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God I love foone

polytely 5y ago
Yes honestly one of the most entertaining follows on twitter
DaiPlusPlus 5y ago
How does Foone spend so much time on all these "here's something interesting I found, now it's a 12-hour-long deep-dive into something I never thought I could care passionately about" things and still have a job? Turing's living the dream... (the family name has to be a coincidence, right?)
- johnsonap 5y ago
  they use they, not he, but they have a lot of followers on ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing
- post-it 5y ago
  Do they have a day job? I thought they lived off their Patreon. They definitely changed their first and last name at some point, I remember a Twitter thread mentioning it.
  - shdon 5y ago
    They're a Continuous Integrator at Backblaze, according to their LinkedIn.
  - frosted-flakes 5y ago
    Is it multiple people writing the Twitter posts?
- umvi 5y ago
  Does foone have a job? I know he has a Patreon.
  - ryan-c 5y ago
    If you know foone has a Patreon, I'm not sure how you're aware they're not a "he"...
    - umvi 5y ago
      I know they have a Patreon because I saw it on their wiki[0] which I read through after seeing their death generator a few months ago. Their wiki didn't mention their gender identity preferences, and I don't follow their blog or twitter or anything, so I wasn't aware, sorry... [0] http://floppy.foone.org/w/Main_Page http://floppy.foone.org/w/Main_Page
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junon 5y ago
And foone hates HN and wishes his tweets would stop being posted here lol.
- blamazon 5y ago
  Summary of stated justifications: [1] * Foone likes to do tweet storms and not blogs and some people on HN have a "Why isn't this a blog?" sentiment which is bothersome to foone. * HN scraping bots on twitter mention foone which is bothersome to foone. * HN community frequently assumes he/him for foone. Foone goes by they/them. This does not seem to bother foone on its own, but HN commenters correcting HN commenters about how foone goes by they/them sometimes leads to grammatical argument about using they as a singular pronoun which is bothersome to foone. * Generally, discourse beyond "whoops sorry!" about he/him/they/them is bothersome to foone. * Elements of HN discourse represent larger problems of male-dominant sexism that are trenchant in technology, which are bothersome to foone. [1] https://twitter.com/foone/status/1440375176604966924?lang=en https://twitter.com/foone/status/1440375176604966924?lang=en
  - kelnos 5y ago
    On the plus side, at least right now as I write this (the post has been up for 5 hours, with 96 comments), there is, in this HN post: * No mention of the Twitter thread being better as a blog post, and someone has already posted a Thread Reader App link with the thread unrolled. * A single instance of someone getting corrected for misgendering, but with no follow-ups or toxic discussion around it. So maybe things are getting better? But really, though, I just kinda find foone's annoyance about being posted on HN to be annoying in and of itself. The bot @-mentions I agree are annoying (and I don't know of a good solution; playing ban whack-a-mole every time a new one pops up is lame to have to do), but the other bits have a simple solution: don't read the HN comments. I know sometimes it's hard to resist the temptation, but I personally appreciate these foone threads getting posted here (as I don't really use Twitter much, so I wouldn't otherwise see them). And it's just a little weird to criticize people for linking to something you posted on the web, since linking is what the web is for.

God I love foone

Yes honestly one of the most entertaining follows on twitter

How does Foone spend so much time on all these "here's something interesting I found, now it's a 12-hour-long deep-dive into something I never thought I could care passionately about" things and still have a job? Turing's living the dream... (the family name has to be a coincidence, right?)

johnsonap 5y ago
they use they, not he, but they have a lot of followers on ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing
post-it 5y ago
Do they have a day job? I thought they lived off their Patreon. They definitely changed their first and last name at some point, I remember a Twitter thread mentioning it.
- shdon 5y ago
  They're a Continuous Integrator at Backblaze, according to their LinkedIn.
- frosted-flakes 5y ago
  Is it multiple people writing the Twitter posts?
umvi 5y ago
Does foone have a job? I know he has a Patreon.
- ryan-c 5y ago
  If you know foone has a Patreon, I'm not sure how you're aware they're not a "he"...
  - umvi 5y ago
    I know they have a Patreon because I saw it on their wiki[0] which I read through after seeing their death generator a few months ago. Their wiki didn't mention their gender identity preferences, and I don't follow their blog or twitter or anything, so I wasn't aware, sorry... [0] http://floppy.foone.org/w/Main_Page http://floppy.foone.org/w/Main_Page
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junon 5y ago

And foone hates HN and wishes his tweets would stop being posted here lol.

blamazon 5y ago
Summary of stated justifications: [1] * Foone likes to do tweet storms and not blogs and some people on HN have a "Why isn't this a blog?" sentiment which is bothersome to foone. * HN scraping bots on twitter mention foone which is bothersome to foone. * HN community frequently assumes he/him for foone. Foone goes by they/them. This does not seem to bother foone on its own, but HN commenters correcting HN commenters about how foone goes by they/them sometimes leads to grammatical argument about using they as a singular pronoun which is bothersome to foone. * Generally, discourse beyond "whoops sorry!" about he/him/they/them is bothersome to foone. * Elements of HN discourse represent larger problems of male-dominant sexism that are trenchant in technology, which are bothersome to foone. [1] https://twitter.com/foone/status/1440375176604966924?lang=en https://twitter.com/foone/status/1440375176604966924?lang=en
- kelnos 5y ago
  On the plus side, at least right now as I write this (the post has been up for 5 hours, with 96 comments), there is, in this HN post: * No mention of the Twitter thread being better as a blog post, and someone has already posted a Thread Reader App link with the thread unrolled. * A single instance of someone getting corrected for misgendering, but with no follow-ups or toxic discussion around it. So maybe things are getting better? But really, though, I just kinda find foone's annoyance about being posted on HN to be annoying in and of itself. The bot @-mentions I agree are annoying (and I don't know of a good solution; playing ban whack-a-mole every time a new one pops up is lame to have to do), but the other bits have a simple solution: don't read the HN comments. I know sometimes it's hard to resist the temptation, but I personally appreciate these foone threads getting posted here (as I don't really use Twitter much, so I wouldn't otherwise see them). And it's just a little weird to criticize people for linking to something you posted on the web, since linking is what the web is for.