No Tools for You: A Century of Men Policing Women’s Tools
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No Tools for You: A Century of Men Policing Women’s Tools
In 1925 a doctor said vacuum cleaners will make women lazy. In 2026 mastodon dudes said the same thing (and worse) about a woman engineer using a tool to make a CAD part.
https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/16/no-tools-for-you-a-century-of-men-policing-womens-tools/
@adafruit this post is genuinely embarrassing as hell I'm sorry. Signed, a woman
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Wow. First, thank you, @adafruit , for all you do for the #STEAM community and those of us who just want to tinker, learn, and create.
It looks to me like you had an idea and used AI tools to do some of the leg work to get it done. And that you checked the work before “shipping it”. That is a perfectly legitimate use of AI.
It also sounds like you were tinkering and learning about the tools as you went, too. That is the spirit of creativity.
Keep up the good work!
@inaction_figure @adafruit cool fucking alt adafruit
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> Looks like its time to close our Mastodon account and go someplace safer (whiter)
Wow, racist much?
@avi_2022 there was no racism in this reply, only sarcasm.
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No Tools for You: A Century of Men Policing Women’s Tools
In 1925 a doctor said vacuum cleaners will make women lazy. In 2026 mastodon dudes said the same thing (and worse) about a woman engineer using a tool to make a CAD part.
https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/16/no-tools-for-you-a-century-of-men-policing-womens-tools/
@adafruit Well, I know who I'm not buying components from again. This is really disgusting and weird LLM apologia that completely misunderstands the actual struggle of disrespect and abuse that women go through in labour.
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@adafruit amusingly though: @cstross blocked me a couple years ago, because he was (if I recall correctly, can't be arsed to dig up the toot but it's back there somewhere) either boosting or else posting AI slop images and laughing at how bad they were. I had been an avid follower, but I expressed my surprise that he, an author no less, would be playing with the plagiarism machine in public.
As much as I tend to agree with the mob that using this planet killer was a terrible idea that you should be ashamed about, rather than what you're doing right here, Stross seems like he's mostly concerned with building up some sort of "profile" on here, and does not like to have his hypocrisy pointed out.
I think there are going to be some incredible strides made in education with this tech, but not until these psychopaths are devoured by angry street mobs and we start using it judiciously and without murdering towns and communities.
People in America have brown tap water so you could avoid work of which you are perfectly capable. You didn't need the help. There's no justifying it. Brown tap water.
@jpaskaruk stross doesn't need to build a profile; he has a profile high and large enough, that he blocks drive-by admonishments and aggressive replies to third parties just to keep his feed readable. this is not new.
(and before you ask, i was blocked by him because of the latter; there's no need to imagine nefarious reasons for his actions.)
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I SOLDATI ISRAELIANI SCOMMETTONO ONLINE SU RAID E ATTACCHI
@news
Se non conoscete Polymarket, dovete sapere che è un sito “predittivo”, ovvero un insediamento web che fa perno sulla possibilità o meno che un evento si possa verificare.
L'articolo I SOLDATI ISRAELIANI SCOMMETTONO ONLINE SU RAID E ATTACCHI proviene da GIANO NEWS.
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Impero Israeliano e faraone Netanyahu Iº
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@afewbugs is he maybe just hitting move to spam? There's a good chance that would block you; tho there is a block sender item in the 'more' menu.
I'd also wonder if there is a keyboard shortcut for that.
I finally managed to persuade my dad off that platform a couple of years back after he got hacked badly (a script that emailed everyone in his address book asking for help, redirecting replies to some other address, and deleting all his contacts) - so can't directly check any more. But the spam one seems most likely. He'd delete mail to keep his inbox empty, and if you select mails to delete, the spam button is the X right next to the bin; I found mails he'd moved to spam a few times
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@fucinafibonacci @attualita
grazie del link, interessante
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Tanto per ridere, una domanda a chi fa tornitura per mestiere.
Quanto costerebbe, indicativamente, un alberino come questo, lungo 1040 mm, diametro 30 mm, con ~650 mm di filettatura ACME da 4 TPI?
E tanti saluti a chi compera il tornietto cinese da 250W e 39 kg¹ pensando di poterci fare tutto 🤣
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¹ tipo questo #minilathe da 7×14 pollici, distanza tra le punte 350 mm, che al massimo va bene per farci dei dildi:
https://littlemachineshop.com/products/sieg-c2-7x14-mini-lathe
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@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems hell yeah
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Karaganov, casa a Venezia e rivista con Lavrov-Ushakov: “Il nucleare soluzione al problema Europa”
[hanno dimore di lusso in Europa, ma vogliono bombardarla]v
su @LaStampa
