#meetup group

[nerdjourney]

What was it like to work inside the idea factory, a place where innovation thrived? Duncan Sparrell joins us to share his experience working at Bell Labs in the early days and some insight on research and development. Duncan will also share some lesser known cybersecurity roles and some misconceptions about cybersecurity in general. Duncan also shares how all of us can get involved in helping to shape cybersecurity standards for a safer world.

[shadowkat2000]

I truly love gay friend groups dressing as if they’re going completely different places; today my friends and I were going to brunch, church, goth night, the ren faire, and golfing respectively

[mikaikaika]

PARTY BUS GROUP PICTURE

[alkalinefrog]

We went to a hotdog place that had crayons and newsprint paper on the tables

@twiafom @jjackfrost

[5eyed]

yayo! (real name: yolanda). shes xeress crush. i want to give her some tattoos or piercings but i couldnt think of good ones yet..

[bisexualisaaclahey]

crucial part of my perception of derek hale is that little old ladies LOVE HIM. they call him darling and sweetie even when he's at his most angst-filled "i am having such a bad day and i WILL be a little bitch about it" kind of moods. at any given time he has at least 3 invites to various book clubs. multiple people have offered to set him up with their granddaughters. anytime he's within a certain radius of a little old woman he ends up getting invited to drink rose and knit with them. at some point he ends up taking one of them up on it and now sometimes he'll walk down the street and muriel from book club will wave at him and go "lovely to see you, derek! i hope you'll be able to make it this thursday, margaret baked scones!"

[wolitagarbage]

💀🐺death of little red riding hood 🐺💀

[somnolent-scout]

Help support our group and get cool merch in the process!!

[sanctuary-of-muffins]

Thank you all for once again an amazing and wonderful time in vrchat! Though we are still a small community. I do have faith that we will grow to become something big as time goes by. Our little community of G/T lovers will grow! So, if you like to be apart of fun activities, it being art events or gaming events. Well, we do both! Trying to make sure the server is active and lively!

So, with your help! Either help us spread the name of Sanctuary of the muffin! Or consider joining! A safe and welcoming place for all Sfw gt lovers! So please don’t be nervous to join! We welcome all with open arms! So do consider joining our discord server! And we hope to meet you!

[liquidstar]

a friend who'd wait :)

[nerdjourney]

When Chris Williams received value from a technical community effort called vBrownBag, he wanted to know how he could help. This started a transformation process in which Chris became a passionate steward of professional communities. In fact, he'll share the story of participating in multiple communities and acting as the group leader. The aggregation of his public facing work is what brought him an unexpected job opportunity at HashiCorp. Chris also shares some really interesting interview questions he likes to ask people based on the type of interview he is conducting.

[sschmendrick-banned]

Watching Forever's stories it's so funny seeing all of them walking around behind him. Love the chill vibes and all of them just taking the whole street kkkkkk

[cuddleswinchester]

I’m going to be so brave and go to a queer lunch thing on Sunday

[mikaikaika]

Friendships as beautiful as this please 💖💖💖

[brigdh]

oh my godddd, if you’re going to read Moby Dick why would you read a “contemporary readers” version of it? Look at this nonsense:

I really don’t think it’s much easier to understand than the original, and it’s much, much less memorable. No “damp drizzly November in my soul”!! No “coffin warehouses”!! And this really plays down Ishmael’s unreliable narrator qualities, and gives him so much more... determination, I guess is the word? He comes off as a guy who knows what he wants, instead of dude who’s passively suicidal enough to drift into whaling as the better option.

Anyway, the original for comparison: 

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off- then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.

[doedipus]

I wonder if I should try checking in on the local lgbt center again