JC Brand @jcbrand@mastodon.xyz

I don't want to live in a state where I'm continuously forced by threat of violence to have high tech substances with regular upgrades injected into my body.

Anyone who supports the proposed vaccine mandates and who denies that the principle of bodily autonomy and sovereignty outweighs whatever emergency has been declared, is an enemy of freedom and violates a fundamental human right.

This thread brought me to tears 💔

RT @helblythe@twitter.com

This is my son, Benedict. He died yesterday, suddenly, aged 5. I just want everyone to know that he existed, and to see his beautiful smile and know how wonderful he was. He was such a bright spark, the kindest boy. His time with us was the greatest gift 💔

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/helblythe/status/1466289905902968835

There are so many inside jokes, running gags and riffs on fedi.

"pondering the orb", "don't be afraid of angels", TempleOS etc.

The other day I tried to explain one of the jokes to my wife. She just gave me a look of utter incredulity and confusion.

My 3yo is constantly asking "What are you laughing about" when I'm scrolling my timeline.

This pain is gone now, but now the state wants to force me to take another booster in 6 to 9 months as part of their vaccine mandate?

I'm still in shock that it's really come to this.

The bio-medical surveillance and coercion mechanisms that are being put in place now, will not be dismantled after Covid is over.

Just like the anti-terrorism laws from 911 are all still on the books and being (selectively) enforced.

I'm seriously disturbed by the proposed vaccine mandate in Germany/Europe.

Despite being concerned about the lack of long-term safety studies, the novelty of the mRNA vaccines and the strain they put on your cardiovascular system, I decided to take the Biontech shots in October so that I could hopefully still travel to my family in December.

After both shots, I felt a dull pain and pressure in my heart that lasted for multiple days. It was so bad that I could only slept on my right side in bed

TypeScript sucks all the fun out of software development for me.

The compiler is too stupid.

For example it can't recognize that I'm calling .reduce on an array to turn it into the type that's being returned.

It's like pair programming with an imbecile.

Turns out there are a bunch of recent IEEE papers on using #XMPP for power management in microgrids and even creating virtual power stations based on multiple smaller ones.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9597719
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8320956
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8394998
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9153556

I've released Converse version 9.

This release includes mostly bugfixes, including a few OMEMO ones.

https://github.com/conversejs/converse.js/releases/tag/v9.0.0

#xmpp

Slowly, one by one, all my heroes who weren't already are being orange-pilled.