontario renters and eliminate automatic month-to-month leases and make it so anyone can be evicted after one year at any time. This would obviously ruin many many people’s lives and massively increase homelessness and precarity. There’s a mass organizing call this Sunday to figure out how to fight it, please pass it onto everyone you know, renter or otherwise https://www.tenantunion.ca/allout #CdnPoli #topoli #onpoli

heads up, your site isn’t resolving for me! tried from a couple ...

2025-10-20T16:57:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…nusd
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heads up, your site isn’t resolving for me! tried from a couple different devices and networks

I wrote about AI art and why I philosophically refuse to use ...

2025-10-13T15:31:55Z

I wrote about AI art and why I philosophically refuse to use generative AI regardless of its potential utility, but it's actually about mortality and authoritarianism and book clubs and Bowling Alone. (I resisted an extended metaphor about curling, you're welcome / I'm sorry.)

https://phirephoenix.com/blog/2025-10-11/friction

when I say “stop fighting the culture war starting class war” ...

2025-09-19T15:14:56Z

when I say “stop fighting the culture war starting class war” what I mean is “stop blaming marginalized folks who aren’t doing jack shit to you for the crimes of oligarchs” but I’m realizing some people mean “marginalized folks wanting to have rights get in the way of my revolutionary delusion” and those people are—to use the technical term—dumb fucks

cosocial.ca, which has a coop membership model that theoretically ...

2025-08-25T22:34:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…arj7
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cosocial.ca, which has a coop membership model that theoretically funds moderation (I say theoretically only because I have not observed it first hand, mostly because I haven’t seen any issues in the first place)

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2025-08-22T03:09:48Z

I am finally back to RSS Zero after six weeks of pileup, plz clap

AI is the least punk technology there is I will not be accepting ...

2025-08-20T03:40:28Z

AI is the least punk technology there is I will not be accepting further questions

This was always hard to convey to the “I don’t care about ...

2025-07-18T13:01:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…txg9
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This was always hard to convey to the “I don’t care about privacy because I don’t have anything to hide” crowd. This was always going to be the end state!! When anyone in the police state can decide they don’t like your face and instantly pull up your entire history and find a pretext to ruin your life. It doesn’t matter how law-abiding you think you are, everyone makes mistakes and also laws change all the fucking time!!

“ICE [can] point their phone camera at a person and run their ...

2025-07-18T12:59:06Z

“ICE [can] point their phone camera at a person and run their face against a bank of 200 million images, pull up their name, DOB, nationality, unique IDs such as their “alien” number, and whether they should be deported…The app represents an unprecedented linking of govt DBs into a single tool, including from the State Dept, CBP, the FBI, and state records. It also includes the potential for ICE to later add commercially available DBs that contain even more personal data” https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-supercharged-facial-recognition-app-of-200-million-images/

I also had never heard this argument before (I’m sure this is ...

2025-07-15T18:04:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…58aq
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I also had never heard this argument before (I’m sure this is my own ignorance) but it’s SUCH a fascinating point: “Instead of relying on scattered deposits of fossil fuel—the control of which has largely defined geopolitics for more than a century—we are moving rapidly toward a reliance on diffuse but ubiquitous sources of supply. The sun and the wind are available everywhere…this energy is impossible to hoard and difficult to fight wars over.” https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/46-billion-years-on-the-sun-is-having-a-moment

This is an incredible stat???? “people are now putting up a ...

2025-07-15T17:54:09Z

This is an incredible stat???? “people are now putting up a gigawatt’s worth of solar panels, the rough equivalent of the power generated by one coal-fired plant, every fifteen hours.” https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/46-billion-years-on-the-sun-is-having-a-moment

big fucking yikes re: lead content in vapes. is this going to ...

2025-07-05T05:29:02Z

big fucking yikes re: lead content in vapes. is this going to have the inverse effect of removing lead from gasoline 🙃 https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/disposable-e-cigarettes-more-toxic-traditional-cigarettes

What virtual KVM for Mac OS do you use and do you like it? I ...

2025-07-04T14:46:44Z

What virtual KVM for Mac OS do you use and do you like it? I currently use Synergy and I find it super glitchy so I’m trying to scope out alternatives.

I read an interesting article literally yesterday about how the ...

2025-06-24T18:05:16Z

I read an interesting article literally yesterday about how the differences in how people perceive the utility of LLMs for coding arise from a disconnect in whether those same people consider the act of prompting and tuning the LLM to be work. does this ring a bell for anyone? I meant to save it and clearly failed to do so. note: I am uninterested in debating the merits of said thesis, which I am not endorsing, I’m just trying to find the link again.

tech workers are gonna learn far too late that they are much more ...

2025-06-03T15:44:27Z

tech workers are gonna learn far too late that they are much more workers than they are tech, but anyway you deserve a tech union

I wrote a new thing about killing the metrics in your head, and ...

2025-05-30T23:52:27Z

I wrote a new thing about killing the metrics in your head, and how our inherent desire to know that we are being seen can be the thing that prevents us from caring as well and as much as we actually do. https://phirephoenix.com/blog/2025-05-30/metrics

how likely is it for ipv6 addressed traffic to be from a human ...

2025-05-29T03:05:49Z

how likely is it for ipv6 addressed traffic to be from a human agent, rather than a bot or a crawler? is it an actual indicator?

the degree to which the internet economy runs on self-promotion ...

2025-05-28T01:17:25Z

the degree to which the internet economy runs on self-promotion and the amount of angst and anxiety self-promotion causes for most people with humility and self-awareness explains a lot about the state we’re in tbh tbqh

Hi pals, I'm launching a new project today called Show Up ...

2025-05-05T15:29:09Z

Hi pals, I'm launching a new project today called Show Up Toronto!! It's a website and weekly newsletter that aggregates organizing/advocacy/direct action events in the city so you can find out how to get involved without having to be on Facebook/Instagram. First email goes out tomorrow, sign up and tell your friends https://showuptoronto.ca

What are we using for hosting (personal, small scale) content in ...

2025-04-16T22:01:15Z

What are we using for hosting (personal, small scale) content in Canada these days?

I should already know the answer to this but I don’t: is it ...

2025-04-15T21:08:17Z

I should already know the answer to this but I don’t: is it possible to interact with client-side data (localStorage et al) in a web browser without ANY javascript, assuming there’s no server component to store cookie info? no right? (yes I know cookies aren’t client side data but they can enable similar functionality so they’re relevant for my purposes)

Zero on page, some referenced in flashbacks/passing.

2024-11-08T17:44:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…ngcl
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Zero on page, some referenced in flashbacks/passing.

thematically similar but much more silly/self-aware, have you ...

2024-11-08T17:19:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…5yv6
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thematically similar but much more silly/self-aware, have you read Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis?

SOLIDARITY. fwiw I ended up migrating to Readwise Reader, though ...

2024-11-07T21:22:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…wf3d
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SOLIDARITY. fwiw I ended up migrating to Readwise Reader, though that one is not cheap and I don’t know how it performs on low resource devices. I also investigated Raindrop.io (open source but run by one guy in eastern europe and I worried about its longterm sustainability) and Matter (VC funded, had a couple of quirks I found annoying but otherwise seems just as good as Readwise Reader), in case that helps.

my very smart trans friend, paraphrased: if you are a cis woman ...

2024-11-07T01:20:06Z

my very smart trans friend, paraphrased: if you are a cis woman and plausibly menopausal or premenopausal and thus potentially concerned about hot flashes, see if you can get a prescription for HRT just in case. estradiol is estradiol, and you never know who is going to be short on supply in the coming months/years. these sorts of informal networks to cover shortages are crucial. the more normalized and common it is, the harder it will be for a fascist gov’t to make it inaccessible for good.

I ranted about my read-later app shutting down and modern life in ...

2024-11-05T21:58:47Z

I ranted about my read-later app shutting down and modern life in general and it is not at all about the election or politics except that I wrote it to distract myself, in case you also wanted a brief distraction: https://phirephoenix.com/blog/2024-11-05/modernity

I am considering forgoing a phone case for the first time in ...

2024-11-02T16:18:20Z

I am considering forgoing a phone case for the first time in like. eight years maybe. is that crazy, do people ever still just have their naked phone (and a screen protector)

i’m sorry you what ...

2024-11-02T00:40:53Z

i’m sorry you what

like I realize I intentionally self select for programming ...

2024-10-20T21:59:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…kt03
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like I realize I intentionally self select for programming friends who are commie pinkos who hate everything the current hype cycle represents but there aren’t so few of us even in the centre of the tormentus nexus enclave that we’d constitute anything smaller than a significant minority, and I am guessing the prevalence of things like copilot among non-SV trendseekers is lower, not higher

citation extremely needed??? ...

2024-10-20T21:45:07Z

citation extremely needed???

my only quibble with this is that it seems slightly insulting to ...

2024-10-03T18:09:20Z

my only quibble with this is that it seems slightly insulting to raccoons, but otherwise fuuuuuuuck yes [@ag_dubs](https://mastodon.social/@ag_dubs ) #monktoberfest

(quoting from https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-supplier)

my time has come ...

2024-09-04T00:25:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…5z6q
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my time has come

come for the modest proposal to kill presidents after their term ...

2024-09-03T18:12:25Z

come for the modest proposal to kill presidents after their term is up, stay for the unhinged but correct invective against the concept of lists of books https://samkriss.substack.com/p/against-lists-of-books

another long day in the content mines hashtag influencer life ...

2024-08-29T18:19:36Z

another long day in the content mines hashtag influencer life

(I am genuinely quite upset about this.)

2024-08-27T02:42:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…pjfg
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(I am genuinely quite upset about this.)

I JUST NOW realized that when I wiped my work computer to reset ...

2024-08-27T02:41:41Z

I JUST NOW realized that when I wiped my work computer to reset it for personal use last week the one thing I forgot to back up and maybe the only thing I actually needed to back up were my bookmarks, and I'm having a real library of alexandria feeling about it (yes I know that's hyperbolic and no I do not care). why did I scurry to save the handful of memes in my downloads folder and not the five hundred and thirty-seven articles I will never read and three dozen videos I will never watch

muting the xoxo hashtag :( somehow having had a ticket (and ...

2024-08-20T23:37:31Z

muting the xoxo hashtag :( somehow having had a ticket (and travel booked!!) and then not being able to use it because of family medical emergencies feels worse than I think it would've felt to never have gotten a ticket in the first place, and I get so bummed anytime I see people post about it. esp bc this is the second Last Ever conference I've had to miss due to circumstances out of my control, I had a ticket to strangeloop last year for a whole year and then had to cancel 😭