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May 11, 2023. Choir and orchestra in the Byward Market, Ottawa. I took a quick break from the conference to get more hot sauce and pasta from the European foods store at the market. https://flic.kr/p/2oA8Tmj -
If All Dating Apps Are Based on Grindr, We Need to Talk about Cruising (Part I of III)
The first successful straight and lesbian dating apps emerged in the 2010s, including Tinder and HER. Widely known but woefully underexamined, these apps based their designs on, or even against, the first successful dating/hookup app: Grindr. In other words, developers imitated, refused, or even outright copied design, functionality, and structure to sell apps to straight people, lesbians, and other gay men (as the identity grouping went a decade ago, per big tech). Most importantly for my interest in lesbian, bi, queer, trans*, and sapphic (LBQT*S+) people’s experiences of dating and hookup apps, this evolution of dating apps from Grindr requires us to understand that all dating apps are based on—even by being designed alongside or against—the social and cultural hookup/dating norms of an app designed for, by, and about cis gay men, e.g. cruising.
In other words, this means that all dating apps are created from and/or against the …
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If All Dating Apps Are Based on Grindr, We Need to Talk about Cruising (Part I of III)
The first successful straight and lesbian dating apps emerged in the 2010s, including Tinder and HER. Widely known but woefully underexamined, these apps based their designs on, or even against, the first successful dating/hookup app: Grindr. In other words, developers imitated, refused, or even outright copied design, functionality, and structure … -
Break Time
May 7, 2023. A break station in the cycle for CHEO event in Ottawa. I signed up for the 70 k. ride, forgot my helmet, went and bought one, started two hours late, and rode 25 km. With all of that, still a nice day: the ride, along with a 6 km walk. ht... -
Bridge Out
If you're wondering where my photos are, the link between my photo site and this blog is temporarily broken. Technicians are working on it. Meanwhile, enjoy this: Better quality video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUAQ6QG... -
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?The Eras Tour?
by @paceamorebella May 7, 2023A couple of months ago, I attended the first night of the Taylor Swift Eras Tour in Glendale, Arizona. The city commemorated this historical moment by renaming their town ... -
Wet One
May 2, 2023. This is a little creek where it crosses the road about a kilometer south of Casselman. I got out for a short 26 km ride today on the gravel bike, It would be unremarkable except for the rainstorm part way through, a hard rain, cold and we... -
Hungarian Paste
May 1, 2023. These are my new favourite flavours, one a paprika paste, and the other a pepper-tomato paste (I think), both from Hungary. I use them with my salmon-pasta soup, and it's out0-of-this-world delicious. Now that my projects have concluded, ... -
My Skin
April 29, 2023. This is the skin on my back, photographed fairly close up. I'm still struggling a lot with itchy skin; the itch sort of migrates, but right now it's on my back. As promised yesterday, today was a work day; I attended to some coding iss... -
The Ridge
April 28, 2023. It was a beautiful day today, sunny and warmish, with a moderate east wind, so I decided to cycle today and work over the weekend. I did a loop out to Riceville along the Ridge Road and then back to Casselman through St. Isadore. This ... -
Commute
April 27, 2023. Just another dreary spring day commute. I spent the morning preparing all my slides for my presentation (I didn't even have time to join the strike over lunch) and then the presentation was postponed for a week. These things happen. ht... -
Diner
April 26, 2023. Lunch at the Thai Express by the Gloucester Costco near work. The scene made me think of those 1950s diner photos. Things haven't changed, except now the restaurants are brightly lit and more varied, and the food costs ten times as muc... -
Bridge Out
April 25, 2023. This is the Touchette Bridge, a key crossing on my usual bike ride to St. Albert. As can be seen, I won't be using it for a while. Today was another day focused on my newsletter and catching up with paperwork. https://flic.kr/p/2owSXs5 -
Char
April 24, 2023. Charlemagne watching me as I go down the stairs. There's a spot in the front hall where I can interact with the cats at eye level. This is now the 'petting zone'. The shadow is created by cardboard barriers we installed to prevent them... -
Take the LBQT*S Dating & Hookup App Survey!
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If you are over 18 years of age, you can take this online survey to share more about how these apps have or haven’t worked for you and how you want them to work.
The survey will take 20-35 minutes depending on how much you share.
This research is overseen by Dr. Jack Jen Gieseking and approved by the Mount Holyoke College IRB.…
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Take the LBQT*S Dating & Hookup App Survey!
Want to share about your experiences with dating and/or hookup apps as a lesbian, bisexual, queer, trans*, or sapphic person? TAKE THE SURVEY BY CLICKING HERE! If you are over 18 years of age, you can take this online survey to share more about how these apps have or haven’t … -
Moving Mastodon Object Storage from AWS S3 to DigitalOcean Spaces
by Reverend April 26, 2023These days I’ve been in a Mastodon maintenance state-of-mind, as my last post highlights. Early this week I tried to shore up some security issues linked with listing files publicly in our AWS S3 bucket. This encouraged me to explore … Continue reading -
It’s ETMOOC#2 Time! Chat GPT
So like many people I have heard about ChatGPT . Until ETMOOC#2 I hadn't even used it.But it is time. And as usual the best way to try software is to use it so, here is my first interactions with ChatGPT!The topic was chosen because one of my staff mem... -
Trillium
April 23, 2023. Evn if they're not quite blooming yet, it's nice to see trilliums all through the forest floor. We went for an 8.7 km walk along the Mer Bleue trail. It was supposed to rain all day, but it didn't, though trail was pretty muddy in plac... -
Record Store Day’s big score
There was some impromptu vinylcasting on ds106radio yesterday, ending up with Jim playing Sonic Youth’s Goo album. One of the songs was Cinderella’s Big Score. The title echoes the Shaft sequel, so it was just asking for the ds106 mashup … Continue reading -
Train
April 22, 2023. This is a train with two engines and two cars in Finch, Ontario. I thought it was going to rain all day, but instead the rain held off until evening and the result was a beautiful day for cycling (if you don't count the 50 kph wind gus... -
Picket
April 21, 2023. This is the PSAC picket line on Montreal Road outside Mona Fortier's office. I was out on the line again today - lunch hour only, because it is illegal for me to picket with them any other time (I'm in a different union). I'm *very* sy... -
Goldfinch
April 20, 2023. A better shot of the goldfinch in our back yard enjoying the feeder. A quiet day, working from home, and recovering from the cold I got working in the office. https://flic.kr/p/2ovbjmW -
Squirrel
April 19, 2023. This is a squirrel spotted just off Montreal Road as I was headed for lunch at Bobby's table (some delish smoked meat). The restaurant just happens to be across the road from where striking public service workers were picketing a gover... -
Green Grass
April 18, 2023. And just like that, there was green grass. I'd swear it was brown yesterday. I'm always amazed at how suddenly the grass returns. I went to the office to work today, a but tricky since none of my office computers is working properly. O... -
What’s New on WordPress.com: Focus Mode, Promotion From Your Pocket, and Risk-Free Redesigns
At WordPress.com, we’re always pushing our platform to do even more so that you can create, design, and publish amazing things with ease. The last few weeks have found us as busy as the springtime bees improving the writing and publishing process even more, bringing our ad platform to mobile, … -
Call for proposals – Engaging Faculty through Faculty Development
A reminder that JFD is welcoming submissions for its next special section, focused on Engaging Faculty through Faculty Development. For this special section, JFD is seeking brief manuscripts that address but are not limited to the following questions: ...
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