Mina Raver

There are people in the world who don't want to offend you. And there are people in the world who don't want you to fail. Know the difference, and keep the latter close.

CELEBRATE WITH ME I JUST FILED MY PATENT APPLICATION!!! 🎊🎉🥳

A review of Conversations in Critical Psychiatry in the journal Cognitive Neuropsychiatry www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... "an engaging and accessible account of the state of the art, through the words of some of the leading figures involved in mapping the psychiatric territory."

IDK 'bout yall but getting my back tattooed was the best sleep I ever had.

my offer to america: we bring woke back

Read the latest issue of Code & Conscience (or listen on YouTube) for more insights, w/ content from @veni.dev 🌈, @jeromehardaway.bsky.social, & @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. You can find the full issue and YouTube link here: code-conscience.kit.com/posts/code-c...

Do you ever work really hard for something, achieve it, then feel like it's not a big deal because *you* were able to do it? What do you do to register a sense of a accomplishment instead of just moving on to the next challenge? #founderMentalHealth #MentalHealthAwareness #entrepreneurship

IDK, but I've had many days brightened by #trans people. I can't say the same about bigots. Grateful for diversity on this #TransDayOfVisibility

2 things I've learned so far this year: 1. Your user is not necessarily your customer 2. If you can't get people to set aside time for you, they won't set aside budget, either. You can figure that out without a single line of code. #startup #founder #womenintech

I wonder if the reason TERFs are so committed is because they associate their femininity with survival. To be socialized female is to suffer in many ways, for many walks, because you're fem. It's not an excuse. But it might be insight into the root of the illness of anti-trans hatred.

New blog is live 😎 I wrote how I've been able to led teams to shift security left without taking away dev joy, autonomy, or flow! Anyone who reads this will walk away with actionable steps as a leader or developer. www.patreon.com/posts/shift-...

It's nearly impossible to work like this, but wouldn't dream of disturbing her.

We just be like "It's the administration, not the system. 💙🌊🙈"

How does sleep protect against neurodegenerative disease? A review, open-access www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

My god. My child is stomping through the house in his pajamas, playing Duel of the Fates on a kazoo. It's been half an hour. I'm too frustrated to stop him. It's like I'm frozen. There was no class on this.

Exploiting labor through economic desperation is setting us back as a species. People are more creative, more productive, more invested, and more inquisitive when our basic needs are met.

Who's playing this with me when it comes out??? Make a pledge to make it real. LMK if you do so we can set up game night! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/f...

It is amazing that there is a public culture of child hatred, and they're the same people using "what about the children" to vilify everyone else.

IDK where it fits into the spectrum of allowable debate, but my philosophy is generally leave people the fuck alone unless you're offering food.

Look there is nothing wrong with being ungovernable. There is nothing wrong with being difficult. But there is nothing redeemable about being an asshole. Know the difference.

I have had not 1, but 3 engineers get really excited about startup, then bail when it turns out the whole "raise $10M on an idea and a FAANG resume" is a fairy tale. If you're an expert with grit and an idea, don't wait for a tech co-founder. Get tight with AI and YouTube. #entrepreneur #founder

If you have a child between 6 and 12 years old, watch the Lego Movies with them. You're welcome.

My toxic trait is being hyper aware of the fact that when I say "without libraries, I'd have never gotten out of the projects," a double digits percentage of legislators see that as an argument for banning libraries.

It is NOT difficult. Identify the oppressor. Identify their target. Protect the targeted, especially the vulnerable. The role of the persecuted is to distract the exploited and make both profitable. REBEL.

It is NOT difficult. Identify the oppressor. Identify their target. Protect the targeted, especially the vulnerable. The role of the persecuted is to distract the exploited and make both profitable. REBEL.

Anyone else just chilling with the playlist? open.spotify.com/album/3jbKDx...

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

What do you think when you hear "lifestyle entrepreneur"? #entrepreneurship #lifestylebusiness #founder #freelance #entrepreneur #mompreneur #parentpreneur

Anyone else feel pain when you're listening to music with headphones on and the sound switches back and forth, speaker to speaker? It hurts! Anyone feel like music is enhanced by doing that?

Friends, I need y'all to reach out to your representatives and do some advocacy for Tribal College students 🙏 Please see the announcement below. NIEA and AIHEC are also engaging in this Call to Action! Please share.

People who think prompt engineering is just trying stuff at random until you get the results you hoped for: I have bad news for you about how the majority of programmers work.

✅ DEI Employer of the Day™ DSW "We believe in diversity, equity, and inclusion [DEI], and call on our associates, customers, and communities to hold us accountable to showing it every day." The NAACP Black Consumer Advisory encourages consumers to 'buy-in' on companies that back their values.

I am proud of all the people who DIDN'T understand Kendrick's performance taking the time to LEARN more about the cultural impact & significance. We see you. We thank you. We appreciate you.

In honor of International Transgender Day of Visibility, we're hosting an event highlighting trans-identifying runners on GDQ Hotfix!! Submissions are open today until Feb. 28th 11:59PM ET to anybody who identifies as transgender! Event Dates: Mar. 29-30 forms.gle/Ty57pkezr15ZsZK77

My youngest lost her first tooth tonight. It's me. I'm crying #momlife

Kendrick Lamar won the Pulitzer for his work. I say this so maybe, maybe people will grok that when you put a decorated artist of that caliber on the stage, the performance is going to have a backbone to it that, like other Pulitzer decorated art, requires thought, engagement, and serious analysis.

While the half-time symbolism is hot, lemme just say: "Cultural Appropriation" is a neoliberal social policing concept designed to promote segregation "politely." Love art and the people who make it. You belong where you contribute. Ask questions. Listen to answers. Fuck segregationists.

@nestani.bsky.social HOW??? #blackjoy

EVERYONE BE QUIET it's gamer hours @n0ne20ne.bsky.social

I could just brag about my company's commitment to data privacy and general ethics forever. It's not even slowing us down, and I sleep like a baby thinking about it every night. Here's to an ethical and neurodivergent future!

For 60 years we let our nation be run by unimaginative people who remember throwing baseballs at Black toddlers for prizes at the local carnival and now we're surprised that they have recreated memories instead of ideals?

Among other things, #autism is a developmental disorder. But Black women are expected to function and be used as full adults by age 10. So everybody's real mad when they meet you nearly 40 and you struggle to conceal childlike excitement for your hyperfocus. Just a convo I feel is missing.

They did not, however, publish the names, photos, or public information of the administrators of the site. Nor did they publish where they obtained the "hundreds of millions of dollars" they boasted spending on dismantling "DEI initiatives".

Period.

Wisdom. Nice.