Linda Carson

If you follow Linda here, you may already have heard that she passed away this week. Linda touched so many, in so many realms, and will be sadly missed. For information about Linda's life, her livestreamed memorial, and the awards founded in her name: erbgood.com/tribute/detail…

PSA: I am now up to January 1, 2021 in my personal inbox, which is 95% open source feature requests and bug reports. So, closing in on "only" one year behind...sorry & thanks for your patience if your message is in there somewhere.

@othercate i used to achieve remarkable personal bests when i took my anger to the weight room

@wophugus @YadLladnek @Zoot_Sanchez @FrostiestDog William Goldman, Craft of the Screenwriter: "One of the reasons cameramen have much better lives than writers is because nobody says to a cameraman, "I'll fix the lighting," because nobody knows how to do it. But everybody knows words."

Is this live action Cowboy Bebop ... a joke. Am I being pranked right now.

@ShannonDea1 It's turtles all the way down.

My 2016 book is called "Beyond the Binary." I just realized that the article I am finishing writing right now could well be called "Beyond 'Beyond the Binary'." Oh God. So, this is how it's going to be, huh?

@catehstn it is!

It is my most adorable time of year 🦉

God: you’re a spider. Spider: what does that mean? God: well you can climb, jump, and shoot webs. Spider: like Spider-Man? God: no that's- Spider: i'm gonna protect my neighborhood so hard : ) God: Spider: [determined whisper] with great power comes great responsibility.

My mother, bringing a colourful arrangement of gerbera daisies in from the front door: "Cate strikes again!" She hadn't even checked the card, @catehstn 😂💐

Via @Cathi_Bea

@catehstn 😬

Trying to use windoze after like 15 years. It is not going well 😭

This is what my dreams look like when studying Euclidean geometry.

@xinef5980 I miss the star.

@lccarson I red a different reaction to a heart. 😢

CW: Bad news As if 2020 wasn’t already The Year of Big Suck, last summer I was diagnosed with ALS. ALS is that thing you were dumping buckets of ice over your heads for a few summers ago. 1/🧵

@thatdawnperson thx for sharing; even the selected images on the website make me long to see the whole thing

@lccarson In the Before, this exhibit at X University blew me away: ryersonimagecentre.ca/exhibition/the…

"It turns out, film stock's failures to capture dark skin aren't a technical issue, they're a choice."

@cs_kaplan @99piorg i've got shirley cards in the colour course already, of course, but more voices are better

@cs_kaplan @99piorg thanks

@J3ssicaTh0mpson Added to the colour course, thanks

I have an MFA, four different HD webcams, and two kinds of ‘warm’ floods. I work with emerging technologies, and understand how bias is embedded in systems. It should still not be this much work to look like myself.

⁦Just discovered ⁦@reetamac⁩’s excellent piece for ⁦BuzzFeed which I will now forward to every colleague who I meet on Teams who registers confusion when I say I’m a biracial person who identifies as Black. buzzfeednews.com/article/syreet…

@xinef5980 😬

@lccarson Why does your power wheelchair need to know the time?

We memorized phone numbers. We memorized driving directions. No one knew what we looked like. No one could reach us. We were gods.

@tomkatsumi 😬