Due to multiple factors, such as unaddressed ableist removals from the /c/196 moderators, defense of chasers, no-quarter rules regarding our users, leakage of good-faith DMs from our admin team, and a general lack of initiative to punish these behaviors, we have come to the conclusion that the 196 community on lemmy.blahaj.zone has made the fediverse an unsafe space for our queer, disabled, neurodivergent, non-western, and other marginalized comrades on this forum, and we will be defederating from lemmy.blahaj.zone until we can be confident that this will not continue to be an issue.
We have attempted to make good-faith parley with both the instance admin and the comm moderators, but we've reached a point which we feel that until these behaviors are addressed by instance administration, we can no longer continue to federate in good-faith while our users are being actively invalidated by a small-but-vocal portion of the forum. Once we are confident that these behaviors have ceased and are unlikely to continue, we are more-than-happy to refederate in the name of queer solidarity.
Thanks for bearing with us :07:
Being drunk is no excuse for bad geography, mister!
It's sad because my day job is looking at maps all day, I'll do better in the future
y'all getting paid for this when i do it for free??
(i just like maps, i think they're neat)
Definitely get into QGIS or pick up an ArcGIS personal license if you haven't. Playing around with open data can be really fun and they both have scripting languages that let you build really complex and beautiful dynamic maps. If you can find a data source that live updates you can even publish it somewhere and use it to keep track of stuff. Or do things like import your phones GPX history and build a network of locations and your visit density or whatever.
What sort of a job is that?
Telecommunications/OSP Designer. We draw the maps for the Internet. Mostly getting fiber optic service to cities and towns in the US.
It's fun, but also exhausting. Were the ones that have to handle all the changes and what the permit office wants is always different from what the customer wants which is always different from what the contractor wants and all of them request materials that aren't in stock lol.