Dominique Cyprès @lunasspecto@todon.nl

The most interesting interviews were with François Clemmons, who played Officer Clemmons on Neighborhood. Rogers said Clemmons couldn't participate in the show if he came out as gay because they would lose their funding, and that was the biggest flaw he shows in the film. But Clemmons also calls Rogers his surrogate father and the first man whoever said he loved Clemmons in a caring/familial way.

Also I was kinda surprised to learn that "Daniel Stripèd Tiger" was sorta… more than just a character in the Land of Make Believe; that puppet always traveled with him to serve as a kind of alter ego facilitate difficult conversations, sometimes even with adults. There was this one interviewer who rudely asked whether he was straight and in that same interview Rogers has Daniel say, "I like you" and the same stuff he always said sincerely

It made me think a lot about what I want to become, what I want this society and this world to become. Fred Rogers was often frustrated there was so much hurt in the world and he didn't feel big enough to make any difference

And there was no hidden agenda there. He did blatantly political stuff about the war in Vietnam (a 1968 episode had this uncanny plot about King Friday building an onerous wall around the castle) and he was a Presbytarian minister, but… that was his whole ministry: making people (particularly children) feel loved and cared for. And that's why he never introduced himself as minister, he wanted to offer that to everyone, not just Christians

I saw it and it gave me a lot of feelings. That man made incredible use of the rare opportunity he got to spend his whole adult life using the medium of television to show children that they deserve to be loved and cared for

Just finally installed an OMEMO plugin for Pidgin. I haven't actually had anyone to chat with on XMPP for ages anyway

I think the unsettling part about it is that at least some of these people have never *not* lived like this, and are totally ignorant about how most people live

Going from a minimum-wage retail environment to the major software company where I'm currently interning has been a major cultural adjustment. People at the store would flip if someone went $10 over budget on breakfast items to serve at the Friday morning meeting. Here I keep getting dragged to team lunches on someone or other's expense account and half the table orders cocktails while whoever's paying jokes about how they'll justify it to accounting

Redrafted twice because of swypos. Someday I'll learn to proofread my long toots.

I just thought of something.

People do this job from home sometimes.

So, in the winter, if there's a foot of snow in the driveway and on our street, I don't have to call my manager and apologize profusely for being an hour late; I can just email him to say I'm working from home as long as I have electricity & internet. And they probably won't keep me at work with the place on generator power during a blizzard to fill in for people who didn't come in. Nice!

Someone at work recently produced a breakdown of GDPR requests our company has processed and so far the vast majority have come from a single country: the U.S.